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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“The Supreme Court has out of nothing getting ready to create immunity for one person, Donald Trump. Now, I am hardly a scholar of the American Revolution and the founding, but I do know this: One of the principles of the founding of the United States of America was that no person was above the law,” argued Carville, before calling the originalist wing of the Supreme Court “illegitimate whores” for asking questions during oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case last week.

I hate agreeing with James Carville. But I hear him. This is Serious As Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's the neat part: It's always the most important election of our lives. It's always defending democracy and harm reduction. It's exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It wasn’t always. Just since the right lost they damned minds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

is this guys name supposed to mean something?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah, its a politics thing.

Don't worry about it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This is Carville. You get what you get, and sometimes its really good. And sometimes its just really loud nothing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

nothing is as persuasive as being sworn at. Just usually not in the way people think it's persuasive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

His main issue is trying to appeal to young voters. They overwhelmingly don’t vote, they just bitch afterwards when it doesn’t go the way they wanted it to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd bet my next paycheck that James carville smells like onions all the time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

He sure sounds like he's got one tied to his belt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Old white man screaming get off my lawn or were all going to die is not a great look.

He doesn't actually say anything about young voters other than acknowledging the party has ignored them, even knowing it needs their votes. Big torch.

Vote, tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I would even go so far as to say the party has abused and relied on the excuse "they're worse than we are" to the point of failure. Even the last few elections a popular stance is to go full reverse logic and let things burn down because the "better" side doesn't care about the people either vs. the position of power. And I'm finding it hard to argue against them.

Locally, get informed about real choices (hopefully) or even get those choices to run, and vote. That is what makes the difference for things that affect you directly. The national scene is all but a lost cause though. The ones who could start to fix the inherit problems within are the ones benefiting from the status quo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Coprolite carville can fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"anything is a dildo if your brave enough. Including petrified shit."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Uh. . .huh. Well alrighty then.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

"Okay, Boomer." is the only acceptable response here.

lets not forget, that he- and the "old school" democrats are a large part of why we're in the place we are. They like sharing power with the pubies. they have more power that way than they would have if they didn't. Not saying that leftism is popular... but voters are still more progressive than this guy is.

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