Could doesn’t really apply to good things in politics, but I appreciate your optimism. He will in all likelihood step down peacefully if he’s not gunned down first. Maybe a massive progressive wave could change that, but I think it’d be a big ask even if that happened this year. It’d have to be multiple elections worth of progressive waves I think. Given the growing special interests in democratic primaries, I think the real fight is going to be out front in most of these cases.

Incorrect, acts of war are traditionally used to distract US citizens. See: Most of Trump’s actions in bith terms, as well as Bill Clinton’s behavior during the Monica Lewinski trials.

The Democratic primaries need to be an absolute bloodbath this year. Unfortunately Schumer is with us until 2028, so we’ll probably mostly be dead or he will by then.

I don’t think your friend has ever been within 2500 miles of the equator if he thinks the sun is orange. Go south enough and the idea of a yellow sun even seems dumb.

Who needs enemies with friends like these?

Imagine making a whole account just to poop on people leveraging the only power they have.

I think there’s some confusion between cause and effect going on in this chain.

A senior HHS official said on Thursday that the WHO “strayed from its core mission and has acted contrary to the U.S. interests in protecting the U.S. public on multiple occasions.”

The U.S. has interests in protecting the U.S. public? News to me, citation needed.

Great idea, never would have thought of that unless one fell off

Wouldn’t ensuring leftists aren’t parents but conservative are just work to push the overton window in the future?

Ah yes, “the don’t tread on me” party. Most leftists I know ring more true to the definition of libertarians than actual avowed libertarians.

Codependency is self-destructive, not romantic.

Chronic Anxiety and chronic depression are very similar and tied to similar thought processes and self-fulfilling cycles.

You can’t truly be there for others if you aren’t there for yourself.

Perspective shifting between others and yourself is a powerful tool of understanding and affording yourself the benefits of the doubt that can be hard to muster sometimes.

https://piefed.world/u/The_Picard_Maneuver he’s still active and modding a few communities still.

The_picard_maneuver I feel was a large reason there was even enough meme content to make it start feeling like a reddit replacement for me. I don’t hate power users here since we need more posts to keep the fediverse content active. Maybe if we had 10k+ upvote posts in a single day it’d get old seeing the same faces, but if the content is good it’s elevated. I’d only want something done about it if there were bots who follow-voted to achieve misleading numbers.

Is the obsession they have with coal just that they heard pollution from coal burning predominantly affects the poor?

Who the fuck wants grifters at their premiere event? Nothing says “My effort is negligible” quite like approval from the pos who rightfully called Trump a dictator before coming as close to deepthroating him as a real human possibly could without an exposé about it.

You know what else would speed up the release? Fucking consequences.

Biden and Merick Garland, “Let’s see what else he does.”