I just gave you the connections.

But not the explicit claims. Alex Jones and Candice Owens weren’t talking in metaphor. He claimed there was a literal basement where people actively working on the campaign were doing satanic rituals.

he was left wing but then they changed what left wing was

An acorn of truth in this story. This isn’t LBJ’s party by a long shot. People would be screaming “Tankie” at FDR if he were alive today.

Yes its better to get any democrat over a republican

The cruel joke of it all is that a “moderate” Democrat in year 4 is guaranteed to produce an extremist Republican in year 8. We played this game after Nixon, got a four year reprieve, and then landed on 12 years of Reaganism. We got force-fed Clinton by the corporate wing of the Democratic Party and he immediately shat the bed in the '94 mid-terms, after passing… what? A deficit reduction bill that did nothing to improve the lives of his constituents?

That’s not even getting into Democrats who are actively hostile to their base voters. From your Jim Justices (who straight up turn coat the day after the election) to your John Fettermans (who mostly just scream and cry about anti-semitism now) to your Kristen Sinemas and Bob Menendezes (fully sold out to corporate interests from inside the party) to your Henry Cuellars and John Whitmires (actively complicit in the Trump regime’s ongoing ethnic purge in his home state of Texas) to your Charlie Crists and Michael Bloombergs (literal former Republicans who become Democrats and then just cost the party elections for the next ten years).

These are the slop candidates the party offers up every two years. I don’t actually know if they’re “better” than Republicans when they all govern exactly the same.

PRIMARIES TOO!!!

The big mistake Leftists made was not voting in the 2024 Democratic Presidential Primary. Dean Phillips was electable if you’d voted for him.

The second biggest mistake Leftists made was turning out in the NYC Mayoral Election. You just cost yourself four years of a Golden Age under Andrew Cuomo, idiots.

just sayin that I made more money during Biden’s term than any other

That’s crazy, given how the market has skyrocketed in the last year.

crypto going down

Curiously, Trump’s always been awful for crypto.

We keep trying. People keep screaming “You’re helping Trump!” whenever we post a TikTok about the Nakba or show up at an anti-ICE protest with our cameras on.

Hard to be the change you wish to see in the world when you’ve got a line of self-proclaimed moderates throwing bricks through your window because you didn’t applaud Gavin Newsom loudly enough.

Would be a shame if crimes committed abroad create some kind of blowback at home.

One might go so far as to say fascism is just imperialism returning to the imperial core.

Oh well, anyway. Time to bomb Yemen again.

Someone on here will say you are the problem with why democracy has failed us.

It’s just tiresome to see people scream “You’re the reason Trump won!” when they’re in some neon-blue district that goes 80/20 Dem every year regardless of who is on the ballot.

What wizardry does anyone think “Random Asshole On The Internet” has to swing the election? It’s like liberal candidates are Tinkerbell and they die if you don’t clap hard enough.

A lot of lefties going to complain about his support for israel, even if modest.

Really depends on who he is running against and how he positions himself along the way. If he’s out saying “Israel is our oldest and dearest friend, they just made a few mistakes” or god forbid “Anyone critical is anti-Semitic” he’s DOA. If he’s out there saying “We spend billions of dollars so Israel can have clean potable water and top tier health care, so it’s time to bring those amenities back to the US”, he can probably hurdle that criticism well enough.

he appeals to the largest swath of moderate America who are tuned out and just want to hear that someone strong and professional will keep them in their comforts

I mean, Biden appealed to these same voters by adopting half of Bernie Sanders’s platform and half of Hillary Clinton’s. Then he spent four years yelling at people for using TikTok and arguing the need to kill more brown people.

Kelly’s fine on paper, but if he opens his mouth and sounds like another “moderate Dem”… I think he’s going to have the same kind of trouble Cuomo did.

Really depressing to see what a wet blanket he became after he took the Letterman spot, especially given how much leyway Letterman had to fuck around with prior to his departure.

Some of Colbert’s best material is when he’s got nothing to lose. The last six months have been a breath of fresh air on that alone.

Banning something is a sure fire way to give it oxygen.

It’s a clever bit of marketing to queue this up and make a big stir and drum about being censored.

