A huge chunk of the American carceral system is people in jail awaiting trial. According to the Prison Policy Institute 70% of the population of city and county jails are pretrial detentions. They can’t afford bail so they are stuck in jail without ever being convicted of anything.

Oh yeah, for sure. Personally I see Carter as the “good version” if you can call it such a thing of the “Do-Nothing Democrat” if that makes sense. The thought that basically all Democrats have to do is be faithful stewards of the status quo and allow the arc of the universe to slowly bend towards justice. To tinker around the edges letting incrementalism and institutionalism carry them forward.

Then as time wore on more and more the Democrats would start saying “why shouldn’t I enrich myself a little? After all, all we really have to do is keep the institutions going and they’re doing that just fine on their own,” until you get to the ghouls of today. Where they’re there because they deserve to be there, and they deserve to be there because they’re there. All the while lining their own pockets and saying “Fuck you, I got mine,” to everybody else.

H-how dare you speak ill of the uwu smol bean that is Jimmy Carter?! Something something peanut farm something something.

Seriously though, yeah. Carter’s historic unpopularity and unwillingness to step aside are a big part of why the loss to Reagan was so overwhelming and why Reagan was able to do so much lasting harm to the country.

Yep, they were so traumatized by losing to Reagan that they abandoned everything they ever stood for and started racing right trying to find the “center” and to this day think it’s the only way to win.

Not only is it real, I saw a video that his team cut together of the moment like it was a damn Play of the Game highlight of him “owning” the Republicans. Words cannot express the depths of my hatred for Democratic leadership at this moment. This bill is going to be one of if not the most catastrophic pieces of legislation ever passed and THIS is all their so-called “resistance” amounts to?

I hate them and their strategy of “Do nothing, give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves, then make it the responsibility of the voters to get rid of them so they don’t have to promise anything or stand for anything.” They gave 'em though rope alright, except they’re not hanging themselves, they’re diving off a cliff and the rope is tied around our waists too.

Yeah, in the case of stuff like this the usual failing of the Democrats is limiting these programs too much. Usually born of their pathological need to seem “fiscally responsible” to so-called “moderate” voters. Things like allowing the child tax credit expansion to end with no fight, or means-testing programs to the point of absurdity. They’d rather deny assistance to 10 people who need it than let a single person benefit from assistance they think doesn’t “deserve” it enough.

Generally speaking, for Republicans the cruelty is the point. Whereas for Democrats the cruelty is a byproduct that they lack the imagination to realize doesn’t need to exist.

1992 when he was an MP according to this article. He’s been saying they’re only X years/months/weeks away almost as long as I’ve been alive.

B-but, if we stop rewarding seniority and nothing else even if we run terrible losing campaigns… Multiple times in a row… Th-then it’ll never be MY turn…

Didn’t Pelosi say she wasn’t going to run for reelection this time around? Or am I mistaking her for one of the other Do-Nothing Democrat Fossils?

Shinji, crank that Soulja Boy!

At a minimum this guy won’t have the same level of intuitional clout Pelosi used many many times to hinder progressive policies and engage in political horse trading. So even if this guy is literally a 1-for-1 Pelosi clone he’ll be a much weaker hurdle to overcome than she was.

Biggest reason I never picked it up back in the day. I’m too ace for that fandom.

Huh TIL… That’s actually kinda funny to me since the tail end of my time working retail happens to be when I first started developing gynecomastia. I’m nonbinary so it never bothered me but I found out shortly after when my doctor was trying to figure out another issue that I’ve got really low T levels so it’s funny to me that there’s technically a remote possibility that working retail caused that whole thing.

Like, get enough people signing up or youre fired push.

I used to work at a place that was like this with their loyalty card subscription. The worst part was that only US residents were eligible for it but the last location I worked at was right next to the Canadian border so we got a ton of Canadian customers. Management however would still count all of those as missed sales even though we literally couldn’t sign them up for it. Too high a ratio of missed sales and you started losing hours up to them letting you go.

Not only that but if you started recognizing Canadian bank cards and didn’t still try to sell them on the membership that they couldn’t sign up for you’d get in trouble for that too. So we were forced to be super aggressive with it on those we could sell to if we didn’t want to get in trouble for poor performance. Was totally not worth minimum wage with no commission. I was so glad to finally quit that job.

I love that both he and Adams are running independent campaigns. Fantastic idea, one of you couldn’t beat Mamdani. Surely both of you will succeed.

I’m in this comment, and I don’t like it.

It’s not even like you’re enjoying whatever thing you’re procrastinating with either because you’re sitting there the entire time agonizing over it. Just internally screaming at yourself to get up and do something, anything. Like you’re in the cockpit of a giant robot and the controls just quit on you.

That does indeed look like a face that would be plotting the downfall of the Pope.

I know that the Satanic Temple has membership cards you can buy. I’m sure there’s probably other organizations out there that do as well.

Biggest reason I was never interested in tobacco or weed. My asthma was pretty bad when I was younger and smoke was one of the big ones for triggering an attack.

He/They… Because I’ll never be Him.