Could doesn’t really apply to good things in politics, but I appreciate your optimism. He will in all likelihood step down peacefully if he’s not gunned down first. Maybe a massive progressive wave could change that, but I think it’d be a big ask even if that happened this year. It’d have to be multiple elections worth of progressive waves I think. Given the growing special interests in democratic primaries, I think the real fight is going to be out front in most of these cases.

Incorrect, acts of war are traditionally used to distract US citizens. See: Most of Trump’s actions in bith terms, as well as Bill Clinton’s behavior during the Monica Lewinski trials.

The Democratic primaries need to be an absolute bloodbath this year. Unfortunately Schumer is with us until 2028, so we’ll probably mostly be dead or he will by then.

I don’t think your friend has ever been within 2500 miles of the equator if he thinks the sun is orange. Go south enough and the idea of a yellow sun even seems dumb.

Who needs enemies with friends like these?

Imagine making a whole account just to poop on people leveraging the only power they have.

I think there’s some confusion between cause and effect going on in this chain.

A senior HHS official said on Thursday that the WHO “strayed from its core mission and has acted contrary to the U.S. interests in protecting the U.S. public on multiple occasions.”

The U.S. has interests in protecting the U.S. public? News to me, citation needed.

Great idea, never would have thought of that unless one fell off

Wouldn’t ensuring leftists aren’t parents but conservative are just work to push the overton window in the future?

Ah yes, “the don’t tread on me” party. Most leftists I know ring more true to the definition of libertarians than actual avowed libertarians.

I certainly can when my criticism isn’t that they’re not passing shit they don’t have the numbers for, but rather that they don’t stand for anything that isn’t already in the public mandate. Idk how many times it needs to be mentioned, apparently more times than I have patience for.

Schumer did not in fact endorse Mamdani and just so we’re clear, “a bit late” to you means the day before voting started. I’m glad you’ve clarified that that was the type of thing you’re talking about, where you’re objectively wrong on one and incredibly minimizing on the second. No wonder you like these empty suits.

Brother, I literally said there have been progressive executive orders and progressive agency moves in the second sentence and virtually all this is executive shit. The only thing I see from congress is the respect for marriage act, which was put in place as a wall to prevent backflow of civil rights that the Supreme court granted in Obergefell v Hodges. You may as well give credit to Neil Gorsuch in your effort to thank Democrats in Congress for writing the opinion that gave them the courage to act on something they should have done during the Clinton era.

Rhetoric is almost as important as policy. If you see your leaders back down, your only option is to be mad at them and assert your right to what they capitulated on, or tell yourself that you don’t really need it after all. An actual leader doesn’t stop fighting because they lose or don’t have the votes, they fight for the public mandate that will make up this difference in power and it becomes a larger fight. This is what Mamdani did instead of capitulating to the party that told him to stand down. The democratic leaders should be more like him, and less like whatever the fuck they’re trying to be right now.

If you can excuse schumer and jeffries not endorsing Mamdani that’s certainly a stance you can make, but having such low standards as to openly support them can’t be good for your psyche. I’d rather vote for them and outwardly hate them, because being able to do math and tell a fascist from a neoliberal isn’t the same as an endorsement, which you seem confused about.

The last legislation I can remember is the pro act, which failed. There have been progressive executive orders, progressive agency moves in the executive, progressive judges appointed, but all of this was destroyed by sleeper agent dinos. I’m also not remotely naive enough to believe that Manchin, Sinema, and Fetterman are the only ones. Legacy fossils like Dick Durbin was literally the leader and he betrayed us recently upon retirement. They’re largely career-minded capitalists through and through with few exceptions, the rotating villain shtick is fucking old. We’re dying, it’s not enough.

I think it’s ridiculous and harmful to ignore the lack of rhetoric lining up with our interests over the last 16 years as well as who they endorse and more importantly, who they don’t. It’s not remotely difficult to believe they’re complicit when they don’t stand up for civil rights for trans people, don’t call the republicans what they actually are, capitulate early for no reason on the shutdown, seriously spare us the hand-wringing, that’s all they ever offer now days. You don’t have to have power to say the right thing, and they don’t, simple as that.

Codependency is self-destructive, not romantic.

Chronic Anxiety and chronic depression are very similar and tied to similar thought processes and self-fulfilling cycles.

You can’t truly be there for others if you aren’t there for yourself.

Perspective shifting between others and yourself is a powerful tool of understanding and affording yourself the benefits of the doubt that can be hard to muster sometimes.

https://piefed.world/u/The_Picard_Maneuver he’s still active and modding a few communities still.