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Griz posted:hot drat they actually did it  Biden knows what the DPA is?
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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:democrats are eligible to apply for my vote if they address material conditions in under-served communities (i.e. all of america) for a period of at least 3 consecutive congressional terms. strangely none have so applied so I can only assume they don't have enough skin in the game to get my vote. they can send all the hyperventilating emails and texts they want but the system clearly works Also, you can't just give them your vote. That would destroy their incentive to work.
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May 25, 2022 21:07
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Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:Some I have used that have gotten me some furious lectures: I really like that last one. I tend to have the most fun when I pit their bootlicking/scolding nature against itself. Shear Modulus posted:a better question than how is biden's approval rating lower than trump's, is how is biden's approval rating as high as it is? does 35% of the country really think he's doing a good job? I haven't looked at how that lines up with who they polled, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if a good chunk of that 35% is hardcore Blue MAGA people who just don't want people to think he's doing a bad job, even if they, themselves, do.
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Jun 1, 2022 07:47
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fast cars loose anus posted:It's genuinely hard for me to understand that reaction of "well the overall economy is doing great!" when the complaining person is saying "high gas and food prices are making my life much harder" One of the core pillars of the party is gaslighting people by whatever means they think they can. This poo poo is just more of that.
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Jun 2, 2022 00:37
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Complications posted:the defense production act alone basically lets the president nationalize any business they want to for as long as the need lasts without so much as a by your leave Yeah, the DPA could be used for a lot of good poo poo. I'm not an attorney, but as near as I can figure, any president could end the housing crisis with the stroke of a pen by using eminent domain to forcibly acquire empty properties/AirBnBs, then use the DPA to force developers to redevelop them into denser housing and ignore zoning poo poo since federal law trumps state and local law. But we live in a neoliberal hellworld, so anything that's actually good is never gonna happen.
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Jun 5, 2022 05:47
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Shear Modulus posted:They could have convinced people it was a big deal if they had done something about it then and not just sat on their asses for 18 months If it had been an even vaguely left group, the ones who managed to survive the barrage from the cops out front (instead of being escorted into the building) would probably have found themselves handcuffed, with bags over their heads, and on the first flight to Guantanamo Bay the next day.
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Jun 8, 2022 13:00
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fast cars loose anus posted:I mean, besides Biden, are Machin and Sinema somehow not the face of the Dems at the moment? Even if you're only ever in the press because you're the x in "x blocks legislation" you're still in the press There's also Pelosi when she's punching left and/or sundowning. Schumer's basically a non-entity at this point, though.
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Jun 22, 2022 00:21
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Jesus Christ. His brain's even further gone than I thought. What the gently caress was that?
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Jul 5, 2022 08:53
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mediaphage posted:Harris/Cheney 2024 Think bigger. Clinton/Cheney 2024. Reaching across the aisle to bring America together.
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Aug 17, 2022 19:48
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yellowcar posted:lol they're really think that the dems are gonna get destroyed if they don't cancel games and scold people to go out to vote Joke's on them. The Dems are gonna get destroyed anyway.
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Aug 18, 2022 10:49
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Watch Biden manage to lose the PMC as well.
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Aug 24, 2022 05:45
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docbeard posted:That may be the worst excuse since Alex Jones's amnesia chili I especially love that it implies that Biden was sundowning when he said it.
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Platystemon posted:So the president didn’t really mean the thing that his HHS secretary backed him up on? That depends. Is it politically expedient for him to have meant it in the context of whoever is doing the interview at the moment?
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Sep 22, 2022 09:15
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I really wonder whether they'll even bother mentioning abortion at all (outside of fundraising requests) in 2024 or after. I'm guessing no. They'll probably ramp up making GBS threads on trans people in the meantime, too, in the pursuit of that mythical "moderate" Republican.
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Sep 25, 2022 09:43
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Like they actually ever read any of the poo poo they vote on. This thing's getting killed the nanosecond doing so can't piss people off for midterm voting (because it's over).
