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    Is it truly hyperbole? Biden's admin looks similar to whose admin? Kamala is just like Biden, an empty vessel.
    theyre both milquetoast democrats. nothing to be inspired by, nothing to fear

    We don't have to agree, which is fine by me, but time and time again hyperbole is a tool used by the left. "Bloodbath","Dictator","Hitler","our democracy","Handmaiden's Tale",etc....
    and yeah you are doing the same thing in this convo...

    It's not hyperbole to claim the real threat is another 4 yrs under the same boot of real fascists who work with the private sector to silence their political opponents,
    i dont think there is a single instance of the government having demanded any social medial profiles to be banned, suspended, shadowbanned, etc. its also bizarre to claim this when trumps biggest ally right now is elon musk who literally owns twitter and uses it as a republican megaphone. i cant fathom being mad because there were some hints of social media bias but then being ok with musk's version of twitter which is so much more outwardly aligned with a particular candidate (soon to be president) than anything we've seen before

    try to imprison their political opponent,
    im ok with people being investigated for crimes and being charged where appropriate. i dont care if this is a former president or the president's son. this is a non-issue to me as long as there is actual evidence of the crimes being committed. they investigated hillary and i was fine with that. they investigated trump and i was fine with that. they investigated biden (and his son) and i was fine with that, and will continue to be. the mere fact that somebody is a political figure shouldnt suddenly make them immune from prosecution. we are not some monarchy where people should be above the law... though i guess maybe now we are with SCOTUS claiming presidents have immunity

    de-person(persona non grata) those they disagree with,
    again, this cant be a serious criticism of the left given the opposition. its night and day. biden makes some remark about a "bullseye" in a private speech and has to go apologize for it. trump says liz cheney ought to face a firing squad and nobody bats an eye. this to me is a completely made up, crocodile tear complaint and unless you are willing to say the same x10 for the right, then you arent really serious about it

    telling us we're in good shape while we all clearly feel the weight of our economy on our backs,
    nobody can speak to 330 million people about each person'd individual experience. ive had a pretty damn good time financially for the last several years. i understand my cir stances are not the same as others. we can only point to broad trends and general statistics. if the unemployment rate is 3.1% but you just got fired last week, that doesnt mean you'd be correct in saying "wow this labor market sucks ass, unemployment is a huge problem in the country."

    yeah, inflation was rough. it was a global issue though, not something that biden specifically did (american rescue plan certainly didnt help). and we fared better than most of the world on inflation. we've driven inflation back down without plunging into a recession or having mass unemployment. any way you slice it, its a big win. no, the ulative effects on inflation over time isnt magically undone, but you arent getting deflation without a big recession. so you basically have to choose which is worse. recession/unemployment, or inflation. and for about 2 years now, real wages (inflation adjusted) have gone up. so statistically, people have more purchasing power than they did a couple of years ago. by spring of next year, real wages would have completely beaten out the entirety of the inflation we had been through.

    again, this cant speak to each person's individual experience or the "weight of the economy on everyone's back" but its is generally speaking... true.

    claiming we should have free this or that while they send billions to a non Nato ally to give them everything they claim they want for us, etc... It's an illusion you've bought into.
    those funds come from the defense budget. you cant just take money allocated to defense and instead apply them to... homelessness. if you think defense spending is too high and social spending is too low, you might want to learn a thing or two about the people about to take control of the purse strings.

