https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1480253085188558848?t=hjfJ_Tra0ElGUjlYgOoGAw&s=19

https://nitter.net/CNN/status/1480253085188558848?t=hjfJ_Tra0ElGUjlYgOoGAw&s=19

  • Homestar440 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If they had any balls at all, they would have Joe Manchin make this speech.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      "hey, you know how this sclerotic broken system doesn't deliver anything for you? it must be saved!"

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Another version of the most important election of our lifetime.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The elections just keep getting more and more important! This is importance inflation.

      • 2022 [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It's like when superhero movies keep upping the ante with increasingly catastrophic stakes. All US politics is theatrics.

        • bananon [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          The dems need to take a page from Goku’s playbook and dye their hair a new color every election cycle.

    • Phish [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Hey! You don't want to see what happens if COVID is allowed to continue running rampant without any plan to stop it, we allow conservatives to obstruct any pro-worker legislation that gets proposed, we continue funding racist police, evil corporations get away without paying taxes and get to influence governmental policy and.... Oh that's all happening even though "democracy" won last election? Fuck. Well I'm out of ideas.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I'm kind of jealous that other countries only talk about their elections maybe like 2 weeks before they happen

      we're over here talking about 10 months from now

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          the midterms are effectively a response to the Presidential party and with very few exceptions the opposition party tends to gain power

          it's flip flopping seats to give the impression things are happening

          • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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            3 years ago

            We get to watch our government progressively ratchet to the right every midterm. Republicans ransack social programs, deregulate, try to take away abortions, dismantle healthcare, and lower taxes. Then Dems get in and don't do anything to fix the mess because some kayfabe, "we can't do anything too radical, or we might lose our position!" Then Republicans take back over. Rinse and repeat.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    There is nothing like seeing this kind of shit and having, for the sixteen-thousandth time in my life, the rasping voice in the back of my head assuring me that I'm already dead and in a quiet corner of hell. I can hear the roar of the inferno with my unburnt ears and it torments me.

  • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT

  • red_stapler [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils? I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing, this year, is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960—and as far as I can tell, we’ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same. -HST

  • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    You ever think liberals ever stop and think about why the United States is always one day away from a fascist takeover? Like, that seems like a bad system if you get to that point.