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Both the president and his reelection campaign are going after his coup-attempting predecessor even before the first GOP primary ballots are cast.

A full year out from the 2024 presidential election and nearly two months before Republicans cast their first primary ballots, President Joe Biden and his campaign are assuming that Donald Trump will be his opponent and have already started reminding voters why they threw him out of office in the first place.

Biden personally has stepped up criticism of his coup-attempting predecessor and is framing the likely rematch as one that will determine the survival of American democracy.

“The same man who said we should terminate the rules and regulations and articles of the Constitution — these are things he said — is now running on a plan to end democracy as we know it,” he said last week at a fundraiser in Chicago.

“This next election is different. It’s more important. There’s more at stake. And we all know why: Because our very democracy is at stake,” he told a San Francisco audience on Wednesday.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (39 children)

And we must hold Biden responsible.

But are you suggesting that Trump would approach Israel any differently? The US response is deeply rooted in morally evil international interests, I don’t think any president could respond much differently without severe internal consequences to themselves. It would be the right thing to do, though it would be political suicide thanks to said evil interests.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (31 children)

I'm suggesting that the machine operates the same no matter who pulls its levers, for exactly the reasons you listed.

That said? I don't think as many Democrats would be reluctant to endorse a ceasefire under Trump. That matters.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This.

Here is the key historical difference between Republicans and Democrats.

Republicans vote red no matter what. Democrats vote conscientiously.

I can't stand a Democrat having a fervent mindset that they must vote blue no matter what because they are afraid of a Republican. That is what Republicans do.

You CAN NOT stop something by becoming it.

I feel like there is this perception going around that if Trump gets back in, everything else disappears immediately. Its akin to when Obama won and a disturbingly massive group of people were like "welp, that does it. Racism is over."

If Trump gets back in, he still has incompetent Republican legislators who have their full attention on infighting, The entire judiciary system is going to be just as split over what to do with him, but there will no longer be any ability to claim ignorance if they choose to become complicit with him. Democrat legislators and judges won't just disappear like The Snap from Endgame. He will also be limited to 4 years in office since he already basically flushed his first 4. He can try to overthrow the 2028 election, again, but we will all be ready for it this time.

I fucking hate Trump. His tweets are super annoying. Democrats don't vote for genocide. Period.

We can stop Trump by holding Biden accountable and kicking his sorry ass to the curb. The DNC isn't going to do that though. He has done too good a job making it illegal for unions to strike, cozying up to Xi Jinping (actively saying that Xi Jinping is still very much a dictator and is still actively putting his effort into cozying up with him), and, oh ya, GENOCIDE.

The DNC has 352 days to choose someone, anyone, other than Biden to send into the 2024 election. As long as they aren't on record calling for genocide, they will sail past Trump to the oval office.

If they do not listen, Democrats lose and that is 100% the DNC/Biden's fault (the exact same as how it was the DNC/Hilary's fault for rigging the DNC and not allowing Bernie to beat Trump the first time).

If the Democratic party decides to continue to be what it has become under the leadership of Hilary and Biden, then fuck em. Fuck the whole damn thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Biden literally walked the UAW picket line you fucking house plant lol

People like you existed in 2016 when they pouted and complained that Hillary Clinton was a war criminal and that if the DNC yadda yaddas her past Bernie then America deserves what Trump will bring! And then what happened?

Trump got elected, appointed hundreds of right wing judges, including 3 of the Supreme Court judges that overturned Roe v Wade, and lit a tank of gasoline of lunatics on fire who want to turn America into a real life Handmaid's Tale.

YOU'RE JUST DOING THE SAME EXACT THING

Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. Too many people are going to get hurt in very real ways if Trump gets elected. He will do every bad thing you think Biden is doing.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Legislation has been passed setting legal precident to encarcerate a man for not working his slave assignment, but captain "every photo of me looks like it was snapped 2 seconds after they slipped the pureed peas in my mouth" took a photo op before he laid down that LAW.

But, so I'm told, he made sure they got (metaphorical) gift baskets for it.

Fuck off you simple minded boot licking plonker.

I have no interest in sharing a party with you.

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