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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Real question: is box packing at an Amazon fulfillment center considered “skilled” labor? If so, so is flipping burgers, I would assume. In which case, what exactly is unskilled labor? I thought it was basically any job you can get/do without any degrees, formal prior training, and/or certifications.

    As far as I can tell, this is two eminently replaceable, definitionally unskilled laborers hating each other over who is getting fucked over harder.




  • Not to mention that by not going through the theater of his republican colleagues refusing to help save lives, he can instead do nothing, which will likely cause deaths, which he can then just blame on Biden, truth being meaningless at this point for Republicans.

    Think about the immigration bill. No matter how many times Republican voters are told that Trump specifically and intentionally made the immigrant crisis worse by torpedoing a bi-partisan bill, they refuse to believe it. There is no way Trump supporters would ever dare blame their daddy or his surrogate, Johnson, for literally attempting to kill them.

    You can see why people refer to Trump supporters as a death cult.






  • If the election results aren’t to their liking, these will be easy votes to start kicking out. And then the votes that are doubled through provisional voting, i.e., voting in person as well as mail-in in order to be sure your vote was counted.

    It won’t matter if they’re counted correctly in the end. The point will be to immediately kill off democratic votes, create as much chaos as possible, declare victory, and when the dust settles, the republican, right-wing national network of fast-response staff, politicians, lawyers, and friendly judges that they’ve been preparing for four years while democrats did basically nothing will have effectively taken the election by force. SCOTUS already made a decision that will allow them to effectively decide this election. So the right-wing ideologues already have local, regional, state, and national plans that extend all the way to the highest court in the land.

    And the Democrats have “but that’s not fair.”


  • Yep. Increase the need for in-person voting, decrease the amount of voting locations, have armed republican “volunteers” patrolling places, and then see how many people are willing to wait hours with armed right-wing militants eyeballing whether your glasses make you a “libtard.”

    I have no statistical evidence to back this up, but my gut feeling is that the aggregate of all the voting fuckery, election board fuckery, voting laws fuckery might end up be worth as much as 3-5% in battleground states. There’s no statistical model that accounts for the illegal/quasi-legal voter suppression and disenfranchisement efforts.

    All polls assume that everyone that can vote and intends to vote will get to vote and that their vote will be counted and that the counted votes will be accurately reported. That’s a serious blind spot in election polling. And since the Republicans have been screaming that elections are fraudulent because of democratic/immigrant fantasies for four full years, when legitimate fraud can and does occur, no Democrat will be able to say it loud enough that it matters.