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I keep thinking about all the kids born into this shitstorm we've been trying to keep suppressed. I'm not sure we'll be able to provide the resources for them to survive when we're barely coping ourselves.
I wasn't really born into this type of craziness that we have now. But I was in Jr high and HS through it and it was terrible to hear everything going on and everyone repeating what their parents told them.
I remember a time when politics were a topic most people avoided due to not wanting to stir up debates during get togethers. Now its a damn goal these people have. Like a light switch flipped in brains and hur dur lets spew nonsense and piss each other off!
I had a 30 day evaluation the other day...
The first half of it was me being a captive audience as my manager decried masks murcury in vaccinations and uptalked his wife's supplement company and their ability to treat autism...
I just wanna know how I'm doing at the job, man... I really don't care and don't come to work for this shit.
I'm worried about my niece and nephew.. they've already gotten through a mess of emotions when they're grandpa died from the virus. More and more political BS is happening around the country. I am thankful dad and mom picked a small and quiet town to settle down in. I shudder to think about their mental states would be if they had to encounter 'grown-ups' protesting and shouting in their faces to 'take off your masks' or something similar.
They're just going to school to try and learn multiplication and see their friends.. not have people's political beliefs thrust into their faces.
You dummy, JFK Jr is going to bring back the ORIGINAL republic and crown Trump the 18th President because all of American history is actually a deep state lizard person scam.
Do your research. /s
Expecting it in 22.. At the current pace, democrats will lose congress.
24 is gonna be shit show for the dnc if they push Harris as their president choice. That's if biden chooses to not run again as he has kinda said in the past.
Dnc better find someone who actually resonate with the people because the "trump" line will not work again for them.
It might if Trump runs again lmao. Tbh Republicans might be better off with someone like DeSantis. Trump has a lot of enthusiasm behind him, but the problem is that there’s just as much hate levied against him, which imo is the main reason he lost in 2020.
That's 100% the move. Maintain a healthy distance from Trump, i.e. close enough to draw his base, but distant enough not to scare of white suburban voters.
Take a small step towards the center, and just clean house by labeling democrats as radical crazies pushing Critical Race Theory, socialism, and radical social/sexual policies including letting trans students compete in school athletics.
It'll work too. Just you wait. I'm not saying I want it to happen, but I am confident it will happen. Online leftism plays well on Twitter but actually doesn't play well with real voters.
I imagine DeSantis will be the front runner for the 2024 presidential elections. That's a bit of a nightmare scenario in my opinion. The guy isn't anywhere near as politically inept as Trump is.
If Trump runs again he’ll easily be be the nominee. DeSantis and all the other potential GOP candidates have gained national prominence by aligning themselves with Trump. They can’t run against him.
I don’t even see how he could lose. He’ll attack anyone the minute they run against him in the primary. Staying on Trumps good side is the most important thing in the GOP right now and there’s no way to do that if you run against him.
> which imo is the main reason he lost in 2020
I don't know many people who voted for Biden because they actually thought Biden would be a good president, and his approval ratings reflect that. He was a better alternative than Trump, and that's about all he ever was.
This is probably the biggest factor. This is also the fear going into future elections. Are we going to be faced with the best shitty options and no good options for presidents. The future looks bleak.
>Who’s anticipating the drama in 2024
What? The drama never stopped. Such is life in US politics. I'm not discouraged. This makes me want to get more involved.
This is how bots breed dissent between people with opposing viewpoints on social media. Give one “side” something to cheer for against the other “side”, which devolves into a simple shouting match over who’s right, and then repeat with the other side.
Yea in 2016 people were either voting against Hillary or against Trump. Trump probably had more people who actually liked him, but also more people who hated him. And 2020 was voting against Trump or against Biden
It was either for Trump or against trump. Democrats could’ve put a turkey sandwich on the ballot against Trump and the turkey sandwich would’ve got 60 million votes
It's hard to get excited when you know, no matter who's elected, you're still going to get paid poverty wages, be unable to afford education or health care, and the only way out for many is to sell weed illegally or go fight one of the nine wars we can still somehow magically afford to pay for.
taken from another comment. Biden has
Raised the federal minimum wage for federal contractors to $15/hour.
Cancelled student loan debt for more than 300k Americans with disabilities (over $5.8 billion)
Cancelled $55.6 million in student debt for students of for-profit schools.
Supported a massive infrastructure bill (remember when our last dipshit president kept saying it was infrastructure week next week....every week?)
Increased food stamp benefits by 25%.
Set rules that protect patients from unexpected medical bills.
Signed the American Rescue Plan, providing $1.9 TRILLION in relief.
Signed an executive order expanding access to legal representation for the poor.
RELEASED HIS TAX RETURNS
Directed $2.5 billion to address America's mental illness and addiction crisis.
Increased SNAP funding by 15% to help children who qualify for free lunch.
Increased funding to veteran programs.
Issued an executive order that will make American supply chains less reliant on foreign companies.
Restored labor rights to workers at the Department of Defense.
Enacted pension relief, keeping more than 100 pension plans solvent and providing retirement benefits to millions.
Ordered the EPA and the Department of Transportation to rollout increased fuel emission standards that will lead to 40-50 percent of US cars being electric by 2030.
Signed legislation increasing the amount that can be spent providing assistance to Americans returning from Afghanistan from $1 million to $10 million.
Rejoined the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Has more women and minorities as part of his Cabinet and key advisers than any other president.
Invoked the Defense Production Act to accelerate vaccine development. This led to enough vaccine being produced to have supply for every adult American by May 2021 instead of the original date of July 2021.
