I mean, they’ll complain, yet will still vote for them because if there’s not an R next to the name, they couldn’t care less.

Kansas City keeps getting rated in one of the most dangerous cities.

Want to know something neat about it? The city doesn’t have control over its police.

Nope, instead the police is controlled by a 5 person board 1 is the mayor, the other 4 picked by the governor. So Republicans have had control of the police force in the past decade, you think that’s been going well?

I mean to be fair, the police did crack down on the street racing thi- oh, wait, right, it’s because one of them got ran over by a 4 wheeler, otherwise the governor(s) have been ecstatic to talk about how bad “liberal cities” are while fucking them over.

So everyone! Prepare for this on the national level! Have fun!

Oh they’re being quiet now about it. Standard practice, if they can’t spin it, they go full ostrich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxgybgEKHHI

This was his first term.

I have people still saying they voted for him before a “Gun grabbing democrat”

I really want the full list. Democrat, Republican, Atheist, Christian, I don’t care who’s on it, needs to be out.

Unfortunately, like the Panama Papers, I fear it’ll be out, everyone will be angry, nothing will be done and we’ll be back to square one… Trump’s refusing to release it is frankly the best thing to keep peoples anger going. I don’t like it, but I’ll take what even pisses off Republicans to break out of the cult.

You know what? I’m okay with this idea! Texas loves to spout how it never actually signed back on the US after the Civil War, I’m okay with giving them up.

KC here… I’m frankly fucking AMAZED we’re still not a “Right to Work” state… for how quickly everything else has been overturned blatantly I’m amazed Gov Heehaw didn’t find a way to gut it on the way out.

you would think

I live in Missouri. This is the first mistake you make when attempting to reason with these fucking idiots.

Gonna be contentious with this one. Missouri wasn’t technically the South. Iowa and Kansas certainly weren’t either. Yet the bible belt all the way to Canada is full of states that drink the red kool-aid of the Republicans…

I’m not gonna argue “Fuck the South” but the attitude to that is that the South has infected the rest of the country.

Missouri is one of those states that does have direct voter legislation. Able to even get things put in to the state constitution.

Trouble is our chucklefuck idiots will vote for very progressive things in state, but then go full stupid and keep voting for the R next to the name despite overturning our voting for direct legislation for the past decade.

The trouble is I work around these people… there’s way more thought put in to this than what I deal with.

“I ain’t gonna vote for no gun grabbin democrat”

That’s all it is. Nevermind Trump was pushing more gun grabbing than any of our last, they found a catchy slogan and that’s it.

If it’s not about gun grabbing, it’s about abortion, if it’s not about abortion it’s because it’s the “christian party”, if it’s not about that it’s “for America.”

There is no thought to it, it’s they know the R is all they need to check and all will be good. When it’s not good they get upset, they freak out, they scream, they yell, then go right back in and check the R again.

Lol, if I were then I’d have a chance at being a Missouri Senator.

Unfortunately it’s kinda hard to get too excited at this point for a lot of us.

Live in a state where the state overwhelmingly votes for things like keeping abortion legal, requiring paid sick leave, removal of gerrymandering, or even getting rid of fucking puppy mills, but then also overwhelmingly votes for the party who keeps overturning the bills passed by voters over and over and over again and you stop believing that people will actually wake the fuck up and instead continue to vote for that big R next to the name like idiots.

Meh, their attempts at privatizing podcasting is why I’m mad at spotify, but same token there’s been a few podcasters that definitely go to the spotify platform for reasons, some in the monopolized format…

Since I don’t have a spotify, I don’t listen to those. I agree with above don’t just be upset with spotify, I blame the platform yes, but I also blame the people who got in bed with them.

I agree with this as someone who grew up an hour away from Harrison Arkansas, but I say #1 just because historically the hot war does have defined dates.

Seems to me that they’ve dusted off their ol’ slave playbook, wrapped it in an American flag and sold it to these uninformed or willfully ignorant folks

On this front, it’s the meme with the astronaut with the gun to the other one saying “Always has been.” The only time they haven’t had it wrapped in the American flag was when they actively broke off.

I’ll say on the educating people… I’m done with it now. I live in a red state, and I’m going now by the philosophy I wouldn’t talk to people John Brown would have killed.

It’s weird how I think of cars as “not durable” by growing up around fire departments.

But I also use that as description on how equipment for fire depts needs to be made as this is the group that has competitions like “Who can cut a car in half the fastest” for training.

Because the US isn’t at a full on tipping point on that yet, because yes, that’s when civil wars start.

US Civil War #1 started over a military base. If POTUS declares and attack on a major ally, that’s probably going to be the starting gun for the second one.

Y’know… I can’t help but to wonder though if this might be a move of Trump chasing his nobel prize he’s obsessed with though. Remember, he’s the western leader who got buddy buddy with Kim.

I realize this is rather tin foil hat as we haven’t heard a fucking thing from the orange who couldn’t keep a secret to save his life so I"m doubting my own theory. But it’s there.

Personally, I hate the democrat party, but I have to keep voting for them because we have this fascist party on the other side. I’ve said it repeatedly, especially being in a red state. We need every person to claw the republicans out of their places of power, and so that means allying with the corpo group that is against them because they are out of power. The thing is WHEN the GOP is out, we can’t rest then have to claw the dems out so that we can actually get some real representation.

Voting isn’t a one and done game, it’s a fucking shitslog where you grab a shovel and keep shoveling shit and that hole is never empty. BUT when it comes to building for a better tomorrow, it’s worth shoveling every day just for that one step forward. But right now we’re in over our heads so we need every fucking hand on deck, even if it’s ones we hate.