I understand how important it is to be able to criticize the President, and am not at all of the belief he should be beyond critique, but the critiquing of Biden makes me so nervous. (That's not to say I agree with every decision he's made - I absolutely do not). But I feel like people see things he's done wrong and decide they won't vote for him because of it. I'm not sure if enough people have the ability to see that he's done things wrong but also is our only hope of staving off literal fascism.

So many people talk about how sick they are of it constantly being a lesser of two evils situation, constantly having to vote for a candidate they hate because the other side is worse (I heard it in 2020, 2022, etc), and I guess I just- I don't really get it? We're here because they didn't do that in 2016. All of this could've been avoided had the result been different then. I just feel like people don't comprehend how different of a place we'd be in if Hillary won and engage in all this cognitive dissonance to make themselves feel better about being part of the reason she didn't.

Like.... this has been a long-running topic of discussion on my blog, not least because it is so inexplicable and maddening. It also shows how terribly shallow most people's understanding of the American political process is, and how toxic the "I can only vote for a candidate if every single personal belief/position of theirs matches mine" belief is, as well as how much damage it has done to American democracy even (and indeed, especially) by people who technically don't identify as right-wing. Yell at Republicans all you like (God knows I do, because they're the worst people on earth) but they vote. Every time. Every election. Every candidate. Whereas the Democratic electorate still holds out for Mister Perfect, and it very definitely is Mister Perfect. The amount of "evil HRC!!!" Republican-poisoned Kool-Aid that so-called progressives drank in 2016, and then afterward when they insisted they could have voted for someone like Elizabeth Warren and then didn't do that in 2020, is... baffing.

Frankly, I don't care if Hillary Clinton's personal positions on XYZ issue were the most Neoliberal Corporate Centrist Shill to Ever Shill (and Online Leftists' intellectual skills being what they are, I seriously doubt that they were using any of those words correctly and/or accurately). American policy is not made by "personal dictate of the ruler," or at least it shouldn't be, because we are not an absolute monarchy. We rely on the operation of a system with input from many people. As such, if Hillary had been elected, we would have 2-3 new liberal justices on SCOTUS and have secured civil and environmental rights for the next generation. Roe would be intact, and all the other terrible rulings that SCOTUS has recently handed down wouldn't have happened. We wouldn't have had January 6th, the attempt to stage a coup, all the tawdry scandals, our national security being at risk because of Trump stealing classified documents and probably selling them to Russia and/or Saudi Arabia, etc etc. If you think that's in any way an equivalent amount of evil to what would have happened if Hillary was elected, or if she was "still evil!!!," then I honestly don't know what to tell you. She could fucking murder puppies in her spare time if she had preserved SCOTUS for us, WHICH SHE WOULD HAVE, BECAUSE SHE WARNED US EXACTLY WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.

(Hoo. Sorry. Still steamed. 2016 war flashbacks, again.)

In short, Hillary would have been a solid continuity Democrat and she would have signed whatever legislation a Democratic House and Senate passed, not to mention been hugely inspiring as the first female president. But because it's so important to the Online Leftists' moral sense of themselves that BOTH PARTIES ARE THE SAME!!!, they can't possibly acknowledge that ever being a factor, and/or admit that they have any culpability in not voting for her in 2016. It's like when you read the British press about any of the UK's equally numerous problems, and they BEND OVER BACKWARD to avoid mentioning that Brexit might be a factor. They just can't mention it, because then that means they might have made the wrong choice in pulling for it as hard as they did, and blah blah Sovereignty.

Basically, if HRC had been elected president, everything would be so much less terrible and terrifying all the time, we would be talking about her successor in 2024 as someone else who could be the "first," we could explore handing the reins over to Kamala as a Black/Asian woman, we could promote Buttigieg as the first gay president, etc etc. But because 2016 was so catastrophically fucked up, we are in damage control mode for the immediate future and every election is just as pivotal. And yet, because people think that the only thing that matters is a presidential candidate's personal views, we're stuck having the same old arguments and desperately begging people over and over to please vote against fascism, since that somehow isn't self-evident enough on its own. Yikes on Bikes.

