I for one am shocked that Joe “fund the police” Biden signed a law that allowed for federal money to be wasted on cop bullshit! Gosh, if only someone has told us there were better ways to protect public safety. Like maybe some protesters or activists somewhere could have said something? I’m sure we would have listened to them and taken them seriously, and we definitely would not have tear gassed them and beat them and shot them with rubber bullets and etc.
Me, bitter? Nooo /s
The sad part is this is how the Biden administration actually thought. They could have restricted these funds from being wasted on stupid bullshit but instead did the moderate Dem thing and just let douchebag Republicans do whatever the hell they want so they could campaign on how bipartisan they were. At the end of the day, nobody in a position of power gave a shit about the safety of these people.
Eh, close, but that’s still theoretically barely viable until the administration takes the affirmative step of saying “everybody in Denver can’t vote but Rifle’s cool”, at which point anybody in Denver who can’t get a lawyer and a court date is probably screwed,
So, yeah I guess the difference between rule of law being down for the count and democracy going into hibernation might be entirely semantic in practice
Do with that as you will
I’m going to believe a lot of people are about to realize what a bad idea this all is and keep telling people what a bad idea this all is and eventually live in a better world or get dumped in a mass grave for running my mouth. Good luck everybody.
I mean, that would have been an accurate description of me at age 21
Them: “Save the planet!”
Bezos: “… and redeem it for valuable prizes!”
to the voters that never hold them to account
How many of these lawmakers even had primary challengers last time they ran?
Because Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, it will be difficult for Democrats to regularly defeat judicial nominations. But a clip of, for example, Missouri district court nominee Josh Divine trying to explain why he endorsed literacy tests for voting and analogized homosexuality to bestiality is the sort of thing that, if done correctly, would have a chance to go viral enough to get Susan Collins to have second thoughts.
The bad news is that no such clips exist, because when Senate Democrats had the chance to question the nominees in person, they decided they had other things to do or other places to be. Illinois’s Dick Durbin, California’s Adam Schiff, and Rhode Island’s Sheldon Whitehouse spent more of their allotted time lauding Federalist Society judges for sometimes ruling against Trump than they did asking questions of Whitney Hermandorfer, the pending nominee to the Sixth Circuit. Incredibly, their performances were still more impactful than those of Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal, New Jersey’s Cory Booker, Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, and California’s Alex Padilla, who did not say anything to Hermandorfer at all.
Democratic politicians are fond of casting Trump as a threat to democracy and the rule of law, and are very aware of the power of political theater when they have new books to promote or campaign donations to solicit via lengthy, meme-laden, green-blubble text. But it is difficult for Senate Democrats to persuade voters to care about judicial confirmation battles when they, the Democrats, are so uninterested in fighting them.
Yeah, why was he answering this stupid question and not being asked about why his officers keep brutalizing protesters and journalists?
on CNN
Oh, that’s why
I worry RFK is going to use a combination of being exactly who we thought he was, moving just slowly enough for people to lose interest, and his boss’s tendency to demand all of our attention to do some truly awful stuff, and by the time we realize how awful it is it will be way too late to do anything about it
TBF, seeing Trump treat someone else like shit, empathizing with their experience, and realizing how it could happen to them is really hard for Republicans because they’re morally and intellectually defective
Yeah, I guess I was thinking of this from the top down constitutional perspective of it (and even then I probably should have said taking ICE’s side or the federal government’s side), but meanwhile on the ground the LAPD is doing the LAPD thing and the National Guard is doing the National Guard thing
I asked that question recently and got some helpful responses,
https://lemmy.world/post/30977919
tl;dr PieFed has different people behind it, a few more features, and is written in Python instead of Rust (I’m not a coder or an instance host, so don’t ask me what that distinction means, but I’ve anecdotally seen more people saying python is easier to work with than rust than the other way around),
PieFed communities federate with Lemmy communities, tho, so no matter which kind of instance you’re going through as a user you should be able to interact with all the communities (assuming your instance admins haven’t decided to defederate with the other instance for some reason)
I can understand people being pissed at him since every Californian cop has been taking the national guard’s side against the protesters so far
Good thing we’ve made it so easy for people to migrate /s
Avoidable climate change caused by economic activity whose gains were hoarded by a small number of rich people who do not live in Kabul
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Voter turnout declined because Kamala’s campaign consultants were lazy racist dipshits who dgaf about black and hispanic voters and threw all their money at suburban whites (who didn’t turn out for them), so overall black and hispanic voting declined and the ones who did still turnout were more likely to be conservative
This article is stupid, it’s from the day after the election so all their data was still just a bunch of exit poll snapshots and individual voter interviews and random campaign consultants pointing fingers each other
Sometimes, I’ve started seeing newer ones in some places where there is no mute button
For real, he is such a weakling, even when he’s throwing his little hissy fit here he’s reflexively couching it in the “I’m just being ‘honest’ with you so you’re not allowed to get mad at me for being a dick” thing
Also, “bad person,” he talks like a five year old