I'm starting to think that money in politics is a problem...

The article doesn't even mention the best part, that Fox News realised what was going on and removed the stock ticker soon afterwards.

Tuvok is the best depiction of a Vulcan in all of Star Trek too and I will die on this hill (Spock is half human, so I am not counting him). Tuvok seemed to me like he found humans (and Neelix) to be illogical, difficult to understand, and somewhat annoying; but nonetheless he couldn't help but like them as well, though he wouldn't admit that to them (tangential hot take: Vulcans claim to suppress their emotions, but they still make decisions based on emotion and rationalise them as being based on logic after the fact)

I am absolutely convinced that Trump's entire election strategy was to just coast to victory on "Biden old" and "I got shot". By the time of the republican convention he was confident that he had it in the bag and didn't need to keep trying, so when Biden dropped out it completely shattered his plan and he's got nothing to replace it. He does not have the cognitive ability to pivot against Harris/Walz and his ego is way too big to actually listen to his campaign strategists (if he even has any that aren't just yes men).

* this should not be interpreted as complacency. It is definitely not a sure thing that Harris will win

Says the administration where the president himself committed crimes without consequence.

Because fuck you, who's going to stop him?

And give the death penalty to sex offenders, and classify pornography as a sex offense. See where this is going?

Fucking bullshit, but entirely unsurprising that a cop gets away with a slap on the wrist for something that would put anyone else away behind bars. NSW has never truly moved on from the Rum Corp

Firstly, the USA is obviously not a "dictatorship".

You sure about that? Have you read the news lately?

Aged like avocado

Cults of personality fall apart when the leader dies though.

However, I agree that you can't just assassinate your way out of a deep, societal sickness. You have to address the underlying symptoms or it will just flare up again.

I would rather smear human shit in my eyes than watch it.

"It's alright when I do it" is a core pillar of conservative ideology, so it's fine.

They've already normalised the idea enough that they're polling people about whether or not it should happen as if it's a totally valid question to ask. That shouldn't even be a question, the only response should be "no, fuck off, you can't do that". Once again the media are complicit in sanewashing and normalising this shit.

If it's a legitimate discontinuation the campaign has a way of shutting the whole thing down.

Please understand that this is not directed at you personally, but fuck you. Sincerely, the rest of the world.

Edit because I can't just leave it at that: I'm furious at the US but I also despair for all of the innocent people (Americans and others) who are going to suffer as a result.

"whether they like it or not"

Don't you know that pointing out the obvious consequences of electing trump before the election was actually supporting genocide?

Only the good die young unfortunately.

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, but I want to see the former hurt the latter first.