https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/opinion/not-voting-elections.html

Matthew Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer.

NYT had to change the headline to “Why I Won’t Vote” after social media caught him voting

it’s 42/39.8

When less than 40% of the population wants to vote for you, that’s really bad

An incumbent President HAS placed third in a general election, though.

SCOTUS ruling that amendments are more like suggestions

Most people who want him to drop out were never going to vote for him anyway.

Isn’t that sort of the problem? He’s way down in the polls because most people aren’t going to vote for him?

Maybe America just has a lot of acceleraionists.

He’s not competent enough to run a campaign that defeats Donald Trump.

And I was told that “Beat Donald Trump” is the most important thing in the world. But now, I guess, it isn’t? It’s just about appeasing the ego of a senile old coot and his weird family.

People advocating for Biden to go on a crime spree are assuming that the Supreme Court is aiming to be consistent, and apply this ruling fairly to both parties.

The SCOTUS doesn’t have a DOJ or an FBI to arrest and prosecute anyone with. That’s the big catch in all this arguing.

If Biden seriously wanted to be a sassy bitch, he’d have Trump extraordinarily renditioned to a prison in Iraq and tried for bombing the Iraqi airfield that hosted the Iranian ambassadors.

The SCOTUS gets to pound sand, Americans can heal a gapping foreign policy wound between the US and Iran, and Trump gets a taste of living as an illegal.

But he’s not going to do that. He’s not going to impound Trump’s assets or freeze his accounts. He’s not going to treat Trump in any way like an asset of an enemy power.

Because he’s terrified of violating the Norms that dictate presidents can, in fact, do whatever the hell they want.

assuming you don’t think the American rescue plan, bipartisan infrastructure act, CHIPS, IRA, and the first massive tranche of funding for Ukraine are useful

No more than the CARES Act or the PROSWIFT Act or the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 or the Hong Kong Autonomy and Uyghur Human Rights Policy Acts, under the prior administration. We’ve never had a problem issuing large bipartisan bailouts in the thick of a recession, rolling out buckets of cash for proxy wars, or pissing away trillions on expanding legacy highway infrastructure. This is not something unique that Biden brought to the table.

Hell, Trump was even sending military aid to Ukraine as early as 2019. One could argue it was this military escalation and subsequent bombing of the Donbas that kicked off the war with Russia to begin with. Thanks for that!

Unfortunately they didn’t codify Roe, overhaul SCOTUS, or harden our institutions against fascism

Because they’re a party heavily populated with Pro-Life Democrats, they genuinely like the business-friendly / anti-regulatory bent to the SCOTUS, and they are more than happy to break bread with fascists just so long as the fascists can be used as proxies against enemies of US business interests at home and abroad.

This isn’t a fucking accident. It is deliberate bipartisan consensus.

Who knows what they could do with a larger majority and control of the House/Senate for 2 more years though

Exactly what they did in 2009. Send trillions of new dollars to the privatized tech sector. Roll out new privatization schemes for the USPS and US Education System. Bailout failed banks. Increase the size and the authority of police agencies. And impose a host of new unfunded mandates on consumers - via tariffs, anti-union tax increases on health insurance, and private lending schemes - that only serve to degrade quality of life in pursuit of higher corporate profits.

FFS, the lowest hanging fruit imaginable for the Democratic Party is DC Statehood. Easiest win imaginable to just hand yourself two free Senators and 3-4 new House Reps. And they won’t do it.

Where do you think Americans learn about non-European countries in World History? History started with the founding of England and ended with WW2. I think we dropped a nuclear bomb on some East Asian country where all the anime comes from. But other than that, who gives a shit about Asia?

Um… its called checks and balances, sweetie.

The King selects the priests and the High Priest coronates the wealthiest member of the royal court to be the next king. We live in the fairest, freest, and most godly country in the world, because we adhere to the ancient edicts of our Holy Forefathers. And if you don’t like that, you’ve probably been brainwashed by the unholy barbaric savages from across the ocean.

Their Authoritarian Surveillance State

Our Robust National Security System

Posting how much I hate authoritarian surveillance states on all my favorite NSA-infested social media accounts.

Are we going to ignore the Ferguson protests after the police slaying of Michael Brown?

Old enough to remember when Dems did control the House, but it didn’t do anything useful.

I don’t understand why we aren’t in the streets.

We were in the streets for Palestine and then some seriously bad shit happened.

the nearest town, Cape Canaveral, over ten miles away

The Falcon 9 that made an uncontrolled reentry in March of 2021 spread debris from Washington to Oregon.

Chinese Long March rocket failures have dropped parts into Indian states of Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Ten miles isn’t far for a vehicle moving 17,500 mph during the 12 minutes or so necessary to break Earth’s gravity well.

Cape Canaveral is directly east of Orlando, with a bunch of vacation resort spots hugging the shore. The Florida coastline isn’t exactly lightly developed.

I mean the alternative is literally fascism.

Fascism or Fascism Lite. Take your pick.