Strict constructionists?

"No person shall...hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, who, having previously taken an oath...as an officer of the United States... shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

Now, again, I'm no lawyer, but words have meanings and these words (lightly edited for length) are Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the United States. Conservatives are always pontificating about how the Constitution must be followed to the letter, indeed, taken as it would have been intended by the framers at the time.

(If you need an example, judges have held that spousal abuse isn't a thing because when the Constitution was written, women were chattel just as a horse or plow, thus had no rights. If you don't believe me you can look it up)

So now comes a time when following the Constitution would be...awkward for conservatives, so the SCOTUS decides 5 1/2 to 3 that it's A-OK to ignore it. (I know, technically it was 9-0, but the 3 liberal lady judges were just being polite and ACB was trying to have everyone like her).

So Colorado, Maine, and Illinois don't get to conduct elections according to their laws. Cool, cool...the party of small government has spoken. But let's consider one salient fact.

Trump asked the Court to not only overturn the three states' decisions, but to rule that he had not "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

Crickets. The SCOTUS ignored the request. What does that tell you? Declaring him innocent of something the world saw with its own eyes would be a bridge too far?

Take a step back and think about this: Trump has never presented a defense in any court that he didn't do what he's accused of. He whines he's innocent at rallies and press conferences but never in court, where facts matter.

Ninety-one indictments and he's guilty of all of them.

Lock him up.

DelayDon RawDogs justice - gaslightDon screaming judges are corrupt, the same judges/SCOTUS #orangeMenace corrupted himself

Trump wants to delay his trials to help his chances of winning the 2024 election.

And the MAGA justices on the Supreme Court are aiding and abetting him.

No one is above the law – not even former presidents.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

June 5, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUN 06, 2024

Today the S&P 500, which tracks the stock performance of 500 of the biggest companies on U.S. stock exchanges, closed at a new record high of 5,354. The Nasdaq Composite, which is weighted toward the information technology sector, also closed at a record high of 17,187. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was also up, but not to a new record. It closed at 38,807.

That notable economic news got very little attention, likely in part because there is so much else going on.

Most dramatically, House speaker Mike Johnson elevated Ronny Jackson (R-TX) and Scott Perry (R-PA) to the House Intelligence Committee, giving them oversight of the entire U.S. intelligence community and access to the nation’s most sensitive foreign intelligence. The Intelligence community includes intelligence from the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Space Force, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Department, the State Department, the Department of Energy (which oversees information about nuclear weapons), the Treasury Department, and the Department of Homeland Security.

It also oversees the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and that oversight is likely a key reason Johnson put Jackson and Perry on the committee. 

A former Navy admiral, Jackson was Trump’s White House physician. Trump liked him enough to try unsuccessfully to promote him into the cabinet and within the U.S. Navy, and then to back him successfully for Congress after he retired from the Navy in 2019. In 2022 the U.S. Navy demoted him from admiral to captain after a 2021 report by the inspector general of the Defense Department showed he had “disparaged, belittled, bullied, and humiliated” his staff and abused alcohol on at least two occasions when he was supposed to be providing medical care to government officials.   

Perry is more problematic than Jackson. Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, told the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol that Perry played an important role in the plan to keep Trump in office after he lost the 2020 presidential election. She told podcast host Scott Lamar in October 2023 that Perry was “central to the planning of January 6,” and she has said repeatedly that Perry asked Trump for a pardon before he left office.

Federal authorities from the FBI seized Perry’s cell phone in 2022 as part of their investigation into the effort to seize the presidency; he is the only member of Congress whose cell phone was seized. Like Trump, who has attacked the FBI since then-director James Comey refused to drop the investigation into the connections between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian operatives, Perry has complained bitterly about the FBI’s investigation of him.

Now, Perry will be on the committee that oversees the FBI. In a statement, he said: “I look forward to providing not only a fresh perspective, but conducting actual oversight—not blind obedience to some facets of our Intel Community that all too often abuse their powers, resources, and authority to spy on the American People.”