    The real threat is claiming more than half of the voting demo in this nation are deplorable is and will be their biggest mistake.
    this is the same crocodile tears as above tbh. trump regularly calls people who vote against him as sick, evil people, the enemy within, etc etc. if you really cared about this, you'd be more so vocal about it as it relates to trump. you might call it deflection, but it just shows you're not seriously concerned about this as a principled issue

    Again, I voted Obama twice and the only thing that got me questioning everything was the hatred for Trump post-escalator. I wondered how he was so beloved when I was growing up, by Whoopi and all celebs, DC, et al, only to be demonized once he ran for office. It boggled my mind and I sat there in 2016 during election night, with my dying grandfather who was a very smart electrical engineer from the 70's, as we both watched in excitement that the Clinton Dynasty was finally squashed. Trump didn't need my vote nor my grandfather's to beat that old hag. We didn't vote but we knew the alternative would be true for the USA and all of us Americans. My wake up call was the mountain of hate from the tolerant, or so I was told, left.
    while im never going to agree with him policy wise, i can legitimately see how 2016 trump appealed to people. but the rhetoric of 2016 trump, and even though he was full of , his claims about wanting to help the working class who had been left behind, etc... has some pull

    but he doesnt even pretend about that stuff anymore. its all just grievance, vengeance with him now. people were tired of him in 2020, and then the he pulled after the election should have completely ended his political relevance.

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    Yeah but I mean it's a thought. I can't wait until all these old ers that voted Trump have a pre existing condition and get their doctor bill.
    trump will ride the good economy and will implement awful things that will only begin to be felt after he's out of office and some democrat will be stuck trying to clean it up only to get blamed for it

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    It’s a testament to how incompetent, ineffective, and impotent the Democratic Party is that it not only lost, but did so in a historic manner, to a convicted felon who ran on a platform of autocracy, horrible economic policy, and sheer stupidity. In this thread let’s post our reasons why the DNC fumbled yet another imminently winnable election.

    Mine, in no particular order:

    -Re ed economic policy that unnecessarily increased taxes on the non-1% while claiming it only affected the 1%, along with re ation like taxing unrealized gains sprinkled in for good measure
    -Not distancing from Biden on key issues *cough*Gaza*cough
    -Having absolutely no explanation for tectonic shifts in policy like fracking
    -Not pushing the old man out until 100 days from Election Day
    -No open primary
    -Waltz
    I mean this country is re ed. The idea that the far left could have done better is really ing stupid when every single poll shows that the average person in the election thinks that Kamala was too far left as it is.

    The guys are stuff you're posting about is especially re ed because there's zero polls anywhere that shows that anyone gives two ing s outside of the far left on Twitter about the Palestinians. Especially considering they elected someone who's going to absolutely wipe Palestine and Hamas off the map. The fact that Palestine and Hamas are going to get genocided is the one positive of this whole ing thing tbh. I can't wait for the far left to stop pretending to care about all this now

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    It’s not cope. If she changed her messaging on Gaza, she easily could have won MI on that issue alone. To say nothing of the others
    There were like 400,000 Jewish poople in Pennsylvania. And she lost that despite winning them 75 to 25. The idea that people would give two s about Gaza is a joke, especially considering that Trump wants to wipe it off the map

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    1. Genocides are not a good campaign strategy
    2. Celebrating war criminals supporting you is not a good campaign strategy

    Oh and we dodged a bullet imo


    I mean being pro-genocide work for Trump. Have you seen literally zero of his comments about Bibi and Hamas?

    The genocide you're pretending to care about right now is going to continue at full steam ahead. It's the one positive of this whole . I can't wait for those Hamas roaches to be wiped off the map

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    The inevitable conclusion of Dem post mortem analysis

    This meme would have been very accurate in 2020 as well, but you wouldn't have said then

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    They do have a few positives to go on from this:

    - An inept idiot running the country for (at least) the next 4 years, which will give them plenty of fodder for the midterms and 2028.
    - Confirmation that Harris is unelectable and can be scratched off the list

    What's more difficult to see is how dinosaurs like Joe, Pelosi, Schumer, etc stop running the party into the ground, tbh...
    I mean we already had Bernie and he was completing total failure despite being given every possible advantage he could have...who would you have nominated?

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    There were like 400,000 Jewish poople in Pennsylvania. And she lost that despite winning them 75 to 25. The idea that people would give two s about Gaza is a joke, especially considering that Trump wants to wipe it off the map
    tell that to the 100k population of Dearborn or the 200k middle easterners who live elsewhere in Michigan

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    It's either we believe we have a country, borders are a thing, or we don't. It's not about emboldening racists to do they otherwise may not have.

