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Former Trump official Stephanie Grisham to speak at the Democratic convention
Grisham resigned from the Trump administration immediately after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

With Trump it isn't so much about the food the bitch ate as an emotional response as it is about the food the bitch threw at the wall as an emotional response.Yup, that's it in a nutshell. An "elite" male leader's stress response is stereotypically anger and violence. You're not supposed to think about what it is though, because then you'll identify that eating a bag of Doritos and calming yourself is a more emotionally intelligent stress response. All you're supposed to think about is that it's not the same as what you'd expect from a strong man, and decide that since it's different from what you expect, it's worse.
Harris would be our first female president. She's not going to behave exactly the way stereotypical presidents might be expected to behave, and that's ok. It might even be... gasp... progressive.
Paper plates in his jet? What is this peasantry? I throw away real glassware at the end of every flight.Projection. Its all projection.
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You haven't head about the PP* tape?Paper plates in his jet? What is this peasantry? I throw away real glassware at the end of every flight.
At last Trump is staring to talk about policies lol:
At last Trump is staring to talk about policies lol:
“I really think it’s illegal what they do, with judges and justices. They’re playing the ref,” Trump said at a Saturday rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. “Remember the term. Playing the ref with our judges and justices should be punishable by very serious fines and beyond that.”
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I want the bitch to lose, not only for the standard reasons, but because I want to see Trumpers riot again and I want to see them put down. I'll make it a drinking game.
Someone in the media needs to grow some balls and ask him, “What the **** does we have all the votes we need mean?”![]()
I want the bitch to lose, not only for the standard reasons, but because I want to see Trumpers riot again and I want to see them put down. I'll make it a drinking game.
I'm healthy. I'm more fit than I've been in a while thanks to a knee replacement that allowed me to return to moderately vigorous exercise. I eat well, having cut most red meat from my diet, and the red meat that I consume is rather lean. Most of the animal protein I eat is fish and other seafood, with chicken holding up the turf and pork and lamb bringing up the rear. I eat lots of beans and greens. I eat bread and pasta, because they're good, but I bust my ass to compensate. I would like to live a long life and I'm on track to barring the unforeseen. I don't have a strong desire to die. That said, I want to see numbers of dead such that my own death by alcohol poisoning resulting from the aforementioned drinking game is a legitimate concern.It's Trump's go-to whenever he is in a losing position. "They cheated" is the fallback. This is to be expected from him if he perceives that he's in for disappointment. There was no avoiding this stage if he was to lose. It's simply something we have to move through.
They're not people anymore.
Different strokes. Whatever belief I may have, I can't violate the rights of another without acting on whatever belief that I may have in a manner which violates the rights of another. Belief itself violates no rights, no matter the belief. Belief may be stupid and wrong (I don't believe it's either in this instance), but it's not harm in and of itself.Personally I wouldn't phrase it this way. I think human beings are a deeply flawed species that has some real cognitive stumbling blocks that lead to a lot of mistakes and mental traps. Those mental traps sometimes mean that people can't observe the rights of others, and when that happens, they lose some of their own.
If I lose my rights, it's because the rats take them away from me as they so desire. And there's the root of my disdain for them.
There are a lot of people in prison who don't belong there. I'm talking drug offenses which violated prohibitions enacted by the sort of rats that I so disdain. There are other people who legitimately belong there because they harmed others, and there's a variety of reasons for their having harmed others which don't justify the harms perpetrated but maybe aren't such that the perpetrators are less than human. There are other still what are incarcerated that cannot be redeemed and I'm okay with thinking of them as less than human.Understood, and I agree to an extent. It's really just the characterization of them as sub-human that I can't get on board with. It's true that if someone takes your rights away, or desires to, that they might hold fewer human rights than you would (with an arbitrator like a judicial system or neutral party). But if we're going to call those people rats or non-humans, we're talking about a lot of people in prison that we don't see as human. My idea of human just includes a lot of flawed and generally awful people.
Sure but we're talking about what one thinks of others and how one conveys what one thinks of others. What, relevant to that, constitutes a danger? I'd suggest only action.As an aside, I don't necessarily hold to the idea that you are presumed innocent until you do something bad to someone. I think if medically it can be demonstrated that you necessarily are a danger to yourself or others and that you cannot hold reciprocal rights in your mind, regardless of your actions, that you might lose some rights. For example a person in a persistent vegetative state who has violated no rights might not enjoy all of the rights that an otherwise healthy person would be presumed to hold.
