Trump again vows to be a day-one ‘dictator’ in Iowa town hall
Trump again vows to be a day-one ‘dictator’ in Iowa town hall
As Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley argued it out on CNN in an apparent race for second place, the former president took part in a town hall on Fox News
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Oh, so he only wanted to be a dictator for the FIRST day. Got it, sir.
That anyone supports this fetid fecal stain is beyond my comprehension.
He revealed that significant Americans are also fecal stains. Anyone who supports Trump at this point is dead to me.
If you had told me ten years ago that a double digit percent of the US population would actively cheer for ending democracy in favor of monarchy I'd have thought you were nuts.
It's been very disappointing in my fellow citizens.
Ten years ago people WERE saying that... but it was just the maga precursor tea party goons saying that democrats wanted to make Obama the king. It's always been projection.
100%. It's not political anymore, it's moral.
I've been on the outs with my dad since 18 (36 now) but over covid didn't block him when he sent a friend request on fb. I ended up blocking him due to a comment he left on a post and my aunt bitched me out for blocking him over "politics." The comment? "those protesters wouldn't be a problem if we just gunned them down."
Last time I saw my best friend from high school, he called me a libtard for describing my one stop shop healthcare at the VA and mentioning I'd like everyone to have that simple experience of - See doctor, run tests, get meds, go home.
These are people I just don't fucking want in my life. Everyone screeches about cancel culture, no you're just a tedious asshole. Like with the comedians, crying about cancel culture to sold out stadiums. No you're not being canceled, there's just only so many ways you can make the #OneJoke of "trans women are men LULULULUL" before it gets old.
And yet the trolls or naive people here are saying that they won’t vote for Biden because he hasn’t flown over the Israel and slapped Netanyahu. Yes it sucks what’s happening in Gaza, but not voting, or voting for Trump will be oh so much worse.
Biden may not be as bad as Trump by far, but he's not a good candidate. If Trump wins, it'll be in large part because the Democratic elite once again put forward a bad candidate with bad baggage instead of finding someone that would energize those outside the core.
It's incredibly depressing we need to be energized in order to stop such an incredibly clear and obvious threat to democracy. Biden isn't my first choice by any means but the idea that I'd have to be convinced at this point on how to vote is insane. Yes the Democrats should be doing more and messaging better. Yes we need better candidates. But the Republican party is now an existential threat, we have to avoid giving them power at all costs. That has to be priority because that's the only way forward.
Then they need to pick a candidate who will appeal to a broader base of voters. This idea that Biden, a neoconservative only appealing because Trump is batshit crazy, is "owed" the candidacy is lunacy. If the priority is defeating Trump, then they need to select someone who can succeed with a healthy margin, not a candidate who has lost enough of his swing voters to make his victory extremely questionable.
Reality? Democrats... or at least the DNC... feel that they are "owed" those votes. Every time they lose, they blame third parties, voters who abstain, sun spots, dark sorcery.... anything that will allow them to avoid introspection. It's time they took responsibility, listened to the people who could actually win them this election.
"They" being the millions of voters who select Biden as the nominee? Or are you just removing their agency because they didn't vote for the guy you liked?
Is that what we're calling the extremely undemocratic process of nomination in the DNC? We do not select our candidates, the party elites do.
That's funny, I definitely voted in the primary. You seem confused.
Said like someone who doesn't actually grasp the DNC primary process.
Bernie was on my ballot. I know because I voted for him twice. But please, do remove the agency of the millions of voters who chose otherwise.
And nearly all 700 superdelegate party elite votes went to Clinton, which was more than enough to override any effort by grassroots activists to effect meaningful change. I mean, they've stated as much themselves; the superdelegate system is designed as a failsafe against the party commoners. Hell, they've even argued that if they wished, they could ignore the results and appoint who they like.
You can bury your head in the sand and pretend that your party elite haven't rigged the system to silence your voice if you like. Or, you can educate yourself on how your party nominations actually function.
For a Democratic party, the process is pretty undemocratic.
it was hard to believe anyone supported him before... but now it's surreal...
feels like a weird nightmare....