• TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Ah, but he lost in the right way: campaigning nationally instead of the state he was running in, and thereby raising record amounts of campaign funds to pay into the pockets of DNC-associated consulting firms.

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    8 months ago

    “Sanders you fool! The view from atop my ivory tower does not match the view you say the people who are not on the ivory tower have.”

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    Sounds like something a loser would say.

    You know what could prove him wrong? Maybe electing a president? Or winning the house? Or the Senate?

    Oh, I mean surely if what he is saying is such bullshit you guys got at least 2/3 of these right?

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    There’s only so long you can pretend not to hear when they tell you exactly who they are.

    Anyone who still claims to be against fascism and considers themselves in any way left leaning, and still supports not only democrats, but the idea that the system can somehow be reformed or fixed from within, is either in complete denial or completely full of shit (because they are neither antifascist nor left leaning).

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    The democrats have been taking ethnic and racial minorities, women, and the working class for granted for decades. The slow erosion got faster, and now they got what they deserved. With no viable alternative on the left, they turned to the right. And now the democrats are slowly becoming the party of self-loathing white privilege, and they feel comfortable saying that it’s “straight-up BS” that poor people matter. They’re just supposed to vote Democrat no matter what, right? They got kicked in the teeth, and (almost) everyone’s going to suffer for it.

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      Only one thing I disagree with, they’re not taking minorities for granted, they’re holding them for ransom. They deliberately refuse to codify civil liberties and anti corruption measures in case they’d like to use them.

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    This is the second time this has happened. Democrats in the 50s-60s realized they could get votes in the North by not being racist, while Republicans at the same time realized they could get votes in the South by being racist. It just really shows that neither side really cares all that much, it’s mostly a show for political gain.

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    After what we all just witnessed it is beyond me how anyone thinks this isn’t just the system working as intended. Both the Rs and Ds worship capital. That’s the only “both sides” issue that matters to them

    Let them eat cake… but remember, the cake is a lie

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      Let them eat cake… but remember, the cake is a lie.

      Friggin’ mic drop dude! This statement is amazing 👏

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    “We have the perfect candidate lined up for 2028! We’ve recruited Dr.Frankenstein and in a world first we’ve resurrected both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, stitched them together, and they will be the new face of the Democratic party! Vote for us or you’re racist and just want Donald Trump to win!”

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        The date is January 20, 2030. President Rafael Theodore “Ted” Cruz, the Canadian Zodiac Killer suspect, enters the Whitehouse for the first time as Commander-in-Chief. He giggles stupidly as he steps into the Oval Office. His patchy beard catching his spittle as his prodigious belly jiggles beneath his faux-working-class flannel shirt.

        “Oh boy, are we going to do great things in here,” Ted says to his desk before plunging his face into Trump’s chair and inhaling deeply. Trump’s aides left it here for him, specifically as he requested. He savored the musky, faintly fecal aroma. His crooked member grows turgid, almost pressing against the inside of his trousers.

        He can’t take the arousal. “EVERYONE OUT!” his voice cracking as he authoritatively commands his aides to leave the room. They stare at him open-mouthed, but they comply. Ted is assured of his stately presence and presidential demeanor. Kneeling before the well-worn leather chair, Cruz meticulously unbuttons all but the top button of his flannel shirt. Arms shaking, he drags the shirttails erotically over Vienna sausage nipples. Giggling, he says to himself, “Wouldn’t want to get you boys messy”, before throwing his shirttails over his shoulders. He feels majestic. Like Count Chocula from the cereal boxes mommy would never buy him. But now mommy is so proud of him and he can buy all the Count Chocula he wants. And oh does he want.

        Ted whips out his phone but fumbles it. Wormlike, he inches across the floor to retrieve it. Retaking his position before the chair, he sniffs again. “Please look into the camera, no face detected”, his phone reads. He looks, poutingly at the camera. He tries smiling. He tries frowning. But still, the phone will not recognize his face as human. He begrudgingly enters his password, “Z0di4c1776,” and it unlocks. He holds up his Whitehouse ID to log into PornHub and navigates to the incest section by muscle memory. Hot Latina MILF Makes Teen Boy a Man catches his fancy. “Teddy’s been a good boy, mommy”, he whines. His hands are clammy and sweating with excitement. As he pushes play, his fat finger slips and the share menu pops up.

        “Oh no Teddy you’ve done it again, don’t post it to Twitter like the last time. Oh, X, I’m sorry Elon”. “No, it’s okay, keep going”, says Vice President Musk before crawling back into the armoire, beady eyes glinting through the cracked door.

        Teddy’s finger hovers over the X on the share menu, trembling.

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      I have terrible news, Margaronald’s tenure in hell made them unelectable among Christians. We’re gonna gave to go with plan B and get George Bush and somehow make him more racist

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        Trump Forever. We will know nothing but Trump.

        Jokes aside he did mention years ago that he was due a third term because the Democrats were unfair to him so baby wants a do-over

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          And more recently than that he told Christians that if they vote for him they’ll never need to vote again

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    Are you sure they are committed to losing and not committed to trying to win by adopting republican tactics?

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    And this is why I’m betting Sanders is going to found a new political party, and that this is actually the death of the DNC. And all of that is a good thing.

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      Sanders is 83 years old. He’s already had two opportunities to start a new party, and both times he choose to sheepdog his base to the Democratic party instead. Bernie isn’t going to be our savior.

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    Harrison has reportedly chosen not to seek to stay on as DNC chair but his dismissal of Sanders’s statement provoked anger of its own, including from the reporter and columnist Glenn Greenwald. “You and the corporatist and militarist party you lead just got your ass kicked all up and down the US, because Americans see that you only care about enriching yourselves at the corporate lobbying trough,” Greenwald wrote. “If the humiliation you just suffered doesn’t usher in some humility and self-reflection, nothing will.”

    -rarely do I read an article and genuinely think “man, that guy got slammed.” as the rhetoric typically suggests, but wholly hell did Harrison get slammed.