Um, seems there's a good number of folks who've been trying to do something about that, actually. And the people who are starving Cuba right now are starving my neighbors too. I'm pretty opposed to starving people all around. And I want the people doing it tried for those crimes.

People seem to love it. But it's highly proprietary and there seems to be planned obsolescence built into their model

I'm just gonna suggest that we not take anybody's word for it that "it'll probably fail" unless we make damned fucking sure it fails. Voter suppression, screwing with voting machines, vote tallies, people getting to polls, throwing out votes, throwing out voter registrations, stuffing ballot boxes (something they accuse us of which means they're doing it), seizing ballots, ballot boxes, voting machines, voting humans, vote counters, or elected officials… or just ordering the military to drag anyone who protests him canceling the election to Aligator Alcatraz, CECOT, or other concentration camp … any of that is possible.

Guys, the truth is that dictators often come to power (apparently) "legally" in democracies. But never in the history of ever has such a despot elected democratically (presumably) been later deposed by means of an election. Never. Not once. The only reason is might possibly happen this time is that Donald Trump is completely fucking incompetent. But do not underestimate him. Especially not because someone else says you can/should.

No, it pretty surely is that he is a pedophile … he said so himself. It was recorded and he knew it was recorded. The fact that this was news in a lot of the country but not on any Republican-serving media source is testament to the lengths they went to in order to protect a disgusting human being.

What's really sick is that a bunch of Americans would've voted for him if they knew. Probably not enough to win an election even against Hillary Clinton who acted like the presidency was owed to her without campaigning, but enough to illustrate a problem in this country both with where people get their "facts" and how few care what the facts are.

She lost to Trump AND Biden.

Mark Kelly is a pretty respectable dude who should have wide appeal, even if he's not super progressive. Pritzker could do it, you're right. Either one of these two saying they want AOC as a running mate (and actually listening to her) elevates them on my list of candidates immediately.

This plan didn't work with Trump in 2016. Republicans rammed him in where he wasn't (shouldn't have been) welcome because they refused to allow any other candidate. In the same election, Democrats let their party officials to ram Hillary through because the party wouldn't accept Bernie.

Suggest we find someone WE like and do what Republicans did. It doesn't matter if it's an "outsider" or not, but I'd appreciate it if we could not pick a child rapist and sex trafficker, kthx!

I genuinely think our candidate hasn't really made themselves known to be willing to run yet. I don't think it's AOC this time, though I think she's got what it takes to do the job. I don't think it's Harris, people still feel burned by 2020. I hope we can do better than Newsom.

Kinda still want to draft Jon Stewart because he genuinely gives a fuck, can communicate like few others, knows how to be damned serious when he needs to be, and if he were on that list today he'd be near the top if not at it, just like that. And when asked, he didn't say no. We could do far worse and still be okay.

But yeah, I'm waiting to see what happens. I don't think the candidate I want that I'm sure will win is on the field yet. But I hope AOC is the running mate, whoever that person winds up being.

If you're an American voter, you are. That's the thing about sea changes in politics. They come from people who have very little power. And we do have very little power. It happens when there's a damned lot of us, and not until then. The last time was when they kicked out the railroad barons and created anti-monopoly laws that are still on the books, mostly unused since the 70s. The time before that was pre-civil war. And before that was the revolutionary war itself.

These things don't always have to be done via war, but they do have to be done by an overwhelming majority of people. Fatalism doesn't help. Organizing does.

"You're under arrest!" "What charge?" "Resisting arrest and saying fuck." FUCK THESE NAZI CUNTS!

It must have been a typo … is what I would've said if not for:

• They can't identify where the noose came from. BTW where is that noose now?
• Everybody swears they didn't take the noose off him.
• Guards say the do rounds about hourly … but not that night.
• A prisoner count went down by one mysteriously (and without alarm) hours before Epstein was killed
• "There is no video" despite Epstein being in a wing expressly so there would be video
• "Here is video showing the stairs" that basically doesn't show the stairs "nobody went up or down, the video proves"
• Someone noticed a gap in that video "The video cuts out for almost a minute at midnight due to system reset"
• Turns out it was three minutes. "Okay here's video that shows we lied" with a few seconds gap, not minutes.
• FBI documents identify someone, likely an inmate, going up the stairs. Not released BTW.
• Others go up and down the stairs without detection that we have documentation of.
• "Gaurd took linens upstairs." "No we didn't!"
• "It was a suicide" conclusively, quickly, despite all of this…
• And then it turns out we now have evidence Trump wanted Epstein dead too.

Seems like the story and the facts keep changing to whatever you're likely to believe and stop asking questions.

I don't think this is gonna sound "civil", because I genuinely think we are so completely fucked in the US that if we want to avoid either a Somalia-style civil war (which is really bad BTW) or a dictator in power … we need to do some pretty drastic stuff. And … even this is kinda dangerous IMO, but also IMO "safe" was something that went byebye in the 2024 election.

We must primary worthless Democrats like Schumer anywhere we can. "Ohhhhhkaayyyy…" FUCKING NO DAMMIT, NO MORE! This surrender bullshit has to stop and that means he's gotta be removed from "leader" at the least. Then we need to get every Democrat we can into office, with strong leadership in the Senate and Stronger in the House. We must flip the Senate.

Next, Vance needs to be impeached. Yes Vance. Congress doesn't actually need "cause" but claiming an army of fucking stormtroopers have "absolute immunity" to murder Americans is cause enough. He's gotta go. And Congress must refuse to appoint his replacement. Because when you then impeach Trump over … pick a crime, really? That makes the Speaker our president. You see why I said this is dangerous, because one party rule always is corrupt. If we come out of this with a democracy where elections matter it'll be a miracle.

The new president can begin firing Trump's cabal of feckless, corrupt incompetents, and sith lord Stephen Miller too. At that point we need a special counsel to start investigatin' and referring people for prosecutions as the evidence is collected. And the prosecutions need to happen. I don't think people accept less than that. The evidence has to come out, and people need to be accountable. That is gonna include some in Congress. (Although frankly every Republican in Congress had access to classified info that proved a lot of Trump's crimes from the start, so IMO they're all co-conspirators. But I doubt even firebrand Democrats have the guts to charge them all.)

This is a monumental task and I have no idea how it gets accomplished.

Um, I'm just gonna assume you weren't there. Because there were a lot of union leaders who are proud of their workers who came here from somewhere else and were legally here with valid work credentials until the Pedo Premier decided they weren't anymore.

The rally was massive and I streamed the whole thing: https://youtube.com/live/G-GiIKxvdCg

…y'know, if you want facts about what was there rather than lame and bigoted suppositions.

Stream does cut out a couple of places for a few seconds because I'm on T-Mobile and the signal is ass down here. I'm a legally blind guy on zero budget here. And I just found out that after months of being out at the ICE building, they've started clusterbombing tear gas and flash bang grenades. I've got hearing protection, but no respirator yet.