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The Republican attempt to distract people from the Epstein files has truly jumped the shark

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Messaging me this and then blocking me because I don't think media bros are responsible for Joe Biden's actions is, admittedly, hilarious.

As a certified liberal shill™️, I've seen a disturbing trend of people harboring deep untruths about Joe Biden. He was not pushed out by some shadowy cabal, he lost the support and confidence of his own voters to the point that his party had to rebel to stop him from ushering in a Trump landslide. There was a well-documented effort from his family and close circle of aids to keep critical information from him, like polls showing that he was on track to lose light-blue states like New Mexico. Before the debate, most democratic voters were deeply worried about his age. At the debate, where he was supposed to prove everyone wrong, he proved that he lacked a reliable cognitive ability to communicate his message and defeat Trump. Not because of his stutter or a tiring overseas trip, but because he couldn't arrange coherent sentences and claimed that he defeated Medicare.

After failing his voters and his party in that critical moment, all the data available from the summer of 2024 shows that his own voters were terrified, shocked, and angry that he chose to run again and that his camp hid his serious cognitive decline. Following the debate, he continued to run a lethargic, sparse campaign. He had a mix of good days and bad days cognitively, which is challenging for any elderly man transitioning into his eighties, but is dangerously untenable for the President and for a Presidential Candidate running for another 4-year term. The secrecy, entitlement, and hubris shown by Biden's camp was the betrayal of democratic voters. The removal of Biden from the ticket was popular, necessary, and tragically, too little too late. Despite slander from Biden's camp and disastrous pressure from Biden to let there be "no daylight" between her campaign and his deeply unpopular presidency, Kamala Harris managed to reunite the party and prevent the Republican landslide that Biden's camp seemed determined to sleepwalk into.

Biden never should have run again, his close circle deceived both him and the public in an effort to protect their own selfish interests, and the candidate switch was the best possible solution at the time. People like Hunter Biden are not offering truthful, objective accounts of the 2024 election. It breaks my heart to see otherwise-sharp liberal thinkers on this website throw reality out the window and push revisionist history about the 2024 election to protect the emotional, ideological, or factional attachments that they have to Joe Biden.

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As a certified liberal shill™️, I've seen a disturbing trend of people harboring deep untruths about Joe Biden. He was not pushed out by some shadowy cabal, he lost the support and confidence of his own voters to the point that his party had to rebel to stop him from ushering in a Trump landslide. There was a well-documented effort from his family and close circle of aids to keep critical information from him, like polls showing that he was on track to lose light-blue states like New Mexico. Before the debate, most democratic voters were deeply worried about his age. At the debate, where he was supposed to prove everyone wrong, he proved that he lacked a reliable cognitive ability to communicate his message and defeat Trump. Not because of his stutter or a tiring overseas trip, but because he couldn't arrange coherent sentences and claimed that he defeated Medicare.

After failing his voters and his party in that critical moment, all the data available from the summer of 2024 shows that his own voters were terrified, shocked, and angry that he chose to run again and that his camp hid his serious cognitive decline. Following the debate, he continued to run a lethargic, sparse campaign. He had a mix of good days and bad days cognitively, which is challenging for any elderly man transitioning into his eighties, but is dangerously untenable for the President and for a Presidential Candidate running for another 4-year term. The secrecy, entitlement, and hubris shown by Biden's camp was the betrayal of democratic voters. The removal of Biden from the ticket was popular, necessary, and tragically, too little too late. Despite slander from Biden's camp and disastrous pressure from Biden to let there be "no daylight" between her campaign and his deeply unpopular presidency, Kamala Harris managed to reunite the party and prevent the Republican landslide that Biden's camp seemed determined to sleepwalk into.

Biden never should have run again, his close circle deceived both him and the public in an effort to protect their own selfish interests, and the candidate switch was the best possible solution at the time. People like Hunter Biden are not offering truthful, objective accounts of the 2024 election. It breaks my heart to see otherwise-sharp liberal thinkers on this website throw reality out the window and push revisionist history about the 2024 election to protect the emotional, ideological, or factional attachments that they have to Joe Biden.

