Azal

I stopped trusting that from 2020. I thought there was hope for people then they turned around and voted again.

It's a broad statement, but when I saw that about obviously not living in the south. I got out, but guys... it's bleak down there...

We want change, we have got to get the neo-confederacy out. The biggest church is still the Catholics which they've swayed to the Republicans side with single issue of abortion, but the US is mostly protestant and the biggest protestant church is the southern baptist church. The church that literally was formed during the Civil War so they could continue to say slavery wasn't a sin. And it is the kudzu of religion down there.

Seriously... if you live in an area where a nuanced view is possible, good for you. And I can understand trying to lower the temperature... but if you have people that are in the left side of Christianity... there needs to be some serious outreach work to try to bring some sanity to the evangelicals to the country.

I don't expect much, but to keep an idea I keep wandering over to the conservative areas.

The Epstein Files are the only thing I've seen he's not been able to shake off from his cult.

Wow, obvious to me some people haven't been camping before, that or were miserable the entire time. That looks pretty freaking awesome!

I read it somewhere that anyone talking rule of law or the Constitution anymore is starting to sound like sovereign citizens, waving a document around like it's a magic shield that in reality does absolutely nothing.

I would like to disagree with this thought process, but I can't.

The millennials were robbed of their chance on the world stage by the boomers.

Gen X over there like "What the fuck!?!" (I'm a millennial, I get the plight.)

I didn’t have “possible nuclear exchange in the Middle East” on my bingo card for this year

Really? That's been on mine for the past couple years.

I've always spoke out about corporations. I hate big corps. I have always wanted to get big corps out of running farms.

Fuck it! Hey Tyson, hurry up and buy up every fucking meat farm out there. Bill Gates, buy up whatever is left! Make these fuckers that inherited their pappa's farms have to work the land after selling it. I don't fucking care about them anymore.

They haven't learned, they won't learn, and they will never learn.

I'll be cantankerous... yes.

I live in a red state. My jobs are me the rare left in the entire crowd. I have to learn how to talk, chat, joke with these people. And last Trump administration I kept talking with them. Things I learned. Since I wasn't willing to immediately extol the good of Trump, I must be against him (not even talking politics, just me keeping my mouth shut.) That they're against many of the things on helping people.

But hell, years of working with one crew, I was getting them over, realizing that the wealthy were fucking us over, that the insurance that was fucking everyone over was why we needed better. That many of the "sullied" republicans were against it. Hell I think one thing that got them listening was they said something good about Biden, I couldn't keep my mouth shut and made a snark about Trump and when I was told "I said something good about your guy" I outright tore into them to never say that Biden was "my guy", I may look at lesser of evils but it wasn't some fucking football game.

But I saw chances... I saw hope that maybe... maybe they could learn. But the second Trump started running again, it was the same parroted stuff, even from a soybean ventures guy who was watching to see if his prices would ever go back up because he was losing money on it.

So no... I don't trust them. I think there are some who need to be out there to welcome the people when they're willing to join sides, yes... but there also needs to be those to remind that these are not friends, and they are very likely to stab us in the back unless they actually show that they're willing to put the work in to make change.

Andrew Johnson. The guy kneecapped Reconstruction, basically was a friend of the confederates and didn't finish cutting out a rot that would destroy the nation a century later.

Live in a right wing state....

They'll still call it the "Liberal media" any time it says ANYTHING against their world view. Fox is "liberal media" around here.