Harris-Walz / Dems

CoffeeHorse

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The Republican party has been breaking up and re-coalescing. The party of Reagan is dead, and the party of Bush became MSNBC hosts. Meanwhile Reagen era Democrats are currently running the party, and they're still trying strategies to defeat Reagan. They can't seem to land a punch because they're punching at ghosts.
 

Pocket

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And when they do get into power, they have no agenda beyond "sit on my ass watching the people continue to suffer and occasionally remind them how much worse it could be if we let the other guys win."

This is exactly the kind of scenario that the Founding Fathers pictured leading to another revolution, but it won't because multiple generations have instilled in half the country the idea that fighting back in self defense makes you no better than the bad guys.
 

CoffeeHorse

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I know why Schumer folded on that funding bill without even asking for anything. He couldn't think of anything he wanted. He's been in congress since 1981! and he's out of ideas.
 

The Mighty Mollusk

Scream all you like, 'cause we're all mad here
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I'd phrase the first one differently, but then again, the ring wingers will rephrase it that way anyway to vilify it.
 

Rhinox

too old for this
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There is no way to spin that ball. The right wing doesn't care to listen and those educated already understand. Abortion is an issue where minds are already made up and there is no room on either side for movement. hug it.

Medicare for all.
Living Wages
A complete reversal of personhood for corporations. No ******* company should have as much or more rights than a goddamn human being.
 

CoffeeHorse

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Don't elect me when I run. I must be stopped.

But as dictator for a day, I would concentrate all my fire on the news media, because I can't think of a single issue in my lifetime that they don't deliberately make worse for their entertainment and profit. Removing that cancer wouldn't fix everything at once, but it would make everything else less broken and less difficult to begin fixing.
 

Pocket

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My policies: Medicare for all, roll Social Security tax into regular income tax because "You're investing in your own retirement" has always been a lie and is just an excuse to tax the poor more, restructure rates so that anyone under $80K doesn't pay anything and doesn't even have to file (if this doesn't get the middle class to vote for me, nothing will), raise rates on everyone else to compensate (ramping up to a maximum of 90% just like the good old days), ban companies from selling customer data, invest heavily in high-speed rail and nuclear power, make mail-in ballots mandatory on a national level, make ranked-choice ballots mandatory on a national level, and free rooftop solar panels and ground-source heat pumps for all residents whose properties support it. That last one is less of a green-energy initiative (since the nuclear power should more than take care of that) and more of a way to win over middle-class suburban homeowners.

EDIT: Oh, and require Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and whatever other non-state territories are out there to vote for either statehood or independence, and honor their decision immediately with all it implies. Territorial status was only ever meant to be a temporary measure; I think the ghosts of the Founding Fathers would back me up on this even if they would wince at nearly everything else I just said.
 
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CoffeeHorse

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This could work. Apparently Pocket has the policy outcomes part of the platform handled. I'm more focused on fixing the processes.

Here's a simple one for whatever terrified remnants of the news media still want to operate during my reign. You don't get to use 20 year old portraits of politicians anymore. Find a current picture. I want to see if incumbents fare as well as usual in the next election.
 

Ironbite4

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First thing I'd do as President? Arrest the Trump Crime Family. All of them. Every single one who every worked for Trump in any capacity would be targeted and arrested. Then, begin the Purge.

Ironbite-then, after the smoke clears, look at Kavanaugh and point at him like he's the Wrestlemania Sign.
 

Ironbite4

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Hogg's challenging the old guard and James Carville wants to sue him out of existence.

Ironbite-me thinks the corporate masters are feeling the reigns are slipping.
 

Paladin

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hard to pick a Democrat in this state more disappointing than Slotkin but Whitmer's moving up the list fast.
 

Fullstrength Motleypuss

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If that fits your definition of a "hug" then I'm just going to excuse myself before I say something to get banned for.
 


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