I wouldn’t want the hardest worker to be the automatic promotion. We’ve all worked with someone who means well, works hard but is dumb as a brick. God help us if they get promoted.

I really like their response. Between the lines, it’s basically “the audacity of this whiny little bitch…”

What do you mean holding hostage?

The only leverage points, as mentioned earlier, are a government shutdown or refusing to move the debt ceiling. Both of which are just “we are willing to inflict massive pain until our demands are met.” That’s what hostage taking is.

Other than that, the Dems have no political power until they win in the midterms.

had just gutted healthcare and other public services

These are political complaints. You’ve moved from “we have to stop fascism” to “I disagree with these policy choices” which is a vastly different arena. I disagree with the policies but more Americans voted for the administration to enact sweeping policy changes, that’s democracy even when the results are other than what you wish they were.

Because the long term consequences are far more dire?

Like, are you saying Dems holding America hostage will make Republicans realize trump is the actual threat?

I’m not seeing the mechanism from which Democrats inflicting massive pain on American voters somehow removes trump.

What do you see happening?

Edit: a grammar.

Nope, had never seen any. Just started watching bits online afterwards though.

Unsure how real those segments were as well but they cracked me up regardless.

Their argument would go something like “you screamed this in 2016, but there were still midterms and a presidential election which removed trump from power, fairly unfascist. There will still be midterms and a presidential election this cycle too.”

Personally, I think it’s too close for comfort but at the same, fair points.

Caught “Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie.” Fantastic little indie comedy that while a bit slow at times had the audience in painful gut laughs at other bits.

Not like that, not really.

But in the before times when I worked in an office, there was a good half year where a big building opposite my window was being torn down. A few times a no th when something awesome was happening (like smashing the walls with an excavator) folks would hang out and just watch for chunks of time.

It’s free and using it means I don’t have to support American tech companies.

Ahhh, that makes sense.

In retrospect, I suppose I could’ve googled it but it’s always nice to have an excuse to dig out the anthology.

I like that Han’s blaster is more powerful than an ATAT

Really interesting answers like tbis, about topics on which I know nothing, are my absolute favourite part about social media.

Thank you for this! I had no idea it could be so complicated. Congrats on the blooms and enjoy the next half decade!

it’s whether or not politicians and bureaucrats have the political will.

That and the institutions, but sure. So, why on Earth would you think that the Dems threatening to hurt American citizens will somehow change the political will/calculus?

“Those Dems are holding the government hostage… I should probably reconsider my position on trump!”

That’s wild, congrats! For someone completely ignorant of botany, what does that half decade entail?

Was playing hide and go seek with my friend’s toddler, who is clearly new to the game as when she found me she said “okay, now I’ll hide here and you come find me!”

Lol, okay, now read the other parts there:

29% - Ending Israel’s violence in Gaza 24% - The economy 12% - Medicare and Social Security 11% - Immigration and border security 10% - Healthcare 9% - Abortion policy 5% - Don’t know

In other words, the overwhelming majority of the voters who changed their vote from Biden to someone else were not voting because of Gaza.

An astute reader might note that this lines up pretty closely with what I said way back at the beginning…

Harris lost running on massive inflation, in the same wave that saw almost every incumbent government thrown out by historic margins and still came within only a couple of points of trump.

I’ll also just leave this here for you.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/issues-and-the-2024-election/

Thanks so much for all this, I’m stoked to get into some Welles!

Which of your sources has this 29% figure? I read and double checked the rolling stone one albeit on archive.ie so maybe a graphic’s not coming through?

Or you meant to send a different source?

Hmm, are you sure on the dates? The March 12th 1989 is a Sunday strip without the transmogrifier, and the 3rd of December is about mailing Santa.

… BUT… The cardboard box the beanie comes in first shows on March 11 (with the action concluding on the 18th talking about all the fun they’ll have with this great cardboard box.

(Admittedly, looking at it now, the box does seem a bit too small for them to fit in but…)

Hombre, remember this was your original position:

axois’ reporting on the dnc’s attempt to suppress the last election’s post mortem investigation and the yougov polls of pro-biden/anti-harris voters have shown us that harris lost 10 million votes because of gaza.

If you actually look through the Cook political report, the big issue was men of colour moving to the Right. And if you read the sentences right above the young voters bit in the Rolling Stone article, you’ll notice their concerns are not about the perceived silence on Gaza but instead the perception “that Dems cared more about immigrants, trans people and waging war in Ukraine and Gaza than domestic priorities or their daily economic realities.” You could sort of maybe disingenuously twist that into Gaza but really, that’s clearly about the money being spent for military support instead of economic issues at home.

Again, all of this is far cry from your claim that Gaza cost ten million votes.