The White House and Democratic members of Congress called Georgia Republican’s comparison a ‘compliment’
Biden’s latest campaign video is a Marjorie Taylor Greene speech
3 years ago by MicroWave to c/politics
RidcullyTheBrown 24 points 3 years ago
That's called leadership. You put the right people in the right places and you don't get in their way.
macrocephalic 117 points 3 years ago
Imagine thinking those were bad things! That's close to 50% of the US voting population (and I'd like to pretend it was only them, but the rest of the world isnt necessarily better).
How the fuck did we get here? Actually scratch that, i know that humans are greedy, tribal animals who are driven by biological urges only sometimes obscured by higher level thought. The bigger question is how the fuck did we manage to make it as far as we have?
Sharpiemarker 46 points 3 years ago
And the biggest question of all; how do we unfuck this thing?
dilligasatall 84 points 3 years ago
Marj's ex husband has been asking himself that same question for a long time.
Techmaster 17 points 3 years ago
Some things just won't wash off, no matter how much you scrub.
BrooklynMan 7 points 3 years ago
it takes a good soaking in bleach and whiskey. bleach for the outside, whiskey for the inside.
Earthwormjim91 27 points 3 years ago
Have the American people stop being lazy bastards, generally. Especially young people.
2020 was the highest turnout in a century. And it was still only 2/3 of eligible voters. 79,000,000 eligible voters just went “eh”.
The primaries were even worse than that. The 2022 midterms were the second highest turnout for midterms this millennium. With 52%…. Despite 69% of eligible voters being registered. A ton of people just stayed home instead of making our highest civil duty a priority.
TopRamenBinLaden 22 points 3 years ago
I agree, but part of the problem is that people are tired of choosing between 2-3 old people candidates that dont have their best interests in mind. In the case of Biden and Trump, Biden is most definitely less of an asshole and way more qualified than the Trump, but he's still going to do what's best for corporations, not what's best for the majority of the US population.
I vote myself, but at the same time I understand the apathy especially from the younger generations. They are presented with 2 people who are completely out of touch with them, and the issues they will face in their lifetimes. I don't think that they are lazy, they just feel helpless and like their choice doesn't matter or make a difference.
I don't know how we fix this issue, as it is a problem with the voting system itself. The best we can do is just vote and pick the lesser of two evils. So I also encourage others to do the same, but I don't look down on anyone for not voting.
Earthwormjim91 21 points 3 years ago
So vote in the primaries…
The Dem primaries had like 10 people this last go round. From 38 to 78.
Bernie was the front runner and people were counting Biden out until South Carolina when nobody showed up for Bernie.
Voting is not a once every 4 year thing. There are elections at the local level all. The. Fucking. Time. And those are even more important. And they have even less turnout than the big ones. I have had 8 elections since 2020 in my local area. I vote in every single one of them.
Who do you think rise through the ranks through parties and become prominent? People who get elected at lower levels. They have track records.
There is absolutely zero excuse for not voting. I will look down on anyone that doesn’t vote but bitches about the system. They simply do not care. They say they do but won’t do the one damn thing to actually change anything. Everything starts at the local level.
corsicanguppy 1 point 3 years ago
people are tired of choosing between 2-3 old people
You're NEVER going to get a good option. You vote for the least-worse. Always -- lather, rinse, repeat.
I'm not sure how this is confusing. Show up at the polling station, with some idea of each loser's plan, and pick the one who can pull off the most of a decent plan -- or, said a different way, whoever will suck the least.
transmatrix 12 points 3 years ago
Definitely times I wish we were more like Australia where I’m pretty certain voting is legally required.
VitoScaletta 15 points 3 years ago
Yeah election day is a holiday here, and voting is open for weeks in advance leading up to it just in case people can't find the time.
Not to mention the fact that we have preferential voting, so people are better off putting more independent/smaller parties first so they have a better chance of getting seats
Also the sausage sizzle
Earthwormjim91 4 points 3 years ago
Shit I wish. Though most Americans are lazy enough they would just fill in random bubbles to fulfill the requirement.
raltoid 22 points 3 years ago
The bigger question is how the fuck did we manage to make it as far as we have?
That's not really a big question.
We made it this far because unlike what conservatives think, most people dissagree with them.
gapbetweenus 17 points 3 years ago
How the fuck did we get here?
Complete failure of education system?
