We are headed into the most consequential election of our lives, and US history.  There are 538 offices that MUST be cleaned out in order for this country to survive.

I have been hearing that same song for decades now.

But this time I believe it is true.

This is exactly how I feel:

https://x.com/stevedeaceshow/status/1786009042868994061?s=46

They’ve done nothing on any meaningful issue for us here at home all year. Instead they’ve taken care of foreign countries better than our own, renewed the very corrupt program used to spy on Trump and launch a three-year de facto coup against his presidency (with his passive aggressive blessing no less), argued with their own base in favor of killing more babies, and now just got in the middle of an internecine feud threatening the Democrat coalition — to pass a federal blasphemy law that will most assuredly be used by swamp NGOs to target their own Christian base later.

It’s May 2. I’m done saying this really is the most important election of my lifetime this time. It should be, but their collective behavior says otherwise. If I claim this again before something drastic changes, consider this my consent for @DeaceOnline to shoot me in the face with the air gun on set, live on the air.

I’ve lost heart. The only thing this party is collectively good at is breaking the spirit and will of its own base.

I don’t have anymore opinion or analysis or urgency over this election when this is the alternative before us. So unless/until that changes, I’m done messaging the importance of this self-cannibalistic farce. Follow your own conscience and do whatever you think is best with these fools, cowards, and quislings. It’s pretty clear that politically we are (with limited exceptions) on our own anyway.

Welcome back Stan.
I think.  It sounds like things have you as depressed as I am about the current situation.

I think we are seeing some of this here:

How climate policies can drive voters to the far right
Studies show that as energy prices rise, so do right-wing movements against green policies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/01/how-climate-policies-are-giving-boost-far-right/

Rich liberals are going to vote for lefties.  But poor liberals that are suffering the results of those policies that hurt the poor are often switching to the right.

Hopefully it makes up for all the new support for the Democrats due to the Republicans hard line on abortion.

Tulsi would not be my first choice. DeSantis or Vivek would work for me.

Either one would be a good pick, but we have DeSantis right now (until 2026) and you can't have him till we are done with him.

Big nothing burger. If the dog did bite someone and someone made a police report, that dog would have been put down anyways. Some people forget that dogs are still animals, and some are just going to be too aggressive to be around people.

The issues HOW they are put down.

For some reason, people are less squeamish about spending a day taking a dog to a veterinary clinic and having them put an IV Catheter in and injecting pink juice than they are about even thinking of putting a bullet in a dog's head.  The bullet is probably much more humane as it is quicker than a trip to the vet, which most dogs hate.

My wife is mostly tolerant of tattoos and piercings and blue hair.  But she draws a line at nose rings.  If we are in a restaurant and the server has a nose ring she will (make me) ask for a different server or a different table.  She feels like Rush said; it makes her think of snot coming out of the servers nose and she envisions it dropping on her food. (yecch).

I don’t know but it brings up a question that bugs me a little. What if something happens to one of us and there is no way to know?  Suppose I drop dead tomorrow. Unless my husband makes an account so he can tell y’all, you’d never know. Or one of you would have to remember my real name and google obits.

I have given my wife info for 3 sites to login  and announce her freedom if something happens to me.
This isn't one of them.

Although "hush money" is all over the media, it's really just a non disclosure agreement.  But that doesn't make headlines.  And there's nothing illegal about it.

I'm so pissed off about all this.

Looks like non-disclosure agreements are going to be banned too.

This actually looks more like extortion, or maybe blackmail to me.  But the extortionist is the plaintiff and the defendant is the extorted.