Yeah, I’m kinda done with him. He said he was done with me, after all.

It’s too bad, because I’m pretty sure this is down to a combination of misunderstanding hyperbole and misunderstanding exactly who I was talking about.

The John McCain links are evidence of that, because McCain never hurled unfounded accusations with ironic truths underlying them at anyone.

If, for example, McCain had embraced birtherism, the fact that he himself was born outside of the United States would have been a textbook example. But McCain had too much integrity to do that, so doesn’t fit the profile of accuser/confessor.

For the life of me, I don’t get what’s so hard to understand. The formula is simple: Stupid, mendacious accusation == confession about an ironic, underlying truth. No stupid, mendacious accusation? No ironic, underlying truth.

C’est la vie, I guess.

Alternate headline: “Idaho governor signs bill encouraging a complete travel and tourism boycott of his state and urging businesses to move elsewhere.”

Meh. You have no rejoinders to any of my specific examples, so you resort to insults and non sequiturs about things that weren’t accusations in the first place.

If a Republican behaves like John McCain, who didn’t debase himself by hurling stupid accusations at his political opponents, why would you assume I’m lumping that sort of person in with the bullshit-accusations crowd?

I said every accusation is a confession. How the actual fuck do you apply that to someone who isn’t throwing around bullshit accusations in the first place?

Fuck outta here with that illogical claptrap. Goodbye forever? Great. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Way to miss the point. Sometimes the confession is just that they’re a raging bigot. Sometimes it’s just a confession of ignorance.

But try to find an accusation leveled by a prominent Republican against Democrats, liberals, progressives, or anyone else they hate that didn’t turn out to be a confession in the last 20 years.

The assholes pushing bullshit about Biden “bribes” were actually just confessing to being easy marks for Russian intelligence. The assholes pushing birtherism were just admitting to being disgusting racists. The assholes calling LGBTQ+ people “groomers” keep getting caught with CSAM.

My point is that while there is nuance to the nature of the hypocrisy and the projection, the bullshit accusations Republicans have been vomiting at everyone they hate for decades keep turning out ironically. To the point that when you hear Republicans use their mouths to shit something out about their hate-targets, you can rest assured that there’s something similarly ironic driving it.

Not at all. The modern GOP is built on astounding levels of projection about their issues, their behavior, and their secrets.

If someone’s ranting about voter fraud, it’s probably someone like the guy in this article who committed a lot of it.

If someone’s ranting about how horrible taxes are, it’s probably someone who happily takes government handouts without a hint of shame or hypocrisy awareness.

If someone’s ranting about the temptations of gay sex, his name’s probably Larry “Wide Stance” Craig.

Seriously, every accusation they make is a confession. No exceptions.

Every accusation is a confession. Every single one. No exceptions.

Yes. That really happened. My jaw 'bout hit the floor.

That whole “fake elector” argument was mind-blowingly bad.

Yes, that’s exactly what he’s doing. It’s gotta be hard to be a Trump lawyer and try to defend this crap.

Never a good sign when a defense lawyer starts trying to rephrase the prosecution’s argument, and the judge has to step in to correct the defense lawyer.

Prosecutor basically completely disassembled the defense lawyer’s absurd argument.

Trump lawyer is currently trying to make the case that Trump had a First Amendment right to interfere with the election.

Very well said, and I see nothing I disagree with. Thank you for the clarification, and you’re absolutely right: This is a generational journey we’re on, and we have to be able to see the little steps along the way so we don’t despair about ever reaching the goal.

As the parent of “that trans kid down the block,” every election is important. Every single one.

I’m concerned that your post might be taken as encouragement to vote locally while abstaining from the presidential vote, which I hope wasn’t your goal, because we haven’t had a normal presidential election cycle in the last 12 years. Remember True The Vote? Those anti-democracy assholes started actively interfering in elections in 2010, and their ideas, if not their organization, have taken over the entire Republican party.

And we now have a Supreme Court that seems primed to make Donald Trump into a king. It’s an existential threat to the entire country at all levels. If he wins, it’s quite possible elections at all levels won’t matter anymore. Democracy will have been killed.

Think local, but definitely vote national, too. However you feel about Biden (who’s easily been the most progressive president of my life if you look at his actual record), fucking vote for him. So my trans kid’s health care and rights aren’t threatened by the bloated orange shit-gibbon.

Yep. That doesn’t mean anything is in the bag, of course. We still have to fight like hell for every vote.

But it does mean we shouldn’t be all doom and gloom.

Yep. It’s one of the reasons I’m skeptical of polling this year. It seems like the difficulty pollsters have reaching various demographics that are likely to vote for Democrats is getting worse, not better. They try to compensate by weighting their results, but it’s not an exact science, and Dems are consistently overperforming versus what the polls say.

Miscarriage of justice. Hopefully the DA is ready with an immediate appeal.

Agreed, but we’ll find out soon. Deadline’s in just six days.

No it’s fucking not. Democrats - stupidly - believed that with Trump as the Republican candidate, it would be an easy campaign. Now they know better. 2016 != 2024. GTFO with this nonsense.

Do that too long, and judges start doing things like seizing assets.