Ken Martin was the best choice of the short list for chair of the DNC. We will see what his leadership brings.

The kid killed one of the only people that might have provided that care, and probably left the other in poverty.

The odds ain’t good.

I delivered pizza the year before I got my first smart phone. Had a paper map in the console of my car but after a week I barely needed it. You learn your area real quick. They hung a map in the back that showed our area, and you could memorize a few streets easy before each delivery.

Hard disagree. The Republican politicians are not leading the masses to dark places, the masses are pulling the politicians to greater extremes and the politicians are holding them back, because they have a greater understanding of the consequences than the average voter.

Ask the average Republican if undocumented I’m immigrants should all be deported, and they will tell you yes. That’s 14 million people, and the only way to accomplish it is to build up ICE to 5 times it’s current size, and do what they are doing in Minneapolis in every city in America. What they want requires fascism.

Ask them if abortion is murder and they will say yes. They don’t care about the women that are dying from pregnancy complications, the children that will be orphaned, the families that have been torn apart because the treatment for many conditions is abortion of the pregnancy and if it’s murder you can get treatment.

Ask them if environmental regulations are too stiff and should be rolled back so the economy can grow, and they will say yes, they don’t care about the ecosystems that will be lost forever, the diseases that people will suffer from pollution, or the rights of communities to avoid those harms.

What holds them back is that individuals don’t all want the same things, so the party pulls in different directions, because some people understand the disaterous implications of a specific policy, so they don’t support that particular cruelty, but they don’t question the wider ideology, and the basic ideology is a death cult.

What you get over time is generational frustration that the corrupt politicians refuse to do what is necessary and support for more and more extreme individuals in office. People that hatch plans like the federalist society, to corrupt the courts, and project 2025, to destroy the administrative state and consolidate power into the executive, and congresspeople who will support the descent into violent fascism, because that’s what is required to give the masses what they demand.

Democracy slows down the process, but the American voters will get the cruelty, suffering, and death they demand eventually.

How can you support him? Use the names he has asked you to use. Ask what pronouns he prefers and use them. Remind him that you love him and want him to be happy.

Beyond that, ask him what he wants from you. The answer might be nothing, or he might want new clothes, or help with school, or medical intervention like puberty blockers. If he wants to go that route, it will depend on where you live, but he will need a mental health specialist that specializes in children, preferably LGBT children.

The first three things are the most important. Transition is individual, not a set path, and he will have thoughts. Try not to make assumptions about what he wants.

This is part of the genius of kpop demon hunters. It moves fast, sometimes frenetically.

If the world tarrifs a country, it’s the countries problem, but if you tarrif the entire world, it’s your problem.

Did the judge empower local law enforcement to arrest and detain ICE agents?

Both. Definitely both. Our minds can experience two emotions at once.

This is assuming we ever had a functioning DOJ.

That’s a calculation each of us has to make personally. If you are white, a citizen, have people that rely on you, and are wealthy enough that they can fight a legal battle for you, maybe don’t resist and hope for the best. If you are none of those, and you think you might get sent to a concentration camp or Africa, maybe defend yourself as best you can.

Good luck to everyone.

There is a right answer, it’s the totato.

They teach them to be paranoid and shoot first and ask questions later.

Part of the benefit of electing Democrats is that they can be embarrassed.

One of these parties is easier to fight and does less damage when given power.

This would make sense if they didn’t vote for the people promising to fuck it up worse. (US politics only, I don’t know how generational breakdown goes in other countries)

Wheat is a bit of a weed so it’s grown on more marginal land while more profitable (finicky) plants are grown in the better land.

This weirdly makes wheat more vulnerable to climate change.

Clearly the German Communists were to blame for the holocaust because they failed to stop Hitler and the Nazis.

That’s what you sound like.

They could withhold taxes on state employees. That would be easy. If they wanted to go full second civil war, They could pass laws making it illegal for companies to pay taxes to the federal government.

If they are smart, they will still hold the elections just refuse to seat reps from 5-6 blue states. That would keep them in power for another 2 years.