trump off the CO ballot

[arthwollipot]

It's charming that you still believe there's a difference in team a and b.

Well, one team wants to reduce healthcare and housing costs, and the other wants to dismantle democracy.

Yeah, there's a difference between team a and team b.

[stanky]

Yes, I agree there is a difference in what they say they want.
But none in what they actually want, or can even do.
If there was, we wouldn't keep moving in the same direction, even as leadership changes parties.

Funny that Biden isn't exactly campaigning for Harris.
Nor is Harris. They're barely trying. The platform is "not Trump".
Trump's is anti-Harris; anti-Dems.
Hollow rhetoric.
Not even a wall.
Or health care.

More surveilance and censorship, yes. Prisons, probably. Weapons, definitely.
Homelessness? More illegal.

Flow of money is the thing to watch. It's like the thermodynamics of economics. It has dismantled democracy already. Here, anyway. Australia, not so much.

Zuckerberger is now # 2! Bumped Bezos by 1 billion.
God bless all the billionaires.

[arthwollipot]

Yes, I agree there is a difference in what they say they want.
But none in what they actually want, or can even do.
If there was, we wouldn't keep moving in the same direction, even as leadership changes parties.

So by your reasoning there's no difference between politicians and they're all the same? Why vote for any one over any other, then?

[stanky]

Reasonable question.
Especially for Americans.

[arthwollipot]

No, it's a perfectly stupid question.

Trump is clearly a terrible person. He was a terrible President, and if he takes the top job again America will dive headfirst into the toilet.

The two sides are not the same. The two sides aren't even on the same coin.

Vote for Harris/Walz or you might not get to vote again.

[sparks]

Well done Arth! Thank you.

[Admin]

No, it's a perfectly stupid question.

Trump is clearly a terrible person. He was a terrible President, and if he takes the top job again America will dive headfirst into the toilet.

The two sides are not the same. The two sides aren't even on the same coin.

Vote for Harris/Walz or you might not get to vote again.

That's the sickest part of the entire equation - he's a sick, vindictive, worthless cunt, yet at least a third of Americans think that's a good thing.

The whole country needs to make him a loser by so far that any claim of rigging will be laughed at.

[sparks]

Agreed that's what should happen, but do you think it possible given the current level of Dumbth in this fucking country?

[Meadmaker]

No, it's a perfectly stupid question.

Trump is clearly a terrible person. He was a terrible President, and if he takes the top job again America will dive headfirst into the toilet.

The two sides are not the same. The two sides aren't even on the same coin.

Vote for Harris/Walz or you might not get to vote again.

That's the sickest part of the entire equation - he's a sick, vindictive, worthless cunt, yet at least a third of Americans think that's a good thing.

The whole country needs to make him a loser by so far that any claim of rigging will be laughed at.

Shortly after I read the above, I was thinking about replying with some sort of frustrated response wondering why so many people are taken in by that con man. I kind of knew the answer, but then today's headlines provided a better response than I could.

The headline (which I didn't save) was about a FEMA meeting, where a FEMA "executive" talked about prioritizing LGBTQ disaster victims. (I don't know what level Tyler Atkins, the man* in question actually is. The headline called him an executive.)

I searched, and followed a link to FEMA's website. This link:

https://www.fema.gov/about/strategic-plan/goal-1

The headline. Goal 1 in FEMA's strategic plan. Goal 1 from their own web site.

"Goal 1 - Instill Equity as a Foundation of Emergency Management"

That's why people vote for Donald Trump.


*According to the article, Tyler Atkins uses He/They pronouns. I don't even know what the hell that means. Usually the pairing is subject/objective, such as he/him, or they/them, or sometimes possessives like he/his. What does he/they mean?

[President Bush]

No, it's a perfectly stupid question.

Trump is clearly a terrible person. He was a terrible President, and if he takes the top job again America will dive headfirst into the toilet.

The two sides are not the same. The two sides aren't even on the same coin.

Vote for Harris/Walz or you might not get to vote again.

That's the sickest part of the entire equation - he's a sick, vindictive, worthless cunt, yet at least a third of Americans think that's a good thing.

The whole country needs to make him a loser by so far that any claim of rigging will be laughed at.

Shortly after I read the above, I was thinking about replying with some sort of frustrated response wondering why so many people are taken in by that con man. I kind of knew the answer, but then today's headlines provided a better response than I could.

The headline (which I didn't save) was about a FEMA meeting, where a FEMA "executive" talked about prioritizing LGBTQ disaster victims. (I don't know what level Tyler Atkins, the man* in question actually is. The headline called him an executive.)

I searched, and followed a link to FEMA's website. This link:

https://www.fema.gov/about/strategic-plan/goal-1

The headline. Goal 1 in FEMA's strategic plan. Goal 1 from their own web site.

"Goal 1 - Instill Equity as a Foundation of Emergency Management"

That's why people vote for Donald Trump.


*According to the article, Tyler Atkins uses He/They pronouns. I don't even know what the hell that means. Usually the pairing is subject/objective, such as he/him, or they/them, or sometimes possessives like he/his. What does he/they mean?

FEMA prioritizing "the consistent and systematic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals who belong to underserved communities that have been denied such treatment" * is why people vote for Donald Trump?

Are you suggesting FEMA ought not be doing that, uh, so as not to alienate voters?


* from your link, FEMA Executive Order 13985