Former director of the CIA General Michael Hayden wrote: “That’s unbelievable. Both of them. Intelligence Committee? God help us.” 

There is other news about the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election: yesterday Wisconsin attorney general Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges against attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who planned the use of fake electors; former judge James Troupis, who managed Trump’s 2020 campaign in Wisconsin; and Michael Roman, a political operative who allegedly delivered the paperwork for Wisconsin’s fake electors to a congressional staffer to try to get them to Vice President Mike Pence. 

On January 6, 2021, after the document was delivered, Troupis texted to Chesebro: “Excellent. Tomorrow let’s talk about SCOTUS strategy going forward. Enjoy the history you have made possible today.” 

In Georgia, a court of appeals paused the case against Trump and his co-conspirators from proceeding until it rules on Trump’s appeal to disqualify Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis. It has tentatively set a hearing date for October 4, meaning that voters will not get to learn the outcome of the trial until after the election. If Trump is reelected, the trial will almost certainly not go forward. 

The federal criminal case against Trump for retaining classified documents is also stalled. Judge Aileen Cannon not only has put off hearings, she has added a hearing on June 21 to consider whether Special Counsel Jack Smith was properly appointed in the first place. She is revisiting a decision already decided in the affirmative in 2019 by the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals. She has also taken the highly unusual step of inviting three people not involved in the case to argue in that hearing: two will argue that the appointment is invalid, one will argue that it was done properly. 

Meanwhile, there were signs over the past few days of the deeply different party principles at the heart of the 2024 election. At an event to reach Black voters in what Julia Terruso and Sean Collins Walsh of the Philadelphia Inquirer described as “one of the whitest and most conservative parts of Philly,” Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL), who is Black, illustrated the grip of a fantasy idyllic past on MAGA Republicans. 

Donalds praised the Jim Crow era of American history—which was literally named for a vicious caricature of African Americans that helped to justify the lynching that characterized the period—because “during Jim Crow the Black family was together.” He blamed the Great Society programs of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, including civil rights and social welfare programs, for eroding family values. 

On the House floor, Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) urged Donalds to “check yourself before you wreck yourself.” Democratic National Committee chair Jamie Harrison was less poetic but more succinct. He wrote: “These fools have lost their damn minds….”

In the Senate, Democrats forced Republicans to vote on advancing a bill to protect access to contraception. Republicans threatened a filibuster, meaning it would take 60 votes to bring the bill forward. And so the measure failed by a vote of 51 in favor to 39 against (Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer of New York voted no so he could bring the measure up again). Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted in favor of the measure. All the other Republicans either voted no or did not vote. 

All the Republicans running for reelection this year voted no: John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Roger Wicker (R-MS). 

Some of them said they voted no because there was no danger that Republicans would attack contraception, claiming that Democrats were just “fear-mongering.” But in 2022, House Republicans overwhelmingly voted against protecting contraceptive rights, and in an interview last month, Trump said he was looking at restrictions on contraceptives before his campaign walked the statement back. Yesterday, in a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on “How Abortion Bans Have Created a Health Care Nightmare Across America,” a Republican witness, Dr. Christina Francis, chief executive officer of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) took the position that IUDs and Plan B emergency contraception constitute abortion and should be banned. In the Senate itself, Jodi Ernst (R-IA) has already proposed getting rid of Plan B.

A February 2024 poll showed that 80% of American voters said that protecting access to birth control was “deeply important” to them.  

For all their rhetoric about “America First,” MAGA Republicans are out of step with actual Americans. The Trump loyalists now in charge of the Republican National Committee also appear to be remarkably ill-informed about the country itself. Sam Brody, political reporter for the Boston Globe, noted yesterday that on their website promoting the Republican National Convention to be held in July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Republicans used a photograph not of Milwaukee, but of Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

