“What’s going to happen in this next election? I’m terrified about what could possibly happen, because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted,” Obama told Jay Shetty on his podcast “On Purpose.”

“The fact that people think that government — ‘eh, does it really even do anything?’ — and I’m like ‘Oh my God, does government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.’ And I worry sometimes that we do. Those are the things that keep me up,” she said.

“The bars are different for people in life. That I’ve learned,” she said.

Without naming Trump, she continued: “Other people can be indicted a bunch of times and still run for office. Black men can’t. You just learn to be good. And in the end, you benefit from that extra resilience.”

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    Me too and I’m not even American, dissolution of NATO, serving Ukaine on a platter to Russia, possibility of more war in Europe with Putin getting bolder.

    No pressure Americans but your elections are kind of important for the future of the world.

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      There was a rider attached to one of the latest appropriations bills (which is now law) that restricts how future Presidents can pull the US out of NATO. It can’t happen now unless Congress passes an act authorizing the President to do so, or with a 2/3 vote of the Senate (the same mechanism as ratifying a treaty).

      So at least on this issue, we’ve put in some safeguards in case we elect an idiot again.

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          Yes, they did. He’s not in office right now because of those rules and laws

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            They stopped some of his bullshit, but they also failed to stop a lot of it. If he’s allowed to run for president again, that will be a huge example of rules not stopping him.

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              This is where states rights are again shown to be fucked. States rights to include insurrectionists on the ballot this time.

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            I may argue he’s not in office because the coup attempt didn’t succeed.

            Though maybe that’s just me.

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            He did a lot of illegal things that got overturned. But the problem is while it’s being overturned it can still do a lot of damage.

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            Huh? How is that why he’s not in office? I would say that, in spite of all those things, he still received the second highest vote count in presidential election history.

            He just happened to lose to the person who got the highest.

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      Yeah but a bunch of white college kids who don’t even know what Mer7aba means have decided that the way to serve the Palestinian cause is to let the guy who handed Jerusalem and the Golan Heights to Netenyahu back into office to teach the establishment a lesson so we’re fucked.

      I’m starting to think they’re actually just right wingers who know that saying what they ACTUALLY want will get them dumped by all their cool allies club friends. Probably why they keep insisting on dumb fuck takes like “bErNiE wOuLd Be A cEnTrIsT iN pOlAnD!” and “AmErIcA hAs No LeFt!!!”

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        I agree with most of what you said, but they’re not wrong when they say America has no left. Our “left” wing party is still right of center. The handful of actually left wing politicians are drown out by the rest of the party.

        I hate that the Democrats aren’t actually a left wing party, but I’m pragmatic enough to understand that it’s the best use of my vote that has any chance of actually winning / not helping TFG get back in office.

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          There’s no economically left wing party, but it is pretty left wing about a lot of social things. Gay marriage and marijuana legalization happened in some states before much of the rest of the world for example.

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          Ok but really objectively consider that statement though.

          Policy by policy the Dems flank left of most of Europe’s old guard of social democratic and socialist parties. Dems tend to be more in favor of new and expanded welfare programs compared to their European counterparts, they’re less likely than said counterparts to adopt right wing policy and talking points to try and appease alt-rightified voters, and on social issues there is no contest, just say the word “Roma” and watch Europeans range from saying that pulling that card isn’t fair because “that’s different” to saying that what the fascists did wrong was lose before they finished the job on the Roma.

          The metric by which America has no left is one by which the western world at large has no left, and at that point what value is gained at all by insisting on it?

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            at that point what value is gained at all by insisting on it?

            Make this argument in the other direction to prove your sincerity.

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              The value gained in there not being a fascist for president because white college kids decided not to vote strike?

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        m starting to think they’re actually just right wingers who know that saying what they ACTUALLY want will get them dumped by all their cool allies club friends.

        So you all lost the 2016 general election all on your own then?

        The absurdity of your perspective is that you believe there is a large group of voters who didn’t show up for HRC while also apparently believing not one of them is sharing their reasons why in anonymous forums.

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          The absurdity of yours is that you’re pretty obviously one of those people who thinks a millions of votes lead in the primary race is “the DNC establishment shoving her down our throats” and not “we have to be dragged kicking and screaming to even vote for the guy we supposedly support!”

