Is trying to convert the cult. We need to register more voters. It is very sad, but, that’s where we are.

Trump could BBQ puppies on the Rose Garden slab and they'd be just fine with it. "Just trying a new recipe."

Very informal chat about what plans for the fall were. I simply asked are you going to vote? Are you registered to vote?

Brief instructions on how to register here in Ohio with the gentle admonition to do it now before proposed changes are in place.

And then we went onto another subject and more good food

Boebert won in 2022 by 546 votes. 546 votes, the difference between winning and losing.

There were 565,000 registered voters, yet only 335,000 votes were cast. All Adam Frisch needed to win was a mere 600 votes from the more than 230,000 voters who couldn't waste their precious time to cast a ballot.

and wear it often when I travel rural areas

And yes, it is sad.

Her father and brothers are trumpers

They all watch FOX, or worse, all day every day

They don’t discuss the depth of any issue, they parrot the talking points they are fed hour by hour


It makes me angry, and sad.

That party needs to be crushed completely.

Can we find no way to do this?

Really??

Nothing at all?

If that woman is run over by a bus, I won't care. No matter what terrible thing befalls her, I'll simply smile and go about my business. My empathy is over for those people. They can die in the gutter for all I care at this point. They're no longer worthy of my sympathy.

Health or 25th are coming

The reaper is our only hope.

that can be watched over and over and over...

... and the rest of us aren't in it. Thank the good Lord for that too.

What do you like about him and then why? They need to say it out loud.

Decades ago they learned that a lot of people disapprove of their vile racism, so they took it inside. They still say gross things to one another but in public it all gets covered up with euphemisms, excuses, and defiant stares.

We know why they like Trump. They know we know.

We need to make them own their vile beliefs and not let them off easy.

Trump is the direct result of decades of frustration among the millions of Americans whose beliefs became unacceptable.

The racists are angry that they aren't allowed to say the vile things they believe. They blame everyone who stopped them: the "woke" liberals, the Democrats who passed the Civil Rights Acts, the schoolteachers who dare to teach historic facts instead of white supremacist fantasy, the "liberal media" and Hollywood that dares to portray Black people as human.

As rural communities faded and people struggled, they blamed the Democrats. As small cities turned to rust belt poverty, they blamed Democrats. In their minds this is all the Democrats' fault.

They will continue to vote for horrible Republicans who steal their money. Fox News, hate radio, X, podcasts - the billionaires figured out that hundreds of millions of Americans are angry, desperate, and ready to believe any conman who says what they believe.

Not sure a democracy can survive this.

We can’t let stupid and vicious people steal our democracy.

why don't they look for Dem voters in diners to interview

My older son is in that category and says a whole lot of the podcasters he listens to are disgusted with Trump too.

Trump is an old, sick man who can't run for office again. There are dozens of other Republicans waiting in the wings and they're all competing to be the billionaires' next tool.

That's one of the first things we need to happen this year.

is not 1/3 of the country.

What's with all the doom and gloom around here the last several days?

If people want to give up, go ahead and give up, the rest of us don't need to read about it.