Also, that he ran for 2024, which is at least part of what allowed the current situation…

That the system sucks doesn’t absolve people from the choices they make when they have the opportunity. People who chose to not vote passively supported whomever won, thus Trump. Everyone who chose not to vote is culpable for the suffering the administration causes, aids or allows.

It was a trolley problem, anyone claiming that washing their hands of the decision means they bear no responsibility for the results is deluding themselves.

It even doesn’t makes sense if you’re a single issue voter on genocide. There are only 3 possibilities:

1. Thryet Believe Trump would support it less, they should vote for Trump, as that would reduce it.
2. They Believe both support it about the same, they should vote based the 2nd/3rd/etc issue, because you can’t impact you first, so you should impact something else you care about.
3. They Believe Harris would support it less, they should vote for Harris, as that would reduce it.

There wasn’t anyone most people were ok with, but that doesn’t mean one of them wasn’t significantly more horrifying.

Yeah, I was quite literally shouting in the car by myself listening to that one. Felt like he was saying the quiet part out loud, they just want people to feel like they’re doing something good, and whatever they actually accomplish doesn’t matter.

Walz and AOC did a stream together during campaign season, so there’s probably a good chance they’re staying in relatively close communication.

The elected Republicans are largely doing what they said they’d do to get elected, whether or not they’re good people or support good policy, they’re representing what their constituents voted for.

It doesn’t matter if every R is worse, an R wouldn’t have Chucklefuck’s seat, which is why he needs to be primaried out next time, and we hope whoever does that can faithfully represent the will of the people who elected them.

The 10 Dems that supported this fiasco are not representing their constituents and those constituents have no recourse under the law to fix that other than just waiting to hopefully not get tricked next time. Traitors deserve all the ire they get.

It’s near Greenland?

If I know anything about financial systems, I expect that some super critical process in Treasury is coded in like assembly via punch cards in some yellow aged plastic box using an Intel 4004 with like 640 bits of RAM supported by like a single centenarian on an as needed support contract because that’s literally the last person on earth who knows how it works and why.

Graham’s Supreme Court

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Nobody even got to vote for this person this election cycle, that’s why your comment doesn’t fit in this discussion. You just went off on an unrelated talking point. This is a result of different failures of the democratic process than what you’re trying to start the discussion about.

Is your suggestion that people vote in the cancelled election differently? Even if there was an R to vote for, should they have voted for the outright R instead of being tricked?

Personification of a cancerous anal discharge?

Statistically anomalous data exists, it should be scrutinized, just partially. Sample and do a hand recount for 1 district that shows the greatest evidence of bullet ballots, if that turns out close to expectations, that’s the end of it. If it isn’t… that’s a massive can of worms.

1 anomaly can be seen as a random outlier, and if it wouldn’t impact the overall result, can be ignored. Multiple anomalies, in only the places that matter is worth a little time to confirm.

I think part of the issue is more related to the Peter Principle, the job that one must be good at in order to become a politician has a different skill set from that which makes one a good politician.

Never did I suspect this Stephen Lynch song to not feel completely outlandish.

The sad honest truth is probably that there are more bigoted people out there that won’t vote for a Dem if it isn’t a white guy than people who would add votes to one who isn’t, particularly in swing states. Maybe I’m too cynical…

As for replacements, even the people who some polls show as being slightly more popular than Biden haven’t been through anywhere near as much of a dedicated smear campaign as he has, and if they were, we don’t know how they’d poll.