Hypersapien 21 points 3 years ago
Deliberate sabotage of the education system by the Republicans.
ZombiFrancis 3 points 3 years ago
No child were left behind.
admiralteal 12 points 3 years ago
I cannot imagine how anyone could think being compared to FDR would be a black spot for a progressive. I wish he'd be at least one Judicial Procedures Reform Bill closer to FDR.
voidMainVoid 8 points 3 years ago
I cannot imagine how anyone could think
MTG doesn't do much thinking at all.
MomoTimeToDie -2 points 3 years ago
What makes you think progressives were the target audience for her speech? The kind of person who likes fdr was almost certainly going to be voting blue regardless, and nothing she said would realistically change it, so why bother trying?
somethingsnappy 2 points 3 years ago
WHOOSH. Or, the point is she is so dumb she accidentally makes good arguments for her opponents.
VubDapple 3 points 3 years ago
Right? Those would only be good things if the right people benefited from them and everyone else (all the people in the outgroups who might as well not be thought of as people) is cut off from them.
randon31415 79 points 3 years ago
From the figures I found, Trump increased the debt by $6.7 trillion while Biden increased it by $2.5 trillion (over three of his four years). Note that the first year of spending for any president is controlled by the last president, so 2020 spending was Trump's, but also 2016 was Obama's.
Looking at just proposed programs, Biden's student loan plan would have cost 0.4 trillion, or $400 billion. Meanwhile, Trump's 'tax repatriation holiday' (companies illegally hiding money overseas to avoid taxes, make one year where you don't get taxes for bringing the money back to USA) cost taxpayers $465 billion.
ChickenLadyLovesLife 67 points 3 years ago
Pepperidge Farm remembers the last couple of years of the Clinton administration when we had an actual budget surplus and all the talk was of what to do with this surplus. But then the "fiscal conservatives" said "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter".
SCB 20 points 3 years ago
Deficits don't matter, but a surplus is still dope AF. It shouldn't come from cutting services like we did in the 90s tho.
I do agree it's insane that the GOP went from "deficits don't matter" when they control the Presidency to "shut down the gov over the debt ceiling" when they don't tho.
Hypersapien 5 points 3 years ago
Deficits only don't matter when Republicans are in the White House.
randon31415 1 point 3 years ago
Well, when the house is under control of the same party as the white house, they normally just start with the president's budget outline and cut and add stuff. But that didn't happen with Trump, so you have to go back to 09-10 for the last time the president's budget wasn't dead on arrival.
Whirlybird -1 points 3 years ago
COVID, which happened under Trumps administration, which throws any sort of comparisons out the window. Everyone, democrats and republicans alike, were crying for government handouts in the form of free payments, in order to survive. It was a (hopefully) once in a lifetime unprecedented situation that destroyed most budgets around the world.
Also neither Trump nor Biden are responsible for the budget surplus/deficit.
Upgrade2754 59 points 3 years ago
man I wish Biden was a strong advocate for even half of those things lol
Techmaster 29 points 3 years ago
I know, they sound horrible, right? Imagine tax dollars going back into the communities that pay them. God what kind of awful country would do such a thing?
MomoTimeToDie -1 points 3 years ago
I mean if you like those things, I presume there's a roughly 0% chance you were the target audience anyway.
DrTautology 37 points 3 years ago
Neanderthal DNA. Lots of it.
vynlwombat 26 points 3 years ago
I have a lot of Neanderthal DNA and I resent this
LaunchesKayaks 2 points 3 years ago
Same, bro
relative_iterator 31 points 3 years ago
Link to the video. Sorry it’s Twitter.
https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1681424737384435713?s=46&t=1RS4vxJ7QYuOgD4JTloPEA
takeda 37 points 3 years ago
Don't apologize, use Nitter: https://nitter.net/joebiden/status/1681424737384435713?s=46&t=1RS4vxJ7QYuOgD4JTloPEA
Techmaster 24 points 3 years ago
Twitter is a cesspool.
STUPIDVIPGUY 16 points 3 years ago
I didn't watch the video but I already know 'urban' is code for 'black people'
snekerpimp 28 points 3 years ago
And then she lists things the Republicans have done to dig our debt deeper…
admiralteal 33 points 3 years ago
The most pressing crisis to all of humanity is the climate and somehow Biden got through congress an estimated $1.3 trillion climate bill. I'm not sure a Bernie could've pulled that off.
