Snub nosed dogs are bred into a breathing deformity.

That would be amazing but it doesn’t require playing chicken with Biden’s age issue and the political maneuvers the French left and center pulled off were possible because of polling, not in spite of them.

Kansas, and other red states are deeply poisoned against democrats by about 60 years of propaganda. This shows in the polling where they’d rather vote for the new RFK with brain worms and vaccine conspiracies than vote for Biden. That’s not just a joke, Biden loses to RFK in Kansas if the election was held today. And RFK is competitive with Trump. He’s expected to lose but nobody’s really studying the non battleground states very hard.

It would be hilarious if RFK managed to siphon enough EC votes to throw it into congress. (Even though that would also mean a Trump presidency because they vote as state delegations, 26 of which are firmly controlled by the GOP)

This isn’t the example you want. Candidates from two other parties stepped aside to change the election math. This isn’t the polls being wrong, it’s people who care about the country listening to the polls and doing what they have to do in order to stop the bad guys. The analogy here would be Biden withdrawing.

Unless something changed today with Biden’s leadership meeting, his last public remarks on it were in the ABC interview. And he was flabbergasted by the idea that he was polling badly, much less that he would step down.

Sorry bud. Biden is in the middle of shitting the bed. If we get can get a different candidate in without much issue then we’ll have a chance again.

Here’s to hoping that “Left/Green” can tackle some of those issues.

Afaik the correct answer is something along the lines, “We’re not going to lose, but even if we did we would keep fighting for the American people.”

We’re fast approaching the point at which there are no more bad ideas. But yeah for now, it’s best to try and prevent any major incident while not letting the authoritarians win. Countries do not come out the same way when either of those things happens. And the chance that it’s a change for the better is remote.

Okay, and I’m telling you that’s not something you can do quickly. There’s a reason new dictators usually stand up a separate force.

Eh, not exactly. That would be telegraphed literal years in advance as they would have to entirely rebuild the officer corps to be loyalists to them specifically. Right now the military leadership puts a lot of stock in the Constitution, so much so that the last time Trump tried to order them to go after BLM protestors, they not only refused the order, they then sent a memo to the entire force reminding them of the exact wording of their oath.

The only legal bar the US needs to clear is “Credible Evidence”. Well…

Tell me what year exactly the Soviets or Chinese practiced the workers owning the means of production?

It’s a cold calculus but letting them kill someone first means the army has the moral and narrative high ground when the Army Rangers black bag these guys at 3 in the morning.

It really isn’t. There’s more video out there, just not as well corroborated.

Oh, I guess I was assuming it wasn’t even sharp, like an actual novelty item.

Not really, stuff like this doesn’t keep coming up because it’s a one time thing. This is multiple units, in multiple locations, at multiple times.

Prison? For this?

Just take it away and warn him. How did no one along the way protest the heavy handedness of this?

It’s also true. It’s a great way to bring home the reality to people who still think climate science is about preserving some wetlands while we continue as normal.

It’s still funny.

The handle. It’s a satire account