That is also what happens when people only show up for Presidential elections. It’s important to participate in ALL elections, even primaries… maybe especially primaries. You might get a candidate who is closer to your ideal.
But when you don’t show up when decisions are actually made…
Hi yes remind me again when it was that we came together and democratically selected Kamala Harris as the nominee?
I just can’t with these people. None so blind as those who will not see
That’s how you activate ultra stealth mode
Many such cases 
I can’t believe she keeps trotting the “lethal military” thing out as an applause line and no one has stopped and asked “Wait, want to elaborate on what you mean by that?”
We’re just in all mask off all the time mode and that is terrifying.
Heck Cattle
Comrades, there can be only one solution to this threat. We must create the Heck Bear.
Translation: Mind if we obfuscate the government’s eventual refusal to do anything about restoring power?
“We’ve done it! We’ve done it, Igor! We’ve created the perfect utility monster! Soon it will be ethical… for everyone else to suffer! Mwahahahaha!”
It looks like in 2020 things settled on 60/40 Biden/Trump by October, but in 2016 they were roughly 80/20 Clinton/Trump and that’s as far back as they go so it’s not like we have much of a track record here.
If Harris loses PA and MI, she’s definitely cooked, so given that those states are polling pretty thin margins, 50/50 doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Watching Westerners tie themselves into pretzels to attribute the acceleration of solar installation to anything other than the fact that China massively dropped the price of new panels would be hilarious if it weren’t so enraging.
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I think the American bourg isn’t dumb enough to think war with China would end well and hasn’t figured out an exit strategy yet, but the problem is the military is getting increasingly stuffed with members of the least reality-tethered Christian subclades. Tension between the financier class and military’s Dominionist moiety builds until one of two things happens: the loonies get one of theirs into the top brass and we get a bloodless coup when the president voluntarily turns the reins over to the military, or capital’s contradictions build until the US finally implodes (likely because its fragile food production system collides badly with our increasingly volatile global weather patterns and causes another Dust Bowl) and we end up Mad-Maxing it while the rest of the world tries to keep us contained (option #5 fully on the table here). Regional conflicts continue to boil over and cause chaos in Eurasia in the meantime but nothing progresses to the point where we’re fully embroiled in a world war.
Turns out there was a mix-up at the bomb warehouse and boy does the IDF have egg on its face now.
Good strategy starts with a hard-nosed acceptance of reality, as Richard Rumelt points out, and US domestic climate policies — I’ve read, assessed, and published regarding most of them — don’t start with reality, they start with mythology and aspirations. They are feel-good documents. Only starting based in reality leads to policies and action plans that will actually lead to positive outcomes.
Can you describe the symptoms of Anti-USian Tumescence Syndrome for me? Need to see if I missed any.
Hope for a ceasefire (LOL)
Assuming Iran was being truthful about the broken ceasefire promise (and I’m not sure what motivation they’d have to lie about it unless it looks worse if they took a long time to respond due to logistical hurdles or something), that implies that the Biden admin still had a chance to recover from Trump ripping up the nuclear agreement and choose not to take it because endless rivers of blood were a higher priority. Really makes you think.
Let’s say candidate one said “if I win I’ll kill 3 babies,” and candidate two said “if I win I’ll only kill 1 baby”. Then you cast a protest vote for candidate three because “they’re both bad.”
The problem is, that means you were willing to risk the deaths of 2 extra babies to prove your point, which means you’re actually a worse person than candidate two.
More will suffer with Trump in charge. So voting third party is just you using others’ pain to prove your own point.
They’re doing the murdering babies analogy unprompted now.
Link to comment just in case you think I’m making it up.
Here’s what it says on her campaign website (ctrl+f “universal” = “no results found”):
As Attorney General of California, Kamala Harris took on insurance companies and Big Pharma and got them to lower prices. As a Senator, she fought Donald Trump’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Vice President Harris will make affordable health care a right, not a privilege by expanding and strengthening the Affordable Care Act and making permanent the Biden-Harris tax credit enhancements that are lowering health care premiums by an average of about $800 a year for millions of Americans. She’ll build on the Biden-Harris Administration’s successes in bringing down the cost of lifesaving prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries by extending the $35 cap on insulin and $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket spending for seniors to all Americans. Her tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act gave Medicare the power to go toe to toe with Big Pharma and negotiate lower drug prices. As President, she’ll accelerate the negotiations to cover more drugs and lower prices for Americans. As Vice President, she also announced that medical debt will be removed from credit reports, and helped cancel $7 billion of medical debt for 3 million Americans. As President, she’ll work with states to cancel medical debt for even more Americans.
And Vice President Harris has led the Administration’s efforts to combat maternal mortality. Women nationwide are dying from childbirth at higher rates than in any other developed nation. The Vice President called on states to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from two months to twelve: today, 46 states do so — up from just three near the Administration’s start.
Don’t worry, the current Democratic presidential campaign is continuing its strides toward universal healthcare by…
*drumroll*
…dropping it from their campaign platform.
It’s really fun to see them calling us hysterical for pointing out the actual genocide happening abroad while they lose their shit over fictional future genocides happening at home.
Only that which affects me matters, which is why my nightmares are real and the Palestinians are fake.