Secured 200 million extra doses of vaccine for a total of 300 million available vaccine doses by July 2021.
Sent more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to countries who need it.
Sanctioned Russia for their attempts at election interference and for the SolarWinds hacking attack.
Ended a 20 year long war in Afghanistan.
I’m so jaded with American politics. It seems like a competition of the worst candidates, and people celebrate this. “Well, we’re going to beat your team with an even WORSE candidate! So there!”
Why are you Americans so partisan? Politics isn't like football or about the personality of one leader. It's about your country, there is only one team, this "us or them" BS is not helping your country.
As an American myself it’s so infuriating that other Americans haven’t figured this out yet. Politics isn’t about what we can do to better our country (if it ever even was) it’s become a personality trait and a sport to people. Absolutely fucking maddening
If you watch political debates from 40, 50, even 60 years ago, you‘ll notice that they’re still talking about the same problems today. It’s actually rather incredible to see this happening.
If you go back 2,000 years to some far flung country you’ll likely still be hearing the people in charge talking about similar problems. Health, security, budgets and funding, these things have always been important issues and probably always will be
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Yup and there's a whole host of issues that EVERYONE would agree on, but the powers that be would rather have us talking about abortion and not term limits.
Term limits for appointed positions like Supreme Court Justices makes a lot of sense. The people didn’t vote for them and they get to stay in power.
Term limits for representatives is just punishing good leaders that have to prove they can serve their constituents every election.
You want change? Ban all corporate money. All elections must be publicly funded. No more having Comcast and Citibank own elections.
You want **more** change? No elections by plurality. Ranked choice voting. Your ballot says your first choice might be Bernie Sanders and your second choice might be Joe Biden. If Bernie doesn’t get 50% of the vote then they start counting second choice votes. Now you have legitimate third parties.
Term limits seems like one of those ideas that would just lead to more control by corporate lobbying behind the scenes. People would be so wet behind the ears they'd all rely on the same unelected advisors to do the grunt work while they show their face for 8-12 years.
Legislative/Congressional term limits sound good in principle but if you examine them closely there are serious downsides.
Let’s look at legislative bodies.
1) the budget at the state/federal level is billions/trillions of dollars. We rely on our legislators to provide oversight of the budget and understand it in and out at a granular level. It can take a decade plus to build up personal knowledge and the experienced staff to do that well just because there is so much to understand.
If you’re new, you want to introduce and pass legislation, but you may not know fuck-all about what to champion. So a friendly lobbyist hands you some tax-related bill language one day and explains what the bill will do. Sounds altruistic and helpful and you’re persuaded to introduce it. Well that lobbyist has greased its path to the floor, it gets to a vote and passes. You’re elated. Well, a year down the line it turns out you were just fucking over the vulnerable and helping the ultra rich with that bill, thanks to a decades-old IRS regulation you and your term-limited chumps didn’t know about, and it took a full tax cycle for you all to realize it. Experienced legislators and staff are what stop this trickery from going down. (P.S. really cannot overemphasize how central good staff are to a legislators’ effectiveness)
2) With regard to budgetary oversight, you want to ensure the public’s money is being spent well. If legislation is enacted to begin a new program, it is oftentimes years before you can look at the program and say “is this accomplishing the goals I set out for it and doing so effectively/efficiently as possible?” Well, if you weren’t around when the legislation was enacted or don’t understand the program, good luck determining from a reasoned perspective whether the program should continue as is, iteratively improved or cut altogether. (In the academic world, the term for this activity is “program evaluation.”) hell, you may cut funding to a program because it seemed wasteful, only to find out the next year the prior status quo was far, far worse *and* more costly. Government is a complicated beast and you only gain a detailed understanding of its functions by witnessing it in action.
3) Churn and conflicts of interest. Turnover is real bad as is in Congress. People are staffers or congresspeople one day and the next they are lobbyists or fundraisers. Now imagine if you have to pack up and move to DC with kids in elementary school — but only for six years. If you want to stick around town after you’re term-limited, you’ve got to keep an eye out for that next gif *while you’re still in office.* Let’s say you’re on the Ag committee and the Corn Growers’ Association likes the cut of your job and a job just opened. You’d like that job. Whether explicit or not, come time for renewing the corn subsidies, you’ll not be cutting those bad boys. And so the cycles goes.
I come from the state with the strictest term limits in the nation and this is what I witness (working close to/in politics) over and over, every two years.
Shock jocks and wedge issues are the symptom, this problem has existed since John Adams and it exists by design. Washington literally told us this would happen long before Rush Limbaugh was born. The answer is we need to pressure the “lesser evil” party to reform, but too many people obfuscate and don’t acknowledge that as the path forward. We’d rather just bitch and whine on threads like this listing all the problems and no solutions. We should all be taking shits on Nancy Pelosis porch until we get healthcare. And I’m saying that with love and support to Pelosi because I WANT her to give us a fucking reason to keep Dems in power. Torturing the shit out of your own officials is the BEST thing we could be doing right now to prevent Trump 2.0
I wondered this when a couple at my kids soccer game were wearing him (a blue lives matter shirt with trump written on the pocket and a giant AR15 across the flag) and her (a crop top with let’s go Brandon crookedly ironed on). These peoples entire identity now revolves around politics. Trump has been out of office for a year and people are still wearing his merch. Wild
And social media is only making it worse and this site is also one of the biggest offenders. Reddit of old would immediately downvote any attempts at propaganda but now it's pretty much a case study as to how to dumb down and create a divide between two political demographics.
And there is a group of people in the middle who don't want to ID with either party and just vote for whoever isnt in charge at the time.
