They stacked the courts because that's what both parties do, right?
How can you not talk ill about conspiracy theorists who still maintain the election was fraudulent despite most of their evidence being debunked and every court Trump goes into telling him to fuck off? This is just ridiculous at this point. Freedom-hating people are the ones that want to overturn a democratic election with no evidence.
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If there is a 10-20% chance, why not pursue it in court? No harm is being done to anybody. Even if this is a waste of time, at least nobody is rioting, looting and committing arson, which is what probably would have happened if Trump had won.
I remember Donald, aka "the clown", say that school shootings in the US could be stopped by providing teachers with more guns. It was funny, so surreal...
It's a matter of degree. Some of the GOP tactics seem to erode basic competency insofar as they are taking green recently graduated ideologically-driven law students and rapidly ascending them onto the court. The reason why this is necessary is that some of the policy positions the GOP want these judges to adopt really aren't constitutional so you have to scour the country looking for the few weirdos that have made it through the system who otherwise would be relegated to backwaters. I mean, if you want to legislate via the bench you have to find those who are willing to gleefully trash decades of precedent in order to satisfy an agenda. In Amy Barrett's case, you can see her licking her lips to rollback Roe v. Wade a mile away.
I agree with everything you wrote and felt that only two of the Democratic candidates adequately addressed the plight of the shrinking middle class: Sanders and Yang.
The problem isn't the fact that they're in court, the thing that makes people cringe is that you have millions of people saying the election was definitely rigged. They don't act like it's a 10-20%, they act like it's a 100% thing that it was rigged and after seeing the evidence and failure in court, they still push that same narrative. It's absurd.
The reason why many people dislike the Trump movement is because they channel their real, human struggles into this weird, divisive, hyper masculine front that anyone with even average emotional intelligence level can see right through. They love to act like people are laughing at their struggles, but in reality, they are laughing at the way they are channeling it. I mean yeah, it does make your struggles look insignificant when your main argument is that Donald Trump -- the most repulsive person in the country -- is a victim.
I totally understand your larger point, but it wasn't about "unisex" bathrooms, it was about opposing making trans women use men's bathrooms and vice versa.
Her laugh is unusual and she laughs at serious issues, like the time on 60 minutes. People make fun of Trump all the time, just Google Jimmy Kimmel.
What about the nicknames Creepy and Sleepy for Joe Biden and all the criticism of him sniffing women? Or even all the talk about Biden being senile? Those aren't criticisms of his policies.
There are a lot of poor white folks on my dad's side of the family who are Trump supporters. I don't think they're jealous of liberals, I think they hate them (I try to keep my political opinions pretty close to my chest). There's a whole generation of working class people who are doing worse than their parents and who will never be able to retire. Many are watching their jobs go overseas, get automated, or go to immigrants (two examples: My aunt's job went to a factory in Mexico and she was tasked with training her replacement. My half brother worked in a kitchen where he was required to know Spanish because most of the workers only spoke Spanish). To cap this off, many in the media are telling them they're privileged, which is an odd way of framing social problems and clearly just enrages people. The Democrats have left working class people out to dry and it's come back to bite them.
It does boil down to emphasis, though.
I'm not talking about sharing a video or making fun of her laugh in isolation. We all do that with politicians, and I'm sure SNL, Kimmel etc will also make fun of Harris in the future. It's their job to.
I agree her odd laugh is totally fair game for that kind of political barbing. I don't put it in the same category as being sexually obsessed with her.
I get what you're saying, which is why I don't buy the narrative that all Trump supporters are swimmingly privileged individuals. I just find it hard (not saying they aren't) to see someone as a victim when they, for example, think Donald Trump was robbed in a perfectly fair election. There is an intersection between Bernie and Trump supporters. The Bernie supporters at least make sense to me since they are directing their anger at the actual problem (income inequality).
But is it fair game, really? Is this the criteria people should really use to pick our leaders?
Of course not. I just meant that it's a normal part of political banter and ribbing, not that it should be a normal part of voting decisions.
I didn't disagree with you, read the last paragraph I wrote that you responded to.
But how is this any more corrupt than anything else that's done in politics? Is bribing someone with sex really any worse than bribing with money? Because the latter happens all the time.
No matter how many times someone tells you, you still don't understand how misogynistic this line is. She had a relationship. Then she ascended in politics. Congratulations, this is literally everyone. You seem to think that this is somehow remarkable. I wonder why...
Of course you don't know the difference between misogyny and misogamy. You're right. The way you talk about Harris is not a form of misogamy, as it has no anti-marriage rhetoric. But it's certainly textbook misogyny.
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