Patience has limits. I’ve waited patiently for years to see trump handed a heaping bowl of comeuppance. He in my estimation based on his J6 coup stuff is a traitor deserving of what traitors get for punishments, Then there is his “rape” of E. Jean Carroll then his many indictments and his impeachments. And he is so far ignoring it all to campaign for office like he is innocent, It is sickening.
As I said… my patience has limits,
“To determine whether or not the race is too close to call, we need to calculate a new margin of error for the difference between the two candidates’ levels of support. The size of this margin is generally about twice that of the margin for an individual candidate.”
People who struggle with the more esoteric features of General Relativity are generally pretty secure in the knowledge that in a Newtonian regime masses attract themselves. As far as I can determine many MAGA folks still believe that heavier objects fall faster. (Don’t play games with feathers and other situations where gravity is not the dominant force at play.)
But did the ‘person’ or ‘people’ keep it up? Governor and Mrs. Kemp got a LOT of threats. Again, I know, I wish I could be sure I would be as brave as Governor Whitmer (for example) or AG Nessel. I am not. I want to THINK so.
Mitt put his life on the line; at least THAT is where I put the Magat Marauders in their behavior.
I am just NOT as dismissive of what he did and what he said. HE must be surprised that his ‘friends’ were NEVER his ‘friends.’
Stuart Stevens’ book: It Was All A Lie. IMAGINE (I really cannot) but just IMAGINE finding out that the basis of your adult life was ALL A LIE.
Me too. And I’m optimistic that they are. Because the Harris campaign, in the short amount of time they’ve been up and running, seems to be doing the “little” things or the big picture things that have frustrated me when other Democrats failed to do those things.
Such as advertising aggressively in Spanish market media, especially in Florida. Contesting states that lean red but may be flippable in the longer term, reaching out to rural voters to plant a seed that may grow in time, micro targeting various potentially Democratic leaning groups with a salient message.
This helps us win today at the margins, and potentially also in the future if we stay consistent in our messaging and targeting.
I’m not denying that he’s doing this. The problem is that he isn’t saying he’s going to do this himself, and none of what he says passes the yelling fire in a theater line of immediate action. Our threat laws are based on individual actions and individual responsibility. Not Mafia Boss hints at what others should do.
What you’re really complaining about, and I agree to an extent, is that the law doesn’t take into account the megaphone that someone like Trump has in the modern world to spread implied threats so widely. But what he says doesn’t turn into a true threat just because millions of people hear it.
We wouldn’t want it to work that way. Otherwise Dem politicians would have to stop calling Trump a threat to democracy, saying he has to be stopped, and everything else that could be considered an implied physical threat.
We already have rewards, but–hear me out!–we should also have “pre-wards,” which we give ourselves because we’ve come up with something to do but haven’t yet actually done that thing.
At least, this is the explanation I gave my wife when she saw me scooping up some ice cream just now.