Catecholamine response isn’t good for the heart at his age.

Fair.

It’s that whole part where after 8 years of more or less constant duress, for one reason or another, there’s a limitation on how much more catecholamine response can be elicited within the human body. People are tapped out.

Probably why this joyful shit is so effective. Context truly is everything.

But yeah, both my uterus and my mental health are shuddering in horror at Project 2025. I can’t read all 996 pages, but I’ve read through some items. Ezra Klein podcast had a nice hour long discussion with both left and right regarding how this is a gender election, at the visceral level. For both men and women. Toxic masculinity does no favors for men, long term.

I have to ask. What is a PiP?

That too. My buddy is still angry not voting even after 2016. Because he’s still pissed about the two party system. Fair, but you’re not fixing anything.

Reclaim all the bling. Slap an American flag and pride or feminism redo of the don’t tread on me flag in your truck bed at the same time, it’ll confuse them.

They are the necessary mental respite between the headlines and bullshit. Working as intended.

If the apathetic voted it’d be over.

3 hrs is a lot. I think my top time was 30min. Still. It’s cheaper than therapy.

I can’t say that I see this a lot but I can tell you why I and others I’ve spoken to do it. I’ll leave you to ponder and extrapolate reasons.

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It’s quiet.

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No other humans are talking to or at you.

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Quiet = bliss.

All true but there is likely a portion of his base who follows nothing regarding Taylor Swift, only passively knowing who she is.

(That’s me, and I’m not part of his base. I give zero fucks about Taylor Swift. Everything I know about her is through passive acquisition.)

They’re not going to care enough about her to hear the retraction. If anything it’ll be some vague thought that even liberal star elites like their guy with no follow up.

This cannot be stated enough. It’s also a distraction. Worry more about actual election certification.

She can’t be a fascist and a communist. You have to pick one. Also, there’s a difference between communism and socialism.

But when you talk to folks who aren’t above a 4th grade level education this stuff slides by unopposed.

It’s been a while, and it was just an elective class, but I remember the the poli sci professor was adamant that communism and fascism were opposing philosophies, socialism even more so.

And yet she gets accused of being all of the above.

That’s what narcissists do. They project. Cluster B is a real dick that way.

My money is on diabetes and congestive heart failure.

Wtf are they doing? Aren’t the VP and POTUS supposed to stay separate while out and about, for national security? Last thing we need is that creepy Mike guy in charge.

I’ve been paying the entitlement since age 17. If I don’t get it then I want a full refund check.

That makes it even more insidious.

Removing social security and or Medicare would quite literally kill a lot of these people. WTF did they think would happen?

Misogyny is definitely all over the Trump ticket. And Project 2025 is just that, magnified well beyond the trump ticket.

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A significant piece of the far right, not just here but other countries as well, is a male reaction to the loss of the traditional female role. By traditional I don’t mean teacher, nurse, and/or wife & mother over pilot, welder, or divorced lawyer but a traditional female role defined by reducing oneself as an individual to pass her energy and time over to elevating a man to his chosen role, whatever that happens to be. The ultimate support person, but not as an equal partner in a normal relationship, but as his life crutch so he can more comfortably achieve whatever he sets out to do while she sacrifices her own ambitions, to him. Sex on his terms, his word is the final word, and children are a foregone conclusion because he wants his legacy. There’s a reason tradition has a woman giving up her name.

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Dig into Project 2025, all 996 pages of it. It yearns to have the traditional female role back.

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Even the proud boys, and someone correct my understanding if I have this wrong, didn’t they originate not so much from racism, but misogyny? Conservative white and Hispanic males reacting to a loss of the traditional female role?

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Can’t stand on their own and define themselves. Instead of looking inward and fixing the insecurities and sense of entitlement, they have to try to harass 50.5% of the population into helping them with that, against their will or otherwise.

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The trump ticket is probably genuinely confused by Kamala. Her popularity as an older woman, past child bearing years, childless, as well as being lovely, elegant, ambitious, successful, mixed race, and a married woman who kept her own name. Who smiles on her own terms, not because someone told her to. And she’s kicking their asses.

We live in capitalism. How do you mandate lower grocery prices in that?

(I guess we find out Friday?)