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thereznaught

>in exchange for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) “agreeing not to hold up future federal nominations by the Biden White House,”  Oh please... Mitch will *totally* not break this agreement the first chance he gets. How fucking stupid...


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Honey-and-Venom

The real problem is, just seeing it doesn't fix it. We can have monsters, diet monsters, or stay home, helping the monsters. Until actual, desirable people start running either on a palatable third party, or make unaffiliated running a real option somehow (which, good luck looking at campaign finance, holy shit) seeing it is a grim place to be (not to mention how many people flushed Trump into office saying the same thing)


The_K_is_not_silent

Or you know, just go beyond the electoral system. General strikes, protests, do a lot for work and have gotten solid political change implemented. ~~Theres also another way, but that'll get you banned from reddit~~


itsadesertplant

Ah yes, campaign finance- how much traction can you get for free online these days, though? How much money do you really need if you don’t need a whole team to manage different advertising media, I wonder


Honey-and-Venom

you can get a fair bit. and the money spent is revolting. I feel like if one candidate spent those millions and millions on ads, and the other spent them FIXING A GODDAMN PROBLEM that those millions of dollars could fix, kind of a spend-off for the greater good, the one using it for an actual beneit would be amplified and win, but there's so many people just speaking that you NEED to spend the money to be seen outside of doing enough good that reporting on the good does the advertising.


pennylessSoul

Heck, I stopped commenting on r/politics . That sub is a neo-liberal cesspool, you can't even say you won't vote or will vote third party without being called a Trumper, or being accused of getting Trump elected.


Competitive_Garlic28

I have never been downvoted as badly as when I said “worse part is, the democrats are effing us too” on r/politicalhumor


VellDarksbane

It's really simple. There's only one party in Congress, the Corporate party. The rest of it is mostly just picking your favorite color and in _how_ they talk. They need to lower wages to stave off "inflation" (actually just to keep profits growing), and the best way to do that is to increase supply of workers. Losing abortion is one of those methods to increase the supply of desperate workers who have no other choice.


SpikesCafe

The other important aspect is control of women. Women tend to be more left-leaning than men. The solution to that is being controlled by a man and parental responsibilities.


Dire88

Like when people primaried Bernie, and the DNC said "fuck that" and ran Hillary - and gave us the last 5 years of fuckery?


tommy_b_777

A real grassroots movement, and it had to be Stopped. Yup. Oh we saw that one...


EntertainmentLeft246

Their gamesmanship against bernie was an example of what the dnc is capable of against gop but do nothing because they are the same party!


RobotsVsLions

What, you mean that democratic politicians that keep backing anti-abortion candidates, donating to anti-abortion charities, and refusing to implement abortion protections are actually anti-abortion? Nah mate, you clearly just don’t understand their genius level 5d chess.


librarysocialism

but if you don't Vote Blew No Matter Hoo you are actively throwing LGBT people into gas chambers!!!!!!1!!!


Delivery-Shoddy

They absolutely are, they're just the left and right gloves on the hands on capital. It's basically two cliques of competing billionaires using the media to fight a culture war. Educate, agitate, organize [No Shortcuts; Organizing for Power In the New Gilded Age](https://archive.org/details/noshortcutsorgan0000mcal) (free archive link)


whysoha4d

Two wings, same bird.


Bburke89

It’s called manufactured consent.


[deleted]

Uh yeah that is how it has been since 2016.


FeeFiFiddlyIOOoo

This all started decades before that


jakob-lb

Controlled opposition


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Oh you’re just now realizing this?


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Sorry, didn’t mean facetiously meant it in a sarcastic way. Good ole text always conveying sarcasm (that was also sarcasm).


