Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

The best part is all that wood and sheet metal alone being used to “upgrade” their tanks still probably cost more than the civilian drones Ukraine is using to airdrop mines.

@Meanlucario
Does not have a laser sight but yeah the Laser Musket is cool future weapon.

@Background Pony #1D40
But the best we’ll be able to get is a tie… That should stop it temporarily, but it won’t be gone…

Wisconsin is one of those “battleground states”, and it’s been interesting to watch how folks here are responding to the endless waves of giant pickups with Texas license plates ‘rolling coal’ and waving confederate flags from the truck beds, pro-Nazi fliers in the cereal isles of our Target stores, and what apparently is now millions of dollars of GOP money pushing paper into our mailboxes.

Some of it has been pretty darned funny.

Like pic related - observed while driving through rural Wisconsin today.

Gavin Newsom is trying to ban hemp in a state where Marijuana is legal.

At the behest of Trump, House Republicans have killed their own government funding bill.

There’s only 2 weeks left to avert a shutdown, but Congress is only in session for 1 more week.

A shutdown would be political suicide for the Republicans, they’d be all but assuring they’d lose the House, and likely even fall short in the Senate.

@Zincy
espically since tje house republicans killed the bill in the house and not at the senete meaning they can’t even blame the democrats for it.

@Zincy
Republicans have lost their sense of self-preservation. Trump says “jump” and they say “how high, sir” with tears in their eyes.

@Background Human
At this point it feels like the comparison is Trump saying “Jump” and Republicans saying “Which cliff?”

I almost didn’t believe you, but there it is (from the governor’s own site)

Wow, fuck that.

Gavin Newsom is like a caricature from a political cartoon made manifest. Satire died sometime around 2010.

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
@BlitztheDragon
@Ciaran

Gavin likes to portray California as a buffer against GOP insanity whilst doing nothing to actually improve living standards there (I personally would love to move from Georgia to California if it wasn’t for the SoCal housing market being gouged beyond belief).

He uses the specter of the GOP to keep winning elections just as much as the GOP uses him.

@marinus18
Personally I believe that Unions should be independent from the political process, tying a union to a political party is a disaster waiting to happen

@Zincy
The flip from Biden to Harris could have something to do with O’Brien’s flirtation with the right, but personally I think it’s because Biden is a far older politician and so has ties with the old Democratic Party when union support was far more dominant, Harris political career started in 2010, long after the heyday of Unions in the US

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
How long before the people finally boot NewSOD out of office?

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
Fuck him.

@lonewolf
I think he’s in his second term now. And I believe California is a jurisdiction that doesn’t allow a person to serve more than two terms as governor.

That is correct. However, the next gubernatorial election will be on November 2026, so Newsom will the governor of the state until then.

@BlueYoshi
Yep California is stuck with him for a little bit longer. Then they are freed.

@igotnopicks
He’s not the worst from what I can tell. He’s certainly better than the Dutch politicians.

I’d say that, in part, is down to the nature of the rhetoric both sides use - both sides have their fair share of unhinged fools and agree that the other candidate winning will spell the end of democracy and of all that’s good and true in the country. But they differ on how - for the Trump crowd, Kamala winning will be bad because she’s a stooge for the Deep State™ - killing her won’t solve anything, They™‘ll just put somebody else in her place. In contrast, for the left, Trump’s danger flows from Trump himself. That makes it much easier for a random nut to get into his head that killing Trump will make a difference.

And supposedly globalism, communism, etc etc.

Moreso from the GOP in general, which has been on a downward spiral since Reagan at the latest.

Nah the reason Trump gets the assassination attempts is actually a lot more simple. The guy, by design, attracts the crazies. Not just the crazies that vouch for him but also the crazies that really really really don’t.

The guy is massively polarizing, a polarization he banks on, but polarization works both ways.

In other words, he’s a victim of his own strategy, not the lefts.

@Surprise
I agree with your logic. What I disagree with is your assertion that it matters. Logically minded people usually are not the ones to assassinate political leaders to begin with. I think the biggest danger for Trump is disillusioned right wingers who see Trump as a liability.

There are not really unhinged people on the left. Those have been purged out by over a century of propaganda and prosecution. In the late 19th and early 20th century you did have left wing extremists but you don’t anymore.