FuglyDuck

I guarantee you that the union steel worker in Bethlehem, PA and the school teacher mother of 4 in Georgia are and have been a sizable part of the base.

Not even. “your not as big as you think you are” goes both ways. United Steel is 1.2 million people. globally (US, Canada and Caribbean, apparently?) even assuming they’re all US citizens… that’s point-three of a percentage. And how many in the United Steelworks Union even work at the plant that’s not a hotbutton issue solely because it’s in PA?

the Nippon deal that politicians are trying to block… it’s good for the US, it’s good for the local economy. And the solution to the “oh but they might treat the union unfairly” isn’t to fuck over the deal that’s almost certainly going to cause those union jobs to dry up anyway… but rather to strengthen the unions. (what a thought, amiright?)

and oh yeah, by the way, of those 1.2 million, how much you wanna bet some of those union guys are… you know… progressive? or at least, progressive on some things (like strengthening unions. labor rights. Workplace safety protections.)

What I do know is the union reps I deal with are flaming progressives, and their member base is rather somewhat diverse. some are conservatives, some are progressive, most don’t talk about it. (not steel. totally different industry, mind.)

ultimately, I suspect it comes down on the specific issues. Healthcare, police reform, immigration; are all things that the base is definitely more progressive than the politicians in Washington. maybe also israel/gaza and climate change

He literally just told us he does not have an innate sense of morality. He is only as good as he is because he is scared of hell.

and he’s really not good at all.

I hope they have kids together and we get to see them go on Jerry springer.

(Is the jerry springer show still around?)

At this point it’s more of a pentagram, I think.

Melania, his daughter. Howler monkey #2. Howler monkey #2. Loomer.

(Just to clarify, MGT and Blowbert… I call them both Howler Monkey #2. Hard to keep them straight so I gave up. Petty. I know. I can be like that.)

I’m sure he has a few recipes he could share.

No where in my comment did I say that’s not true.

But again: if you can’t see the difference- and couldn’t see the difference before Biden dropped out, then I can only assume you weren’t paying attention.

I’m not declaring victory- I’m saying Biden had almost zero chance of beating trump.

If he had lost like four of any of ten states, he’d have lost I. 2020. He won the EC by a razor’s edge.

And that was with all the shit of his presidency fresh. He’s had four years to retcon things, to shore up his base. And Biden had 4 years to fuck around on messaging.

He was and is taking a beating there- and some of it is actually legitimate (Gaza for example.)

Harris… it’s going to be a tough fight, but it’s her campaign to lose. Which is a night-and-day difference.

Still a knife edge, but there’s more space on this knife edge.

Though that debate performance. …. She was always going to eviscerate him… but she did it with style….

I knew that Harris would be a better candidate than Biden.

You’d have to be proverbially blind to not have seen it.

Did I know it would be this wildly successful? Not so much. I knew it could be, and I knew Harris would be better than Biden.

Fuck you. Fuck the artist.

And god bless whoever invented pixilation.

(/j, though nobody wanted to see it.)

It’s like the love triangle from the tenth circle of hell- it’s not as well known… Dante might have skipped that one. It’s where all the diapers get disposed of, and all the shit flows.

So… so…

so very glad that’s just a metaphor.

naw, trump has no problem with his flings getting abortions. probably even pays for them.

think MGT was just being all jealous of… you know… ?

They’re doing well! Or they must be. They just finished building a new building here and it’s stunning. Beautiful landscaping too.

That building must the the concept they were talking about….

It’s pretty dystopian.

Even with the unicorn, it’s more realistic than most of what trump says.

Unicorns are real.

the plan is to have a plan. It’s a 45 day, 45 point plan. they’ll come up with a point every day for 45 days. and then they’ll act like some how that’s enough to run a gooberment.

i guess i’m probably just most confused by the fact that people would vote for trump at all lol

You, me. The entire sane world.

It’s truly perplexing why most these people would vote for the guy. Or even donate to his political campaign since he brags about not needing donations…(and his lawyers fees… yesh.)

Yup. Europe is only slightly larger. And that’s europe, not the EU. Europe on the whole is significantly denser in population, though.

If you want to compare direct numbers, the EU has ~450 million to the Us’s ~350 million and 3.9 million (or cia’s fact book, 4.2) km^2 compared to 9.8 million km^2.

The other countries that are similar are India, china and Russia.