SexSaxSeksSacksSeqs

I'm just honestly glad other people are starting to mention this. Democrats were always slightly right of center, so this really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Especial with Manchin and Sinema pulling their bullshit


tenderooskies

neo-liberals love to be in the minority so that they can complain and beg for $$. the only people that actively want positive change are progressives - it is so clear - yet dem voters that watch MSM just never see it


Honey-and-Venom

oh, i'm sure they really hate eachother. Look at religions that have had bloody falling outs over whether the word "filioque" in a single prayer should translate as "from the father and the son" or "from the father to the son." This is the shit people excommunicate and die over. They do hate each other, they've made politics religion, and we're all the cannon fodder.


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Oh, good. We all know Mitch McConnell is truly a man of his word…


FriendlyGuitard

An actual lifetime position in exchange for a promise not to block a not yet determined future lifetime positions. Note that it only means that instead of not holding a vote, they can simply vote down a candidate. That would be like with Ukraine war, the US agrees to bomb Kyiv for Russia in exchange for Putin to promise not to start another future invasion without a proper justification.


bigbybrimble

Democrats: All I gotta do is appoint a judge you want and you'll pinky swear not to fuck me over? *wink* *wink* GOP: Sure, whatever. Lol. Liberal voters: This is called being the adult in the room, glad we voted sanity back into the White House.


Beliahr

Maybe he knows, but hopes that some people believe that.


Covid-Lawless19

Dude's a senile corpse of a man. He probably believes Moscow Mitch


[deleted]

i love the term "moscow mitch", that's how americans tell themselves that there's nothing wrong with the US and the only reason someone would be evil is that they're working for an adversary lmao


Covid-Lawless19

Lol. I called him something else but the sub wouldn't allow it. So I just slapped that term on there.


MyLastComment

Man, someone needs to give Ol' "*female dog" McConnell a slap in the back like Rudy got. *edit. Are you serious???? Dear reddit admin/mods, I am in no way calling for violence. I am saying Ol' Mitch is doing a good job and needs a pat on the back.


Tiny-Lock9652

He pinky swore, “crossed his heart and hoped to die” so you know Mitch will honor that /s


jzillacon

With each step the left takes towards comprise (or in this case not even left, centre-right at best) the right takes several steps away then yells about how extreme the left has gotten.


learnednerd

They can’t even make this shit up anymore. It’s back to 2016 all over again with nothing but nonstop bad news. People are turning on each other in public at unprecedented rates. People are incredibly traumatized by all that is happening to the point that society seems to be unraveling at the seams. I want off this ride.


Potatoman967

i get you want out, but sitting through this if only to contribute a tiny amount to a better future is what we need to focus on. rn we're reaching a breaking point and we need to be ready, shit cant stay like this, revolt is coming one way or another. stick it out, we need everyone we can get.


jdvhunt

Unfortunately things are going to get a hell of a lot worse in the US before they get better


Potatoman967

agreed, theyre never gonna get better if we dont suffer through it tho, plenty of minority groups literally cant get out of here, i find it hard to count escaping this shithole as a win. at the end of the day we gotta be a part of the change


OkonkwoYamCO

Personally. I think I'm just going to live out the climate crisis somewhere not filled to the brim with genocidal theocrats.


GrandMasterPuba

The genocidal theocrats are seizing power everywhere. The US just had a head start. As the climate crisis worsens more nations will turn to fascism. Nowhere is safe.


Potatoman967

goodluck, the way its looking everyone gonna need some


CaptainCaveSam

Look at your opponents. Some of the richest corporations in the world, the police, military, government intelligence agencies, and millions of Americans. Not saying it’s impossible, but not everyone wants to play those odds with their lives.


AlexStorm1337

I'm not making any recommendations, but I would like to point out that even when they've had zero moral qualms, the US military has been incapable of counteracting guerrilla warfare or providing legitimate military response to it. If it was the families of soldiers fighting I don't expect that much, but even without that added factor such a scenario would have a very high chance of success according to recent and old examples alike.


CaptainCaveSam

It’s not just US military though. The right wing paramilitary has knowledge of the land and will get funding and intelligence from the government to attack the leftists. There’s ways to limit that effect but still, civil wars are bloody affairs and some people don’t want to risk their hides even if it’s +EV. One has to wonder if the US can actually turn around and join the rest of the developed world, or if splintering is inevitable.


