And I wonder if even that would be enough for some of them. The gun worship just seems so powerful. It's like it's part of some of them's essence.
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And I wonder if even that would be enough for some of them. The gun worship just seems so powerful. It's like it's part of some of them's essence.
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Ha, incapable of learning 🤣
You're wild. Someone who studies it told you in this thread that there are no deaths from the vaccine. Looks like you belong over on X. Your smarmy and patronizing tone hits the X spot as well. 😆 Muting you now.
And which may--fingers and toes crossed --be their downfall in the end
I almost think any member of the animal kingdom is too good to be used as a comparison. Some people on here like to talk about how DJT "isn't human" or is "barely human." But the sad fact is that he's extremely human. Humans are capable of so much crap no other animal would dream of doing.
I wanna be that kitty! 😍
This is my favorite one. There *are* some good graphic-design uses of AI, it seems. The kitty is the coup de grace--and its expression! 😹
If they can't manage that, it'd be sort of cool even if they just threw symbolic big chunks of ice...or even dry ice....😆
Correcting my unclear antecedents: staffers hid Biden's weaknesses just like DJT's staffers are now hiding his. And I rely on the NYT to tell me something in a calm and stodgy and reliable way.
No. They aren't "complicit" because they try to be the paper of record. I don't only want to read opinions I agree with. I want to learn things. And, although I know it's wild to say, Biden WAS too old, & they hid his frailties just like they are doing now around dear DJT.
Tell me about it!!
I hope this works www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
No. I'm tired of this narrative. They did warn. Repeatedly.
Please don't come now, you're right! Wait till we're a decent place again.
I'll just copy this to reply to any more hysterical "we're done, we're doomed" remarks.
I love this comment so much. One of those descendants myself. I had a relative who didn't survive --sent to Stalin's gulag. I am so tired of today's shrill doomers.
I feel like this is a somewhat underrated observation. There are a lot of culpable parties, but they got him started to the point where he could become a presidential candidate. The original sinners, as it were.
He really should, because it really is a problem when those around a leader cover up the leader's frailties....frankly, no matter who the leader is.
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Well, your comments are unhelpful no matter what.
Hear hear hear and hear. Don't let the doomers get you down
I feel like the ones in the videos are fired up to vote, anyway.
Stop it!!! Stop being a right-wing plant on here! Jeesh. Shame on you.
Right, but it's all the more reason for ordinary citizens to push back. And people are. And certain states are. Our state-bases system turns out to be helpful.
Hear hear
I have seen these a lot. I agree they seem to come from that mindset. SO annoying
Interesting diss! I had to look it up, I confess
Wish I could like this comment 100x more!
UUGGHH
Heh, small technical detail. He'd still be better--if he even wanted it!
It didn't. But she maybe could have overcome it if she'd not seemed so dismissive of Arab American concerns. The Trump campaign actually reached out to the Uncommitted movement, reportedly. But she had all sorts of circumstances working against her in general.
As a woman --granted, a privileged one--I say GFL as well. He can target away. We're not victims either.
Okay.
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Some of my respondents in this thread might've, but I suspect their critical-thinking skills were lacking to begin with. 😆
It might have made you dumber? It hasn't me. I learn from reading it. I know it's fashionable on the far left to rag on it, though.
Say what?
That's terrible. I've never happened to see those. I've only read pro-trans content in it. Jennifer Boylan was a columnist for them for a long time.
Nah
The same old that's been going on for almost 10 years
Of course he is. Humans are capable of all sorts of things. Unfortunately.
😆 I'm actually not sure what you're saying
And mete! Oy! 😀
And bite, I meant to say 😆
It's how kitties act when they're looking at birds they can't get to. They're excited and frustrated in equal measure
Right...but individual humans don't meet out karma. And karma can turn back around and note as well....
The Nuremberg trials were just fine, although it's true that worse things had been perpetrated by that government than ours has (yet) done. I too don't think his death would solve the underlying problem. It would be sort of exciting. I wouldn't rejoice in anyone's suffering, though, even his...
I know. I appreciate your civility! 😀
The eye for an eye discourse is so tired and depressing and morally bankrupt.
