Russia is very good at maintaining plausible deniability for things like this. Like the polonium in the tea. Everybody knows, but there’s no proof that Russia was behind it, which makes it harder to take action over it.
Why would Russia put itself at risk by directly taking out an under cover CIA agent when they can just publicly reveal the agent’s identity and let things take care of themselves?
Right? Headline should really read “Trump admits Epstein list is real, defends some of the people on it.”
In my previous comment “good” is synonymous with “least bad” which apparently isn’t obvious enough despite my previous clarification about the world but being black & white.
So no, when faced with multiple options, all of them bad, picking the least bad option ISN’T the same as picking the most bad option and therefore a person picking the least bad option can’t reasonably be “shit on”
Not having a good choice doesn’t excuse making bad choices.
It’s --almost like-- we live in a world that not black & white and people have to make the best choices they can under the circumstances
Of all the other criticisms people have had of Newsom, you’re only posting about his relationship with Israel. This suggests an ulterior motive or a bias on your part.
So you are saying that by not voting, you voted for everyone.
Literally not what they said. They said “supporting,” which is different. One doesn’t need to vote in order to support. But by giving equal support to all candidates, you bear some tiny responsibility for whoever wins regardless of whether the winning candidate is “good” or “bad.”
Basically your abdicating control of your responsibility to everyone else, but that doesn’t make you any less responsible for it.
Exactly. Fascists operate in bad faith, there’s absolutely nothing to be gained by engaging with them in good faith.
Obama asked permission from McConnell to release the info about Trump. He could have just done it, or even done it regardless, but he didn’t.
That, and the way he wasted the first six months of his first term trying to be bipartisan, are two of his biggest mistakes ever and radicals altered the course our country would take. I’ll genuinely never forgive him.
And he’s still the best president I’ve ever had the opportunity to vote for :(
What hole have you been living in that you think this isn’t happening everywhere? And is there room for me? I could use a break…
You have to understand that, by “great”, what they mean is “white ethno state.”
That’s why Trump is making an office of remigration https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/state-department-office-of-remigration-restructure
if it was him, that’s exactly and all it could or would be.
This is what passes as empathy for conservatives. They’re incapable of seeing things from other people’s points of view, they can only take their own view and project it onto others.
Apply this to EVERYTHING they’ve ever said another people is going to do, or what the other person’s motivations are, or really anything.
The modern concepts of conservative and liberal are born out of the French Revolution. Conservatives were the monarchists, and they still are.
So there’s this phenomenon where a person can change their mind because of learning new information.
For example, a person can reasonably say “Our elections are safe and secure” and then, after learning new information, say “Our elections are so insecure.”
The last four years don’t undermine the current claims because there was no credible evidence that the election was compromised then. But new information contains evidence that this time the election may have been compromised. This new information can and should encourage people to change their minds about how secure our elections are. Changing your mind in the face of new information isn’t hypocrisy, it’s rational thinking.
As for your last paragraph, confirming the number of people who voted and the number of ballots recorded does nothing to verify that the ballots were recorded correctly. To do that they need to audit the paper ballots against the computerized count, which is a massive undertaking that will require a lot of time and money. There’s nothing simple about that.
Look, I don’t completely disagree with you. IMO the only thing that’s going to stop the fascists (without taking us into full blown war) is a general strike. And it’s frustrating to see nothing but planned demonstrations, schedule to a specific day, and only for that day. A protest with a scheduled end time is a protest that’s planned its own failure.
But that’s not what’s happening in LA, and that’s why the fascists are trying to put it down so hard. This thing is finally, organically, taking on a life of its own. Will it last? Does it have staying power? Who knows, but why discourage it? Why be cynical and reduce the chance that this time is different even further? You’re literally the problem you just complained about.
All of that said, I genuinely understand why you’re cynical. All I can really say is that you gotta be the change you want to see in the world. I hate using a canned phrase like that but in this case it’s deeply true.
Ya hear that everyone? Cancel the protests! We just gotta buy some bumper stickers and t-shirts, and Trump will be done for! Thank goodness Melvin figured it out, we’d be in real trouble otherwise!
Turns out they were just fascists who will say whatever they think will gain them the most power in any particular situation, and they never actually cared about anything but that power.
Now that going after pedophiles doesn’t get them power, they don’t care. But don’t worry, they’ll revive that rhetoric when they decide it’s time to go after “groomers” (ie LGBTQ people)