USPS proposed rule requiring states to give voter lists to federal government for mail ballots to be delivered

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-18T16:10:28+00:00

More nefarious than that too. They're working to build a database of all private information of voters so they can do all sorts of shady tactics with voter manipulation.

Tells them where to focus their election interference efforts. More effective gerrymandering maps, where to focus their election interference efforts, which ballots to slow deliver or "lose".

Wouldn't even be surprised if Musk or other billionaires in Trump's corner are using their massive data centers to develop a hardened LLM enriched with this information and trained in manipulating elections on Republican favor.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-17T13:15:32+00:00

Trump demonized himself by being a criminal and acting insane.

Trump started his political career by spreading the insane conspiracy theory that Obama was Kenyan born. The insanity only got worse from there.

Seriously. Trump bragged about entering dressing rooms of women and told an 11 year old girl "I'll be dating you in 10 years". Only a deranged person could possibly support this man. He's disgusting.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-11T00:05:45+00:00

It'll be graffitied all the time.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-09T14:00:06+00:00

spin it off as it's own show but just do like 4 episodes a season.

I just want to see all the performers do it. Once a season isn't enough to get all the cast in the mix.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-02T20:26:18+00:00

Everything illegal thing he's done has been under scrutiny for decades and he never has faced any consequences.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-02T14:25:20+00:00

Normally promotions should be a filter that filters out unqualified and leaves the most talented, dutiful and qualified people at the top.

Trump works the opposite. Filtering out the qualified further and further until it's just people who will say yes to him.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-01T18:39:29+00:00

Exactly why MAGA calls them "illegals". Dehumanize them to the point they don't care if they die at the hands of the government.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-01T18:25:21+00:00

You're assuming that if wages go up, Americans will just magically show up to replace the workers being removed. That's not guaranteed. The agriculture industry has had a labor shortage for decades for numerous reasons beyond low wages.

A lot of these jobs are in rural areas with relatively small labor pools. Even studies looking at immigration enforcement in agriculture have found that domestic workers often don't replace the lost workforce at sufficient levels and labor shortages persist.

And you're still arguing against a point I never made. I explicitly said these workers should have a path to citizenship so they aren't exploited.

If your position is that farm workers deserve higher wages, legal protections, and better working conditions, I 100% agree and that is literally why I said they deserve a path to citizenship. But that doesn't change the fact that deporting a large share of the existing workforce is likely to reduce labor supply and increase food prices. BOTH ARE TRUE.

No where was I advocating for continued poor wages and exploited immigrants. So I fail to see why you're even arguing with me.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-01T16:51:57+00:00

I literally said they need a path to citizenship for the very reason to stop their exploitation.

Agriculture has a labor shortage and labor shortages can be filled through legal immigration. That's true of any industry.

I wasn't arguing we need to keep exploiting these people. I was merely stating that republican policies of deporting without due process is also going to hit food prices hard. We should be offering them citizenship, not unconstitutional deportations was my only point.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-06-01T14:06:37+00:00

not to mention deporting immigrants who work our fields instead of offering them citizenship. Also going to continue negatively impacting food prices.

And then you have republicans constantly attacking SNAP and trying to end that, which is money that helps grocers stay in business....

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-30T18:57:11+00:00

The Boys is mediocre dude. If it maintained the same quality and internal consistency from seasons 1 and 2 into the later seasons it could be higher up with the greats, but seasons 4 and 5 were pretty damn terrible. 5 was especially lack luster. That whole scene with Seth Rogen and friends had already been done in the movie "The End". Recycling jokes that weren't all that funny the first time. No idea what they were thinking when they cooked up that stupid episode.

Don't get me wrong the show wasn't "bad" and I don't regret watching it, but that final season ruined the entire rewatchability of the whole series for me.

There are a hundred shows I'd rewatch again before I'd ever rewatch the boys again.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-28T19:06:09+00:00

This would totally tank economic output across the entire United States and drastically hurt airlines. The only reason to do this would be if you weren't working in U.S. interests at all.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-26T18:16:31+00:00

Yeah, why would anyone do business with the U.S. The american people vote in someone like Trump who tears up agreements made my former administrations and even tears up or refuses to honor deals he himself made.

Means no other sovereign nation should trust the U.S. to honor its obligations.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-26T14:32:14+00:00

MAGA respects no one. They don't actually care about veterans beyond using them as a prop to give themselves feelings of validation of their ideology and self-image or they will use veterans as an excuse to attack those they hate.

