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ZorPern's avatar

Hey Cakes, Saw this yesterday and thought of you

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1808522677239300450

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Cakes We Like's avatar

That's amazing, and completely beyond my skill level. Maybe one day...

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ZorPern's avatar

That plastic surround for the gelatin (?) was interesting.

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kasteel1's avatar

White chocolate is not chocolate. It is an abomination.

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Kay Ducky's avatar

It is different, but still great. Like oral sex.

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Cakes We Like's avatar

It's really nice when eaten with sharp raspberries, or lemon curd. And it's delicious when it's been caramelised.

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Demodocus's avatar

I dare not learn to make mousse, for I love it far too much. MmmmmmmmmMMMmmmm

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BillEGoatSmile's avatar

Nom, nom, nom.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Vaguely related foods question: Is it wrong to feed Brioche to birds?

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Cakes We Like's avatar

It's no worse than feeding them cake (which used to be a regular thing my mum did over the winter, she'd put leftover cake outside for the robins).

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Just… just… just worried about the egg content…

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Cakes We Like's avatar

Our chicken used to love getting leftover egg fried rice and crushed egg shells. Most birds will happily eat egg.

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Richard S's avatar

CANNIBAL BIRDS!!!

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Eggsactly! (with apologies…)

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NatalyaResists's avatar

This is lovely! And I love white chocolate. Thank you!

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Ooh, so pretty! I love the history bits too 😍

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, CakesWeLike. I'll never make this, because we're vegan and I loathe and detest white chocolate. However, I love covering berries with dark chocolate, and there are plenty of recipes for vegan mousse. Yum!

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Cakes We Like's avatar

I know you can use the water from cans of chickpeas(?) as a substitute for egg whites in most baking recipes, I just can't get my head around the taste.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Butterbeans (giant lima beans) make the best aquafaba, and I don’t use the salty water from cans.

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Cakes We Like's avatar

We love butterbeans in the Cakes household, Mr Cakes tends to use them to bulk out casseroles and curries.

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Zyxomma's avatar

I've made macarons with aquafaba whipped into meringue, and there was no "beany" taste. I've never been able to eat eggs, particularly the yolk, without feeling ill.

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Cakes We Like's avatar

It's probably all in my head, but I'm not vegan and have no issue with eating eggs so I've never felt the need to try to get over my discomfort.

If you can make a vegan version then I hope you get the chance to do so soon, it's a really nice little dessert.

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Miss Grundy's avatar

Funny how Pooty and Xi never come out of a meeting with Pres. OHJB with a big smile on their faces, unlike when the Orange Combover was in the Oval. After that meeting with Pooty, Tangerini came out of that meeting looking like a whipped dog.

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"M"'s avatar

we called him Reek for quite awhile after that, didn't we?

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WasX's avatar

Looks scrumptious, Cakes We!!!

Not on my own nutritional cruelty regimen at this time, but I'll keep it in mind for future! Here's a longtime favorite of mine from the great Maida Heatter; pot de chocolat: https://netcookingtalk.com/forums/threads/pot-de-chocolat-mousse.1054/

And HUGE congratulations, fren! I'm incredibly relieved for my Brit frens, who've been through such grief in the most recent years, especially. One works in the NHS. Several kids in the family of some friends have diabetes, some kids are on the gender and autism spectrums (spectra? IDK) so they've had good reasons to be stressed. THROW THE VERMIN IN THE FUCKING SEA!!!!

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NatalyaResists's avatar

Maida Heatter's books are so great!

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WasX's avatar

The old one I have is nearly destroyed, LOL!

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Aquaman, Real Estate Investor.'s avatar

Steady on, I think that was part of the Reform Manifesto.

/S.

I don't even live there any more and it's a huge relief.

And while I'm not going to rubbish anyone's concerns, I'm much more optimistic about Labour being movable on those issues, especially with such a big majority.

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WasX's avatar

i wrote about their *previous* concerns in especially the most recent years; they've had good reasons. Keir definitely showed signs of moving to center prior to this shock election announcement, but that is common in many campaigns. With Raynor in there, especially, I think it shows he's not throwing in with the wrong major ideas. It'll pull back to more historically Labour values, I hope. Got that northern Red Wall back!

p.s. of course, FUCK Reform. Lower than lower vermin!!!

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Aquaman, Real Estate Investor.'s avatar

Given fact that Starmer used to be a human rights lawyer, I'm optimistic that he's going to be better.

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WasX's avatar

Just had a chat with a friend there, IT genius more recently working in Civil Service but just moving on, the relief is insane even for someone as tough as her. She's so helpful explaining details.

