• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    277 months ago

    “We’re adding members of the Hitler party to the government” is a sentiment that sucks ass and anybody who acts like it’s pragmatic or whatever five dollar word can go suck that ass

    Christ I am so tired of these people

    • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]
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      87 months ago

      Including members of the Hitler party in your administration is a really hard sell when you’re also banking on the Hitler party being so disgusting that voters plug their nose to vote for you.

  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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    227 months ago

    This is why some in that party wanted some kind of bizarre mini primary. Part was that they wanted a chance to be kingmakers and gain leverage, but part was that they knew Harris was a loser

  • xiaohongshu [none/use name]
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    It is very obvious at this point that the Democratic Party will become the new Republican Party.

    Trump created a historic opportunity that the Democrats could only have dreamed of - a Republican president who somehow managed to piss off the National Security State, the Military Industrial Complex, the Oil and Gas Industry, and the Wall Street Finance Capitalists all at the same time, where many of whom have been traditional supporters of the Republican Party.

    Trump is the true Pied Piper candidate - only in the longer term than Hillary had anticipated - and the Democrats would be stupid not to take the opportunity gifted to them.

    What will become of the Republican Party then? MAGA culture war petit bourgeois idiots will take over the party. The traditional bourgeois base is already jumping ship.

    Remember, the Democrats do not want Republican voters, they want the Republican donors. The 1% that matters. This is the key to understanding the Democratic strategy.

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      127 months ago

      More like the Democrats are going back to their roots with a combination of the Bourbon Democrats fiscal policy and the Wilsonian foreign policy.

      It’s difficult to tell where Republicans might go after MAGA. Republicans aren’t unfamiliar with periods of political realignment. There could be a strong third party candidate like Teddy Roosevelt or George Wallace that play a role in where both parties ultimately end up. RFK isn’t it and neither is Jill Stein.

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      You know, this reminds me of this quote:

      In the first French Revolution the rule of the Constitutionalists is followed by the rule of the Girondists and the rule of the Girondists by the rule of the Jacobins. Each of these parties relies on the more progressive party for support. As soon as it has brought the revolution far enough to be unable to follow it further, still less to go ahead of it, it is thrust aside by the bolder ally that stands behind it and sent to the guillotine. The revolution thus moves along an ascending line.

      It is the reverse with the {U.S elections of 2024}

  • goferking (he/him)
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    367 months ago

    And Biden has republican friends in congress and a republican attorney General?

    Why does she think that’s an accomplishment or distinguishing feature between the 2

    • Prehensile_cloaca
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      17 months ago

      Biden’s entire nomination was due to his supposed ability to “reach across the aisle,” and to form coalitions. But that is politics of the past; the world has moved on.

  • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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    147 months ago

    Really doing everything they can to recreate 2016 huh? I couldn’t believe they hired a bunch of Hillary campaign advisors — the people who lost to DONALD TRUMP (and under a rational system would have never been allowed to organize campaigns again); to somehow help Kamala win by doing the exact same things and worse that had Hillary lose before, against the same opponent

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    767 months ago

    i don’t think on either side it’s conscious or intentional, but both trump and harris are desperately racing to lose

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      237 months ago

      Yeah, this is kinda what still makes me think it will be a toss up. Harris is doing the Democrat thing, but Trump just seems done with it all.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        337 months ago

        trump is low energy, getting weird, doing explicit, not dogwhistled, eugenicism in interviews now. he’s pretty shaken up from the assassination attempt. his core is locked in, but he’s not at his previous level for doing fascist agitprop to get new voters in. harris has some of the worst political instincts imaginable and is committed to alienating anyone too disgusted by genocide to support her. worse, her campaign is being ran by the joe biden campaigners with the worst instincts imaginable. hence all this dumbass appeal to bipartisanship, political strategems developed for the climate of the goddamn jimmy carter years

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        267 months ago

        trump-anguish can do pretty much nothing to lower his approval/support ratings. His cult is locked in.

        • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]
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          157 months ago

          I think that’s true for Holocaust Harris too though. If genocide isn’t enough to get people to divest from the Democratic Party then nothing will be enough

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    527 months ago

    It’s really sad but Biden will probably be the most progressive president we’ll see on domestic issues. Democrats are fully sold on making a right wing turn after him. If they eat shit this election? They’ll make another right wing turn. Awful party, rotten to the core

  • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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    297 months ago

    Do you really think so? Upon absolutely zero inspection I have thought that she was going to run away with the election vs. an old, dried-out, death-fearing Trump

      • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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        Honest question, how much do you think her performance will be affected by who she is and what she says? Vs just not being Trump and being a Democrat.

        Again I really haven’t paid much attention at all to this election cycle, but in my everyday life it seems that people are far more up front and proud to vote for her than people were for Joe four years ago.

        @[email protected] interested in your opinion as well

        • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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          47 months ago

          how much do you think her performance will be affected by who she is and what she says? Vs just not being Trump and being a Democrat.

          2016 might answer your question cedar-rapids

          • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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            37 months ago

            Hahaha true. I do think Trump’s age and the fact that he is a known quantity are both working against him this time though.

            • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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              he’s also just less funny. He leaned more to the “my crowd sizes~!” part of his schtick and away from the “Ted Cruz’ Dad killed JFK” part. though “DEYRE EATING DA DOGS” was pretty funny. but the consequences of it were less so.

        • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]
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          127 months ago

          Based on vibes alone I think she’s got a good shot of winning. Hope she doesn’t, but the Democrats are banking on their base being so racist that they don’t give a shit about the fact that their heroes are mass-murderers. My experience with white liberal Americans during the War on Terror years has me absolutely convinced that the Democrats are betting correctly. Turnout will, if anything, be more helped than hurt by the Democrats going dull Nazi because crackers derive intense sexual satisfaction from looking at the mangled bodies of dead brown people.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    107 months ago

    As a Canadian trying as hard as I can not to pay attention, I’m pretty sure she’s still gonna win. Been wrong about Trump before but he isn’t bringing the sauce he uses to and the Neo KHive seems to be doing okay off the smug. I hate to see them rewarded