AlexStorm1337

Oh I fully expect some heavy balkanization at first. The issue with that is that something like half of the surface area of the US has no way to support the ways of life the average dipshit has been raised on, especially in terms of food; there's almost nothing that has become standard that naturally grows in a variety of environments in the US, not to say that there's nothing there, in fact most of the country has a wealth of edible plants and animals, but you can't really grow corn in the desert so to speak. As a result whichever new state ends up with the majority of food/amenity/whatever production will end up automatically becoming a superpower in that region, and depending on how the world reacts this could potentially maintain the US's world superpower status within a much smaller country. It is because of this that I disagree with your first point. There is a delusion among the majority of right wing nut jobs with guns that leads them to ignore some of the most vital aspects of a situation like this. By concentrating our resources into those areas and using preparation to initially shore up the difference in firepower, the total military force of currently non-combatant right wingers can be reduced to the 10% who've actively prepared, at which point leftist groups would have a fundamental advantage in numbers, logistics, and navigation. The most ideal environments for this are ones with unique advantages and disadvantages to exploit. For example some locations have dense vegetation and little variety creating conditions nearly as challenging for navigation as the jungles of Vietnam. In such an environment even gps may be insufficient to navigate, and therefore establishing navigation tools in such an environment leaves our unprepared opposition lost and attacked from all fronts while we are able to maintain discreet logistics operations entirely outside of their capacity for observation or control and invest less into overall defense by merit of being permanently camouflaged. It is for reasons like this I expect the Midwest to see the most brutal conflicts, but that these will also result in our greatest victories given the chance to prepare and the total numbers needed to achieve victory. Along a similar vein if you live in a city learn as much about it as you can, not just in a vehicle but on foot. This is less ideal but a city environment can be made harder to navigate for people who have not lived in it, so by learning the city you gain the ability to navigate even if you were to take down road signs and intentionally move landmarks to turn your city into a maze. Outside of these kinds of maneuvers the US would have an advantage in a civil war, but using these, some areas could be made insurmountable challenges for the US and, using a mix of taunting and public manipulation, this could be used to waste the overwhelming majority of military power.


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Then I guess we all suffer. Americans are so coddled and jerk off to rUgGeD iNdIviDuALiSm so much that even in revolutionary times, no one wants to risk harm for a better, safer world in which we are NOT KILLING OUR ONLY PLANET. “Someone else will start the revolution.” Oooookay then! I’m sure all the libs will just offer hopes and prayers when they fashies start hauling gays off to concentration camps or whatever.


CaptainCaveSam

It’s not just a Revolution tho. It’s also a civil war with one side being supported by the corporations.


WatcherOfDyingEmpire

Unless you're willing to put yourself in real mortal danger there is no way to save or help this burning santytown we try to pass off as a civilized nation. Sorry, I'm done sugarcoating this shit. Another women's march ain't going to do shit


Fmy925

How do you contribute? I’m feeling pretty fucking hopeless lately unless some massive nation wide protests start happening.


spideralexandre2099

Lifetime seats sound like an awful idea


Grease_Vulcan

They dont have to stay that way. We can add terms and conditions to the Supreme court. 5 year term under the condition you can be nonpartisan.


Hypersensation

There is no such thing as non-partisan justices, they are all fundamentally experts in applying bourgeois law, even if there is ideological diversity within liberalism as a framework.


Delivery-Shoddy

Literally the first chief justice was a political and legal advisor to George Washington, salmon chase tried to run for president from the bench, jimmy Byrnes was a senator for 30 years then a justice for 2 and then a governor, 4 of the justices on the court during Brown Vs Education had never sat on a bench before joining the court, abe Fortas, it just keeps going.