It’s getting really bad folks! Republican Anarchy is becoming increasingly common across America! (Anarchy) a state of society without government or law. It needs to be stopped! Here are some examples of their handy work. The Republican governor of Texas, Gregory Wayne Abbott, is defying both federal law and international treaties, constructing a barrier of inflatable buoys and razor wire in the Rio Grande between the U.S. and Mexico which violates the Rivers and Harbors Act. The DOJ told Abbott he has until 2:00 Tuesday afternoon to remove the barrier. Abbott responded to the DOJ’s letter: “I’ll see you in court, Mr. President.”  On July 11, 2023, Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote to chair of the Committee on Appropriations Kay Granger (R-TX) asking her to defund Biden’s immigration policies as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which investigates crime. Defying the SCOTUS, the Alabama legislature passed a new congressional map that openly violates the Supreme Court’s order. By a vote of 75–28 in the House and 24–6 in the Senate, the legislature approved a map that includes only one Black-majority district.  After rampant scandals, the Republican-dominated Supreme Court refuses to adopt an ethics system that might restore some confidence in their decisions. The Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act would bring the Supreme Court Justices’ ethics requirement in line with every other federal judge and restore confidence in the Court. Senator Lindsey Olin Graham R-SC, disagreed that Congress could force the Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code. And, aided by his loyalists, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination is threatening mob violence if he is held legally accountable for his behavior.  Trump said earlier this week: “I think it’s a very dangerous thing to even talk about, because we do have a tremendously passionate group of voters, much more passion than they had in 2020 and much more passion than they had in 2016. I think it would be very dangerous.”

(1) Let the final battle begin - Robert Reich

Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan are ignoring a 400-year-old lesson

Their actions betray both their responsibilities as public officials and their backgrounds in the law.

Public servants with legal training, especially those in Congress, should be the most zealous defenders of the institutions of law.

They have drank from the Trump arrogant, Above the law Kool-aid!. and with no tight accountability standards in government and the scotus you are seeing an end to a american people friendly government and a betrayal of our allies!. Putin is winning the propaganda war !

I promise this is a genuine question and not a troll but is it bad to vote for Joe Biden? I despise how he is supporting and aiding genocide but the other option is Trump and he would also aid in genocide…. Voting 3rd party does not seem like a real option when there are Supreme Court seats at stake in the next election term. Joe biden would put more moderates on scotus than the right wing lunatics Trump would

I can't really tell you who you should and shouldn't vote for. That's totally up to you, in the end. I can only tell you what I would do, and I wouldn't vote for Joe Biden if my life depended on it. Trump's no better, it's true. But the thing to understand about both the Democrats and the Republicans is that, when it comes to all the big issues, like health care and foreign policy, for example, they're exactly the same. They present themselves as two, separate parties, but the truth is, they're a unit-party, with only minor, cosmetic differences between them. The issues they focus on, like identity politics, racial issues, gender issues, trans issues, LGBTQ, etc... are all just issues they use to distract people from what really mattes, which are class differences, and to divide people and turn them against one another. Nobody gets this. In my view, voting for Biden is tantamount to rewarding him for not simply aiding in, but facilitating in and directly supporting a genocide. We won't incentivize any of them to change if we just keep defaulting to choosing the "lesser of two evils", and honestly, it's debatable if Biden really is the "lesser" of evils when it comes between him and Trump.

We can speculate all day about what Trump will do when he's in office, but the truth is, all doing so does is distract from the very real harm Biden is doing right now. Trump didn't start any new wars, for example, and he actually helped get a huge amount of people out of prison, when he was in office. Meanwhile, Biden has brought the world closer to the start of WWIII than any president I can think of in my lifetime, saber rattling with Russia and China, engaging in mass censorship campaigns against US citizens and fully supporting a genocide while giving worthless lip-service about how opposed he is to the killing of civilians. They want you to think Trump will be some fascist dictator that won't ever leave office, but he was already president for four years, and the world didn't end, and he didn't refuse to leave office the first time. It's pure fearmongering to try and drum up support for someone who, frankly, is even worse.

Imagine what would happen if every person who said that voting third party wouldn't do any good just... decided to vote third party? We might actually get someone in office who isn't a complete sociopath. The only moral choice I feel like I, personally, can make, is to vote third party, and hope for the best.

The three main arguments against Biden seem to be:

-He's old.

-Hunter Biden.