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Oct 1, 2022 00:23
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Zvahl posted:hasn't stopped him from personally bothering me despite living in another state Same. I'm not in Wisconsin, either, but I just got this insane poo poo: quote:Hi Realname! Inflation hurts. Yet Trump Republicans do nothing, while Democrats passed a law creating millions of jobs! *Register to vote* for progress - Mandela Barnes & Gov. Tony Evers! ft6.us/WIreg (Deadline: 10/19! Or register/vote in person at your municipal clerk 10/25-11/4 or polls on Election Day 11/8.) For folks who don't follow econ poo poo, Biden's pick to lead the Fed has hammered repeatedly on his bullshit theory that the only way to get inflation to go down is to jack up interest rates to force a recession to get businesses to eliminate a bunch of jobs to force unemployment to go way up (he explicitly says that labor has too much bargaining power, which must be weakened in order to drive wages down). But, no, let's talk about how much inflation sucks and then immediately start crowing about how the Dems have supposedly been creating a bunch of jobs. They can't even keep their gaslighting straight for two loving sentences right after one another. This party is beyond incompetent.
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Oct 19, 2022 08:18
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MLSM posted:The hilarity of the fallout on the internet afterwords is gonna be some top shelf stuff Gonna be fun to watch when it turns out that all the polls were way too optimistic about Dem performance and, oops, I guess those likely Dem voters decided not to show up after getting the rug pulled out from under them one too many times by Team Blue.
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Oct 27, 2022 09:57
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really queer Christmas posted:I'm not gonna vote I'm gonna vote, but my plan is to basically cast a protest vote for everything. It costs me next to nothing to take a few minutes to do that in the comfort of my own home, and probably helps piss off some pollster with the Dems seeing people care enough to show up to vote, but think their candidate is too poo poo to vote for.
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Willa Rogers posted:Add this to the list of Democratic worries ahead of the midterms: Younger voters — a cornerstone of the party’s electoral coalition — make up a smaller share of early and absentee voters so far than they did in 2020. Ah, yes. Doing absolutely nothing about abortion except fundraising and crying about Manchin being a big ol' meanie and then dangling $20k in front of people along with a VOTE message, only to let them see it being ripped away by appointed chudges (who were confirmed in bipartisan votes) right before the election. Truly a way to make people feel like their vote means anything at all.
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Oct 28, 2022 18:53
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Losing Washington would be the beginning of the end for the Dems as a national party, and their transformation into some sort of weird rump party. Seattle's packed to the gills with shitlibs, and if they can't even win here, they're basically unviable. I have no idea who would replace them (or whether we'd just live in a straight up theocracy at that point), but it sure wouldn't be the Democrats of today.
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Oct 30, 2022 09:25
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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? Can't speak for anybody else here, but I very much don't want the GOP to win. I do, however, want the Dems to be destroyed. It sucks rear end that, because of how our political system was designed here, the latter implies the former, but it is what it is. Thing is, the Dems are going to wither and die at some point anyway. Siding with megadonors over regular folks is not a sustainable strategy in any system where voting can, even theoretically, accomplish things. Eventually, the wheels are gonna come off, and that's what's going on right here, right now. The liches with a deathgrip on the levers of power in the party don't give a gently caress because they're almost dead, but the rest of us are going to have to live with the consequences of their shittiness in selling us out. Near as I can tell, the only question is how quickly we're gonna get the final loving into fascism, and I don't know that any of us has any control over which it'll end up being. So all I can do is laugh hysterically on the way down or scream into the void as things continue to do what they've done for my entire lived experience: get worse, day by day and year by year.
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Phone posted:the dems are capable of Doing Politics, it's just that those politics are fetching the heart attack gun, using house reps as blow off valves, and the Totally Not Coordinated By Obama thinning of the field ahead of super tuesday. The thing that absolutely loving sends me every time is when they say that the GOP is an existential threat to democracy, freedom, and America, while at the same time talking about how they absolutely need to work in a bipartisan fashion with their good friends, the aforementioned existential threats.
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Halloween Jack posted:I like how the D&D threads are becoming more like their CSPAM counterparts as Election Day approaches. Got any choice quotes? Or is it just a lot of Wile E. Coyote starting to look down right now?
