May 2023 - "Target removes some Pride Month products after threats against employees" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1177963864/target-pride-month-lgbtq-products-threats

Terrorism is an appropriate word here. Threats of violence to achieve political goals. They threatened employees with violence because the store chose to offer those items. I'm not really sure how much more clear cut it can get. Terrorism isn't just killing people.

terrorism /tĕr′ə-rĭz″əm/ noun

• The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.
• The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
• The practice of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.
• The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.
• Violence against civilians to achieve military or political objectives.
• A psychological strategy of war for gaining political or religious ends by deliberately creating a climate of fear among the population of a state.
• The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.

Were this my wife and this bullshit caused her to die the only viable path I could see is personally watching myself squeeze the life out of every single one of these morally bankrupt shit stains. Such utter trash. I don't know why we haven't exiled these cultists from civil society.

He only mostly supports the insurrection and attempted overthrow of our democracy, so it's cool.

Ah the naivete. Make sure you don't fall off that high horse you're liable to hurt yourself.

Bootlicker Fantasy: "If you defund the police what are you going to do if someone attacks you?"

Police Reality: "We hear a citizen being attacked, maybe if we wait it will go away or become someone else's problem. These things have a tendency to work themselves out where I don't have to put myself in harms way... the most important thing is assuming no risk so I can get home to my family because I'm a hero."

Not anymore. They gave them to Russia under guarantees they wouldt do... pretty much everything they are doing right now.

I'm starting to think Russia might not be trustworthy...

It's funny watching a woman appeal for power to people who think the only place she should be is in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant serving her husband. Just wild.

"Why won't this man sit out to pasture and not make waves?!"

Cause he's one of the few that actually give a shit. Its why the DNC did everything in their power to scuttle his primary run. Can't have a president that actually wants to help the common American cause then the corporate overlords might lose their stranglehold on them.

The largest category of theft in America by a far margin. Even crazier when you consider people are murdered by police over property theft while corporate fucks are untouchable.

"According to the Economic Policy Institute, wage theft costs U.S. workers as much as $50 billion per year — a number far higher than all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/wage-theft-union-labor-biden-iupat

You either support the hate, vitriol and murder against trans people, or you don't. There is no middle ground.

The idea that demanding trans people be treated with the dignity and respect other classes of people expect as being "aggressive" is just a pathetic way to try to deflect from their desire to support the side they know they cannot morally defend. It allows them to pretend "both sides" are at fault in order to deflect for the hate they functionally support. Only a stark moron could look at the current events relative to the treatment of trans people and think they are somehow demanding greater rights than the rest of us have.

Just another flavor of the "both sides" bullshit that has permeated politics; but only one side has abandoned democracy and staged an insurrection while collectively acting like the victims in the aftermath.

If you are a "centrist" and this seems like an appealing position to support, maybe you should take a long, long look in the mirror.

We know Trump lied about the election. He staged a coupt to try to maintain power based on those lies which many of his followers are still paying the price. Hell the Fulton County DA just announced they have evidence team Trump was involved in voting systems breaches across several states.

To think this man is the right man to make your candidate says a great deal about the moral and ethical foundations of both republicanism, and the people that choose to support the party as they prop this traitor up.

I hope you all are paying attention. They don't quell calls for civil war in their ranks. In fact its celebrated as a rallying cry. Republicans are doing everything in their power to subvert democracy and steal our country from the rest of us.

I would argue at this point you cannot be a republican without being a seditionist seeking to install their christofascist dictatorship, whether that's subscribing to the whole bag or supporting as a single issue voter. If you guve them power you are responsible for what they use it for.

These people have been hopped up on so much lies and bullshit dressed up as "patriotism" that they are a very real threat to any American just trying to live their lives and get by. Ask trans Americans how the last couple of years have been as the target of their hate and bigotry.