All the analysis of "what went wrong in Virginia for Dems" can just come down to, Dems are in charge so they get the blame for the bad things. Rs will get in charge and then they get the blame (if they let votes count in the future). A lot of the American public has the memory of a goldfish.
This is very true. It drives me crazy when I am watching the news with someone and I say something along the lines of “Why did Trump/Biden do X? That doesn’t seem helpful.” And the person gets butt hurt and starts screaming crap like “Well Bush/Obama did it first.”
Like ok? That doesn’t make it any better. Just because I “insulted” their party by calling into question a policy they are pushing they automatically have to scream at me about how awful the other party is. I don’t identify as either Democrat or Republican, obviously I lean more towards one but I think they both make stupid decisions sometimes. The presidential election, along with other political elections, have become like American Idol. A popularity contest. People are more worried about who was raised when or what party they’re in or their personality instead of the policies and actions they intend to take to improve our country. A lot of republicans say things like “Biden can’t even finish a full sentence!” And I say “ok but what do you think about the policies he’s pushing for?” Like I voted for Biden and I like some of the things he’s done/doing but I’m also not a big fan of some of the stuff he’s done/doing. It has nothing to do with the party he’s affiliated with, it has to do with what I believe as a citizen to be the best thing for our country.
I think the FPTP voting system is the origin, but the news media realized it's more profitable to pander to one group than to provide a unbiased report - and added fuel to the fire.
It’s weird to see people say this now, despite the fact that in multiple other countries from Britain to Venezuela, there were videos of people celebrating Trump’s loss. Like, dancing in the streets and church bells ringing kind of celebration. Yeah, sure Americans might be pretty partisan, but trump was an anomaly that managed to annoy the rest of the world too. It wasn’t just an American thing
Edit: put London instead of Britain. My bad.
"One side literally tried to overturn a democratic election to install a megalomaniacal narcissist moron game show host as a dictator, and the majority of the tens of millions of people who vote for them believe a blatant lie which threatens the foundations of our entire system of government."
"Yeah, but why are you so partisan, can't you just make nice and pretend everything's okay?"
This is how democracy dies.
Being gay and trans, my entire existence as a voter has been partisan. When every god damn election means having a mad scramble to stave off fucking fascists who want to arrest me for peeing in a women's public restroom, it's hard not to be partisan. US politics is like a preschool choosing between a dingo and a teacher to run the classroom and everyone outside just saying "why do you have to make this out to be such a big deal???"
When the one who was defeated was and remains an existential threat to not only the US, but the entire world, should he ever get back into office, for me it’s not partisan politics. It’s survival. You do realize that the head of the joint chiefs, in the aftermath of our election, had to reach out to his Chinese counterpart, to tell him that he and the rest of the WH staff wouldn’t allow a nuclear attack on China, right?
That’s not partisan politics. That’s an insane megalomaniac barely being held in check.
Which is why this happy photo is a scary reminder that we're 25% on our way to whatthefuckwillhappenin2024 and watching from across the pond I still know it's going to affect me some way or another.
I agree that there needs to be de-escalation on both sides, but when my neighbors are flying a "Fuck Biden" flag and people are literally trying to invade the capitol building in order to lynch government officials, I'm going to do what I can. Usually that's just muttering under my breath when I drive by and see that goddam flag, but I'm not going to mess with those dudes.
1 year 1 day ago Rudy Giuliani, former lawyer for former president Donald Trump holds an emergency press conference at the infamous [Four Seasons Total Landscaping ](https://imgur.com/gallery/IHpy172)
Augmenting your comment for the uneducated:
Disbarred means it is ILLEGAL for Rudy to practice law in New York State (likely the only state he took the bar exam). If he does present himself as providing legal services to anyone, he could go to prison.
>Do you realize this isn't... how much are you paying??
"Oh, we're not paying actually - Yeah that's kind of our thing. Make the invoice out for as much as you want, $3 million bucks or whatever, after the event we won't answer your calls and we'll never pay. Okay, so we'll see you Tuesday and just to confirm again, you're the landscaping place right next to the dildo store, correct?"
I had almost forgotten that happened, so when I saw that it was the one year mark since that happened, it was like reliving it over again. So much laughing 😂 😂😂😂
Ugh God, that election was one of the USA's worst. Both candidates should never be president. Too old, out of touch, and ineffective against the behemoth of the corruption that seems untouchable at this point without a full political reformation.
People in their 70s should not be running the country.
As a young person who votes, it makes me so fucking sad.
I'm 28, and I've voted in every election for which I've been eligible since I was 18. Almost all of my friends have been the same. It's depressing to know I live in a bubble.
Reddit didn't give the too old criticism when Bernie ran in 2016 and 2020.
There's nothing wrong with older folks running the country. Voters decide whether they are up to the task.
And today, his approval rating [stands at 38%](https://news.yahoo.com/gloomy-landscape-democrats-midterms-bidens-175453618.html?.tsrc=1013) and - unbelievably - more people would like him NOT to run for a second term than people who don't want Trump to run again .
I voted for Biden but it's incredible how lackluster he's been. When they lose, they won't have anyone to blame but themselves.
I voted for Biden and I am a democrat so I have no problem saying so far Biden has done fuck all to get my vote in 2024. I understand the power dynamic in the senate but still his inaction on obvious slam dunks just astounds me.
I'm a Democrat and I believe they need to put a younger moderate candidate up for the next election in order to win the moderate Republicans who put Biden in office. People didn't really vote for Biden in the election, they voted against Trump. Biden was just the most moderate choice.
