I want America to prosper and I want to protect American values from right-wing radicals that are in charge. I’m very passionate about it. In fact, I live in a red state and I want it to just be better and no longer radicalized by lies and hate.

I very passionately want America to heal from this illness of hate and apathy.

If that makes me a bad person, then fuck me I guess.

That’s because people confuse nationalism with patriotism. I love my country, which is why I want it to be better. Others love their country because it gives them permission to be worse.

To be clear, it’s still not good. I support any kid that wants to sit out for the pledge or sit or kneel for the national anthem. It should always be non-obligatory. In fact, I don’t love the word “allegiance” to begin with.

But it would be significantly worse if the pledge of allegiance was to Donal Trump. Ultimately, that’s what many people are following, but it’s not default in schools to pledge allegiance to him or anything.

Okay, but tbf, pledging allegiance to the flag/country is much better than to the self alleged dictator.

If it’s how they operate, it’s normal for their country, by definition.

They’re straight up saying it’s not good.

Does this just mean that he wasn’t doing it on behalf of anyone? But everything else is still the same?

He it was still sex trafficking and powerful men bought them. But Epstein didn’t have a boss or anything?

I thought Snoop Dogg just played for him because of the pardon. But he was never actually maga.

Yep, both were looking for a fight. But Kyle was actually trying to get out of the situation. These people are literally executing people.

Apparently I need to move to California.

Legacy media would be covering this a major scandal if the left did it. And people still say that the mainstream media has a leftwing bias.

People are suddenly acting like the old videos don’t even exist. I had to watch them because people refuse to be honest and you have to see shit for yourself.

I’m now pissed that I was made to watch those videos and pissed that they’re gaslighting that they suddenly don’t exist and/or matter.

Oh, I know he’s not legalizing it. Just commenting on how he said he would in the first term.

It is the tiniest step in the right direction to reclassify.

He also indicated he would not be open to legalizing cannabis for recreational use. “It’s never safe to use powerful controlled substances in a recreational manner,” he said.

And 5 steps back.

A broken rapist, racist, treasonous calendar is right once a year (or maybe once a decade).

Its doesn’t undo a decade-long campaign to dismantle the country for profit and power. But it’s nice that he finally did something positive.

Anyways, remember when he said the left would suddenly be against legalizing weed once he supported it, and everyone collectively said “fucking legalize it”?

Just so you know, I’ve wondered the same thing. Like, in 50 years if my son snapped and killed me or some shit, I wouldn’t want him to get the death penalty.

Am I going to have to get a bumper sticker saying I don’t support that shit? Dammit.

America first is literally just progressivism. Help America, then help everyone else.

The Republican “America first” has always been fucking over everyone so nobody notices they’re fucking over us as well.

The NFL changed their kickoff rules to force more return attempts, making it more exciting since before it would just get kicked out the back and spotted at the 25. This has been pretty much unanimously accepted as a positive change.

He thinks anything new is woke and bad. Change is bad. Go back to how things were. Etc.

Tangentially related, he made an appearance at the Commanders stadium. This is notable because it’s D.C.'s team, he asked to have the stadium named after him, it was a highly racist mascot before being changed which right-wingers still complain about, and he got booed at his appearance this last weekend.

Not really. Withholding compensation only impacts those with the least amount of outside money. In other words, the most corrupt would be able to leverage it against the least corrupt.

I think it’s bullshit that “keep the government open” hasn’t been made permanent yet. Same with paying our debts.

My religion explicitly says that fetuses aren’t people until their first breath. Does that mean abortions aren’t murder as long as the mother is Christian?

I never got the complaints about Manchin. He had morals and was left of everyone in the GOP ,and he was in a seat that pretty much could go any further to the left.

Fetterman can eat a bag of ducks though. He’s literally just appealing to Republicans like he’s about to flip.

What hasn’t been working? Giving talking space to right wing extremists and withholding context instead of unbridled information due to fears of being considered partisan. But I doubt that’s what they’re going to be fixing.