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            I mean it’s either that or “a bunch of selfish pieces of shit voted for Biden specifically to fuck over progressive or leftist efforts”. You sound like the kind of person who would do just that.

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      If America pulls out of NATO, I wonder if NATO would disband and if the EU militarizes.

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        You made me wonder if Trump would pull out of NATO and ask a few NATO members to move to Russia-US alliance instead.

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          I think this is coming. Trump and Putin will invite the world to a Friendship Union. We can call it “FU World”…

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      I’ll be voting, and getting as many people as I know to vote. If there was ever a time to vote, it’s this one (at least since the civil war era).

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      You’re spending too much time on Reddit and Lemmy. Republicans will always support Ukraine (they hate Russia too!). The issue isn’t about support, it’s about limits. We have to have checks and balances when financing a war, this isn’t a free for all. The Republicans are just making sure the money is being spent how it’s supposed too. All of a sudden, they’re called “traitors” and “ass-kissers.” Which is just ridiculous. How soon we forget Ukraine was once considered one of the most corrupt countries on Earth.

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        That’s not what Trump’s actions suggested the last time in office, I have no doubt republicans hate Russia, maybe even more than Democrats, it’s Trump specifically I’m worried about.

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          Trump won’t pull support for Ukraine, that’s just a scare tactic from the Left. The entire government is united on the issue of stopping Russia, Trump alone can’t do much about that. If anything, he’ll just crack down harder on how/where the money is spent. Again, I hate this “just give them what they want!” mentality coming from the Left. There should always be questions, concerns, limits…etc…when giving billions of dollars to any country.

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      US meddling on the rest of the world only goes well if its white europeans. I’m not thrilled about the US being “strong”.

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          I dunno how it is in europe, but if its anything like the places I know you wouldn’t get as much attention thats for sure.

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      Imagine the worst outcome you can think of on the issue that’s most important to you, and that’s probably likely no matter who we elect. Both parties rule as conservatives, and conservatism in recent memory has meant a slow-burn of lost liberty.

      Don’t worry though. No matter who we elect they’ll still run us further into debt in order to fund the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, because it’s making our legislators and their backers obscenely wealthy. War is one of the shitty things for which there’s always bipartisanship.

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        You’re part of the problem.

        There is no ‘both sides are bad take’ here.

        There’s Biden who at worse maintains the status quo and then there is Trump who will become a literal dictator.

        No I’m not exaggerating. You fucking centrist morons can’t see you’ll be on a train for the gas chambers if he is elected again and will be shocked when it happens.

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          LOL

          I’m a Green.

          Though you’re partly right. It is the centrists who truly paved the way for fascism in this country. 40 years of lesser evils really added up.

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            Then I hope you’re voting for Biden if you are eligible to.

            Centrists will be the death of all of us.

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              They’re not the centrist though. They want someone to the left of Biden. You want someone to the left of Trump.

              You’re the centerist here. And yes you will be the death of the Democrat party and probably the entire country along with it.

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                I can’t vote for the American president.

                But if I could I would still have to vote for Biden because of first past the post voting. Third way candidates are a wasted vote.

                Would I want to vote for Biden? Of course not.

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          Did any of the 2 sides really pushed for actual healthcare? Or did anything substantial about any of the pervasive cost of living problems? Or yknow, stopped bombing other people around the planet? Or did anything about the growing nazi problem?

          Its a good cop bad cop shtick, both sides are pretty bad. Not only in the US, mind you.

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    I’m not American but what’s happening in the US and what will happen when/if Trump gets re-elected definitely worries me. It’s difficult not to sound overly dramatic or hyperbolic about the situation but it really does feel like the US is uncomfortably close right now to a christofascist state. And if you just rolled your eyes at that word, take a look at who’s currently second in line to the US presidency.

    If Trump does win, I really fear for American democracy. Do you really think a man who encouraged an armed insurrection to support a subversion of an election will pause to think twice about removing the few rights large sections of America currently have? And if the process prevents him, do you think he’d think twice about dismantling the process? At gun point if necessary?

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      Hi, American here.

      American domestic politics is absolutely fucked right now.

      The Republican Party does not really even have any policy proposals for serious issues at the Federal level.

      They spent years saying ‘Obamacare bad’, saying they could do healthcare better. Basically it is a decade later and they have no plan, not even a proposal.

