They used to claim gay people caused hurricanes, too. Same fucking bigotry for decades.

Yeah, Bush did jack shit while his minions ruined everything. The show may be better this time but that doesn’t mean it won’t be destructive. Still, we can hope.

I had a very similar experience. Read about it. Mined a couple coins just to try it. Said “Well that’ll never go anywhere”. I think i still had them years later but by the time i remembered i couldn’t find where the wallet ended to. I think it’s gone, now.

Let’s not forget, on that note: Biden picking him was bad but so was Obama nominating him to the SCOTUS to begin with. Replacement for Scalia or not, we see what that led to. Garland getting on the Court wouldn’t really be making a difference there either.

I mean, getting rid of Franken was reasonable. Refusing to challenge the Republican creeps has… well… resulted in a government of mostly creeps and that’s not where i want to be. (Admittedly that specific piece is not specifically the Democratic Party’s fault, though they could have done more. Not using the moral leverage they got by booting Franken was an unforced error.)

The Dems don’t even play by the rules. They play by some made up rules that exist only in their heads and boil down to “you’re not allowed to oppose the Republicans in any way that matters”. There’s tons of legal and ethical stuff Biden could have done in the last four years and here we are, sitting on our asses in the sinking ship, waiting for the water to rush in and drown us all.

Yes.

Yep, that’s for sure the culture he wants. Obedience, but excellence.

Gonna be honest, i think Biden could have beaten Trump. I don’t blame him for stepping down (though if he had done so sooner i think it would have been better) but i think he had at least as much chance as Harris, maybe more. That’s purely strategic, though. I think the calls for him to step down were coming from a position of weakness and fear and were interpreted as such by the electorate.

He could have easily won if he did something about Gaza other than “support genocide” but here we are, at the (current) end of a long string of such decisions.

We see with the UHC shooting how much anger there is for the inequities in this country, it would be easy to tap into that.

I don’t think people are really thinking long term, i don’t think there’s any strategy like that at play. (This is kind of accelerationist anyway, even if it were.) However, i think people who blame the voters for refusing to vote for an obviously poisonous candidate are completely delusional.

People do not have a duty to vote for the Democratic Party’s chosen candidate, no matter who it is. Not moral and not otherwise. The candidate has a duty to appeal to the voters. The party has a duty to put forward candidates that can get elected. If they refuse to do that and the voters refuse to vote for them, that’s not on the voters.

He’s a fucking incompetent loser and he’s way more incoherent now than he was 8 years ago. He’s still very dangerous but there is a chance he just won’t be able to get things done.

He has a couple million fascist followers who reread The Turner Diaries every other week and can’t cum unless they’re fantasizing about The Day Of The Rope so that’s one thing.

Yeah that’s only when it’s Democrats trying to change things.

A big part of why he lost in 2016 2020 was greatly expanded mail in voting. No surprise he wants to ban it.

Go look at who Trump pardoned in his first term. He’s gonna do it anyway, saying it’s because of Biden is a weak ass excuse. Don’t be fooled.