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Sounds about right. The cons are sowing lots of "Democrats in disarray" narratives, too.
It's completely brainless to throw away your vote, most especially at this time. But you just know people will do it.
How many decades have Democrats told us this is the most important election of our lifetime? And then proceed to do nothing once they get back into power.
Until conservatives are Nuremberg'ed into nonexistence it will be true
So a few people should be punished and all the others keep their positions of power and do as before?
I was thinking expanding the scale drastically
Do I need to repeat myself?
What is your suggestion?
The solution is not supporting the people that gave us Trump to begin with.
The people who caused MAGA and Trump are the ones who pushed for spoiler candidates, people who demanded unachievable perfection, and people who repeated conservative propaganda
the people responsible for trump are those who supported him (Hilary), and those that voted for him (Trump voters).
Well that's a profoundly stupid take.
everything I said is true. your problem is with reality.
Just admit you're a closet MAGA. Any leftist that cannot do the right thing and are more focused on their fee fees and performative "be on the right side of history" nonsense are just that.
You sound just like one.
Democrats had 4 years to reign in Trump and they did shit all. Plus you want us to support fetterman like candidates because "they are our only hope". Fuck the Democrat party. They are controlled opposition
Two years with a small majority with some assholes who refused to agree to override the filibuster and vote for important laws and measures. If they would've been given a larger majority those assholes wouldn't have been able to block anything.
The controlled opposition is literally the article of this post - they're trying to get you to vote for candidates they actually control and your response is to help them
Ok cool story bro.
But why do you expect people to vote for a neo liberal pro Reaganomics Democrat? Why do you expect people to vote against their own self interest when we are all struggling and these Democrats will do shit all to help them? When Biden was in power he didn't do anything to stop inflation from hurting the working class and tbh so far Trump is pulling a lot of levers to keep prices "under control". I am absolutely stunned the war in Iran didn't fucking destroy the market, cause insane gas prices and massive inflation yet! So how the fuck is Trump administration able to get a handle on it that Biden didn't? Is it because Biden didn't want to fuck with the profit of corporations? Or was he just fucking incompetent?
So yea most Democrats are controlled opposition, they are controlled by corporations just like Republicans are. Look at Gavin Newsom: he's a fucking elitist shit that is pretty much Republican lite.
You're blaming the people who are trying to fix things for the faults of the people who are trying to break it and then you're confused that things get worse
Trump isn't controlling prices, he's failing badly.
Biden actually slowed down inflation, but you didn't notice because unless it goes negative prices don't drop, and you refused to understand the world so you refused to recognize the success of stopping the hemorrhage Trump caused in term 1. They also prosecuted price gouging, but then you guys gave Trump a chance to do more corruption.
And now Trump is stealing money from everywhere and everything to fund his own projects, funding illegal government ads for himself with tax money meant for everything from "border security" and to taking money from healthcare and education.
You might be thinking of the illegal Trump gas stations. Or the illegally imported meat. Using funds he's not authorized to use, and failing to make a dent.
Trump is supposed to be in prison, that's why. Biden didn't go on a crime spree.
And if you don't see the inflation Trump caused then you're blind.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-has-erased-workers-wage-gains-with-inflation_n_6aad44a9e4b03a8a58d659da
Aside from the nonsense tariffs that only caused more inflation, bankrupting a lot of companies (I guess prices can't go up if the company disappears)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-business-bankruptcies
https://marketrealist.com/why-did-700-bu/
Prices are going up DESPITE USA SELLING OFF HUGE FRACTIONS OF RESERVES, because the releases are not enough to cover the whole impact (especially not foreign impact to transport costs on imported goods), and when the reserve runs out there's nothing left to cover up his failures and the price spikes in transport sectors will make everything more expensive again.
https://energyfactbook.com/strategic-petroleum-reserve/
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/trump-just-soft-launched-higher-111017831.html
Hey I get all that but why did Biden just sit on his ass and not manipulate the market like Trump does? Sure all the shit Trump is doing might be "illegal" but the supreme court ruled the president is above the law. So why did Biden play by the rules like a cuck? Because he is a corporatist above all and he will fuck you and me over before hurting the corporations. So forgive me if I am tired of democrat lies after years of supporting them and still ending up in this bullshit position. I'll support the far left of the democrat party but I'll take a pass on encouraging people to vote for all Democrats.
Because Trump-appointed judges blocked everything they could, all the way up to SCOTUS. He would've had to had a bunch of judges arrested. Do you think anybody would've agreed to that order? Biden didn't have people behind the scenes who wanted to see him break the system. Trump did. That's why he had billionaires, tech companies, etc, who was backing him.
I do think he should've done a lot more including forcing impeachment, and fighting SCOTUS when they lied in the Colorado case regarding Trump's disqualification, neither of which happened, but basically everything else was unavailable. The feds already nailed Trump on a crime and got him convicted, ready to be sentenced to jail. Then that led to nothing as he got elected before sentencing, and there was nothing to do at that point.
The bigger problem is everybody else around who didn't even try at all, the media who lied about mental problems when it was clear it was Trump who lost it, judges afraid to use the enforcement measures they gave access to, the electoral college whose literal purpose is to reject votes for madmen like him and which failed twice, the people who voted for a liar against their own interests, etc.
Biden's biggest problem was thinking working inside the system was enough.
So, dont support third party cunts. Got it.
"We can deny votes to Kamala Harris." - Green MAGA.
Yeah, not much of an answer. Sounds more like Murc's Law nonsense.
So, who do we support, then?