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Hey, you guys know that "goy" is like "cis," right, in that it's a neutral descriptor used by a specific group to describe people who are not part of that group and have different experiences from that group? And that acting as if that group having a neutral word to express that difference is in fact a hostile act... makes you look like an asshole? You know that, right?

Just checking.

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If you walk up to someone in a synagogue and tell them they don't look Jewish, you should get hit by a bus.

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Honestly I do not understand what the issue with the term cultural Christianity is except that it makes people consider how much their own lives, beliefs, ideals, and behaviors have been shaped by living in a culturally Christian society.

And maybe it's just because of who I follow, but the vast majority of discussions I see about cultural Christianity are very thoughtful explorations of how it shapes things like schedules, ability to practice and celebrate non-Christian religious traditions and holidays, laws, and ethical standards in culturally Christian countries.

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Today, Republicans condemned hundreds of thousands of Americans to death for the crime of being poor. Rural hospitals will close, millions will be forced off Medicaid, illnesses will go untreated, injuries will be ignored until it's too late, and the rich will get richer.

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they should invent an apartment that has huge windows but is never too hot and is near everything i like and all my friends but is also quiet when i want it to be and costs zero dollars or perhaps they pay me to live in. and they save it just for me so i dont have to look for it :)

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people who drive in designated bus lanes have me reconsidering my opposition to the death penalty

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we have to start expressing vocal disgust at 'ironic' homophobia again in a big way. if you can't explain to me how calling a guy a twinky little fruitcake valorises the terminology vs. reducing and demeaning him for perceived femininity I don't want to hear it. nobody is off the hook for this.

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ok genuinely why are goyim always so offended at being called goyim. im not talking about when its used in an insulting sentence, because in that case youre just upset about being insulted and thats normal. i mean when its used as a neutral descriptor for someone who isnt jewish. the only explanation ive ever seen is people making up definitions of the word to make it seem derogatory.

why is it so upsetting to that jews have a word for people who arent jewish in our own language? do you..want to be jewish? does being left out of things make you sad because you never grew out of the childhood phase where everything is about you? or are you just looking for something to be offended about?

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a jewish person on here could post "i like puppies :D" and there would be a handful of people in the notes screaming "SO YOU HATE KITTENS?? JEWS ACTUALLY SACRIFICE KITTENS GUYS IT'S IN THE TALMUD"

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My artwork for pride this year, different flags with different Jewish symbols.

(The symbols and the flags were just chosen because they look cool)

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You're very much welcome! I'm always happy to over-explain Californian political drama. It is unfortunately the case that many Democratic politicians do not have strong values in their hearts and are guided only by career advancement- with Gavin being a textbook case.

I'm on break from being his number 1 hater

I'm not fully read in on Mr Newsom, I mean yes, he's a politician, a Dem in a blue state (same here), what are some things I should know about him; or phrased differently, what's he done that deserves us dunking on him?

Well, I guess my break from being Newsom's #1 hater can end early. To begin broadly: Gavin Newsom holds nothing sacred beyond his own imagined future as president. He stakes his career on flashy stunts that grab headlines instead of pursuing meaningful progress because he thinks being a bold administrator in the context of California's unique issues won't help him win over Midwest voters in 2028. Democrats have massive supermajorities in the state legislature and do almost nothing of substance with it, but even when they try to, there's like a 50% chance it'll get a Newsom veto.

Now, to get into specifics:

He has spinelessly looked away from, and sometimes vetoed, things that would improve California like: ranked choice voting, properly funding the high speed rail, universal healthcare (which he ran on and then killed), CEQA reform (a law that NIMBYs use to kill housing), zoning reform, and much more.

He had a maskless dinner with megadonors at an elite restaurant at the height of the pandemic, in violation of his own COVID policies.

