It was, as it always is, and as Clinton said over 30 years ago, “the economy, stupid”.

People who do not pay attention to politics vote like someone pressing random buttons on an elevator. They push the up button, no elevator comes, then they push the down button, no elevator comes, and all they know to do is to keep pushing buttons randomly hoping an elevator comes one way or another. And no elevator ever comes.

He did build a wall! Started anyway. He didn’t finish it. Biden kept adding to it. He didn’t finish it either. It’s a long border.

Wait a minute, doesn’t Netherlands have a fascist government now too?

Germany: fascists on the rise. France: fascists on the rise and appeased by centrists. Italy: fascists fully in charge! Netherlands: fascists! Finland: fascists

I mean, where the fuck do you go?

Fucking terrifying. Don’t get sick, and if you do, die quickly.

Already is illegal in New York!

Thank you, Knee Tits.

They didn’t ignore this reality. They tried to move to the right, and woo right wing voters, trotting out Liz Cheney, acting and talking like Republicans. And it accomplished nothing: R’s voted with their party. It was a total failure.

Plus, people quit and get fired, all the time.

In one sense, there’s no point in getting attached to them, because they, like you and me and all of us, are expendable cogs in a capitalist machine.

On the other hand, those networks of “work friends” do tend to get each other jobs when they quit or get fired, so there’s some value in making those connections if you plan to stay in the business.

I have said for years now: the USA is the best possible place to be rich or to get rich. But if you aren’t, and have no plans or ability to be, then it’s the worst in the developed world.

Pretty sure they were the second to go to the camps, after the Communists and Socialists, and before the Jews.

I think very many Americans leftists would love to hear some survival tips and advice from European leftists, particularly those in Italy who’ve been living under Meloni and before that Berlusconi for decades. How do you get through the day?

Anger doesn’t reason.

WTF is a BDSM disc? Some kind of kink thing?

Racism and misogyny. That is all it is.

Nurses seem really unhappy

How could anyone not have heard Trump talking shit about pretty much anyone who wasn’t white, for decades?

No words? How about: “nazis”?

This is cool, though it reminds me of

I’m sorry, I read that as “incel leak scandal” and wondered how they got involved in this.

The book 1491 was really good as an introduction.