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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

ENOUGH YANKTARDED SPAM. JAIL THEM BOTH.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

It's entirely the EC.

Biden won by ten million votes, and it was still a clencher because some idjit in kansas thinks the candidates sucking Pennsylvania's fracking drill all election keeps their interests represented.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

As John Stewart would say: well I'm still undecided... Cause a horse kicked my head.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

this race...

this race?

The past three Republican presidents saw a job growth of 1 million, the past three Democratic presidents 51 million. Now sure, the president doesn't define every aspect of the economy, but my god that big a discrepancy is not accidental. As someone not from America, I don't understand why this race is so close, but why any race involving the Republicans, even outside of Trump, would be. I'll consider Romney an exception though, but he doesn't seem representative of the Republican Party before or after him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

nearly all republicans rig elections to their favor and make decent education an expensive luxury to help maintain their control over poorly educated & informed voting masses and democrats let them since it makes their job easier and they know that there's no viable alternative.

the icing on this shit cake is that most democrat voters will shame you if you don't participate and blame you if you can't because of voter suppression.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

the icing on this shit cake is that most democrat voters will shame you if you don't participate

Drag is very surprised you find this odd. Democrat voters want you to fight back against Republican voter suppression. They think keeling over and giving up is a bad idea. The icing on the shit cake is that centrists who would rather have a D than an R choose to cooperate with Republican tactics.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

Because Trump is energizing his base with lies and propaganda designed to get them angry and motivated, while Kamala has squandered the enthusiasm her base had for her by pursuing disaffected center-right never-Trumpers. It's basically the same strategy Hillary Clinton ran in 2016 and it's terrifying to watch the Democrats gamble on it yet again.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Every time some ridiculous shit like this happens, I remember when Howard Dean yelled a little too loud and that invalidated his entire political career.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Even worse, apparently we only got the audio from his mic and it was an appropriately loud EEEEAAAAGH given the audience volume

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

The race is close because Republicans have built something better than a platform when you're dealing with ignorant masses.

They built a brand.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

it's close because racism, jeebus, and guns. it seems like it should be more than that, but it isn't. broke uneducated GOP voters literally don't care about anything except for some combination of the above 3 things, because that's what the 1% propaganda machine told them to do

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

the gayz in there too 🥴

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Gay panic is passe, it's trans panic now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Gay trans furry fascist communist Muslim atheists. Somehow the paradoxical bogeyman keeps folding in new and contradictory traits.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And the Dems will have very little affect (if any) on anyone’s jebus or guns. So it’s really just the racism that’s the distinguishing factor.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Dems will have very little affect (if any) on anyone’s jebus or guns

and yet the bleating of "they're trying to take yer gunnnnnnns" and "war on christmas/christianity" never ever fucking stops

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It’s insane.

And it’s far more likely that if the GOP had total control, they’d institute a national religion (good luck having your flavor picked for that one) and that they’d take away all the guns to protect their power (since there is clearly nothing they’d avoid doing if it meant getting/keeping power).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They'd probably be thrilled to give up their guns if it was GOP taking them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

OMG, you’re right

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

The guns thing. There is a rather large swath of rural, liberal gun owners. If you’ve ever lived in a locale that lacks enough ambient light for you to see your hand in front of your face at night, you get it. If you live in a place where you can hear a car approaching from more than a mile away you get it.

Let my handgun have a normal clip (average 9mm is 15 bullets) and we’re probably golden. And yet. DEMs lose moderate libs on this single issue.

Yes, I own a handgun. Off the shelf with no mods it holds 18 per clip standard and comes with 2 clips.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

i live in the mountains in a town of ~3000. i can drive 30 miles without seeing a traffic light. and i also have a gun

i'm still voting D, because i see that as a boneheaded thing to acquiesce to trump over. though to be fair, there IS NO valid defensible reason to vote for that incompetent pluted bloatocrat rapist coward

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago

Ofc not, and yet this is a single issue that motivates people.

He is a rapist. A coward. A traitor. A cluster B personality disorder. And now he’s fraying around the edges from old age. The stress can’t be helping his decline.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

I have several. Not once have I actually felt like someone was coming to take them. Beto shot himself in the foot saying he would, especially in Texas.

I like common sense gun laws. I took classes for my concealed carry. I can pass a test about the care and feeding of firearms any day of the week. No one except me has access to my guns.

Of course I'm voting blue. They ain't coming for my guns. And even if they were I'd still vote against Trump and fight them on it.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Most conservatives believe state education isn't anything more than brainwashing against conservative ideas.

They're 100% correct. Education tends to make one confront reality and live in the real world, a very un-conservative concept.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

"Go to college and get a good education!"

goes to college, gets educated in class and from people from all over who aren't like me. Realize different people have different needs

"College is a liberal brain wash machine!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

they have to start from kindergarten onward, because it doesn't take much education to make people realize that "because tradition" is just about the dumbest reason to do anything. and if that's the only reason you're doing something, then maybe it's time to grow the fuck up and move on

but no, they've turned words like "progress" and "change" into pejoratives. same as "expert," "science," and "facts/fact-checking"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

to be fair: reality does have a liberal bias. lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

50% of people have below average intelligence and they finally feel represented... 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." -George Carlin

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Wouldn’t that be the median person? 🤓

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

Don't be mean.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Yes but in this case it likely makes little difference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

he barely danced because he knows he'd bust his ass trying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Aww, no virtual hand-job boogying?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

I'll keep investing in K-12 education

The bulk of elementary education funding comes from the states. So this doesn't mean much in practice.

One place where a federal official (like the President) would be able to help out immensely is by immediately cancelling some (or, fuck it, all) of the outstanding federally held student loan debt. This could be accomplished via the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003, which authorizes the secretary of the DOE to “waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to” the Title IV loan programs “as the Secretary deems necessary” to ensure that individuals adversely affected by a Presidentially declared national emergency “are not placed in a worse position financially.”

A number of Presidential contenders promised just this back in 2020 (Warren, Sanders, even Biden himself). Sadly, Harris hedged on this pledge even back then and has not made any attempt to renew it now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

It's close because humans are stupid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Inertia. Mostly.