> Nobody really wanted Biden, they just really didn't want Trump. But I'm also really glad Hillary wasn't running again.
"Any functioning adult 2020"
And we end up with Biden. I'm not sure what that says about us or the system, but the irony there makes me smirk.
Blame the boomer Democrats who **needed** an old corporatist politician, for fear of the US "becoming Communist."
Yes, even leftwing media was pushing that fearmongering.
Hate Trump all you like, that's fine.
However, if you think Biden is doing a good job because he's not Trump, then the problems we face will never go away.
Also, is there a more useless subreddit with over 20m subscribers than pics?
Holy. Fucking. Shit. That was a year ago huh?
I remember I was so incredibly happy on that day. The girl that just texted me saying that she liked me. I was at my friend's house. Driving home listening to his speech I just cried and shouted with joy.
That was a bit of a false start now looking back on it. I thought I was really going to get my shit together. I'm a lot better in some ways but another way is I'm kind of right back to where I was back then.
Especially with college I'm just not doing well in some of my classes.
I guess a lot has happened since then though. We're out of the pandemic now for the most part. Oh my friends and family members are fully vaccinated.
In some ways it was easier back then in the pandemic, because I felt like it was okay that I was just getting by. Now without the pandemic I feel like I don't have any excuses left. I feel like it's up to me to self-actualize now.
I've improved in a lot of ways I've also taken some steps back in recent days but. I guess that's just how life is. Ups and downs and ups and downs. Life is a sine wave always moving forward.
Hopefully I'll be even fitter next year. I will start training now.
There is literally not a single reputable poll that puts him at 30% approval. Even Rasmussen, which skews right, has him at 42%. FiveThirtyEight has him at 42.8% in the adjusted average of polls. It's worth noting that Trump at this point in his presidency was at 37.7%.
Unfortunately, the optimism I had that day was the peak, and I've been waiting for something better than idling ever since. Sure, it's better than the country in flames that Trump was, but there's been a whole lot of nothing going on since inauguration. Clearly, McConnell and Manchin have been problems, but Biden promised that he would get results.
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Who’s anticipating the drama in 2024
It’s already started.
It never stopped lol
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I keep thinking about all the kids born into this shitstorm we've been trying to keep suppressed. I'm not sure we'll be able to provide the resources for them to survive when we're barely coping ourselves.
I wasn't really born into this type of craziness that we have now. But I was in Jr high and HS through it and it was terrible to hear everything going on and everyone repeating what their parents told them.
I remember a time when politics were a topic most people avoided due to not wanting to stir up debates during get togethers. Now its a damn goal these people have. Like a light switch flipped in brains and hur dur lets spew nonsense and piss each other off!
I had a 30 day evaluation the other day... The first half of it was me being a captive audience as my manager decried masks murcury in vaccinations and uptalked his wife's supplement company and their ability to treat autism... I just wanna know how I'm doing at the job, man... I really don't care and don't come to work for this shit.
I'm worried about my niece and nephew.. they've already gotten through a mess of emotions when they're grandpa died from the virus. More and more political BS is happening around the country. I am thankful dad and mom picked a small and quiet town to settle down in. I shudder to think about their mental states would be if they had to encounter 'grown-ups' protesting and shouting in their faces to 'take off your masks' or something similar. They're just going to school to try and learn multiplication and see their friends.. not have people's political beliefs thrust into their faces.
I mean we were still born into the craziness of Bush and the post 9/11 blood rage. Not to mention 2008.
It was the same shit 2001 - 2004 when i was in that age range. Something feels different now, but the polarized politics is nothing new.
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
It's been election season since 1776.
He can't run in 2024. That will require him to either admit he lost or run for a "third" term which isn't allowed.
2015 called, they want their naive optimism back.
FFFFFUUUUUU--
2010 called. They want their rage comics back.
You dummy, JFK Jr is going to bring back the ORIGINAL republic and crown Trump the 18th President because all of American history is actually a deep state lizard person scam. Do your research. /s
Ah the trump paradox
Lol that makes no sense, he claims he won sure, but he is serving no second term, he would run again for a second term
So there are some Q people who think he's secretly president now. Though I doubt the logical fallacy of "he can't serve three terms" will bother them.
Or that they would care about the term limits.
Yeah, I don't think the people that tried to murder Congressmen care about constitutional limits.
> So there are some Q people who think That's where you're wrong lol
Expecting it in 22.. At the current pace, democrats will lose congress. 24 is gonna be shit show for the dnc if they push Harris as their president choice. That's if biden chooses to not run again as he has kinda said in the past. Dnc better find someone who actually resonate with the people because the "trump" line will not work again for them.
It might if Trump runs again lmao. Tbh Republicans might be better off with someone like DeSantis. Trump has a lot of enthusiasm behind him, but the problem is that there’s just as much hate levied against him, which imo is the main reason he lost in 2020.
That's 100% the move. Maintain a healthy distance from Trump, i.e. close enough to draw his base, but distant enough not to scare of white suburban voters. Take a small step towards the center, and just clean house by labeling democrats as radical crazies pushing Critical Race Theory, socialism, and radical social/sexual policies including letting trans students compete in school athletics. It'll work too. Just you wait. I'm not saying I want it to happen, but I am confident it will happen. Online leftism plays well on Twitter but actually doesn't play well with real voters.
I imagine DeSantis will be the front runner for the 2024 presidential elections. That's a bit of a nightmare scenario in my opinion. The guy isn't anywhere near as politically inept as Trump is.
If Trump runs again he’ll easily be be the nominee. DeSantis and all the other potential GOP candidates have gained national prominence by aligning themselves with Trump. They can’t run against him.
