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Biden’s latest campaign video is a Marjorie Taylor Greene speech (www.independent.co.uk)

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The White House and Democratic members of Congress called Georgia Republican’s comparison a ‘compliment’

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[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 203 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think we can count on Biden's campaign being stacked with young, media-savy people, like it was last time. A lot of his 2020 stuff was pretty well done, you could tell he had a pretty in-touch team that knew how to present him well. Literally all he has to do is not get in their way, and they can ride Dark Brandon memes into 2024.

[-] RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

That's called leadership. You put the right people in the right places and you don't get in their way.

[-] macrocephalic@lemmy.fmhy.ml 115 points 1 year ago

Imagine thinking those were bad things! That's close to 50% of the US voting population (and I'd like to pretend it was only them, but the rest of the world isnt necessarily better).

How the fuck did we get here? Actually scratch that, i know that humans are greedy, tribal animals who are driven by biological urges only sometimes obscured by higher level thought. The bigger question is how the fuck did we manage to make it as far as we have?

[-] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 46 points 1 year ago

And the biggest question of all; how do we unfuck this thing?

[-] dilligasatall@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Marj's ex husband has been asking himself that same question for a long time.

[-] Techmaster@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Some things just won't wash off, no matter how much you scrub.

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[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Have the American people stop being lazy bastards, generally. Especially young people.

2020 was the highest turnout in a century. And it was still only 2/3 of eligible voters. 79,000,000 eligible voters just went “eh”.

The primaries were even worse than that. The 2022 midterms were the second highest turnout for midterms this millennium. With 52%…. Despite 69% of eligible voters being registered. A ton of people just stayed home instead of making our highest civil duty a priority.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree, but part of the problem is that people are tired of choosing between 2-3 old people candidates that dont have their best interests in mind. In the case of Biden and Trump, Biden is most definitely less of an asshole and way more qualified than the Trump, but he's still going to do what's best for corporations, not what's best for the majority of the US population.

I vote myself, but at the same time I understand the apathy especially from the younger generations. They are presented with 2 people who are completely out of touch with them, and the issues they will face in their lifetimes. I don't think that they are lazy, they just feel helpless and like their choice doesn't matter or make a difference.

I don't know how we fix this issue, as it is a problem with the voting system itself. The best we can do is just vote and pick the lesser of two evils. So I also encourage others to do the same, but I don't look down on anyone for not voting.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

So vote in the primaries…

The Dem primaries had like 10 people this last go round. From 38 to 78.

Bernie was the front runner and people were counting Biden out until South Carolina when nobody showed up for Bernie.

Voting is not a once every 4 year thing. There are elections at the local level all. The. Fucking. Time. And those are even more important. And they have even less turnout than the big ones. I have had 8 elections since 2020 in my local area. I vote in every single one of them.

Who do you think rise through the ranks through parties and become prominent? People who get elected at lower levels. They have track records.

There is absolutely zero excuse for not voting. I will look down on anyone that doesn’t vote but bitches about the system. They simply do not care. They say they do but won’t do the one damn thing to actually change anything. Everything starts at the local level.

[-] venorathebarbarian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I vote myself, but at the same time I understand the apathy especially from the younger generations.

You came out swinging with a lot of pent up frustration, dude. The other commenter says they do vote. I grant you they didn't mention the primary, but I have no reason to believe they don't vote in the primary, too.

So I also encourage others to do the same, but I don't look down on anyone for not voting.

I feel like this is where you meant to put your energy, since you said you DO look down on people who don't vote but do complain. But we need both kinds of people in the world. Some people respond better to patience, others to a kick in the butt. You're both doing it right as long as you're both trying to convince people to vote.

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[-] transmatrix@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Definitely times I wish we were more like Australia where I’m pretty certain voting is legally required.

[-] VitoScaletta@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah election day is a holiday here, and voting is open for weeks in advance leading up to it just in case people can't find the time.

Not to mention the fact that we have preferential voting, so people are better off putting more independent/smaller parties first so they have a better chance of getting seats

Also the sausage sizzle

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

When I first heard about democracy sausages I thought it was a way to make fun of uncultured Americans and our bland bologna style hot dogs.

I'm so jealous that you get sausages when you vote! So much better than a sticker!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage

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[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The bigger question is how the fuck did we manage to make it as far as we have?

That's not really a big question.

