I’m not too worried about this, tbh. I think the people that RFK attracted post-Kamala really aren’t likely to vote for Trump or Harris anyway. They’ll likely either stay home, vote libertarian, or write in Vermin Supreme

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I fuck with this energy, let’s get it done!

I don’t know if I can; it’s not, well, in my lane as a bicycle/pedestrian committee member. I still show up and advocate for lane narrowing and traffic calming at the city council meetings.

Edit: disregard. I thought you meant lanes, you clearly mean sweepers

I’m trying to secure wholly separate bike lanes, or at least flexi-posts, anything but a sharrow or a line of paint. Tbh, I dunno how that’ll work with a street sweeper.

Day 30 of being fucking bewildered that I, a non-voting member of my city’s bicycle commission, have stricter ethical laws binding me than those for judges and politicians.

They can collect donations just fine. It was big, huge donors saying “I won’t give the democrats one red nickel if Biden doesn’t step down” that helped get Biden to concede his candidacy.

Wait, hold up, why is Vance doing two?

Yeah, you may be right. We’ve had, what, almost a decade of candidate/president Trump now? Even the most successful TV shows in history are pretty much out of gas by this point, there’s just not really anything left to say that hasn’t already been said. Even Fox news shakes up its talking heads every now and then, and it has the advantage of being “news” (massive sarcasm quotes there). Trump isn’t bringing anything new to the table, it’s the same old dog and pony show, and the tricks have gone stale. Makes sense.

I wonder why. Someone else pointed out plans to cut medicare and social security, but that’s not new for Trump or the GOP; they’ve been fucking those programs up for at least 20 years, and that never bothered boomers and Republican silent gen before. What changed?

Yep, that’s me. You could probably find a few more good examples of me stepping in shit on Hexbear, that’s hardly the first.

I’m not totally sure you need a source. I mean, sure, by all means, but I seem to remember from 16 that the secret service was really unhappy with all the outdoor venues and kept harassing the Trump campaign to pick more indoor venues because they’re much easier to secure. That’s why you almost always see the candidates in indoor rallies, and why Trump has almost exclusively been at indoor venues since the assassination attempt.

Please, let there be reliable sources because it would be really funny

You’re not really using the fediverse until you’ve been told that you’ll get the bullet, too. Sometimes, it’s exhausting commenting something pretty uncontroversial and then seeing like eight notifications and realizing it was on Hexbear.

Imagine.

Be me,

Journalist

It’s election season, so busy asf

Trump says he’s got a big announcement

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Go to Florida

Trump plays a mix tape of his okayest hits, claims to have protected Hillary, and that’s it.

Wait, that’s it?

Okay, let me get this straight, Trump wanting to do straight up Federalist society-endorsed genocide/ethnic cleansing, religious police state shit isn’t a weakness, but Kamala Harris and Walz wanting free school lunch is? Fascinating how even the most mild progressive policies are somehow worse for candidates than plotting genocide is.

Well, yeah. It’s obviously better to spend even more money in the long-term constantly chasing and harassing the homeless with police. We just don’t have money for solutions, which is why we’re going to spend even more money on non-solutions.

Penny for your thoughts? Pennsylvanians seem to be big fans of Shapiro, though I’ve not heard of Walz before just now.

I know there’s this narrative about “Trump can’t handle strong women”, like these folks forgot about 2016. Hillary is a strong woman. I don’t align with her much, I wasn’t jazzed to vote for her in 16, but I’ll not pretend that she isn’t and wasn’t a strong woman. Being a strong woman didn’t save Hillary, and it won’t automatically give Kamala the upper hand. Kamala needs to meet Trump in the shit fight and kick him in the diaper.