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Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral

Ardennes posted:

I don't know if it is rooting for it, but getting to the truth of the matter of what this country is about and where it is going. It is a self-evident mechanical process, all you can sit back and watch.
yeah it's gonna be unfathomably monstrous, i'm just screaming out my anger and bleakness in the designated thread rather than poo poo up the ones where people are having a (marginally) better time

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In Training
Jun 28, 2008

I'm rooting for a GOP.win bc I'm a racist fascist

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007

Remember when she voted down the minimum wage increase along with 6 other Succators?

lol

smug jeebus
Oct 26, 2008
We already know SNL is bad

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

smug jeebus posted:

We already know SNL is bad

It just gets worse every time I see it

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007

Ardennes posted:

I don't know if it is rooting for it, but getting to the truth of the matter of what this country is about and where it is going. It is a self-evident mechanical process, all you can sit back and watch.

correct

there is no hope of reform

only a cleansing wildfire will allow new shoots to take hold

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Apraxin posted:

yeah it's gonna be unfathomably monstrous, i'm just screaming out my anger and bleakness in the designated thread rather than poo poo up the ones where people are having a (marginally) better time

Yeah, it isn't going to be great, the GOP is absolutely going to be back to its own tricks but the Democrats at the same time have ceased to be any type of effective opposition and the concentrate of the state has been about geopolitical brinkmanship not the actual concerns of the population.

That said, I think at its heart, is the system as a whole is incapable of reforming.

Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral
the honest to god most likely reform as far as i can see is that in '24 the gop gets 60 senators and trump/desantis/whoever follows through on purging the civil service, courts, election infrastructure, and military, and the system reforms into something much worse

lol

Noob Saibot
Jan 29, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Mokelumne Trekka posted:

https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1586577851096403969

there is a lot to unpack in this lovely SNL skit that I think summarizes the Democrats perfectly. you do not need to watch it, as SNL is violence, I just saw it in the pop culture thread and felt it was relevant here:

- this clip makes fun of young people,, not the political reality they live in, by portraying them as ungrateful and entitled and over-reacting to Biden's age and to high gas prices
- the fake horror movie tagline: "when it feels like nothing is going right, even though it kind of is" is followed by a quip about why worry, Biden has done so much such as infrastructure and holding NATO together!
- it is doing the "Obama wore a tan suit! how scandalous!" type of gaslighting by making like the worse thing Biden has done was fall off his bike
- insertion of the manufactured consent talking point about DeSantis, not Trump, being the GOP nominee in 2024
- the panicked millennials go through a list of alternatives to Biden, but they pick trivial reasons (Cory Booker is corny!") for why they are bad - again, millennials are cry babies is the essence of this clip
- the millennials come back around to accepting Biden

Why would any republicans vote for desantis over trump?

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


ex post facho posted:

Remember when she voted down the minimum wage increase along with 6 other Succators?

lol

3.6% of adults in New Hampshire, per the bureau of labor statistics, are on minimum wage. Sure would be nice if 3.6% extra people had a really good reason to vote for you

Grandpa Palpatine
Dec 13, 2019

by vyelkin

Apraxin posted:

the honest to god most likely reform as far as i can see is that in '24 the gop gets 60 senators and trump/desantis/whoever follows through on purging the civil service, courts, election infrastructure, and military, and the system reforms into something much worse

lol

the only way I would support this is if the country got renamed to The Free American Empire, just like in Ghost in the Shell SAC

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Grandpa Palpatine posted:

the only way I would support this is if the country got renamed to The Free American Empire, just like in Ghost in the Shell SAC

Having not seen it in over a decade, I seem to recall that the US had been split into 3 countries.

Mind_Taker
May 7, 2007



only one more week until the democrats are annihilated

Mokelumne Trekka
Nov 22, 2015

Soon.

Noob Saibot posted:

Why would any republicans vote for desantis over trump?

it is a very persistent fantasy. Honestly I think it is the media's strategy to combat Trump by simply wishing him away and trying to manufacture a self-fulfilling prophecy. it's a very traditional, outdated way of doing things, as the mainstream media does not have that kind of pull any more.

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

I say its the bleakest timeline because there will be no moment of catharsis, no comeuppance where you can rub the libs face into a crushing red wave of fascist take over. Its just going to be a mildly disappointing midterm that will be close enough for libs to blame the left for not voting hard enough but not so bad they have to question any assumptions. There will never be a breaking point where people notice things have gone horribly wrong, just a long slow slide into a fascist hellscape, same as its been for decades now

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Grandpa Palpatine posted:

This. The thing is, even if there were a red wave, the Dems would learn nothing. That's why it's so hard to understand why everyone here is hoping for the GOP to dominate -- it's not like the Dems will suddenly start supporting socialists and leftists. It will just solidify the fascists' hold on the government and institutionalize their goddamn platform of hate. Seriously, how the gently caress can you root for that poo poo?

spite

also all that poo poo will happen even if the dems manage to cling onto office

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


https://twitter.com/alex_sammon/status/1587484171286577153?s=20&t=8svImuAdoPW0xgv1s9fd5A

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

Nix Panicus posted:

I say its the bleakest timeline because there will be no moment of catharsis, no comeuppance where you can rub the libs face into a crushing red wave of fascist take over. Its just going to be a mildly disappointing midterm that will be close enough for libs to blame the left for not voting hard enough but not so bad they have to question any assumptions. There will never be a breaking point where people notice things have gone horribly wrong, just a long slow slide into a fascist hellscape, same as its been for decades now

you didn't have to say it out loud

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




In Training posted:

I'm rooting for a GOP.win bc I'm a racist fascist

big tent

Mokelumne Trekka
Nov 22, 2015

Soon.

