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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Pretty much. They didn't offer anything their constituents wanted except for escape from DJT.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Unfortunately "We aren't Donald Trump" wasn't a winning strategy two of the three times they tried it.

I wonder what two terrible choices we are gonna have in 2028. Watch it be like fuckin Nancy Pelosi with an exoskeleton holding her up vs Dan Crenshaw who will have replaced his eye patch with a gun by then.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

And, remember, it almost didn't even work the second time. Biden was the only candidate running for the nomination poised to lose to Trump and he was forced on us, seemingly as punishment for us demanding healthcare. They were willing to throw 2020 and would have lost had the unpredictable and extraordinary circumstances of Covid-19 not occurred, along with Trump's absolutely bungled response. Covid-19 was the sole event that propelled Biden to the white house. And then he was exactly as ineffective and terrible as all leftists predicted and we got Trump back because of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think both Trump and Biden handled COVID fucking terribly.

Really most nations handled it really fucking badly. I can forgive initial mistakes like not knowing how potent it was or how infectious it was, but once they knew the masks were pointless why the hell did they continue to push that crap everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's absolutely a disgrace how the Dems handled it after an entire year of Trump trying to pretend it just didn't exist or was just a cold and using that in their campaign. Then when it became convenient for them they began to pretend it was over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Politicians continuing to be fuckin useless yet again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, whoever it is, it'll be them running against Trump, because he's already hinted at running for a third term, and he doesn't give a shit if things he does are illegal. And again, whoever it is the Dems pick, they'll be such shitheads that they'll lose the election against Trump again, for the third time. There is absolutely no chance whatsoever they learn their lesson in the next four years, because democrats are mentally incapable of even considering they could ever do anything wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not really sure what you were trying to get at with that comment. Are you implying that it wasn't two times that Donald Trump won?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh sorry. "Two" parties.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I question even that: Did they really? Where did the party articulate a cohesive plan (or hell, even just an enthusiastic promise) to counter the rise of oligarchy?

They promised an escape from him stylistically, but the majority of citizens who aren't political junkies weren't sick of it, because they weren't exposed to it, because they don't pay much attention to political news. What did they promise that the non-informed voter would notice in they're day-to-day life?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

They promised that their oligarchs would be nicer to us. Which, to be fair, is probably true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You'd think that would've been enough....