You just told brown people in concentration camps to fuck off. Also, it's totally possible to empathize with both, unless you've lost your humanity at least as much as you accuse others of doing. I hate these kinds of morally blinkered posts. So common on this site....
One of those times where I see it everybody's way. You're absolutely right. And yet ....
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I think I saw the posts. A helpful person posted the scientific articles Katie said she was "waiting" for. But then she blocks them when she gets them. 😆
She has apparently blocked me as well. She blocked you and you were on her side. A fragile soul! 😆
Okay. I didn't think I was being patronizing. Sorry for the annoyance.
Fund public education now. We have no excuse
It's sad that I'm so hardened that my first instinct is to laugh. Truly there is no absurdity too wild for them to commit.
Because of course he did!
It just seems like you're picking a fight where there's none to pick. Mere common sense would suggest it's obvious that people with severe mental illness might be less able to look after themselves physically. But like so many on here, you need to tendentiously push back.
Hunh. Really. I don't know. I see Reagan as a forerunner of the current crap. Laying the groundwork
All those polite kids, trying not to fart in front of the distinguished public official RFK! 😆
Agreeing with the logic of it doesn't mean you support RFK. Jeesh. Critical thinking seems in short supply on this site.
This one seems pretty straightforward, actually. Do we have to always fight with people we agree with?
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Lord knows RFK wouldn't advocate reading
I like your spirit!
😆 "golden"
Pull down the whole system via postmodernism! 😀
It sounds more like they actually are wearing a cape--by resigning. And people knee-jerk calling on them to stay probably don't understand the job. There's a lot of that kind of bloviating on this site, to be honest.
Wow, sounds exciting. Wonder how it'll end
Glad to oblige
Nah
Yes, why not! 😀
Yes, why not! (I thought Harris had more than 29% anyway. I know it was close to what Trump had.)
No, I think in this case, the whole point is that their process wasn't getting slowed. RFK simply doing whatever he wants
Not to say history will be erased just because he's not honored...au contraire, the disaster should be studied and learned from
But what does that accomplish? That sounds stupid.
There are for sure, but I should think they're outnumbered.
I think the obvious point is that he can't stay in the position and do so. He can be more effective outside the org. This is what it means to resign in protest!
I think the country will survive in the long run. Trump is the worst I've ever seen, but GW Bush was bad for science and public health as well. Of course, could argue he laid the groundwork for what we have now. But Americans as a ppl are both stubborn & innovative--and fed up with all this.
And Miller
And not just this thread, I've noticed.
Yes, but you can see that it's a lot to ask of people already in trouble. A case where more privileged allies would be needed.
SERIOUSLY.
It still sounds tendentious! 😐
I've seen ones of color in videos. There are BIPOC jerks as well... like the ones who voted for Trump in greater numbers in 2024.
Well, I appreciate the polite exchange. Respectfully, I must disagree. I don't want to live in a society that puts people to death--anyone! I know the US is such a society currently, but that's because it's backward!
The original quote about the ham sandwich did say that it had to be a GOOD prosecutor. 😆
I guess it just sounds authoritarian to me. I'd prefer something like a truth & reconciliation committee. And serious thinking how to reform society so that Trumpian figures wouldn't have the allure that Trump did.
No! Keep the faith that enough of the country will have had enough. It doesn't seem unlikely.
Lord knows, he does seem to be teasing us with his intimations of mortality, his musings about the afterlife and so on.
Love your turns of phrase
I probably shouldn't laugh, but 🤣
It's melodrama when you use all caps and misapply the word "literally," etc. I think some people are super-excited by the frightening, terrible stuff currently going on, because it gives the chance for them to sound righteous and fierce in social media. Just saying.....
That does make it sound almost fun--like a dance. 😀
I agree--I just started following her b/c it's wild she's on here, but I think calls for violence are misbegotten. It's thrilling to talk about & everything, but one problem I have with it is how they would determine who needs to die. I'm against the death penalty in all cases anyway.
I don't know the specifics. I'm getting my info from a New Yorker article, dated May 5 of this year, I think. I think we can all just keep our heads and don't have to thrill ourselves with doom. If you enjoy that, fine --just go do it somewhere else! 😀