Supreme Court gave him immunity and he didn’t save democracy with it crazy work
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If the establishment democrats will get the fuck out of the way and stop letting corporations run the country, then yes, we can come back from this. Listen to progressives like AOC and Mamdani, stop blocking them.
Yeah, you need an opposition with teeth.
Chuck Schumer's dentures feel personally attacked.
Then why didnt he do more to prevent it?
Yes it's definitely Biden's fault that Americans gave the republicans the house, senate and presidency.
Actually, I do blame him for overestimating his health, and thinking he had enough in the tank for another run. He clearly did not.
Would Harris have still been the nominee had there been an actual primary? Maybe, maybe not. But whoever won that would have been a better candidate.
I was extremely pissed off after watching that debate. The man I saw that night simply didn't have it anymore, and it was more than just jetlag or a cold. There was nobody close to Biden who could have sat down with him before the election and told him directly that he didn't have it anymore?
We talk about how Trump surrounds himself with yes-men and sycophants. I think Biden didn't do much better.
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I guess letting Trump run out the clock on justice was the voters fault too, then, eh? Even when Biden was literally handed a way to prevent Trump from running on a silver platter by the Supreme Court that basically ruled that anything a President does is part of Presidential Duties. He and the entire apparatus around him including twerps like Merrick Garland has so many fucking options to stop this. The courts, the department of justice, the President, all of them had taken an oath to protect democracy and that oath doesn't disappear because the voters are stupid. They all bend over like grass under a push-me-pull-you lawnmower going "oh for fucks sake" and deciding that fighting corruption was too hard and too risky for themselves personally. People whined about judges getting death threats and that's why they were hesitant to play hardball... Are you fucking kidding me? Like they thought that would protect them or anyone else? Now fascism is boldly kicking the fucking doors in and those people and their families are in more danger than they were back then, except now the whole country is in just as much danger. They bent over because their pussy asses thought they could and should save themselves instead of fight fascism and asshats are all like "it's the voters fault!" when Trump legally shouldn't have been allowed to run for the Presidency at all for a litany of reasons and nobody with any real power did anything to stop it! Sure, it's our fault, not a system that allowed it to happen, fuck me, give me a break! The people in charge abdicated their responsibility to justice and then said it's the voters fault, get the fuck out of here.
Stop rewriting history. In a country where laws actually meant something and mattered he would have been in prison for 34 felonies and not allowed to run due to being an insurrectionist and guilty of treason for stealing and selling state secrets. How the living fuck is that the voters fault? The system failed the voters before the voters failed the system.
If the voters and non-voters hadn't voted him back in the wheels of justice would probably kept turning slowly as they do.
Do you want to establish the precedence of a president demanding the DOJ arrest their opposition?
Because I'm not sure that's a great idea.
Well, it sure seems to have worked without taking so long that the assholes who already broke the laws came back into power like in South Korea and Brazil. Those systems didn't go "whoopsies we ran out of time, I guess they can take power again!"
A system that allows this to happen and places the blame on the voters instead of fighting for a better world is a system that was always going to end up this way.
A system that can just have the clock run out on justice is always going to be gamed like this, stop lying to yourself.
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Dude sat on the Trump/Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing about it because it would have hurt the donor class and Israel.
Trump won on a (false) pledge to release the files.
Who deserves the blame for this situation in your mind?
Dude sat on the Trump/Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing
This just in: investigations take longer in real life than on TV. Investigations of people with lots of lawyers take even more time and - stay with me - strategy.
Just because you didn't see something happening, doesn't mean it's not happening. That's like Object Permanence.
You're telling me 4 years was too short a time to build a case against an insurrectionist pedophile who was referenced more than any other individual in the files?
And your chastising me for object permanence? L O fucking L
Fucker tried to overthrow the government. If you can't convict someone for that and prevent him from running again in 4 years that's a serious failure to your duties as president. If the court system can't handle it then maybe he should have used his presidential immunity the fucking supreme court ruled to get rid of the threat.
Edit: also if biden wouldn't have hopped on taking momentum away from Bernie in the primaries, it probably would have been Trump vs Bernie. And I believe Bernie would have won 2 terms. I think biden did decent as president, but allowing an insurrectionist to run again was a huge error.
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It seems to me that most people have been deceived to think that Trump is the problem. Meanwhile, if Trump dies tomorrow, the real problem will remain.
Trump being ELECTABLE is the problem. Super PACs are what made Trump electable. When he is gone, those "donators" will immediately do the exact same thing with someone else, and it will work.
Because when you make bribery legal, those who accept the most bribes win. They can find another celebrity to fill his role just as easily. He's not magical. He's not even clever. Who next? That Hercules dimwit? I forget his name, fuck that guy.
Unfortunately, we the people can't donate enough to keep up with billionaires and corporations and even foreign interests like Saudi Arabia and Israel; whoever wins an election is beholden to them before they ever take office.
How do we get representatives to stop taking bribes and profiteering? "You and your entire family can be millionaires" vs. "Do the right thing" isn't ever going to work.
See Citizens United, Super PACs, Heritage Foundation, and the Council on Foreign Relations for further details.
To some degree, we shouldn’t come back from this. We now know the corruption in the government runs deep. Go back to our politicians being possibly blackmailed by the Mossad? Would it be better if nothing happened on the surface but still no one truly believed the baby eating cabal of elites existed?
I don’t want suffering. I wish this could have been avoided. But we cannot ignore the existential threat the elites have thrust upon us.
IF we can, it won’t be easy and will take generations.
Remember CNN and CBS are no longer trust worthy.
He's not wrong, but he's also partly to blame for this. He did nothing to quell the fissures forming between the two sides. He didn't drop out of the 2024 race like he said he would until it was too late. His stutter and old age contributed greatly to looking weak. His communication of his policies was abysmal. His stance on the Israeli genocide was terrible. He was weak. It took Trump all of a month to destroy everything Biden spent four years building.
He'll be the last liberal I ever vote for. I'd rather sink the ship than have another Liberal as president.
I'll be voting for the next democrat whether they are a liberal or progressive.
Accelerationism is never the answer it costs way too many lives.
They haven't chosen the next democrat yet. Now is the time to be screaming that no one wants another corporate democrat, but we sure would love someone to come in and clean house and support working people.
I'm generally with you, but consider fig 1:
I hate that meme is simplifies a complex situation to the point of adding nothing to the conversation.
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