• @[email protected]
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    133 months ago

    Your feelings don’t matter.

    Trump has a 43% favorable rating, and there’s a good chance he could win in November.

    Even after the Nazis had taken Paris, there were French monarchists who felt they were too good to unite with the Communists in the Resistance.

    When the Dems have an unbreakable, veto proof majority in Congress and the Senate, and the White House, then we can start to pick and choose.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      63 months ago

      When the Dems have an unbreakable, veto proof majority in Congress and the Senate, and the White House

      Create an unbreakable veto-proof majority of Romney Staffers and you’re going to end up with an unbreakable veto-proof policy written by Romney Staffers.

      • @[email protected]
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        -13 months ago

        I haven’t seen Harris take a step backwards yet. The Romney folks are accepting her as she is.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          33 months ago

          I haven’t seen Harris take a step backwards yet.

          She’s hostile to immigration. She’s friendly with corporate finance and the California tech sector. She threw away her platforms on universal health care, higher minimum wage, and educational debt forgiveness to get the VP slot. She’s a zealous supporter of the MIC and has yet to find a war she doesn’t like. Her brother-in-law is a chief executive at Uber, ffs.

          Why would she need to take a step backwards to meet Mitt Romney? They’re joined at the hip.

          • @[email protected]
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            -13 months ago

            BoTH SideS aRe THe SamE!

            Don’t vote at all until we get the perfect candidate!! Surely sitting on the sidelines will push the Dems to the Left!!

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              BoTH SideS aRe THe SamE!

              The Romney wing of the Republican Party has huge overlap with the Biden wing of the Democratic Party.

              • @[email protected]
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                13 months ago

                Something like 2% of the population thinks that Gaza is a big problem for America.

                43% of the population thinks Donald Trump would be a good President.

                Stop acting like you’re living in a country on the verge of a Socialist revolution.

                Obama barely got the ACA passed when he had a veto proof majority.

                I hate to be the one who has to explain this to you.

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                  Something like 2% of the population thinks that Gaza is a big problem for America.

                  Not actually true. You’ll see a 3-5% swing in the polls based on how closely Republicans and Democrats are aligned on supporting the Israeli genocide.

                  Stop acting like you’re living in a country on the verge of a Socialist revolution.

                  When you listen to Trump talk, a big part of his platform is appealing to the (whites only) democratic socialism common to the 50s and 60s. When Kamala panders to her base, she talks about cutting the private cost of health care and education. I’m not sure where you got the idea of a pending Socialist Revolution. But socialist policy is consistently appealing across large majorities of the American voting base.

                  Younger people want to enroll in Medicare sooner. Older people love Social Security. Parents clamor for public education. Students flock to public universities and scramble over one another for public educational grants. The whole east coast loves Amtrak, particularly when compared to prospect of being crammed aboard some Boeing To Die sardine can. People generally like having a post office and a garbage collection service.

                  Obama barely got the ACA passed when he had a veto proof majority.

                  Because the insurance lobbyists in the US Senate worked overtime to kill it. Not because people hated the idea of increased Medicaid enrollment.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    13 months ago

                    Nothing you wrote disproves my main point.

                    Harris is as good as we’re going to get, and it’s by no means assured that she’ll win.