-Gaza.

Trump is almost as old, lives a more unhealthy life style, was out of his mind even without dementia, and also long life and good health aren't really a plus in a dictator FOR LIFE, which is what he aspires to be.

The cornerstone of this case is literally a confessed Russian agent who's been arrested for giving false testimony.

Biden, at least, supports a Palestinian state in principle, and has worked to get more aid into Gaza. Donald Trump supports a Muslim ban.

Also, many legal experts, judges, and state officials agree that Trump is Constitutionally ineligible to be President as an insurrectionist oath breaker under the 14th Amendment, and that will be true regardless of whether SCOTUS (including the three justices he and appointed, one of whom is likely complicit in the insurrection or at least married to someone who is) decides to ignore the Constitution on his behalf. Literally, of the two, Biden is the only one legally eligible to hold the office.

And no, there is no remotely viable third option, poll after poll and vote after vote proves that, and the stakes are too damn high for self-delusion.

But maybe you're asking, okay, but what are the positives to Biden? What has he done? Well, again, literally the only major candidate who's Constitutionally eligible to hold the office, which is fucked up beyond belief, but here we are. But if that's not enough:

Most diverse and representative Federal judiciary in American history.

Federal Marijuana pardons (he literally can't pardon state convictions, only Federal).

Massive infrastructure bill.

Lowered prices of various prescription drugs.

Hundreds of billions in student debt relief, for nearly four million Americans and counting.

Helped ensure Ukraine's continued survival.

And this is the start of a VERY long list.

Reasons to vote for Trump? I don't know, you want everyone who's not a rich white Christian man to suffer more than you want a liveable planet? You really get off on seeing little kids locked in cages?

Seriously folks, this isn't a hard choice.

from 1/18/24 article in politico...

"...Former White House aides have said Trump knew some in the crowd were armed and, even after the riot began, Trump repeatedly rebuffed pleas from those around him to calm and disperse the mob. Trump also inflamed the mob just after it smashed its way into the building when he tweeted an attack on his vice president, Mike Pence, for refusing to aid his effort to stay in power.

Trump’s attorneys, notably, did not argue in their brief that the Jan. 6 attack did not amount to an insurrection. They did make that argument in a lower court. At the Supreme Court, however, they are contending merely that Trump did not take any actions that would, on their own, amount to insurrection...."

A Message To All

(So I originally wanted to make a video but it was too big to upload so screw it.)

Hello everyone.

As you may have heard, the Supreme Court decided yesterday to overturn Roe vs Wade, which is supposed to uphold the right to a legal and safe abortion, thus giving the power to more states to ban it in the process.

This is one of many decisions that the SCOTUS had made this week like the backing for religious educational funds, which only blurs the line between Church and State and the loss of miranda rights, which made it more difficult for your right to silence to be respected against law enforcement, i.e. you won't have the ability to sue.

The reason why this is relevant is because there's been something on my mind lately.

For the past few years, especially during the Trump administration, I've been beating myself up over what would be the RIGHT choice to make when responding to a crisis.

And like yesterday, there's been a contention amongst people about how things should be done. Whether it's electoral, activism, mutual aid, funding, or organizing.

For me, I'm willing to put aside my pride and say that regardless of the choices you make going forward in the days, months, or years that follow, it's always important to never lose sight of the thing that truly matters:

Being there for each other.

If there's somebody out there who's likely to be vulnerable to these decisions, then give them the help they need.

If you feel like you can't trust the people within your circle, then seek out those you can trust the most.

If you don't think you're capable of doing anything beyond what you're comfortable with, then limit yourself to that space. Because even the smallest actions can have a larger impact than you think.

And--this is very important--if you feel like you're stretching yourself too thin or just feeling the complete exhaustion from having to fight 24/7, then please Please PLEASE rest yourself! Take a breather if you have to. You don't have to give it all up, but just understand that there will always be someone out there to take your place. Your mental health is still a priority.

I don't know how long this is going to last. It may very well take years. But I do know if we do this with our heads held high, we can inspire people to make a difference.