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:you know a month ago the democrats were holding it together enough and the Republicans were doing a good enough job of making themselves unlikeable enough that I actually thought this forums pessimism would be proven wrong, but goddam if the democrats haven't put in the effort since then to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like they always do. will be interesting to see what happens Something tells me that people don't like being told that even though they're struggling to afford food and shelter, they're actually doing fine. More than fine, really. Better than ever. And that they have the Democrats to thank for how amazingly fine they're doing.
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I'm not looking forward to when Washington becomes a swing state. The amount of useless political spam we get here is gonna jump like a million percent. 
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super sweet best pal posted:The Democrats need to convince everyone who thinks things are worse than they were four years ago that they can reverse course. People weren't cranking up their credit card debt under eyewatering APRs, either. It's not just food. loving everything that people buy on a day-to-day basis is way more expensive than it was four years ago, including, now, money.
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super sweet best pal posted:Don't joke vote, vote for a third party candidate instead. Write them in if they're not on your state's ballot. This is what I do. My vote's worthless anyway, so I might as well use it to help piss off some Dem partisan.
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Coolness Averted posted:"What are they gonna do, not vote?" -a biden campaign rep shortly before no one votes for biden I could see that. I could also see people forgetting Orange Man Bad (short memories, and it's been four years), especially in light of how poo poo the Dems have been, and just wanting somebody who will at least acknowledge that there's a problem. So, who knows. At least right now, though, Biden's looking pretty hosed. Turns out people don't like to be told that their problems are just "vibes" and don't actually exist. Plus, y'know, genocide isn't helping things any.
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really queer Christmas posted:I recently read a financial article that was talking how young people are still mad at inflation and its all just social media anger because profits couldn't be higher!! Before sheepishly admitting that 80% of Americans said the economy is hurting them greatly. They also never talk about how that 3% usually excludes poo poo people actually buy (food, shelter, energy), how insanely some of that poo poo is even measured (let's ask homeowners how much they think they could get renting their homes out and use that number), and that even if the 3% were real, it's still 3% of a vastly inflated number in the first place. People are way more hosed than they were four years ago.
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In Training posted:fwiw the headline CPI 3% does include food, energy and shelter. Energy is crazy volatile though and sometimes drags everything down with -25% MoM seasonal gas changes, shelter is calculated with that moronic Owners Equivalent Rent number. Food is included and idk enough about their basket methodology to say how it's massaged one way or the other but it definitely does just go Up. Oh, is headline CPI down there? I didn't realize that. I was thinking people were talking about core CPI (AKA the absolutely loving worthless number I usually see the economist idiots yammering about). Still doesn't help how people are already hosed after massive previous price hikes, though. And, yeah, I don't know enough about how food's calculated, either, but I'm sure they're massaging the gently caress out of it like everything else. Basically, economists are assholes. You could have the price of a doughnut go from $1 to $1,000,000 in a year and they'd freak the gently caress out, but then have it go to $1,200,000 the next year and they'd say that everything's great and inflation is solved, so shut up and stop complaining.
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HallelujahLee posted:energy is a fun one because my energy bill is like 60% higher than 2 years ago but they only crow about gas numbers It does go the other way, too. I remember one month when the headline CPI number was looking down, except looking into it, a bunch of things were way up (especially food) and heating oil had cratered enough to drag down the whole thing. Nobody around here uses heating oil. It's just not a thing.
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ex post facho posted:https://twitter.com/NickRiccardi/status/1755683224561295381 quote:Mr. Biden's memory also appeared to have significant limitations--both at the Jesus Christ.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I wish they'd stuck to Harry Potter Same. TERF poo poo is more on-brand for them.
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It's going to be deeply funny when Biden gets steamrolled in the "safe" blue states because he's that much of a blatant piece of poo poo.
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Um, excuse me, but I think that you'll find that if you remove all of the polls which are favorable to Trump and therefore FAKE NEWS, Joe Biden is clearly the most beloved president in history. 
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Nichael posted:Can someone tell me what the platform is of the national Democrat Party? https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1261004586359422979
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Jesus Christ. That's absolutely loving catastrophic for the Dems, and they're sleepwalking into it because they just can't let go of the idea that there's somehow this secret cache of support for their sundowning genocidist-in-chief. Guess the consultants still get paid either way, though. I knew Biden was going to be a poo poo president, but I continue to be amazed at just how terrible he is, that he's managed to piss this many people off.
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