• lukaro@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I spent the first 3/4 of my adult life listening to all politicians and deciding who I thought had better ideas for the issues that concerned me. The last 12 years have taught me that there are simply to many fucking republicans. That wouldn’t be a problem but every single last one of them are worthless pieces of shit, more interested in cruelty than accomplishing anything decent.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The last 12 years have taught me that there are simply to many fucking republicans.

      So many that they’ve been bleeding into the Democratic Party.

      Felt like I was taking crazy pills when Kamala Harris spent the back half of October leaving her very popular VP candidate on the side of the road while doing a whirlwind tour with… Liz fucking Cheney. Between that, importing all of Keir Starmer’s UK campaign staffers, and letting Michael Bloomberg manager her social media, it’s a wonder she didn’t do worse.

      That wouldn’t be a problem but every single last one of them are worthless pieces of shit

      Waking up every day and saying the Pledge of Allegiance on a pile of Ayn Rand novels will do that to you.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          I honestly think that she should’ve won but the repubos cheated, as they do every time.

          When Republicans cheat and win, Democrats stomp their feet but insist there’s nothing they can do.

          When Republicans cheat and lose, Democrats say “demographics is destiny!” and ignore the problem until the next election cycle.

          There’s no way Trump swept every single swing state.

          Eh. Harris was a dogshit campaigner who inherited a dogshit campaign from a senile neoconservative hack with underwater approval numbers. Had Walz been at the top of the ticket (or Pritzker or Baldwin or maybe even Klobacher or Warren) things might have gone differently. Their political instincts were miles better than Harris’s, which is why they stomp all over her in the 2020 primary.

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            No, statistically what happened was about impossible not to mention a shit ton of votes for Donald Cuck that only voted for him and ignored all the other candidates. You can’t tell me that many voters only voted for the President and ignored all the other Republican candidates.

            Besides all the legal voter suppression there was likely some tabulation machine manipulation. Maga had also infiltrated all levels of the voting system to make sure it was “fair” aka stop the blue no matter what.

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    We ain’t had “checks and balances” since Allen Dulles and Curtis Lemay had JFK and RFK killed. We’ve been feeding off the husk of America like spider crabs.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      We ain’t had “checks and balances” since Allen Dulles and Curtis Lemay had JFK and RFK killed.

      I mean, the Truman-Era Red Scare / Eisenhower-Era “Operation Wetback” / “Operation Eagle Eye” weren’t exactly America’s finest hours, either.

      And you only have to thumb through a few chapters from Hoover back to McKinley to notice a certain historical weight of Fascist tendency baked into the American bureaucracy post-Reconstruction Era.

      Honestly, the more notable moments in US History are when “Checks and Balances” actually work. Like, Nixon actually leaving office before the Senate could impeach him was something of a high water mark for the country, precisely because it suggested these institutions functioned as advertised (eventually). Even Comey threatening to prosecute Hillary was something of a moment for the country, as it suggested a President’s Wife Turned Senator Turned Mega-Bundler Turned Presidential Nominee wasn’t impervious to the consequences of her shitty stupid decisions.

      But then Ford pardons Nixon and Trump fires Comey and you have to come back down to Earth to reconsider whether this game is rigged from the start.

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        Oh you mean the checks and balances that kept us honest with all the Native American treaties!? We were always dogshit, there is no good time to look back on.

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    1 year ago

    That shit failed years ago. The real failure is the electoral college and letting all the gerrymandering stick.

  • Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Has failed. Has failed. Has…

    You’ll catch up. Whatever.

    Edit:

    Well, I dont think there are any shortages of checks, to the corrupt politicians.

    And there certainly is balancing going on, the balance of billionaires bank accounts going up.

    There you have it. The world famous checks and balances in america.

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      Yeah, more like infamous. Basically all other Western democracies have looked at the US system and thought “yeah, we are going to do something else”, except for the ones who were militarily pressed into adopting something akin to the US constitution.