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fuck off liberal
How mature. Great rebuttal.
Harris or Clinton would have not been the lesser of two evils they’d have been great presidents.
Yeah, they would have given lip service to fighting fascism while laying the groundwork for continuing the march to the right as soon as they left office. Way better.
It’s funny that we’re living what we’re living and people still think this.
This is the conclusion that a material analysis of the world reveals. Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin, and that coin is owned by capitalists. Republicans exist to do whatever terrible shit capitalists want to do, and Democrats exist to pull the Overton window to the right so that the capitalists can do whatever terrible shit they want to do.
One makes the country better and the other one tears it down.
We’re twenty three days into a government shut down right now with massive layoffs happening.
Oh ok, so the Democrats are doing everything they possibly can to fight fascism? No, they’re mostly just sitting around complaining how their hands are tied and they can’t do anything. We’d all be in the streets with guns right now if we had a leadership that actually cared about fighting fascism.
They’re doing more then the progressives but that’s admittedly a very low bar.
I'm describing exactly what Biden did, so I have a pretty good reason to believe this.
It’s called listening to the right wing propaganda without a single critical thought.
Yeah, you're right. Biden absolutely prevented a second trump term. He wasn't just keeping the seat warm, he actually made some very effective changes that totally worked. How could I fall for such blatant right wing propanda?
American voters voted Trump in.
Biden was probably the best or the second best president since Carter but people chose to believe he did nothing because they ignored everything he did.
I would have been happy if he'd prevented a second trump term, or mitigated the potential damage by dialimg down the expansions of executive power that bush and Obama gave themselves. He didn't do that. He didn't even try. I suspect he didn't do that because he was controlled opposition. Either way, fuck him. He has a much bigger share of the blame than any individual voter.
Any one who voted Trump is to blame first and nonvoters second.
Unless he won by 1 vote I'd say the guy who facilitated him running in the first place has a way bigger pile of blame
I think Trump is the guy who decided that Trump ran though.
Or do you believe that the president currently in power should decide which of his opponents are allowed to run?
I think if his opponent was convicted of 34 felonies and led an assault on the capitol he has better options than saying "vote for me, I'm not as bad!"
He also could have prepared for a possible trump win and mitigated the damage by returning presidential powers to pre-9/11 levels
But I guess showing up at the debate acting like he was mid stroke and rambling about his golf skills was almost as good, SatansMaggotyBlueMaga
That's when he stepped back and Harris stepped up and people looked between a highly competent woman and Trump and voted Trump or decided not to vote.
I've said this before but I enjoy when people say blue maga because I tag their account as such and know they aren't going to add value to any conversation.
Especially when they use it as a personal insult.
More accurately, that's when the press forced his hand and he was dragged out kicking and screaming
Citation needed
I do not enjoy when people treat their chosen party like it's a sports team and root for them no matter how much they fuck up. That is what magas do and I don't like magas. In other words, the shoe fits.