They should feel shame and actually learn from it.

This point-of-view is shortsighted and silly. Those votes are needed, and you just saw it nine short months ago. At some point you are going to have to grow up a little.

Theses people can be brought into the fold if you don’t spend your time doing victory laps for being right.

I actually agree with you, but I don’t think these people in particular are the ones coming into the fold. It’s the ones who are realizing they’ve been lied to and changing their minds, and yes, people really, really need to stop throwing it back in those people’s faces.

To me, we’ve hit 1941, and folks need to understand that you’re going to have to ally with a few Russians with whom you have a mutual disdain if you want to take down the fascists.

I’m over here in a corner wondering just how hard our ruling parties have to fail before the cultish devotion goes away.

This reminds me of a friend of mine in New York City who had a bedbug infestation that got into a rare book collection. He ended up sealing up and bagging the books up for two years in order to suffocate them all to death.

I also referenced a shutting down of the government, which to me, seems pretty clear.

Agreed.

Our own government isn’t doing anything to stop him. Let Europe do something to stand in his way.

I once broke and dislocated my shoulder, and having a broken arm jammed back into a dislocated shoulder was bad enough to induce a blackout.

But other than that, getting kicked in the nuts.

100%

Pay attention.

Can’t pass a regressive tax bill if the government shuts down.

Democrats aren’t powerless. They’re complicit. The BBB was only possible because they made it possible.

Nah, Obama got reelected after stabbing us all in the back. Mamdani will be fine, even after his conservative heel turn.

I understand that this is sarcasm.

But you just watched Democrats hand over their best leverage by opting not to shut down Donald’s government and voting with Republicans, so, they’re not entirely wrong. We don’t have legitimate opposition. We have a minority party performatively putting up a false pretense at opposition, sitting back, and watching their stock portfolios soar.

Reminds me of the time when Israel shelled a bunch of kids playing soccer on a resort beach, literally in front of national media people looking on.

And the world shrugged its shoulders.

Not-so-fun fact: Surveillance drones, that we know of, go back as far as the Vietnam War.

The first UAV attacks date back to the middle of the 1800’s.

I don’t know that I have a catchphrase, but I use “holy moly” a lot in my sports announcing, and “my dude” a lot in casual conversation.

Even if he were a white person, they still wouldn’t do anything about it.

Both Democrats and Republicans fully support the genocide.

I don’t think so.

They’re weeding out non-loyalists because the fascism is going to be ratcheted up tremendously, and for that to happen, they need people without a conscience. True believers.

Sadly, it’s profitable.

In almost every case it’s because they were indoctrinated at an early age. Feels like child abuse to me, but since the vast majority of people are Christians in most countries, it’s considered a-okay.

I don’t care what the international child r*** ring has to say about the gays.

Good.

Everyone should be tearing apart Democrats now. They handed over their only leverage when they decided not to shut down Donald’s government and they’ve shown, as always, enthusiastic participation in letting fascists rule unencumbered.

After all, they’re getting richer off this bullshit too.