This is called economic terrorism. Let us do what we want, or we will wreck the economy.

In !politics@lemmy.world, for example, it is against the rules to accuse another user of being a bot or paid actor. Any post suggesting a user might be will likely be removed at the minimum.

That means very little. She may have more guts, but she is just as much of a scum bag as anyone else in the GOP based on her voting record in Congress. She supported Trump’s position over 90% of the time.

Cheney voted to impeach Trump and because of that she is persona non grata in the GOP so now she is opposed to Trump. She may even fear him getting in office and having her imprisoned. That doesn’t make her a remotely good person. Fuck Liz Cheney. The enemy of your enemy may be a useful tool, but she is not your friend. Don’t forget that.

That Felon Guy will work forever.

Come on. If there’s one thing we all know, it’s that Vance can get off on a couch.

If he’s sweating, it’s only because he’s afraid that Trump will die before the election.

I swear that Trump’s handlers and/or Peter Thiel got him to pick Vance because Vance is all in on Project 2025. They don’t give a crap about Trump as long as he lives long enough for the election to be stolen for him. Then when he drops we’ll be stuck with President Vance who will gleefully run with all the fascist crap they can think of.

There are a few obvious ones around but it’s against the rules to even suggest that they could be shills or bots. Hopefully this news will get the mods to start taking action against the most blatant ones.

The Russian funds paid for videos by popular far-right personalities, including podcaster Tim Pool and Lauren Southern. Pool has since described himself as a “victim” in the Tenet scandal.

How horrible for those poor, alt-right wing influencers. Imagine finding out that Putin has been paying you all along when you thought you were spewing Russia’s talking points for American scum bags.

The sheriff said a 16-year-old boy, for whom Friday was his first day at Joppatowne High School, shot a 15-year-old classmate in a bathroom. Gahler said it’s believed the victim was struck by a single gunshot.

A student at a high school shoots another student in the school and that’s not a school shooting to you?

Oh absolutely, it is security theater. I did not mean to suggest that turning schools into fortresses was a valid solution, it’s just the only solution being offered up by people like Vance.

It’s only a fact of life if people like Vance let it be. There is more than can be done besides turning schools into fortresses and thoughts and prayers.

Oh look… another school shooting today.

He better be careful. There may be a crusty old mop sitting in a closet with his DNA on it still.

As it happens, the individual who was assaulted chose not to press charges because they were afraid of retaliation from Trump’s cultists.

this only applies to brown children

No. It applies to poor children. While it’s true that poor children are more likely to be Brown, but it’s really the poor that’s the factor in this case.

Scary to think that it could be Nazis all the way down.

“Maybe Grandma and Grandma still work,” said author Jacie Floyd on the social media platform X. “Maybe Grandma and Grandpa have health issues. Maybe Grandma and Grandpa live 1,000 miles away. Maybe Grandma and Grandpa don’t want to. The [Republican Party] shouldn’t be planning Grandma and Grandpa’s retirement for them.”

Actually, the Republican party are actively trying to keep Grandma and Grandpa from retiring by pushing the retirement age up towards the average American life expectancy while Republican health care policies are pushing that average further and further down. Sorry, JD, Grandma and Grandpa are being worked to death and can’t really help out.

JD Vance’s solution to school shootings? They’re just a fact of life. Harden your schools and add armed guards and sniper nests.

I’m afraid not. The Trump supporters are so convinced that the democrats are cheating that they see conspiracies every where they look. Last time, partizan observers saw wheeled ballot containers under a table and reported it as suitcases of ballots being illegally counted. Surveillance footage showed nothing untoward actually happened, but the claims went viral among trump supporters who needed no more evidence than the initial claims.

Sending in hordes of ill-informed, poorly trained observers who will jump at shadows is a recipe for chaos. They will claim that every ballot counter who so much as scratches their nose is somehow trying to steal the election from Trump, again without any evidence at all. In fact, these people are the worst choice for observers because, as highly religious people, they are inclined to trust their beliefs rather than observable facts.

Oh yeah! Was that the press conference when Burkman forgot to zip up his pants?

Last November, for instance, Wohl and Burkman presented their claims about Mueller while Burkman’s pants zipper was open. Of everything I covered from that event, the photo of Burkman with his fly down earned the most attention on Twitter.

Swiped this pic from a reddit thread from six years ago. One of the posters was rather prophetic…

Why are all these people so god damned weird?! - Edward_Fingerhands (reddit poster)

There has been no election fraud proven in the last election and no reason to think there will be any in this election, at least not from the Democrats. The right has endlessly claimed that Trump lost in 2020 because of fraud and despite filing more than 60 cases alleging fraud, they were not able to provide any evidence. Every single case one of those cases was lost or tossed out by the judge.

If election fraud were an issue, stopping it would be a good thing, but it isn’t an issue. This is a conservative boogieman used to scare foolish people into breaking the law and committing election fraud to help Trump win.