He betrayed the LGBT community by using his podcast to politely platform (and not at all challenge) Michael Savage, a hatemonger who says that gay men should die of AIDS.

He betrayed the LGBT community again by bending the knee to the Republican narrative on trans athletes in a chummy conversation with Charlie Kirk.

The context of the previous two points is that the LGBT community has been the backbone of his political career from the start. Once upon a time, he earned our trust by officiating illegal gay marriages as the Mayor of San Francisco long before gay rights were popular among Democrats. In return, stalwart support from our community rocketed him into statewide politics and helped put him in the governor's mansion. He's always been a silver-spoon slimeball with a gaze fixed on power, but it seemed like some things, like LGBT rights, were sacred to him. Now that he wants to be president and LGBT rights are losing popularity, he proved us wrong and stabbed us in the back.

To tie this all back to the post that prompted your ask: Newsom's current actions to protect immigrants and defend California are fantastic and truly admirable. But make no mistake, if standing up to Trump on this issue was detrimental to his career advancement, he'd be sitting on his hands in Sacramento issuing empty statements.

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I'm on break from being his number 1 hater

I'm not fully read in on Mr Newsom, I mean yes, he's a politician, a Dem in a blue state (same here), what are some things I should know about him; or phrased differently, what's he done that deserves us dunking on him?

Well, I guess my break from being Newsom's #1 hater can end early. To begin broadly: Gavin Newsom holds nothing sacred beyond his own imagined future as president. He stakes his career on flashy stunts that grab headlines instead of pursuing meaningful progress because he thinks being a bold administrator in the context of California's unique issues won't help him win over Midwest voters in 2028. Democrats have massive supermajorities in the state legislature and do almost nothing of substance with it, but even when they try to, there's like a 50% chance it'll get a Newsom veto.

Now, to get into specifics:

He has spinelessly looked away from, and sometimes vetoed, things that would improve California like: ranked choice voting, properly funding the high speed rail, universal healthcare (which he ran on and then killed), CEQA reform (a law that NIMBYs use to kill housing), zoning reform, and much more.

He had a maskless dinner with megadonors at an elite restaurant at the height of the pandemic, in violation of his own COVID policies.

He betrayed the LGBT community by using his podcast to politely platform (and not at all challenge) Michael Savage, a hatemonger who says that gay men should die of AIDS.

He betrayed the LGBT community again by bending the knee to the Republican narrative on trans athletes in a chummy conversation with Charlie Kirk.

The context of the previous two points is that the LGBT community has been the backbone of his political career from the start. Once upon a time, he earned our trust by officiating illegal gay marriages as the Mayor of San Francisco long before gay rights were popular among Democrats. In return, stalwart support from our community rocketed him into statewide politics and helped put him in the governor's mansion. He's always been a silver-spoon slimeball with a gaze fixed on power, but it seemed like some things, like LGBT rights, were sacred to him. Now that he wants to be president and LGBT rights are losing popularity, he proved us wrong and stabbed us in the back.

To tie this all back to the post that prompted your ask: Newsom's current actions to protect immigrants and defend California are fantastic and truly admirable. But make no mistake, if standing up to Trump on this issue was detrimental to his career advancement, he'd be sitting on his hands in Sacramento issuing empty statements.

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The idea that protests are "burning down" or "trashing" Los Angeles is so insanely counterfactual that I don't even know how those claims can be addressed. The protests and tensions are literally concentrated in a single area that is less than 1 square mile in a city that is 498.3 square miles large. If no one checked the news, 99% of Angelinos would have no idea that anything was happening. Do people think that the entire city of LA is a 1-street-by-1-street block?

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This is going to sound so "oldie yells at cloud" of me but the radicalisation of the young into black and white, zero shades of grey thinking, both in the media they consume and in real life situations, is genuinely terrifying.

The world is complex. The world is grey. There is infinite nuance in everything. No amount of trying to shove it all into neatly labeled boxes is ever going to work.