David

@davefromcalifornia.bsky.social

California 🌞

This will be very unpopular on this site, but if you know a Trump supporter that HAS changed their tone, welcome them to the opposition. We need all the help we can get. This is not a time for "I told you so" and "Gotcha". Our democracy is the most important thing right now.

Either Trump thinks playing to the most extreme part of his base and screwing over the rest of the country is sound political strategy, or he plans on rigging the elections so it doesn't matter. It's one or the other.

Pew research has Trump at 30% approval. I know many will say "30% is still too high!" but you have to understand just how colossally low that number is for any president in modern American politics. It's almost the absolute floor. 30% approval is Iraq war/J6 fallout approval numbers.

Crazy how many Americans still use a Nazi's social media platform. I'd rather give up the Internet entirely than spend one second on that fascist hell hole he calls X. But Americans have trouble quitting anything, even if it would be for their own good. People severely lack mental discipline.

So we don't get the Steelers game locally because even though the stadium is only a one hour drive from here it's considered a "secondary market". The corporate greed is so disgusting, man. Screw your prime video.

MLB playoff format is such a mess. The divisions are a mess, the seeding is a mess. When I started watching baseball you had to win your division to make the postseason. It was hard to do and easy to track. Now it's all over the place. I hate it tbh.

I can't with these maga morons, man. As someone with a social science degree and a minor in history I read comments and I just want to scream. These people are absolute idiots and they have been convinced they are the smartest in the room.

This is a wrestling reference but you know how sometimes during a battle royal a wrestler will wait outside until everything is over then jump in the ring after almost everyone is eliminated and claim victory? That's about to be Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries after the midterms.

Any news media that is even slightly objective should remove themselves from the white house press corps right now. Let the room be filled with Fox, Newsmax, OAN, and all the maga influencers. Make it clear to everyone that what remains is a propaganda corps, not a press corps.

This is why the press should have stood up to Trump every time he insulted and ridiculed anyone who asked him a difficult question. You didn't show any integrity standing up to him because you thought you'd lose your press pass, and now you're losing your press pass anyway.

You guys remember when Chuck Schumer said he talks to his Republican colleagues at the gym and that once Trump approval drops into the 30s they would begin publicly opposing him. Well his approval is 33% and not one single Republican has said anything about him that isn't flattery. Not one.

Trump is going after Kristen Welker for NOT GOING ALONG WITH HIS BULLSHIT. This is actually new ground. Trump's endorsement success has been mixed, which is what Welker said, and he wants to use the FCC to go after her for that. For stating facts. Checkable, verifiable facts over his BULLSHIT.

Democrat voters: "We want you to prosecute the Trump administration to the full extent of the law!" Hakeem Jeffries: "I'm hearing meet with Trump's corrupt son-in-law and find some common ground to work together!"

Social media was a lot of fun when it started out. Myspace was amazing. Very early Twitter was beautiful. Now all social media just feeds you poison to make you rage so you will engage with the content. It's really sad the number this has done on people's brains. Will humanity survive? I doubt it.