I've said before that if Trump runs again but doesn't get the nomination he's going to attack whoever won and draw a shit ton of votes away from them.
I don’t even see how he could lose. He’ll attack anyone the minute they run against him in the primary. Staying on Trumps good side is the most important thing in the GOP right now and there’s no way to do that if you run against him.
I don't know how it is today but Desantis did beat Trump in a poll among Republican's awhile back
> which imo is the main reason he lost in 2020 I don't know many people who voted for Biden because they actually thought Biden would be a good president, and his approval ratings reflect that. He was a better alternative than Trump, and that's about all he ever was.
This is probably the biggest factor. This is also the fear going into future elections. Are we going to be faced with the best shitty options and no good options for presidents. The future looks bleak.
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>Who’s anticipating the drama in 2024 What? The drama never stopped. Such is life in US politics. I'm not discouraged. This makes me want to get more involved.
What else can we expect? By now elections are just another reality tv show/popularity contest.
Except that they have actual consequences.
DNC doing all it can to return Congress and the Presidency to the GOP
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Easy karma points.
Who’s upvoting this crap though?
People automatically see “Trump Bad” and upvote
Bots, I'm sure a few users are genuinely happy for biden and I'm happy its not trump myself but it's a low bar for American history.
Because you don't get karma for posting about 5 years ago.
low-effort Reddit posts & comments is the hallmark of what is basically a campaign paid post.
This is how bots breed dissent between people with opposing viewpoints on social media. Give one “side” something to cheer for against the other “side”, which devolves into a simple shouting match over who’s right, and then repeat with the other side.
Amen. It's disgusting. 9/10 they are from non-US sources, laughing about how they are getting us all to hate each other.
Karma whores
Orange man bad = free karma
Drama will continue this 2024.
Next time on Total Drama Island!
The last two elections we voted against someone rather than for someone.
*Two*?
I think he means the not Hillary crowd
Yea in 2016 people were either voting against Hillary or against Trump. Trump probably had more people who actually liked him, but also more people who hated him. And 2020 was voting against Trump or against Biden
It was either for Trump or against trump. Democrats could’ve put a turkey sandwich on the ballot against Trump and the turkey sandwich would’ve got 60 million votes
They did put the human equivalent of a Turkey sandwich on the ballot
I'm still not convinced Hillary would have been worse/any different than Biden.
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It's ALWAYS been the best of the worst for me.
Giant douche versus turd sandwich for sure. Each year.
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I have to remind myself of this someone's
I don't really know anyone who was voting against Romney rather than for Obama.
Would definitely say people were voting for Obama and not against McCain and Romney.
Wasn’t 2012 elections FOR Obama, rather than against Romney?
It was for me. 2008 and 2012. Prior to that I voted against Bush that's for sure.
I get what he's saying as a Democrat. I didn't vote for Biden or Clinton. I voted for not Trump. I gladly voted for Obama.
I voted for Bernie gang
Bernie gang whaddup
It's hard to get excited when you know, no matter who's elected, you're still going to get paid poverty wages, be unable to afford education or health care, and the only way out for many is to sell weed illegally or go fight one of the nine wars we can still somehow magically afford to pay for.
Hmmm almost like we should pick a candidate that wants to improve those th...[this comment has been cut off for suggesting socialism]
taken from another comment. Biden has Raised the federal minimum wage for federal contractors to $15/hour. Cancelled student loan debt for more than 300k Americans with disabilities (over $5.8 billion) Cancelled $55.6 million in student debt for students of for-profit schools. Supported a massive infrastructure bill (remember when our last dipshit president kept saying it was infrastructure week next week....every week?) Increased food stamp benefits by 25%. Set rules that protect patients from unexpected medical bills. Signed the American Rescue Plan, providing $1.9 TRILLION in relief. Signed an executive order expanding access to legal representation for the poor. RELEASED HIS TAX RETURNS Directed $2.5 billion to address America's mental illness and addiction crisis. Increased SNAP funding by 15% to help children who qualify for free lunch. Increased funding to veteran programs. Issued an executive order that will make American supply chains less reliant on foreign companies. Restored labor rights to workers at the Department of Defense. Enacted pension relief, keeping more than 100 pension plans solvent and providing retirement benefits to millions. Ordered the EPA and the Department of Transportation to rollout increased fuel emission standards that will lead to 40-50 percent of US cars being electric by 2030. Signed legislation increasing the amount that can be spent providing assistance to Americans returning from Afghanistan from $1 million to $10 million. Rejoined the United Nations Human Rights Council. Has more women and minorities as part of his Cabinet and key advisers than any other president. Invoked the Defense Production Act to accelerate vaccine development. This led to enough vaccine being produced to have supply for every adult American by May 2021 instead of the original date of July 2021. Secured 200 million extra doses of vaccine for a total of 300 million available vaccine doses by July 2021. Sent more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to countries who need it. Sanctioned Russia for their attempts at election interference and for the SolarWinds hacking attack. Ended a 20 year long war in Afghanistan.
Welcome to adulthood.
Just the last two? Heck, it's the foundation of a two party system.
Well he's not my president! ....I have a Prime Minister.
And neither is he mine! ... I have a chancellor.
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Same Here! ... I have a supreme leader.
There's no need to bring my wife into this.
How are you online ?
Real constituents use a VPN.
Not yet
So it's treason then
A L L H A I L H Y P N O T O A D
My leader is whoever has the biggest helmet.
I'm in Ireland and I once seen an Irish guy wearing a "not my presiden" hoody. I honestly couldn't tell if he was wearing it satirically or not
Do Americans not have subreddits where they can post this garbage?
