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wonko the sane?

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Gaza won't even be in the news by christmas, never mind the election. And why would he flip on supporting israel?
 

Spin-Out

i cant take it anymore im at my limit
Citizen
when i saw the headline i wanted to tie a cinderblock to my neck and drown myself in the nearby river, but after reading further, a lot of this poll sounds sus as hug tbh. biden having only a single percentage point lead among young voters, democrats saying they'd rather vote for trump over biden, and biden bleeding out POC voters is like... cripes. none of this makes any goddamn sense, especially in frigging michigan, a state where iirc the dems have the governorship and a majority in the state congress and senate. and that's not even getting into nevada or pennsylvania. and ohio's not even a swing state anymore; it's just Bootleg Florida.

i expect things are gonna improve for biden when the campaign really starts and he gets to hammer trump on abortion, fascism and racial politics. those are winning issues.
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
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i expect things are gonna improve for biden when the campaign really starts and he gets to hammer trump on abortion, fascism and racial politics. those are winning issues.
I admittedly didn't pay any real attention to the 2020 campaigns, so I have to ask the rest of you: Did he do that then? Somehow Biden strikes me as too much of a cuddly grandpa to get that confrontational. Like the sort of person too polite to use the "F" word even if his opponent goosestepped into the room wearing a Hugo Boss original and gave a Roman salute to the audience.

when i saw the headline i wanted to tie a cinderblock to my neck and drown myself in the nearby river
What I actually want to say in response to this would 100% get me banned, so instead I'll remind you that giving the bad people exactly what they want is never the solution, no matter how hopeless things get.
 

wonko the sane?

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Biden is not directly confrontational... but dark brandon is a thing, and using humour to shame and call out the fuckwits on the otherside... well, he does that. And does it well.
 

The Mighty Mollusk

Scream all you like, 'cause we're all mad here
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Not that said fuckwits have the capacity to be ashamed of anything they're doing, but at least the rest of us can get a laugh out of it.
 

Spin-Out

i cant take it anymore im at my limit
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Like the sort of person too polite to use the "F" word even if his opponent goosestepped into the room wearing a Hugo Boss original and gave a Roman salute to the audience.
dark brandon literally gave a speech last year when he used the "f" word for MAGAts
 

DefaultOption

Sourball
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For a guy who calls himself a Democrat, Manchin sure was singing the economic song from the 1990 edition of the Republican hymnal.

It's pretty rich for the guy who was the sole reason we couldn't get the increased child tax credit extended to now be claiming that the "Democrat machine" doesn't want to help people with economic issues.
 

MrBlud

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hug him and his neoliberal bullshit.

Yeah, any Republican stooge WV elects won’t vote with Democrats 100% of the time (as compared to Manchin’s 20% or so) but that also means he won’t be there to kneecap getting rid of the filibuster if Democrats get 60 seats in the Senate.
 

DefaultOption

Sourball
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Wouldn't make any real difference in this day and age. The fairness doctrine only applied to publicly-licensed over-the-air broadcasters, and the vast majority of the right-wing media machine is on cable/satellite or online, two places it wouldn't've applied.
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
Citizen
Yeah, and the Big Three are pretty reasonably moderate even without being forced. Now, "local news" broadcasts on Sinclair-owned stations on the other hand...
 

Ungnome

Grand Empress of the Empire of One Square Foot.
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Which is also a result of deregulation. It used to be that one company wasn't allowed to own multiple stations in a single market(heck, it was actually a plot point in UHF). That ended in 2003, I believe. Now one company can own up to three in a single market and most markets don't really have more than three, especially if you don't count the local PBS affiliate. Heck, locally the same company has the Fox, CBS and NBC affiliates, thankfully it's not Sinclair, though.
 

Pale Rider

...and Hell followed with him.
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Spin-Out

i cant take it anymore im at my limit
Citizen
what sucks about having an entire party of unfettered, psychopathic Christofascists on one side and a party of mostly milquetoast, gutless neolibs on the other is that the fascists never compromise on anything, but will force the neolibs to compromise to their demands by holding an entire country hostage. what sucks even more is that since what the GQP is doing here is technically not illegal, the dems can't just call in snipers to end the literal hostage situation.

also, establishment democrats genuinely can't comprehend the fact that the GQP are all putin bootlickers by now who actively want him to genocide Ukraine out of existence, and will most likely just move the goalposts if the dems cave to their terms to ensure that more people die.
 
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wonko the sane?

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What really terrifies me about the republicans right now is that they're functionally still in the "precedent" phase... so what is it that they want to do that putin has to win in ukraine for them to justify?
 


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