ClashAndBurn Posted January 6 Posted January 6 He has to stay in so he can grease the wheels for his chosen center-right candidate to sweep the South Carolina Primary and give them an insurmountable air of inevitability. It's kinda… his thing, you know? 1
ClashAndBurn Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Honestly, I don't think Dems have it within them to even raise the minimum wage to $8/hr. If anything I could see Republicans passing a bill eliminating minimum wage altogether before Dems would even actually try. 1 1
Relampago. Posted January 6 Posted January 6 I've been gaslighting myself into thinking Trump will do whatever is popular and what's popular is helping the middle/working class so Universal Trump Care, nationalized housing and $20 minimum wage are on their way But actually, I am so eager to see how the next four years go. We've reached the point of no return, and I can't imagine things will get better, so I will be taking every opportunity to troll Trumpies for all his inevitable failures while simultaneously reminding everyone how awful Biden and Harris were. I simply can't give a **** right now for my mental sanity, so I will laugh while being engulfed in the wildfire coming our way. On the bright side, once Republicans fail, I do think people will continue to give momentum to the current anti-rich/anti-establishment phenomenon going on. I don't know if any of the older users can confirm, but is this how things felt when Occupy Wall Street/Tea Party started to form? 1
Vermillion Posted January 6 Posted January 6 22 minutes ago, Relampago. said: On the bright side, once Republicans fail, I do think people will continue to give momentum to the current anti-rich/anti-establishment phenomenon going on. I don't know if any of the older users can confirm, but is this how things felt when Occupy Wall Street/Tea Party started to form? Lots of documentaries and books I could recommend, but Occupy Wall Street was fully quashed by the FBI/CIA under the Patriot Act, etc. as revealed by Edward Snowden, etc. while the Tea Party just elected Trump for a second time, albeit in its fifth incarnation. The goalposts seem to be moving daily now so I don't know what will qualify as a failure for Republicans with their voters. The center to the further left on the spectrum is divided in the highest level arguably in decades that in some respects isn't recoverable, as voters, particularly in Gen Z, are tired of settling for a lesser-of-two-evils paradigm and incremental Third-Way triangulating while being gaslit, starting with who we provide our tax dollars too with no oversight or accountability such as Israel while homelessness spikes with no universal healthcare. One disparate faction that used to make up part of the Obama coalition can finally see through his fake populism from 2008, another faction's pissed at Bernie's remaining cultural blindspots that MAGA isn't motivated by cultural resentment even though it was as borne out by the studies post-2016. Add to that the transphobic working-class Latino men that can't be bothered to look up what a tariff is and we're in a landscape now that honestly neither movement can be used as reference points to compare to. I get the urge too and it's important for setting up the context but there's a level of disconnect and existentialism that doesn't remotely resemble the engagement of the movements you just described.
ClashAndBurn Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Breaking glass ceilings by becoming the first woman to certify an election she lost. #Queen! 1
19SLAYty9 Posted January 7 Posted January 7 The only solace that have right now is that come 2028, don Jr or jd Vance have no shot of being attacked on a debate stage by Nikki Haley and not looking like Ron DeSantis with their awkward facial expressions 1 2
19SLAYty9 Posted January 7 Posted January 7 When Trump and Elon have a falling out in 2026 and then republicans side with Elon bc he is the money man leading to Trump publicly attacking members of the once maga movement leading to infighting and then jd Vance sides with Elon too during the primary leading to Trump endorsing Kamala in the general bc he thinks she's a fun lady… YUP
dman4life Posted January 7 Posted January 7 Haven't been following politics much lately and I must say the Kamala coverage today had me a little in my feelings. She exudes so much elegance and CLASS If only she was an inspiring candidate with an actual message and didn't have to defend such an unpopular administration That said I hope like HELL she doesn't run in the 2028 primaries. I simply DO NOT trust majority of Dem voters to not hand her the nomination off name recognition alone. 1
ZeroSuitBritney Posted January 7 Posted January 7 Watching Kamala certify Trump's win over her is kind of hilarious lmao. What a terrible candidate she was. Bad messaging. Bad policies. 1
Armani. Posted January 7 Posted January 7 New Jersey precinct shifts are a hot mess So many cities with Latino voters over 30pt shifts to Trump Black voters shifted the least for POC there but that's not saying that much in this specific case, the entire state had a nuke bomb lol
FameFatale Posted January 7 Posted January 7 Oh god this is bad. Facebook is already a boomer misinformation cesspool. It'll get worse. 1
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