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It’s a party that is equal parts fascist, dumb, and white grievance. How could she not be a rising star?

Yeah but the Rs and cabo would rather spend that on hunting migrants and pregnant women.

The evolutionary apex of the lot lizard.

STD constituency is covered.

Large portions of this country are utterly lost to humanity. Like, no empathy at all. Just one massive goddamn death cult.

Kirk Cameron dropping his whole “we’re in the end times” schtick because now, Christian Nationalists are grabbing power and flaunting that shit in everyone’s faces, is totally on brand. Sometimes I wish there was a hell, so I could greet these fucksticks personally upon their arrival.

He’s getting the mixture dialed in tonight. In three hours he’ll be in a shit-filled bathtub screaming out the lyrics to White Rabbit.

Fair. I still think he siphons some money Trump’s way. Especially if things start looking bad for MAGA towards the end of summer.

Arrested on his first day for child porn. https://weartv.com/news/local/newly-sworn-in-florida-deputy-arrested-for-child-pornography-within-a-day-on-the-job

We're looking into exit plans from Oklahoma much sooner than we had initially planned for. My oldest is in college in-state, so I'm pushing her to get her degree and get the fuck out of here. She's an anthropology / history major and wants to do field work. Gotta be somewhere north of the Mason / Dixon Line that offers. Our youngest is in 5th grade and has really settled into a friend group. I fucking hate ripping that away. When I was kid, we moved to a different state every 2-1/2 years chasing the patch until I was 15 or 16 and we were in Oklahoma. It sucks for a kid to have to start over, especially at the tween / young teen age, and somewhere as wildly unfamiliar as Michigan or Massachusetts or Washington state. That being said, neither my kids or wife are protected under the laws of Oklahoma. Some of the crazier bills never made it out of committee this turn, but banning birth-control is still alive and kicking. And there's only the promise of more crazy coming down the pike. Hard to justify staying, even for short-term emotional stability.

You won’t get an argument for me. The optics of the entire thing, even if it was entirely organized by students, are brutal and play right into the Walters / LibsofTikTok / Christian Nationalism rhetoric. It’s a self-inflicted wound that we really could’ve done without.

I appreciate the response. And I’m with you, except for a minor-ish caveat: I’m 40 (and a man, and apparently a spiritual lesbian). But I’m pushing my oldest kid to try and rally votes at her college, even if it is somewhat useless in Oklahoma. I push the same message with the utes at the law school, but they’ve mostly made their minds up. Still, I try to pull the “old man with experience speaking truth to power” schtick but… forget it Jake, it’s Oklahoma. Frankly though, I’m beginning to push more and more to head north ahead of some this madness. Feels shitty to do, cause not everyone has that option, but it feels like we’re being boxed into a corner around here.

@Js1 consistently brings me hope with the recent election trends and the like, but fuck me if things don’t look bleak out there right now. At least for this part of the world.

I think they consider all of these things "woke" now.

Brain drain and a labor drain?

That's the big one I've read. Trying to break Brown v. Board due to "bussing concerns."

Fuck me this is depressing and I don't even live in Texas anymore.

Also defends Hitler pretty hard as well. Quotes him on social media.

Read up a bit about Robinson today. Total fucking nutcase.

Beyond all their usual bluster and brainrot, they sound scared.

Ditched the lead singer. Sound changed after that.