Political Memes

I'm not inclined to agree with "most", but the idiot:not-idiot ratio in society is way higher than I'm comfortable with. It's almost enough to make the question the wisdom of putting so many people on the road, driving their own cars.

The part that really shook me is when I talked to enough people to figure out that stupidity isn't always obvious. A person can speak well, be exposed to a lot of different news sources, have ample access to information, graduate from a decent school, and still be a total moron when it comes to a lot of things. Like functional illiteracy, grown adults learn how to cope and mask in ways that are shockingly good, considering they cover for huge deficits at the same time.

Actually this always was a point against democracy

While I agree, what would it mean for these to be "dealbreakers"?

Bill Clinton gave tax rates for the rich, but he didn't run on that -- he ran on expanding the Middle Class. Barack Obama ran on a platform of fixing healthcare, and he sorta did. Citizens United v FEC was decided in 2010. The next election, Bernie Sanders' common-sense social safety nets were wildly popular among Democats and purple state voters -- not enough to beat the entire Democratic line-up that gave their delegates to Hillary Clinton, but still very popular.

On the debate stage, Donald Trump called out the same ridiculous Republican warmongering and perils of the USAmerican people that Bernie called out. In doing so, Trump sweeped out Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and every other preferred neo-conservative candidate -- while being a billionaire rapist fraudster who owned a gold-plated apartment. Trump continued that diagonalization campaign strategy in 2024, to great success. He's naming real issues, and rallying up support with it, because people are exactly as fed up as you presume they should be. This is why MAGA voters are so aggressive. This is what the Jan 6th insurrectionists thought they were fighting for.

While I curse out the generation before me who allowed this country to get this way, I can't really say what they should have done differently. It's not like there weren't massive anti-war protests. It's not like the USA populace wanted to be deployed in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Iran. Bush hid the facts. It's not like people want these massive medical costs and unreasonable student loans... but what do we do? Changes were being teased in Congress; there was hope in the Supreme Court; presidential campaigns promised prosperity and ease, and USAmericans clung to that hope.

So did we sleepwalk through it all? Yes -- But I don't see how people could have been persuaded differently with anything short of foresight of exactly this reality of the year 2025. Reformists aren't going to burn down the Capitol when Congress is debating Medicare For All, even if it's the 40th year debating this issue; even after the vote fails.

i noticed its coordinated with right wing influencers/grifters also downplayed or dint bother discussing the insurrection. its not by accident its all coordinated through troll farms.

Yup, the Republican party allowed Trump to go after the nomination, and his Republican opponents in the primaries never brought Jan 6 up for the disgusting act it was. Instead they all protected Trump by repeating the Big Lie.

Imagine Fox News right now, if Jan 6 had been Democrats and Obama. Seriously, they would be screaming for the dismantling of the Democratic party.

And that's the difference, the Left has NOTHING like Fox News and Newsmax, MSNBC doesn't even get CLOSE.

Or claiming Veterans who were killed or were captured were losers. I thought Americans were proud of their armed forces.

Or the making fun of the disabled news reporter. Or the not renting to black people, or the using a charity as his personal piggy bank. I'm sure the list goes on and on

Merrick Garland deserves a place in hell with Newt Gingrich, The Koch Family, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Mitch McConnell.

Now I personally believe that Garland was just that incompetent rather than malicious as the others are.

However, his incompetence is dammingly damaging to the future of the entire planet.

Biden should have used the bully pulpit and pushed hard to prosecute. Merrick Garland is technically the one who sat on his ass for 2 years before getting started, which is how Trump was able to delay through the election then throw out his own cases.

Based on the strong bipartisan coverup of the Epstein Files, clearly there are reasons Biden’s donors didn’t want to prosecute one of “their own.” So they didn’t, because the people don’t get represented in America, only capital owners do.

It's the moderates and centrists that worry me. I know he had a laundry list of deal breakers. But after Jan 6th, he should have lost every sliver of support from anyone who doesn't support treason.