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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 35 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Yeah I just saw that. Ridiculous.
And in 2 years he'll probably "regret" not doing anything.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

2 years he might come to regret that decision in January when Trump usess his new powers to lock his ass up.

If fucking Biden lose in November he better use that new gift to stop Trump. Dumbass really wants to use this to fundraiser on, Biden so out of fucking touch he got no clue that we are just this vote away from a Christofascist state.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He knows, but the thing is that the Democrats are about as afraid of fascism as you are gasoline in your car. They use the threat of fascism to help scare people to the polls and to donate money, which is partly why they never seem to be in a big hurry to squash it. Problem being, of course, that people eventually get fear fatigue and stop paying attention. Kinda like how in the wake of 9/11, the government would announce terror threat levels, and they were always orange or red, indicating super double plus serious danger, and eventually people stopped caring because life must go on. Well, people get fatigued of it and then the fascists win again, which provides another big, though temporary, shot of support to the democrats. Meanwhile, the democrats don't have to make any real, serious campaign or policy commitments besides "don't be fascist". Everything else they do (and don't get me wrong, they do some good stuff sometimes) is just running up the score. So, for the centrist democrats that run the DNC and Biden campaign, this feels like a pretty good Wednesday for fundraising, even though we all see it as the literal end of the Republic. They've been walking on the ice so long, they're convinced that while it is thin, they couldn't possibly fall through.

[–] hypnoton@discuss.online 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Plenty of the sitting Dems in Congress are millionaires who think they will do well under fascism anyway.

The Dems LARP as an anti-GOP force while secretly being OK with the GOP policies. It's all theater for the plebs, to convince us the lesser evil is keeping a larger evil at bay. All lies.

That's why the Dems are so goddamn anemic. The Dems love the status quo too, they just want little tweaks here and there, nothing disruptive.

Gavin Newsom (D) is why California does not have single payer healthcare today.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

In 2 years he'll be in a Federal prison (if not executed). Trump has basically promised it.

Refusing to stop Trump is literally suicidal on Biden's part.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Not just suicide at this point. We're looking at massacres. If Trump takes power by any means, political prisoners are guaranteed. It's the only way they stay powerful. And political prisoners have a very short lifespan.

Once political prisoners are taken, it's all downhill from there.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

That's why I didn't say 4 years lol

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] localme@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link. Here’s the least bad news from the article:

Even more dispiriting for Americans who want to see real reform? The most optimistic view any of the campaign surrogates could offer Monday was a promise that Biden would at least “have conversations” about court reform that would be non-starters under Trump. 

Crockett is part of a group of Democratic lawmakers advancing three separate pieces of court reform legislation — bills that would expand the court, implement term limits, and impose a binding ethics code on justices, respectively. “If we get the House, these are bills that we are going to try to push forward with,” Crockett said Monday. “I can guarantee you that if Trump is elected, he will never sign these into law.”

She added: “If Joe Biden is elected, we can at least sit down, have conversations and talk about why it’s important to institute these court reforms.”

For now, the prospect of future conversations is the most that Biden campaign surrogates can offer American voters — which is more than than the campaign itself was offering.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Even more dispiriting for Americans who want to see real reform? The most optimistic view any of the campaign surrogates could offer Monday was a promise that Biden would at least “have conversations” about court reform that would be non-starters under Trump.

This is the same language they used in 2020 for all the progressive stuff. That he then did nothing substantive on.