bluegirl147

A lot of Bernie supporters from 2016 became Trump supporters. Could have been because they didn't trust Democrats anymore. Could have been they just like supporting people they think will upend the status quo. What I do know is more and more people are voting against candidates rather than voting for candidates. People voted against Hillary in 2016. People voted against Trump in 20 and 24. In 2028 I truly hope we have candidates on both sides that people will want to vote for. Wanna bet it will be the white guy?

So which is it? Biden is vicious or Biden is a doddering old man who doesn't know what day it is?

The jokes have been great. At least we can still find the humor in things. What is that saying? You have to laugh so you don't cry.

There always seems to be less drama with Democratic administrations and if there is drama it's caused by Republicans causing it by trying to destroy the Democratic administration. Like every investigation started against Clinton, Obama and Biden. Meanwhile Bush Jr had the Iraq War and Trump had/has well, there is too much to list.

The book Careless People, written by a woman who used to work at FB is very good and talks about this. Zuckerberg knows what social media has become and the influence it has and wants more. The vast amount of money that is being generated and what is used for is scary. Tech companies have accumulated too much money and too much power.

I think that depends. I'm a white woman living in a red state and I have very little in common with most people here. Despite living here my whole life. And I blame Trump and MAGA for that. Before him yes this state was red but people didn't have their campaign flags out year round. There are some houses I see that have had their Trump flags up for almost 10 years. In the months before November I saw two houses with Harris/Walz signs and they were inside the house in a window. Probably because they were afraid they would be stolen or worse. Before 2015 I might have suspected someone's political slant but unless I was close to them it wasn't something we discussed. I've said before the only time I feel unsafe is when I see men decked out in Trump gear. The MAGA hats. The Fuck Your Feeling t shirts. And if I as a white woman feel unsafe I can only imagine how people of color feel.

And that is one big reason we are in the position we are in. Citizen's United was one of the worst SCOTUS decisions ever. It legalized bribery and we are all worse for it.

I think there should be a national primary day. That way all states have a say in who the nominee is. As it is now if a presidential candidate doesn't do well in Iowa and New Hampshire (two pretty white states) they are thought to be dead if not on life support as a candidate.

That is the one thing that gives me hope we can survive this dark period. Alito and Thomas will always do his bidding but the others I don't think so. He always thinks he is smarter than everyone else. That he made a better deal. He simply cannot comprehend someone got the better of him. Hence is inability to admit he lost the 2020 election. He has this pathological need to never be seen as a loser.

I read in a book that when Kennedy got bought/pushed retired Trump was advised to choose Coney Barrett but he said no, he was waiting to put her in RBG's seat. He is petty enough to do that just like you said to stick it to the libs. He can't help but act like a child.

In 2016 I liked a lot of Bernie's policies but felt like he was the wrong messenger. He always gives me "get off my lawn" vibes.

Her issue was always overturning Roe. She is a conservative to be sure but she isn't MAGA and she isn't following right wing ideology. I think she is going to be the swing vote for years to come. I do the same thing. I'm always analyzing people. I must have been Freud in a previous life. And once again bad (in this case criminal) behavior is rewarded. I despise reality TV and this is yet another reason why. Why is anyone listening to anything he has to say? So they want the former First Lady to testify about her husband when the current First Lady can't be bothered to live in the same house with her husband. So conservatives don't want things to change and liberals want things to evolve and progress. Sounds pretty accurate to me. I might argue about it being reasonable but if Tapper didn't foresee this book being used to attack Biden (and anyone whoever knew Biden probably) he is not only blind but deaf and dumb too. Not everyone is going to survive. He has chosen people who are not qualified to positions that are going to make decisions that will hurt people. Kennedy wanting to prevent pregnant women and children from Covid boosters might kill them. His minimizing the measles outbreak is going to let more people become infected. Trump's tariffs are hurting small businesses. Our continuing to back Israel is allowing them to kill more Palestinians. And of course there is all the people he deported to a violent dangerous prison in a foreign country. How many of them are going to survive? No matter what you think about undocumented immigrants they don't deserve to be put someplace where their mere existence might cause someone to kill them. He simply does not understand they are not "his judges". He assumes they are all like Aileen Cannon who will kiss his ass.

Birds of a feather and all that. When Trump was still married to Ivana he would take Marla down to his Atlantic City casinos. Men like that think they can do whatever they want. Some of his lies he can get away with. He can say 20 million or however many he said, immigrants crossed the border last year. We know it's not true but his base believes it. He says he is working on more trade deals than there are number of countries in the world but his base will believe it. But saying inflation is at zero and groceries are down 85% is a lie that can be checked in real time. People know how much money they are spending at the grocery store every week and as of right now that amount is not declining.

I read a headline yesterday that said AI is going to be bad for white collar workers. If it isn't happening already I'm sure it will be soon. AI making diagnoses. I know insurance companies already use algorithms when deciding to approve certain things. Speaking of tech, the other day I was driving and I thought about all the cameras that exist now and it suddenly hit me. That is why state and local budgets always have shortfalls now. They have to spend so much money on tech. Things that help people are being cut so big brother can monitor our every move.

That is what really pisses me off. Starting in 2015 when he walked down that fucking escalator the media propped up Trump. Gave him probably thousands of hours of free air time. They would interrupt programming just to show an empty stage that Trump was maybe going to appear on. To be fair there have been many books written about Trump and some of them have shown him to be the sociopath that he is but their authors weren't part of the mainstream media with the access that Tapper has. Jonathan Karl of ABC news has written a couple but they didn't read like hit pieces. I won't be surprised if Tapper ends up with a job in the Trump administration. That is one reason I never liked him. How can you be a Republican when that party wants to hurt people that look like you? He is so woefully unqualified for the job he is throwing everything at the wall hoping some of it will stick and he will be thought to be doing a good job. People are going to die because of him.