If you’re hurtling towards disaster, shouldn’t you try the brakes even if you think they aren’t going to work? We can’t move the United States to the left as long as far right authoritarians are being voted into office. Once some stability is established, we can start working towards more progressive policies. If given the chance between voting for the right and voting for the centrist, I’m going to pick the centrist every time. The only alternative is violence, which is a last resort in my mind (and we’re getting awfully fucking close).

I wouldn’t vote for him in the primary, but if he was the option in the general, I’d vote for him. Compromise is inherent to democracy.

The other thing we should learn is that primaries matter. Primaries are where you vote for the person you want, general elections are where you vote against the one you don’t.

You should read and try to understand the whole thread before you reply to it, otherwise you’ll miss important context.

Anyone But Trump, 2028

Oh, you must have just been born, or woken up from an 8 year long coma…

Anyway. Donald Trump has become the president… twice, and each time he was running against someone who was notably, not trump.

If we’ve learned anything from 2024, it’s that this won’t fly… Sign needs to say “Looking for Unicorn to run for President, otherwise we’ll get trump again”

Yes, a mistake. Which just happened to wipe out the exact parts of the Constitution that the President has been ignoring.

You know what? I’m going long con on this. I think some badass Librarian deleted those sections so that we would have to acknowledge publicly that those rights are indeed guaranteed in the Constitution.

Ah, fucking assholes.

I had to call my ISP because I specifically requested a modem only, no router, and they gave me one of their stupid locked-down combo units.

If you bitch enough, they will relent.

How are they blocking port forwarding? Just put your own router in…

Well, at least the genocide is over and groceries are cheaper! We did it Patrick!

You must become the hell you wish to see in the world.

Ah, see, my religion infinite years old, but has only recently been revealed to me and me alone. It’s actually all the other religions that are too young in comparison. Much like the children the church is throwing under the bus to protect career pedophiles.

“My religion says I don’t have to stop for red lights”.

Only one side was dumb enough to draw a bunch of attention to it when it was their guy (who is definitely on the list) is president.

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

On the one hand, yeah, shady as fuck from Republicans. On the other hand, the Dems could have pushed this during Biden’s term. I doubt that Epstein was adding more names to his ledger after being dead for a few years. I actually do feel like this is a “both sides issue”, and we would be better if this shit landed on both sides of the aisle so we have easy identification of the targets to clean up.

TBF, that is a low bar to clear.

-Put conditions on any aid going to Israel.

-Arrest trump and his sycophants in Congress for their litany of heinous crimes against the American people.

-Force Biden not to run in 2024, have an actual primary and don’t put their thumb on the scale to nominate a corporate-owned bipartisan centrist.

I’m pretty pro-democrat, but they could have done all that shit in a day and locked in the next 8 years of federal elections.

He dithered and only reluctantly did this. And then when he did, he did it in a way that a corrupt SCOTUS could overrule. There were other paths he could have taken, but he chose the least-confrontational approach and ultimately the court negated most of his efforts.

I’m gonna gut check this, because I remember him trying couple of times to work out student debt relief. Also, what other steps would you have taken to get student debt relief/forgiveness pushed though? The only step I can think of is after the “president is a king” SCOTUS ruling he could have just canceled them and told everyone to fuck off, but using those powers was clearly something that he didn’t morally agree with.

He is running it like a business, problem is, he runs most of his businesses straight into the ground.

And now they are using that free time to legislate the “big beautiful bill” and further Project 2025.

Republicans pushed forward a bullshit impeachment for Biden because he wasn’t brutal enough to immigrants. Impeaching trump for actual impeachable conduct should be the norm, even if it fails every time. We need these people on record saying they support all this unitary executive shit, because we can throw it in their faces when they bitch about the next Dem president expanding healthcare, and it eats up time that Congress would spend furthering the far-right agenda.