      Taxes? We still have morons like DeSantis basically saying ‘I dunno, maybe a flat tax?’ to applause during stump speeches and debates. The flat tax proposal is absolutely insane for a large number of reasons, but the Republican base eats it up.

      Look, there are something like 50 million + Americans that believe in all or most of the QAnon conspiracy theories, that believe God himself appointed Trump as President.

      Trump stacked the Supreme Court.

      The Republicans have functionally made abortion illegal in about half the country.

      Meanwhile the economy is /apparently/ recovering, though the prices of basically everything you need to routinely pay for have risen fairly dramatically while wages have remained basically stagnant. Wealth inequality has spiralled to obscene levels, rent has basically doubled in about half a decade.

      As I write this, I believe that polls of Biden v Trump are still showing Trump ahead.

      Even if Trump does not win, and even if the MAGA QAnon types do not do a bunch of terrorism (again), they still exist, and are hopelessly living in basically an alternate reality where anything that goes against their worldview is fake, a conspiracy, of the Devil.

      It was about 3 years ago now that I told my friend group that the QAnon problem was so serious that we would need some kind of analogous concept to the de-Nazification program as was implemented after WW2 in West Germany to deal with it. They either laughed at or ignored me. None of those people are my friends any more.

      We are fucked.

      The only thing that motivates most Republican voters is hatred. Any politician who says Trans people bad, Critical Race Theory bad, Immigrants bad, Homeless People bad, anything like that receives applause from the audience.

      And I write this /as a homeless person/ who will almost certainly not be able to vote in the upcoming election. I will be /lucky/ if I can even find and qualify for an actual apartment after basically a bunch of crimes that happened to me in the course of last year caused me serious physical injury and the loss of all of my possessions, ruined my credit score, placed my in incredible debt, lost me my job and my ability to do any other job until my physical injuries are healed, which I simply have to handle myself, while homeless, because the cost of engaging with American healthcare system to handle my problems now would be sufficient to outright purchase a modest home (outright) less than a decade ago.

      Meanwhile, Trump has outright stated he would like to implement basically concentration camps for the homeless. He has stated he wants to eliminate the vermin leftists. He is very concerned with the purity of the blood of the nation, and has outright stated he will be a dictator.

      And he is currently leading in the polls.

      Again, this country is fucked. So, sorry Europeans, I would love to be able to assuage your fears, and become an activist or something.

      Maybe send me some of your healthcare and I’ll get right on it.

      Or maybe I am extremely tired, have no hope for this broken country, and could use the services of someone who can smuggle me into Canada or something.

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        If you are homeless, reach out to a shelter to see if they would be okay with you declaring them as your residence for the purpose of mail/voter registration. You can obtain ID from the state and have it sent there, and then that enables you to register to vote. Or if you have a bit of cash, you can also register a PO box through USPS for your mail.

        It may be too late for you to vote in the primary depending on where you live, but you’ve still got plenty of time for the general election in November.

        I can only encourage you to keep trying, because disenfranchising the socially vulnerable means that the Republican strategy is working.

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          All of the day + night shelters are full. Beyond full. Waiting lists for a year+ full.

          The vast majority of shelters in America for single adult men are overnight only, and where I am now, having had to travel halfway across the country to find somewhere I can afford to stay that is /safe/, it will be about 5 degrees Fahrenheit during the day.

          Almost none of the overnight shelters allow you to use them as an address. In my experience, they are also full of many fentanyl addicts, murderers and thieves.

          I will continue staying in motels, with heating, comfortable beds and showers that allow my serious ligament, muscle and bone injuries to heal, as opposed to staying in an overnight shelter where I would be forced to wander around in freezing weather during the day, seriously injuring me further, even if it means I cannot vote.

          Honestly, fuck you. I would rather be /alive/ and not in horrific pain than possibly have the ability to vote.

          I would rather have privacy and security, though it be costly, than be at risk of literally causing my injuries to exacerbate so seriously that I would be permanently disabled at best, murdered or collapsed from a torn ligament in the freezing cold and dying at worst.

          I do not care to follow your laughably inadequate advice to prioritize voting in a broken system over my current survival.

          Maybe you could actually do something functionally useful to address homelessness in your area or something, instead.