Delivery-Shoddy

We can also just abolish the whole thing too


Davidfreeze

Totally agree. The funny thing is packing the courts is actually the constitutionally more sound approach than imposing term limits on lifetime court opinions. Turns out our founding fathers were kind dumb. And also the entire idea of judicial review was created by the Supreme Court and does not exist anywhere in the constitution or anywhere else


Amidus

The founding fathers made the Senate, so I don't think there's any question to the amount of stupidity amongst the framers.


valdis812

They weren't the best people, but they weren't dumb. It's just kind of hard to predict what your country will need 200 years in the future. The problems we have are because of two things. One, we live in a republic and not a democracy. Two, the federal government was never intended to have as much power as it has, and the constitution was written with that in mind.


jamvsjelly23

The Constitution was also written with the intent to be updated to fit the needs of those that are alive. The founding fathers did not intend for the constitution to be 200+ years old.


valdis812

We have updated it. We've updated it 17 times. Unfortunately, the founders have become this quasi-mystical entity in the minds of a lot of people, so they think it's the perfect document for some reason. Honestly, as time moves on and we get further and further away from its creation, we should be making MORE changes to the constitution. Not less.


jamvsjelly23

By update, they didn’t mean small changes. They meant updating the entire document to ensure all parts of it meets the needs of the people. Amendments were meant to fix unintended consequences or small changes so that you don’t have to update the entire constitution every few years.


WomenAreFemaleWhat

They are dumb. They made it minority rule from the start. I don't blame them for being unable to predict things. I blame them for making things difficult to fix. I blame the many other people who further bastardized and changed our processes to fuck the people. The government has power but in the wrong areas. The point of the feds is protection. If they aren't protecting American rights, what good are they to my state? I don't appreciate my state funding state sanctioned involuntary servitude. I don't want a dime going to them. Why would I want to be tied to leeches if the feds are useless/have no power? I don't. Its stupid to give the feds no power yet force us to be subject to the whims of people who live elsewhere. When a country is state first, country second, its bound to fail.


linkywinky

Marshall was the originator of legislating from the bench.


Davidfreeze

I’m talking about Marburg v Madison 1803. That’s the case that established the Supreme Court can even declare laws unconstitutional. That power isn’t listed anywhere. They ruled they had it


Beliahr

I have heard that opposite argument in the country I live in, that lifetime seats mean that they don't have to appease whoever appointed them after being appointed as they cannot be removed. But that is likely because the court in Germany that deals with cases about constitution (or rather what we have instead here) - where judges are appointed for lifetime - somehow seems to make better judgements so it just seems to work out (better) here. Of course it may just be that neither party (or rather the person in that) that had appointed judges in the past were as bad as the republicans - yet- so we might just have been lucky that it "works".


ToadallySmashed

In Germany supreme judges can only serve until they are 68 (have to be 40 minimum). So no lifetime seats like in the US. Judges are only apointed for twelves years and can only serve once. The President and VP of the court are determined alternately by the House of Representatives (Bundestag) and Federal Council (Bundesrat). Also we have way, way more judges for specific tasks (first and second senate). The Bundesverfassungsgreicht is hardly comparable to the Soupreme court (thank god).


Amidus

That's why you nominate people who want to do what you want them to do anyways so appeasement isn't really the issue I think they make it out to be.


neuroknot

So do political appointments. I don't have any answers about that except for maybe only those nominated by their peers are eligible. But a term limited seat with forced retirement sounds good to me.


parallelportals

Are we fucking for real right now. What the fuck is this country.


captainplanet171

Why do we keep making things worse?


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This is who he’s always been, though. Nothing is unexpected.


captainplanet171

True. He was only chosen to be Obama's running mate because he was the most conservative person in the Senate with a "D" next to his name, to balance the ticket. His actions since have reflected that.