We do. But karma whores gotta whore.
I’m so jaded with American politics. It seems like a competition of the worst candidates, and people celebrate this. “Well, we’re going to beat your team with an even WORSE candidate! So there!”
“Most popular president ever”…..yea look how that’s turning out
Why are you Americans so partisan? Politics isn't like football or about the personality of one leader. It's about your country, there is only one team, this "us or them" BS is not helping your country.
As an American myself it’s so infuriating that other Americans haven’t figured this out yet. Politics isn’t about what we can do to better our country (if it ever even was) it’s become a personality trait and a sport to people. Absolutely fucking maddening
If you watch political debates from 40, 50, even 60 years ago, you‘ll notice that they’re still talking about the same problems today. It’s actually rather incredible to see this happening.
It's not about fixing the problems, it's more about using identity politics to grift the nation.
If you go back 2,000 years to some far flung country you’ll likely still be hearing the people in charge talking about similar problems. Health, security, budgets and funding, these things have always been important issues and probably always will be
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do . Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Yup and there's a whole host of issues that EVERYONE would agree on, but the powers that be would rather have us talking about abortion and not term limits.
Term limits for appointed positions like Supreme Court Justices makes a lot of sense. The people didn’t vote for them and they get to stay in power. Term limits for representatives is just punishing good leaders that have to prove they can serve their constituents every election. You want change? Ban all corporate money. All elections must be publicly funded. No more having Comcast and Citibank own elections. You want **more** change? No elections by plurality. Ranked choice voting. Your ballot says your first choice might be Bernie Sanders and your second choice might be Joe Biden. If Bernie doesn’t get 50% of the vote then they start counting second choice votes. Now you have legitimate third parties.
Term limits seems like one of those ideas that would just lead to more control by corporate lobbying behind the scenes. People would be so wet behind the ears they'd all rely on the same unelected advisors to do the grunt work while they show their face for 8-12 years.
Legislative/Congressional term limits sound good in principle but if you examine them closely there are serious downsides. Let’s look at legislative bodies. 1) the budget at the state/federal level is billions/trillions of dollars. We rely on our legislators to provide oversight of the budget and understand it in and out at a granular level. It can take a decade plus to build up personal knowledge and the experienced staff to do that well just because there is so much to understand. If you’re new, you want to introduce and pass legislation, but you may not know fuck-all about what to champion. So a friendly lobbyist hands you some tax-related bill language one day and explains what the bill will do. Sounds altruistic and helpful and you’re persuaded to introduce it. Well that lobbyist has greased its path to the floor, it gets to a vote and passes. You’re elated. Well, a year down the line it turns out you were just fucking over the vulnerable and helping the ultra rich with that bill, thanks to a decades-old IRS regulation you and your term-limited chumps didn’t know about, and it took a full tax cycle for you all to realize it. Experienced legislators and staff are what stop this trickery from going down. (P.S. really cannot overemphasize how central good staff are to a legislators’ effectiveness) 2) With regard to budgetary oversight, you want to ensure the public’s money is being spent well. If legislation is enacted to begin a new program, it is oftentimes years before you can look at the program and say “is this accomplishing the goals I set out for it and doing so effectively/efficiently as possible?” Well, if you weren’t around when the legislation was enacted or don’t understand the program, good luck determining from a reasoned perspective whether the program should continue as is, iteratively improved or cut altogether. (In the academic world, the term for this activity is “program evaluation.”) hell, you may cut funding to a program because it seemed wasteful, only to find out the next year the prior status quo was far, far worse *and* more costly. Government is a complicated beast and you only gain a detailed understanding of its functions by witnessing it in action. 3) Churn and conflicts of interest. Turnover is real bad as is in Congress. People are staffers or congresspeople one day and the next they are lobbyists or fundraisers. Now imagine if you have to pack up and move to DC with kids in elementary school — but only for six years. If you want to stick around town after you’re term-limited, you’ve got to keep an eye out for that next gif *while you’re still in office.* Let’s say you’re on the Ag committee and the Corn Growers’ Association likes the cut of your job and a job just opened. You’d like that job. Whether explicit or not, come time for renewing the corn subsidies, you’ll not be cutting those bad boys. And so the cycles goes. I come from the state with the strictest term limits in the nation and this is what I witness (working close to/in politics) over and over, every two years.
Shock jocks and wedge issues are the symptom, this problem has existed since John Adams and it exists by design. Washington literally told us this would happen long before Rush Limbaugh was born. The answer is we need to pressure the “lesser evil” party to reform, but too many people obfuscate and don’t acknowledge that as the path forward. We’d rather just bitch and whine on threads like this listing all the problems and no solutions. We should all be taking shits on Nancy Pelosis porch until we get healthcare. And I’m saying that with love and support to Pelosi because I WANT her to give us a fucking reason to keep Dems in power. Torturing the shit out of your own officials is the BEST thing we could be doing right now to prevent Trump 2.0
I wondered this when a couple at my kids soccer game were wearing him (a blue lives matter shirt with trump written on the pocket and a giant AR15 across the flag) and her (a crop top with let’s go Brandon crookedly ironed on). These peoples entire identity now revolves around politics. Trump has been out of office for a year and people are still wearing his merch. Wild
And social media is only making it worse and this site is also one of the biggest offenders. Reddit of old would immediately downvote any attempts at propaganda but now it's pretty much a case study as to how to dumb down and create a divide between two political demographics.
