Check your break room ...
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Litmus Tests are good, actually, and "Do you support court reform" is an example of a particularly good one.
"Keep voting Blue and eventually we will get the courts back, best case scenario, could be as soon as 30-40 years from now" is not a plan. The people who said it was lied to you. ...
The photos of the "crowds" at the tank parade remind me of when Bill Hicks would come on stage in an almost-empty club, scan the room slowly, and announce "I've had more people in bed than this" ...
When the president sends a cabinet member on TV to announce "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
This is from 2022 but it was absolutely right. The practiced buffoonery of Trump 1, all the "just kiddings" and "seriously but not literallys" absolutely succeeded in desensitizing people who are hardly paying any attention to the harder stuff they always intended to do next. ...
Dustin says:
Why? Because he wants what is best for the country and refuses to stick to party lines? Not saying I agree with his vision of what's best, but I respect his maverick stance.
Also, a politician should cater to their constituency, and GOP voters DID vote him into office. Heh.
J. Dryden says:
While I agree that adhering blindly to the party line is not necessarily an attractive trait in a politician, there's a difference between being a maverick and being a smug douche who's been consistently proven wrong on his foreign policy issues and yet continues to flaunt them as if he'd been proven right.
Ed says:
His Napoleonic power trip over the Democratic senate majority has put him on my permanent shit list. His issue positions do not bother me beyond the fact that I often disagree with them.
He is a petty, egotistical, condescending asshat. I can't wait until these Senate elections are over. I forsee the solid Democratic majority filming a nice good-bye message to Joe in late November. "Hey former colleague. You know that bed you made? Enjoy sleeping in it."
warmbowski says:
I just watched the HBO movie Recount which chronicles his ability to throw a wrench in his own election bid for VP, by waffling on the issue with overseas military ballots that weren't postmarked or signed.
What a Schmuck!
Dustin says:
A schmuck he may be, but I'd love to see a Jew in the White House.