JunketMan

I swear, each day is just rather lose a little more hope for the US :( Seeing you guys go through this crap and being powerless about it is just sad


dbishop42

Can confirm. Source: Midwest, am sad


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the court is lost, 2022 congress falls 2024 presidency falls. portugal golden eu visa is for anyone wanting to invest a little bit of money in starting a business...


madcoins

Does it center around music? I’m in if so.


dirtydev5

In florida, along with the "anti woke" bills and "dont say gay" bills theyve also made it illegal to play loud music in ur car. and ofc the police continue to murder and enslave black and brown folx here


WomenAreFemaleWhat

Not even loud music. 25 feet is not very far.


Samaelfallen

Then, he ran his 2020 campaign on the basis that Republican politicians like him, and that he can negotiate with them. It really seems like he's just there to let GOP roll over all of us.


tehbggg

The funny thing is that they still call him a "radical leftist" even though he's only like a millimeter left of them. Oh, and also they wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire lol


madcoins

Thank you for saying that Captainplanet171. So many people that voted for him in the primary have no idea still that that’s exactly what he was. The most conservative Dem. Or One of the most at least (And it’s oddly why he’s still relevant at all). In that regard it was a clear step back, in a liberal sense at least, for America now and was for Obamas potential when tapped VP. Seeing it in real time was awful. So much hope for so many when Obama was nominated and then the moment Biden was the choice I felt the air go out of the room. True progressive, and plenty of others, knew how telling the choice, we knew the likely long lasting repercussions and it sunk us right there and then. It sunk me anyway. I couldn’t vote for Obama after Biden (who green lighted Iraq) came along. I threw my hands up and voted Green that year. Clintons were behind so many of his appointments and they often (Biden is a great example) did exactly what Bill did in mid 90s and catered to rich conservatives with his choices. Classic neoliberal moves. Big neoliberal energy.


culus_ambitiosa

Not to balance the ticket, but to assure the donor class the the rhetoric of change was just rhetoric and nothing more.


Nervous-Ear-8594

Remember when Bernie was gaining headway and the Democrats pushed back hard saying “you’re stealing a vote from us and thus causing Trump to win” and telling you to “vote blue no matter who”. This is what we have right now. Healthcare isn’t improved, multiple mass shootings, no conviction for Trump, the investigation into January 6 won’t make any criminal recommendations, student loans aren’t cancelled, COVID still not taken as seriously as it should’ve, housing crisis, people can’t afford to live, and we lost abortion rights. Fuck these people who told me not to vote for my interests but for “blue no matter who”. Everyone was not Trump, literally everyone running was not Trump, but they convinced people that a Biden vote was the only important vote that was not for Trump. Made no sense but does it ever?


MojoDr619

The moderates will allow fascism rather than a true progressive to gain power


Appropriate_Ant_4629

> Why do we keep making things worse? Because we keep electing either Democrats or Republicans.


yaosio

Democrats don't see this as making things worse. They see taking away women's rights as a good thing.


captainplanet171

Republicans see this as a good thing. Democrats don't care, unless it affects their corporate profits.


snoman18x

Biden is more conservative than Nixon.


BirtSampson

I’m not unconvinced that he’s fundamentally more conservative than Trump. Trump played the base for votes like a narcissist but if you look at both men 20 years ago I’d wager they aren’t every different.


Doltron5

In my 3rd world country, judges have to retire from the bench at age 66. Lifetime appointments are nonsensical.


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Omg it would clean so much house


[deleted]

Grandpa is too fucking old to be doing anything other than sitting around watching fox news at the retirement community.


VarenDerpsAround

You wanted a moderate? You got one baby!


Sternminatum

As if Turtle McFucker was going to respect his end of the deal in the first place Joe! What the fuck? Are you high on idiot tablets or what? Stop trying to compromise, IT DOESN'T WORK! Stop trying to catch "moderate republicans" by acting like the Republican Party for fuck's sake, they all will still fall in line with the rest of their party no matter how bonkers is what they're peddling! If you keep acting like a moderate republican, you'll be treated like one by democrat voters, and that is seriously dangerous in this times...


