the demokkkrats are going to be destrroyed in 2024 (inshallah)

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FistEnergy: Nov 3, 2000; DAY CREW: WORKING HARD; Fun Shoe

ex post facho posted:

https://twitter.com/justinsink/stat...ingawful.com%2F

just the weakest poo poo on planet earth

:sad:

# ? Jan 21, 2022 04:40

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# ? May 11, 2024 17:49

ram dass in hell: Dec 29, 2019

Morbus posted:

holy poo poo lol

# ? Jan 21, 2022 05:24

Weka: May 5, 2019; That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

FistEnergy posted:

just the weakest poo poo on planet earth

Actually, it mean America is the greatest. That's like 50 more presidents than the next country.

# ? Jan 21, 2022 05:32

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

ex post facho posted:

https://twitter.com/justinsink/stat...ingawful.com%2F

# ? Jan 21, 2022 05:34

cenotaph: Mar 2, 2013

It's extremely funny that Kamala accused that interviewer of sounding like a right wing conspiracy theorist because she didn't understand his question about if Biden or Manchin were the president and now Biden's just going around using it as a talking point.

# ? Jan 21, 2022 06:12

Ash1138: Sep 29, 2001; Get up, chief. We're just gettin' started.

ex post facho posted:

https://twitter.com/justinsink/stat...ingawful.com%2F

wow, president bernie!

# ? Jan 21, 2022 06:14

platzapS: Aug 4, 2007

i think biden can turn this around if he gives a really good State of the Union

# ? Jan 21, 2022 07:20

Ziggy Starfucker: Jun 1, 2011; Pillbug

why can't we all be presidents?

# ? Jan 21, 2022 07:20

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Ziggy Starfucker posted:

why can't we all be presidents?

every worker a member of the board

# ? Jan 21, 2022 07:22

tangy yet delightful: Sep 13, 2005

ex post facho posted:

https://twitter.com/justinsink/stat...ingawful.com%2F

Biden's 95 Proposals hammered upon the door of :911:

# ? Jan 21, 2022 08:28

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

ex post facho posted:

Wow! 51 presidents!

just as the drunk misogynistic racist founders intended

# ? Jan 21, 2022 11:46

Kazzah: Jul 15, 2011; Formerly known as
Krazyface; Hair Elf

the only bbb we're getting... is america's future credit rating!

# ? Jan 21, 2022 12:13

Weka: May 5, 2019; That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Stereotype posted:

just as the drunk misogynistic racist founders intended

Hey now that's not entirely accurate. You forgot genocidal.

# ? Jan 21, 2022 12:22

ELTON JOHN: Feb 17, 2014

Weka posted:

Hey now that's not entirely accurate. You forgot genocidal.

and syphilitic

# ? Jan 21, 2022 13:12

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

platzapS posted:

i think biden can turn this around if he gives a really good State of the Union

The last big speech was a good example why they locked him away for most of the primary

# ? Jan 21, 2022 14:11

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

Astra Taylor, a writer I like, wrote an article about how and why the Democrats are halfway through the process of getting destroyed in 2022:

quote:

If the Democrats don�t shape up, Biden�s presidency will lead to a Trumpian sequel
Astra Taylor

The president has failed to capitalise on progressive sentiment: his party needs to stand up for the working class

How should one feel about the first year of the Biden presidency?

I can�t really say I�m disappointed, since I didn�t have high hopes going into it. But I do feel dread. This last year has felt a bit like being trapped in a nail-biting intermission between two horror films. The opening instalment consisted of Donald Trump�s first four years in office � it ended with the cliffhanger of a deadly plague and a surreal, poorly executed, but still terrifying ransacking of the Capitol. The sequel practically writes itself, as the man ascends to power a second time, even more emboldened and determined to hold on to power.

Of course, the script is not yet set in stone. If regular people in the US get organised, we can help push the political class toward a different ending. But to do this effectively, we need to tell a story that begins earlier. To continue with the bad movie metaphors, the prequels are what got us into this mess.

For decades, senior Democrats tacked rightward, helping to create the social conditions that Trump and his cronies took advantage of to propel themselves to the White House. Instead of rolling back Reaganism and standing up to a swiftly radicalising conservative base, the party elite helped implement and further entrench an undemocratic, corporate agenda. Democratic functionaries slashed welfare, invested in the military and policing, deregulated the financial sector, increased fossil fuel production and lobbied for disastrous international trade deals.

The people who did this are Biden�s natural milieu � and they want Americans to believe their problems began in 2016. Establishment Democrats are desperate to paint Donald Trump and the Covid-19 pandemic as aberrations to an otherwise agreeable status quo. Thus a speedy �return to normal� is all it will take to cure what ails us.

The problem, however, is that �normal� was a crisis.

