The Democratic Party cannot fail, it can only be failed

It’s wild how there’s so much entitlement inherent to that attitude:

“Um Sweaty, don’t you realise that you’re morally obligated to vote or else you will get my disapproval?”

“Um Sweaty, don’t you realise that you’re morally obligated to vote for Our Guy™ or else you will get my disapproval?”

“…gosh, why are all these people so out of touch??”

There’s a non-insignificant chance that if they managed to scold everyone into voting that people might actually vote Trump in protest and they’d need to reckon with that instead of, you know, chastising people even more. I don’t think it would be likely enough to happen but the fact is that it’s not completely off the cards. It’s more likely that you’d see a swing towards third party candidates and spoilt votes that they’d get infuriated over people “ruining democracy” by not adhering to the demands that these voters play by their arbitrary rules and they’d lament how the Dems “could have” won that swing state if only that 0.5% of spoilt votes had actually gone to Biden.

In a broader sense this is why countries like Israel play with shorter sentences for refusing conscription and why there’s a lot of leniency built into how long you are imprisoned for and why imprisoning conscientious objectors for short-ish periods serves a structural function that supports the state; if you jail conscientious objectors for like 10+ years then you turn those very disaffected non-participants mostly into bitterly disaffected recruits who then start resorting to becoming Chelsea Manning figures or they start a culture of the ol’ classic Vietnam War fragging of commanding officers (tyfys to those brave Vietnam War veterans unironically btw) , either of which is far more disruptive than having the government put a tiny percentage of resistors into a temporary time-out.

(Not shitting on any conscientious objectors here tho. I have nothing but love and support for them and I support their committment and personal sacrifices they make on ethical and political grounds. Just speaking about how the government structures and mitigates the threat these people are capable of posing.)

In a similar sense, if you’re “conscripting” people into being compelled to vote then you risk blowback from that. And I’m not talking like countries that have “compulsory” voting where the government sends you stern letters or they make you pay small fines for not voting here.

abortion is on the ballot in many states

Who should I vote for if I want to protect women’s bodily autonomy? The party that is limiting it, or the party that shrugged and said they won’t do anything to protect it?

ROE V WADE HAS ALREADY BEEN OVERTURNED YOU NUMBSKULL AND IT WAS OVERTURNED UNDER BIDEN YOU FUCKING DOOFUS.
Dems have shown they do not give a shit about abortion rights, they didn’t enshrine Roe so they could beat you over the head with it.

And hey FUCK YOU FOR DOWNPLAYING GENOCIDE. “Uhhh yeah what is happening is Gaza is totally horrible or important or whatever, but have you considered some bad things might happen to meeeeee?”
There’s a line in the sand and the line is genocide. Next you will say “trump is worse” IM NOT VOTING FOR TRUMP. This whole “uhhhh the gop is worse” has now led you to support genocide instead of demanding the lowest of fucking bars be upheld.

You suck. You’re an idiot. You are lost in your ignorance like a pig wandering in a mud wallow. Your mind is like a bramble patch, full of thorns and briars to impede any thought that might enter. Your ears are like a hollow log, unable to comprehend the words and sound from without. Your soul is like a broken bone, unable to feel the pain of enlightenment or to walk a path of righteousness. Like a fly buzzing around a dead carcass, you flit between folly and foolishness, lacking the knowledge and discernment to move forward. Fuck you genocider.

Bidens gonna win mainly because abortion is on the ballet,

Roe v Wade was lost under Biden’s administration.

Biden had control of the house and senate when he was elected and did nothing to protect the right to abortion.

Democrats have been running on promises to codify Roe v Wade into law for decades. Curiously, they never actually try to make good on it when they get into office on that promise.

You have to be a grade-A sucker to believe Biden is going to do fuck-all about women’s rights if he gets re-elected.

Biden is losing in polls at around the margin of voters who are deeply invested in what’s going on with Gaza. He’s lost the support of virtually every Muslim in America, and that’s important in states with a lot of Muslims like Michigan and Minnesota. He’s rapidly losing support among younger people, who are also the ones most interested in abortion rights.

I actually do think Biden may win, but my gut says it’ll be a very funny situation where he wins the electoral college while losing the popular vote.

In this moment I am euphoric

and yes I will come back to this post

please do, tag us all. we will all make fun of you again

if i was a single issue voter for abortion, I wouldn’t vote for a lifelong anti-choice democrat who allowed abortion rights to be revoked under his presidency.

Why are you pretending that Biden isn’t currently in power and hasn’t been in power for the past 4 fucking years? Why has he done jackshit about abortion as of yet, and why do you think he’ll do something once reelected?

Not that what is happening in Gaza Isn’t horrible or important but the reality is most Americans don’t care that much.

I wish no harm on the American ruling class. My enemy is the American people.

Biden is literally the current president, his party could save abortion right now if they wanted to

Legitimate question: is abortion on the ballot in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, or Georgia?

Because if not, then it’s entirely irrelevant. Totally irrelevant. As much as everyone talks about voting (or not voting} for Biden or Trump, for the overwhelming majority of Americans who don’t live in a swing state their voting for president is pointless. So unless abortion is on the ballot in swing states it’s a non-factor.

Abortion does motivate people, and that factors into it if it’s on the ballot in swing states. But when you look at presidential candidates you would be hard pressed to find a candidate with as bad of numbers that Biden has inside and outside of his party. Not even LBJ had as bad of numbers and he dropped out of the race because he knew how unpopular he was.

Edit: According to this map, the only swing state where abortion might be on the ballot is Arizona; and Nevada if you count that as a swing state.