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James Baskin's avatar

"General idiot' Tommy Tuberville blasted over claim that 'Obama's running the country'"

You say that like it's a bad thing.

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Demodocus's avatar

I wish he'd go back to his village

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Richard S's avatar

They don't want him.

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Demodocus's avatar

they aren't alone.

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paperlesstiger's avatar

For a coach, he seems to be ignorant about teamwork. Democrats have a platform, not just the whims of a wannabe dictator like Trump.

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Demodocus's avatar

I hope the dude never coached an all-star team like the American League v National League in baseball. He doesn't seem to understand that last week's competitors can indeed be this week's teammates.

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Antifa Commander's avatar

I'll take Biden's brainpower over Tommy's any day of the week.

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Lefty Wright's avatar

It is for Biden. Combining two of the three people Republicans hate the most into one candidate. The third being Hillary Clinton.

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CripesAmighty's avatar

Ya know, up until two days ago, I knew nothing about Kier Starmer beyond vague twaddling that he was some dull as dishwater technocrat.

And then I saw his acceptance (?) address, and was, frankly stunned by its generous, quiet-yet-direct, simple eloquence.:

https://youtu.be/g6YJ0GMi0hk?si=qmbfLDQQq0OJO0oI

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GH Swell's avatar

Here’s hoping he punts tory policies like the Cass report into a lake of fire then. Or at least the Thames.

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ExecutorElassus's avatar

The Rwanda Deportation Initiative has already been consigned to the midden-heap of history, thankfully.

But alas! Crip Dyke pointed out that Starmer endorsed the author of the Cass report for a peerage, so not everything is great with him.

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GH Swell's avatar

[this vote calls for] “a return to public service” [ie effective government services]…’should treat every single person in this country with respect,’ hopefully not empty rhetoric

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paperlesstiger's avatar

I guess the Brits got tired of conservative crazies. I wish America would.

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Oy!'s avatar

Yeah . . . but then there is France. The Creeping Authoritarian Disease is spreading

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Ukraine/Haitian's avatar

theres nothing conservative about trump

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phantom_stranger's avatar

He is indeed a conservative: conservatism has never been anything other than the conservation of the power and privilege of the powerful and privileged. Everything else is just distracting blather.

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GH Swell's avatar

He is the boot heel of conservatism that they previously didn’t want anyone to see.

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CripesAmighty's avatar

Or any of them. They are radical revanchist Nazis. Full stop.

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CripesAmighty's avatar

It seems they saw the abyss and turned back. We, and the French seem to be shambling to oblivion.

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zuludaddy (seem 'on key?')'s avatar

(auntie beeb has pics of him as new wave kiddo from the day)

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C&A Bongo Man's avatar

Very Stuart Adamson in Big Country vibes.

At least we know he didn't grow up bopping to Gilbert and Sullivan, though they may have been too avant garde for some of the Conservative caricatures we've been served up.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

Ricky Gervais was a thin, pop singer with a hit single in the 1980s.

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

Hit? 117 with a bullet.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

Well, it wasn't number one, but "Bitter Heart" was number 79 on the UK Singles Chart.

Other fun facts: his other single became an anthem for teens in the Phillipines, and Ricky Gervais became friends with David Bowie later in life.

He's led an interesting life.

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zuludaddy (seem 'on key?')'s avatar

(still a dick nao, though :/ )

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

I want one right now! Thank you for a delicious article with great pictures. I love chocolate mousse.

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2Cats2Furious's avatar

Awesome. It’s pouring rain again. Why do I listen to the news when it tells me Beryl isn’t coming for me until midnight, which is (checks notes) 12 hours from now?

https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/hurricane-beryl-path-07-07-24/index.html

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CripesAmighty's avatar

Just getting it here. Ahhhhhhhh.

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2Cats2Furious's avatar

Stay safe!

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CripesAmighty's avatar

Thx! Cover's on the car and it feels great.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Hm. I've never had white chocolate mousse. I suppose that would be lighter than regular mousse. Lighter still would be a whipped, fruit-infused divinity, I think.

Question: I've always been a milk with chocolate kind of guy. Sometimes string coffee, if it's a coffee time of day. But a woman I dated for a while was really into red wine with chocolate. I could never get into that myself, so I'll put this to the Wonketariat: what kind of wine with WHITE chocolate? Or wine-like, maybe? A brandy?

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VogonPoeticLicense's avatar

Dixie had a White Chocolate Mousse beer in the 90s. Very sweet, you wouldn't want to drink a second one.

