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Still the both sides thing?
Biden is demonstrably better on policy. For example, he has them.
Trump doesn’t have any at all.
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Still the both sides thing?
Biden is demonstrably better on policy. For example, he has them.
Trump doesn’t have any at all.
No one wants to hear about issues. They want to hear promises on issues, but they don’t care to actually know, let alone understand, the policy.
Probably the same people Barry Goldwater warned us of:
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them
Falling fertility rates have long been a concern for economists
Fuck economists and their concerns. That’s why we’re in the situation in thy first place.
That study is so old! It’s even worse now!
Oh okay. It’s driven by housing prices in HCOL areas. That people are house poor makes sense and is reasonable.
Always have been.
Lol they believe Biden is going to be amped up to the point of being able to overcome their god emperor.
Imagine implying that some caffeine and pills would make someone better than God himself.
So much for Trump’s supposed superiority.
It sounds good if you don’t think about anything
Exactly. Don’t uphold the law to avoid being shamed by Republicans. Do it because it’s the right thing to do and because it’s extremely important to the integrity of our society.
Who cares if they do? They literally lie to slander the “radical left” as they call it. They’re shameless and half the eligible voters are too.
That’s too broad sighted. They don’t care about the country. They’d be plutocrats of a well with a Korean curse on it if meant they had more water than the poors.
More the love of money is the root of all evil
Sometimes, I forget how awful Trump is.
He can say true truly outrageous things and then somehow have them written off as less important than they really are because the media reports on it.
Yes. Easily.
But whichever it is, the fear and loathing they convey inevitably filters down to their supporters
Hol’ up! No. Biden and the democrats have been awfully timid about calling Trump a fascist coward while his supporters and others on the left have been saying it before Trump left office. Only now is Biden trying to characterize this election as an existential crisis for American democracy. Leftists, on the other hand, are relieved that Biden is doing at all, and sincerely wish he and his sorry party would’ve started way earlier.
Republican laymen are led by their noses. Democratic laymen can barely push their leaders.
LOL, I hope they ban it.
I love women, and a ban would galvanize them like abortion did in 2022. And then Clarence Thomas can die, Biden or Harris, whichever is alive at the time, can replace him with a young upstart progressive and then get shit done and undo the absolute bullshit that’s been going on for the last four years.
For once, I sincerely hope they obey their evil corporate masters.
Can you explain to me how this is a joke?
His audience laughed because they’re dumb. But to me, this looks like the negging thing where you anticipate being called out for your insult and say “It’s a joke. It’s just a joke!”
It’s insane how we’ve relied far too long on a sort of gentleman’s agreement around presidents and congress and all. I don’t think the founding fathers could have EVER anticipated the amount of corruption that could occur.
They did. The entire point of the structure of Congress was to ensure that the passions of the people were tempered and “cooled” through the political process. Between competition between the three branches and the structure of government, they did their best to ensure this wouldn’t happen.
What they didn’t anticipate was that competition would give way to collaboration among so many competing elements. From state legislatures to the federal House and Senate, across to the Supreme Court (intended to be insulated from political generally to focus on the well-being of the nation), and across again to the president. Those stars shouldn’t align all that often. But anti-American authoritarians, the underhanded bastards they are, have made it so that those stars align more often than not for their political goals.
So, that’s the problem. What do you do when all the elements of the government are working together? Sure, Trump absolutely abused his position, but so what? We’re barely holding any of these anti-Constitutional people responsible for the damage they’ve done to the political process and democracy in general.
This is a call to war
I really liked Sotomayor’s dissent that basically said, “The Founders explicitly did not provide immunity for the president when given several chance to do so. This is not what they intended. The majority, supposed Originalists, are blatantly making shit up.”