vanontom

"We're going to throw you and your entire family out of this cult if you don't obey!"

Yup, even my friend Fred the Fungi was just yapping about this, told me to follow the money.

I hope by conservatives they meant Republicans (the MAGA cult of fascists and deranged lunatics). We'll see if there are enough conservatives that are "vehemently opposed" to all of this soon enough. The Harris team definitely thinks so, for what it's worth.

The people that still insist on voting for Trump, for possibly the third time, after a decade of this madness... can't blame anyone for losing patience and avoiding them. It's tragic, but the cult is real and has detached people from reality.

They might "protect" him, but nothing is free...

Citizens United invited them, legalized it. It took them a few years to get comfortable with it. Stolen supreme court, corrupted useless congress, fascist cult... I'm sure this will end well.

banhammer.jxl

I love that this is a headline by (checks notes)... AP and PBS. During the most critical point in the election.

Trump's addled brain continues to spiral, obviously exhausted, wildly deranged, incapable of focus or discipline. "Elder abuse" some would question. "Weekend at Bernie's" others would observe, noting the billionaires behind him, desperately hemorrhaging cash to prop him up.

And yet, almost one hundred million Americans will still vote for him. What a magical time to be alive.

Also, don't go outside, or interact with humanity in any way. "Ignorance is bliss."

I have no doubt there are ordinary people saying this, but yes, they are probably just regurgitating the lies that are fed to them (by the usual suspects). It is not difficult, they've never experienced it, but they are still afraid of it (surprise).

If ranked choice is not in our future, our future is dire. If it's "too difficult", we shouldn't even be allowed to vote.

"Now please die, you're too expensive. Do you have a gun? Let us provide one, it's our pleasure."

I also found this interesting:

'Life Is Complicated’: How a Scourge of Oligarchs Fell in Love With One

Natalia Morari once reported on corrupt business in Moldova. Now she has upset many by having a son with a tycoon accused of corruption, and running against the pro-West president in elections.

Feted by many fellow journalists and Western diplomats as a fearless scourge of corrupt oligarchs, Moldova’s most popular television host torched her soaring career and stellar image three years ago with a startling life choice.

She fell in love and had a child with one of her country’s most notorious and, according to prosecutors, most corrupt oligarchs.

Ostracized by many of her onetime friends and admirers, Natalia Morari, 40, has now caused yet more dismay by refashioning herself into a politician. She no longer works for the independent, award-winning television station she founded in 2006, and is running for president in an election on Sunday against the incumbent, Maia Sandu, the standard-bearer of a pro-European cause for which the journalist was for years a prominent champion.