2026 Elections: To the Midterms and Beyond!

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

I don't think your last two sentences are true. Even stupid people want their kids to succeed and not be miserable. Some of them are simply too stupid to help their kids, but I've seen stupid people do smart things before, like encourage their kids to go to college. Living in Kentucky for almost two decades now, I can say there are plenty of conservatives who are good, honest people who are also good parents just trying to make a living for their families. Now, fuck them and their fucking awful voting choices, and I'll never forgive them or excuse them for voting R, but I can separate a person from his or her voting in a (somewhat) civilized society.

"You're a nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids."

I can and will judge a person by how they vote. It makes a hell of a lot more sense and is a better litmus test than judging them based on the color of their skin. Anyone can be superficially "nice" and teach their kids the same, but then turn around and vote to bend themselves, their kids and grandkids, and their neighbors over the table. So-called "Christian" churches are littered with them.

If these "good, honest people" want respect from me, then they can educate themselves and stop voting to ratfuck 95% of the country. Until then, I will continue to think of and call them out as the white trash louts that they are. I offer no mercy or forgiveness to those who remain willfully ignorant after 40+ years of this bullshit.

 

[ticapnews]

Maybe in the past people wanted their kids to do better, to go to college, get educated, get a good job. But now too many parents are realizing that when their kid goes off to college they meet people who are different (some of them might be Negroes, or queers, or from another country!) and get silly ideas about equality and human rights. When they come home they don't want to listen to their homophobic xenophobic screeds and have Faux talking points recited to them. And then the kid leaves for good and doesn't want anything to do with them anymore.

Better to keep the kids uneducated and bigoted just like them so at least they won't move away to the Big City and desert the parents.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Otherwise who will be stuck wiping dad's ass for him when he's 85 and can't do it himself anymore? You think these sheeple can afford professional eldercare? They basically voted against it!

 

[ticapnews]

Rugged individuals. Up to a point.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Maybe in the past people wanted their kids to do better, to go to college, get educated, get a good job. But now too many parents are realizing that when their kid goes off to college they meet people who are different (some of them might be Negroes, or queers, or from another country!) and get silly ideas about equality and human rights. When they come home they don't want to listen to their homophobic xenophobic screeds and have Faux talking points recited to them. And then the kid leaves for good and doesn't want anything to do with them anymore.

Better to keep the kids uneducated and bigoted just like them so at least they won't move away to the Big City and desert the parents.

Yes, that sounds like a plan.

 

[MissThundercat]

Roughly 25 years ago, all of us watched 2500 people die on live TV. And I watched as the GQP howl "you're either with us or with the terrorists" as they dragged us into a forever war and the surveillance state.

I also watched the early 2000s equivalent of MAGA call anyone who opposed endless war and being groped by the TSA "traitors who hated America," and started accusing all Muslims of "Sharia Law takeover!"

And with Abdul, Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, etc, that rhetoric has roared violently back to life.

 

[Kepler]

The old hits always land on the reunion tour.

They will play that shit until it doesn't work, which means they will play it until all the dummies are dead, which means they will never, ever stop. It was an old song when Mark Antony was doing it 2000 years ago. Politics is the art of getting to the bottom rung first. That's where the most votes are.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Roughly 25 years ago, all of us watched 2500 people die on live TV. And I watched as the GQP howl "you're either with us or with the terrorists" as they dragged us into a forever war and the surveillance state.

Bush and Clinton had warnings, they just didn't know exactly when or how. It was very convenient.

 

[psych]

"You're a nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids."

I can and will judge a person by how they vote. It makes a hell of a lot more sense and is a better litmus test than judging them based on the color of their skin. Anyone can be superficially "nice" and teach their kids the same, but then turn around and vote to bend themselves, their kids and grandkids, and their neighbors over the table. So-called "Christian" churches are littered with them.

If these "good, honest people" want respect from me, then they can educate themselves and stop voting to ratfuck 95% of the country. Until then, I will continue to think of and call them out as the white trash louts that they are. I offer no mercy or forgiveness to those who remain willfully ignorant after 40+ years of this bullshit.

We’ll agree to disagree. I am not one to write anybody off, especially their kids. I love getting to educate kids, even in an inpatient setting. Even those from the backwoods of Kentucky.

 

[beaverhockeyfan]

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Minnesota Senate nominee Michele Tayofa on the Iran war: "Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further. Until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again, let's just try to be patriots about this."

bsky.app

PLEASE keep going with this message.

Oh, her latest one during the end of primary season was that any entity that could not pass an audit would not get any government funding.

I wonder if that holds true for the Department of Defense, err, War, since they have either not submitted an audit or have not passed one for the last EIGHT cycles.