Is it idealistic? Yes, no doubt. Because history dictates that stuff like this is always messy. It's pointless to think that this can all be done peacefully. The earth doesn't give me hope, but I still give it back to those who need it.

I say all of this as someone who's both privileged and a "person of faith."

Even though I am those two things, that should never stop me from having to care. Nor should it be for those who aren't likely to be affected by this.

Plus, no amount of scotsmen fallacy is going to change the overall optics of this supreme court decision. This is white nationalism in action.

I'm at a point now where I stopped caring about bringing people to God. Haven't cared for years. If it means that I have to help those without expecting much in return, then so be it.

I would rather be in solidarity with other people than having to close myself off in the name of Jesus.

In the eyes of leaders, we may be a minority. But when you look around yourself, we are always stronger in numbers.

Because life, in all its flaws, is still beautiful and worth fighting for.

TL;DR: When fighting against a crisis, solidarity is key.

(If you feel like sharing this outside of Tumblr, then do so by all means. Screencap it if you have to. It's meant to be shared.)

Damn! I have to say, I wasn't expecting the other hearings to drop any bombshells about Trump. I thought they would add new things, but things similar to what we already knew. When I heard about the previously umscheduled meeting, I knew that they had to have something new; old but which were pertinant to the SCOTUS justices somehow; or old and unrelated to the SCOTUS, but which recent events had made them decide to release.

But holy shit!

So, for those of you who don't know, this hearing revealed that

Trump knew armed people were trying to get into his rally on January 6. He said, "don't effing care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the effing mags away." 

When his driver wouldn't take Trump to the Capitol after the speech, Trump lunged for the steering wheel.

I have to say, I'm afraid to put too much hope in Trump being charged, but this is possibly the most damning testimony yet.

And

Moreover, the question of Alito’s impartiality isn’t some abstract or academic one. He flew this flag while actively deciding cases about the insurrection. Indeed, the flag was aloft at the very moment SCOTUS was reviewing the Fischer case, which is about whether the obstruction of Congress statute, Title 18 USC Section 1512(c)(2), can legally be used against insurrectionists.

Writer Jay Willis of the Balls & Strikes newsletter aptly put it: “As any legal ethics expert will attest, if you are a sitting federal judge, nothing demonstrates your commitment to impartiality quite like using tacky seasonal home decor to signal your deepest sympathies for one of the parties before you.”

Speaking of balls and strikes, it is one thing to be a shameless partisan hack and to count votes on the Court instead of calling the law as you impartially see it. It is entirely another level to make public your extremist political views and call the Court’s entire legitimacy into question. Alito would be stricken for cause from any January 6 jury due to his bias. Why does he get to sit in judgment of the insurrectionists or Trump?

Indeed, if you are a MAGA extremist and Christofascist plant acting deliberately to help keep insurrectionists from accountability, then you yourself are actually aiding and abetting their crime. That’s why it’s not enough to demand recusal by Alito. His ties to the Christian right and the insurrectionist movement ought to be investigated, and he should resign or be removed from office should it become clear that his finger was deliberately on the scale for the defendants. 

— Jay Kuo, Red Flag Warning

Russia's hypernormalization hit america so fucking hard our presidents are gonna become kings.

I wonder if R's really think it a good idea to make people lose confidence in the government and all systems. Because they're doing a fantastic job ensuring nobody can really give a shit anymore.

Much like how Dems have Absolutely No Plan after Biden's second stolen term (only stolen in that he lied about being an interim) (because the elections are nothing if not completely corrupt unless blue wins) they also have no plan when SCOTUS permanently sends the country down the shitter.

It's just a reality TV show until we decide to do something. Sucks but, dems of all variety, ain't gonna do shit. Just gonna sit on their hands and bitch. Sucks to suck but, Dems aren't gonna be the solution. They're more of a shitty doorstop.

Dems once had The Hype. It's gone and dead now, now we argue if a Genocide is moral so long as a Blue person is aiding or committing it. We were so excited about raised minimum wages, making the rich pay back trump's tax cuts, fix schools, universal healthcare, better work protections...

