When I went to a retirement ceremony for a relative in the military a while back, a nearby conference room was doing a presentation to military personnel on ethics surrounding LGBTQ+, a Biden DEI initiative.

I recall my relative’s friend when we got in the car afterward crying about that and why he’s retiring, etc. Big time Trumper lowlife dipshit.

I’m a straight white dude but fuck sake, it would be hard for me to be surrounded by dipshits like that. To be reliant on bigots like that in battle?We’re not sending our best.

I hope every single post hereon out has a pinned comment saying, “If you sat out for whatever bullshit reason and didn’t vote for Harris, don’t say a fucking word, for you enabled this.”

Nordic Dem here. I’m not opposed. Until you’re in a position to actually change the rules of the game it would be dreadfully fucking stupid to limit your supply for the war effort hinged on an overgeneralization when there are billionaires who seek to change the system for the better.

Does anyone truly believe Dems can win without big money of their own in the face of players like Musk dumping $70 million into PA on a whim? Fuck no.

If you disagree then you better have a very fucking solid, tangible plan to take make media and advertising without $, post-citizens united no less.

The stupidity is with these fools thinking Trump would be better for Palestinians.

If it wasn’t obvious with Trump moving the embassy to Jeruselum and telling Bibi to, “Finish the job” while privately meeting with Bibi to likely stall a ceasefire agreement pre-election to make Democrats look back, Trump definitely is fully enabling of said Genocide, likely making it worse (eg, you think he would’ve pressed for a humanitarian aid route into Gaza? FUCK no.)

So then the logical thing to say in an inevitable binary-choice election is: “if Trump and Biden/Harris are equally bad on Israel/Palestine policy (they’re not), is Biden/Harris better on other issues, notably domestically, like oh I don’t know women’s rights and climate change?” You bet your ass.

Hence why couch sitters and Stein voters piss me off far more than Trump supporters, themselves; for they should know better. Yet they fell for the online astroturfing disinfo wars. Drank the Russian vodka.

Between November 5th and now would have done exactly jack shit. Especially when that would be immediately reversed by Trump anyway. Besides, it’s not as though the Democratic party ceases to exist. What makes you think Israel still wouldn’t do that in order to justify even worse atrocities, then blame Democrats anyway? That’s what’s called a High Risk / Low Reward play.

But nah man, keep believing Trump will be better, or hell even “equally bad.” If you genuinely care about Palestinians, then you’re about to get a wake-up call. Moving the embassy to Jeruselum while telling Bibi to, “Finish the job.” Well, mission accomplished I guess.

Though with anonymity and online astroturfing operations I cannot rule out the viable alternative.

Truly I cannot believe how after all this time and everything Trump and Bibi has done that people are still naive enough to believe they’re acting in good faith and not entirely for political optics. Absolutely remarkable.

Because if I wasn’t clear the first time, it’s bullshit.

Let’s invoke a thought-experiment and play said hypothetical out:

1. Stops sending weapons.

2. Bibi conveniently ignores intelligence if another real or false flag October-7th like attack.

3. Democrats lose with certainty, accused of both being Antisemitic (by Russian, Israeli bots, AIPAC, etc.) and leaving poor Israel defenseless against evildoer terrorists.

Ah yes. Sound strategy.

lol bullshit. This is showboating political theatrics.

Bibi and Trump are playing their respective games but make no mistake: Bibi already got everything he wanted moving forward. Couldn’t have been more obvious, too, that Bibi and Trump were in direct discussions about preventing a deal pre-election in order to help Trump win.

This is no different than Trump and Putin’s public optics, and no different to how Trump undermined the border security bill.

Quotes from post 2019 Trump vs. Biden debate:

Trump is “the bully I knew my whole life,” Biden told CNN in an interview. “He’s the bully I’ve always stood up to.”

Biden was asked how Democratic voters can have confidence that he’s up to taking on Trump when he had trouble sparring in last week’s debate against party rivals.

“I don’t think I’m having trouble sparring. It’s how you want to spar,” Biden said. “This is ironic. I’ve never been accused of not being able to spar. I’ve been accused of being too aggressive.”

Biden said he would beat Trump by “pointing out who I am and who he is and what we’re for and what he’s against.”

“This guy is the ‘divider-in-chief,’” said Biden, who added he will “fight without being personal” in this campaign.

Let’s not forget in Biden’s own words, he decided to run for President following Trump’s words over the neo-nazi rally in Charlottesville.

Respect. This is all going to get very interesting for the next week…

My dude, you’re equating readings from teleprompters and crowd greetings compared to organic conversation and debate.

White House said he wasn’t on cold meds for debate.

Colds don’t cause you to jump mid-sentence from abortion to immigration.

I’ll be honest, I don’t think I’d be fully convinced even if he does well. Why? Because Biden ran on taking the fight to Trump. He campaigned on using his Irish fighting spirit to push the bully back and anything but that has happened.

Moreover this won’t be seen by a fraction of the number of people who saw that debate. Little said here can detract from what people saw of Biden’s “bad days” during that debate.

I wish him luck because I want to be convinced he’s our best shot, but it’s going to take more than one good interview, personally.

Ah Russia,

• Whose modern Rasputin, Aleksandr Dugin is a literal neo-Nazi.
• Who possesses world leadership in alcoholism rates.
• Who is in the bottom 20 percentile adjacent to Afghanistan for transparency and corruption.
• Meanwhile the sorry suckers have an economy smaller than California and think they can win in Ukraine lol.

They’re speedrunning to become North Korea.

They tried. Lobbyists got Congress to shoot it down.

It’s not difficult. Functioning designs already exist. Hell most if not all cars today have weight sensors to determine airbag deployment.

If it saves one kid, then I’m all for it.

By the way: this famous article is a must-read for this topic

There are two ways to look at this. In one respect you can say why the hell are so many Americans still not grasping just how bad Trump is?

But then you need to assume the responsibility of being the more informed party and adjust your strategy not for the electorate you want but for the electorate you have.

And that electorate is demanding a better candidate for Democrats to appeal to said uninformed undecided swing state voters who will decide this election.

Biden had 1 chance long-shot chance to bridge echo-chambers and show the country he can lead.

It’s why he took this debate.

And blew it to such a catastrophic level it’s not impacting congressional down-ballot races already.

So I just want to be clear about something. Press Secretary, Jean-Pierre said yesterday (as she often repeats per their messaging): “Biden’s record speaks for itself.”

I want to go like, “Hi, Press Secretary. Quick follow-up: If it speaks for itself, then why is Biden losing in every battleground state with an aggregate national approval rating of 37%?”

It doesn’t seem that letting it speak for itself is working.

Thanks for that clarification. I was trying to reconcile the differences between the models and couldn’t even find info in the Wikipedia article.

About 5% of all Americans spend some amount of time in prison, fun fact.

Yep, totally official move of the president covered by immunity, if I’m reading the Court right!

Well said. The number of down-votes on hard truths like this submission but a complete lack of substantive argument prove they’re in denial.