“ Since Thursday night I have vacillated between borderline obsession (monitoring every tweet, reading every story, phone-banking donors, reporters, and insiders) and trying to ignore the democratic world that has abruptly and rapidly come crumbling down around us.”
Oh, look, “concern trolls” is a fucking profession!
Fact: NOTHING CHANGED since Biden was sworn in. The past didn’t suddenly flip because of one debate which quite LITERALLY affected nothing.
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The Main Stenographer Media has done nothing but echo and re-echo things that simply are not true: Biden should step down because he is competent.
You know what I DO suggest? End the farce of the debate. It doesn’t matter and we will get ZERO policy from Trump.
But that isn’t what the media wants to talk about. They want to yammer about what ISN’T important. If this was FDR they would be asking, no, DEMANDING him to sprint 100 yards and if the time was unacceptable would be railing, again.
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Who do you think has been President?
Huh?
Do you believe the media who few, if any, have met Biden? Or Obama who worked day-today with him?
Obviously some would prefer to be gaslit and believe these know-nothings than the truth: Biden has been a very good President.
Read his past works. There is nothing prior to his being President recently that should give one pause.
This is a tempest in a teapot. If only the MSM would do this with Trump.
But they won’t. Ever.
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So who are you voting for who won’t get EVEN 5% of the vote? Jill “I met Putin and all I got was a t-shirt” Stein? Some other useful idiot?
A vote doesn’t matter it is ineffectual. Assuaging your conscience doesn’t change anything.
The MSM is grabbing power to change the election.
You give in if you buy their conspiracy theory and assume the last 3+ years were a hallucination — it was not. The press is gaslighting you.
The press has an agenda.
It’s not to favor you.
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So who do I trust?
Reality says this has been a pretty good administration.
The very rich owners of the Main Stenographer Media is scared shitless that the next election means that Democrats will win a trifecta and are pulling out ALL THE STOPS to prevent it.
Why?
Money. Biden has promised to tax the rich and here is the funny part about rich people (Soros aside — he’s an interesting duck): they hate taxes. I know, they have more money than they could spend in a lifetime.
@feloneouscat i don't honestly believe biden will raise taxes on the rich (at least to any significant or necessary degree), but i do think it still comes down to money.
i think the MSM is trashing biden bc when trump was potus they made BANK on hysterical doomscrolling and outrage engagement. news outlets make more money when there's a 5-alarm fire to scream about than after the fire's extinguished. sex doesn't sell, panic does.
Oh, I hope he does. I’m retired and pay a HEFTY percentage more than do most CEOs.
He hasn’t been able to raise it because we don’t have both the House and Senate.
@feloneouscat we did in the first half of his presidency, though. i appreciate all of the progressive things he's done so far, i just don't think he's THAT aggressively progressive. but maybe a second term would change his priorities?
Republicans have a majority in the Senate. Physical majority. Independents are not Democrats.
This is a common mistake.
@feloneouscat but they're independents who caucus with and vote alongside democrats, which is why chuck schumer is the majority leader and not lich mcconnell. granted in 2021, and even now, the margin was/is RAZOR thin so probably not enough votes regardless, but if he tied the tax hikes to the defense budget or something, maybe?
Democrats do not have a majority.
Republicans have successfully killed good legislation because they can.
Let’s not pretend Democrats are the majority party in the Senate. It’s a myth
Republicans have exploited.
There are more Republicans than Democrats.
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They want more.
Trump has literally promised quid pro quo. He has promised he will AGAIN cut their taxes. He has PROMISED oil and gas will get everything they want.
What has he promised us? Nothing.
The election is a bill sum game. It has been for 100 years. It’s either Republican or Democratic: take your pick. It hasn’t gone third party for a century. Assuaging your conscience and blaming others will change nothing.
Those who don’t learn from history blah blah blah.
Please learn.