The dnc has moved so far to the right that they appeal to former Trump supporters is not the flex that Democrats think it is
Tell me you didn’t read the article, without telling me you didn’t read the article.
I have a lot of sympathy for this lady. It’s easier than people think to get sucked into cults - even get smart people. And this lady is an example of that. Her involvement in the January 6th sedition riots is shameful. But we all make mistakes, and she was punished for it. Whether it was enough of a punishment is another matter. But the important thing is that she realizes and acknowledges her mistake. Good on her.
If our justice system is supposed to rehabilitate people instead of punish, then it seems like she received the correct sentence.
It’s not though, it’s designed to provide for profit prisons a slave labor work force. Mandatory minimum sentences.
USA Today is so proud of themselves.
A feel-good story about a J6 participant with a photo of a little old lady holding her dog, no less. It’s fucking bizarre.
They left out the part that it wasn’t her first time (she was involved in the Idaho Capitol breach in 2020) along with her posting a pic of herself with a gun on a Facebook post about J6.
All corporate news are scrambling to find some story about Harris/Trump to get the horse race going full throttle. There’s no “her emails”, trump’s schtick is old and smelly, Harris hasn’t obliged with a goof up - there’s nothing to drive the tsunami of clicks a corporate news organization exists to foster.
So they’re fishing. NYT went with “Harris is changing the face of the Presidency even before the election”, which - wtf was that. Others have tried the old reliable “Trump says outrageous bullshit” but to little avail. Even techbro turd Corporal Crayon can’t Animal-House his way into a decent amount of clicks.
So USA Today - the news organization that launched with a specific mandate of keeping the writing at a fifth-grade level - said, “Hey member that crazy lady who voted all over the map? Lets go do a piece on her and make it look like that’s a thing people are doing now. Maybe that will get people to click - to find out what both sides should be doing to swing a clearly confused political example to their side.”
It’s - it’s something.
Hey, if it clues in someone else (or a lot of someone elses) who’s still drifting along behind their Wrong Wing family, and allows them to consider woking up from that fever dream and voting in their own actual self-interest, it could be really something. Just putting a chink in the idea that a MAGA mindset is locked in and immutable.
They finally found her. The mythical undecided voter
Highly encourage people to get involved in volunteering because you will quickly learn there are more undecided voters than you might think
“I didn’t realize that brainwashing was happening with Trump in 2016…this is how they would talk to me. ‘Pam, you know, the Democrats…are trying to take over. They’re getting more aggressive.’ I tend to believe them. You know, I wasn’t doing my own research.”
She said coming across facts by researchers helped her gradually drift apart from the MAGA group. Serving time in prison made Hemphill also rethink “who Trump really was” and the misinformation he spread surrounding the 2020 election, she said, to the point where she lost all support for him.
And that’s why skepticism and critical thinking is important for a healthy democracy: you don’t get carried away by these rhetorics and get brainwashed.