My experiments with maltzilla and Callebaut white chocolate lead me to believe that a malt forward whisky would pair well.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Such good ideas!

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

Coffee, or esperesso, put into chocolate brownies as they bake = YUM x 10,000

Champagne is good with anything.

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Pope Scipio Newburyporticus's avatar

White chocolate is basically just sweetened cocoa butter.

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VogonPoeticLicense's avatar

It's flavored with milk powder and vanilla. I attribute losing my taste for white chocolate since childhood to it being made with imitation vanilla.

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Pope Scipio Newburyporticus's avatar

Vanillin. Oddly it's the exact same chemical that gives vanilla it's main flavor note, but real vanilla has other flavors and isn't as strong.

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EyeQueue's avatar

When it's caramelized it develops this deep, butterscotchy type flavor that is really good.

You can buy bars of so-called "blonde" chocolate, which is basically just caramelized white chocolate.

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VogonPoeticLicense's avatar

On the drawing board is toasted milk powder + burnt sugar, to compare with, e.g. , sweetened condensed milk.

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Pope Scipio Newburyporticus's avatar

Oh it's quite delicious. It has a very subtle flavor. I think it's just interesting that it's actually kind of a byproduct of making "actual" chocolate.

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EyeQueue's avatar

A sweetened version of what you rub on your skin, LOL!!!!!

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Resource NW's avatar

White chocolate was made for White Chocolate chip and macadamia nut cookies. Baileys and coffee would be the best side drink.

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Lefty Wright's avatar

Biden had better start paying as much attention to Gaza as he is with the bullshit dementia claims. The important Democratic voting block of 18 to 24 year olds have picked this up as a crusade. While Biden continues to ship missiles and rockets that Israel uses to demolish schools and hospitals, saying Israel has not crossed a "red line" despite destroying many of the civilian buildings and infrastructure in Gaza. So in addition to the 40,000 mostly civilians killed and unknown number of seriously wounded civilians the rest are shuttling between one neighborhood to another as Israel flattens their current housing,schools, and hospitals, destroys water, sewer, and electric power infrastructure, restricts and sometimes stands by as Israeli settlers destroy food aid, and eliminates the few jobs there before October 2023.

Considering that in Pennsylvania alone almost 1.2 million citizens are age 18 to 24, and they vote for Democrats more than Republicans, losing just a few percentage points of that group when they stay home on election day will lose the state to Trump. Biden needs to move his red line and at least stop sending US weapons so Israel can destroy Gaza. Like Trump, Netanyahu needs war and chaos to stay in power and put off his own legal problems. Biden is assisting him.

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

Go ahead, Jr, and fuck yourself. I'm old, white male and have 20 or so years if I am lucky. I, personally, would do ok if Orange Turd were to defile the round room again. 18 to 24 year olds will have a good 60+ years to reflect on the consequences of throwing a tantrum for not getting their pony.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Agree and disagree. Biden should not let this crisis entirely divert his attention from governance of tough problems. Over-focus on a political crisis is a recipe for mistakes, while governance successes help with the politics.

As for Gaza, though...you realize, don't you, that much of this political Jihad is being driven by single-issue zealots on both sides of the Gaza issue who are perfectly willing and in fact eager to destroy Biden in order to advance their cause, don't you? You do not need to look hard to discover strong ties to AIPAC among those Dem politicians who are publicly attacking Biden, while the loudest far left attackers are also the most fanatical anti-Dem establishment ones. Our problem, right now, is the same one that's plagued the party forever: fanatical factions who are willing to destroy everything in order to get their way, and right now there's blood on the water.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

"Our problem, right now, is the same one that's plagued the party forever: fanatical factions who are willing to destroy everything in order to get their way, and right now there's blood on the water."

The irony is that they will not get ANYTHING other than the loss of their democracy if Trump wins, but they will be the ones bitching the loudest when Trump sends the military out to quell any demonstrations they want to hold on Gaza, or any other issue.

They also would HATE living under a Hamas controlled government.

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Well, that's true of the pro-Palestinian zealots. The pro-Israeli zealots are from the more conservative part of the party. They would find Republican Israel policies acceptable, if not ideal, as long as the wingers don't decide to kick-start the end times by nuking the entire region. And they are of a class of people who can tell themselves that they will not be PERSONALLY harmed by another Trump presidency.

