Gene Wilder was the first that came to my mind.

Then Richard Pryor.

Biloxi Blues, baby.

“You would need two promotions to get to be an asshole.”

Well maybe if people don’t vote (or vote third party, same thing), that’ll help.

After the last eight years, neither of these two parties is appealing, and the people who don’t vote saw both parties do nothing about their impoverishment for the last eight years. Blaming them is like punching someone in the face and then complaining to them that you broke your hand. It was particularly disgusting watching Kamala Harris tell poor people that she’d do nothing about it for three months AND that they should just “be joyful”.

you have to be a little more discerning than “they’re all bad”.

We’re way past that. Unless you’re willing to commit an act of terrorism or vigilantism or have a billion dollars, you have zero power now. Same as the rest of us.

But if you’re not on board with Bernie and AOC,

They’re powerless too, mostly. Dems invented superdelegates in order to subvert their own primary rules and force Bernie out. I will give Bernie some credit as his use of the bully pulpit has created positive change. Remember when he gave speeches on Disney’s and Amazon’s labor practices and ended up winning living wages for a quarter of a million people? I sure do.

I’m just going to take this opportunity to remind everyone that you can and should donate to your Mastodon and Lemmy instances, even if it’s just $5 a month. That’s how we band together to keep these platforms ad-free, and I don’t know about you all, but I love that my mind isn’t being manipulated here.

Because my parents are literally one flat tire away from homelessness, and the same people out here pretending to oppose oligarchy were perfectly content to have this country be pillaged when a Democrat was doing it.

But, fair enough. I’ll leave my objections where they are and let you have your moment.

If I felt like it would change anything, I’d do just that.

I wish I were just being dramatic.

My eighty year-old parents are driving for DoorDash, and if they don’t, no one in this government will lift a finger to help them. Tens of millions of Americans can’t absorb a $400 expense without going further into debt. Most Americans don’t see much wrong with the fact that people are working 2-3 jobs at upwards of 100 hours a week and all their labor buys them is a roach-infested studio.

Respectfully, me and most Americans have every right to be angry, and it shouldn’t have taken the onset of fascism to make you partisans actually see how negative your politics are, because this severe impoverishment is now in its ninth year, and all we heard from Democrats were excuses.

That’ll happen when you live in a country like this. Everyone’s desperate.

I am fully aware I’m shouting into the void.

I wish I could still pretend that any of these protests mattered. At the end of the day everyone’s going to vote Democrat and Republican again and none of it will matter, because both parties are beholden to the ultra-wealthy and rule as conservatives.

I imagine the answer is the same as to why we lack all of the other good things too: Rich people only care about themselves.

Gotta love “democracy”.

Regardless of your constituency’s opinion, no one has any real power to hold a politician accountable for their promises.

I’m always a few years behind on consoles and enjoy the robust secondary market, so to me, it doesn’t matter much.

Outside of Zelda and Mario Kart, there isn’t much these days that’s exclusive to Nintendo that I give a damn about anyway.

I just like Lemmy more.

Don’t blame him for what happened before he had total control.

Don’t expect me to ignore 40+ years of history on the basis of mere promises, when broken Democratic promises paved the road to the fascism we’re having to fight today. Frankly, it’s unreasonable, and no one should expect Democrats to do what they say they’re going to do until they demonstrate it.

I will believe it matters when I see it, and I’m doubtful 40+ years of masquerading as progressives and ruling as conservatives is going to change anytime soon.

I don’t know that there’s a ‘we’ here, as the billionaires run the Democratic Party too and have sued for the privilege of holding undemocratic primaries.

With that said, the SHTA precipitating the historic Senate loss isn’t the only historical pattern working against Trump in 2026.

Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden all entered office with control of Congress and lost control at the mid-terms, so it’s highly likely that will happen again.

My point was exceedingly clear.

If Democrats did their job at the federal level, student lunch debt wouldn’t exist. Instead, they’re helping Israel run an apartheid.

You just didn’t understand it.

The Republicans are awful people too.

That’s the point I’m making.

That this is a state-level thing tells you just how much Democrats suck.