The political scientist Corey Robin recently pointed out a core paradox of the Biden administration. On the one hand, Biden has some important accomplishments under his belt: two enormous spending bills and crucial federal appointments, including dozens of judges. But, as Robin notes, they are tainted by an awareness of their fundamental inadequacy. These perilous times require more than generous spending bills and staffing tweaks � Americans need to restructure the economy, stabilise the environment and democratise the political system, before it�s too late.

Though never the progressive candidate, Biden briefly appeared to be willing to break with tradition and embrace a bolder approach. �When President Biden took office, he promised to make ending poverty a theory of change,� Shailly Barnes, policy director at the anti-poverty group, Poor People�s Campaign, told me. �While we saw glimmers of what that might have been, we have yet to see this implemented in practice. The 140 million people who are poor or one emergency away from economic ruin � need more than short-term or temporary assistance programmes.�

Consider one area I know well: the fight for student debt cancellation. Short-term assistance is all these borrowers have received, despite Biden�s promise of mass relief. Student debt cancellation is an interesting litmus test for the administration. While other proposals he campaigned on � such as raising the minimum wage and securing voting rights � require legislation to pass, the president has the power to cancel all federal student loans with a single signature.

But instead of picking up the pen, the president has balked and backtracked, misleadingly focusing on the few Ivy League graduates who would benefit from write-offs. At the end of last year, his administration publicly declared that turning student loan payments back on was a high priority for the administration. Why? A concern about optics: his advisers worry that further relief programmes would undercut messaging about the economy�s good health. Given this intransigence, activists like myself have had to fight the White House tooth and nail just to get it to extend the student loan payment pause to 1 May.

Here, the folly of Biden�s first year is on full display. Student debt cancellation would be a win for the American people and the administration. The more loans are cancelled, the more the economy is boosted and the more the racial wealth gap narrows. It is also incredibly popular with young voters, Black voters, and even Republicans. Given that it is a midterm year, delivering on this promise should be a no-brainer. Reform of the criminal punishment system is another area where progress has stalled, despite Biden having come to power after a wave of historic racial justice protests.

Members of the dominant, corporate wing of the Democratic party like to marginalise progressives and activists while presenting themselves as savvy and responsible realists. This strategy is both insulting and absurd: there�s nothing naive or irresponsible about wanting a decent and equitable society where people aren�t buried in unpayable debt and don�t have to live in fear of the police.

But the strategy is also self-defeating. �They think they are pissing on the left, but what they are really doing is failing to fight visibly [and] vocally for millions of everyday working people,� rural Pennsylvania organiser and author Jonathan Smucker told me. �There is no world in which that is good politics.�

The Biden administration has instead been engaged in a dispiriting saga of insider negotiations � negotiations that make an already restive public feel even more frustrated and abandoned.

Where the build back better bill is concerned, the president should have instructed his allies in Congress to load it up with extra investment that would mollify opposition and make it harder for his party�s obstructionists, like Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, to hold it hostage. As the organiser Will Lawrence, a co-founder of the youth-led environmental justice-focused Sunrise Movement, put it on Twitter: include a �buyout of coal industry shareholders, and a generous lifetime pension for every miner in West Virginia. Blanket the airwaves promoting it for two weeks in West Virginia. Then put it to a vote and dare Manchin to vote against it.�

If you are going to lose because a coal-baron senator is determined to derail your entire agenda and doom millions to deepening poverty and climate chaos, you may as well go down with a real fight. This fight should clarify for the public where the real problem is � not in culture war distractions, but the corruption of our political system by corporate interests � and it would make clear that the Democrats were firmly on their side.

President Biden�s first year has ultimately demoralised people, while also providing an opportunity for Republicans to appear poised to seize power. Last spring, a strategic memo by Representative Jim Banks, leader of the largest bloc of House conservatives, was leaked: �URGENT: Cementing GOP as Working-Class party.� It laid out one plot for the second feature of the horror film I keep imagining. Of course, reactionaries will never actually defend working people. But they�re busy crafting a deceptive and destructive script. And if the current administration doesn�t act, we�ll all be watching it soon.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/21/democrats-shape-up-bidens-presidency-trumpian-sequel

# ? Jan 21, 2022 14:46

really queer Christmas: Apr 22, 2014

ex post facho posted:

Wow! 51 presidents!

It's just like America to be more bombastic than Rome and think 4 emperors is not enough.

# ? Jan 21, 2022 14:54

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

really queer Christmas posted:

It's just like America to be more bombastic than Rome and think 4 emperors is not enough.

The modern US is like being Rome except due to institutional rot doesn't have the chance of producing hardasses like Vespanian or Aurelian to unfuck everything.

