EVERYONE thinks they are the totally no-homo love child of John Matrix

Gotta give props for the Commando reference alone.

Lol love the smoke. I voted for Harris, even encouraged my irl friends and family to. I just think that tacking to the right is insane.

Cheney’s the one I happened to hear the most about and they’re all shitbirds, but go off about the misogyny.

You’re proving my point for me. Schwarzenegger is a career Republican, endorsed Harris, and is infinitely more influential than Liz Cheney could ever dream of being. But nobody had a problem with him. Kinzinger sat right next to Cheney at the J6 hearings and endorsed Harris, but nobody has a problem with him. Anthony Scaramucci. Michael Cohen. Former Trump associates and aides up and down the GOP political spectrum.

But Cheney – who, to remind you, is a Republican who sacrificed her political career to stand up to Trump in the first place – is the straw that supposedly broke their backs. Gee, I wonder why that is.

And y’all act as if Cheney herself was running for office. She wasn’t. She was run out of politics. She was not up for election. Her policies were not ballot initiatives. Her entire campaign was saying “Look, we don’t agree on anything outside of the fact that Trump cannot return to power.” But that was just too much. I mean, what was it that set her apart from her equally or more prominent male counterparts who also endorsed Harris? I guess we’ll just never know…

I’m the parent of a trans kid, I’m at a real risk of being chased out of the fucking country right now or maybe just thrown in jail, based on the chitchat around the watercooler now by both Dems and Rs. I’ve already been chased out of one home by bigots empowered by these pieces of shit.

Of course you are. I absolutely believe you, because nobody on the internet would lie about things that can’t be proven in order to give the illusion of “credibility”.

I absolutely didn’t want Trump to win. His win emboldens right wing terrorists across the country.

The Democratic party deserves to burn for this, but instead they’ll all be #resistance and send out more fundraising texts while the rest of us suffer. The lesson they’ll most likely take from this is the one people like you seem to be taking “we can’t run a woman because misogyny and we need to start burning leftists because we’re not right wing enough.”

Of course, it’s the Democrat Party’s fault, and has nothing at all to do with voters who sat home and allowed a dictator to return to power because his opponent was not the omnipotently perfect candidate.

And I’m going to challenge you to answer these questions:

How does allowing Trump to return to power make this situation better in any way?

How does allowing Trump to return to power not make everything exponentially worse?

How does allowing Trump to return to power benefit you and your community in any meaningful way?

Because the only answers I’ve been able to get to these questions from people like you are silence, insults, and downvotes.

But yeah. In 2024 when all people care about is “not the status quo” and “why eggs expensive”? A guy arguing for MORE government programs does not fair well against “Yo, what if we got rid of all taxes and government funding? Don’t ask where the money is going”

This is something I’ve always tried to get people to understand.

If you’re running for office, and your opponent is saying monkeys flying out of your ass are terrorizing the city and causing a huge problem, you’d be right to want to write them off as an unhinged lunatic with no grasp on reality, because anyone can see there are no flying monkeys. Should be pretty cut and dry; ignore him and let him go back to giving sermons to pigeons in the park.

But if 51% of the voting base believes that monkeys flying out of your ass are their top concern, you had better come up with a solution for the flying monkeys. Of course, you could try to appeal to reason and logic and point out that you have pants on and there are no flying monkeys. But if 51% of voters are hooked on the flying monkey problem, you’ll be making those appeals during your concession speech, while your opponent will suddenly point out that there are no flying monkeys because he managed to solve the problem on day one.

That’s just the reality of running for office. Sometimes, feels win out over objective reality. There are a certain number of voters who fall into this category, and those voters were always out of reach. You cannot use logic to persuade someone to change a position they didn’t logic their way into to begin with.

They also should have just had Kamala drop out and replaced her with Liz Cheney, that would have gotten the moderate vote.

