• girsaysdoom
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    10 months ago

    Can you explain this line of thinking? I’ve heard this before but it doesn’t line up for me.

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      10 months ago

      Democrats threw tens of millions of dollars to a “Pro-Trump” Dem Senate candidate in Tennessee. Mayor Adams, up in NYC, has echoed a host of the Trump “immigrant invasion” talking points, when confronted with bus-loads of women and children kidnapped and displaced by governors’ Abbot and DeSantis.

      Our AG is once again refusing to close the torture camp in Gitmo, while Anthony Blinken runs around the Middle East peddling advanced weapons systems to extremist governments in Saudi Arabia and Nigeria and India.

      Even if Biden wins in '24, its very likely he’ll have a GOP House and Senate to deal with. How many concessions will a guy who spent his entire career advocating Bipartisanship make to a Republican Party that’s packed to the brim with Trump wanna-bes?

      There is a very real possibility that Biden will give us a new round of ranking bureaucrats and judges who are right in line with Donald Trump, simply because that’s what the GOP Congressional majority demands of him.

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        10 months ago

        I think that argument is pretty defeatist.

        You realistically have 3 choices when it comes to voting at this point. You can vote for a fascist, vote for a bipartisan incumbent, or basically don’t vote. Btw, the fascist is under a ton of stress from numerous ongoing civil and criminal lawsuits and presidency is pretty much their last stand.

        If Trump doesn’t win this year, do you really think Republicans would be able to work together under a power vacuum that would create? I think that a good amount of Republicans are already sick of Trump and can’t leave the cult because they’re the minority, but if he’s not elected this year I think that might change.

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          You can vote for a fascist, vote for a bipartisan incumbent

          If you’re being bipartisan with fascism…

          the fascist is under a ton of stress from numerous ongoing civil and criminal lawsuits and presidency is pretty much their last stand

          The problem with this theory is that Trump’s not a unique or singular point. If he drops dead of a heart attack tomorrow, Americans won’t magically wake up from a fascist slumber. They’ll just go hunting for the next banner waver. That guy isn’t going to have all the legal baggage or the decades of antipathy built up against him that Trump’s got.

          The next American Fascist leader is going to be smoother and more polished than this bumbling horny coke head. He’s going to bill himself as Bipartisan, too. And I suspect quite a few liberals are going to gobble him up in no small part because democrats like Biden gave them nothing worth supporting.