1) No, it doesn't require Trump voters to change their minds. It requires Dems to fall in line with the Left & embrace socialism to reach non-voters. 2) even if it did require that, Trump voters can get fucked and own their shame. There are plenty of daycare out there if Trump voters need coddling.

Also, according to the reports given by the youths, of those who self-reported as binary trans at the beginning of the study, over 96.11% self-reported as binary or non-binary trans at the end. A meager 3.89% self-reported as cis. Far from "nearly a fifth", the correct figure is "not even a 25th."

Well, guess we found out how to get universal healthcare. Just gotta call your representatives and leave a message with their address, the names of their family members, and the make and model of your favorite firearm.

Well, there it is. Libs spent a year telling trans folks "write off the Palestinians to save yourselves!" to try to elect a candidate who was never going to save us anyway.

Radiation is a major cause of cancer. Radiation is also one of the most common treatments of cancer. Political violence does hurt trans people. That doesn't mean that it's not essential to liberation. "X is bad in context Y" does not mean "X is bad in context Z". It's all in how it's applied.

At Nuremberg 2.0, having voted to create a holiday for Kirk needs to be grounds for automatic guilty verdict with no chance for appeal. Only nazis celebrate the life of nazis.

seeing another rash of voter blaming and i wonder how people reconcile this with all the times dem senators - in deep blue states, even - that people voted for and put into office decided to give unanimous consent to GOP shit so they could go on vacation. they voted 'correctly', and yet, get nothing

I feel like we sailed right by “put your oxygen mask on first before assisting others” and civic society collectively failed to notice at all that the masks had dropped out of the overhead compartment. Sadly, the results aren’t gonna be anywhere near as painless as drifting away into hypoxia.

Normies and squares are about to find out why mirrors and glass tables were so popular in the 80s

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

Imagine making a statement from which it necessarily follows that Hitler wasn't a Nazi at the time that he wrote Mein Kampf. Imagine making that statement and not somehow failing to immediately realize that you're obviously wrong.

My mom asked me about Charlie Kirk tonight so I showed her some of his greatest hits online (I was fixing her Kobo account) and within a couple minutes she was like "Well why are people saying such nice things about him?"

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

The house is on fire. MAGA wants to pour gas on the fire. Liberals don't want to pour gas it, but are fine with the fire that already exists. The Left wants to put the fire out. Libs insisted that putting the fire out was unrealistic & that we should compromise by putting A LITTLE gas on the fire.

@wsj.com Personally, I'm thinking "front page, above the fold" would be suitable.

In the news: conservative influencer comes out in opposition to the 2nd amendment.

Just going to leave this here, from the Twilight Zone episode "He's Alive," one of my favorites.

God it must be amazing to be a lib, giving Gavin credit for what other people (who don't answer to him) do, & thinking anyone who says "actually those decisions aren't Gavin's" doesn't know how things work.

Enemies of progress.

We often say that what libs call a “purity test” is just decency, compassion, valuing of human life, but it’s even more basic than that, often, the things which they call “purity” are any example where they are expected to demonstrate consistent application of their *own* stated principles

This is a very serious matter. I'm only posting this so people know NOT to make false submissions. That would be a bad thing to do and no one should do it.

1) why would we want to honor his memory in the first place? 2) Continue his work?! Yeah I am no longer entertaining the notion that Democrats aren't MAGA until such time as they sideline Gavin.

hey man didn't you bomb a wedding

"I think empathy is a made-up New Age term that does a lot of damage" ~ Charlie Kirk I'd just like to remind everyone that showing any amount of empathy for Charlie Kirk right now is very disrespectful to his beliefs.

Welp, seems like a fair cost to me

Some Fucking Nazi: *dies* People Who Accepted the Genocide of Gaza and Police Brutality and Murders of Trans and Queer People as Unavoidable Parts of Society and Insisted For Decades You Simply Must Shrug Off For the Sake of Some Imaginary Sense of Harm Reduction: violence is never acceptable

liberals use "purity" like fascists use "woke," and to describe the same things

Listen... I'm not a scholar of Constitutional law, but I'm pretty sure that the president declaring war on a state (or city within a state) is grounds for secession.

"Name me a better candidate, I'll wait." Mitt Romney. The bar is so low that Mitt Romney is arguably a better candidate for the Democrats. If you want an actually GOOD candidate: Ayanna Pressley/Rashida Tlaib. If you're tired now, you should give up & fall in line, or you'll be EXHAUSTED in 2028.

Draft dodgers are heroes who stood on principle & refused to be used to further US imperialism. If you wanna talk about "stolen valor", Trump hasn't earned the right to be called a draft dodger. Stop stealing that valor for him. Trump isn't a draft dodger. He's just rich.

Give me a candidate who promises to vet every school & museum for pro-american content & I'll vote for them, no further questions.

I'm thinking that giving power to a literal death cult was maybe a bad idea.

Oh look. When you fight instead of capitulating, you can have your funding restored.

The thing about "trans activism" is that it basically didn't exist in the UK as a distinct thing until the last several years, and it emerged largely *in response* to the wave of public transphobia. London Trans Pride first happened in *2019*, in response to anti-trans obstructors at 2018 Pride.

Wait... people are making posts saying "I won't vote for Newsom," and that's controversial? How's it controversial to say "someone who lacks even basic knowledge about politics shouldn't be president"?

☝️🤨 wait-

New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc

All you damn leftists have such impossible standards! Newsom is leading the fight against Trump by publicly agreeing with MAGA & launching a crypto scam! You can't just cut off ICE access to a state database or other concrete action that actually has an impact! It's impossible! No one can do that!

HHS must immediately get involved & violate HIPAA to forward every republican to law enforcement for IMMEDIATE detainment until we can figure out why they keep killing children in schools. They must be locked away & studied. This needs to be handled with no mercy.

Fun fact: 229 people have run for president since 1788. Of them, 153 (66.81%) ran once, lost, & never ran again. For most candidates, "wanting to be president" is just a phase that goes away after a year or two. 1/4

So what you're saying is that you're an idiot, who doesn't understand the concept of linear time or "before and after." The quote you pulled is from a letter that Jefferson wrote on March 13, 1789. Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican party on May 13, 1792.

pretty much everyone understands that a very wealthy person or corporation can subvert democracy by purchasing a politician or even a whole party, fewer people seem ready to accept that if they can do that, then they can just buy the opposition, too

Evaluate honestly the number of Dem candidates, at any level in any state, who are using terms like "birthing person" or "heteronormative" to the number using phrases like "bipartisan solutions" or "reaching across the aisle" and tell me which language is tin-eared and alienating to normal people.

Every one of those "you must vote for Gavin Newsom" weirdos really need to learn that sometimes when you tell people "die so that I may live over your corpse" they don't go "I guess that's better than us both dead", they go "then fucking die with me"

2004: Howard Dean yells "Yeah!" really loud. "We can't vote for him! He's crazy!" 2025: Gavin Newsom trashes homeless camps and buys platforms conservatives so he can publicly agree with them "Ugh! These purity tests are *killing* the party!"

And this is why Democrats are cooked, even if there is a midterm next year. They can close ranks to defend a sex pest who isn't running for their party, but when it comes to someone who 1) people are excited about and 2) can be distinguished from a Republican, they rush to self-destruct.

Support our troops! (And, by "our troops," I mean, "anyone who makes the National Guard's lives even slightly less easy or pleasant.")

It was liberals - now called "centrists" in both parties - who passed the laws giving presidents the powers now used against them. The centrists aimed to use that power against leftists. Ironically the far right now uses it against the centrists. - Meme credit: @redneckgonegreen.bsky.social