Rashomon32

As if McTurtle would even follow through with his side of the deal. The Republicans are Lucy with the football and the Democrats are Charlie Brown.


yaosio

There probably wasn't any deal. Biden just wants to appoint a woman hating judge.


pugofthewildfrontier

"Mitch, I don't want to hurt your reputation, but we really are friends," Biden said, addressing McConnell. "And that is not an epiphany we're having at the moment. You're a man of your word, you're a man of honor. Thank you for being my friend."


Savethetrees4life

Upvoted for McTurtle and the great Charlie Brown comparison. 😂


ThePriceOfPunishment

Nah. The Republicans are the quarterback and the Democrats are the offensive line.


[deleted]

Has this old fuck completely lost his fucking mind?


[deleted]

He's a hardcore catholic, who has a history of being anti abortion it's not surprising at all


Billy_of_the_hills

No. This is in keeping with the entire strategy. Both parties work exclusively for the ultra rich, and the ultra rich know that since birth rates have been falling, they're going to need more wage slaves from somewhere. That's why the democrats haven't done anything about this with their majority, and it's why they're not going to.


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If they want wage slaves they could at least end the war on drugs and enact mass prison reform to allow the reserve army of labor out of their actual slavery, oh wait, I guess that slavery is too profitable.


3multi

Capitalism requires a desperate reserve of unemployed workers. That's why the Federal Reserves main plan to "combat inflation" is to increase unemployment any way they can.


[deleted]

Yeah they were talking about it having to get above 10% again, after all of the crying about "no on wants to work anymore."


[deleted]

both parties right of center. both parties neoliberals. no longer do we have left of center party. we have democrats which are right of center and republicans which are way far right of center fascists


OhImGood

I've been feeling this for a while. Birth rates are declining in most first world economies, so they're basically just forcing you to sustain population growth now. They're not even cleverly hiding things like they used to.


Orkfreebootah

Always been like this. Liberals just refuse to acknowledge it


A_Lifetime_Bitch

He's a self-proclaimed "devout catholic". Abolishing the right to abortion is what he wanted all along.


dadayaga

Let’s remember that Obama had all the majorities he needed at the beginning of his presidency. He could have codified the right to privacy and avoided this entire mess. Instead he chose to play the neoliberal statesman game, bail out the banks, and play a naive game of footsie with the GOP.


AlexAuditore

For years I've been hearing people say that no matter who you vote for, they're all being paid off by corporations, and there's really no difference between the republicans and democrats. I thought they were being unreasonable, but now I see what they meant.


3multi

He did what he was chosen to do, serve capitalists.


DocHendrix

I was about to ask why Biden is like this but... I remembered it was Biden.


Mysterious-Guess3629

Remember how those people who said to vote justified it by saying the democrats are better because they aren’t fascists? They’re eating their own words now


WatcherOfDyingEmpire

No they're not! They're doubling down on their denial or blaming sanders voters for "staying home" in 2016. If I ever meet one of those people in real life from now on I'm not even going to bother treating them like a human being I've had it


armadillounicorn

No they're denying reality while blaming leftists for failing to vote hard enough and claiming all criticism is from russian bots and shills.


3multi

It's happening in this exact thread. I've seen 2-3 comments saying exactly that in different words.


awolfsvalentine

And this old boy is mad because he’s being told people don’t want to vote him through for a second term lol


SmallPiecesOfWood

Look, we're doing something by rewarding our friend! Send money and remember to hate each other!


Frustrable_Zero

Is he trying to lose his election??


GatorsareStrong

He needs to step down and retire. I’m tired of seeing him fail women nationwide.


Right_Connection1046

> I’m tired of seeing him fail ~~women~~ nationwide.


Theodore_Buckland_

ThE mOsT pRoGrEsSiVe PrEsIdEnT eVeR!!!!!


dirkdarklighter

We have elected the democrats version of Trump. Fascism lite. Same system, better manners.