We made it this far because unlike what conservatives think, most people dissagree with them.

[-] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

How the fuck did we get here?

Complete failure of education system?

[-] Hypersapien@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Deliberate sabotage of the education system by the Republicans.

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[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

I cannot imagine how anyone could think being compared to FDR would be a black spot for a progressive. I wish he'd be at least one Judicial Procedures Reform Bill closer to FDR.

[-] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I cannot imagine how anyone could think

MTG doesn't do much thinking at all.

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago

From the figures I found, Trump increased the debt by $6.7 trillion while Biden increased it by $2.5 trillion (over three of his four years). Note that the first year of spending for any president is controlled by the last president, so 2020 spending was Trump's, but also 2016 was Obama's.

Looking at just proposed programs, Biden's student loan plan would have cost 0.4 trillion, or $400 billion. Meanwhile, Trump's 'tax repatriation holiday' (companies illegally hiding money overseas to avoid taxes, make one year where you don't get taxes for bringing the money back to USA) cost taxpayers $465 billion.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

Pepperidge Farm remembers the last couple of years of the Clinton administration when we had an actual budget surplus and all the talk was of what to do with this surplus. But then the "fiscal conservatives" said "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter".

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

And they blamed Obama for being spendy (because even $1 to a poor person is wasteful) while GWB racked up the biggest budget in history many times.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Deficits don't matter, but a surplus is still dope AF. It shouldn't come from cutting services like we did in the 90s tho.

I do agree it's insane that the GOP went from "deficits don't matter" when they control the Presidency to "shut down the gov over the debt ceiling" when they don't tho.

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[-] Upgrade2754@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

man I wish Biden was a strong advocate for even half of those things lol

[-] koraro@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

It's just ridiculous that she talks about how "awful" those things are.

[-] Techmaster@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I know, they sound horrible, right? Imagine tax dollars going back into the communities that pay them. God what kind of awful country would do such a thing?

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Imagine services that actually help people and not purely driven by profits.

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Republicans are so far gone that they forgot what it's like to actually help American citizens

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[-] DrTautology@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Neanderthal DNA. Lots of it.

[-] vynlwombat@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA and I resent this

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[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Oh good lord, yes.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Oh to be a fly on the wall when she first saw this. She must be tearing that shitty dye job out of her head by the roots lol

[-] relative_iterator@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

Link to the video. Sorry it’s Twitter.

https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1681424737384435713?s=46&t=1RS4vxJ7QYuOgD4JTloPEA

[-] takeda@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

Don't apologize, use Nitter: https://nitter.net/joebiden/status/1681424737384435713?s=46&t=1RS4vxJ7QYuOgD4JTloPEA

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The comments on that thread are insane. I'm not really sure what I expected but Jesus. They don't even respond to anything in the video, they just repeat Hunter Biden/COVID conspiracies

[-] Techmaster@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Twitter is a cesspool.

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[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

The way MTG says "urban" brings to mind John Mulaney's bit about how the factual word "jews" is the same as the derogatory word "jews," so it just depends on the inflection.

[-] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I didn't watch the video but I already know 'urban' is code for 'black people'

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

And then she lists things the Republicans have done to dig our debt deeper…

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

this is gold

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I wish there were someone who wasn't evil or whose only selling point was they aren't bad. Is having inspiring canidates really too much to ask for?

[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago

The most pressing crisis to all of humanity is the climate and somehow Biden got through congress an estimated $1.3 trillion climate bill. I'm not sure a Bernie could've pulled that off.

You don't have to love or even like him, but he has selling points other than not being Trump.

[-] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Literally in a thread talking about the good things Biden has done

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, kinda, yeah. You saw what happened to Sanders.

But so long as the red team is in full literal Nazi mode, we really shouldn't bitch too much about the not-evil options. We don't want to sentence the US with another Trump because the alternative is uninspiring.

It's a shitty system, but let's work with that we got.

[-] Techmaster@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

There's nothing wrong with a boring, uninspiring president. Obama had a ton of charisma but Biden's presidency is honestly a lot better. Sure, the country sucks right now, but at least Biden is trying to make it better, after the last guy did so much to try and destroy everything our nation is built on. It's going to take a long time and a lot of hard work to crawl out of this hole the GOP has dug us into. I think there are people who could have done better than Biden, but in all honesty he's probably the best president we've had in my lifetime. I give him a B+.

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