For Republicans, truth is... honestly overrated

I don't think the audience Vance's message is supposed to resonate with cares about being fact-checked, or facts in general.

Trump doesn't care if he's being fact-checked because facts don't matter to him, and his voters have the same outlook.

I wish Walz did better at calling out ALL of Vance’s bullshit. Vance said, “we as republicans need to do better to earn your trust on bodily autonomy.”

It doesn’t take much effort to say bullshit. If you want to have more trust, then don’t get rid of the only thing protecting women’s bodies!

I still find the fact that the ultra auth-left instance hexbear.net is the most republican instance on the entire fediverse extremely amusing

Saying this is a no-brainer is essentially in and of itself, a no-brainer. But yet, here we are, frustratingly attempting to educate leftists and undecided people on the dangers of “protest voting” and how cataclysmically dangerous it is to assume that you know better without ever seeming to possess the ability to simply just prove it.

We have the receipts. We know damn well what is going to happen if Trump is allowed to win.

And if you think you’re teaching someone a lesson with your withheld vote, I’ve got news for you-

A LOT of people are going to be hurt. And the ones you think it will be, the ones you’d want it to be- won’t be counted among them.

I promise you this.

Is it just my imagination, or did that weasely fuck spend the entire time Walz was talking trying to do a Jim Halpert look at the camera?

This needs to be a billboard.

EEEEEEVERYWHEEEERE!

I’m no fan of Vance, but if you’re going to put Walz’s office in there, you have to include it for both of them.

Can someone please fucking explain to me how people are saying Vance won this debate?

Every time republicans mention mental illness in this country ask them if they are just scapegoating or how much money they would be willing to put down in the budget to ensure everyone had access to mental healthcare

Sadly, both will resonate equally with their bases. Although I think they Walz had a better performance, I don’t think this debate changed anything.

To be fair, if we think about the bigger picture and not just abortion, unless US States disappear then people's rights will continue to vary quite a bit depending on their geographical location in the same country, including their body autonomy...

"Facts are gay." - some Republican.

The sad truth is that for nearly half of American, Vance's statement would resonate with them.

I believe we need to abolish the presidency in the near future and distribute the powers to the House and Senate. Powers of government to the House and Powers of State to the Senate, with some fudging for checks and balances, like house passes laws and Senate has to intervene to veto them with some qualified majority rules like the EU has.

I believe this has to be done because it's pretty clear that a system with a single powerful leader inherently puts all the strain and division of the nation into that leader, especially when there's no recourse when public sentiment turns against that leader except for voting them out, if that's even an option to begin with.

A dual-parliamentary system with some restructuring of the House and Senate would go a LONG way in venting a significant amount of the pressure that has built up under our elected leaders as of late.

Also replace the singular supreme court with a sortitionate bench that's drawn randomly for each case that rises to federal jurisdiction to shoot jurisdiction shopping dead.