Every veto is a weapon in the 2028 election. Focus on affordability: housing, energy costs, medical costs.

I do worry this is a honeypot or something.

You don’t like personalised advertising not because it feels invasive, but because you’re scared of being predictable and\or manipulable.

Nah, personalized advertising is the slimy salesperson who pretends to be your best friend from back in high school. It's acting like there's a very close personal relationship using privileged information. If it were a human, it would be the creepiest and most uncomfortable conversation you could ever have.

That'd be nice but I'm thinking even simpler things that expose the MAGA-cares-about-Americans lie and avoid third rail topics. The point is to punch fatal holes in Trump's power. Overreaching is the easiest way to blow any lead that we gain. I don't want to sound like Seth Moulton but we're going to get much farther by picking the right battles. The MAGA base feeds on culture war bullshit so don't give it to them.

• Tax the rich. Progressive tax schemes.
• Housing affordability
• Restore ACA, Medicaid
• Restore SNAP (and flood the news with enough legit Trump corruption stories that they don't dare say the name "Minnesota")

If you want to go international, start with Ukraine and Iran. We don't even need to investigate the kompromat. Just pass a bill with undeniable support for Ukraine - missiles, intel, etc.

Dems should start holding daily WH-style press conferences in a dedicated space. Give it enough gravitas that the right wing news can't ignore it.

Obama was a community organizer, a Constitutional scholar, and holds a law degree from Harvard. It was his belief in the American system that gained him worldwide admiration and respect. We can't be protesting corruption while also criticizing the incorruptible.

Yeah, it's actually an amazing incentive to pass progressive bills that tackle affordability and inequality. Since the laws will go no where, Moderates can vote yes because they don't have to be concerned about their leash holders. MAGA will be clearly all about culture war and oligarch power rather than their facade of caring for "real Americans".

This is assuming the Dems can get their shit together and focus on economic and corruption issues.

As a corollary, AI takes those out of date TODOs and READMEs as gospel truth and doesn't look any further. I kept a "janitor list" in main() but maybe wasn't too great at scrubbing it on the regular. AI took a long detour to work around problems that didn't exist anymore.

I do use it and find it useful but it's like your kids helping you cook dinner. You can not take your eyes off it. Otherwise you get to flip a coin between firetrucks or emergency room.

It's a trap though. Lots of people criticize candidates for being only anti-Whatever and not caring about local citizens or having a plan for local issues.

Although throwing MAGA in jail is the most important thing to help local citizens and issues, IMO.

America, more than ever, varies a lot by state.

I'm from New England. I vote in person because it's fast and easy. In my urban town, everyone lives within a 5-10 minute walk of their polling location. There is never a line and it takes like 2 minutes tops. It's a paper ballot, fill-in-the-bubble style. I had to vote absentee once: I swung through town hall and took care of it in like 15 minutes - same deal except it went in a signed and sealed envelope.

To be fair, he said "Gen Z Trump voters", not simple Gen Z.

US here. Scan-as-you-go plus self checkout is amazing. Lay out your reusable bags in the cart when you arrive then pick-scan-bag through the store. Self checkout becomes a 2 minute process at most, no matter how many items you have and everything's already bagged for the trip home.

Our local store (Stop&Shop) is rather trashy compared to competitors but we go there because of the fast scan and self-checkout process.

Not so fast. The MAGA Era is distinctly different. J Edgar was one guy on a power trip. But MAGA has every red state government publicly and shamelessly gerrymandering districts and purging voter rolls. Trump has CEOs bending the knee and gifting gold statues.

The "always has been" meme is funny but it seriously downplays how bad things have gotten in the past 10 years. Do you see how it's kind of a "both sides" style dismissal?