1 so heinously evil about whoever does end up on the Dem ticket that you’ll once again end up voting for Trump (or DeSantis…) out of spite.

not really. The far right is just to scary. Last thing I want is a theocracy

2 still refuse to nuke the filibuster

That, I’m against. The filibuster is there to force discussion and compromise.

3 Democrats care more about taxing the top economic brackets than the bottom ones.

Which is fine. Though I’d rather have heavy corporate taxes and a flat income tax. Another discussion.
But taxing investments, which are not spendable, is targeting the entirety of the population.
Not to mention how you tax variable value items like stocks or crypto. Items of constantly changing value.

The problem isn’t taxing in the first place. It’s deductibles that primarily benefit the top 10 percent. But neither Dems or Reps are going to do anything about that because they BOTH benefit from those deductions.

4 No civilian needs a weapon designed for use in a literal warzone

Absolutely. But let’s be a bit realistic in what we call war weapons.
(Excluding highly regulated collectors and demonstrators)
No law abiding citizen has chain fed weapons. Those are weapons of war. No law abiding citizen has automatic fire weapons.

And no, I’m not going to condemn auto load. In most firearms the reload is nearly silent. Making big game hunting, food hunting, much easier. Bolt pull loading is noisy as hell. As is breach loading.

Rifles make up less than 1% of gun crimes. We need to reduce hand gun availability.
I’m also against concealed carry, as a supporter of open carry. Law abiding citizens have no need to hide a weapon. It should be visible.

5 Climate change is going to destroy

Full stop. Though it’s not as massive and immediate as the doom-sayers plead. What we’ve done is equivalent to condensing 1000 years worth of change down to about 600-800 years.
The goal needs to be to slow that progression back to normal warming. As close as we can get to normal anyway.

Banning oil alone doesn’t do anyone any good in actual daily life. We need to build out electric at the federally funded level. We need a social charging solution.
And while dems crap on it, we need to further fund clean carbon recovery. Because it does have the potential to work.

6 I’m all for getting the U.S. out of foreign affairs in re: military activity

You stop too short. And miss my point. We need to stop being the supplier to other wars as well. Sure, it’s my apathy, but sod off! Not our problem. Ukraine, Taipei, Central and Eastern Africa. South America.
Well, actually it partly is our problem as we, or an ally, have created the cause of each of these conflicts by toying with their political systems.
What happens “over there” needs to be left the “them” and not involve us.

7 If you want money for social programs, maybe look at defunding

Problem one. Neither party is willing to actually cut spending on other stuff. They just print more money or raise the debt limit. Or both.
But no, I wouldn’t suggest cutting military spending at the moment when both parties have a hard-on for other countries internal conflicts.
Cutting spending while we actively poke the dog with mildly poisonous sticks… bad idea.

7b Republicans lose their goddamned minds.

I don’t see dems cutting spending anywhere. How do we pay for the many billions of increased spending they pump out every few months. Look at that for a moment. Both side refuse to cut.
I still haven’t changed my mind of taxing corporate wealth, over raising taxes on people. I also say taxes wouldn’t have to be raised if they just cut the wealthy-only deductions. As a barely middle-class with investments, I say fuck deductions for loses. Loses happen in investing. Be it $10 or $10mil. The solution is not to tax something that doesn’t have actual value. It’s already taxed when it’s converted to money. The solution is to patch the giant holes known as deductibles!

8 That said, Russia forcibly annexing all of Ukraine is something that needs to be pushed back against

At this point, the UN has a duty to push back. Not the US.
I still don’t think any of this would have happened if we, the world, did something about Ukraine abusing a minority population living in three pockets removed from the majority.
Remember it wasn’t the Ruso-Ua population that fired the first shots. It was the Ua that attacked them.
The world would be a better place today if they just let go of that tiny bit of land.
Yes, I’m appalled at what has happened since the initial liberation of 2 of those pockets. Two stubborn self-righteous leaders are going to fuck the world to death over a few thousand people.
Neither side is the ‘good guy’ here. And now 41 million are suffering for it. What we shouldn’t do is get involved by supplying more weapons to the war.

9 Trump didn’t pull out of Afghanistan. He left that to Biden

Only by swing of the polls. The withdrawal was setup prior to the change of leadership.
I can’t say for a fact Trump would have done better on it. I don’t know. And neither do you.
But there is no doubt that by throwing out Trump’s approved plan, then totally ignoring all logical reason from military leaders, Biden created the biggest fuck up in military history.

10 I’d prefer we start building better public

I agree to an extent. There’s three issues with that focus though.
Public road transport only work in an near cities.
Public transport does nothing for those in that need out, or those out that need in. A car, or train, or private commercial transportation is still needed.
You assume people will trust their safety to PT. Until cities get crime under control there isn’t much of a will for those with other means.

11

Ah, that list again. Which I’ve line-itemed to you more than once.
I see about 50/50 what I think is good in that list with bad. Some of the bad is really, really, bad. But from a world view far from atrocious.

And as for paperwork. Well, even CNN is being extremely cautious in how it reports. And they (most of the talent) hate trump as much as you. Early reports say the AG may be flat out wrong. While some on the far right say he is wrong, knew it, and did it anyway: I just consider the AG another puppet doing as he is directed. There’s little doubt the big sow of red/blues was a political statement. When, again, a pair of US Marshals could have gone and picked this stuff up. That said:

If true, he should be tried.
If not, this is yet another politically motivated fuck up attempted gotcha