Tinidril

There is no "may". It is absolutely an assault. Assault doesn't even require physical contact. Battery is arguable and might be a stretch, but it is definitely assault. And no, or was not self defense by any stretch.

As I said though, that's normal times stuff. I don't currently recognize Trump's ICE as a legitimate law enforcement agency, or human beings really.

Yeah, calling it terrorism is bullshit, and actually could itself be considered terrorism in my opinion.

It's still assault, and in normal times I'd support minor charges. Currently, I'd like to buy the guy a new sandwich.

voters are “waking up” to realise Donald Trump’s party “sold the working class a bill of goods”.

Then voters will vote in a Democrat then totally forget what the Republicans did. Over and over again until we finally elect Democrats worthy of holding office.

I may let him.

Newton had massive social adjustment issues and deep religious convictions. I'm not so sure he would react well to the modern world.

Yep, that's a big part of it. Even the good things Democrats did like the ACA were also designed to funnel more wealth upwards.

The liberals stopped worrying about the little guy and soon after stopped even talking to the little guy. Then the little guy stopped voting for Democrats. Fascists however are always ready to fill that vacuum. They don't do shit for the little guy, but they do make him feel heard.

This isn't true. Colony collapse disorder has been a big problem for beekeepers.

Fucking a, you really don't get analogies. I'm explaining how two people (or groups) can contribute to the same predictable outcome in totally different ways.

Dude. They’re not even remotely the same. Just stop.

No kidding. I still haven't said they are.

So in your world, Democrats are victims,

No, in this case we are the victims. Let me set aside analogies since you can't seem to handle the fact that that they are never 100% applicable to every aspect of anything.

The Democratic consultants who lost to Trump in 2024 are the same consultants who lost to Trump in 2016. What organization rewards that level of failure with another shot? The party itself is almost entirely identical to the party of 2016 because the Democrats learned nothing. Kamala's campaign could have been swapped with Hilary's campaign and nobody would have noticed. Even now the Democrats are shaking up nothing. The postmortem they did of the Harris campaign excluded pretty much everything the campaign actually did. Democrats in general, voters included, want to get past Trump then go right back to being the loser party they have been for decades. It's pathological, and it's just going to bring us to Trump v2. (Being optimistic that we ever see a real election again.)

I'm really hoping that the Hispanics that went for Trump have seen enough to snap them out of it.

A man beats his wife on the regular. Cops get called, wife lies and defends husband, cops go away. Rinse and repeat until the wife is dead. They both contributed to that outcome. They both danced the dance at the cliff's edge until the inevitable happened. Am I saying they are both the same? Hell no. The guy is a monster. That doesn't mean the wife didn't contribute to that outcome.

Yeah, like the entirety of human history. However, the course was pretty clear and America was pretty committed to it - despite a whole lot of work done by a whole lot of people to change it. Hell, most of the country is still committed to it. All the Democrats who want to get past Trump so things can get back to "normal" haven't learned a damn thing.