The allegations feel… thin? This is a primary race in a state that’s been sandbagged for Republicans for decades. But as a piece of campaign material, it’s par excellance. More people are going to see the clip passed around online than ever would watching it broadcast on a Monday night.

The problem Trump has in doing this type of suppression

I doubt this was anyone’s serious intent. Republicans pull this gag all the time. They deliberately try and trick the alarm for censorship and then scream ten times as loud “LOOK AT ME! I’VE BEEN CENSORED! CHECK OUT THE VIDEO THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE!”

Liberals (or, at least, this one guy fighting for his life in a deep red state) finally seem to have caught up to the game.

Brilliant bit of marketing to blare “We’ve been censored by the FCC!” from the rooftops, on the day the Texas primary starts.

Sure. All good. But there’s still nothing to suggestion any of that was happening at the location specified, much less by Hillary’s campaign staff during the election season.

Texas is a hell of a state

Trump only got 49.9% of the vote. He has never been popular,

Idk about you, but 49.9% of the vote sounds very popular to me.

Hell 10% sounds popular.

I don’t think the issue is his popularity. He’s definitely popular

text book industry gets to extort students then it’s fine for the tech bros to do it now too.

Good thing nobody said that then.

They claimed Hillary was doing sex crimes in the basement of Comet Ping Pong Pizzaria, a restaurant with no basement. And they claimed the sex crimes were in pursuit of extracting a pharmaceutical that reverses your age. And they claimed Donald fucking Trump was going to crack the case.

A lot of it was pulled directly from the asshole.

For starters, SpaceX, which operates the Starlink satellite network, has purchased over 1,000 Tesla Cybertrucks as of late 2025.

Meanwhile, Police departments across the U.S. - particularly in California - are increasingly adopting Tesla vehicles (Model Y, Model 3, and Cybertruck) for patrol and administrative use. South Pasadena (CA) became the first U.S. city to switch its entire police patrol fleet to electric vehicles. Other departments, including Anaheim and Fremont, are using Tesla Model Ys for patrol. The Las Vegas Metro Police Department is introducing a fleet of 10 Cybertrucks for patrol and tactical use, specifically highlighting their safety features (bullet-resistant). A Texas school district created it’s own police force to be equipped with 9 Tesla cruisers two years back.

The Model Y is the new Crown Vic.

teaching staff who are now more credentialed than ever, but know less than ever.

They’re not more credentialed than ever. The days of a teacher needing a master’s degree, much less a PhD, are well behind us. Modern teachers - across both public and private sectors - can start working with as little as a GED and a state-issued teaching certificate. They don’t need a bachelor’s in their subject of expertise or in education as a degree. They don’t need to undergo an apprenticeship under a more experienced professional. They don’t need good references to land a job. All they need is a willingness to undercut existing (unionized) teaching staff and a clean criminal record.

Schools in low-budget districts onboard these green recruits in droves. Then they use the added manpower as an excuse to fire anyone on track for a pension or old enough to receive full benefits. Education has become the default job for drop-outs and victims of industry layoffs. It’s the employer of last-resort, with enormous churn, as rebounds in the job market vacuum people out as fast as downturns dump them in.

the issue is the metricization of education

Metricization is used as an excuse to conduct these wholesale purges. HISD is ground zero for this experiment in privatization, as the state takes over local school boards, fires teachers by the dozen, and consolidates students into larger and large class sizes with fewer resources.

Standardized testing is used to justify the initial purges. Then rebounds in testing (as students are purged and private testing companies manipulate exam scores) are used to validate the decisions of newly installed administrators. Don’t look at college placement or applied skills tests, just focus on Pearson’s latest “Number go down / Number go up” announcements, as the state leaders funnel more and more money to the testing companies.

By the metrics these districts are degrading and collapsing. But through propaganda, school residents are brow-beaten into doubting their own eyeballs.

not to mention the changing in parenting

You can blame “parenting” for a single kid’s mistakes.

Once you start blaming “parenting” in the aggregate, you’re inevitably full of shit.

The common denominator in these school districts isn’t “parents” and its absurd to pretend otherwise.