I agree that there’s very little convincing to do at this stage — right now it’s about turnout. Having these in one place like this can emphasize the importance of voting to stop Trump and help make sure people vote.
To the contrary, when I’ve been doing phonebanks calling climate activists asking them to be involved in actions supporting Harris, I’m finding that I actually know people on the list, and they’re showing up.
They’re recognizing that a first-past-the-post system gives us effectively a choice between two candidates, and are choosing to support the one willing to do more. This is what the Biden/Harris administration got us:
You could do something like that, and run local and legislative candidates in states like Alaska and Maine which have ranked-choice voting for their general election, or California which uses top-two primaries. Would probably be easier if there was some way to redirect the existing US Green Party towards a path that might actually gain some amount of power, instead of serving as a spoiler.
Not the first article in this vein, but it needs to be said a lot right now.
It usually takes eating an infected animal. They might have shared roadkill, but I don’t think that Howard Lutnick ate part of RFK Jr.
It doesn’t matter if it’s pandering or they know it’s a lie if they then turn the lie into policy. The rest of us take the risk of death from it just the same
Stockholm syndrome?
You can definitely run the machine out of the paper and ink it uses. May take postal workers a bit to refill it, especially when there is a big line of people clamoring for the the prettier pre-printed stamps.
I’m aware of the LSD and Ketamine, weed wouldn’t surprise me too.
Security clearances are nominally the domain of the FBI, rather than the CIA. They tend to see themselves as a right-wing organization though.
The problem is that informed opinion thinks that Trump has something around a 50% chance of winning there. That’s a kind of risk that regular people can’t put serious money into.
It’s a problem the whole news industry has. Craigslist took all the classified ads. Facebook took almost all the business ads. So what’s left is subscriptions — and if you don’t charge, the paper goes bust.
Something like 80% of local newspapers in the US have gone under already.
That’s why I posted a gift link, so most people won’t hit the paywall. The big exceptions:
Which is one of many reasons it’s important to not elect him.
Or…they’re explicitly looking for one’s who want to punch down by race so that they can rally supporters for a violent revolution followed by permanent fascist rule by rich white men
But then they wouldn’t be Republicans and would lose those sweet patronage dollars
There are probably more, but by the time you’re at 40, it’s enough to make the point that it’s a pretty steady drumbeat.