That’s what I mean by penal slavery.

The reason I only included Clinton rather than every president who has benefitted from prison slave labor (which as you say is all of them), is that to my knowledge he’s the only one who basically had house slaves provided to his home by the state prisons…

Special mention for Bill Clinton who benefited from penal slavery in the governor’s mansion while governor of Arkansas.

And the home of the slave

Because some people are jerks who don’t want better people to enjoy life. Especially out of touch billionaires like Seinfeld.

Sure, whatever means our ism-flavored friends don’t have to participate

I’ve never advocated anything of the sort, nor will I ever.

we wonder why the ancient Dem consultants think waffling to the “center” will get them votes

Because their strategy is stuck in 1992 when there was votes there. And Becau$e.

It’s because no national party will ever pass the purity tests of the leftist-lefts-who-ever-lefted

Nope. That’s just a tired excuse to dismiss the valid concerns of people who are against genocide, corruption, and warmongering, to name just a few areas where the Dem leadership isn’t representative of the people.

So why make any effort to reach out to them?

Because that’s their job. And also how to win elections. The last time any presidential candidate won in an actual landslide was Obama in 2008 when he ran as a reformist progressive. Then he governed as a centrist and won reelection by a much smaller margin despite an arguably easier opponent.

It will never result in those people actively going to the polls.

That’s the opposite of reality, as 2008 proved.

they didn’t completely remake the entire electoral, political, social, and financial mechanisms of the country. ☹️

You know what representative democracy means, right? Because upholding the hated status quo that causes hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and bankruptcies every year isn’t it.

Wanting to be faithfully represented by those with the power to change what’s killing you isn’t childish. It’s common sense.

Ottawa? The “Technically beautiful” place to have sex with someone else’s husband named Gordon?

Sorry, no, the lefties Neoliberals decided to let trump win because they didn’t get their unicorn with the sparkly tail and the little bowler hat refused to listen to the wants and needs of voters in general over their owner donors.

Fixed it for you.

at the midterms they’ll find a new way to let trump win.

Sadly nothing to fix here. Biden, Jeffries, Harris, Schumer et al kept failing to represent the people and now it’s probably too late.

And a dance floor. The logistics might be a challenge but we’ll manage.

Pretty sure “pinko” means socialist in old-timey anticommunist bile

Semi-related:

Or have two heads

Star Bear out of 5 is a much more accurate rating for California anyway 😁

True. I was born during the 80s and thought sunglasses were automatically SUPER cool until well into the 90s myself.

That doesn’t make me a terrible and/or extremely cringe person, but never progressing from that does, is my point 😉

Because they’re in the same cult.

Not only is conformity encouraged, but deviating from their group norms even slightly is met with suspicion if not outright fear and hostility.

Plus that’s what people who are emotionally stuck in adolescence and/or the 80s think looks cool.

Texas: the state so bad that even the dude who designed the flag rated it one star.

Revelation that the Kirk shooter was a disillusioned Qanon weirdo upset about the Epstein debacle when?

the New York Times, the semi-official voice of the Democratic Party

Thought it was well known to be extremely Right

Remove the “extremely” and there’s no contradiction. The Neoliberal segment (which is that of the leadership) of the Democratic Party is ideologically right to far right and authoritarian. Just like the NYT.

I think that the EXTREME right wing rag from NY you’re thinking of is the NY comPost, though.

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MBFC and allsides both have right wing bias themselves. Especially MBFC, which is the pet project of a conservative zionist pretending to be an authority on factuality and bias.

The caterer’s cutlery guy is SOOO getting fired!

Kirk was a libertarian in the same way that he was pro-life: in the limited circumstances where it served the agenda of him and his fellow fascists.