My wife brought this up the other day and it simply does not make sense to me no matter how I try to turn it over in my mind. The things Trump says he will do are fucking awful.
I put forth this analogy.
You have to choose between two restaurants.
Restaurant one advertises a steak dinner, and when you order it you could end up with anything between a steak dinner, a hamburger, or nothing at all. Not great, yes, but still not actively harmful.
Restaurant two advertises that they will serve you a plate of shit. And whatever you order, they serve you a plate of shit because thats what they said they will do from the outset.
Not passing the bill in the first year is mistake one. Not passing any meaningful legislation in that period with a supermajority is shameful and unforgiveable.
Go look at the platform they ran on and get back to me on how much they even attempted.
Yeah, Iâm not disagreeing with what youâre saying, just elaborating.
Think we all agree the Dems need to:
As a permanent minority party, enact big LBJ progressive policies in the face of GOP obstruction and courts controlled by billionaire Nazi memorabilia collectors.
Find a way to message these big accomplishments in a way that the dumbest, most tuned-out, most politically illiterate voters you can imagine will understand.
Make Gen-Z stop being fans of violent incels and sex trafficking streamers and get them to read books or something.
Hispanic outreach? Theyâre MAGA now?
Do all this in the face of a media environment completely controlled by billionaire perverts, from legacy outlets like NYT to Twitter to the Rogan podcast.
Anyway, gl, the free world is counting on us to unfuck this before climate change makes the planet uninhabitable.
At some point you get so fed up with Restaurant 1 you stop going. Thatâs mostly what happened. Trump didnât get a different amount of votes this time. People mostly just didnât show up for Kamala and stayed home.
Exactly. Half of the country full of Shooter McGavins. Is it any surprise I have no interest in engaging with the public from here on out?
I dropped my sonâs gf off at her house on Tuesday after their band practice, and her mom came out, clearly drunk and came to my car. They are Indian immigrants from Fiji and I dont know their full immigration status though I believe they are legal.
âWOOOOOOO, TRUUUUUMP. We are having a party soon to celebrate! You have to come!â
Like, what do I even do there? I smiled politely and told her to send me the details and left. They want us over for Thanskgiving but how do I go and look them in the eyes and smile and laugh? How do I bring my trans son with us? Should I leave him home? Should I go at all? They might be my future in laws for all I know.
God damn, I am just utterly depressed at the state of the world.
True, and I get that part of the comment. The part of âIm switching my vote to these guy because he does what he saysâ blows my mind to smithereens
Like for people still making the case Obama couldnât have done more look at this education platform. (Only posting small excerpts because it is long as shit.) Wonder if improving education 15 years ago might have helped the youngs be less idiotic and fascist.
If your latest theory of the case (that we went down this path because it took a year to pass Obamacare) is correct then America was 100% right to elect a strongman leader and they should follow through in helping him continue to remove the guardrails. Trump wouldnât be my choice of the strongman, but câest la vie.
In my vision of how democracy should work, itâs perfectly reasonable to take a year to completely change the healthcare system and incorporate feedback the electorate gives you along the way.
Thereâs plenty of blame to go around. Focusing it entirely on one group is a deflection feeding off of cynical money extraction and exploitation.
The demographic finger pointing is specifically troublesome; before you even get into analytics and leopards, those groups are entitled (even more so) to make the same shitty choices as the white assholes that came before them
So, shut up about climate change and abandon minorities that arent the âtypicalâ minorities. And only support ânormalâ people from here on out.
My theory of the case is Dems donât do(in most cases donât even try) what they run on. Not even close. People donât like Dems for this and so their coalition is falling apart and people are so disallusioned they arenât even voting anymore.
There is a lot of evidence this is happening in my opinion. People just donât trust Democrats at this stage nor should they.
I know you have to realize social media presence is heavily manipulated at this point, but wow even Iâm surprised at the volume and quantity of Gen Z male victimhood threads Iâm seeing on Reddit this morning. Basically fist-pumping themselves at handing the election to Trump with very little pushback.
We are very far gone with this group. Definitely feel addressing this needs to be a top priority going forward but its going to be a steep uphill battle.
Im rooting for the leopards now. Go motherfuckers, feast on as many faces as you can manage.
Democrats may end up turning things around by 2028, but it wont be much their doing. They will be the leaders of a party of people without faces at that point.
