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  • distantsounds@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    The fact that RFK jr and all his bullshit went unchallenged, and he could have landed in either party is the real problem.

    Trump and Biden were never seriously challenged either.

    The American political landscape is completely broken.

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      10 days ago

      Yeah, I mean look at Cuomo for mayor. Keeping around provably corrupt politicians became more common most notably with Donald Trump but it applies now to both parties.

      Cuomo shouldn’t be able to run for dog catcher after his actions, and yet he’s there at the top of the polls and getting endorsements from other establishment figures.

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        10 days ago

        Absolutely, and I truly believe it all comes back to money in politics. When money equals speech, money is represented, not the people. It’s nothing new & always been a problem, but Citizens United really accelerated it.

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        9 days ago

        Yet he’s still winning in the polls… There are millions of people in NYC who are still willing to vote for him because of name recognition.

  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    These people didn’t support Trump out of a selfless desire, out of altruism, out of a sense of love and patriotism for their country. They did it to benefit themselves.

    She just described the entire Trump administration. No thoughts, empty head.

    Also, when the talks, her mouth moves and her eyes blink but the rest of her face does not move and it’s freaking me out.

    • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Initially I just read the transcript, but after the warning I just had to hear for myself. It was absolutely spot on.

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    10 days ago

    The only reason why Kennedy left the Democrat Party, as he said, and joined the Republican Party is because he extorted Donald Trump. He extorted Donald Trump. He forced him under the pressure of – in the threat of a contingent election, that he wasn’t gonna drop out, and they were very calculated in the funding that they received to get on the ballot in certain states to take just enough electoral votes away from Donald Trump to force Congress to choose the next president of The United States. Okay? And Tulsi Gabbard made a deal with Trump too, to get a position in his administration.

    I can’t conceive of saying this about trump and still supporting him. A person susceptible to extortion is by definition not a good politician.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Also, she seems to think it’s only the HHS and Tulsi that are the joke in Taco’s regime?

      Imagine being so willfully stupid as to recognize that Bobby Brainworms and Tulsi are ridiculous and incompetent, but not see how utterly ridiculous Taco is.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 days ago

    It’s so annoying when people end their statements with an upward inflection like a question, okay? It makes you sound like a mouth-breathing moron, okay? It’s a sign that you aren’t a talented public speaker, okay right?

    Though I do miss that brief period where she and the orange bad were constantly photographed together and she was clearly chortling his junk, okay?

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    What is this “Democrat Party” that I keep hearing so much about from the crazies?

    No such party exists. If you cannot even get the goddamn name of the party right (many of them doing this on purpose, of course), then I have no need to listen to anything you have to say about them…it’s one thing for the average person on the 'net or whatever to do playful names, but prominent people on the right have been doing this for literal decades.

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      9 days ago

      It works as a good dipshit detector. If someone says “democrat party”, you know it’s about to be someone’s conservative uncle.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Thing is, even their most prominent people say it, including Taco.

        Much like them arguing about who is more “maga” (a completely undefined term with no policies and no real principles - it’s just baby-talk) , it tells me that cons and the Republicans are entirely unserious people.

        When their spokescreatures and politicians open up their mouth to talk about “the Democrat Party”, it just sounds like they are just trying to troll the other party, or they are so deeply ignorant as to not even know what the name of the party even is. I’m not sure which is worse.

  • mcv@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    The reason Kennedy left the Democratic Party and joined Trump, is because Kennedy is a dangerous idiot and Trump os a gullible fool, and Democratic voters don’t tolerate his idiocy.

    Trump switched for the same reason. He said so explicitly: Republicans are easier to con.