+++ They fucked up many things during the clone wars/prequel period of time, and suffered from hubris and arrogance no doubt. But they were right about that one thing.

It's not too late!

The most American picture:

I bet it will work, too. 😬

Fair, but if the cartoon is a rebuttal of the premise of the paradox, which would seem to be that we can't call it tolerance unless it's absolute, it's a rebuttal I accept.

Dunno man, pattern seeking is the one thing we're really good at. All aspects of it are on brand - including the likelihood that saying today that there are no plans to do so is absolutely unrelated to whether there are plans to do so.

I find the claim he will do this to be absolutely no less credible than the claim he won't.

But, it doesn't matter what I believe or what they say right now, he's not in office. If he thinks it makes him more powerful to do so, he'll do it when he gets in, regardless of what they are saying now and regardless of whether they are lying currently. I have no doubt of that.

I promise that I'm leaving this here in good humor, although it is also true.

Haven't people been complaining about Garland's inaction just about this entire time?

And by the way, I appreciate your kinder gentle approach.

Although I'm just going full "these people will receive nothing from me", and I have no intent to consider any other approach, yours is the healthier way no doubt. 🙂

I see barely anyone willing to aknowledge the fact that roughly half the country voted for Trump.

Half of voters who voted, not half the country. That's a pretty big difference.

We have to find some way to communicate with and turn the Trump voters if we ever want any chance of moving past this shitshow.

I've been trying to do that for eight years. As have most of those of us not in the cult. When does it get to be "on them", you know, the party of personal responsibility? Why is it always on us to mollycoddle them? I'm fucking done.

Self righteousness may be cathartic, but it doesn’t do anything for finding a fucking solution for this shit show.

My solution is that no Republican gets one ounce of interaction with me that I'm not legally or contractually obligated to give them. My maga relatives will get the degree of courtesy and interaction required by our relative positions within the family and geographic proximity.

Maga service providers or vendors will get none of my money if they make me aware of their alliances, which most of them are very happy to do.

The only remaining endgame is riding out the four years of shit they have handed us, hoping we actually get another election, and going to my grave without voting for a Republican or conservative for anything.

I'm beyond done with these selfish(edit - and hateful) assholes.

your experiences don’t define everyone else’s.

If you closely read my words you'll find I didn't say they did.

Plonk.

Oh well newsweek says that the biggest pack of liars the world has ever seen says they won't do it. Nothing to worry about folks!

Trump's transition team denied that any decisions on the issue had been made. Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Newsweek that the unnamed sources "are speculating and have no idea what they are actually talking about."

"No decisions on this issue have been made. No policy should ever be deemed official unless it comes directly from President Trump or his authorized spokespeople," she said.

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. For shame.

Is it confirmation bias when I know Trump and his team are gigantic liars so I'm not quite going to rule out this very-on-brand policy that they are pre-denying until he's in office and it doesn't happen?

MTG believes they are going to do it according to the same article, but I acknowledge she's got the brainpower of a squirrel, so I'm not putting much stock in that.

LOL you want so bad to have a fight about tankies because I'm on ml so you think that's something I like to fight about.

I have magas in my family I need to avoid for Thanksgiving. I don't have any tankies. Neither, I can say with almost complete certainty, do you. Neither are they pictured in OP, because they don't factor into the dynamic being satirized. In fact, I'm 95% certain no one reading this thread has a tankie in their family they need to try to avoid on Thanksgiving. Nor do they exist in sufficient numbers in the US to impact our nation or its politics in any substantive way. Inserting them in this discussion is a non sequitur at best and a troll at worst.

Please go find a tankie or someone who feels like defending them for the argument you want so badly to have.

Goodbye! 👋

Don’t forget the group that assumes they know everything about everyone based on their Lemmy instance. Those folks can eat a bag of dicks!

My mind went to tankies because we’re on lemmy so surely you haven’t missed those. OH .ml, I see…

Don't forget the group that assumes they know everything about everyone based on their Lemmy instance. Those folks can eat a bag of dicks!

I'd say we're about 70 million short of there being enough tankies in the US to worry about. Magas on the other hand... So yeah, the racist magats and the rest of us cover all the cases being discussed here.

I'm very aware of the history of the Mulford act, thanks!

I think he's going entirely the wrong way then.

If he owns all accounts he's responsible for all accounts, right?

He should have just let it go.

Ah good point!

LOL but also too believable.

OK you've found the OTHER Trump news I want to hear about. 😁