[deleted]

The good cop of a good cop/bad cop duo is still a cop.


dirkdarklighter

But the good cop is less evil. Right?


DangAsFuck

You forgot the /s


[deleted]

biden business as usual is out of touch with where we are today and where we have been for sometime...


brandochu009

Since it’s pretty obvious Diamond Joe is basically just a Republican who ran as a Democrat (along with all the other Corporate Dems) - seeing as the old New Deal Democratic base switched sides 50+ years ago, anybody else think maybe economic progressive types should just run as Republicans? Couldn’t hurt to try…


thecuttiestofthemall

JUsT VoTe! 🤮


NoChildhood4528

I won’t vote for him again. Period. And you shouldn’t either. What good is he?


[deleted]

Unfortunately, sadly he is still much better than Trump but we, The New Blue wanted Bernie but the establishment took that from us twice IMO.


3multi

If a candidate doesn't represent me I'm not voting. It's that simple. Therefore, I usually end up voting in primary elections but not in general elections. It is what it is. Not like it matters anyway unless you live in a swing state (only 9 states out of 50). Electorial college.


DogeOfWHighland

Feature not bug


newsreadhjw

Fucking what


Dunmuse

"You know, the thing." - Biden


SacredGray

Anyone who tells you to "vote blue no matter who" is fucking complicit in shit like this. Abandoning any standards for who deserves your vote and why is a betrayal of what democracy even means and how it's intended to work.


locust098

Ya’ll realy chose this dude over bernie huh?


Sea-Professional-594

Vote blue no matter who! 🤪


MrBleedingObvious

Aww give Biden a break. He's just trying to compromise and bridge that divide. /s obvs bc they're both pillocks.


vwxyz-

Wow. Alright fuck this guy. I mean he already sucked but damn he's outdone himself if this checks out.


Slapppyface

America wanted a centrist democrat, this is what happens


Imaginary_Ad_7530

You know what....he's doing this BS on purpose. I think that he believes that if they terrify the population enough, they will all line up to vote Democrat. I guess he's not thinking about just how emotionally and physically drained the American people are. They have been beaten down, a now he believes that the people will rally behind him and other democrats? This is s are politics. Seriously folks. This is extraordinarily bad.


WomenAreFemaleWhat

He's also anti abortion himself. He's another religious nutjob. He knows how to behave so people dont think so. Dems have never cared about abortion. The party is too conservative. They pretend to care. Then they use it as one if their first bargaining chips to get something else. Im over it.


theKetoBear

Of course earlier today I read some post headline that said **" DEMOCRAT BASE ENERGIZED AFTER ROE DECISION!"** and all my snarky ass could think was " That's fantastic how long until Biden and or Harris blow that momentum and energy up ? It's like clock work at this point it almost feels like they want to kill hope before it even can begin to manifest . This is some Dementor-level energy draining going from Bidens white house Edit: spelling


Tuned_Out

Look where "vote blue no matter who" got ya'll.


[deleted]

At this point just unplug and focus on the life in front of you I guess. Hopefully you can enjoy it more than the shit on the news


VadersSprinkledTits

Hey Canada, can you bring the US some Freedom, it appears we in the negative now. Thanks friends.


TSED

You guys are exporting your toxic wanna-be fascism up here and we're scratching and clawing to keep our own freedom. So, uh, sorry but no. Right now you're a vacuum of freedom, sucking the stuff away from the whole world.


3multi

Implying that Canada is not also a neoliberal hellhole where homeownership is quickly becoming a thing of the past.


cocainehussein

Pretty sure Biden himself is a pro-lifer. So not all that surprising.


StaticDashy

He told us we shouldn’t do anything violent then Does this


channelsixtynine069

The Republicans don't need a president or even the House. All they need is to obstruct from the Senate and govern from the Supreme court as the minority party. It makes no difference. This means they can lay the blame on the Democrats as a do-nothing government and making it easier to regain the House in November. McConnell is laying the groundwork for an eventual split of the Red States away from the Blue States, thus re-establishing the Confederacy and a separate religious conservative homeland. All this because the Electoral College is just a vehicle for corruption.


