Give people a smelly gym sock and let them hold it for five minutes and they’ll reflexively try to stop you from taking it back. Getting over 50% yes to a survey question that says “and then we will take something away from you” is honestly pretty crazy.
When they show up in the ER with a heart attack they’re going to get treatment we can’t pay for and we’ll be right back to square one with all of this shit
Also, nobody gave me the option to opt out of paying for the bombs out dumbass military drops on schools and other civilian infrastructure, don’t know why this is any different
There should be some system in place to help the people whose jobs would be lost by cutting all of the extra stuff out.
We have systems of unemployment insurance and other kinds of welfare programs. I definitely agree those should be stepped up in general for everyone, but I don’t know why these specific people would deserve anything beyond what we normally do for people who lose their jobs.
At the risk of sounding like a D&D player, fantasy and math are fine, the problem is that some classes are totally overpowered
Yeah, good to hear the same death rattles coming out of the current admin
revolutionary documentary techniques
Because the format was like two decades old, you couldn’t solve basic problems without revolutionizing everything
defining the visual language of the Third Reich
Using her unlimited budget to recreate visual language that painters had developed over hundreds of years to create marketing material for an organization that existed for less time than the Star Wars franchise
the most famous female director of the century
Yeah there were a lot of morons with bad opinions in that time period
sure, she could have asked one of the gentlemen to do it for her I guess.
Actually I don’t think that was her call, but either way my point is that a filmmaker of any of the genders who had the kind of budget and set control that she had at that point in time in filmmaking couldn’t help but innovate just because so few movies have been made before
It’s also an amazing bit of filmmaking
Bah, with the budget she had and the ability to she had to call in important people to reshoot bits of her “documentary” lots of directors from the time could have made something that looked as good
Yeah, the headline makes it sound like Dems are protecting consumers by blocking this bill which I’m pretty sure is the opposite of what WT wants people to think
Washington Times hurt itself in its confusion with this headline
“The MAGA folks took from the 2024 election that this was a great issue for them, that it was one that united their base and made Democrats uncomfortable,” Erickson said. “And that was all true at that moment, but now they’re going way beyond any concerns the public had.”
Like, I want to just take the win, but a) it was only “true at that moment” because Democratic moderates like Third Way got uncomfortable and made the whole party fumble our response to this, b) Third Way getting on the right side of this issue doesn’t stop the harm Amy Acton and Mary Peltola and other anti-trans Dems are out there doing on the campaign trail now, if they really care about the long term health of the Democratic party they need to be doing more to pressure those campaigns to do better
That link is broken for me, but looks like the same story is available here - https://www.ocregister.com/2026/09/29/election-2026-gop-senate-targets/ (arc)
I love the thought but I worry what would actually happen is a Supreme Court case saying she can’t do anything for bullshit reasons that all miraculously vanish the second a Republican gets elected
Presidential power overriding Congress is a problem, but the first thing that needs to be taken care of is breaking the Republican party because otherwise no other reforms are going to stick
If we want to talk stupid we really need to talk about the Biden administration’s policy and politics. Their big marquee infrastructure bill basically just put money into state governments and for profit companies without requiring them to make any changes to how they had been doing business, while at the same time they knifed households in the back by cutting stimulus checks and support for expanded unemployment benefits. Maybe some of that stuff could have eventually trickled down in some way, but the fact that they were basically doing Reaganomics was really just a giant middle finger to their base in pursuit of Republican votes that never came in.
power a lot of people would be criminally charged. Maybe even fucking disappeared.
I support the former but not the latter. It isn’t just about treating the accused in a humane way or anything, when a wrong has been committed against the public the public is entitled to a trial that documents what was done by who, why it was wrong, and what the consequence for engaging in that kind of behavior is. Disappearing people just allows rumors to circle and everyone to keep believing whatever they already believed.
You should probably edit your comment to include this information since somebody might see the misinformation in your original comment and might not see this comment correcting it
Do Americans believe that incumbents have an advantage because voters are too stupid to choose?
The most widespread and insidious propaganda in America is “everyone but you and me are idiots.” Like,
Why did that lawmaker you thought you supported just say something stupid? Oh, they don’t really mean it, they’ve just got to appeal to all the idiots out there.
Why did the company take useful features out of their product? They had to dumb it down for all the idiots out there.
Want to know why the world isn’t a better place? It’s not because I make so much money off of its suffering, it’s because there’s just too many idiots out there.
So, yes, I believe the average American voter has been brainwashed into thinking the average American voter is too stupid to choose, and that’s at least part of the reason it’s so hard to get people to care about democracy and tyranny and stuff like that.
Oh yeah, I mean this investigation was all about money she received in 2019 from a guy who got sent to prison in 2022. I don’t think elected Dems ever had any intention of really going after her or they would have before now, they’re just saying what they’re supposed to say now that information about all of this leaked out of the FBI.
Actually lots of people did and kept trying to tell Harris’ campaign she needed to change her position on Israel, the economy, and other positions where she was fighting her own base, but I guess they all got drown out by BlueMAGA cheerleaders calling all of those people Republican shills