I’m so fucking exhausted.

You and me both. 🫂

You can’t play stupid chicken as the president and continuously get away with saying “oops” sorry someone else ruined the sick flip I was going to do over and over.

If you are Trump, for reasons I still cannot fully fathom and which have seriously damaged my view of humanity in general, you can, it seems.

I realize I’m making some optimistic assumptions about the durability of our election apparatus, but if we can’t get a shift in power at the midterms I suspect the fascist in chief will accelerate his rate of attacks on freedoms and it won’t be long after that. I predict we make it no later than slightly past the midterms before hitting that point unless there’s a big shift on the congressional side of things.

Not so much because I think people will take to the streets with that in mind, by the way, but because tensions will be so high that somebody somewhere is going to make just the wrong mistake, some people are going to die or get badly hurt, and it’s going to set things off from there.

Time for blue states to stop paying federal tax, then.

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I kinda like to think cats would have this sort of attitude though:

In the US, we’d use it only to further exploit animals and further enrich the 1%.

Corporate America will immediately determine and then monetize all their needs. In a generation we’ll have cats paying for enough mice to get them through the week with the last of their earnings from the previous 2 weeks of catching hundreds of mice for their employers.

Then there will be a Republican-led effort to get people to stop spaying and neutering them, so the 1% will always be assured there are enough hungry cats to keep the folks at the top wealthy.

Edit: Sounds fucking ridiculous that anyone would voluntarily create or work within such a system doesn’t it?

That’s dedication to one’s self-sabotage.

Self-sabotage? This will be the best sex that person ever had, or, something. It’s a role-play setup. /s

Grossman says that after finishing their shift, a cop says, “Gunfight, bad guys down, I’m alive” and goes on to have “the best sex … in months.” He says, “Both partners are very invested in some very intense sex” and that “there’s not a whole lot of perks that come with this job. If you find one, relax and enjoy it.”

She died a traitor and her family is getting rewarded for it. Awesome.

GOP will want a statue of her in front of the Capitol.

I can see it now, the ultimate maga monument - Ashli Babbit 69’ing with Kyle Rittenhouse while Derek Chauvin kneels on the neck of a faceless black man next to them, jerking himself off. Behind him will be a banner bearing this quote from David Grossman: “They all say, ‘The best sex I’ve had in months.’”

And all captured in lifelike bronze…

All good, I get it now!

I am not arguing in any way for disarmament. But the fact that’s all anyone seems to think I’m saying is kind of proving my point.

Nobody defended the Republicans,

I didn’t suggest they did.

How do you plan on resisting once you’ve been disarmed? Just vote out fascism? …Yeah that’s always worked.

You seem to be arguing against a point I haven’t made.

The only reason you would want to be disarmed, is so that you have an excuse for your passivity.

You seem to be arguing against a point I haven’t made.

But you are really committed to fearing that decades old bogeyman more than the wolf at your door it seems.

That doesn’t change my point whatsoever, even if I agreed with your characterization of the parties, which I do not.

Democrats will happily disarm everyone and hand the keys to the nation to the Republicans.

Even today when the Republicans are years-deep into proving that all the worst things we’ve ever suspected about them and their motives are true (and more) folks are still more worried D wants to come take their guns away.

R is literally dismantling our government and trampling the rights of an ever-growing segment of our population, on a speed run to authoritarianism, but folks are still yelling about that tired bogeyman instead of using the 2A as they have always claimed they can’t wait to do. (Edited to add: And I’m not even suggesting anything super dramatic. A few folks open carrying would probably be enough. You know, like all the magas that camped outside of polling places with their AR for purposes that were 100% not voter intimidation.)

You will scream about how Dems want your guns all the way up until the brownshirts show up to take them. The fuck is wrong with some of you?

I think it represents a timely reminder that we now know those who scream the loudest about the 2A, and how we can’t do a damn thing about gun violence because it would erode their freedoms, have no interest in using it the way they’ve always proclaimed they must, as long as the right people are being hurt.

And I’m not actually anti-2A so much as I am anti-a-particular-sort-of-gun-enthusiast.

It’s literally the reason the cover art exists. To entice you to judge it positively and pick up the book for a closer look.

Whenever I hear anyone say that, I conclude it’s one of those things that somehow meant something slightly different when the phrase was coined. Either that or we’re all just a bunch of goobers.

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The party of taking things away.

It applies to literally anything they champion.

Regardless, if he had someone in his life to guide him in any way, I can bet that’s not the approach he’d be taking. This kid landed here by neglect, I guarantee it.

I kinda feel like this is a sincere attempt to improve his chances, and while yes I see the creepiness, I feel a bit sad for him also.

Willing to bet a makeover would help him more than anything he puts on a shirt, and no one in his life to tell him that.

I didn’t suggest there was, but I’ve rephrased my point about as many times as I’m willing to already.