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It's been three years since Biden's inauguration and they've done nothing to incentivize people to vote for him a second time.

I don't get how libs can tolerate being taken for granted like this. They're not being mature or practical - they're accepting mistreatment by an establishment sworn to serve them.

Trump and his supporters aren't better, but at least he's telling them what they want to hear. He at least made sure to get checks out to people and had his signature stamped on them.

I dunno, at least there's a strategy there. And Biden has had four fucking years and he's done nothing to get people motivated to vote or even register to vote. Not even going into his participation in genocide, it's just a lack of strategy to the point of self-sabotage.

And the entire Democratic party is complicit in all of it. It's like they want to lose, because all I'm hearing are about how bad trump is/was. And it's like, I was fucking there. And after three years, all they can offer is to give him a verbal reprimand and coverage on every major news network, speech, and social media posting.

It's just mind-blowing to think of the wasted time and energy on the part of the US political system.

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  • The majority of Americans understanding of how politics impacts their lives in fundamentally vibes based. Their perception of material reality will literally warp from "America is doing great" to "America is not doing great" based off of their political color and the political color of the politician in power.

    I have had Trump supporters flat out tell me the world was amazing when Trump was president and that now biden is president there are gangs of ISIS-MSG-13 are razing the countryside and America is 100% communist, and vise versa when it's some shitlib.

    Like the most direct impact of political actions have had that Americans really have actually materially felt is the actions of the trade war, covid, and the artificial inflation of necessary commodities.

    • Covid was significant. It was the last time most of us can ever remember getting any useful monetary help from the govt. And Biden stepped in and dismantled it all while his cronies blamed our brief respute from poverty as the root of inflation.

      If I was not trans, I would probably see no direct and personal drawbacks to Trump round 2 (though I would have to abandon my compassion to handwave the everything else)

  • If biden loses there's no plans for the future, everything must ride on voting for biden. that's the beginning and end of politics

  • I remember how smug libs were when they were dangling that $2,000 carrot over everyone’s heads in 2020, saying things like “at least we know Biden won’t be vain enough to hold up the process just so the IRS can put his name on the check.”

    Then we were shorted $600 (or more, if the clattering neoliberal machine deemed you unworthy of additional help during a pandemic) and that check came with an additional piece of paper with a long winded thing about where this money came from, concluding with “this [$1,400] fulfills a promise I made to you.” So on top of getting fleeced by these slimeballs and gaslit about how “600+1400=2000,” those of us who received our crumbs were treated to a full page ad where Biden congratulates himself for a job mediocrely done. I remember thinking, “surely this was an unnecessary waste of time and ink, and likely delayed the distribution of the checks” but of course because it wasn’t done by a

    it was fine, and there’s probably an obscure rule that required it so he’s just showing us how a real president is supposed to act, or something
    .

    I have a turbolib friend that was needlessly combative with me when I brought up Joe’s long history of scumbaggery prior to even getting the nomination. I’ve been practicing for this year’s inevitable arguments, but I feel a lot more secure articulating my positions now that I’ve fully broken out of the lib cage.

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