These are arguments for breaking the law that would be widely recognized as psychotic if offered in any other context. But when we're drivers, we just feel entitled. I *wanna* go fast, so fuck you, fuck safety, fuck society.

Cars make us terrible people.

Skill issue

Just to start with, the push should be to use whatever means possible to cut off all tax revenue coming out of Philly and the surrounding counties from funding the rest of the state, especially roads and highways, until SEPTA is funded. If you can’t find a legal way to do it, find another one.

It’s such a perfect encapsulation of how the right drives American media cycles that slightly-too-long school closures are still considered a huge liability for democrats while murdering hundreds of thousands of people with anti-vaxx propaganda is never mentioned as a downside of Republican rule.

Life is constant change, flux, and endless, fractal complexity. Authoritarians hate change & they hate complexity.

They hate *life*. Authoritarianism is fundamentally anti-life.

To MAGA dipshits, including Trump, it's all just a game, words & images on the TV, an endless reality show. But the government is real, the things it does are real, and the consequences of thoughtlessly fucking it up are real.

In general, Biden was more accommodating of the left than any Dem president in my lifetime and, to a first approximation, it got him *nothing*. No credit, no support, not even acknowledgement.

I think Ned's right that Dems will be tempted to tack right. I'm also seeing people complain about how Kamala should have moved left.

Either shift, though, depends on voters ***knowing what Dems are doing.*** Politicians cannot campaign on their records if voters have no idea what they've done.