Let’s take a look the other Republican politicians that endorsed Harris:

• Anthony Scarramucci
• Adam Kinzinger
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Geoff Duncan
• Alberto Gonzalez
• William Webster
• Jeff Flake
• Fred Upton
• Liz Cheney

These are all former politicians who either sent out media or actively campaigned to support Harris. But Liz Cheney was the bridge too far. Gee, I wonder what’s different about Liz Cheney compared to literally everybody else on that list.

Liz Cheney was never the fucking problem. If Liz Cheney endorsing Harris was supposedly the breaking point for you, you were never going to vote Harris to begin with.

They also should have shamed the people who don’t like funding wholesale slaughter around the world more, these are jobs we’re talking about here!

Ok, now answer this:

How does allowing Trump to return to power make any of this any better in any way?

How does allowing Trump to return to power not make all of this exponentially worse?

How does allowing Trump to return to power benefit you in any way?

So let me get this right.

The Democrat party was upset we were putting up a president that was “too old” and showing signs of cognitive decline, especially since he was going up against another old man with even more cognitive decline.

So the Democrat party gets the old man to drop out at the last minute and since there’s no time for a Democrat primary, they put up a black woman as the nominee.

But because the black woman wasn’t the absolutely perfect candidate, wasn’t articulate enough on her policies, and didn’t hand the left everything they wanted on a silver platter, they opted to stay home in protest and let the old white man with even more dementia return to power in order to “send a message” to Democrats not to put up old white guys.

And now they’re saying that the solution to the old white guy that they didn’t want to vote for was to put up an even older white guy who managed to get even less votes than her in his own home state.

Please, make it make sense.

And if you’re one of the 10+ million Biden voters who opted to sit home, you still fucking voted for this. “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” And you made that choice fully informed, knowing it was a de-facto vote for Trump.

If your solution to the problem of “old white guy” is “even older white guy”, then just admit it. You didn’t vote for Harris because she’s a black woman and are just using the narrative as a convenient excuse so you don’t have to admit (to yourself, to friends) that you’re a closeted racist. Because nobody with three active fucking brain cells believes that the solution to anything is to sit back and allow Trump to return to power.

"I don’t like Harris’s economic policies, so I voted for a guy who’s economic policy is “They’re eating the dogs!”

“I don’t like Harris’s policy on Gaza, so I voted for a guy who promised to speed up the genocide even faster.”

"I don’t like Harris flip-flopping on policies, so I voted for the guy who says he has “concepts of a plan”.

“I don’t like Harris’s record as a prosecutor, so I’m going to vote for a guy who wants to have me deported because of my race.”

“I don’t like Harris being endorsed by a Republican woman (the men are just fine, though), so I’m just going to allow all of them to return to power.”

And all I keep seeing from the people defending this line of bullshit is that “They couldn’t vote for Harris because…”, or “Harris went too far to the right…”, or “Well, Liz cheney showed up that one time…”. Yet asking the questions of “So how the hell does allowing Trump to return to power help in any way? Better yet, how does allowing Trump to return to power not make the situation actively worse? What is Trump going to do to help me?” is met by silence, insults, and downvotes. Because they know what the answer is. It doesn’t. It makes everything worse. But they just don’t want to admit (again, either to themselves and/or to others) that they would rather allow an old white wanna-be dictator to return to power before they’d vote for a black woman. Everything else is just excuses.

I can’t remember what media I was doomfully consuming, but someone basically said Dems should not try to court Republicans to vote… because even if it works, they’ll arrive at the polls and vote Republican.

Now this is an interesting take on it that at least makes some more sense. I don’t think we have any precedent to really go on; how many times do we really see someone from one party advocating for the other guy. It would be interesting to study how valid it actually is.

You laugh, but remember that at one time, someone walked into a boardroom and actually said “<puff> So, I’ve got this idea for a new cartoon. It’s about a sponge. <puff> And it lives in a pineapple…<pass>”, and is now a millionaire many, many times over.

