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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Soon the DNC will be nothing more than Biden and his staffers who manipulate him like a large marionette. They will be president but an impotent president because the parliamentarian will be in the way.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's already there, and has been for years. Like the "party" is a couple of dynastic power cliques and the scum that circle their feet foragin for scraps from the high table. There's nothing that you could call a political party in the conventional sense.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I saw a Bluesky post that said Americans think a small group of people choose national candidates. It was by a clever liberal so at first I thought he was being snarky and making fun of his own followers. But when he replied in the comments I realized his post wasn't ironic. It was 100% unironic. He actually has American civil religion brain.

I've seen his posts for years and it makes me laugh that it was only that day that I realized he's a shitlib. I've never seen him say anything about "The West Wing" - but I decided right then he's surely a fan boy.

This Biden situation really has brought out the shitlibs would can't resist using social media to lecture people on how things actually work and/or need to work.

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a big takeaway from all of the Biden drama is that huge swathes of the public — including reasonably engaged people — think that political parties are a small cabal of elites who select candidates by hand

https://subium.com/profile/notalawyer.bsky.social/post/3kwj3o3rbhl2s

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ugh the DNC has literally said this in open court what is wrong with Libs??!?!?!?!?

And they're all still malding about 2016, of course. Fucking... losers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's a lawyer too so I assume he'd die on the hill of the phrasing "[nobody] selects candidates by hand". People vote so blah blah blah.

Also - Bluesky is hilarious right now. The libs are basically smugly saying one of the following or even somehow both at the same time.

  • Nobody can be certain about anything.

  • Congress is back in session. AOC endorsed Biden plus any and all efforts to remove Biden are now dead. Get over it convention chaos bros - he's the nominee.

 

I can't be certain Biden's going to have more "bad days" but I'm damn close to certain. Does that count?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're gonna blame us for this for years, aren't they?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Yeap.

Here's a tweet that could actually be from the future.

"Look, when Biden fell down and broke his hip in September - that was exactly the time for the extreme-left to help out. But did they? No! They made meme after meme kicking the president went he was down. Sure, I get it. They hate Biden and they hate America. But they helped Tr*mp! They helped elect Tr*mp! It's like they voted for Tr*mp! And Tr*mp won! I - for one - will never forgive them. 1/87"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oh, congress is back in session? How's AOC's plan to impeach SCOTUS going?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Wull ACKSHUALLY the Democrats don't pick candidates via shady deals in backrooms filled with cigar smoke! They don't let us smoke in there anymore! Checkmate, tankie!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Appealing to the gen Z vote by doing shady deals in back rooms full of vape clouds