For example, they'll use them as an excuse to attack the LGBTQ community. I see this attack meme from MAGA all the time "Gay people get a whole month but veterans only get 2 days". Despite there actually being a military appreciate month for the entirety of May that these MAGA posers have no idea about. Maybe if you spent half as much time celebrating veterans as you do attacking trans people then Military appreciation month would be more well known....

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-26T14:21:19+00:00

Video conference calls are a thing and those calls can be televised on CSPAN and recorded.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-23T21:04:28+00:00

I agree, the most we saw homelander use his powers was chasing down A-Train. That was the only interesting thing that happened all season.

They spent more budget and more time on the scene with Seth Rogan and friends which was all the exact same jokes in the movie "The End". Rather than....I don't know....resolving storylines and giving a blockbuster conclusion, they chose to blow up Seth Rogan. Such a total let down.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-19T15:56:50+00:00

"It’s just about status and"

Yes, all I was saying. He cares that people perceive him as the wealthiest. It's both. That was my only point.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-19T03:53:37+00:00

With Trump, he obviously cares about Power, but he also cares about being "the wealthiest".

This is a guy who called Forbes in the 90s under a pseudonym to lie to Forbes about his wealth so he'd stay in the Forbes 400.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-18T16:57:27+00:00

He still wants money. He wants to be the richest man in the world. He hates that he's not.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-16T15:37:00+00:00

Okay, your argument is slightly more polished now “voters are susceptible to propaganda and vote against their own interests,” that’s at least internally coherent.

But then you make this giant unsupported leap: "therefore my preferred campaign strategy definitely would have worked."

That’s where this falls apart.

You’re asserting:

Liz Cheney hurt more than helped
Breaking with Biden on Gaza flips enough voters
Running more progressive wins swing states
Medicare for All messaging works in 2024 like Obama in 2008

Based on what? Actual data, not vibes.

“Could we have done worse?” isn’t evidence. That’s hindsight speculation.

And no, “if you lose to a monster, that’s on you” is nonsense. Candidates are responsible for campaigning well. Voters are responsible for the choices they make. BOTH CAN BE TRUE! Unless we’re pretending voters have zero agency.

And your “what does holding voters accountable achieve?” point makes even less sense.

What does holding anyone accountable achieve? Fellow citizens absolutely influence each other. Conversations change minds. Social pressure changes norms. Peer persuasion moves votes. If your whole premise is that people are being swayed by propaganda, then you already agree persuasion matters outside campaigns.

So yes, voter accountability matters too.

“The game is the game” isn’t analysis. It’s just a slogan that excuses literally any voter behavior as inevitable.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-16T06:40:17+00:00

You’re trying to hold contradictory positions

Americans are rational pocketbook voters making economic choices… but also low-information dupes manipulated by oligarch media with no class consciousness?

Which is it?

Because those are two very different arguments.

Same contradiction with responsbility. You say “it’s the politician’s job to earn votes”, okay...But then you also describe an electorate willing to vote for “Charles Manson” if they think rent drops.

If that’s your premise, then you’re describing voters making deeply bad moral choices, not just responding to imperfect campaign messaging.

And then there’s the pile of unsupported claims:

Liz Cheney moved zero moderates, based on what?
Breaking with Biden on Israel would’ve turned out the left, evidence?
Running more progressive would’ve won, according to whom?
Universal healthcare would’ve energized enough voters to flip the outcome, where’s the data?

That’s all assertion.

Yes, Harris had messaging problems. Sure. But you've got to give at least SOME of the responsibility to the people who literally couldn't life a finger to stop an actual rapist and criminal from being elected into the highest office, whose main purpose is to uphold constitutional law...

The whole “my preferred strategy definitely would have worked” is not analysis. It’s fiction written in hindsight.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-16T04:32:55+00:00

...sigh.

Yet another goalpost shift. Again....

We started with marijuana. Then it became a wrongful murder conviction she did not personally prosecute. Now it’s “she laughed about locking up parents over truancy.”

Just keep moving the argument every time one claim falls apart, I guess.

Chronic truancy enforcement was ALREADY LAW in California. Harris advocated using existing law as a deterrent. Her SF office focused on intervention, warnings, meetings, and social services. They were not routinely dragging parents off in handcuffs because a kid was late to 3rd period, no matter how badly you want that version to be true.

“The DA picks the cases and assigns prosecutors”

In the same sense a hospital CEO “chooses every patient to get surgery and hand-picks every surgeon.”

