He doesnt have the authority to “not accept” an election. Who cares what he thinks about elections. The states conduct the elections, not him. He can go eff himself.

Media companies need to point this out in their headlines. They are misleading people into thinking his opinions matters.

We put our political system up for sale and are enemies bought it. I think its mostly our own fault.

I think its both. Boomers have a lot to answer for and have been abysmal stewards of the world. They fail by nearly every metric. They are the worst generation.

You mean through government shut down

They funded the budget and let DHS funding be temporarily funded then broken out into a separate set of bills. Your waving around shutdown is a bit of a two step. Nice bit of line dancing.

There is a fundamental thing about the MAGA mindset that we all need to understand. When Republicans get caught lying, cheating, and stealing they DONT CARE.

We know. We arent trying to influence MAGA. We are talking to the largest body of voters at this point: registered independents, and Dems who have lost faith in their Dem representitives.

You see me as running interference for failure, but I see you and others as

Why should I care how you see me? You advocate for people doing nothing. Just like I dont care what Maga thinks of me, I dont see any point in anyone caring what you think. You exist to hinder progress and selfishly yell about your pet issues.

I’m responding to you at all because you are making badly thought out arguments in a thread I care about. Thats the only reason.

Israel will never allow the dems to repeal citizens united. It would get like 5 votes.

“If we want to keep earning back the trust and support of voters”

they never started. If the are “keeping on” some effort, it has already failed. Ken has proven to be a collosal disappointment and waste of everyones time.

Well they could have held up funding the entire budget, easily. They had that power and they pissed it away for nothing. They could also constantly bring up impeachment votes for trump and his appointees to get the republicans on camera backing unpopular actions up. When they fail to do that they fail to pin accountability on the republicans that would hurt them during reelection time. These are trivially easy things to do.

Why do you keep running interference for failure Chonky? You seem to have a vested interest here. Ah I see. perusing your previous coments, I see pro AIPAC stuff. Got it.

We just need like 24 senators who arent compromised by Israel to win an internal party vote to dethrone him. But we dont even have close to that many who would vote for that. This is why we need to clean our own house up as our first focus. We cant fight republicans effectively when Israel controls our leadership and prefers that trump always wins. Our reps dont actually work for us, and thats part of why dems always lose. Its not that its the nature of left leaning people to fight weakly.

yeah… thats the twist in the story, they redacted the faces of the abusers but not the victims. So their story that they needed to do redactions to protect the victims was just proven to be complete horseshite.

I saw a bunch of articles in the past few weeks about seniors needing to work more years and the idea of retirement in the US “needing to change”. Presumably because we are tossing out big chiunks or our labor force and probably social security will be gutted by the republicans.

Yeah. Pretty fair analysis even though I dont enjoy that conclusion. I thought even capitalism was better than that. I would love to go back to my ignorant beliefs in the good of the common man again. And the basic instinct toward good of my fellow Americans. But you cant go backwards in life.

Between “no child left behind”, epstein island involving pretty much the entire monied elite and political class, ICE raids, and cancelling health care and food aid for kids, I dont know what “for the kids” even means anymore in the US. Its almost openly a joke anymore.

Celebrating nvidias big investment in Israel didnt help either. Daily killing of innocents continues while he ships pallets of money over. He’s not unique in tech CEOs being arseholes, but he’s definitely another trash human being. The world would instantly be a better place without most tech CEOs.

If my 3090 or mobo dies, for instance, I can send it to a repairperson and have a good chance of saving it.

While throwing out working things is terrible, the cost of servicing a motherboard outpaces the cost of replacing it. They can possibly still charge you 200 dollars and tell you the board cant be fixed, right? I think the right balance is that you observe the warranty period, try to troubleshoot it yourself --and then call it a day, unless you have a 400+ dollar motherboard.

I no longer beleive its possible for this system to fix itself with slow internal incremental change. Do you?

I’ve been yelling this for years. The scary thing for me is that increasingly “dems + lean dem” are no longer the majority and repubs have better numbers. And strong dem registration numbers shrink every year. Dems refuse to acknowledge or act on this fact, and its harder every year to define what “Dem” even stands for anymore. What is the Dem party platform? I used to be sure. Do dems support progressive taxation? No one knows. Now I think the DNC champions whatever viable minimum it can to win an election while sucking off the donors to the maximum extent. If they can win with 51% by allowing the rich to fuck us all over, thats the strategy they will pick-- they arent on our side.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/fact-sheet/party-affiliation-fact-sheet-npors/

We could at least have them removed from their leadership positions. That could happen today if 10 dems would call for a internal vote on it. Evidently we dont have that many willing to do the right thing. I wonder why $$$$.

Outrage doesnt work on the right. Their hatred for other groups far outwieghs any thought of policing their own. And I’d bet that will never change. They will happily use fake outrage on others though so thats fun for everyone.

If it makes people happy and isnt aggressively reposted, then who cares if its a repost.

I know many cultures have a taboo on saying anything bad about the dead, but this is my favorite story of the week by a fair margin.