Elections have outcomes. Most people don't seek to burn the country down when they don't get their way. They refocus, introspect and seek better candidates for the next round. In the meantime they go on living their lives without constant hyperventilation.

#110 | Posted by BellRinger

Literally none of this applies to MAGA.

They tried to overthrow the election they lost.

They stayed bogged down in their own faux victim complex.

They stuck with the same objectively awful candidate.

They spent four years under Biden hyperventilating and refusing to follow their own advise to leave since they didn't like it here very much.

Paxton is a criminal. Anyone surprised he's back3d by Trump?

#10 | Posted by BellRinger

Was that your daily throwaway attempt to look and sound rational?

82 | Posted by truthhurts

A lot of words and air to weasel out of your own call to action.

I guess you're evil. It's that simple, right?

I have the critical thinking skills to recognize an obvious huckster.

But apparently not the utter lack of depth in your thoughts behind last night's rant.

Other than insulting me you haven't posited one argument in response. that says a great deal.

Simple fact

Truth Hurts Donut

#85 | Posted by truthhurts

Look, criticalthinkinghurts, you're spewing nonsense like a Trumper. You get treated like a Trumper.

Arguing that the stupid choices of about 25% of the populace doesn't mean the entirety of the populace is evil and should be destroyed is like having to argue that nobody should get married because some husbands beat their wives.

It's absurd, childish nonsense that might make you feel better but isn't actually worth a s*&^.

we are all complicit in this monster's crimes.

It really is that simple

#79 | Posted by truthhurts

No, it's not.

Sorry, but your fauxrage posting on this thread is just intellectual laziness.

Those injuries can both occur from committing unsafe acts.

IOW, it can be entirely the same thing.

#13 | Posted by eberly

INTENTIONALLY cutting your hand off with a table saw.

Ie accident vs intentional.

Biden happened to be POTUS when prices spiked due to international events. Trump is actively destabilizing the world, leading to price spikes.

That's a matter of perspective.

#12 | Posted by sitzkrieg

I mean, Trump did negotiate a "deal" then too where OPEC cut production to keep prices high, so I guess you're right.

Not as bad as $4.50+ diesel several years back.

#8 | Posted by et_al

That wasn't self-inflicted.

Losing your hand in a car accident isn't the same as cutting your hand off with a table saw.

That's because they're stupid pieces of s*&^ waiting for talking points to arrive via chain email and donation solicitation mailings.

The midterms will go well for Dems but not for the reasons they think. They will take the wrong message from their success, WHICH will really just be Trump fatigue.

#73 | Posted by BellRinger

There are a few quotes in the article that apply to multiple Dem rags to riches to rags cycles:

The report also stated that a "persistent inability or unwillingness to listen to all voters has provided the other major party with opportunities for advancement at the expense of Democratic growth, evolution, and ability to find common ground with seemingly disparate groups of voters from coast to coast, and the heartland Democrats tend to ignore."

Most important IMO:

The report also criticizes Democrats for relying too heavily on Republicans to "nominate deeply flawed candidates," adding that "regaining trust and confidence in the party" and giving voters an "affirmative reason to support Democrats" will "take a comprehensive strategy and considerable effort over multiple cycles."

If the second can be heeded and short term gains not squandered with immediate gratification and too hard an immediate turn left at the expense of bread and butter issues, there's a chance.

I'm just not too confident it will happen.

~50m north of Albany,

50 meters or miles? LOL

If miles, that's a beautiful area. I went to university in the Albany area and my ex-in-laws live in the Glens Falls area, so I was up there all the time. Lake George is probably one of my top 3 favorite places (not the tourist trap town itself at the south end of the lake, but the more secluded, quiet areas around the lake outside of it). Sort of accidentally stumbled on Lake Champlain South Bay one time while out for a random drive. Gorgeous place.

My wife and I have kicked around the idea of moving back to NY to be near my parents and extended family but always come to the conclusion that we'd hate it. Between the general politics of NY not agreeing with us and the local MAGA politics of my parent's area, we realize we'd struggle to be happy there. Couple that with the fact that much of upstate NY is an economic desert (the Alabama of the north east), it was an easy nope.

idk about accomplished, but she introduced major legislation and got it passed.

Which bill?

Give the actual archive designation, not the colloquial name.

She lost because she's a she...

No. Just no.

The DNC should have just held this report. It doesn't seem to have made a damned bit of difference anyway.

I know I usually am

#53 | Posted by truthhurts

Except you've spent an entire thread being a breathless reactionary turd getting it wrong.

Again, stuff like civil wars, global depressions and world wars are usually pretty good at resetting a populations' moral compass.

The regressive movement has been going on for centuries, they have won.

They have defeated liberalism.

Either start a revolution or accept your fate

#49 | Posted by truthhurts

So kick it off or STFU.

The problem is that Americans were not raised right, were not raised with critical thinking skills, were not raised with ethics

#32 | Posted by truthhurts

I'm guessing your spittle spraying tantrum is blinding you to the irony of this statement, eh?

Specifically, why did the American people CHOOSE him?

#17 | Posted by truthhurts

They didn't.

Of course not.

Nothing did other than Harris being a woman of color.

Americans are just racist misogynists and chose and orange man over a black woman.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack

Oh please.

If you want to know why the midterms aren't going to be the blue wave people thing they're going to be, look in the mirror.

Then again, you think AOC is "accomplished," so sure, champ, you're clearly got incredibly discernment and judgement...

We are not stopping Piggy from doing this

America is evil and bad things should happen to evil people.

#14 | Posted by truthhurts

So stop him. Go ahead.

Inaction means your evil. Are you evil?

Go touch some grass and disconnect. It's a holiday weekend, unplug for as long as you can.

It is about an electorate who couldn't look at Piggy and realize that he should never be allowed to gain the presidency, let alone for a second time.

A country that stupid, that hateful DESERVES the collapse of our nation that is coming.

You asked for it, you get it.

The ----- of truth rarely comes with lube.

#9 | Posted by truthhurts

Take a breath.

The electorate didn't choose him. He won because the same cultist idiots who voted for him in the past voted again.

But he didn't even receive a majority of votes actually cast, let alone support of the majority of eligible voters.

MAGA and the idiot progressives who took their ball and went home deserve this. Not everyone else. Use that anger to try and fix things.

The subject is motor oil, not the services you pay for at your annual trip to the bathhouse gaslighter.

#2 | Posted by visitor_

Funny how these degenerates always seem to go straight to gay sex.

No, I didn't.

I declined to go down your irrelevant tangent because you just can't pass up the opportunity to social justice warrior a thread to death.

And here's the canned arguments with the proper buzzwords that Snoofy will argue regardless of what is said to him.

Go for it, champ. Have fun.

The thin rationalization for another "law enforcement action" with our military invading a sovereign nation.

You're assigning sanity and prudent decision making to 75% of this country?
Surely not......

#15 | Posted by eberly

I'm assigning a lack of acceptance and support of sexual predation of children and women to 75% of the country. Probably more like 72% since there is that pedo percentage that's not part of the GOP.