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I’m a thread lurker and really only jump in for some sarcasm here and there. But, as an attempt at sincerity and to help get things back on track, here we go: I was generally raised as a republican and voted R up and until Trump came along. Never again. I have signed up for the White Dudes for Harris call and have donated to a national campaign for the first time in my life. Let’s fucking go. Democracy and human decency are at stake.

No words.

Good move

… you don’t bother looking for them.

I've never given a dime to a political campaign in my life. Until today.

Holy shit

And here's Trump's shit about it:

Those of you who don't think there's any serious danger posed by the GOP's plans to contest the election because they failed last time don't actually remember what happened last time. Last time, Trump simply assumed that because Republican officials were involved in administering elections in swing states, they would rig the election for him. They had no legal strategy to speak of and had to scramble with Rudy and Sidney Powell and Lin Wood to try to come up with some shit they could throw at the wall after-the-fact. That is not what will happen this time. This time, they're much better prepared and have quite literally replaced all of those people who didn't rig the election for Trump last time with people they trust to do so this time. That doesn't mean they can definitely rig it (see Js1's post noting the differences between 2020 and 2024), but the legal arguments they will make will have a much greater appearance of legitimacy and may give Trump judges enough pretext to fuck with the election and try to prevent the timely certification of the correct electors and throw it to the House. It's very much within the realm of possibility that they could fabricate enough smoke for this SCOTUS to issue an order enjoining the governors of say, Arizona and Pennsylvania from submitting electors. Just because SCOTUS refused to accept the harebrained insanity that was filed late and often in the wrong fucking courts by Trump's dipshit crew last time doesn't mean they won't try to steal the election when they think they have a more acceptable pretext for doing so. And their recent behavior makes it clear that they're more desperate to install a permanent Republican dictator now than they were in 2020, so if anything their bar for what is an acceptable pretext is likely lower this year than it was in 2020. Dems need to not just sit around and wait for this to happen. They need to go on the offensive, both in terms of a public PR campaign making clear what the GOP intends to do and in terms of FBI investigations. Because an election official refusing to certify an election without a valid basis for doing so is almost certainly a federal crime and it needs to be made very fucking clear that anyone who does not faithfully carry out their duties will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And Democratic elected officials at the state and federal level need to speak out in a unified voice that SCOTUS doesn't have the last or only say on this.

Funny that W, of all people, understood it early on.

Honkies for Harris sounds way better.

Tim Walz fucking rules.

And as I keep saying - Arizona flipped to having a Dem Gov and Dem AG and kept a Dem SOS Wisconsin's supreme court flipped to Dem majority PA's supreme court is 5-2 Dem MI's supreme court is 4-3 Dem (and the GOP Chief Justice is hated by the state party) NV kept its Dem SOS and AG and the Court is Dem-leaning (technically nonpartisan judges) GA gov and SOS are not friends of Trump, that's for sure. Also don't forget the Electoral Count Reform Act: State governor, unless otherwise noted in state law, is the only one who can submit the slate of electors Expedited judicial review for election lawsuits to a three-judge panel and only available for candidates Threshold to challenge slate of electors was raised to 1/5 of the House (87) and 1/5 of the Senate (20) States can no longer declare a "failed election" (struck an archaic 1845 law) to override the popular vote

Spoke to my parents yesterday and apparently their pastor said “I don’t believe it using the pulpit to tell my congregation how to vote in political elections, so I’ll just say this one word that has nothing to do with my sermon—Kamala” and then proceeded to start the sermon.

Now this is the level of rappers the radical right wants but can’t get

Gavin Newsome fucked your wife, before she was ugly.

Heh Heh Balzac

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I am a construction worker that started at 14 years old. Please tell me more about how value is created in my world.

So our first dedicated right winger to crawl out of the woodwork, jumps into this thread to champion…*checks notes*…teenagers working dangerous jobs.

