five. fucking. hours of bigoted bullshit

and we've got republicans bitching and democrats handwringing over a clumsy sentence of biden's in response

oh jesus

HOT TAKE EVEN IF BIDEN MEANT ALL TRUMP SUPPORTERS AT THIS POINT ARE GARBAGE THEN HE'S FUCKING VALID

i expect the fucking whining from republicans but my god. the respectability politics on our end might straight up kill me.

i thought "well gosh if you call him a dictator that's so partisan" was obnoxious enough

they're just talking at themselves, most people care a lot more about the puerto rican attack

but yeah after that, vance said "no one can take a joke anymore" and then immediately swapped to HOW DARE HE SAY THAT they are the most sensitive of snowflakes

lmao of course he did

patron saints of 'can dish it out but can't take it'

i am just. i am so tired of this being given any legitimacy

(also very glad the harris campaign was like, actually we will not stop calling them weird or shy away from calling trump a fascist when asked)

BUT THE ECONO shut the fuck up we can talk about more than one thing

The "no one can take a joke anymore" to "HOW DARE" flip is that 1) They are only joking when they don't want to deal with the consequences of being serious, because they are serious and 2) are just really bad at dogwhistling

did you see the Jake Tapper thing

where he was like oh yeah, calling someone a fascist is super inflamatory. can you play that clip of Kamala Harris doing that?
DONALD TRUMP DOING THAT
no, the kamala harris one
x multiple times.

it was kinda beautiful

it's a known tactic. GOP resorts to this shit so the dems do political in-fighting, that way they can be like 'see, they do it too!!' so they can justify it as wanting a pass for being you know, fascist shitbags.

mind you, they've been doing this long before trump came into the picture too. trump just gave them the ability to just dial it to eleven.

I did NOT see that, but will definitely look it up as a palate cleanser

And yeah, it's been part of the playbook for so long but this is just - okay, I keep thinking "this is the most egregious it's been" and then something else happens

I'm long past the point of tuning most of this sort of discourse out at much as can. It's exhausting. It's meant to be.

GOP criticizes Harris for calling Trump ‘fascist’, T...

yeah, I likewise don't bother tuning into the news cycles much

Kamala's talk yesterday in the very same spot Trump did when he sent the mob on Jan 6th, filled with 75 thousand people, is what I'm trying to focus on

theskyisnew: it was beautiful!

and her speech was beautiful

in general I am trying not to hope because I truly fear if I hope and it happens again, i'll break in a way that I can't get back from. But. It's looking better than expected so who knows.

but yeah republicans are the most hypocritical people on the planet. this biden thing is just consistent proof of it

Maga is a cult. They should be declared a domestic terrorist organization, because they fucking are.

They certainly don't live in reality anymore. :/

The media has jumped on it because their owners don't want Harris as president and they have their marching orders.

Yep. This.

yeah, agreed

uuugh, just woke up so haven't seen it yet, but unsurprised and fuck the repugs and their media lackeys

the orange shitbag calls Harris a communist Marxist socialist fascist all in one sentence multiple times a day, and doesn't know what any of them mean

theskyisnew: "in general I am trying not to hope because I truly fear if I hope and it happens again, i'll break in a way that I can't get back from. But. It's looking better than expected so who knows."

that's exactly where I am

yeah, same

still terrified, tho

yeah

that's exactly where I am too. Im not even allowed to discuss politics in therapy and I said 'its very hard to not be political when me being nonbinary, LGBT and in a wlw relationship is extremely politicized'

like I operate on the assumption it will go good, but I also remembering having to consistently check on friends who were Not Okay in after 2016.

oh god, if I hadn't been allowed to talk about politics in therapy my therapy would have been close to pointless for me

SimplisticTyranny: why aren't you???

Fuzzytale: yeeeeeeeah

komikbookgeek: because politics can be very contentious subjects and it's to keep things impartial between patient and client iirc. I didn't exactly ask for specifics.

I've never had a therapist lay down that rule

that is a weird-ass rule

yeah

I don't want my therapist to be impartial, I want them to be ON MY SIDE, but with good information on how to help me cope with my mental health

yeah it's a very weird ass rule especially with people's entire identities being made into a political thing against their will

and how that can, will, does impact their mental health

yeeeep

like, damn, I'm living in terror of the repugs winning and losing my healthcare, Mike getting his disability reduced or eliminated, the kids' student loan payments ballooning... not to mention out of control inflation....

yeah

being made illegal to exist in public like it already is for me in Tennesse

komikbookgeek: /hug

yeah, it's bad enough being in the closet for social reasons, but... being illegal >.<

at least we live in California, so unless something goes wildly wrong we're protected from a lot of the worst shit

/hug

it really fucks me up because that's where my people BELONG and I've been made illegal there twice now.

god im just so frustrated and tbh i dont even think it was biden gaffing so much as biden in his not give a shit era and after the fucking trump rally calling puerto rico a FLOATING PILE OF GARBAGE he was just going 'cool the only garbage i see is trump supporters' and hes RIGHT

dont worry though the puerto rico comment was <3 just a joke <3 and democrats dont know how to take a joke <3

but calling trump supporters garbage is NOT! FUNNY! NOT JOKES!!!!! APOLOGIZE NOW!!!!

im so frustrated and angry

fuckin ass little crybullies

yeah

best description ever

yep

staggering back in after a long-ass nap to give everyone the Fierce Arm Clasp Of Solidarity

officially imagining us all as angry rainbow balls pelting the republican party

yes

yarnzipan: genuinely tapper being like "oh my bad i mean the other clip" like five times cleansed my pores and watered my crops

my dad is a trumper so i'm scared for thanksgiving no matter how it goes. i'm not ready to be no contact but god it is so fucking hard knowing that someone who is supposed to love you supports someone who doesn't want you to exist

wherethefigslie: same. that's why I was like 'must share, it's so good'

Oh, fuck, I'm sorry. I'm lucky with my dad, he loathes trump, but I've got aunts and uncles in that boat

yarnzipan: he ran straight out of fucks to give

shobogan: thank you, lovely. it's such awful bullshit. we find ways to be civil to each other but it's so goddamned hard

whistles innocently

chOKES

bingo bango