Mind_Taker posted:

only one more week until the democrats are annihilated

no this is wrong, didn't you hear a bunch of fake polls came out that caused Nate Silver to adjust his model.

2016 was the only time polls were way off. 2020 polls went smoothly. Biden won by a lot as predicted and definitely did not claw his way to victory based on 30,000 votes in AZ, GA, and WI. and Biden's defeat in FL and OH by hundreds of thousands of votes was accurate and pollsters definitely did not label those states as competitive

1glitch0
Sep 4, 2018

I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF

Dems in 2022: How I prayed the Cuomosexuality away.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

iirc this guy killed like a million people in nursing homes and was hailed as a lib hero before a sex scandal did him in right

really queer Christmas
Apr 22, 2014

In Training posted:

I'm rooting for a GOP.win bc I'm a racist fascist

Yup.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




he declared covid over and sold books for a profit on how he did it in may 2020

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

mila kunis posted:

iirc this guy killed like a million people in nursing homes and was hailed as a lib hero before a sex scandal did him in right

yeah it took like 15 women or something for them to finally tell him to resign never mind the tons of dead due to covid that didn't seem to matter at all

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




HallelujahLee posted:

yeah it took like 15 women or something for them to finally tell him to resign never mind the tons of dead due to covid that didn't seem to matter at all

some nursing home families are probably happy to not face that financial burden so they could get some grandma money and nobody cares about a dead 80+ yo dementia patient getting sick so even people that want justice cant get any traction.

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007

mila kunis posted:

iirc this guy killed like a million people in nursing homes and was hailed as a lib hero before a sex scandal did him in right

you remember correctly

libs got the vapors because he presented the thinnest veneer of being competent when it was more obvious than ever that all the government institutions Americans relied upon have failed

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007
https://twitter.com/rmc031/status/1...ingawful.com%2F

https://twitter.com/dscc/status/146...ingawful.com%2F

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

Real hurthling! posted:

some nursing home families are probably happy to not face that financial burden so they could get some grandma money and nobody cares about a dead 80+ yo dementia patient getting sick so even people that want justice cant get any traction.

yeah that sounds about right for this psycho nation

really queer Christmas
Apr 22, 2014

Cspam: hell yeah remove the boomers sickos.png
Andrew cummo: ok gabbagool
Cspam: No not like that :mad:

Make up your mind tankies

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


really queer Christmas posted:

Cspam: hell yeah remove the boomers sickos.png
Andrew cummo: ok gabbagool
Cspam: No not like that :mad:

Make up your mind tankies

that guy shooting tiny toese in the toes? now tha'ts what i call praxis

a fatguy baldspot
Aug 29, 2018

the democrats deserve to lose and america deserves to die

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005


p. sure bolduc is another trump guy that dems elevated to win the primary, so: lolol.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Not sure who I'm going to vote for in the House election. I'm thinking about Gore Vidal, he's overdue for recognition.

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

Halloween Jack posted:

Not sure who I'm going to vote for in the House election. I'm thinking about Gore Vidal, he's overdue for recognition.

the shampoo guy???

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

Iron Crowned posted:

It just gets worse every time I see it

the cold open with lake, walker & oz was kinda funny, tho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SmmkfBem8

Minecraft Holmes
Oct 21, 2016

In Training posted:

I'm rooting for a GOP.win bc I'm a racist fascist

:yossame: although my love of bernie has also led me to hate women as well

tiberion02
Mar 26, 2007

People tend to make the common mistake of believing that a situation will last forever.

Nix Panicus posted:

I say its the bleakest timeline because there will be no moment of catharsis, no comeuppance where you can rub the libs face into a crushing red wave of fascist take over. Its just going to be a mildly disappointing midterm that will be close enough for libs to blame the left for not voting hard enough but not so bad they have to question any assumptions. There will never be a breaking point where people notice things have gone horribly wrong, just a long slow slide into a fascist hellscape, same as its been for decades now

speak for yourself.... sure, the media won't validate me / my opinion / the sweet science of dialectical materialism / CSPAM wisdom - but I absolutely WILL be telling every Democrat and liberal to go gently caress themselves and I am right. gently caress em

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEK97bSz6LQ

FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe

the bitcoin of weed posted:

if the democrats didn't want fascists to take over the government they should try to win, by doing effective politics, rather than losing on purpose and blaming everyone left of them for it

:hai:

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FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe

Grandpa Palpatine posted:

This. The thing is, even if there were a red wave, the Dems would learn nothing. That's why it's so hard to understand why everyone here is hoping for the GOP to dominate -- it's not like the Dems will suddenly start supporting socialists and leftists. It will just solidify the fascists' hold on the government and institutionalize their goddamn platform of hate. Seriously, how the gently caress can you root for that poo poo?

the GOP is the endgame boss but you can't damage them until you break their force field, which is generated by the weak/stupid quisling DNC mini-boss

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