We fear it might be. Recommend quarantine.

What drugs was this person slipped? 🤨

He definitely didn’t say no. And I think he’d be a hell of a candidate if he did. He gets it, he’s bright enough to do the job, and he’s got the connections without the social indebtedness of the average politician. And he’d pick an AOC as a running mate in a heartbeat. Plus, if someone’s worried that white men won’t elect a brown woman, Jon Stewart is about as white as I am (albino).

I don’t count him as “in the running” because he’s not said he’s willing to be in the running. But he’s also not saying no very loudly.

I’ve been saying issues over parties for years. Parties suck and we’re all a mix of positions, some good and others bad.

He’s been moving rather leftward. He is anti-gun, which does bother me. But I was once a gun-lovin’ libertarian-Republican. I learned a lot about the lies behind the entire right wing … but nobody’s convinced me yet that the people owning firearms is a bad thing. If anything, if more left-wing folks owned them, the fascist party would be a little less eager to threaten violence. After all, an armed society is indeed a polite one.

Yeah I recognize that mass shootings are a problem and that we could be doing a whole hell of a lot more to prevent those from happening. Disarming the population to make a “Republican” fascist coup to be more likely to be successful is not how we should be addressing the problem, though. Maybe I’m crazy there? Oregon is still working to ban private gun owernship in the midst of Trump’s literal fascist coup. What The Actual Fuck, Oregon?

More and more I believe we can and we will. Trump is getting more and more erratic and desperate. Things are falling apart for him. The question now is how many people die before it happens. I think it’ll be less than 120M more than if we do it your way. I think the odds of a less bad outcome are higher with my conclusion by a lot. And has a less risky outcome.

What doesn’t exist at this point is a “good” outcome. That shim sailed November 2024. People are already dying. A lot of them. We’ll eventually find out how many the concentration camps have killed. No good outcome.

I don’t think she can win YET. But as I said, it’s early and that may change. She’s my pick, certainly of people who are known to be in politics right now. If not now, later. That woman is going to become president. And America will be better off for it.

Um, seems there’s a good number of folks who’ve been trying to do something about that, actually. And the people who are starving Cuba right now are starving my neighbors too. I’m pretty opposed to starving people all around. And I want the people doing it tried for those crimes.

We could. And we could use cameras that will film their activities even if they shine a light right onto the camera. The problem is that our phones aren’t made to do that on their own.

If I see shit like this I’m a lot less opposed to citizens using lights as weapons against these neo-nazi fucks. I go out of my way to oppose illegal and most forms of “legal” violence (reddit bots/employees seem to think otherwise) because down that road lies the US turning into another Somalia and … not only do I not wanna see that many people get dead, I mean, I’d really rather not die that way. (And I would be dead, no doubt, with my medical background…) But lights and sounds can go both ways, y’know?

People seem to love it. But it’s highly proprietary and there seems to be planned obsolescence built into their model

No, it pretty surely is that he is a pedophile … he said so himself. It was recorded and he knew it was recorded. The fact that this was news in a lot of the country but not on any Republican-serving media source is testament to the lengths they went to in order to protect a disgusting human being.

What’s really sick is that a bunch of Americans would’ve voted for him if they knew. Probably not enough to win an election even against Hillary Clinton who acted like the presidency was owed to her without campaigning, but enough to illustrate a problem in this country both with where people get their “facts” and how few care what the facts are.

I see what you did there.

Running mate for someone who can. But I don’t think that person is on that list. Someone else suggested Kelly or Pritzker as middle of the road people with wider appeal who might be able to pull it off. I think it’s too early to pick a candidate.

She’s the best candidate on that list by far, and she’s got what it takes to do the job. I don’t think she can win the 2028 election given what’s going on right now, though. We’ve gotta do some stuff to clear the way for her to run later I think. A real winner candidate isn’t on this list. And that’s fine, we’ve got awhile yet.

She lost to Trump AND Biden.

Mark Kelly is a pretty respectable dude who should have wide appeal, even if he’s not super progressive. Pritzker could do it, you’re right. Either one of these two saying they want AOC as a running mate (and actually listening to her) elevates them on my list of candidates immediately.

This plan didn’t work with Trump in 2016. Republicans rammed him in where he wasn’t (shouldn’t have been) welcome because they refused to allow any other candidate. In the same election, Democrats let their party officials to ram Hillary through because the party wouldn’t accept Bernie.

Suggest we find someone WE like and do what Republicans did. It doesn’t matter if it’s an “outsider” or not, but I’d appreciate it if we could not pick a child rapist and sex trafficker, kthx!

I genuinely think our candidate hasn’t really made themselves known to be willing to run yet. I don’t think it’s AOC this time, though I think she’s got what it takes to do the job. I don’t think it’s Harris, people still feel burned by 2020. I hope we can do better than Newsom.

Kinda still want to draft Jon Stewart because he genuinely gives a fuck, can communicate like few others, knows how to be damned serious when he needs to be, and if he were on that list today he’d be near the top if not at it, just like that. And when asked, he didn’t say no. We could do far worse and still be okay.

But yeah, I’m waiting to see what happens. I don’t think the candidate I want that I’m sure will win is on the field yet. But I hope AOC is the running mate, whoever that person winds up being.

If you’re an American voter, you are. That’s the thing about sea changes in politics. They come from people who have very little power. And we do have very little power. It happens when there’s a damned lot of us, and not until then. The last time was when they kicked out the railroad barons and created anti-monopoly laws that are still on the books, mostly unused since the 70s. The time before that was pre-civil war. And before that was the revolutionary war itself.

These things don’t always have to be done via war, but they do have to be done by an overwhelming majority of people. Fatalism doesn’t help. Organizing does.

Let me put this as delicately as I can… ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND??

We had a civil war. It cost the United States 10% of its total population. If we have a repeat of that, kiss 35 MILLION of your friends and neighbors goodbye, because they’re fucking dead.

But we don’t have nice neat battle lines and territory back and forth like we did back then. It isn’t gonna look like Gettysburg. It’s gonna look like Somalia. Power and sometimes water, and certainly trucks and trains that deliver the stuff people like you and me need to live pass through red districts. They’re gonna turn off the utilities. They’re going to block the trucks and trains. We in turn are going to break the lines of communications. The We’s and the They’s are gonna all arm up in whatever tactical gear we can get our hands on like those ICE fuckers are wearing now, and we’re gonna patrol our borders in our isolated little pockets for anyone trying to cross who don’t belong. People will get through, saboteurs, raids…

I’d say we’re lucky if we lose only 120 million or so people. It’s gonna be a lot more of us than it will be of them, I promise you. But ultimately it’s not going to matter because there’s gonna be a lot of starving and dying and killing, if things go the way you want. And the two sides will probably wind up with roughly equal numbers fighting over the scraps of America for a decade or longer.

This by you is “good”? I hope you deposit a reality check and pretty damned quick, because we need to stop this shit before we get there, if we can. I don’t know if we can, honestly, but we really need to fucking try.