I represent 800K people in Congress from Southwest Ohio. They’re hardworking and kind, and they care about their families, neighbors, and communities. But I also represent JD Vance... 🧵 Right now, Mr. Vance is running one of the cruelest, most chaotic, and downright *weirdest* campaigns for Vice President we've ever seen. And because Mr. Vance claims SW Ohio as his own, I want to clarify that he couldn't be more different from the *normal* people who actually live here. Mr. Vance and I live just a few miles away from one another. We both grew up in Butler County. But my values - and the values of the people I represent - couldn't be further apart from his. His views and beliefs don't represent Southwest Ohio. So let's take a look at Mr. Vance... Mr. Vance makes fun of single women, calling them a "bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives." Mr. Vance has called for a "federal response" to women travelling across state lines to get an abortion. Just last month, Mr. Vance voted *against* protecting the right to access IVF treatment. Mr. Vance thinks people should have to stay in violent marriages and not get divorced. He thinks some people should get more votes in elections than others, depending on whether they can have children. Mr. Vance is intricately involved in Project 2025 - going so far as to write the forward for the Heritage Foundation President's new book coming out soon. This is the Project 2025 that will: - Implement abortion surveillance - Ban Muslims - End the ACA - Declare heterosexual couples superior - Eliminate the EPA - Dismantle union protections - Cancel free & reduced school lunches - Cut Social Security (Just to name a few) Mr. Vance and I both got elected to Congress in 2022. In our congressional district, which is purple, we won by more than 5 points. Mr. Vance lost our district by nearly 9 points. We support an economy that works for working people, not billionaires and big corporations. We support women and will fight to restore reproductive freedom. We believe in our democracy and want to protect voters and the integrity of our elections. We believe in pragmatic, bipartisan leadership - not chaos or cruelty. Southwest Ohio doesn't like this guy, so take it from the folks who know him best. Mr. Vance is just weird - there's no other way to say it. This isn't a guy we want anywhere near the White House.

Radical republicans are paying rappers to promote the “Kamala isn’t black” narrative and to not vote for her. The problem is these are the shittiest of shit rappers and they are getting massacred by everyone regardless of race in the replies.

and also, as our resident francophile, i am sick of french lit being the go-to replacement of lesbian underwater basket weaving for addlepates that want to devalue and diminish the value of a well-rounded society and humanities in education. why my boys stendhal, balzac, proust, zola, flaubert, camus, hugo, dumas, and gide have to always get dragged into this shit...i will never understand. if we are being honest though, it would be a better threadjack than burgers in the urban meyer thread or the cheese puns in the cesspool that is the recruiting forum.

Oh no! They got Pancho mid-sentence!

Christ, I love this guy. Any dad who's had to drive with their teen knows this level of clownery.

Holy fuck he has to be VP. He will rip their heads off, spit down their neck, but do it in a rational way that appeals to regular people. Make it happen Kamala!

I’m watching this at a friends house on a different room while my wife and the two of them sit outside and watch the Olympics. The female of the house, who does vote, but is very politically uninterested just came by and said “thank you for doing this” to me. Just for watching the White Dudes for Harris call. This is doing good things.

I gave $25. That's my first political donation, ever. The first dude was irritating, this dude is better.

You realize the regulation you're talking about only limits workers UNDER 18, right? And it isn't like that can't do the job entirely and aren't allowed to learn it. They just can't be operating the button and can't be filling a machine that doesn't have a key safety. Again, these presses are actually very fucking dangerous. Not allowing children to use them isn't a bad thing, you weirdo.

The difference is this time it's aimed at the candidates and not the voters

It can and should be said in many different ways with the focus on different aspects of Trump's character and Project 2025, but the gist of Democratic messaging should be that every Republican is a weird little creep because they're all socially maladjusted and irresponsible, and they want to push women out of public life and back into the home because the men are incapable of taking care of themselves or their families and need to be able to force women to do that for them.

Unlike Vance or whoever, Walz is an actual populist.

I work with 20,000+ union members in about 10 different trades. None of them are afraid to get their hands dirty. Every single one of them has to be 18 to get into the apprenticeship program. They would have no interest in hiring kids younger than that.