• vhalragnarok@lemmy.world
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    Good. Fucking good. Also fuck with Social Security while you are at it and secure your fucking grave permanently.

  • Grool The Demon@lemmy.world
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    I hope we get rid of all these bastards once and for all. Their entire party and platform is and always has been a giant fucking sham that preys on the gullible.

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    What’s really happened is we’ve had our global dominance thrown away. We took the lead because of WW1 and WW2. It’s not because we’re great. It’s not because we manifested our destiny to become the leader of the world. It’s because factories in Europe were bombed to smithereens. That’s what allowed the U.S to achieve financial dominance. Now we’re in the fall.

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    I hope this leads into demolishing republican party and moving on from the clearly faulty two party nonsense of a system. You can’t keep functioning if you’re on the verge of becoming authoritarian regime with oligarchs.

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    And whoever that fuckung prick was on the show clearly still defends Trump and says he has the intuition? This dude bankrupted four casinos. Just die already

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    The Republican party deserves to die for allowing Donald Trump to rise to power. The Democrat party deserves to die for being useless to stop them. America needs a whole new fresh start with new parties

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      or better yet, no parties at all and force some of our morons to actually learn their candidates beyond just party lines.

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        Idk, I’d totally be in favor of ranked voting; with several parties that correspond to music genres where people could identify the party’s values based on vibes. Ex: Acid Polka Party, Nu Delta Blues Party, Hyper Uplifting Metal Party, etc.

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      We were within 2% of stopping them. If you bastards had got on board, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

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        Let’s blame the voters instead of our shit policy and campaign that promises them nothing much more than republican lite

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          No fuck yes. Blame them.

          Are you saying that trump won because his policy and campaign was stellar.

          Trump won because his base acted instead of passively watching. They took over everything and all the left could say was “don’t roll with them something something pigs”

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          I blame the owners of news and social media. How can people make good decisions if they can’t perceive reality?

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              I don’t understand what you could possibly mean by this comment. We, as in the American electorate, directly chose fascism. What the fuck do you mean that we will see it soon enough? We didn’t take the path you say also leads there eventually, the only way to tell where it leads is theory. We are never going to see the real world impacts of the choice we did not make.

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                Fascism and fascism light still lead to fascism. You can take the long road home or the highway to hell, but either way goes there.

                Democrats and republicans act as adversaries. What you should look at is what kinds of things do they consistently vote for and against in unison.

                After 18 months of republicans and democrats signing bombs that are tearing apart poor families sleeping in tents - how do you not see that they are both your enemy?

                If the democrats really wanted to help people, why have they never gone scorched earth with helping people the way Trump is using the power to hurt people.

                Help people so hard that they could never vote against you again? Universal healthcare - don’t want it? Too bad it’s free now. And it’s way more efficient than private.

                Tax cuts for the poor and middle class while taxing the wealthy? Aww sorry I know you’re mad the billionaires pay more because you’re still waiting for that money to trickle down, but you pay less.

                Free secondary education and day care for parents? Here’s chances to make your life better without drowning in debt and payments now enjoy making a better life.

                But no. The democrats say “fuck the people” every time they have a chance to make a difference because they are the same as republicans. They only vote for war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and benefits package/pay increases for themselves.

                Where are they now to save the students whose visas are arbitrarily being revoked? Where are they in the name of free speech? Doing 24 hour self promos in the chamber that accomplish exactly nothing and then running to MSNBC to brag about talking for that day straight.

                It’s a clownshow and I am befuddled on how most people do not see through this.

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          The voters and especially the non-voters are to blame along with the politicians. Why shouldn’t they be responsible for voting against their own interests or sitting it out after having seen a Trump presidency?

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      See, they thought they could control him, like they did Reagan, and Bush Jr. Bush Sr. went along willingly.

      But Trump is an overgrown 5 year old, and needs to feel he’s in charge. Like any typical narcissist.

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    Man if only he could like vote to get rid of them or something. too bad he’s literally powerless and can’t do a thing to stop this. /s

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      If the 1920s really are repeating then, if we survive the Trump administration, we’ve got a modern version of the New Deal on the way.

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      They’ll give the rest of the world a breather which will allow us to finish forming a new economic and strategic structure where the United States plays a substantially diminished role. After that it won’t matter whether the Republicans or Democrats are in power; at least not to most of the world.

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        Clearly you didn’t read the headline. Or reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit

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    Truman’s campaign against the “Do Nothing” Republicans is not the cause, but it’s when these huge majorities for Democrats got cemented in place for decades:

    Isolationism is not dead. Far from it. Even if the Republicans get a presidential candidate with a good record in foreign affairs, he will not be able to drown out the raucous isolationist outcries of the rest of the party. And that prospect is beginning to scare the voters–and it ought to scare them.

    Now, we can always rely on the Republicans to help us in an election year, but we can’t count on them to do the whole job for us. We have got to go out and do some of it ourselves, if we expect to win.

    The first rule in my book is that we have to stick by the liberal principles of the Democratic Party. We are not going to get anywhere by trimming or appeasing. And we don’t need to try it.

    The record the Democratic Party has made in the last 20 years is the greatest political asset any party ever had in the history of the world. We would be foolish to throw it away. There is nothing our enemies would like better and nothing that would do more to help them win an election.

    I’ve seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn’t believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don’t want a phony Democrat. If it’s a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don’t want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

    But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are–when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people–then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.

    -Harry Truman, Address at the National Convention Banquet of the Americans for Democratic Action, May 17, 1952

    https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/129/address-national-convention-banquet-americans-democratic-action

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      But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are–when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people–then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.

      I wish that were true. I might have been in the past, but we have a full third of our population that will not vote for anyone but Trump and a full third that were told over and over about Project 2025 and the Drak Enlightment but stayed home for whatever reason. That left the rest of us yelling till our voices were hoarse.

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        Please the Democratic leadership, the DNC, the DCCC, the defacto “party leaders” like the Clintons and Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, RAHM EMANUEL…This element, these people, are at best conciliatory and at worst collaborators. Call them “phony Democrats”, call them whatever you want. I want them to fuck off.

        There is a reckoning coming, I think, and neither the Republicans nor the establishment Democrats are going to like it much. There is already an apparent sea change in some critical contests, and the polling data and turnout has been literally unprecedented.

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        There’s a reason the only candidate drumpf is scared of is Bernie Sanders. My man does exactly what Truman suggested and it works.

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        I wish that were true

        Besides the lame masculinity part (history is surely full of far more men who were cowards as leaders than women) it is true.

        There are many reasons turn out was crap, primarily people didn’t want Biden shoved down their throat again and Harris didnt have the time or space to differentiate herself.

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      Sorry, best we can do is folks who hold up little signs that say “lies” during speeches.

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    It’s insane to think that the same two partys remain in control in the US. Yet they call it democracy.

    • I’m referring to the voters, and their lack of action when their main party ha proven useless. The ‘swing voters’ never seem to swing between anything other than those two.