From an Ada Limon poem:
we are not unspectacular things. We’ve come this far, survived this much. What
would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?
What if we stood up with our synapses and flesh and said, No. No, to the rising tides.
Stood for the many mute mouths of the sea, of the land?
What would happen if we used our bodies to bargain
for the safety of others, for earth, if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified
FUCK
It should have been Bernie!
I’m a government contractor. I work odd jobs cause i have a security clearance. I refuse to work for the Gov due to this new Presidential Administration. It’s all I can do to protest(except vote, which I did in 2016, 2020, and 20024), but I will not do any work for the Federal Gov. I know others can’t all do this, but if you turn down gov work in favor for private sector jobs it might have an impact if many contractor roles go unfilled for too long.
Other than stand on a street and hold up a cleaver sign, not sure what else i can do.
Good for you man. Thats a lot of sacrifice few would make these days.
I feel like people need to stop quitting or not taking these jobs and just do them very poorly to slow things down or interfere.
I’m talking nothing but meetings, no emails.
Otherwise it’s a bunch of people who don’t care about the rules speed running WW3.
Imagine the world we would be in now if it was Bernie back in 2016
I voted for Sanders in the 2016 primary. In hindsight, he would have been obliterated, McGovern-style. Clinton and Biden treated him with kid gloves, but in a general election all of his questionable past – his unemployment, his wife’s involvement with that college financing thing, his honeymoon in the USSR, the rape essay – would have come out and been hammered relentlessly by Republicans (and a good chunk of Democrats).
his honeymoon in the USSR
Fuckin’ ironic
Or at the very least, Biden in 2016.
LOL, nah. Pretending people were too sexist to vote for Hillary and some white male neolib would’ve done better is nothing but a fantasy neolibs tell themselves to try to excuse their corporate bootlicking.
Well, and a preemptive excuse for shutting out AOC.
True! But also shutting out AOC is itself an example of said corporate bootlicking, so it’s not so much of a “well, and” as it is an “including.”
Biden won against Trump, unless you are part of the MAGA cult that believes he lost in 2020.
Biden squeaked by only because Trump fucked up the pandemic so badly. That does not mean he would’ve won in 2016.
And the conditions in 2016 were markedly different than they were in 2020, unless you don’t believe in the forward progression of time.
In other news, a tautology is a tautology.
Yes, conditions in 2016 were markedly different. Biden was the VP of a highly successful president. Hillary had been demonized by the right for 2 decades and by the left for 1 decade. By the forward progression of time, Biden was weaker in 2024 than he was in 2020. Conversely, he would have been a stronger candidate in 2016.
Listen, every other “X could have beat Trump” is a hypothetical. Trump has only ever been beaten once, and I don’t want to carry on a factual debate with a Qanon MAGA hat that doesn’t believe in logic, just “feels”, so good night.
Well clearly someone’s emotions have gotten the best of them. Have fun wallowing in your hypotheticals and lashing out at people meaninglessly. After 8 years of Obama, America was not voting for Obama 2 immediately after. That is a crazy take.
Edit: Obama 2, now more boring and uninspiring!
I was there. Biden was not the solution then.
2a
Yes please
There is no such thing as “Trumpism”. We are talking about Republicanism.
This is who and what they are. Bronzo the Clown is the latest face of it, and yeah, the mask slipped. But don’t let the rest of them off the hook.
That’s one of the ways, anyhow.
An authority that doesn’t adhere to any laws ends up getting removed outside of the law. It ends with violence because the administration is stamping out alternatives. If you aren’t allowed to protest or vote or disagree then the only outlet for change becomes physical and not via official channels.
This is exactly it. A lot of people will take a lot, but lots of people will take far less than what these dorks have planned.
When it happens, it’ll be of their own making. They’re currently blasting past all the offramps.
Trumpism has an unlimited amount of money to throw into its efforts. Elon Musk, the wealthiest man on earth, put more than $270m into Trump’s campaign, a tiny portion of his fortune. Other multibillionaires will join Musk in spending whatever it takes.
This is why neoliberals working with Republicans for 30 years to completely dismantle campaign finance regulations never was rationale.
The wealthiest will always side with the furtherest right party, doesn’t matter if they give to both, the check to the right will always be larger.
We spent 30 years digging our own grave till that was possible.
With the Republican party in the House having only a three-vote majority we can defeat draconian, anti-working-class legislation if just two Republican members of Congress vote no.
I’d also like to point out that the “victory fund” shenanigans is defunding state dem parties (literally by design) and costing us a shit ton more than two House seats.
We’re throwing everything at a presidential race instead of down allot races, and then when we did win the presidency, immediately said it didn’t fucking matter.
If that’s the case why didn’t we spend that $1,500,000,000 on down ballot races?
That shit couldn’t win 3 house races since Biden spent four years telling us presidents were powerless?
