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[–] 126 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos

Based based based based based

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As a foreigner, what does this metaphor mean? It sounds to me like "And at the end of the day... is night" kind of things, but what does it replace?

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  • [+] 104 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
    [–] 93 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Sometimes, I feel regret that Romney didn't beat Obama. Not because Romney would have been a better president. Just because of the timing, if Romney had won, then maybe Trump would never have become president, or at least he'd have been president later. Romney's still a Republican, so it would have sucked, but Trump is fucking poison.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's an interesting thought... I can't help but feel like it would have just delayed an inevitable outcome though, potentially allowing the underlying political movement even more time to grow and fester. It's unknowable, but I feel like we'll be pondering questions like that for a long time.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It seems like logically, we should feel lucky to have such an incompetent campy comic book villain con man as the face of their ridiculous movement. But it doesn't feel like that at the time.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Now imagine how different our country would be if Gore won...

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  • With all the nonsense about "fiscal conservatives", people forget that the last administration to balance the budget was Clinton/Gore - and not only was the budget balanced, it actually had a fucking surplus. One of the big debate points going into the 2000 election cycle was what to do with this surplus. Naturally enough the surplus went towards tax cuts for the rich and now we're fucking $35 trillion dollars in debt.

    Someone will weigh in here with "deficits don't matter" and "the government can just print money if it needs it".

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because much of what's happening right now is a direct, racist reaction to the US having the gall to elect a black man president.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Its also a reaction to the Hope and Change candidate bailing out the banks who just stole millions of homes, bombed a dozen countries, sending the natl guard to shut down protests in furgison, both-sides a cop arresting a man in his own yard, deporting more people than W or Trump, giving us means-tested subsidies for health insurance.

    Obama disillusioned a generation with politics, hence why so many people stayed home in 2016. Biden did the same shit, and Newsom will do it again if given a chance.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Don't forget the part when Obama created a joint federal/local/corporate-bank task force to illegally surveil the Occupy Wall Street protests, and the brutally crush them. Or decided not to prosecute the authors of the torture program in the Bush administration.

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    [–] 60 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    if whoever is in charge next in the US does not burn down the white house as a symbol of starting over, I will be disappointed

    besides, think of all the Russian spy equipment that's probably installed in there now

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    [–] 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In reality the Dems will do none of those things though. They won't nationalize anything because they are neoliberals. They won't fully defund ICE because they want racists to vote for them too. They'll just reduce the budget and maybe stop putting kids in cages. They won't shut down funding for the exec branch because they'll say it is "irresponsible".

    More things they'll never do:

    • Demilitarise and defund the police
    • Provide free public healthcare and education for all
    • Raise taxes on billionaires
    • Stop mass surveillance programs
    • Reform the electoral system to allow proportional representation
    • Properly regulate and tax corporations
    • Stop providing weapons to their genocidal allies

    I'd love to be proved wrong, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up.

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    [–] 57 points 1 year ago* (18 children)

    Starlink shouldn't exist. it's unnecessary , we have better options... make internet a utility and force the companies we already gave millions to, to actually modernize infostructure and bring internet to undeserved locations that still have 56k

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    [–] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How is he allowed to remove the secret service protection from the former vice president?

    What?

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The former VP actually only gets 6 months of protection by default. Beyond that it needs to be actively extended, which Trump didn't do.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Day 1 should be to Fire everyone even remotely related to trump. Then take trumps entire cabinet to a CIA black site. Then start going after the treasonous media figures. Then day 2 you can start fixing things.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Could they even do any of that with just the House? They won't do it anyway, but could they?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    At this point it doesn't even really matter, it's just a question of whether anyone would step up to stop them. "The Rules" in general have already been well and truly trod upon and I'm not sure we make it out the other side of this without some restructuring of them.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Obviously with the Senate they can cut any budget/pass any law.

    On their own the house can cut funding eventually. Push comes to shove, the house needs to vote for spending. They either pass a budget with the cuts, or the government shuts down.

    There really isn't a mechanism for the house that nationalize anything without the support of the Senate that I'm aware of. The house can call the vote day one to nationalize, but it's symbolic without a legit path on the Senate

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (28 children)

    Who uses Twitter anymore that isn't a Nazi?

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    correct analysis. Absolutely go down to their level. Weirdly enough, you will even take some of their voters away with that. Some of them don't care that much about the words, just the way they are spoken.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    The current MAGA Republicans make neoconservatives look like angels. The neoconservatives are lesser evil, but it doesn't exonerate them from the Bush-era warcrimes.

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    [+] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    I would!

    Rambling on Twitter makes money. And politicians have finally figured out they can get in on the rage influencer pie, too.

    It’s super effective.

    Ugh, I can’t wait for Twitter to enshittify so much it withers away.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think a problem the Democratic Party is facing is that, today, few believe they will

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