Wow, the fucking hypocrisy. Everyone is pointing out the genocide, which is fair enough, but more relevantly the Yemen bombing campaign is pretty much exactly what Trump is doing, only Biden had the sense not to call it a war.
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How about they do something about trump rather than just complaining and doing nothing
He enabled Israel by continuing to supply their genocide. The US was getting roped into Israel’s war either way. Both are senile assholes. Kamala never had a chance because Biden’s hubris
She might have had a chance, but at every turn she chose to say she would be no different from Biden. The fundamental reality is that people are disgusted by the status quo and don't show up for those that say nothing will change.
I was so hopefully after she picked Walz. And then she fucking chained herself to Biden and all my hope faded.
don’t show up
They did show up. Kamala Harris won more votes than Barack Obama.
People talk like the Democrats didn't successfully twist arms and browbeat supporters into showing up for them in droves. 75,017,613 people voted for Kamala Harris, despite her vile stench.
Trump simply brought in more.
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I agree 100%. She would have been better in that she’s coherent, but just another neolib failing to address systemic problems.
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I still swallowed my pride and voted for her anyway, but I've never been so insulted as when I heard the "greatest economy ever" line over and over.
I still swallowed my pride and voted for her anyway
Any reasonable voter did.
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It was great, just not for the regular working people that normal economic barometer's used by governments ignore.
That's exactly why it was insulting. It's basically saying "I'm sorry you can't afford a house, but the stock market is great!"
For fucks sake leave Biden alone.
Bringing him up only hurts the Dem party.
It doesn't matter if Biden is slightly better than trump. There's no gentleman's agreement that when Republicans run a shitty candidate the majority of Americans hate, that Dems need to do the same.
Progressive policy is overwhelming popular, and we got a good number of politicians who authentically support those popular positions.
That's who we need to be talking about. Not running PR for a geriatric that fucked us over and probably bears more personal responsibility for trump being president than anyone else in the country
If Biden's old ass would have let a fair primary happen, whoever won it would have easily beaten trump. But he put himself over the country, like countless neoliberals have before him.
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Thought this was the first time I'd disagree with the new chair, but bringing up Biden was all the author, Martin doesn't mention him once:
“In January — speaking to the entire nation at his Inauguration – Donald Trump proclaimed ‘We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.’
Today, against his own words, the president sent bombers into Iran.
Americans overwhelmingly do not want to go to war.
Americans do not want to risk the safety of our troops abroad.
Americans do not want a president who bypasses our constitution and pulls us towards war without Congressional approval.
Donald Trump needs to bring his case to Congress immediately.”
https://democrats.org/news/dnc-chair-ken-martin-statement-on-trumps-unilateral-act-of-war-with-iran/
Eventually I'll disagree with Martin on something, but he's killing it so far. I'm even optimistic enough to see this part:
For fucks sake leave Biden alone.
My man had four years to put a very obvious, comically easy to convict, serial murderer behind bars. And he dragged his feet because he thought Trump 2 would be easier to win against than Trump 1.
That's before you get into the genocides he backed or the pandemic responses he defunded or the insurance reforms he quashed or the fucking Clarence Thomas SCOTUS nomination. Dude should be crucified for that last one alone.
There are so many, many, many reasons to hate Joe Biden. We could be living in a golden new age of peace and prosperity in 2025 and we would still have ample reason to damn that piece of shit to hell for ten lifetimes.
Martin did phenomenal work in MN. I was genuinely surprised he got through the gauntlet.
We need seismic change within the Democratic party to show people they are worthy of their vote. You can't lie to and disenfranchise voters for decades, then make the argument "but we're not as bad as the other guy" and have it land.