So who do we get to play the two dudes that have to Weekend at Bernies Drew Carey around the oval office all day?

We are on Day -67 on a second Trump administration.

We already have:

• An anti-vaxxer with self-proclaimed brainworms as HHS secretary, given as part of a deal for him dropping out of the Presidential race.
• An alleged sex trafficker who is under investigation for various crimes including having sex with minors as AG, giving Trump an AG that will do his bidding without having to go through a Saturday Night Massacre since Trump can just use the trafficking case as leverage to keep him in line.
• An ambassador to Israel who believes Palestinians don’t exist.
• Demands from Trump that the Senate immediately go into recess upon Trump’s inauguration so Trump can appoint “recess appointments”, amid reports that several potential picks are too extreme even by some far-right standards.
• A “government efficiency czar” or whatever term he made up for it headed by a man who has already said he intends to cut the budget by $2 trillion and inflict hardship on poor people “for their own good”.
• Several prominent GOP figures admitting that they were lying about Project 2025 all along and there’s no reason to lie about it any more since voters can’t do anything about it now.
• Judges across the country pausing J6-related cases, citing the inevitability of Trump pardons for the rioters.

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Bribery is now legal. The corruption is now blatant and open. Lies are now worn as a badge of honor. The winners are saying the corruption will continue and is now the new normal. They have seized control and have purged anyone who would have dared to speak up, let alone do anything about it.

And remember, we’re not even on day one yet. There’s still a little over 2 months before the Trump HateTrain 2.0 really takes off.

This isn’t going to be pretty.

You know how I know I’m too stoned right now? I can actually picture this being a sitcom with Drew Carey starring as Grover Cleveland. I’m telling you, there’s something there, and I’m going to go ponder what that is over some more weed.

Those Palestinians were going to lose their land, families and lives either way. Biden has done nothing to stop Israel, neither would Harris. She made it abundantly clear that “protecting” Israel was more important than stopping genocide.

Let’s be realistic. Israel could raze Palestine any time it wants. They have the backing of the US and a vastly superior military. If Israel thought Biden and Harris would support Israel annexing the West Bank, they’d have done it over a year ago. In fact, they specifically said they’re annexing the West Bank because they have Trump’s backing.

If you were going to lose your land, would you rather lose your land X months or years from now, knowing you at least have a roof over your head until then and being able to hold on to the hope that maybe things might get better, or would you rather just wake up tomorrow with a giant orange bulldozer gleefully running over your house? Saying “It was going to happen anyway” is not only demonstrably false, but also doesn’t mean that the solution to that problem is making it happen faster. If Israel were going to annex the west bank under a Biden administration, he’d have done it already.

but getting his nomination torpedoed by the Senate

He will not get his nomination torpedoed by the Senate. By doing this, Trump has ensured that he has an AG that will do his bidding without question, since Trump will be able to hang this investigation over his head to keep him in line.

This is why Trump was demanding recess appointments a few days ago. This is why Tuberville is threatening to torpedo careers of Senators who don’t fall in line. This is a test for Republicans to get back in Trump’s good graces until he demands another loyalty pledge. He will either remain as “acting” AG and stay that way for Trump’s whole term, he’ll be appointed in a recess appointment, or dissenting senators will fall in line to save their political careers (and possibly their safety, as many of them have already confessed to being threatened).

And this won’t even be to “own the libs”. Heck, he doesn’t give half a shit about Gaetz outside of his usefulness as an AG puppet. If not Gaetz, there was always Cannon. Or Jim Jordan. Tuberville. Plenty of suck-ups to choose from. It’s just that Gaetz just happens to be the suck-up that’s also the easiest to blackmail if push were to come to shove.

This will be Trump’s way of making sure that republicans know who’s calling the shots. This is Trump’s way of telling republicans that the train isn’t stopping. This is Trump’s first loyalty test for them. This will tell Trump who needs to be purged and who can be trusted in the party. Trump just put his dick out on the table, and told Republicans that if you want careers, you had better get in line to pet it.