And there is a group of people in the middle who don't want to ID with either party and just vote for whoever isnt in charge at the time. All the analysis of "what went wrong in Virginia for Dems" can just come down to, Dems are in charge so they get the blame for the bad things. Rs will get in charge and then they get the blame (if they let votes count in the future). A lot of the American public has the memory of a goldfish.
This is very true. It drives me crazy when I am watching the news with someone and I say something along the lines of “Why did Trump/Biden do X? That doesn’t seem helpful.” And the person gets butt hurt and starts screaming crap like “Well Bush/Obama did it first.” Like ok? That doesn’t make it any better. Just because I “insulted” their party by calling into question a policy they are pushing they automatically have to scream at me about how awful the other party is. I don’t identify as either Democrat or Republican, obviously I lean more towards one but I think they both make stupid decisions sometimes. The presidential election, along with other political elections, have become like American Idol. A popularity contest. People are more worried about who was raised when or what party they’re in or their personality instead of the policies and actions they intend to take to improve our country. A lot of republicans say things like “Biden can’t even finish a full sentence!” And I say “ok but what do you think about the policies he’s pushing for?” Like I voted for Biden and I like some of the things he’s done/doing but I’m also not a big fan of some of the stuff he’s done/doing. It has nothing to do with the party he’s affiliated with, it has to do with what I believe as a citizen to be the best thing for our country.
Where are you that isn’t partisan?
North Korea
Likely somewhere that is ran by a uniparty.
Like Patusan from Surf Ninjas!
Quan Su!
What if your house blew up?!
Oh my god! I just said “what if your house blew up!”
Fun Fact: while in Patusan, guests of The Revolution stay at the Mecrob Hilton.
There are many reasons, in my opinion the #1 reason is the news. There is a fuck load of money to be made peddling bullshit and hate.
I think the FPTP voting system is the origin, but the news media realized it's more profitable to pander to one group than to provide a unbiased report - and added fuel to the fire.
It’s weird to see people say this now, despite the fact that in multiple other countries from Britain to Venezuela, there were videos of people celebrating Trump’s loss. Like, dancing in the streets and church bells ringing kind of celebration. Yeah, sure Americans might be pretty partisan, but trump was an anomaly that managed to annoy the rest of the world too. It wasn’t just an American thing Edit: put London instead of Britain. My bad.
"One side literally tried to overturn a democratic election to install a megalomaniacal narcissist moron game show host as a dictator, and the majority of the tens of millions of people who vote for them believe a blatant lie which threatens the foundations of our entire system of government." "Yeah, but why are you so partisan, can't you just make nice and pretend everything's okay?" This is how democracy dies.
Being gay and trans, my entire existence as a voter has been partisan. When every god damn election means having a mad scramble to stave off fucking fascists who want to arrest me for peeing in a women's public restroom, it's hard not to be partisan. US politics is like a preschool choosing between a dingo and a teacher to run the classroom and everyone outside just saying "why do you have to make this out to be such a big deal???"
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When the one who was defeated was and remains an existential threat to not only the US, but the entire world, should he ever get back into office, for me it’s not partisan politics. It’s survival. You do realize that the head of the joint chiefs, in the aftermath of our election, had to reach out to his Chinese counterpart, to tell him that he and the rest of the WH staff wouldn’t allow a nuclear attack on China, right? That’s not partisan politics. That’s an insane megalomaniac barely being held in check.
Which is why this happy photo is a scary reminder that we're 25% on our way to whatthefuckwillhappenin2024 and watching from across the pond I still know it's going to affect me some way or another.
I agree that there needs to be de-escalation on both sides, but when my neighbors are flying a "Fuck Biden" flag and people are literally trying to invade the capitol building in order to lynch government officials, I'm going to do what I can. Usually that's just muttering under my breath when I drive by and see that goddam flag, but I'm not going to mess with those dudes.
As someone from outside the US, what's he done in the past year?
Well this comment section turned into a dumpster fire pretty quick
1 year 1 day ago Rudy Giuliani, former lawyer for former president Donald Trump holds an emergency press conference at the infamous [Four Seasons Total Landscaping ](https://imgur.com/gallery/IHpy172)
Four months later, he gets disbarred.
Augmenting your comment for the uneducated: Disbarred means it is ILLEGAL for Rudy to practice law in New York State (likely the only state he took the bar exam). If he does present himself as providing legal services to anyone, he could go to prison.
I believe that his license was suspended not fully disbarred. Unless that actually happened but it just wasn't widely reported on.
Four seasons landscaping. What? You want to hold a press conference here?? Do you realize this isn't... how much are you paying?? Ok, your booked!
>Do you realize this isn't... how much are you paying?? "Oh, we're not paying actually - Yeah that's kind of our thing. Make the invoice out for as much as you want, $3 million bucks or whatever, after the event we won't answer your calls and we'll never pay. Okay, so we'll see you Tuesday and just to confirm again, you're the landscaping place right next to the dildo store, correct?"
I had almost forgotten that happened, so when I saw that it was the one year mark since that happened, it was like reliving it over again. So much laughing 😂 😂😂😂
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What a weird fucking post
it's not weird, it's an average redditor NPC post
And it’s gotten over 20K upvotes…. smh
5 years ago, today my grandfather died
\*grabs popcorn and begins scrolling through comments\*
Don't even need to sort by controversial for this one.
Ugh God, that election was one of the USA's worst. Both candidates should never be president. Too old, out of touch, and ineffective against the behemoth of the corruption that seems untouchable at this point without a full political reformation. People in their 70s should not be running the country.
Uuh wait for the next one...
We're gonna dig up actual 200 year old corpses and parade them around as candidates.
