ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Via Angry Staffer:

It’s disappointing watching people call for #Biden’s head after one off night, especially when he was the clear winner in actual substance.

Besides, Biden could be an *actual* potato sitting on a podium, and he would still be the correct choice over Trump’s Project 2025 bullshit.

From a leftist trans woman to my liberal cis allies: I imagine you may be feeling some of the terror we have been simmering in for years. I know many of you may not be able to give unqualified and expansive support of trans rights, but please at least prevent fascism.

We can't. We have no power, we are only subject to those who do. Without exaggeration: they want to kill us.

Shen Yun is a great show. Ending features a Windows 97-esque animation projecting a tidal wave about to hit Beijing with the looming face of Karl Marx (who has a hammer and sickle on his forehead as well as red eyes) which was defeated by the cult founder of Falun Gong.

I loved the line “atheism and evolutionary theory harm mankind” (yes, this is a direct quote, they are very subtle) and also now believe that interracial marriage, homosexuality, and modern science is wrong. I too think China should again be a slave based society ruled by a dynasty.

Remember kids, the enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.

Absolutely nothing changed from before the debate to after the debate.

Biden is still old and of questionable mental and physical performance.

Biden still holds some policy positions that many of us would strongly prefer he didn't or even find abhorrent.

Despite that, Biden's overall policy platform is still reasonably well aligned with America's interests and values on most major issues, with modest but measurable progress on several important ones.

Biden's administration that surrounds him is still competent, qualified, and loyal to our constitution.

For whatever set of policies we might disagree with Biden on, Trump's policy positions are still qualitatively and quantitatively worse.

Under a Trump administration, people that you care about will likely be persecuted and oppressed in the best case, and possibly even rounded up into camps, deported, or executed.

Under a Trump administration, not only will the US reluctantly arm Israel, but we will likely actively participate in atrocities, the worst tendencies of Netanyahu's far-right extremist coalition will be encouraged, and the Palestinians will be slaughtered to make way for beach resorts.

Under a Trump administration, aid to Ukraine will likely be rescinded and Putin will be allowed to conquer and commit war crimes with impunity.

Under a Trump administration, the civil service will be purged, and martial law will likely be declared.

Under a Trump administration, our rule of law and our democracy will likely collapse and be replaced by corrupt authoritarianism.

This election won't be decided by the people that love Biden or that love Trump. It will be decided by the people that stay home instead of voting.

Deciding to stay home instead of voting doesn't make you pure, it makes you complicit in whatever happens next.

All of that was true before the debates, and all of it remains true today.

#uspol

If you're wondering how my Friday is going, I reformatted my NAS by accident

(Don't worry, it looks like I didn't lose anything other than the apps that I had install because I was smart and had backups)

#DogsOfMastodon

🚨👇💯 THIS, people. See the forest for the trees. #OnBoardWithBiden #DemCast #Biden

Want Roe?

Vote Joe.

People act like they never watched the 2020 or 2016 debates. Y’all — Clinton absolutely flopped in one of the debates. Biden so in 2020. Even Obama, a much stronger orator, had bad debates. This “the sky is falling” thing is tedious, and all of the hand wringing is exactly what the GOP, the Russians, the Chinese, and the billionaire scumbags want from you. The “swap candidates” bullshit is meant to divide the dems, nothing more.

@GottaLaff I'm neither sad nor disappointed. Biden may be old, he may stumble given his stutter, but everything he said was the truth. Everything he said was the truth, everything. Each bragadocious statement from Trump was a glorified lie.
The reason we have VPs is in the event of a death or failure in the Oval Office, and Kamala Harris is perfect capable of carrying us forward. If he felt he was completely incapable, he would step aside. That's the man he is.

NYT is able to muster up five editorials suggesting that a poor debate performance is reason to cede the nomination

Can someone please find for me all the editorials suggesting that 34 felony convictions is a reason to cede anything at all?

#Solnit 💯: "Much has been said about the age of the candidates, but maybe it’s the corporate media whose senility is most dangerous to us. Their insistence on proceeding as though things are pretty much what they’ve always been, on normalizing the appalling and outrageous, on using false equivalencies and bothsiderism to make themselves look fair and reasonable, on turning politics into horseraces and personality contests, is aiding the destruction of the United States."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/28/debate-losers-american-people

Checking in to see if anyone needs an emotional support Canadian.

The #debate was all about #TFG's 50 LIES because that's how CNN intentionally framed it.

Pres Biden was a truth teller & has a stellar record.

Amplify the facts from the #BidenHarris campaign that delineates the 50 lies that TFG told:

You're a criminal if you are unhoused, but a political official taking a bribe is ok.

Got it.

OH: “Twink milk contains high amounts of acetylcholine!”

@ScottSoCal Right??? What do they think trump will do? He'd probably ENCOURAGE the extermination of Gazans 🥺

@ScottSoCal

feel the same

IMO the people making these Biden-blaming posts *know* it would be even worse with Trump, they simply don't care

for some, pretending Gaza is somehow Biden's fault makes it easier to look in the mirror than just admitting they're happy to usher in fascism if they think it will lower their taxes

straight up MAGAs don't need an excuse to vote for fascism, but for those who won't admit even to themselves that money is their god, GOP crafts a different kind of lie

@ScottSoCal The fact is, Trump has already said he’d blast Gaza out of existence, so it would absolutely not be better with him. He and Bibi are two peas in a pod.

@ScottSoCal For the reasons you list a month ago I decided to compare all post WW2 US presidents on their complicity in offensive deaths. Biden and Gaza included. The US presidency is a brutal position all things considered.

What I found was that Biden is second best in 70 years. Not what I expected given how mad everyone is at him.

Here is the chart.

https://mas.to/@franktaber/112493528538482112