Socialism isn’t even on offer these days. What Republicans consider socialist stretches all the way from communism to conservatism.

This interview with Sarah Smarsh is good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-VkbEpac4

She says that the Republicans were the party that validated working class voters’ pain, even if the rest of what they said was a pack of lies and they plan to help the rich and harm the poor. The Democrats didn’t even get this far: they repeatedly ignored working class suffering while insisting the economy was good and making promises to help the “middle class” (whoever that is these days). Given the choice between one party that says “we hear your pain” and another that says “you’re too ignorant to realize things are actually going well” it’s not surprising which party got the working class votes. It’s just a shame the Republicans don’t actually plan to help these people.

When. He’s the worst party leader Canada has had in decades, and very popular it seems. People will vote for him because they’re frustrated with the effects of their Conservative provincial governments and too ignorant to understand this.

Denier, not skeptic. Skeptics are rational and respond to evidence and argument.

Not that the media care, but they always over-dignify these fools.

Canada has one lined up too.

I’m fearful for my trans family and friends. Poilievre and Trump is a terrible combination. We are going to need real grassroots political organizing to protect each other and civil disobedience in large numbers to slow the fascists in their persecution and environmental damage. Of course this will be harder than ever but we need to stop waiting for electoral politics to fix things and take action together.

We’re getting it in Canada soon. Or in what’s left of Canada once fascist USA has finished with us. We have the most extreme, reactionary, hateful Conservative leader ever, who openly panders to fascists, and he’s some 20 points ahead of anyone else in the polls. My worst fear was him coming to power with Trump over the border, but that looks like what’s going to happen. I do not understand people.

The Democrats having the chance to learn is going to be of limited use if Republicans build the fascist autocracy they intend to build.

Fascists like fascists.

I’m going to be so fucking happy the day these ugly corrupt power-mad conspiracy-pushing old white men are dead.

Problem is, they always make new ones.

I second this suggestion. I have an old touchscreen PC from about 2001 with a Via Eden CPU, which is an incredibly feeble low-power processor that lacks some instructions that were common even in 32-bit days, and Antix was the only reasonably modern distro I could get to run on it.

Trump would be a disaster, but these last-minute hopeful headlines just smack of desperation. I just saw another one saying Harris had “suddenly jumped into the lead” because one model put here at 50.015% of the vote. It’s nothing to be thrilled about, especially with the Republicans set to employ every underhanded tactic they can to steal the victory. In any normal country there would be no competition between these two, but this is the USA.

The headline is misleading.

Out of 80,000 simulations, Harris won in 50.015 percent of cases, while Trump won in 49.65 percent of cases, per Silver’s model. Some 270 simulations resulted in a 269-269 Electoral College tie.

So a better headline would be “Simulations show Harris and Trump are equally likely to win the election.” The difference between them is insignificant.

And when you factor in all the underhand cheating tactics the Republicans have up their sleeve, the Democrats’ tendency to cave, and the Supreme Court’s bias, Trump looks a lot more likely to win than Harris.

Yeah trump is planning on winning by getting the votes.

Did you mean to put a “not” in there?

If his party wins, no one will vote again ever. Or if they do it will be in a sham election.

The only thing they really want to conserve is privilege.

Well that’s a start, but not enough in itself to fix the problem. He could have done more, and we wouldn’t be looking at a Supreme Court eager to support Trump’s re-election.

“As charged, Skyler Philippi believed he was moments away from launching an attack on a Nashville energy facility to further his violent white supremacist ideology, but the FBI had already compromised his plot,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland.

More MAGA terrorism.

This site has an archive of all the NYT Connections games:

https://connections.swellgarfo.com/archive

Why did Joe Biden do nothing to rebalance the Supreme Court in all his 4 years of being President?