Biden vs Trump was always going to be 2020 Election the rematch. It was always set to be nothing other than a slagging match between well established battle-hardened opponents.I've been watching a few of the speeches at the DNC this week, and there seems to be a common theme which has emerged - a positive direction that does not require an adversary. As difficult as it is to avoid, the democrats have to avoid campaigning solely on how bad Trump is. He makes it hard, he crosses every line and pisses off everybody and you want to just rant about him and how awful he is. But the speakers at the DNC seem to recognize that it's not enough to sustain a real political movement to just be the alternative to an awful person. Even when that person is a rapist felon bent on overthrowing the principles of the nation. In the short time since Harris became the presumptive nominee, the democrats seem to have found a larger purpose behind their political movement, with actual inspiration and drive that is completely independent of whatever it is Trump is after. I think it's healthy, and sets them up for a much stronger and more motivational political movement. Campaigning on being not-Trump allows Trump to define your campaign, it's automatically a reactionary and dictated position.
Some of my friends have been handwringing over the criticisms of how the democrats have been running their campaign. But from what I can tell, the Harris campaign and others in the democratic party truly understand what they're doing.
The republicans have ceded far too much of American principles to the democrats. It makes inspirational campaigning so easy. When you can say something as simple as keeping the government out of the bedroom and away from your healthcare decisions. When you can say something as simple as respect for others even when they make decisions you don't agree with. And something that simple and universal actually sets you apart! It actually enunciates a real difference! It makes campaigning so straightforward.
This is why Trump running was a mistake for the GOP. You've essentially sent yourself down a path that has no point of return. If you lose this election (and I'd say even without polls taking accurate measures it is more likely than not), a lot of the "gains" made in the Supreme Court could laughably go out the window if a Democrat remains in office as you've taken off the guardrails to your enemy thinking you have no chance at losing.Biden vs Trump was always going to be 2020 Election the rematch. It was always set to be nothing other than a slagging match between well established battle-hardened opponents.
As an outsider who misses the nuances of daily US news, just catching the headline stuff that spreads to other shores, i'm tempted to believe that Biden dropping out - at the point that he did just following the RNC, had probably been planned some time in advance to purposefully knock the wind out of the GOP sails and put the spotlight back onto the Democrats.
To suddenly change tack with a new leadership team, who potentially appeal to a wider group of voters, leaves the GOP floundering with a now outdated line of attack that they are obviously struggling to change at this point. The Democrats can go back to a more traditional style of election campaign - campaigning on issues and policy instead of just countering GOP rhetoric. Again, as an outsider, the GOP now appear to be fighting against the ghost of a previous opponent, whilst the Democrats are offering something much fresher without requiring the seismic shift in core beliefs that was the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party.
Biden vs Trump was always going to be 2020 Election the rematch. It was always set to be nothing other than a slagging match between well established battle-hardened opponents.
As an outsider who misses the nuances of daily US news, just catching the headline stuff that spreads to other shores, i'm tempted to believe that Biden dropping out - at the point that he did just following the RNC, had probably been planned some time in advance to purposefully knock the wind out of the GOP sails and put the spotlight back onto the Democrats.
To suddenly change tack with a new leadership team, who potentially appeal to a wider group of voters, leaves the GOP floundering with a now outdated line of attack that they are obviously struggling to change at this point. The Democrats can go back to a more traditional style of election campaign - campaigning on issues and policy instead of just countering GOP rhetoric. Again, as an outsider, the GOP now appear to be fighting against the ghost of a previous opponent, whilst the Democrats are offering something much fresher without the seismic shift in core beliefs that was the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party.
This is why Trump running was a mistake for the GOP. You've essentially sent yourself down a path that has no point of return. If you lose this election (and I'd say even without polls taking accurate measures it is more likely than not), a lot of the "gains" made in the Supreme Court could laughably go out the window if a Democrat remains in office as you've taken off the guardrails to your enemy thinking you have no chance at losing.
100% agree. There are massive issues with how the elections are contested and the hyper-partisan actions displayed AFTER the elections of 2020 show that Trump-GOP cannot admit they were wrong or made a mistake. Humility doesn't exist for that group of politicians and either they will need to lose again and again or they will have to realize that maybe they are part of what's wrong with America.It's hard for me to say out loud, because the alternative is so damned scary, but I honestly don't see Trump winning this election. At least not without some kind of underhandedness. I can think of ways that he might try to cheat, and they're definitely scary and really do exist. But in a straight forward election, I don't see a whining insecure victim who has broken all of the laws and is running solely on staying out of jail being a winning strategy.