I mean shit, if people are worried about crime, you can campaign on the root of crime and how to solve it without spewing racist copaganda.

McCarthy wasn't wrong. just because most Americans listen to racist dog whistles doesn't mean they're not racist dog whistles or that you have to campaign on them. nobody's telling voters to ignore social issues, we're telling the ones who are opposed to them that they're wrong. they're wrong to tell women what we can do with our bodies, what trans people can do with theirs, they're wrong to be anti-immigrant and pro-Russia. I'm not going to court bigots by telling them what they want to hear.

yeah but ONLY ONE SIDE OF THOSE ISSUES IS CORRECT, and conservatives vote on the wrong side of ALL of them. climate change is real. abortion is healthcare. guns are bad, education is good, immigration is what built this country, and Russia is the enemy. if conservatives are voting against their economic interests, they're also voting against reason on all those other issues.

this is so egregiously in bad faith it's disgusting. the difference between poor people voting against their very survival and rich people voting for higher taxes they can easily afford is a yawning chasm. wealthy liberals are voting FOR their economic interests because it's in everyone's best interest to transfer wealth from rich to poor in order for society to function and not devolve into fucking serfdom.

to be clear, low turnout benefits Democrats specifically in these special elections. high turnout is essential in November presidential/midterm elections to thwart GOP dominance. that's why Republicans will do anything to discourage you from voting.

may or may not go through the NYT Morning newsletter today but in the meantime, how do I get actual notifications from the CoSo app? I have all notifications turned on in CoSo settings as well as my system app settings but the only notifications I ever actually get are brief pop-ups on desktop, so unless I specifically check my feed I often miss when someone replies to me.

"TrUmP'S nAtO cOmMeNtS tOoK tHe FoCuS oFf BiDeN's aGe!"

I can't read the details because paywall but why does this sound like a way to make it easier for abusers to find their victims?

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this after Republicans have openly refused to consider any bill WITH border security measures because they don't want to give Biden the win. I am so fucking sick of GOP duplicity.

Nancy what the fuck are you doing

we need fucking mandatory retirement in government

or like maybe Trump's NATO comments are actually a huge fucking deal while Biden's age isn't? maybe it's less about Trump's "attention seeking" and more about the fact that he is a dangerous sociopath with a long history of violent rhetoric, despotic aspirations and stochastic terrorism? maybe we should worry less about the mud on the carpet and more about the melting city?

(go watch llamas with hats)

first of all, you're putting the antivax cart before the horse.

second, who's being dishonest?! at no point in any of this did you present any risks to Covid boosters that outweighed the benefit. kids still get Covid. kids still spread Covid. if there is a vaccine for anything, everyone should get it. that's why vaccines exist. I mean shit, it makes me angry that I have to wait to get my shingles vaccine. there's nothing dishonest about "everybody should get vaccinated." what the fuck.

I'm struggling to even organize my thoughts on this. I thought preventing millions of deaths was a pretty huge fucking benefit but the rest of the country felt that wasn't worth the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask and getting a free shot. I'd compare Covid policies less to a helmet in the car and more to wearing a seatbelt. that's not expecting you to be a robot, that's literally just asking you to do the bare minimum to not kill your elderly neighbor. but God forbid you fucking stay home.

David will never get over the fact that he had to spend a couple months homeschooling his kids. maybe schools wouldn't have stayed closed into 2021 if schools had gotten the funding to implement Covid-safe practices and mandate vaccines.

also, people ignoring mask mandates doesn't mean the mandates were wrong. it means Americans are contrarian idiots responsible for the US having the highest Covid mortality rate in the world. & don't pretend any of them follow int'l practices.

literally the only reason my kids didn't get a Covid booster when they got their flu shot (why don't you talk about whether parents are "skeptical"/ignoring the CDC on that, huh?) is because the pediatrician's office didn't have it. there's no mass vaccination sites anymore either (the ones that paid me $25 per shot were particularly motivating). so it seems like the CDC is skeptical of its own guidance.

what a stupidly loaded question

the difference biased framing makes (WaPo left, NYT right)

uhh, you do the cooking? duh? the hell kind of question is this?

TRUMP LITERALLY STORED DOZENS OF BOXES OF HIGHLY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN THE FUCKING BATHROOM OF HIS SHITTY THIRD-RATE GOLF MOTEL WHAT THE ACTUAL ENTIRE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHHHHH