Vermillion

I took the day off after bawling over Dolly on my prior commute and now this UGH I'm exhausted.

Some of these headlines are really overwhelming. People forget she was one of the first prominent donors to the Moderna vaccine and was instrumental in turning around Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, where her properties employ roughly 60,000 people.

There was a music industry poll done of thousands in the business such as stage hands that have worked for hundreds of artists sound crew, etc., and the resounding answer of everyone's favorite artist and sweetest cross generations and demographics was Dolly Parton. It wasn't even close. I don't have the link to provide, but it really speaks to what an incredible artist and person she was legends thrown around too much, but it really describes this woman well.

You're assigning Cuban American mentality to all Latinos is literally the EXACT problem endless memos and thinkpieces have been written about as to the DNC's current problems with that demographic. And yes, it's inherently racist, even coming from a black person. I didn't save your quotes for instant receipts like many here for fights or debates like this but ascribing their thinking to folks like the culinary unions in Vegas made up largely of Latinos that happened to support Bernie in the primary just because you don't like their economic policy or thought they were brainwashed as you implied is part of the problem. @Communion bizarrely supported Jasmine on here but as yet another reminder for you, I never supported either and never ascribed an unfair benefit of the doubt regarding his Israel donors, her crypto lobbyists or the supposed comments Allred threw Talarico under the bus for. Since that he said he said will never be solved, we're left with who's to blame NOW for a divided base going forward to November - the guy who's trying to reconcile and the woman hellbent on not doing so. I suppose you'll say it's the centrist equivalent of progressives continually staying home nationally. I just can't wait until it's over. Whether Texas deserves their felon that will be entering office I won't unpack. Good luck.

It won't but I do appreciate the optimism, particularly when it comes down to close enough margins that don't make it completely delusional.

After coming back? Were they banned or did they just have a meltdown and self-imposed moratorium?

Do we need to revisit your comments on Crockett's slave mentality quote and Latino men having it coming? You probably think your gaslighting's going to continue to work here. Thankfully it isn't.

Homophobia can manifest outside of a religious basis. Lazy argument to suggest otherwise. Annoyed by the points I'm seeing here.

Your gaslighting to folks here that the user (me) that's posted more here about Elon than probably anyone else isn't going to work. It was amusing but now exhausting you still think it will and try anyways. If you want to quote where I've said I had a problem here with Bluesky or direct URL postings be my guest. You can't because there is none. Until mobile forum postings work better on Bluesky I stick with the news break speed on X or as a URL reference that X tends to beat. Bluesky is also far from infallible due to its founding by ardent Zionists.

Many have actually, but too many voters nationally and locally feel like it's now just a deliberate distraction from (or hypocrisy when compared to) a genocide they gaslight about or other larger existential crisis like climate change.

Again, the circular arguments I keep seeing here since I joined this forum. Leftists' blind spot is that economic pitches will work on voters whose main motivation according to multiple studies that can't be tracked easily by polling is actually cultural resentment, manifesting in the culture wars, even if they die by a death of despair. The economic misfortune did not foster the cultural resentment - the latter was always going to be there regardless. Centrists' blind spot is to focus on the culture wars at the expense of any substantial enough change in economic policy because it would either hurt their bottom line or the lobbyists paying them.

There's plenty of prior centrist members here who I respected because they actually made their arguments. Sure they fought for dozens of pages with @Communion , but they actually had points to deliver. All I've seen you do here is Molotov drive-by's with no follow-up. If that's not trolling I don't know what is.