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Vote with your heart in the primary. Vote with your head in the general.

“ if there’s but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch.”

Perfectly put and this is all I have been saying.

I can’t square this with his previous statement that he didn’t vote for Kamala. I don’t care if it’s California. He has a platform and in my personal opinion it is irresponsible to use that platform to provide cover for people who could have helped stop this, and found a reason not to.

Sorry if I blasphemed Lord Tom. I eagerly await my downvotes for having done so.

When I was in J-school, there was a really beautiful system for news articles. The job of the headline was to tell you what the article was about, in the most succinct yet meaningful way possible. Then the story itself was organized such that the most important information was in the opening sentence, the lede, and the most salient facts were in the first paragraphs, with supporting details and background information listed at the end. This was known as the inverted pyramid. That way, if you were in a hurry and just wanted the broad strokes, you could just read the first couple of paragraphs and skim the rest. If you wanted detailed information, you simply kept reading. Also it was easy for a rushed editor to know where to cut if he was constrained for space (in a print world that was a consideration): you just cut from the bottom.

Now the headline is there to entice you into clicking by arousing your curiosity and the story is organized to keep you on the page. It’s deliberately designed to waste your time to optimize ad revenue. Capitalism ruined journalism.

I guess I kind of agree that he is “an amazing political talent.” But only in the sense that I’m absolutely amazed anyone falls for his bullshit.

Yes. This is what polls are useful for. Not so much for predicting the outcome.

Ah, the old “nation of whiners” trope. Always a solid midterm closing argument.

I hated Bush’s guts, but I had to admit: that was impressive. Kind of like Wendi Deng thwarting the would-be pie-thrower

OK but he hasn’t done a positive thing on purpose. 😂

I regret it too, but for the opposite reason.

Neither one of those fuckers can keep me from calling it BPM: Bullshit Plagiarism Machine.

In my personal opinion, he fucken’ better.

State Farm Arena doesn’t even have a Section 109, row 1. They use letters. 😂

He thought he had a slam dunk there for a minute.

Well his current term ends in 2028. He’ll only be 95.

BUT He has already said he will run for yet another term, and if elected again (I’m not prepared to discount that possibility considering his margins in 2022), he’d be 101 by the end of that term.

edit: and yeah, of course I meant “only” 95 to be a joke, like, obviously that’s way too old to be in the senate anyways.

Vote for them and then get them to have pro-trans rights views. Like we did with Obama and gay marriage.

The Christians are the only ones pushing unconstitutional religious laws on the US.

My understanding is that the space lasers of conspiracy theory fame are supposed to be used to control the weather. Got a hurricane in Alabama? It’s because the “globalists” pointed the space laser at a cloud or something. Yeah. These people are fucking nuts.