    There's going to be racists for as long as humanity is a thing on this Earth, unfortunately. How we deal with such nonsense is pivotal. Growing up in the 90's we made fun of those racists, we joked between races, and no one was easily offended. We need to get back to those days and unite once again.



    Stop putting yourself in a box and labeling yourself this or that for one. Second, I hear, read, your concerns and they'll valid no doubt. You handle the nonsense as it comes but speculating that your grandmother is going to be hunted down is just going to cause you to go mental. It's def concerning and I saw similar when 9/11 happened and my best friend was being accused endlessly of being a terrorist when he's merely a nerdy Jew, from south Texas, with a beard.

    There's no easy answers, bud. We just can't keep going on letting illegals step over our borders and giving them handouts while we neglect our own citizens and their struggle. Same goes for foreign aid. We have to reestablish what we want to be as a whole, and that means left and right, not fringe extremes.

    I hope the best for you and your family Leet. Try to keep your head up and protect your family at all costs.
    I appreciate the response. hard to argue with a lot of that. All i can do is control what i can control and take care of my family. I think in the end that is really what most of us want, for us and our families to feel safe/protected in our own country. But i'm not going to lie and say i'm not extremely disappointed and pretty deflated tbh. But i already knew this is how the election would turn out, you could just tell there was not the same enthusiasm for Kamala and the vibes were all manufactured BS. At least i dont have to pretend i like her now

    I will say though, i get you dont like the rhetoric that gets thrown around (dictator, next hitler, etc) and think its hyperbole, but the commie stuff is kinda the same thing. i think if we are trying to foster healthy discourse then perhaps its better to not always accuse the other side of being a communist or a racist or a tranny or whatever just sayin

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    tell that to the 100k population of Dearborn or the 200k middle easterners who live elsewhere in Michigan
    Are you re ed or something? She lost way more than one state.

    I mean Palestine will be gone by February now, so who gives a about it anyways

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    Are you re ed or something? She lost way more than one state.

    I mean Palestine will be gone by February now, so who gives a about it anyways
    I'm aware of how the electoral college works, but thanks for asking. My point is that losing one of three critical blue wall states was an unforced error.

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    I'm aware of how the electoral college works, but thanks for asking. My point is that losing one of three critical blue wall states was an unforced error.
    How long are you going to pretend to care about Palestine? Because you voting against or gloating about the loss of Harris and Walz is really disastrous for it

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    How long are you going to pretend to care about Palestine? Because you voting against or gloating about the loss of Harris and Walz is really disastrous for it
    what the actual are you talking about? I never said I did or did not care about Palestine. I am talking about a potential strategic move to gather more votes. Based on your level of reading comprehension, I guessing you voted for the ole orange feller huh?

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    And..... There it is.......

    Called it


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    And..... There it is.......

    Called it


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    Caption: Israelis entering Lebanon

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    im actually glad that at least this time we can avoid the discourse about

    1) popular vote vs electoral vote fairness

    2) third parties ruined everything

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    Caption: Israelis entering Lebanon
    unless trump backs them and basically just diverts all the ukraine aid to israel

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    Caption: Israelis entering Lebanon
    Trump is about to give them whatever they want you're delusional if you think this Zionists you hate so much aren't about to go HAM on the middle east

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    unless trump backs them and basically just diverts all the ukraine aid to israel
    Ita already happening now. It will continue under trump.

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    better stock up on kubideh because Iran is going bye bye

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    Trump is about to give them whatever they want you're delusional if you think this Zionists you hate so much aren't about to go HAM on the middle east
    They are already getting whatever they want

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    better stock up on kubideh because Iran is going bye bye
    Very unlikely

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    Ita already happening now. It will continue under trump.
    So Biden = Kamala = Trump. Cool

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    So Biden = Kamala = Trump. Cool
    When it comes to Israel. Most likely

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