Highly recommend folks check out the podcast Behind the Bastard's episodes "How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win" for more information on this topic.
It's unfortunately how you win these days. Campaigns in the past tried to take the high road when Trump went low. That doesn't work. So this is what we get.
It's absolutely an old picture of him photoshopped in with her. This is what he looked like in the 1990s but wearing a MAGA hat.
But he seemed like such a fine young gentleman. I am shocked.
The ACA is good when you actually reach out to a patient care "assister" for support. You can get rates WAY lower than advertised if you work with someone who can help navigate it. I think the program is actually tremendous, but it's been made intentionally cumbersome and difficult to use by the folks trying to kill it. I've used it twice while out of work back in 2016 and again over the pandemic and had completely free plans that covered my "tier 3" prescriptions and specialist (rheumatology) appointments.
He does not look good. He hasn't for a while, but this is orders of magnitudes worse. I think this guy is going to die soon. You can see it in his face. I'm not even playing here. I sincerely think his most recent pictures are demonstrating the same telltale signs I saw in a few of my own family members who passed recently of heart attacks. If you know what it looks like it isn't hard to see. When your heart is barely holding on it shows up in a lot of ways. His face looks simultaneously bloated and constricted at the same time. It's being masked by copious amounts of makeup, but it's there. As much as I dislike him I think the moment it happens will still be awful for anyone around him. I give him 5-6mo tops.
English is fucking weird. Take for example: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
This is a perfectly fine sentence,. I am not sure I am fine with it.
Music to my ears. Thank you for lifting my spirits. We just all gotta vote.
Interesting, I've heard the opposite in terms of betting odds v. traditional polling. Good to know it changed though as Trump was like +5 as recently as like 2 days ago. Thanks for posting.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
Feels a wee bit early for the "I told you so" stuff. She's currently losing in the betting odds.
Edit: it's good to be wrong
I get the frustration people feel, but I'm kind of getting tired of the reductive takes people just casually throw out in social media. I guess that's my fault for expecting anything different. Maybe I should go outside for a while.
I feel like that's sort of the word you might use to describe the tangled Christmas lights, but I still think that's hyper simplification. It's like we're running full speed on a treadmill and even though we agree this can't end well, there's the matter of getting the thing to stop. Let's say we could snap our fingers and start fresh. How do you propose our system should work instead?
A lot of women, even in the US, don't really have the agency you might think they have. There are many women in echo chamber communities, follow only a certain narrative of news, are married to men that wear down their beliefs, or even could be threatened if they outwardly supported anything other than what they have been told. Many of these people have existed in this kind of environment their entire lives. When you think about things like that, it's very sad, but it starts to make a lot more sense. I'd like to emphasize with these people. Some of them are men too. It's not just women affected this way. We're often very much the products of our environment.
I'm just kinda tired of so many people distilling our issues down to singular and often mysterious groups like "they" or the "ruling class". If only our issues were that simple, but most things are far more complicated than just bad people doing bad things. I think of a lot of our issues (e.g. climate change) like trying to root through a box of Christmas lights. They are a tangled web of knots and twists. It takes a lot of work to figure out how to untangle each bind. Most of our global issues are incredibly complex and need to be broken down into smaller parts if we want to solve them. Some people are doing good. Some people are doing harm. Most people aren't doing anything at all.
At least things have gotten confusing again, because that's like 5 different potential political groups now.
As usual, barely any mention of it in the news. Standard procedure for Republicans, just like Nixon and Reagan.
That's essentially what happened here. She wasn't at risk any longer and the murder was premeditated. The prosecutor did their job here as they are supposed to, and it was sentenced as it should have been according to the law.
That being said, this is really why we have pardons, and I hope one is granted in this case.