Lmao bidens going to win because abortion is on the ballot

You’re an absurd person, do you know that?

Do you know that Biden is personally responsible for helping block enshrinning abortion rights into law at least twice?

Do you even pay the slightest attention to the actions these people take, or do you just cheer and clap while reading press statements and Twitter posts

Gullible fool

the reality is most americans don’t care that much

let it burn

the reality is most Americans don’t care that much

But we do. And thats we refuse to vote for genocide enablers but I understand condemning genocide is a skill issue for you

If you come back to do an “I told you so”, you shouldn’t. This isn’t a game. Genocide isn’t a contest of who is more correct or virtuous.

Just go back to your instance and jerk off with sandpaper, asshole.

Bidens gonna win mainly because abortion is on the ballet, and yes I will come back to this post when he wins to remind you I was right.

I’ll remind you constantly when he loses

If Biden wins it will be because he convinced morons like you that “Abortion is on the ballot”. It must be nice to have no thoughts and just repeat advertising slogans. Do you just have “Eat Fresh” playing on loop in your head as well?

If abortion is on the ballot, then go vote for that actual policy in your state. There is no way to guarantee that Democrats protect abortion rights even if elected, and their track record is piss poor. Electing Biden will do nothing about abortion in individual states, and we know that because he isn’t doing shit about those restrictions now.

Lol

most Americans don’t care that much.

Our foriegn policy has direct effects on global markets. Our excessive sanctions squeeze supply and drive up prices. Our overt and covert meddling in the Global South effect prices and eventually mass migrants. They’ll get mad at the “invasion at the border” but they refuse to take that next logical past the nose leap and ask what is the root cause of this? They’ll move armies of trucks and tractors for symptoms, but refuse to see America for the damned monster it is despite people through the generations pointing to exactly the problem

Fascists that control the finacial class in this country.

Smedley Butler warned us they wanted to do a fascist coup. Eisenhower warned us of the investor-defense Military Industrial Complex. Kennedy warned us that those who are unable to protest in their nations for peaceful change will result in violent overthrows. Wesley Clark said we were taken over by a Policy Coup by the Project for a New American Century

It takes maaybe a few hours of cursory education to see finance corrupt politicians and finance manipulating foreign policy and how that directly effects prices at home.

The knock on effects of this war and subsequent consequences in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe will directly be felt in American pocketbooks forever. Once it inflates, capital wants to lock in those inflated prices. That is the nature. Every dollar they earn, have earned, will earn is now worth less because they didn’t give a shit about some brown people being genocided.

You guys are weird, abortion is on the ballot in many states

Yeah in specific state ballots you dumb fuck lmao, that doesn’t magically translate into turnout for the general election, especially considering Roe vs Wade was lost under Biden’s watch and he doesn’t support “abortion on demand” as he calls it

Do you even support abortion, feels like you just picked an issue at random to try and engineer a gotcha, despite the fact you clearly had no idea about Biden’s stated position lmao try again

My Voting for Jill Stein in Michigan counts for 100x the votes of other states. Bask in my POWER to make liberals collapse. They call me The Delegate

but no, not like that

Smash that “like” button!

Is Inventing Reality a better read than Manufacturing Consent? I found Chomsky’s book too dense to go through.

This but also capitalism has reached a very late stage in the US and Bernie-esque policies, while probably still achievable in a practical sense, are probably enough of a threat to the interests of capital that it might have motivated Business Plot reboot or it’s possible that it would disturb the fragile balance of the market enough that it might be enough to cause the house of cards to start collapsing.

Think like if the US nationalised healthcare or intervened in the real estate market and started providing public housing - there’s a non-zero chance that this would pop a bubble in the market that would cause a ripple effect throughout the other bubbles like in the finance industry such as BlackRock which might just level entire sections of the US economy.

I’m lowkey hoping that Tesla goes belly-up in the near future and this is the catalyst for exactly what I’m describing above.

I had some degree of faith in this before but idk, he seemed to get reined in somewhere along the way after he started to stray too far from obstructing US foreign policy and into actively undermining it (think how he flipped on his position on the DPRK for some indiscernible reason - either he was on a grift and trying to woo the DPRK government and he entered into the following phase of trying to railroad his objectives with them and they said “Lol no” so Trump decided that they were terrible because they weren’t willing to play ball in exactly how he demanded they should, or the CIA had had enough of his shenanigans and decided to show him the Zapruder extended cut or they dug up the Epstein Cinematic Universe movies that he was on set for during the recording and they said pull your shit in or we’re really going to make you into a star.)

Whatever the truth of the matter is, I feel like his policy on this stuff shifted pretty significantly and kinda out of nowhere. The dude’s clearly the most stable genius out there though so it’s hard to tell whether there’s something behind the scenes directly shaping these changes or if he’s just a wrecking ball that’s careening between one thing and the next.

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The return of the king! Please clap.

I’ve been recommended this lecture on Caesar. What do you think of it?

The thing that Trump would like more than anything else would be to become king in a constitutional monarchy. It would stroke his ego, people would have to respect him, the law would be unable to touch him a d he wouldn’t have to do any actual government business.

I had to double check.

He never pledged to run for one term, he made several statements that he was a bridge to the next generation of leadership he did not expect to run for a second term but he never explicitly ruled it out.

I would post a link but I’m not a lib, you know how to Google, and the best article looks like it’s from the Atlantic which I refuse to give free clicks to.

But TLDR, yes he made very clear he planned to run for exactly one term. No, he did not promise or pledge to run for one term.