I’m still stuck on Mumble.

There’s also Clippy 3.0 Copilot. “I see you’re trying to be productive, how can I get in the way today?”

Hopefully they meet somewhere in the middle.

Nothing ever lives up to the level of hype that got him elected.

Why do people assume that, when talking about something that doesn’t contextually apply to them… it magically applies to them for some reason.

I’m not talking about people who voted their ass off in every election possible, marched in protests, contacted their current reps, etc. as evidenced by specifically referencing people who did the absolute minimum.

If you gave up after all that effort, that’s a completely different problem. One mostly centered around the narcissistic idea of “I did everything I could and nothing changed, therefore doing those things makes no difference”. It is about a combined effort, not a singular one. One person doing everything they can (as long as their bank account couldn’t fund entire countries) ain’t gonna do shit by itself.

It’s also not about a single party. Anyone who just looks at a party and thinks “That’s my team, I’ll do whatever they say” is also a problem. It is possible to change that team with enough (collective) effort, but banking on everyone on that team being magically “the good guy” is naive at best, and downright foolish otherwise. Blaming them for all your problems equally so.

The country is made up of people, not just parties or corporations, no matter how many Supreme Court justices think otherwise. That’s who’s going to make a difference.

They only had the keys to begin with because of all the people who had already (and continue to) given up. Assuming that there was nothing they could ever do because when they showed up at the last second and did the absolute bare minimum, it didn’t magically fix everything for them.

If you demand that people either only do the best thing or nothing, you will get a lot of people doing nothing.

It’s been little more than political posturing since at least the 90s. Newt Gingrich made damn sure of that.

PC Load Letter?!

Cool, hopefully a majority will actually show up for an election one of these days.

Same, and I’d really like people to treat actions as steps in the right direction and not a step backwards if things aren’t magically fixed with one sweeping action.

Honestly, I imagine that’s part of the Republican messaging strategy. And should be part of the Democratic messaging going forward. “We’re not magicians, we’re not going to fix everything with a snap of our fingers and a wave of our hands. It’s going to take time, and a great deal of effort. It’s also going to take more than showing up once every two to four years for the average citizen. Vote in primaries, vote in run-offs, vote in your local town council elections. Those are the races that are going to have the most significant personal impacts, not national races.”

If they were in any way competent at messaging like that, we wouldn’t be in the position we’re in.

Probably comes from having to be around certain people🦧 for extended periods of time.

Isn’t that called kidnapping?

Why stick with just one or the other? I’d rather blame every party that did their best to put Trump in power, whether intentionally or not.

And, like it or not, those who made it their mission to vilify anyone who had a chance of keeping Trump and his cronies from taking power are to blame. I’m perfectly willing to throw people who valued their ideals over pragmatism right under that bus where they belong.

You mean the “Stay home, that’ll teach them!” voting block?

*Nearly a third

More than a third stayed home.

You’ll also be added to the Democratic party donation call line.

Who needs to when it’s eating itself from the inside?

Wasn’t the reason he got “immunity” because congress is supposed to be responsible for prosecuting him?

I mean, I know I’m ascribing rationality to an inherently irrational judgment, but still.

It was also four rooms. So closer to $500/room/night.

So really, not all that absurd a price, especially in a major metro area during a major event.