My ancestors are ashamed.

(And thanks. :) )

Omg the beans. What a beauty.

Also, never ventures on the countertops? What a gentleman.

Did nobody read Project 2025?

I didn’t realise she was a squid. That arm…

I had my son at 28, not by 24. Speedrun: FAILED.

Oh, and wrote my first novel at 50. Also FAILED, apparently.

They carefully calculated those public policy proposals based on polling. But again, they’re basing all that on what it looks like their voting base wants. But the dem voting base is all over the place.

Do you think they looked at all the best demographics and polling they could get and said ‘nah, let’s go a different way lol’?

The issue here is you want something very different from non-rightist B, who wants something very different from (and maybe diametrically opposed to) non-rightist C, and so on. And I’m not saying ‘dem’ or ‘leftist’ here because those terms piss off someone on your own side.

There was no way to make any of that work, and thinking there was, that it was their strategy or the candidate, misses the point. ANY non right candidate will lose again if this issue isn’t understood.

using words to court the middle rather than policy.

Not sure what this means, since words are what you have when running for office. It’s not like she was president before (unlike the other guy, who we did have policy to look at, and still that wasn’t enough).

Yes, because courting Dems is like herding cats. Leftists turn their noses up at a moderate, and moderates spook at the slightest whiff of leftism. Yet the right congeals like old yoghurt around whatever rotting mass says the right buzzwords.

I didn’t say it was working. I’m not defending it, but it made sense on paper.

To be fair, I think the Dems could have run Jesus himself and would have still lost. There was literally no good candidate on the face of the earth that would have placated progressives whilst also being someone moderates would have considered. And you need both to win.

e: propaganda hasn’t only worked on the right – it’s also gone a long way to dividing the left into near-irrelevancy.

I know I’ll get hate for this, but politics is often about playing a safe numbers game, and courting leftists is like herding cats.

If you want to start winning elections, maybe be less like a herd of cats. Stop sniping at compatriots and form coalitions.

Really? This is what does it.

Not all his other deranged bullshit – this?

Fine, I’ll take it, but you’d better be fucking serious, US, or your own credibility is gone.

Do something about it! Now!

What a beauty.

The paedophiles are getting so desperate, they’re just openly declaring their guilt now. That’s neat.

Ho ho ha ha hee hee ha ha

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Ooooooihhhhhhhh

(If you know this reference and can hear it, you’re really weird)

LOL lol

Well, yes, but I meant the form-fitting fashion that was the rage when pockets disappeared from womenswear between like 1910 and the late 1950s. Women still weren’t allowed to wear overtly manly clothes except in certain contexts, so everything from the waist down had to be overtly feminine, since just wearing man pants was too subversive.

In hindsight, that was a really weird analogy. In my defense, I was pretty high.

To be fair, it’s really hard to design fashion that’s stylish AND has pockets.

It’s hard enough to design something that looks good on a variably sized and kinetic shape. Now make it look good and have storage.

In that era, though, many couples slept in separate beds and pushed them together for sexy times.

Both sets of my grandparents even slept in separate rooms. When I was very small, my parents had 2 beds in 1 room. That’s how it was often done.

So that doesn’t really help much. If anything, the pushing 2 beds together was media speak for sexy times…

It wasn’t exactly subtle.