• Lemming6969@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The democrats don’t have the balls to do anything even if they had all of congress and the presidency. The democrats have been shown what is permissible, and they don’t have the spine to do what is necessary.

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      7 days ago

      former dem presidents haven’t broken the norms because they were afraid of setting a precedent.

      I think that’s all gone now, or at least better be, because the obstruction future admins face even if they get voted for is going to be enormous.

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        7 days ago

        The precedent has now been set that you can torture the other side and target their states and communities with money withholding, police/military, and imprison subgroups, label them terrorists, and incite in-groups, and capture judges and literally ignore laws…They don’t have what it takes, and the American public won’t hold anyone accountable for any amount of time. Cooked.

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          7 days ago

          They don’t have what it takes, and the American public won’t hold anyone accountable for any amount of time. Cooked.

          you’re a real beacon of fuckin hope

          also, do you really clamor for someone who’s vengefully coiled waiting to break the system entirely to visit misery on some rural voter schmuck or should they focus on restoring the national character (chisel all that shit off the walls and strip the gold spray paint off too), rebuild alliances, constitutionally establish trans rights as human rights, restore the economy, etc.,? bring back the deported, prosecute ICE architects and the fascist footsoldiers… roll back all of trump’s signatory bullshit, put maxwell into the wost fuckin hole they can find, release the epstein files etc.,

          and even then, it still wouldn’t be enough - they deserve worse. but. priorities.

          this is a real problem, they’ve fucked up more stuff than can conceivably be fixed in a single admin.

          I have more thoughts on this but the dog must be walked NOW

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            7 days ago

            I agree there is more to be done than can be done in 1 admin already, but I’m not convinced what they should do as step 1 will be done at all.

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              6 days ago

              I have a family, so… hope springs eternal.

              two things really standing out: diesel is surpassing $6 a gallon. everything we buy and eat are moved by trucks eating diesel.

              russia has seen enormous segments of it’s industrial sector and especially it’s resource extraction hammered.

              hope it’s not a cold winter, because ooof… might just lead to an overthrow of putin.

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        7 days ago

        they know if they set a precendents, they would actually have to do something for once, like actually act on thier “promises”, most of them tend to be Dinos though.