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            Honestly, fuck you. I would rather be /alive/ and not in horrific pain than possibly have the ability to vote.

            I would rather have privacy and security, though it be costly, than be at risk of literally causing my injuries to exacerbate so seriously that I would be permanently disabled at best, murdered or collapsed from a torn ligament in the freezing cold and dying at worst.

            I do not care to follow your laughably inadequate advice to prioritize voting in a broken system over my current survival.

            Maybe you could actually do something functionally useful to address homelessness in your area or something, instead.

            Well if this is how you treat people who try to offer a shred of advice or compassion, then I hate to say it but maybe you deserve your circumstances. I can’t help you more than this.

            You know nothing about me, but you immediately come back with open hostility. I am only trying to offer the same advice that I would for the refugee and immigrant populations that the organization I work for supports.

            Your priorities may not be the same as everyone else’s, but there are people literally dying for their vote and it is just as awful to belittle that or say that they aren’t prioritizing things that make a difference. Because it truly does to many people, and I would say it does now more than ever.

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              Well if this is how you treat people who try to offer a shred of advice or compassion, then I hate to say it but maybe you deserve your circumstances. I can’t help you more than this.

              Gross. Nobody deserves to be homeless, even if they’re being a dick.

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              I am only trying to offer the same advice that I would for the refugee and immigrant populations that the organization I work for supports.

              Your advice is ludicrous for any single adult male anywhere in America right now, so your organization must not be very competent.

              Suggesting that a single adult male, right now, in America, who already told you that they have serious injuries, should go seek a dangerous shelter which in all likelihood /will not shelter them/, which one either has to do on foot, or by wasting hours and hours searching the internet, for the aim of being able to vote, is absurd.

              What should obviously be prioritized is the physical safety and security of the individual.

              And I know this /because I used to work for a non profit helping the homeless/.

              Telling an injured person to prioritize unsafe options that will waste their time, nearly certainly actually not result in acquiring shelter, for the purposes of being able to vote, that this priority is more important than /actually being alive/ is perfectly indicative of the attitude that many liberals have toward the homeless.

              Which is basically: Do literally anything other than remedy the actual issue, you know, homelessness, which causes injuries, trauma, starvation. And then, if any of them give you any lip about this, tell them they deserve their predicament.

              You are a ridiculous person. You are exactly like many of the people I used to at first work with, and then became reliant on until I realized hey could not help me: Wasting the time of the homeless with absurd hoops to jump through that can literally result in their death if your suggestions prove inadequate, and also they trust you and diligently follow their advice.

              All I had to do was tell you that your advice was laughable, and be angry about how bad and useless this advice was, and you have now decided that I am rude and offensive to everyone trying to help and that I deserve my situation.

              I am not in fact rude to everyone trying to help me.

              I am rude to people who suggest I do things that /will endanger my health and safety/.

              You are an awful human being.

              If you do really work to aid the unhoused, you and your organization are morons. Your advice would be even /more/ ridiculous for immigrants and refugees who often cannot speak English well or at all.

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                Apologies if there was confusion, I just ask that you please read what I wrote again. I was not advocating staying at a shelter per se; if you have better accommodations, as a lot of unhoused residents do, then that’s great. You are better off not staying in a shelter if you don’t need it.

                I was speaking more to the fact that organizations which run homeless shelters will typically offer additional levels of support when it comes to mail and ID procurement. They may be able to assist with getting you documentation directly, or may be able to help put you in contact with another organization that can.

                But based on your responses so far, I’m guessing that’s not something you’d be willing to do, so I’ll just leave it here. You seem to know what’s best for you, so good luck.

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                  I appreciate the sentiment, and I completely understand your situation.

                  By basically dumb luck, I managed to wander past a shoddy low rent motel … that offers monthly leases.

                  Its got a comfy bed, a fridge, a microwave, a working toilet and tub, and most importantly, I can afford it.

                  Knowing that there is /somewhere/ I can afford to stay at, and will not have to figure out some new place to stay every few weeks is a massive improvement.

                  The near constant state of mortal panic is now lowering. All I have to do is basically not talk to anyone else who stays at this place.

                  /Now/ I can finally start to figure out how to replace my Drivers License and other important identifying documents, as most of those got stolen from me months ago at a shelter in another state.