Mark my words, one way or the other, they’ll all line up.

Sometime last night. He allegedly quit abruptly and immediately in preparation for the AG role he was nominated by Trump for, because abruptly quitting in the middle of the night without warning is what all nominees do, don’t you know…

In completely unrelated news, the house Ethics committee was about to release a report about his involvement in underage sex trafficking, among other criminal activity. And wouldn’t you know it? Committee rules prohibit the release of that report since he’s no longer a member of Congress. Complete coincidence, I’m sure.

Everyone pointing at people that didn’t vote for Harris over Gaza like this is some gotcha moment are totally missing the point.

Yes, yes. We get your “point”. Harris’s policy on Gaza was bad, so of course the clear solution was to hand the Presidency to someone who would make it worse. To send a message.

Good job, guys. Your message was loud and clear. I’m sure that in 2028, Democrats might have a slightly more pro-Palestine agenda. Maybe. Until they realize there’s a hell of a lot more Jewish voters that would be even more pissed off. Lesson learned. I’m sure the people of Palestine who will lose their land, their families, and their lives between now and then will take solace in knowing that you sacrificed their lives on their behalf to send a political message in a country 5000 miles away. I’m sure that’s exactly what they wanted.

So am I, but if I were a betting man…

My apologies, then. I have simply never heard that before.

Would still vote for it over Trump.

Go for it, Rambo. Let me know how it works out for you.

But dick cheney is a pretty massive weight, especially when the camel is running over the left.

The logic just doesn’t make even the least bit of sense.

What you’re telling me is that people were planning on voting for Harris. They liked Harris’ policies and knew what a Trump presidency would bring. But because Liz Cheney – a woman, remember, who sacrificed her own standing in the Party and torpedoed her own political career in order to stand up to Trump and try to give legitimacy to the J6 hearings – showed up to one of her rallies and endorsed her, that was such an insult and affront to them on a personal level that they were willing to sit at home in protest and hand the country over to Trump. That doesn’t even pass the smell test. Those people were never going to vote for Harris anyway. Cheney was just a convenient excuse.

You don’t have to like Liz Cheney. God knows I don’t agree with her on a single political issue. But Liz Cheney wasn’t running for office. Liz Cheney is a far-right nutjob, but even she’s giving MAGA the side-eye. It’s a prime example of winning the battle but losing the war. Sometimes, you have to look at the bigger picture, and in some battles, you need to accept that the enemy of your enemy sometimes really is your friend, if only for a little while.

It’s not like Harris picked Cheney for VP or something.

Of course, you can always try to go the extralegal route, but you need a hell of a lot of heavily armed people willing to actually do that. Problem with that is that a good chunk of said people just got finished saying “Meh, nah.”

And if it does come up with some tortured logic, I can see a State telling it to go to hell, because the one thing it can’t focus rewrite the Constitution.

And this is where your logic falls apart. This would have been a correct statement on or before November 4, 2024. It is no longer correct. We are in TrumpWorld now. The rules as we knew them no longer matter, and can and will either be rewritten or outright ignored.

Trump doesn’t have to rewrite the Constitution. He just has to use the same logic with the 22nd amendment as they did with the 14th: It is simply too vague and not enforceable. If Trump says that, and Congress passes a bill saying that, and the Supreme Court says “Yeah, fuck the 22nd amendment.”, and a bunch of MAGA state governments say that, then guess what?

I mean sure, some states could go their own way and not put him on the ballot. But (a), good luck getting people to consider that election legitimate, (b) They probably wouldn’t be enough to swing the election anyway, and © the MAGA congress could just as easily set those states aside entirely because reasons.

Thinking that a man is going to play by the rules when he’s using the rulebook as toilet paper while being cheered on by voters is probably not going to go the way you think it will. Especially when that man has already seized enough power to rewrite the rulebook at will anyway.