You don't have to love or even like him, but he has selling points other than not being Trump.
Aesthesiaphilia 24 points 3 years ago
Literally in a thread talking about the good things Biden has done
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Techmaster 13 points 3 years ago
There's nothing wrong with a boring, uninspiring president. Obama had a ton of charisma but Biden's presidency is honestly a lot better. Sure, the country sucks right now, but at least Biden is trying to make it better, after the last guy did so much to try and destroy everything our nation is built on. It's going to take a long time and a lot of hard work to crawl out of this hole the GOP has dug us into. I think there are people who could have done better than Biden, but in all honesty he's probably the best president we've had in my lifetime. I give him a B+.
MossBear 1 point 3 years ago
I've been eligible to vote since 2001 and I can say that Biden has been the vote that I've been the most okay with. He's accomplished a fair bit despite the political situation. Maybe it would be more ideal if he were younger, but this is how it is now and I think he's doing well, all things considered.
ProfessorZhu 6 points 3 years ago
It drives me nuts how so many people just claim FDR was any kind of socialist. FDR was the best capitalist the system ever made, he was responsible for saving capitalism in America and making it a bulwark against the waves of facsim and socialism that was sweeping the world.
pineapplelover 4 points 3 years ago
Honestly, does he even need campaigning? Like since when did you read a political ad or billboard and was like "hmm my mind has officially changed". Most of people's mind has already been made up. He could really sit there and not do anything and end up winning.
Edit: yeah. We need every fighting chance we get. Release the dark brandon memes.
RandallFlagg 21 points 3 years ago
When I heard Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 I literally laughed out loud thinking there is absolutely no way, 0% chance, better odds that the sun will explode, this country is pretty stupid but not THAT stupid. And sure enough, I was wrong. That was when I realized that the GOP is very, very good at manipulating stupid people.
FlyingSquid 6 points 3 years ago
Our sun is not massive enough to go nova. It will expand into a red giant and then contract into a white dwarf.
Wrench 5 points 3 years ago
And here I was, groaning when Hilary won the primary, because I knew Trump had a good chance against her. People thought I was over reacting, but literally anyone would have been a better opponent to Trump.
Saneless 3 points 3 years ago
You can't underestimate decades of getting people to subconsciously hate Hillary Clinton and what that does to voters. Many hated her. Few actually had a reason when asked
There's a reason the GOP goes so hard at AOC in 2020+. They see her as a real threat to the presidency in 2040+ and they want decades of demonization in the bank
Sbhinclusion 2 points 3 years ago
@Saneless @RandallFlagg The Conservatives in #Canada do the same repetitive attacks on #Trudeau and are having some success- many cite a hate for Trudeau but when asked why they have literally no reason- unfortunate so many want to be told what to think rather then vetting information- critical thinking needs to be a value not a nuisance.
towerful 2 points 3 years ago
I'm fairly certain that part of the Cambridge Analytica data manipulation scandal thing was that they managed to throw an election by targeting users on the fence and susceptible to the "I don't need to vote" or the "voting doesn't matter" type comments and memes.
They targeted their client's opposition's voters with these, caused a really low turnout of voters in that demographic, allowing their client to win.
Don't get sucked into these things.
Vote how you want, even if it's just the uninspiring, boring, lesser evil, whatever.
Lenins2ndCat -3 points 3 years ago
Lmao be nice if literally any of that was fucking true.
superflippy -5 points 3 years ago
I have to wonder if she’s trolling Democrats to get more exposure.
Techmaster 11 points 3 years ago
Maybe she's thinking about switching parties. (LOL)
NovaPrime 10 points 3 years ago
You give that Neanderthal brain of hers too much credit. Sad truth is that for her audience, all of those things she called out are considered negatives because they cut into their bottom line. They know right from wrong, they just don't give a fuck if it means making a little more at the end of the day
DrPop 3 points 3 years ago
She's really that dumb. Miss can't pass the GED or that's the other crazy I get them mixed up. She really is saying look at all these problems we have. We can't afford to fix them. So let's just stop giving money to underfunded agencies.
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I think we can count on Biden's campaign being stacked with young, media-savy people, like it was last time. A lot of his 2020 stuff was pretty well done, you could tell he had a pretty in-touch team that knew how to present him well. Literally all he has to do is not get in their way, and they can ride Dark Brandon memes into 2024.
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