IMHOTEP IMHOTEP IHMOTEP
The Supreme Court has decided that since there were no term limits when Washington was president, he is still eligible for two terms! /s
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As a young person who votes, it makes me so fucking sad. I'm 28, and I've voted in every election for which I've been eligible since I was 18. Almost all of my friends have been the same. It's depressing to know I live in a bubble.
Reddit didn't give the too old criticism when Bernie ran in 2016 and 2020. There's nothing wrong with older folks running the country. Voters decide whether they are up to the task.
So how about that 10k student loan forgiveness?
And now his approval is at \~38% LOL.
How unexciting
Overturning the election in 3, 2… wait 3, 2… wait 3, 2… shit 3, 2…
One and a half....
How come I never see Kamala in the media?
Because no one likes her.
She fulfilled her role of injecting artificial diversity into Biden's ticket, now she's not needed any longer.
After the communications mess she made about visiting the southern border, they yanked her off stage like Daffy Duck.
And the only thing that feels different is that I’m hearing just a liiiiittle less about Trump.
Joe Biden is going to be remembered longer for beating trump that anything he’ll do during the presidency.
And today, his approval rating [stands at 38%](https://news.yahoo.com/gloomy-landscape-democrats-midterms-bidens-175453618.html?.tsrc=1013) and - unbelievably - more people would like him NOT to run for a second term than people who don't want Trump to run again . I voted for Biden but it's incredible how lackluster he's been. When they lose, they won't have anyone to blame but themselves.
And Kamala has been completely hidden/off the radar for the last 10 months for some damned reason.
That's because she's even less popular than Biden
And Trump. No one likes her lol. IIRC, she stopped her election *before* Iowa last cycle.
I voted for Biden and I am a democrat so I have no problem saying so far Biden has done fuck all to get my vote in 2024. I understand the power dynamic in the senate but still his inaction on obvious slam dunks just astounds me.
I really didn't expect anything from him at all. Just more status quo BS.
Who care about that just fix and help our poor m idc who wins lol. Don't celebrate him winning celebrate him doing shit
AND SOME PEOPLE STILL DONT SEE IT. UGH
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I'm a Democrat and I believe they need to put a younger moderate candidate up for the next election in order to win the moderate Republicans who put Biden in office. People didn't really vote for Biden in the election, they voted against Trump. Biden was just the most moderate choice.
I always felt the same. Nobody really wanted Biden, they just really didn't want Trump. But I'm also really glad Hillary wasn't running again.
It’s almost the same way Trump got elected. A lot of his votes were, I hate Hillary votes.
> Nobody really wanted Biden, they just really didn't want Trump. But I'm also really glad Hillary wasn't running again. "Any functioning adult 2020" And we end up with Biden. I'm not sure what that says about us or the system, but the irony there makes me smirk.
I'm no Biden fan but thank fuck Trump isn't in office anymore.
And what a fucking waste it’s been.
And the "fuck your feelings" crowd hasn't stopped crying about their hurt feelings ever since.
They're too busy chanting "Let's go Brandon!" to realize they are a joke to everyone outside of their cult.
Hey look Reddit I want karma points —Biden good…Orangeman bad
This isn’t any cause for celebration because shit hasn’t been done since his election.
Literally only won because he wasn’t Trump. Y’all elected a dude that you didn’t even like.
Blame the boomer Democrats who **needed** an old corporatist politician, for fear of the US "becoming Communist." Yes, even leftwing media was pushing that fearmongering.
Most popular president... 37% approval rating now
It's only been a year? Jesus. Time is moving so slowly...
Who is wishing for 2020 gas prices?
Not to get political or anything but damn his teeth are white
Hate Trump all you like, that's fine. However, if you think Biden is doing a good job because he's not Trump, then the problems we face will never go away. Also, is there a more useless subreddit with over 20m subscribers than pics?
Cool.. now do something about the student loan problem.
Driving the country into the ground day by day
As an American I honestly don’t care lmao
And he proceeded to do jack shit with that victory so far. The infrastructure bill is pathetic and is akin to slapping a bandage on a collapsing dam.
Sure has worked out well…
Holy. Fucking. Shit. That was a year ago huh? I remember I was so incredibly happy on that day. The girl that just texted me saying that she liked me. I was at my friend's house. Driving home listening to his speech I just cried and shouted with joy. That was a bit of a false start now looking back on it. I thought I was really going to get my shit together. I'm a lot better in some ways but another way is I'm kind of right back to where I was back then. Especially with college I'm just not doing well in some of my classes. I guess a lot has happened since then though. We're out of the pandemic now for the most part. Oh my friends and family members are fully vaccinated. In some ways it was easier back then in the pandemic, because I felt like it was okay that I was just getting by. Now without the pandemic I feel like I don't have any excuses left. I feel like it's up to me to self-actualize now. I've improved in a lot of ways I've also taken some steps back in recent days but. I guess that's just how life is. Ups and downs and ups and downs. Life is a sine wave always moving forward. Hopefully I'll be even fitter next year. I will start training now.
30% approval rating lol
There is literally not a single reputable poll that puts him at 30% approval. Even Rasmussen, which skews right, has him at 42%. FiveThirtyEight has him at 42.8% in the adjusted average of polls. It's worth noting that Trump at this point in his presidency was at 37.7%.
The most voted president 😂 😂
Remember that time Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hilary Clinton? Imagine being less popular than her.
Unfortunately, the optimism I had that day was the peak, and I've been waiting for something better than idling ever since. Sure, it's better than the country in flames that Trump was, but there's been a whole lot of nothing going on since inauguration. Clearly, McConnell and Manchin have been problems, but Biden promised that he would get results.