Fuck You, Elon

It also reinforces who he is to less hard core supporters which may have a positive effect over time.

The way I see people like this is that they have too many other things tied up in their decision. It’s not just about facts they have friends, co-workers, family that all believe a certain way. If they were to make a big change to this way of thinking it puts them on the outside of their social group.

But what you may have done with your line of questioning is set a seed for change in their thinking. It may take a while to grow into an obvious change but it can happen. Of course this means that they have to put the work in to grow those ideas, which may not happen but it was good to do.

This is just one of thousands of rage bait and ‘trump bad’, ‘trump stupid’ articles. There is nothing of real substance other than to get anti-trumpers to click on the link.

If you went to a more pro-trump site you would see very similar articles about Kamala and Biden

While there have been successful prosecutions of the J6 terrorist, there is still an ongoing campaign to try to whitewash J6 as peaceful tourists that have been unfairly singled out due to their political affiliation. So while I agree, we do need to go after these people we there also needs to be a push to stop the gaslighting that happens

You’re right there has been some shitty things happening to protestors that for the most part have shown great restraint with the way they’re protesting. But an honest question, is this a feature of the Biden administration or are the crack downs happening at a more local level?

Because what I have seen and heard about from trump and his lessor demons is the desire to make protests illegal on a Federal level and to uphold that idea with state sponsored violence.

There is an argument to be made that Biden, as President to all Americans, should be making a statement to condemn these violent acts against mostly peaceful protestors at the very least and I have not seen that from him which is disappointing. But yet he and his administration have not in any way pushed for legislation to outlaw the protests. Nor has he tried to coerce the media from reporting on it. I don’t have faith that a trump administration would do that.

I also understand why people are frustrated that the best we have is “well we will let you protest (with a little violence), but we will not really listen to you.” But at least we get to stay on the path of democracy and hopefully there can be better candidates that can start to shift the focus in a different, better direction. As much as people want big changes to happen right now, unfortunately the country is too big and too entrenched for that to be reality. BUT it can change if we can keep it from becoming a dictatorship.

The difference is that even if Harris continues the policies of the Biden administration, the American citizens should feel safe enough to protest those policies and maybe something will change?

Under a trump administration the idea of people being able to protest safely is less certain.

Okay, I’m glad you said you saw reports about that too. It’s where my conspiracy theory started, but then there hasn’t been anything since so I genuinely gas lighted myself.

Hell it could be that there wasn’t anything there to report on, but it did disappear quickly and quietly.

His way of making the government efficient will be to just have no bid contracts go to all of his businesses.

<places tin foil hat on head>

I believe that tedd cruz along with mitch mconnell and lindsey graham all cheated in their last win. All three were in what look like tight races but all three ended up winning by big-ish margins given the polling. I have no evidence other than a feeling but I just can’t shake that feeling is somehow not completely wrong.

<Removes tinfoil hat>

If any of my completely unfounded conspiracy is right then Allred ain’t going to win .

I really think most ‘journalist’ are “news influencers”

I think Jake Tapper and many others shouldn’t be called a journalist but a “News Influencer”

Remember when trump lashed out at FBI directory Comey when he produced a new piece of ‘evidence’ against Hilary in October of 2016, calling it ‘election interference’?

… yeah me either.

You don’t have to if you don’t want.

But whether you like it or no rich entertainers like Taylor Swift get lots of media and views. Which parleys into influence and bringing attention to a candidate or an idea.

This is the reason why anyone that wants to grow a brand and/or an idea will try to get a celebrity to endorse it.

Edit: This doesn’t mean they know more than the average joe it’s all about marketing

If that is the case, then it reads like California is solving the wrong problem.

If a person is undocumented due to their parents decision, then the federal government should make it much easier for them to become an American citizen.

Yet, somehow trump would be able to get away with it.

Serious question:

What would it look like for Harris or the DNC to be a bully to trump?

and having a strong and active FTC working to enforce price gouging laws would really help too.

Having a strong and active FTC working to break apart (almost) monopolistic grocery store chains would be a good start.

From a different post but I think it works here too:

I think the error is calling these people journalist. They are not. They are content creators.

Their job isn’t to get to the truth, it’s to drive clicks and comments. It’s to enrich them and their employer.

There are good journalist still out there but since they don’t play to the almighty ALGORITHM they get drowned out.