Gotta say that the latter half of that statement also applies to pro-Palestinian zealots. The true believers are mostly white and reasonably affluent for their age. Part of the problem is that so many Americans think they don't have any real skin at risk in this, it's all just a big ol' game. Because nothing really bad ever happens to middle-class white Americans. Except that ain't true this time.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

My brother is one of those white middle class guys who's going to vote for Trump, because he thinks he'll get another tax cut. I can't WAIT to tell him Project 2025 wants to cut benefits for veterans.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Trump may not implement all of the Project 2025 ideas, but the ones he's almost certain to vigorously implement will drive the entire economy into the shitter. We're talking Great Depression bad, it will knock out fundamentals like labor supply and trade, not just highly-leveraged financials.

And then there's physical harms, too. I seriously doubt those will stay confined to the people MAGA hate.

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Trump is the luckiest person who has ever lived. He was TOTALLY unqualified to be POTUS, or even a dogcatcher, yet somehow he "beat" the most qualified person to ever run for POTUS, by losing by 3 million votes.

He inherited a booming economy from Obama, and rode that wave for the first 3 years of his presidency. I remember thinking how lucky he was because if any major problem arose, he'd have no clue to handle it. Along comes the pandemic, and he showed the world how truly incompetent he was.

The difference between his 1st and 2nd terms is that he'll have no old school Republicans to keep him in check. He'll totally destroy the economy, and probably democracy. It's going to be a shitshow that I don't want to hang around and watch.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

America needs to stop building guns for the entire fucking world to kill each other with.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

Mexico is pretty sick of us sending our guns to their cartels, too.

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everett fanuelli's avatar

Well if the 18 to 24 year old idiots think that voting their conscience is more important than being realistic then they will just indirectly elect Trump who will allow Israel to turn Gaza into smoldering crater. Let that sit on their conscience

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Lefty Wright's avatar

If voting with your mind instead of emotions was a thing we would be seeing Hillary just finishing a second term and a 6-3 liberal majority in the Supreme Court.

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EyeQueue's avatar

I'm so tired of them. :( I care about what is happening in Gaza, but I care more about the collapse of democracy in my own country.

They need to grow up and come correct.

NPR was interviewing a transwoman in WI who claimed she won't vote for Biden and isn't going to vote at all in this election b/c Gaza. Gee. I wonder how well a Trump admin will treat you as a transwoman, lady. :( *sigh*

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Lefty Wright's avatar

And how well Trump will treat Palestinians. Basically, Biden is doing nothing but Trump would probably agree to have Palestinians pushed back into the desert, living in tents..

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EyeQueue's avatar

This, too. :(

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CripesAmighty's avatar

THANK YOU. If the world's largest economic/military power descends into a rogue totalitarian terror state, they--and we all--are gonna really have something to worry about (Missy!)

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

I had no idea Mexico was turning into an illiberal democracy until recently. If American democracy falls, I think that leaves Germany, the UK, and a few other smaller countries.

I envision Putin, Trump, and Xi dividing up the world, and there will be nobody to ride to the rescue.

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

*waves in Canadian

Even little PeePee isn’t going to make us a fascist dictatorship. More a case of this too shall pass.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

I may be joining you up there!

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EyeQueue's avatar

It is really scary. :( I wish people were more decent and weren't willing to embrace fascists b/c things aren't going to suit them.

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CripesAmighty's avatar

Fuck. Just read the Brennan Center summary. It's like fucking covid.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

It's hard to believe America has fallen so far in such a short period of time. The real fascism started in 2000 when Democrats couldn't be bothered to vote for Gore in Florida, and Scalia anointed Bush the Lesser the king of America. Then he got to appoint Roberts and Alito (arguably a worse POS than Trump and Scalia).

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Peg's avatar

I'm a very old, and yes, I remember being young. Our emotions did not override our logic when our college friends started being shanghaied to 'Nam. The ones with connections joined the Guard, and the poor's were sent as fodder. We were too young to vote, but we joined the SDS, we marched, we took the Greyhound to MLK's I Have a Dream speech. Some of us were killed helping Africa American's register to vote.

Our emotions were very hot indeed. Being young is no excuse. If they are too hidebound, apathetic, stupid and narrow minded to see the bigger picture, so be it. They are the ones who will pay the price.

Rant Over.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

They have no idea how long it's going to take to get democracy back after they let Trump win, and lose all their rights. Sure hope none of them have an ectopic pregnancy, or even an unwanted pregnancy.

I know if Trump wins, we won't see democracy again in my lifetime, which is why I plan on self deporting if he wins.

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EyeQueue's avatar

True, but at that age I was 100% capable of understanding a serious situation like this if someone explained it to me.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

I voted for Reagan in 1980, to my everlasting shame. I was young, and my parents were Republicans, so I listened to them. I never made that mistake again.

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