(07-03-2024, 08:07 PM)Freija Wrote: Let's add in a few supreme court justices to the plan while we're at at, eh?
Not playing the victim card or anything but even if peripherally or by default, as member of a demographic heavily targeted by conservative Republican policies and legislation, nothing scares me more than another term for the Cheeto Jesus, cult leader and convicted felon who has already promised to come after us on day one if elected.
Foreign affairs, immigration, environmental issues, abortion the economy etc., take a backseat when potential losses and negatives are at your doorstep and seem so direct and personal. On that basis alone, as much as I might need to hold my nose and look the other way at some Democratic policies and candidates, things that can directly affect my freedoms and happiness take precedence more or less forcing me to vote a straight ticket as a matter of principle and self-preservation.
Don't worry about bumping off any Supreme Court Justices. Lawyers and judges are lined up for miles waiting to take one of those cushy seats, so even an attempt would be futile. They'd be replaced before the smoke cleared.
I can't stand to hear Trump's voice. I know that if I do, something either stupid or hyperbolically superlative to the point of ridiculousness - or, on some days, both at the same time - is going to come out of his mouth. So, I spend most of my day, every day, working hard to not be subjected to that by just not hearing him at all.
Therefore and admittedly, I don't listen to much of what Trump says - or anyone else for that matter - so with a great deal of chagrin, I have to admit to missing it when he said he was coming after you on day one. When did he say that?
WHY did he say that? What have you done to piss him off that bad since the last time he sat in the Big Boy Chair? There has to be something you've done to piss him off, or he'd have got you last time around - he had 4 years and the resources of an entire government, yet here you still are.
Given that, I can't conceive of him being terribly effective at much of anything if he really said he was gonna get you on day one. With 4 years to do it, trillions of dollars in government funding, a couple million strong military, etc, etc, and if you survived his last draconian term, I just can't imagine him being able to do it this time, either.
Now the Biden regime, on the other hand, they're pretty damned effective despite being led by a doddering old fool who still ought to be in diapers. In less than one term - because it ain't over yet, the fat lady ain't sung - they've succeeded in nearly completely dismantling the America that was. From social issues to the military to the economy to foreign policy to immigration (and therefore national security, too), they have made America a caricature of the former Soviet Union... and they did it in just 3 1/2 years. Hell, they've done things that the Soviets would have never dreamed of even attempting. The Ukraine, for example. The Soviets would never have dared to goad Oklahoma, for instance, into an open rebellion against the rest of America, and then flown in billions of dollars and weapons to sustain that war at a level far lower than necessary for the rebels to have succeeded.
That's just one example. We have out-Sovieted the Soviets themselves. We are now a caricature as a nation of what the Soviets wish they could have been.
So, yeah, I'm kinda with you - a straight ticket vote will be the only way to go, just for shits and giggles to see if any of the damage can be repaired at all, but I somehow think that maybe my ballot is going to cancel yours out - or maybe it's yours that will cancel mine out (it's more likely yours will cancel mine, because I intend to beat you to the polls) - which is going to leave us at zero, so we're going to have to rely on the extra votes being printed up in China as we speak, and all of the risen dead voters, to decide the contest.
Just like last time!
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