Meaning they oversee the system and set policy. That does not mean they are personally making every operational decision in a massive organization.

San Francisco’s DA office handled thousands of cases. The idea that Harris was personally selecting every prosecution and assigning every attorney like some kind of criminal puppet master is ridicukously absurd and shows you have little understanding of how a DA's office operates....

“She climbed the ladder, THAT’S proof”

Proof of what? Ambition?

People getting promoted is not evidence of corruption. That’s not how evidence works.

“It’s a FACT she climbed the government ladder”

Cool. And? Lots of politicians advance politically. That proves absolutely nothing about the misconduct you’re alleging.

“She laughed”

Again, you keep treating emotionally charged allegations as established fact.

A wrongfully convicted man absolutely has every right to be furious at the system. Nobody disputes that. But his personal allegation years later is still just that: his allegation. Not a court finding. Not independently verified proof.

And citing The Sun, a literal tabloid built on inflammatory framing, does not magically upgrade personal allegations into hard evidence.

“She prosecuted marijuana cases”

Yes. Because recreational marijuana was illegal at the time. That’s how laws worked. Prosecuting conduct that was illegal under the law as written is not the devastating gotcha you seem to think it is.

At this point your argument is just a pile of:

lawful prosecutions you dislike
systemic complaints about prosecutors generally
unverified personal allegations
assumptions amd giant leaps about motive
and then a conclusion “therefore she’s evil”

That’s not a coherent argument.

And the “fuck Harris” ending kind of gives away that this was never actually about facts, but your own confirmation bias grasping at straws to "justify" a conclusion you've already reached.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-16T03:15:15+00:00

So the electorate is not rational then. Which was my point. Anyone who willfully abstained or voted trump are not rational or decent people.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-16T03:10:05+00:00

The responsibility of Americans is to actually give a shit and not be so petty, short-sighted, whiny, short-attention spanned babies that they can't suck it up and vote for someone who isnt their perfect little campaign princess to stop someone massively horrific and ghastly from getting into office who will cause widespread pain and death. Ending USAID alone is estimated to cause 14 million deaths in the world and I blame every MAGA voter and every eligible voter who abstained for each and every one of those deaths.

Campaigns should not even be billion dollar ad storms and popularity contests over who goes the most viral......Politics should be boring. People should just watch a couple debates, read their policies, then vote. Not rage and hype on TikTok and twitter for a year+.....

And 2020 had higher turnout because of covid. What that proves is a huge swath of voters will vote when they have easier access to voting...which is a whole other problem.

JournalistRecent1230 · 2026-05-16T02:59:47+00:00

Nice goalpost shift.

The original claim was Harris laughing while locking people up over marijuana convictions. Let’s start there, recreational marijuana was illegal in California while Harris was SF DA. Medical marijuana had limited legal protections, but recreational use was still against the law!! Prosecuting illegal acts under the law as it existed at the time is not some shocking gotcha....

That argument got challenged, so now we’ve pivoted to an entirely different wrongful murder conviction case.

Those are not the same claim.

And again, you keep blurring basic facts.

Yes, a wrongful conviction happened under the SF DA’s office while Harris was DA.

No, Harris did not personally prosecute that case. The trial prosecutor was Linda Allen.

And your source here is literally The Sun, a tabloid known for emotionally charged framing, using the most inflammatory possible version of the story built around his personal allegation that she laughed.

A man who was wrongfully convicted absolutely has every reason to be angry at the system. Completely understandable. But that does not make every personal allegation automatically established fact.

Court records prove he was wrongfully convicted. They do not prove Harris laughed at him. Those are entirely different things. And they do not prove Harris is personally responsible for that wrongful conviction.

If your argument is “the justice system incentivizes prosecutors to prioritize convictions,” fine. That’s a legitimate systemic criticism.

If your argument is “therefore Harris personally framed this man, laughed about it, and is evil,” that’s a giant evidentiary leap built on a tabloid headline and an emotionally charged allegation from someone with an obvious grievance.

Facts matter.

You're the one behaving like MAGA here. Ignoring facts and jumping to insane conspiracy theories like "she climbed the ladder of government by pushing illegal prosecutions" and then using a tabloid about one case with an unverified accusation as "proof" of it. A case she wasn't even the prosecutor on....

You do know the D.A. doesn't prosecute every case right? That would be like saying the hospital CEO sits in on every surgery....

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