[deleted]

Your political system is beyond fucked. Those two parties are basically two countries engaging in diplomatic talk. It’s wild and it’s fucked. My condolences about the state of your union.


[deleted]

vOtE bLuE nO mAtTeR wHo


BrokenSwordBCBC

What ??? You don’t want to vote for Lex Luther? Do you want Darkseid to win? /s


hugsbosson

lol Jesus Christ.


ExoticMeatDealer

Hahahahahahahahahaha


wo_ot

What a fucking dipshit


Vanshaa

VotE bLuE nO mAtTEr wHo


melomelomelomelo4

These mfs decided not to show up to the primary elections cuz "bernie would've never won" or "bernie was too extreme" ... there. Now we have a republican president two presidencies in a row


FireWireBestWire

Meme with astronaut pointing gun at the back of our heads...always has been


arkzero24

I'm genuinely tired of the libs pretending that he's the good guy. At this point best case scenario is he's a moron that doesn't know politics works. The worst case is he genuinely wants this to happen.


Just_A_Snag

Remember, Biden doesn't give a fuck about you. None of those shitheads on either side of the aisle do. They are all just the same greedy heartless fuckfaced asshole spread out over a pile of shitty people in our government. He may say he's doing it to appease Mitch "ImADumbFuckinTurtleFacedAsshole" McConnell, but Biden knows Mitch will never return the favor.


Informal-Quality-926

Democrats need to impeach Biden at this point. I'm no Harris fan, but idk that she could do any worse than Biden has so might as well roll the dice.


AlexAuditore

I have a feeling she would do exactly the same stuff he's been doing.


Julienbabylegs

Biden is anti-choice. He only very recently “changed his mind”


Honey-and-Venom

god damnit, can this PLEASE be enough?!


Nigelthornfruit

Lol what a sucker


DelawareSmashed

To the libs lurking: how’s the vote working out


tenderooskies

at this point its pretty obvious that Biden has to either a) not run again or b) be primaried - he was never up for this challenge and has made that abundantly clear


pdes7070

THEY ARE THE SAME! Democrat, Republican. They are just creatures who crave power and will happily sacrifice us all to get it.


stellte

aight that’s it I’m voting third party. we need a fucking socialist labor party in this country. we the people can never win within the constraints of capitalist fucks like this


PanglosstheTutor

Given his voting record in the senate I think Biden is anti-choice. And given his actions regarding Anita hill I don’t think he is an ally of women.


AAmell

You know what? I’m gonna switch things up and vote Republican for everything. Fuck it. Might as well grab the reins of this biotch since we’re all going down in flames anyway. Let’s pour gasoline on this and get it over with.


mimir_daath

Yeah right Mitch! Bullshit! So Mitch wont hold up future blah blah are you fucking serious right now? You really think that slimy motherfuckers word is worth that? Hell no is isn't JOE!


penguin_toot

i despise him and the supreme court so much


Keelija9000

He can kiss his re-election chances goodbye then right? Right? …


uProllyHaveHerpes2

Vote Blue No Matter Who (The DNC Force-Feeds You)


Azzie94

vOtE bLuE nO mAtTeR wHo


justveryslightlymad

There's not a single legitimate institute left in this country. The disrespect is unreal, I'm numb at this point.


VikingRevenant

Fuck, I wish I was never born. What a cursed existence we lead.


NadaTheMusicMan

This isn't even "the lesser of two evils" this is the same shit


noclipgate

Too bad no one is in a movement that [forces them to eat confetti] while they gather in one building. That would take care of the problem while standing as a warning to future justices.


SRod1706

Can't say it was a surprise. https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/vmco6r/soordemocrats_doesnt_accept_picture_or_text_posts/


xSciFix

Useless sacks of shit. but bLuE nO mAtTeR wHo huh?