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I get how this happens. Everyone is all on board when it's all talk or they're Monday morning quarterbacking, but when they're involved and they're acting then it's real to them. What had been hyperbolic spiraling and chaos from a distance with plausiblity of intents is now watching a man actively break the law as they assist.
That's not to excuse it. They did and do harm. But this is the second time he's been president and this keeps happening and he churns through people like this.
The only thing Stephen Miller deserves is an unmarked grave somewhere dogs go to the bathroom.
Nah, don't do that last part.
he has a face of someone who likes getting pissed on.
Meanwhile, with a compromised press and Trump ignoring any judicial ruling he dislikes, the Democrats are still no help. They’re nearly as crazy as Trump if they think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could be a viable presidential candidate. No matter what they think of her policies, very few Republicans who despise Trump would vote for her. “I wouldn’t,” my White House source told me. “I’m not crazy. The far left is as bad as the far right, and they’re the reason I voted for Trump.” There are plenty of moderate Democrats who agree.
Imagine thinking AOC is far left. Ok now imagine thinking that kind of far left is just as bad as the far right.
Like for example, informing people of their constitutional rights, advocating for things like accessible Healthcare and protections for workers is every but as bad as shipping people off without due process to El Salvador prison where they'll die, grabbed by a militarized and masked police force that snatches people off the street, or from their homes or school.
Somehow it's the fault of the democrats who won't accept moderate Republicans. But also there are plenty of moderate democrats that agree that the far left is just as bad.
Well it's amazing that insiders are finally able to suspect something is wrong, but they are still so gripped by cult doctrine they can't make any progress.
People are still trying to push this nonsense that democratic candidates need to appeal to the objectively dumbest people in this country in order to be a viable candidate. Its ridiculous. Red voters are only ever going to vote red. They always have and they always will. Left leaning people in this country outnumber right leaning people by a wide margin (because reality has a left leaning bias). The issue is that dem individuals often just don't vote when a candidate is put forward who is cowtowing to the right. The right still votes right and the left doesn't vote. Then we get what we have now. If dems put forward a politician that progressive voters actually want they'll have a much better chance. And AOC is probably a more well liked dem politician right now (among the left) than anyone else except maybe Bernie. But he's probably too old at this point. So AOC makes the most sense right now to me and probably anyone else with a brain.
Feels like this might be the time for a coalition to run as "the freedom party" and basically run on the platform of Bernie but use completely different language. There have been studies showing that most gop voters agree with dem policies when they're not presented using the buzzwords they've been brain washed to immediately reject (eg ACA vs Obamacare).
All the low info idiots voting against their own interests would hear policies they like, and they can jerk off to the word "freedom".
I would take a "Weekend at Bernies" Bernie Sanders over literally any moderate DINO the DNC will push on us. I don't care if he's 99 and on a ventilator, put that man in office so we can finally join the rest of the civilized world with universal healthcare.
Two extremely qualified women both were defeated by the worst candidate in our countries history.
I love AOC and her policies, but this country has proven it'll vote for literally the worst encapsulation of boomer greed than vote for a capable and competent woman. Twice.
The Democrats are morons if they pick a woman to run next time. Simple as that.
Let AOC kick Schumer out and take his senate seat. She would be much more effective there.
That worst candidate didn't win by a landslide either time, so I don't think it's fair to say America will never vote for a woman. Lots of Americans did vote for a woman. According to CNN: "More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history."
People forget that aside from the email bullshit, it was widely reported that Clinton received something like 26 million dollars for speaking engagements, behind closed doors to bankers and American robber barons. Some parts of her speeches were leaked, but she never released any transcripts. I think that fueled voter apathy and "both sides the same" feeling for a lot of people, including two-income families struggling to make ends meet.
You think if a man had done the same, no-one except Bernie Sanders would care?
As for the second strong capable woman, I voted for her, despite her seeming support for the ongoing genocide. I'm not convinced that election was legit.
Clinton won the popular vote, and Harris lost because of her last minute hard-right turn alienated everyone.
You have to blame media for its part in it.
Social media played a heavy hand in artificially inflating trump with its complete and blatant refusal step in and curtail any of the deluge of manufactured bullshit, fake AI controlled accounts, troll farm posts, blatant misinformation, etc, etc, etc.
broadcast media as well, for being so thirsty for ratings and another trump presidency they basically sanewashed every thing he did, when they could bother reporting on it at all, because they knew if he got elected it'd be 4 more years of people desperately turning in every day to see what fresh horrors trump was unleashing, which would drive ratings and revenues to the stratosphere.
We need someone who looks like John Fetterman and thinks like AOC.
...2 mildly qualified women. Certainly not extremely
A former senator and secretary of state counts as extremely qualified by most standards
What is extremely qualified for that job by your standards? Like, name a person.
Bernie Sanders. AOC would make a good vice president for him, and after 8 years make a run of her own.
He didn't save the world the first time (despite promising he would drain the swamp within days) so why would anyone think he would do it the second time?
I know. But they love him. Kamala didn't inspire enough people to vote Dem which didn't help.
The fact that Donald got any votes when up against his diametric opposite, says more about voters. Don't tell me "Kamala didn't inspire" when you're talking about actual good people doing good things led by a learned former prosecutor vs bad people doing bad things following a multiple felony racist who failed at even being a scumbag used-house dealer and casino lowlife.
I feel the pope couldn't run against whatever scumbag the GOP puts up and get more than half the votes.
Without "liberty and justice for all," quite simply there is no "one nation" anymore anyway.
If she'd inspired enough people she'd have won. Trump is exciting. Vile, but exciting. People that vote for him like that.
America has no heart and shares maybe two neurons, then. Jeeeeeesus, lol.
Stupidity and brainwashing
Once this Orange turd is done there won't be another republican government elected for a long long time.
I hope your optimism can become reality.
But we thought Trump's blatant corruption and criminality the first time would be more than enough to keep the Republicans out of power for a few decades....
Once the orange turd is done there will only be Republican government and no more elections
Nah, the idiots learned nothing. They will vote in line until they die
Someone has got to start talking about “inclusion” instead of division
because of “DEI going too far” and because “woke culture was dividing the country,”
No, woke culture unites the country. That's the fucking point. "Woke" means you accept that everyone is different and you agree to tolerate and respect those differences. Your insistence on hating people you view as different is what divides us.
The “I” in DEI is literally “Inclusion”. Nothing more divisive than inclusion, surely.
Gotta love how "divisive" is always a dog whistle for "how dare you do anything that would question our authoritarianism."