The stupid fucking idiots in the maga party will blame Biden.

Alternate headline: “Key Republican senators will once again pretend to be moderates when their votes are guaranteed to be meaningless”

If a third Republican senator actually steps forward to tank Hegseth’s nomination, I’ll eat my hat.

Doesn’t matter. The fascist is in power now, with almost no guardrails (and he will be working very hard to destroy whatever ones remain).

Taking the first steps to leave Amazon entirely right now. I am never ordering anything from them again.

You inspired me. I added a few more entries.

Trump’s plan for the next four years:

• Send Israel bigger bombs
• Fuck up the environment
• Fuck up the economy
• Fuck up education
• Fuck up privacy rights
• Fuck up LGBTQ+ rights
• Fuck up civil rights
• Fuck up the proper functioning of government
• Fuck up the military
• Fuck up healthcare
• Fuck up our alliances
• Crib everything else from Biden or Obama <- We are here

Do you think Israel should be destroyed?

Edit: Interesting. No one is willing to say “no.”

Here’s the thing: What Joe Biden tried (and yes, failed, because Netanyahu is a corrupt madman) to do was simultaneously support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself, and do what he could to minimize damage to Gaza.

Now we have a “president” who will gleefully help Netanyahu destroy Gaza entirely and take over the land. You’ve gone from someone whose friendship to Palestine was tepid to someone who actively wants it destroyed.

This isn’t an upgrade.

That’s not an answer, and I’m not “carrying water for genocide financiers.” I never once excused or denied Israel’s behavior. Netanyahu responded to a horrendous terrorist attack by turning the dials on “horrendous” and “terror” up to 11. He’s a monster and a war criminal and should spend the rest of his life in prison.

Now then, how would you do it? Put yourself in the president’s shoes. You need to come up with a solution that allows Israel to continue to exist and not be destroyed by, say, Iran… AND allows the Palestinians to survive. Cut off all weapons, goodbye Israel. Give Israel a blank check, goodbye Palestine. What do you try to do?

Lying about Biden trying “nothing” doesn’t make it OK that you carried water for Trump.

It’s a much, much more complicated situation than you’re presenting. Biden was trying to thread the needle between “deny Israel weaponry” (end result: Opportunistic invasion by Israel’s neighbors) and “give Netanyahu all the weapons he wants” (end result: what we’re about to see with these gigantic, city-block-destroying bombs).

How would you do it?

This article is literally about one of Biden’s efforts to rein in the violence. He did try. Now go ahead and excuse Trump freeing up 2,000-pound bombs for Israel, and how that’s better for Palestine than it would be if Harris had won. Good luck.

I can’t find the will to make a leopards/faces joke about this. This is exactly what we told people who wouldn’t vote for Harris because of “gEnOcIdE jOe” bullshit.

Biden made real efforts to prevent the Israeli government from committing genocide. They failed, but they tried. Now we’ve got an absolute monster in charge who is going to outright empower the genocide.

If you voted for Trump, voted for a third party, or refused to vote… FUCK YOU. You own this.

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. It means good luck getting a passport or any other federal documentation with your actual gender on it. It means drugs and medical treatments that are approved at the federal level for gender transition won’t be available anymore. It means if you live in a state that isn’t friendly to trans people, you are going to suffer.

So it means trans people are fucked. How do you not know this?!?

And it’s not like the issue with Palestine is better under Trump. We had the choice between a candidate who would at least try to put pressure on Netanyahu… and one who will happily do whatever is asked of him by extreme evangelical Christians who believe Israel needs to be dominant in the Middle East so Jesus will come back.

How the fuck does anyone conclude that the Democrat is bad in comparison to that?

My son. He’s a transman. Trump declared him legally a woman yesterday.

I’m sure your ideological purity is a great comfort to my son who has just been legally declared a woman.

Don’t worry. According to Russians ideological purists, this outcome is better for my trans son than if Kamala Harris had won.

Now if you’ll pardon me, I have to get back to working on moving my family out of this shit-hole country.

While that’s true, choosing to vote for Trump, a third-party, or not at all is like saying, “I don’t like this ham sandwich and I don’t like my sandwich choices… so I’m going to eat this dog-turds-and-radioactive-glass-shards sandwich instead!”

This country is fucked.

Edit: Rather than respond below to every comment, thought I’d clarify a few things here.

1. I never said Democrats didn’t fuck up. They certainly did.
2. But - and this is important - we can’t ignore the roles that racism, sexism, and above all misinformation played. To pretend there was none, and that vast swaths of the electorate didn’t fall for it, would be disingenuous.

Democrats have moved to the right, and hurt themselves doing so. That is true. But they are still objectively superior to Republicans in every conceivable way. People who voted Republican voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces party because they were angry about Democrats being imperfect, and their faces will be eaten.

The world needs to stop using “deported” to describe these kids.

They were kidnapped. They were not “deported,” because you can’t be deported to a country you weren’t previously a citizen of. This poor kid was stolen from his home, sent to a shithole, denied the ability to go home, and eventually decided life wasn’t worth it.

Kidnapped. Use the right word, everyone.