But sure ya'll. Let's energize the voter by saying you can't criticize Dear Leader because he did nothing to earn anyone's respect or trust and instead killed the hype and made us scared to demand better, but he's not Dump, so he's clearly infallible and anything less than sheer devotion is republican.

Nah man. What's republican is Dear Leadering Biden like R's did Dump. Like...ya'll? Just google this dude's history and he stops being anything but another corporate crony. Dude's sub-human in so many points of history.

All I'm saying is: Dems demanded better from Dump but refuse from Biden. R's don't even demand better from anyone. Why the shit are Dems being republican on progress? How is he supposed to know shit if half of his base supports genocide and the other just wanted 4 day work weeks? How is he supposed to know shit other than making that easy oil money of tens of thousands of known casualties, half being children? That one's obvious, he knows he's fucking up but no one is holding him accountable, so he doesn't care, and next term he's given the keys to all our homes to burn and rob.

For people to defend a genocide with "of course he was going to be pro-israel" Ever consider the problem is he's pro-genocide because you idiots enable him? This is exactly what ya'll are demanding?

Oh and the Larpers claiming they'll stop supporting him if he stops the genocide? Understand that sounds like a Great Thing. To kick you out of the group of dems? Yes. When ya have a nazi at the table of 10, they're all nazis. Congrats Dems. You're now Nazis. Undeniably. Your body count is now higher than Dump's. At least I didn't expect any better from him, ya'll had me believing I could with Biden, until ya let him decay further and further until he became a whipped bitch for corporations. Just saying, at least Dump simply GOT millions and millions killed by covid for political gain, Biden's just aiding in a genocide because he has absolutely no morality or ethics you can trust, because, again, Pro-Genocide. But also because he's just gotta go with the popular opinion! Not...Not the actual one, but the one's that will net him votes from those who laclkcritical thinking and flip flop their empathy depending on the victim.

Just sayin'. If Biden was mostly aiding in the tens of thousands of deaths of children and any minority inside america, Dems would support it. Because it's Blue no Matter Who! Nah, realistically they'd be mad because now it matters to them...somehow. Yeah the people you'll never meet? They can Die. But your fruity friends? Well, clearly they're The Most in danger right now as we speak (Ignore Palestine's 70 years of oppression by Israel) (oh yeah and that whole Active genocide thing) (seriously stop focusing on the child crying over his father's blown up corpse CARE ABOUT THE GAYS WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN SAFER)

and remember you HAVE to vote for Biden because even though it costs the lives of tens of thousands, when it Really Fucking Shouldn't?????????????? It's an important... PFFFFT...haha..."""sacrifice""" (people think other country's I don't know about matter?) to protect the gays! They're what this election is 100% about! Minorities. (In america) (Must be virtue signallable) (preferably black, mexican, gay or trans) (but not some other label) (human lives are cheap) (blue no matter who!)

AREN'R YOU ENERGIZED AS SHIT TO VOTE FOR GENOCIDE!?!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN EVERY ARGUMENT I MADE IN SUPPORT OF GENOCIDE MADE YOU NOT WANT TO VOTE FOR BIDEN? WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT PALESTINIANS!?!? THEY'RE LESS HUMAN THAN AMERICAN GAYS!!!!

Really consider the fact R's and the rich approve of the genocide, that Biden is working with both, because ya'll MFs can't be consistent morally, ethically, or logically. Of course he's aiding in a genocide, the only people being fucking understandable are R's and the rich, because they're consistent, Murder is Good, I just wish Dems weren't Actually Worse about that than R's. R's can be seen through with a hint of critical thinking, Dem's will actively Lie about their morals and beliefs the second it becomes inconvenient. Ya can't trust a grift ever, and my friends, Biden is a grift.

Weak. Dems are Weak. I can see why R's have more confidence in their rapist leaders, they're surprisingly consistent when you ignore the public relation noise and focus on the Larp.

A republican 10 years ago to this day still thinks a lynching is appropriate when seeing a Brown. Dems will claim otherwise unless it hurts Dear Leader's chances at re-election. Because in their mind, anything short of Percieving Perfection is tantamount to treason.

