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Good! We want boring. I don't want to look at our government every other day and think this is the day we are going to die. Or loved ones. Or stupid fucking decisions that have nothing to do with the voters. We long for boring.
I remember tuning into the morning news every morning during his first presidency to make sure the US hadn't imploded overnight. There was always some new shocking shit every time. This week has been no different.
I'm sorry, but if you didn't vote Dem in this election, you're an idiot of the highest caliber.
Vote Trump, you're an idiot for obvious reasons.
Vote anyone else in an election like this one, you're an idiot. The 3rd party candidate with the most votes only got half of a single percent of the total votes. In other words, no 3rd party candidate had even the whisper of a chance of winning.
If you're willing to gamble on a sure-to-lose scenario in an election as serious as the 2024 election, you're an idiot.
if you didn’t vote Dem in this election, you’re an idiot of the highest caliber
Support for the GOP correlates heavily with the presence of a fossil fuel industry in a given state or electoral district. It also tilts heavily by gender, with women and pocs tilting heavily Dem (black women vote ~~Republican~~ Democrat in the 90-95% range) while white men are around 2:1 Republican.
The party politics flows accordingly, delivering the red meat their base voters crave while focusing the more material policies toward their respective donor bases.
What's really fucked things of late has been Dems pandering to factions that don't actually support them (huge Dem support for AIPAC when Israel special interests were leaning hard right, huge Dem support for the domestic tech sector when Bezos/Zuck/Elon were throwing their support behind Trump, Harris parading around with Liz Cheney to the cheers of basically nobody).
If you’re willing to gamble on a sure-to-lose scenario in an election as serious as the 2024 election, you’re an idiot.
Republicans and Democrats both love a big rug pull. The difference on Lemmy is that you'll see plenty of people recognize the scam that is $TRUMP coin the moment it is announced, but you'll still see them doggedly defend Biden for stiffing college debtors while throwing billions into an Infrastructure Investment Act for a Silicon Valley crowd that hate him.
black women vote Republican in the 90-95% range
Surely you meant they vote Dem in this range.
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Trump very obviously played the left with the help of Netanyahu while throwing the democrats under the bus, and the left ate it up. While the right unified, the left splintered into micro groups all hating on each other for having differing opinions within the left. I’m hearing Americans now saying “well it’s the Dems fault…” great, you sure showed them huh?
Those people did the equivalent of chopping off their own foot, but calling it a win cause they got blood on the other guy.
Yup. I hope the "Biden is committing genocide" and "Dems didn't solve every problem known to man" are happy with their new president they helped elect.
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Not to say the 2024 pres. election wasn't important, but when was the last election where you would have said "sure, go vote for that 3rd party"?
Never.
Why?
Because no 3rd party has done the necessary work to become a nationally viable party. No 3rd party will be viable until they start investing in candidates in local/state elections.
There is no cheat code to make a 3rd party candidate president. 3rd parties have to start winning local/state offices, then get representatives in the House, then the Senate, before even having the possibility of running a candidate that can win a presidential election.
Anyone voting 3rd party for president is extraordinarily ignorant and assisting in the decline of this nation on the fastest timeline possible.
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Speaking of 2020, remember when democrats worked hard to pour all their support behind Biden over Bernie? What was the explanation for that?
remember when democrats worked hard to pour all their support behind Biden over Bernie? What was the explanation for that?
Biden got more votes?
Like, it's not that complicated. Lookup both Democratic primaries Bernie has been in. He got crushed in popular votes both times. I like Bernie. You apparently do too. Doesn't mean most voters do. He lost the popular vote. Twice.
I wouldn't say he got crushed. But you're not wrong. Despite people being wrong down voting you for saying that he lost the popular vote. He 100% did. I can say that as someone who voted for sanders. Unfortunately a lot of Sanders voters can't.
A lot of the Democrats primary rules weren't very democratic. But Sanders knew what they were going in. And Democrats didn't break the rules. And despite losing, Sanders got shit done and helped make the rules more democratic for the future.
If Biden was getting more votes, why did the democratic party collude to make all the other candidates drop and put their support behind Biden while funding a super PAC to keep Warren in the race to split votes with Bernie right before the critical point of super tuesday? They also had their buddies in big media play the narrative of "the Biden miracle" where he edged ahead in South Carolina thanks to a single critical endorsement by Clyburn but was doing poorly before then. For this favor, the democrats moved South Carolina up in the primaries in 2024, even though South Carolina went to Trump in both 2020 and 2024 for the general election.
The democratic party felt so threatened by Bernie that they put their thumb on the scale during their own party primary which is already biased towards party-favored "moderate" candidates since people more in line with the party are more likely to vote in them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
Keep in mind that Biden became the most progressive president in our lifetimes.
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"I don't feel comfortable voting for a woman with the same policies"
Every single independent voter I talked voted for Orange Nero. That is how they conceal their racist neo-Nazi bullshit beliefs.
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The billionaires with their hand up Trump's ass are clearly more evil than the billionaires with their hand up Biden's ass.
I mean, yes and yes, but unfortunately yes. It's possible for a capitalist shit stain to be worse than a capitalist pee stain, even if only by a near indiscernible margin. Which mattress would you rather??
Like choosing to eat uranium because cancer treatment would give you something to do after work.
"I wanted to be outraged and lose sleep daily. I need to yell at my computer and throw things at my TV in order to feel alive"
More like: He’s so…old
Trump is 3 years younger and plainly aging worse than Biden.
If you think conservatives actually cared about Biden's age, you are sorely mistaken. The proof being they elected an extremely sundowning dipshit that's basically the same age but aging way worse.
Was just another tactic to get dipshit independent (and some Democrat) voters to shy away from Biden. And it worked, because Americans are dumb.
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"I think politics should always be entertaining. Then I get annoyed that politicians are always drawing attention to themselves and there's always drama. I cannot even visualize living life any other way. I find myself to be very intelligent! And pure. I find myself to be very intelligent and pure. At the center of the universe! I mean... I turn around, I see the horizon always at the same distance... I must be at the center of the universe. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I find myself to be very intelligent, and pure, and at the center of the universe."
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