One of the only statements trump ever made I’ve agreed with was his (on the surface, stupid) comment about preferring soldiers who don’t get caught.
Cause the thing is, McCain was totally unqualified to be piloting the plane he was shot down in. He had lower test scores than needed for a piloting gig, and just got it…
Ideals Not Identity
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Okay, I can see that the adjective “super-progressive” was a bit of an oversell, but I do consider him genuinely progressive now—and I think, for the right reasons. I wouldn’t say he’s let off the hook because I’ve been following this election closely and I’ve seen his past voting record brought up against him…
I’d say he has been let off the hook a bit given other politicians have been and continue to be raked over the coals for having similarly non-progressive histories, while also now supporting progressive causes.
And rolling back reproductive freedoms for everyone but his daughter. Don't forget that.
I don’t think he’s let off the hook, and I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that he’s let off the hook. His policies shifted to the left considerably before he had someone challenging his seat.
Just to lay this out. Currently the country is in a total and complete upheaval - pandemic, systemic racism from every level of our judicial system, fires and hurricanes directly related to climate change, unheard of unemployment, people being evicted from their homes, people without access to healthcare, gun violence,…
You’re talking about decisions made a long time ago that he’s changed his mind about. I’d rather have someone who has learned from his mistakes and advocates for racial justice and environmental justice than another dynasty boy who only has political traction because he’s a Kennedy. That man divested in fossil fuels…
So, one thing is, it just comes off as incredibly unseemly to look at all of this through the lens of “How might this hurt or help Trump?” One person was shot 7 times and seriously wounded in the latest incident of an endemic of police violence against black people that has lasted as long as there have been police in…
Voted with Bush 95% of the time and Trump 83%.
He reinvented himself every other week - the undisputed king of the flip-flop.
McCain conveniently reinvented himself with this maverick shit AFTER getting busted in the Keating 5 S&L scandal.
John McCain was a horrible, repulsive man — a thief, a racist, and a war criminal driven almost entirely by spite who never lost his hard-on for bombing and killing poor people all over the world. He also tried to put Sarah fuckin Palin in line for the presidency. Naturally, he’s now a hero of the Resistance.
Pelosi endorsed moderate princeling Joe Kennedy III over the super-progressive sitting senator and all-around amazing human being Ed Markey. I don’t trust her opinion on anything.
They are completely built on fear and violent opposition of anything that is NOT “Big White American Jesus”. It’s braggadicio, its greed is good, its get them before they get you because ‘insert wrong color/religion/they sit on our oil’, its loud and proud whiteness.
It’s utter garbage people happy they are what they…
Yes! I was just saying last night to my sister “If Trump’s numbers are still bad in late Sept. into October, he’s just gonna go full KKK and start saying the N word out loud. As well as every epithet for Latinos, Muslims, Asians, whoever. He’ll figure he’s got nothing to lose.”
I really wonder if the October Surprise will be Dump, Pence, or both of them flat out saying this. Full N Word. Because their slavering mass of a base has said, out loud, repeatedly, that they want permission to full on assault Black people en masse. It’s Charles Manson’s dream come true.
I guess we’re getting a first-hand lesson on how much fascism relies on confusion, gaslighting, and lazy, stupid supporters to remain in power.
the baldness of their lies and the fact that their cultists eat it up and ask for seconds would normally surprise me but I stopped being surprised at their crap long ago. They’re both lost causes.