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            I’m so confused about where this hostility came from. They were just trying to be helpful, you could have easily left it at “your idea is terrible and here’s why”, but then you decided to attack them directly as well. Why?

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              Because they were giving useless advice that they should have known would be useless, and even worse than that, it would have endangered me and likely led to my death, again, they should have known this if they actually read what I wrote.

              Would you be angry if someone seriously suggested to you that while in an injured state, what you should do is injure yourself further with a plan that has next to no chance of success?

              Further, if you were starving, exhausted, traumatized from recently being beaten, mugged and losing all your possessions, would you be angry if someone told you that /actually/ you should prioritize registering to vote right now, that that is the most important thing?

              You have obviously never been homeless.

              Perhaps you should read it again if you are confused.

              My aching torn ligaments only permit me to type so much, so often.

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      Even if Trump dies tomorrow, the problem still exists. Trump is the worm in the apple, but half the apple is rotten.

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        That is true, no disagreement here. That’s the truly scary thing about the man - he clearly does represent a lot of people.

        But right now, he is the immediate danger.

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        I’m not sure anymore. He got so elevated by some people but they hate so much. Idk if anyone could just slide into his place. I think they could be lost enough with the infighting that would try to fill in that hole. As in, that confusion could give us the gap to secure our processes and/or elect reasonable people.

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          The problem wit this reasoning is that it does not understand what Trump actually did.

          It is /worse/ than being a charismatic maniac.

          It is that by being a charismatic maniac… he revealed the entirety of the American society and political system to be a cruel joke.

          He essentially normalized extreme hatred and bigotry to the point that nearly every single other Republican had to either emulate him, or at least shift heavily toward his positions and rhetoric.

          Infighting is and will continue to happen, yes. But Trump transformed the Republican party into what is essentially fascist in all but name now.

          And the problem with this is that electoralism alone cannot defeat a rising fascist movement which shows no signs of slowing down.

          We, with history as a guide, /cannot/ defeat this only via voting.

          As much as it pains me to agree with Tim Pool on anything, to any degree: A civil war of sorts, or at least massive social unrest something akin to the Pre-Bellum American society is already happening.

          The core voters of the Republican Party are now driven by QAnon style insano-anti-thinking. There is no known cure for this, and it is very easy for any random dumbass that wants to be a politician to appeal to these kinds of people, /so there will be more and more of them/.

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                Oh, don’t worry. They’ll claim assassination no matter what. He could have a heart attack on live television after being filmed 24/7/365 and they’d still claim someone put anthrax in his hamberder.

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      I live in Japan and I’m sure Kim literally considered nuking my country during that dick measurement contest Trump held.

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        I was in China and the time and there were a scary number of people who were saying they hoped that would happen. East Asia is still so contentious, last thing we need is Emperor Cheeto making it even worse.

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          I feel bad for those brainwashed to their core by the CCP (and they actually hate the party).

          Anyway, I have no idea whether Japan can retaliate against nuclear attacks, due to our naive pacifist constitution.

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            You can rest assured that if NK starts lobbing missiles at Japan or SK, there won’t be much of NK left at the end of that day. Japan’s involvement won’t even be necessary.

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      It’s difficult not to sound overly dramatic or hyperbolic about the situation but it really does feel like the US is uncomfortably close right now to a christofascist state.

      To add to this: while it may sound hyperbolic to some folks, for plenty of us we’ve seen this brewing for decades. White evangelicals and right-wing politics unified in the 1980s in a way that was a clear danger to democracy, and they’ve only solidified their power since, given how mainstream their views are now.

      IMHO Frank Zappa said it best in 1986: he got called out as being hyperbolic, but he clearly saw the writing on the wall. He’s of course not the most scholarly source, but damn it Jim I’m a biologist, not a historian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlePLLlfH4Q

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      Another American here, currently stuck living in the great state of Ohio. I keep a bag under my bed with a change of clothes, a few cans of food, a wad of cash, a pistol, and a passport. I may be fucked, but I’ve got some friends in Quebec that might be able to save my ass.

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    I’m fucking convinced you guys are going to vote that chud in again. Or let him be voted in again. There is nuance but it’s the same outcome.

