The government has been dysfunctional for a while.

They are in San Francisco while working on their tech startups.

I’ve honestly stopped watching most scripted television. I also feel like, outside of something GitS:SAC, I’m not as interested in most themes in anime.

Because long voting lines in urban areas isn’t a bipartisan issue.

He came to be because he was allowed to take the lead and those with power wanted him there and kept him there.

That’s assuming one all-knowing and competent group in charge, but reality isn’t like that. Sometimes people in power don’t recognize events in having significance in the moment or they respond poorly to the situation.

It is clear that Trump’s election caught a lot of people by surprise in 2016, including Trump. It is also clear that a lot of conservative Republicans saw Trump as being willing to go along with their policies most of the time.

There isn’t a single cabal responsible for choosing Trump.

Isn’t Alaska covered in enough white already?

We should put lasers on the sharks.

Because it is very unlikely that the Senate will remain in Democrat hands, so the Harris campaign isn’t going to promise something she can’t get in a deal with Republicans?

I feel like the main draw is location.

Most of the people living in these pods are startup founders, so it makes sense for them to live in shitty pods next to their potential clients and investors.

Wonder why the Ohio State government would want long voting lines in Cleveland.

Isn’t that traditional of any Olympics?

Also, I’m sure Los Angeles is going to best these numbers given that they made it possible to make being homeless illegal.

I don’t think the form of Lemmy as a federated service will be able to scale.

What I expect is that, if Lemmy is successful, it will be as a platform for various Reddit alternatives, kind of like how Truth Social is Mastodon.

It is hard to run an Internet site when the government turns off your Internet.

Standing up to pee is probably connected in their head to being a man, so not being able to stand up and pee is a loss of their manhood.

It turns out a lot of Americans are fine with that behavior.

Your explanation starts off by accepting that someone like Trump is a legitimate political leader.

At one point, Trump became a “legitimate” political leader. He won his party’s primary three times and has won the Electoral College once. He is a convicted felon and he probably should have been one in 2016, but that is another matter.

And as for the rest, there is a combination of complicity and stupidity. Most of the Democratic Party thought he was an easily beatable joke candidate in 2016 until he wasn’t. In 2016, Trump knew how to get ratings, which got him a lot of media coverage trying to cover him. And, as my point was earlier, he didn’t have to worry about donors pulling out. And it turns out that being mask off fascist is something that a lot of Americans are willing to vote for.

I agree Trump has been enabled by a lot of people to get this far, but if Trump is anything, he is a great self promoter and knows how to stall legal action taken against him.

Bernie Sanders has pointed out that he was happy with Biden passing the progressive legislation coming out of Congress. If you want something like universal healthcare, it is going to take a Democrat controlled Congress with enough margins to allow for minor dissent from some Senators.

Time to start becoming more involved in congressional elections.

I don’t think the media was/is equipped to deal with the quantity of bad faith arguments coming from Trump.

If you look at historic presidential primaries, one mistake can be enough to have donors pull funding and tank a candidacy. In contrast, Trump was able to bulldoze through that because he treated the primary campaign as a business to make money.

Voter rolls should really be included to other state databases defining residency.

I really hope that Harris wins Iowa since that would be a big damper to Trump declaring victory.