*moot
Can we deport this inbred, middle-school-educated Trump supporter and keep the Colombian industrial engineer instead?
I mean, deport him where? Any other country would probably deport him right back here.
… Antarctica doesn’t seem to have much in the way of law enforcement, so they likely wouldn’t deport him back to us.
Could we Try there?
For all the people not getting the joke.
Right now I can see two futures.
One where the 2026 election gives the Dems control of both Houses.
The other where the 2026 elections are cancelled for national security reasons.
Or the Republicans push through “election security” laws that gerrymander the whole country to the point that Democrats can never gain a majority in either house ever again.
This is 100% how every single dictatorship in existence today works. Almost all countries in the world hold elections. But some are more democratic than others. Every single tyrant in power today has been or claim to have been democratically elected.
There is absolutely a third future where the Democrats refuse to change their platform and fuck this up again. Don’t be naive.
The Dems have flubbed it many times.
The people who are sitting around doing nothing haven’t won anything yet.
Name me one time that the Left letting the Right win has helped anything.
But yes, keep telling people not not voting D will help. [/s]
One where the 2026 election gives the Dems control of both Houses.
We’ve got lib media trying to argue that the 2024 election indicated a rightward shift of the electorate.
It remains to be seen if the dems are just going to keep doubling down on trying to be republicans from the previous election.
Here’s the thing. If the Left doesn’t vote, they look at the people who do vote.
I was educated by some old school Communists; folks who actually were in Spain fighting Franco and who got blacklisted in the 1950s.
One story they always told was that in 1968 a lot of young radicals were saying that Humphrey was as bad as Nixon and they would never vote for him
The folks who had been around told the non-voters that Nixon was truly terrible and that they should do what they could to defeat him.
I’ve yet to see an election where the Left sat by idly and got anything good.
Here’s the thing. If the Left doesn’t vote, they look at the people who do vote.
That’s just gaslighting. Black people are the single most reliable dem voting bloc, and get fuckall from the dems, but are still blamed when they lose.
Meanwhile, republicans vote for republicans. 5% of dem votes in 2024 came from registered republicans, down from 6% in 2020.
The electorate has clearly shifted right. That’s why this time the right side won, whereas last time the left side won. I hope (but am by no means certain ) that a high quality left-wing candidate can help to shift the electorate back to the left.
I admire your optimism, but what do you think will turn people away from Trump in 2026 that didn’t turn them away this year? It’s not like we haven’t already seen a Trump presidency.
That’s so sad…
That poor woman fell in love with an ignoramus.
No, she’s special, unlike those other lazy libruls.
I personally know, or knew (I stopped talking to him) a guy who was on welfare for 10+ years, but always ranted loudly about people on welfare being freeloaders. Their situation is always special in their minds, unlike all those other lazy moochers.
Conservatism is correlated with a complete lack of empathy. They have trouble understanding other people are sentient beings, let alone equally deserving of freedom. Any problem that doesn’t affect them is just a lie made up by evil Others to take away what they rightly deserve, which is everything.
Not sure if its the same study that we’re talking about here, but there was a study done on conservatives and (neo)liberals empathy levels towards others during the covid pandemic’s initial onset, one of the works it cited as supporting evidence looked into political biases in relation to empathy in 2010, and while those classified as liberals (not remembering how they defined liberal for the paper, will have to find my citation & check later) more often attributed external factors to people’s suffering (someone is poor because they suffer from bigotry based discrimination), conservatives almost universally attributed personal factors to those same people’s suffering (someone is poor because they use drugs) UNLESS that person was listed as conservative in which case they were more likely to attribute it to an external factor.
They do have empathy, just only for those who are also conservative.
Interestingly, if I’m recalling which paper it was correctly, jordan b peterson (who is now a right wing influencer) actually contributed to it, this was BEFORE he started appearing in right wing circles and was while he was still someone who would be considered respectable
IMPORTANT: I’ll have to find my statistics notes to back this up, so for now, please take this with a heavy grain of salt
If I caint ruhlate to ya then fuck ya buddy. Fuck all uh y’all!
Praiz Jesus, amen!
She getting deported to?
To Columbia.
I don’t think Trump’s regime is going to work that hard at deporting everyone to the right country. She might end up in Mexico or even Rwanda.
Assuming they even know the definition of deported. They don’t seem to understand the definition of words. I still think Trump thinks asylum means people from insane asylums.
But this is my fear. They just start stripping citizenship from people who have been here legally to arbitrarily hit their quota numbers. Brown and got a bit of an accent? Naturalized in the last couple of years? Hope you’re not here on January 20th. That day has a very ominous feel to it to me.
I say this as a man married into a family of Salvadoreños. People aren’t treating this with the gravity it deserves.
Read about this in a Bill Bryson book. Cant remember the details. But during the 50s the US “government” discovered that a Finnish born man (with legal residens and married to an American woman) had been a member of the Finnish communist party in his youth. The shipped him out on the first plane for Europe, and only told gis wife after the plane landed
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