Bio? You expect me to fill out a bio? Nice try, FBI.
The city’s neighborhoods are run by people who get stuff done, which means that being mayor requires at least the pretense of doing favors for the people who do favors for you
Yeah when shit gets done in this town, when a playground gets renovated, when a new community center gets built, when the roads get repaved, we know who it is making that happen: the Turkish ambassador.
See, Americans would be perfectly fine with production being socialized, controlled and operated by the workers, as long as there’s still 10 brands of toilet paper at the store.
Depends. The police state shit and attacking immigrants? No, they don’t have an issue with that.
The nepotism/spoils stuff? That they probably don’t like, but for the most part can’t do anything about it.
On one hand, true.
On the other hand, getting Al Capone on tax fraud.
“Folks, these immigrants, they’re coming in with these guns, huge guns, so long, so long. American guns, they’re tiny, itty bitty, next to these monster guns the immigrants have, that Kamala is letting into our country. Americans, they pull out their guns next to these immigrant guns, they feel insignificant, useless!”
That makes sense, doesn’t she have some sort of congenital condition?
A lot of them get jobs with the MTA police long enough to qualify for that pension and then retire with two pensions.
That’s part of the problem, a lot of conservatives that got disillusioned with the GOP under Dubya went to the Democrats. But they’d didn’t adjust their politics, they just dragged the party rightward on everything but token minority/disenfranchised “representation.”
“I voted for him twice. I won’t vote for him again,” says Bob Lange, a family farmer from Malvern, Pennsylvania, of Trump in the ad that was first obtained by Axios. “Never thought I’d say this, but the Democrats are the party of common sense.”
Oh god not the “A vote for the Democrats is a vote for common sense” argument again. You have to offer voters something tangible, not “you’ll be smugly reasonable and rational if you vote for us.”
If someone cheats on their spouse and blows through their savings at the gambling table, you don’t applaud them for then doing a better job of making sure their dirty laundry ends up in the hamper.
So the candidate doesn’t support the issues I care about, on the handful of positions they’re semi-decent on they’re not willing to do what it takes vis a vis the courts and/or the filibuster in order to make them happen. What am I supposed to be voting based on? Vibes?
Restless leg syndrome
I think it’s telling that the pharma industry keeps dumping so much R&D and subsequently marketing into treating what are effectively minor QoL issues for older people in WEIRD countries.
“Better off with Trump” is such a weak slogan. That doesn’t have that 2016 God Emperor energy, that sounds like the way movement conservatives talked about voting for Romney in 2012.
Because then they have to accept the loss and temporality of that feeling and time in their life and that’s a scary/depressing thought for some people.
“De-escalation through escalation” folks
The best explanation I’ve heard for this phenomenon is that they’re man children who don’t want to accept that the reason new Star Wars, Marvel, LOTR, etc doesn’t make them feel the way they did when they were nine years old watching the originals is, they’re not nine anymore. They’re adults, they don’t have the wide-eyes wonder anymore, they’ve developed enough to see weak plots and poor suspensions of disbelief that nine year old them wouldn’t pick up on. They can’t just watch the old films because that will just be nostalgic, instead of recreating that feel they had watching it for the first time.
But rather than accept that perspective of media is something they’ve lost, they keep going back to the slop hoping beyond hope it will come back. And when it doesn’t, they get disappointed and mad and, hey here’s a culture warrior saying the problem with modern media is woke and DEI and feeeemale. Now there’s an outlet, an explanation that isn’t growing up.
Guess he’s having trouble finding wiling locations, seeing as doesn’t pay his rally bills
Hey, what was the name of the VP in that administration? Joe something, Bowden? Beetown? Whatever happened to him, he still in any kind of position of influence in DC?