the Democratic party moving left is not going to help them.

How would we know that? They’ve never tried.

In the words of my boomer mother, “Things aren’t going to get better until the boomers die off.”

Even if it were - what are we gonna do about it? After shitting all over the place with their BS for the past four years, claiming an election is stolen has risen to “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” levels.

There would need to be a 4k video of Trump and cronies detailing exactly how they were going to do it, and every detail would need to be easily verified, and even then I’m not sure it would get enough traction to matter.

I personally believe that this is not Biden’s or Kamala’s fault. It’s the old-school Democrat establishment’s fault. They did Bernie dirty in 2016. And then they did the same to Biden in these elections.

Yes. Every time, even in 2020 when the mood of the country was very different, they are afraid to run anything other than center-right candidates because they “aren’t electable”. Guess what - your corporatist center-right candidates are consistently priming people to receive the protectionist messages from the fascists, Maybe fucking try something different some time, fucking DNC!

Instead they abandoned the rest of the country to pursue the <10% of republicans who weren’t in the bag for Trump.

YES! I held my nose and voted for her, she turned her back on everything that looked like hope and change during her campaign. Her reaction to R looking weak was to jump to the right, somehow.

Having said that, anyone who needed to be wooed to not vote for Trump was a lost cause, but she literally turned away from every sort of policy decision that excites Democrats.

If that’s what you think equity looks like then I’d say any judgement of your character was likely spot on.

Just for fairness, I may have overstated his claim in my paraphrasing.

Though, in grabbing the quote below for this very comment from his wikipedia page, I think if anything I made it sound less douchebaggy than it actually was.

In an anonymous February 2013 interview, O’Neill told Esquire that he had killed Osama bin Laden during Operation Neptune Spear in May 2011. In late 2014, in the run-up to credited Fox News[7] and The Washington Post stories on the same topic, O’Neill’s name was leaked by other former special forces personnel who were protesting his violation of “a code of silence that forbids them from publicly taking credit for their actions.” O’Neill claimed that he and another unnamed member of SEAL Team Six cornered bin Laden, and that after the other SEAL fired and missed, O’Neill killed the terrorist leader with shots to the head.[12]

This is right there with being told we just have to get over school shootings.

So even during the first civil war you were against the Republican party?

As a non American you probably don’t realize what a tired right-wing talking point that is. Next you’ll be telling me how Democrats didn’t support civil rights until the late twentieth century.

I realize you were (probably) just having fun and unaware of this, I share this with you in the spirit of education.

I’m sure all the folks who were quick to ignore or dismiss their clarification of the packaging issue at the time will be just as quick to make comments like these as they were to skewer them then.

That fits so incredibly perfectly with the kind of personality on display in OP.

That’s OK, he can still run for president!

He claims to be the trigger man who killed Osama Bin Laden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_efforts_to_disrupt_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election

I just found out this page exists too, would have been handy a few times in recent years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict_voting_following_the_2020_presidential_election

OK which of you is Johnny on the Spot with the wikipedia updates lol?

In 2016, O’Neill was charged in Montana with driving under the influence; prosecutors dropped the charges. On 23 August 2023, he was arrested in Frisco, Texas, on “a Class A misdemeanor charge of assault causing bodily injury and a Class C misdemeanor charge of public intoxication.” He was booked into the Collin County jail, and released on a bond of $3,500.[28] In 4 November 2024, O’Neill threatened a group of young Gen-Z males that he would turn them into his “concubines” if there was no social media due to the group’s support for Kamala Harris during the 2024 US Presidential Elections. O’Neill openly supports Donald Trump.[29][30]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._O'Neill#Civilian_life

Nothing that leaves their ridiculous hateful maga mouths even shocks me anymore. R is the party for people who want to openly be the worst people they can be, and have folks around them cheer them on for it. That’s the bottom line.

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Ah I read the article now. Seems there may be actual legal justification in at least some cases.

How the hell is this not “Roll up with the FBI/National Guard/Whoever and take the needed measures to get the DOJ observers into the polling station” level shenanigans?

This reminds me to check up on the Casey Goodson case. Let’s hope we get a similar outcome there.

Edit: Mistrial in Feb 2024. Second trial supposedly coming, I don’t see an article saying when.

Edit2: Feb 2025. Same lawyers as OP oddly enough. https://www.wosu.org/news/2024-09-10/second-murder-trial-for-former-franklin-county-deputy-jason-meade-pushed-back-to-feb-2025