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      The people who want to spite Biden’s genocidal support by not voting for him don’t realize that the alternative is a fascist dictator who actively relishes in the prospect of killing brown people. If you think Biden’s treatment of the Gazan war is bad, wait til you see Trump.

      Same with the Ukrainian war. If Biden is milquetoast, Trump will guarantee your toast is forever black and inedible.

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        Why don’t democrats just play it safe and run just about anyone who isn’t Biden?

        The vast majority of conservatives will never vote for a democrat. The best democrats can do is try to retain support of independents who have no problem voting 3rd party or even conservative if they feel disenfranchised by the democratic party.

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          Why would they feel disenfranchised by Biden? Who are these hypothetical people that would piss away their vote on a 3rd party because Biden did all of the things he said he would do. Supporting Israel is literally part of being POTUS. Every single POTUS has been an Israel supporter.

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          I’m gonna ask my parents, both lifelong Republicans, if they’ll vote Trump again. I’m pretty sure after Jan 6 they won’t. Prior to that I would have agreed with you but I’m not sure now

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        People like you want to have your cake and eat it too. During the primaries you swear up and down we should be okay with Biden winning the primaries because we can push him to the left. Then when that turns out not to be true you say we need to vote for him anyway.

        You can’t keep doing this. You’re liars. You’re gaslighters. You’re enablers of the Republican party. You are the bad guys. You need to change.

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      I hate all these articles, it’s like people want that asshole again.

      “Man, wouldn’t it be CRAZY if this criminal won in 2024? He might ACTUALLY do it! It could happen! The courts might let it!”

      Like bro, stop. Stop jinxing us. You are going to will it to happen. Stop giving him airtime. Don’t give him mindshare. Treat him like any other criminal and then drop interest. Focus on corruption or feeding the poor, anything else.

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    I feel like this is so understated in this context it is almost physically painful:

    Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted

    Stop talking about trump like he’s just another bad candidate. Jesus Christ.

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      If they acknowledge the depth of his depravity then they go too far in tarnishing the office. They desperately want to maintain prestige so they’ll never go as far as they ought to.

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        If you talk about it in the way that you should, you will sound alarmist.

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    Unfortunately to Trump supporters this is a grandiose endorsement and exactly what they want.

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      The true trump idiots fucking love it. They are salivating for it. She’s black, a woman, and liberal which is the exact opposite of the people they care about. It represents everything they hate

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    As much as I share the same concern with Michelle, I would selfishly respond to her that if she just fucking ran for president she would win in a landslide and put an end to fucking Trump. Barack can spend the entire 4 years ridiculing the orange bezoar as first man.

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    If the democrats ran just about anybody but Joe, they’d be a shoe-in.

    Brace yourselves for Trump 2.0, everyone. The Clinton lineage must go on!

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      He was popular enough to beat Trump the 1st go round, why would people not vote for him now when the alternative is 4 more years of god knows what fresh hell?

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    I’m terrified of the outcome no matter who wins… Our system is seriously broken if these are the best candidates we, the supposed bastion of freedom and democracy, can come up with.

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    Oh brother…her and her elite inner circle will be fine. When I say BOTH sides are guilty of using scare tactics to get votes, this is what I’m talking about. Democrats and the Left want to scare people into thinking the world will end if a Republican becomes President. They all said the same thing when Trump became President in 2017.

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    It seems like most Americans are gonna vote for trump and he might win. Democrat voters have to blame their side if trump wins. They’ve run such a dog shit pr campaign. Biden has done good on the policy front but you’d never know because the media doesn’t cover it and the right-wing media only covers his mistakes.

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        It seems like most Americans are gonna vote for trump and he might win.

        The problem is the electoral college. We have dipshits, but not enough of them will vote for Trump for him to win the popular vote.

        Democrat voters have to blame their side if trump wins. They’ve run such a dog shit pr campaign.

        This is true every time. Not disagreeing with you. When Dems win nationally it’s usually in spite of all the ways they tried to fuck it up.

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        Yeah it wasn’t even close in the end. They even lost fucking Arizona and Georgia I never thought I’d see the day…

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      I don’t understand why you think that. The last election wasn’t even close and Trump had the post office in shambles.

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    “government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.” Government is not the same as democracy… Democracy is what D’s and R’s try to sufficate so the government can continue to be run by private companies. There is a word for this…