# ? Jan 21, 2022 14:56

spacemang_spliff: Nov 29, 2014; wide pickle

if there's 50 presidents why did it matter if trump won or not

# ? Jan 21, 2022 15:22

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

spacemang_spliff posted:

if there's 50 presidents why did it matter if trump won or not

if even one president is a fascist it can spread through the rest of the litter like wildfire

# ? Jan 21, 2022 15:23

Fitzy Fitz: May 14, 2005

vyelkin posted:

Astra Taylor, a writer I like, wrote an article about how and why the Democrats are halfway through the process of getting destroyed in 2022:

yep, they're gonna get destroyed

# ? Jan 21, 2022 16:12

Crowsbeak: Oct 9, 2012; by Azathoth; Lipstick Apathy

Fitzy Fitz posted:

yep, they're gonna get destroyed

And they should. They despise the working class utterly.

# ? Jan 21, 2022 16:16

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

etalian posted:

The last big speech was a good example why they locked him away for most of the primary

the part where he got mad and threatened to stay on stage for 2 more hours was funny

# ? Jan 21, 2022 16:24

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

spacemang_spliff posted:

if there's 50 presidents why did it matter if trump won or not

gee maybe biden is a liar who keeps giving up the game because his brain is an unraveled yarn ball

"vote for me, i know how to bipartisan and get congress together to get it done" vs "theres nothing i can do jack"

# ? Jan 21, 2022 16:48

ex post facho: Oct 25, 2007

https://twitter.com/therecount/stat...ingawful.com%2F

# ? Jan 21, 2022 19:59

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

ex post facho posted:

https://twitter.com/therecount/stat...ingawful.com%2F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxk9PW83VCY

# ? Jan 21, 2022 20:03

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

in a lot of companies when you put your 2 weeks notice in, for security reasons they immediately disable your laptop, say thank you for your service, and immediately walk you out of the building and you get paid out for those last 2 weeks

since the dems just put their notice in can we do that?

# ? Jan 21, 2022 20:09

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Kazzah posted:

the only bbb we're getting... is america's future credit rating!

lmao

# ? Jan 21, 2022 20:12

ex post facho: Oct 25, 2007

https://twitter.com/politico/status...ingawful.com%2F

# ? Jan 21, 2022 20:45

ex post facho: Oct 25, 2007

The tent is too drat big

# ? Jan 21, 2022 20:46

hailthefish: Oct 24, 2010

one big circus tent for a party of clowns

# ? Jan 21, 2022 20:54

Nothus: Feb 22, 2001; Buglord

# ? Jan 21, 2022 21:04

Best Friends: Nov 4, 2011

ex post facho posted:

The tent is too drat big

1) vote blue no matter who

2) you think blue should mean literally anything as far as coherent policy and social preferences?? wtf, mods???

# ? Jan 21, 2022 21:09

Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

I wonder if I could just straight up convince people to not vote. I literally don�t care if republicans win. in fact I want them to crush the democrats into literal paste so that there�s no remnants. people been going �UGH accelerationism is so naive and selfish!� but like. They�ve proven that what I do has zero say on anything so I might as well revel in it so we can get on with it and stop this boring rear end stagnation.

# ? Jan 21, 2022 21:12

Rexicon1: Oct 9, 2007; A Shameful Path Led You Here

what I�m sayin is the Dems are hosed and I wanna be ground floor

# ? Jan 21, 2022 21:13

mastershakeman: Oct 28, 2008; by vyelkin

Jonny 290 posted:

in a lot of companies when you put your 2 weeks notice in, for security reasons they immediately disable your laptop, say thank you for your service, and immediately walk you out of the building and you get paid out for those last 2 weeks

since the dems just put their notice in can we do that?

You don't get paid

# ? Jan 21, 2022 21:16

Facehammer: Mar 11, 2008

Mind_Taker posted:

https://twitter.com/polltrackerusa/status/1484234913792643078?s=21

538 gives them an A- rating as a pollster with only a +1.3 R bent.

god drat the democrats are going to get destroyed, absolutely wrecked, thoroughly obliterated in 2022

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

# ? Jan 21, 2022 21:22

Gene Hackman Fan: Dec 27, 2002; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

poo poo FOR THE SHITPANTS, BRANDON

# ? Jan 21, 2022 21:51

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

lot of missingnos here

https://twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA/status/1484292367494561794?s=20

# ? Jan 21, 2022 21:53

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# ? May 11, 2024 17:49

Business Gorillas: Mar 11, 2009

Rexicon1 posted:

I wonder if I could just straight up convince people to not vote. I literally don’t care if republicans win. in fact I want them to crush the democrats into literal paste so that there’s no remnants. people been going “UGH accelerationism is so naive and selfish!” but like. They’ve proven that what I do has zero say on anything so I might as well revel in it so we can get on with it and stop this boring rear end stagnation.

Was having a chat with my brother who said "I'm an accelerationist because we're accelerating anyways, so I might as well see what happens"

# ? Jan 21, 2022 22:21

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