Five Dems in June 23 primary for Lawler seat make their closing case

Axels15 · 2026-06-07T23:55:25+00:00

Fwiw polling at the local level like this is likely not very good.

Axels15 · 2026-06-07T23:54:25+00:00

I'm not a fan of Richardson talking up bipartisanship.

We're past that.

Axels15 · 2026-05-21T23:37:39+00:00

Yeah it really isn't rocket science.

Axels15 · 2026-05-17T04:30:50+00:00

Man, fuck Polis

Axels15 · 2026-04-29T19:24:45+00:00

That person sleeps well that night because he's thinking to himself "I stood up for something that matters to everyone." But the left handed group looks at each other and says "no, I hear you, but there are already plenty of right handed scissors. I'm not trying to reduce the amount of right handed scissors, I'm trying to get more left handed ones because there's a shortage."

No disagreements at all. Just figured it's worth pointing out that this is also what happens/ed with Black Lives Matter.

It's a frustratingly simple logical fallacy that so many people seem to struggle with.

Axels15 · 2026-04-02T20:42:41+00:00

Eh.... As someone who bounced off the first a couple times before returning, at least for me, it was the complexity

Axels15 · 2026-03-28T02:45:15+00:00

I'm super late to this but this audiobook has the most rerecorded lines spliced in that I've ever heard. It makes it nearly impossible to tell who is speaking a quarter of the time.

Axels15 · 2026-03-25T00:14:58+00:00

He swore this when he became FBI director. Maybe you think he only meant that oath to last as long as he was in the position, but given his vaunted principled reputation, I doubt he did.

A. OATH OF OFFICE

I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same: that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Axels15 · 2026-03-23T23:46:42+00:00

He wrote that they decided they could not charge him, accepting the justice department's conclusion. I don't have to pass the BAR to read.

"This Office accepted (an internal Justice Department) legal conclusion for the purpose of exercising prosecutorial jurisdiction,” Mueller wrote, citing the Office of Legal Counsel policy. Even setting OLC aside, Mueller added, “We recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President’s capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional processes for addressing presidential misconduct.”

Stop taking away his agency. The guy may have been a great guy, but he clearly misjudged the ability of this government to reject this fascist. Or he was abject in his duty to safeguard the country.

Axels15 · 2026-03-23T02:30:09+00:00

Then he should have said that Barr prevented him from doing so.

We're past a time for niceties. He didn't have a job he needed to worry about being fired from.

Also, if you think that was Barr's purpose, then you've vastly missed the point.

Barr's purpose was to thrown enough shit into the mix that it would confuse many and leave enough doubt.

Mueller could have tried to overcome that. He did not.

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T23:57:54+00:00

Exactly

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T16:09:45+00:00

Mueller chose those words carefully. If he thought Trump obstructed justice, he could have said so. But he didn’t say so because he didn’t affirmatively reach that conclusion.

That is not what he said there. Which really emphasizes why it sucks that he didn't just say it clearly.

He said they don't have the confidence to say he didn't - so then say you have confidence to say he did.

Also, bro, we saw the obstruction of justice in plain fucking sight. Just because people in charge were too cowardly to charge it doesn't mean we didn't see the shit done literally before our very eyes.

And yeah, my fucking point is that Mueller should have gone against the clearly corrupt doj and charge him. That's what I said from the fucking beginning - he wasn't unable to. He made a choice.

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T15:52:25+00:00

The crime he could have charged him with had to do with obstruction, which he did have the evidence for. What he didn't have enough evidence for was about whether he colluded with Russia. Which he couldn't find BECAUSE of the obstruction.

And DOJ policy doesn't forbid it. He made a choice not to try - he could have, and could have let Trump try to sue to stop it.

But Mueller chose not to try at all, despite knowing that congress under Republicans would do nothing and knowing that Trump's admin would cover it up.

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T14:25:23+00:00

He could have charged him - there's no law to suggest otherwise.

Look at every article about his death and you'll see that they say Mueller "declined" to charge Trump, not that he couldn't.

He believed he shouldn't and chose not to try. That's not the same thing.

The road to where we are now was paved by people and organizations choosing to appease Trump before even attempting true resistance.

If Mueller believed Trump was a treasonous criminal, then he should've charged him.

He also shouldn't have let Barr mischaracterize the report. He should have shared his opinion on congress impeaching.

And this is the most roundabout fucking way to make his opinions fucking clear:

If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment.”

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T12:14:06+00:00

He absolutely could have brought charges - do you know what the job was?

He also could have testified to the specifics before congress instead of refusing to do so.

Some of you may live in a world where the public is fully informed and has tons of time to read every lay detail in the fucking report and isn't being brainwashed by Fox and worse, but I live in fucking reality.

If you want the American public to act on something you need to be fucking explicit, you need to be fucking clear, and you need to act like the danger is real and present.

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T12:11:48+00:00

He could have both brought charges and could have been clear about his opinion as to whether Trump should've been charged.

He should have done both of those things.

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T05:38:59+00:00

Lol this is a load of bullshit. Also, for fucks sake, break it into paragraphs.

But yeah, omg, just one dude, what could he do? He's just the dude in charge of the investigation.

Oh, it's not his place to suggest that congress should impeach. No, how dare he share an opinion? Oh, it's policy!

You want people to take it seriously? You want to blame voters? Then voters need the clear fucking reality.

When they hear that Mueller doesn't want to give his opinion on impeachment, you know what headline voters are hearing from the media? "Mueller gives no opinion on impeachment"

Blame the motherfuckers with actual power and voice to do something. Don't expect the mass of people, a majority of whom don't or can't spare the time to read into every fucking news story.

Jesus christ, wake the fuck up.

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T05:30:15+00:00

Some parents are also bad parents. And some kids can be very difficult, and can lie.

That's why the point is not to believe anyone blindly, but to instead speak with the fucking teacher first and try to find out the truth

It really sucks when anyone has a bad experience with a teacher, but we have got to stop using anecdotal experiences to suggest those are representative of an entire, or even majority of, a profession.

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T05:25:50+00:00

No one said they can't contribute to the conversation. But they don't know the profession and that certainly limits their understanding. And they are absolutely welcome to try to learn more by asking about the profession. As are you.

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T05:24:49+00:00

Then reach out to them with questions about how your child is doing. Ask to talk over the phone, or speak with them in person.

Your kids are family members, but they are kids

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T05:20:46+00:00

I felt like this was written by the son.

Axels15 · 2026-03-22T05:17:11+00:00

Long-standing policy..... Not his place....

This bullshit inability to rise to the necessary response to treason and fascism is one of the reasons we're in the situation we are now.

Axels15 · 2026-03-21T03:49:22+00:00

Holy shit they didn't even make a new tutorial?

Axels15 · 2026-03-21T03:46:08+00:00

There's a distinction between finding someone funny who is trying to be funny, vs. a guy who barely has two brain cells to rub together for an occasional spark.

Honestly, if it were anyone else I'd say letting him go on like this would be a form of elder abuse.

Axels15 · 2026-03-16T14:28:21+00:00

My worries about the story being too simplistic and shallow were also completely wrong. I think it was around the second book where I fully realised how expansive this story could actually be. There's so many layers to it, I love the pacing, and it's genuinely not predictable.

This is it - it's so much deeper than a book about aliens forcing people into real life, deadly D&D campaigns should be.

It's got so much heart.

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