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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Looked at the dem votes for the last few elections and it looked consistent except for biden. Who somehow got way more than normal.

2008 69 mil 2012 65 mil 2016 65 mil 2020 81 mil 2024 66 mil

[–] captain_aggravated 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

votes for Biden were "anything oh god anything but this."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So I guess we do this again in four years? Assuming elections are still a thing.

[–] captain_aggravated 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think I'm just done. as many Democrats as Ive voted for and the best they can do is "Not as actively evil?" tired of it. Starting to think if we're going to hell on a bucket maybe I should be the one holding the handle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

The dems are not our party. I don't they ever will be in the foreseeable future. The issue is not making the dems win but stopping the GOP.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If elections still exist, and the Democratic Party still hasn't been deposed, yes. We'll likely have a mass of people voting to get rid of Trump's chaos for anyone else, and the Dems will receive a boost. Then, when they run the same milquetoast candidate 4 years later with nothing to offer but "better than the alternative," they'll fail again.

It's basically the same back and forth pendulum as before, but accelerated. Now incumbents can't even expect to receive all 8 years before the pendulum shifts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're probably right, but I hate that you're probably right. No fault of yours.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's okay, I hate that I'm probably right too. Today has been a really shitty day for being right. I'm probably going to spend the rest of my life thinking about how this last decade went, and if there was anything more I could have done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but it didn't carry. Guess everyone forgot Trump.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The Biden campaign offered something, notably student loan forgiveness, but both Clinton and Harris's campaigns relied on the dumbfuck Pied Piper strategy that they would offer nothing to the voters other than being not-Trump.

That's a dumb fucking strategy because there are fewer people that will vote Democrat as the lesser evil than will vote Republican just because Republican. They have to court people with policies they actually want.

And the absolute crazy thing is they tried this in 2016 and it failed, yet somehow had the balls to try again when it mattered more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And the absolute crazy thing is they tried this in 2016 and it failed, yet somehow had the balls to try again when it mattered more.

They could blame 2016 on Hillary, not on the "I'm not him" strategy. Go figure that a 20+ year campaign to paint a woman as the literal devil would in fact cause problems for her at the ballot box, right? Who would have guessed except for anyone with a functional frontal cortex?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

The Harris campaign sent BOTH Clintons out to "rally" voters. So Hillary went to Florida.

And Bill went to Michigan and spent his time browbeating the Muslim community there about the war in Gaza.

Who OK'd this? Were they born in the heart of a dying star, cause they must be the densest mofuckas on Earth.

[–] piccolo 2 points 2 weeks ago

Tbf, you would have to hate yourself a lot to look at trump and say "eh... i dont agree with him and he's likely to completely fuck the country and endanger millions of innocent lives.. but look! The democrats are only saying that they arent trump. I better not do a damn thing and hope for the best!"

I guess democrats are just are idiotic and short visioned as republicans. Perhaps they are in fact the same.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also the only white male in those years…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I had the same thought....