Biden could come out and repeat what he's said with Israel and Palestine about R's and minorities and I guarantee you this, most Dems will flip flop because now? Dems got their own Larp, and it's that Biden is the best president of allllll time! He...he has...he has to do something first. Something historic? Like. Raise minimum wage? Shit man.

No. You're supposed to demand better. Not demand worse. Not demand genocide. Not demand our Leader be Cruel and a Grifter. You aren't even necessarily expected to not vote for him, let alone against him. Just Demand Accountability. Demand Better. Demand Leadership. Instead? He hides behind his God Awful Sub-Human cohorts to speak for him.

We heard you loud and clear Biden. Anti-Genocide is Evil in your eyes, Genocide is Moral. I heard you, and ya lost my vote completely for it. The chance of apology has passed, the chance of regaining votes lost. He told everyone his ethics are that Genocide is Moral.

What would've make him votable, kept him votable, is the fact he'd listen, and would do what is Ethical and Moral. The fact we Can Demand Change. The fact we can Approach And Consider. Y'know, like what you're supposed to do with your leaders. Not just accept them as Gods of perfection.

But sure. Telling disenfranchised voters that their opinions don't matter and People and Children Just Have To Die For Biden, that demanding leadership or any accountability is actually rather Republican! Yes Dems are saying exactly this right now. Because otherwise? Maybe don't tell people they just have to accept the guy who's done nothing but kill the hype, and Kill Children.

Maybe don't tell disenfranchised voters that that whole silly genocide thing isn't as compellig to your morals as the possibility...it's..it's not a possibility. I'm not sorry, Dump ain't ever getting in office again. What we're doing is working with the definite second term Biden right now. And the fact we're letting him commit a Genocide simply due to fear mongering? That's not the Dems I remember.

Okay so, After Biden gets the second term, what are we gonna do about that "silly ol genocide thing?" Because I sure hope you idiots aren't seriously considering he can get a third term? Remember how tens of thousands of children died thanks to this guy? Because you refused to demand he simply...not. do that? Maybe Biden could simply, not? Come with the Thousands of Dead Children baggage? Maybe we can ask him to y'know, drop the dangling corpses of, again, children, and instead, be reasonable?

y'know, we used to say Dump was going to commit a genocide. The fact we got exactly that? I really, really, don't have the energy to vote. I don't have that blue no matter who in me anymore. Because Dems are as bad as R's with their Dear Leader.

just a dump in blue, of course he's smarter, but fact is, he's still a politician. Not your friend. Not your hero. Not shit. He's never been shit and will be passed on in history books. Because again, he's actively done nothing his entire career, except hurting minorities. Or sniffing kids. Yeah sorry, ya can't ignore that one anymore. Demand leaders that aren't genocidal pedophiles, dems, do better than R's.

Just saying. Maybe we shouldn't demand diet dump as our leadership? Maybe instead of just letting these people be completely unchained is a bad idea? Maybe just because R's are blatantly corrupt, doesn't mean Dems aren't at least halfway as much? Because the whole of the government is corrupt and broken.

Idunno man, seems REAL fucking lucky that in a 2 party system, that somehow, miraculously, only One Party is actually moral and good and perfect. Seems more likely that one party fell apart and the other party simply hasn't, but they're both shit. They both are pro-genocide. And there is no fixing that other than to minimize a genocider's voice. That requires more parties to make such a decision absolutely a political suicide thing, instead of simply one thing to consider.

Really

Understand your shortsightedness will lead to another R president. No on after Biden. And dems just exposed how little they believe in the words they've said. I don't trust dems when they say "genocide good" and "save the gays!" on the same profile. Hopefully. Dema will understand that kinda shit is why people left R's. That this is an open wound that will only fester.

Dems enabled their genocidal immorality. It's only a matter of time before they're as bad as R's. Sorry that I make it a principle to not support Genocide. I'm sorry for you thinking that's a necessary "sacrifice" when you could've simply demanded better instead of compromising your morals for a dude who has never done shit for you.