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Your experience with actual firefighters must be very limited then.

They probably didn't, but they've historically endorsed the Democrat anyway no matter what. The national leadership doesn't poll the membership. They just decide for everyone.

Little to nothing at all. We pay more to help support the Union in pay negotiations and some of the programs they have in place to help firefighters.

Yeah I'm a retired firefighter and I'm pissed, too. I'm starting the process to end my union dues right now. Fuck that shit. BTW, they don't ask the firefighters who we want to back. They never have. It's all up to the IAFF/AFL-CIO national leaders. For my entire career they've backed the Democratic candidate. Why they chose to sit this one out is mind-boggling. ETA: Here's my tweet from a few minutes ago, with a response from another retired firefighter who's pissed as well.

No worries! I did miss it though, when I said she was inside the Capitol on Jan 6. My bad. I guess I was conflating two different stories. But serving with and being pressured by people in the Trump White House must have been traumatic enough all by itself.

Seems like you're talking about Melania. I was talking about Cassidy Hutchinson.

Some highlights from Liz Cheney's fantastic speech earlier today: "I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray-tanning". ... "Vice President Harris is standing in the breach at a critical moment in our nation's history. She's working to unite reasonable people from all across the plitical spectrum. Vice President Harris has dedicated her life to public service. I know that she loves our country and I know she'll be a president for all Americans. As a Conservative, as a patriot, as a mother, as someone who reveres our Constitution, I'm honored to join her in this urgent cause". ... "In the United States of America, violence does not and must never determine who rules us. Voters do." ... “... our republic faces a threat unlike any we have faced before - a former president who attempted to stay in power by unraveling the foundations of our republic, by refusing to accept the lawful results confirmed by dozens of courts of the 2020 election,” she said. “We cannot turn away from this truth. In this election, putting patriotism ahead of partisanship is not an aspiration. It is our duty.” ... “I don’t care if you are a Democrat or a Republican or an independent. That is depravity, and we must never become numb to it. Any person who would do these things can never be trusted with power again.” ... “What January 6th shows us is that there is not an ounce, not an ounce of compassion in Donald Trump. He is petty, he is vindictive, and he is cruel. And Donald Trump is not fit to lead this good and great nation.” ... "In this election a broad coalition has come together to support Vice President Kamala Harris. Now, we may disagree on some things, but we are bound together by the one thing that matters to us as Americans more than any other, and that's our duty to our Constitution and our belief in the miracle and the blessing of this incredible nation. We have a shared commitment, a shared commitment as Americans to ensure that future generations live in a nation where power is transferred peacefully, where our leaders are men and women of good faith, and where our public servants set aside partisan battles to do what's right for this country. So today I ask all of you here, and everyone listening across this great country to join us. I ask you to meet this moment. I ask you to stand in truth to reject the depraved cruelty of Donald Trump, and I ask you instead to help us elect Kamala Harris for President".

Yep. I'm 59 &before this campaign, I can't remember too many (any?) Republicans or Democrats going on national TV & stating that their party's candidate is so horrific as to make them vote for the opposition's candidate. In today's political climate, that takes some serious cojones grandes. And I have zero problem with her making some money with a book. She and everyone else who was inside the Capitol that day - whatever their party - went through some shit and deserves to try to turn it into some kind of a positive. ETA: My bad. Hutchinson wasn't in the Capitol on January 6 ... but she did serve in the Trump White House, which must have been traumatic enough all on its own.

Yeah my instant reaction to that was that it sounded like what I read in history books at UT about Marx & Lenin in Russia. Forty years ago, hell even 25 years ago if he had spouted that crap to a group of Republicans, the response would have overwhelmingly been something along the lines of "GTFO with that Communist bullshit".

100% this.

Love me some Kaitlan Collins. I've said it before and I'll probably say it again, whatever room she ever finds herself in, she's probably almost always the smartest person there. She knows what these clueless rubes are gonna say before they do, and she's ready to respond before they can even spit it out. I'd love to see her in a debate. When she's done, there would just be a smoking hole where the other person had been standing.

WTF is going on with Abbott in the scroll at the bottom? And Stoops caught with a bag of dicks? LOL. Good work, whoever did that.

From the responses ...

So they're just preaching to their own choir.

When there was no crawdad to be found ...

LBJ admin here, yo..

Yeah but nobody can throw down a 'party mix' like we can.

Going back to my friend in the UK who asked the Bexar County/RFK question, he just DM'd me this in response to me talking about the possibilites of a big win by Harris/Walz. Purely anecdotal, I know, but it's interesting nonetheless, imho. Oh, and we're both older, GenX, anti-Trump former Republicans, btw. We aren't all over the edge. /csb

Yep, and we all know people or are related to people who did similar shit - going to weddings, movies, games, restaurants, clubs, etc while knowingly infected. There's a special place in hell ...

100% agree. I think there will be far more Republicans voting for Harris than many people believe or than the polls indicate.

Holy shit. Cannot stop watching. I'm mesmerized.

Seriously. He may not like it, but even if everything he said in the explanation is true, it's still not a 'threat to democracy'. It's just demographic change.

I was looking for a movie to go to last night. Couldn't find anything appealing, so I kept scrolling until I got to a 'documentary' called "Vindicating Trump" lol. I was curious how many people would actually pay money to go see something like that and didn't have anything else to do at that moment, so I looked at all the available screening times in Central Texas from Round Rock to New Braunfels. There were 13 screenings, with a total of 107 seats sold. So an avg of about 8 people per screening. So we got that going for us, I guess.