If you read it Biden’s appointed 214 so far, if he gets all 244 then he’s appointed more than Trump. Clearly this isn’t a sudden rush, it’s a final push to fix and protect as much as possible as he’s been doing for 4 years

Oh please let Trump’s first dictatorial move be to strip Elon of his wealth. We’re all going to suffer some shit but let at least one oligarch stuffer too

To be fair there are a ton of the gravy seals, but you’re absolutely right that there is also smaller but much, much more dangerous core

Absolutely agree with you but as xmunk said, Sinema will do her dumb curtsy thing and bam, now trump gets another supreme court pick on day 1 because the Dems really only have 49 seats for preserving democracy

This is from 2018, when Trump was in charge.

Sorry, deleted my comment because I realized the bands I was thinking of weren’t really punk necessarily, though they are counterculture. I really like Speedy Ortiz–they’ve toured with some big names like Liz Phair, and recently did a Tiny Desk concert. A few months ago i saw them live and a band called Suzie True opened, which is a little introspective about problems still but I think has a ton of potential to write some banger callout /protest songs and I’ve really enjoy listening to them.

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Not that I agree with this but on some level it could be construed as self-preservation after the hunting parties in western NC

I for sure think that the DNC aren’t to blame in the same way that a firefighter who uses a garden hose to try to put out a burning house isn’t responsible for the smoking ruins when there are other people throwing molotovs through the windows, slashing the tires of the firetrucks, and getting the neighbors to throw bricks at the firefighters.

That being said, if my house was on fire and it was clear that I couldn’t get the active vandals to stop despite them burning themselves in the process, I think it’s justified to work on replacing or training the firefighters to be more competent and/or rutheless with dealing with the threat.

Make one then coward

Be billionaire and outbid Netanyahu

Some of it is 100% misogyny, I think some of it is also that 4 years ago the country was literally on fire in a lot of places and Trump was obviously to blame for a lot of it, so it didn’t matter so much to apathetic voters if Biden’s messaging was weak. Kamala may have won then too, though misogyny would have made it closer. Now the country is much more stable but still not great, but Democrats are in charge and therefore obviously to blame, so people who largely haven’t been affected negatively by the Republicans (e.g. men, especially non-desperately-poor white men), are apathetic again

Most countries have deep economic ties to most wealthy countries, we’re in a global economy. Even subsistence farmers in subsaharan Africa buy more of their seeds than you can imagine from Chinese companies that do the bulk of their R&D in the US and western Europe, if US policy becomes extremely isolationist that will affect them.

Also, the US is one of the biggest climate emitors, if that ramps up instead of decreasing the whole world will feel that too.

Best of luck!

I think they meant the moral failure rather than the election failure fwiw

I don’t understand how the rhetoric this time didn’t hurt him there tbh, he didn’t change it really

They hang out here because America is currently one of/the best wealth engines on the planet and they can afford to avoid the shit parts. Once either of those stop they’ll go somewhere else that’s nicer

There is some panicking prompted by the horrible things he’s promised to do but probably can’t, but:

-He got Roe v. Wade overturned, stripping rights from Americans while also being responsible for a 3% increase in infant mortality in the US, the first significant increase in decades

-about as many people died of COVID as voted for Jill Stein, and while Trump isn’t responsible for all their deaths he significantly worsened the problem.

So I’d say beyond shit

Not in a lot of states they weren’t

I don’t agree that she had no platform other than I’m not Trump, but she certainly shifted right as the race went on and lost more and more support as she did it

I think Harris played it better than anyone had so far with handling Trump. I think her fatal mistep was believing there were hordes of rightwing never trumpers who could be swayed. She had so much momentum when she first stepped in and people thought she’d be further left than Biden, she pivoted further right than him and probably got less votes. Being a POC woman certainly didn’t help either.