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On the Border, the choice is simple.
Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of border patrol agents.
Donald Trump blocked a bill to increase the number of border patrol agents.
Kamala Harris supports investing in new technology to block fentanyl from entering the country.
Donald Trump blocked funding for technology to block fentanyl from entering the country.
Kamala Harris supports spending more money to stop human traffickers.
Donald Trump blocked money to stop human traffickers.
Kamala Harris prosecuted transnational gang members and got them sentenced to prison.
Trump is trying to avoid being sentenced to prison
There's two choices in this election:
The one who will fix our broken immigration system and the one who's trying to stop her.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most braindead, easiest two term president ever (and maybe even repeal the amendment capping terms... who knows):

Openly tell Joe to force Bibi to sign a ceasefire agreement. In the meantime, start openly speaking with the UN to figure out how to enforce some sort of international peacekeeping thing in Palestine broadly speaking (including Israel if unclear)

Promise to name and shame senators and representatives and personally pressure them using all means possible to get a medicare for all bill done. Throw Manchin under the bus as an appetizer and throw Biden under the bus for being a pussy.

Promise to name and shame and use all pressures possible including arrests to force through a nationalization of fossil fuels and immediate drawn down of their production with a simultaneous build up of solar and other non-fossil fuels.

Promise to day one immediately begin negotiations with all the nations that have US bases in them currently to begin the process of pulling troops from the countries and handing the bases back. Set a hard goal of 50% of all overseas bases fully evacuated of US troops within the first term

All of this stuff directly benefits normal, working Americans and only harms the capitalist and political class. But if you betray the capitalists well you basically set yourself up to be a god in your own time or get your head blown off. And honestly, just in my opinion, if you aren't aiming for one of those goals as the leader of a bourgeois democracy... I don't want you leading it. The right wingers love Trump in part because he LIES about half of this shit. Imagine if someone from the left (obv not gonna be Kamala, although she had and is squandering a chance at being revered forever in the US) got in and actually did that shit that basically all Americans are on board with or would be on board with once it was done.

Well maybe if I keep dreaming about it I'll get to live it... in the moments immediately preceding my death, right before my asshole finally gives out and poo fills my shorts, I can live in a sane country.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

yeah any of this stuff is a one way ticket to a head explodey from some "deranged lone wolf"

lol i finished typing that and somehow didn't see you posted the same thing

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Promise to day one immediately begin negotiations with all the nations that have US bases in them currently to begin the process of pulling troops from the countries and handing the bases back. Set a hard goal of 50% of all overseas bases fully evacuated of US troops within the first term

You'd have a week at most after promising this one. Probably just a day or two.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

some “deranged lone wolf”

he was "known to the FBI"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, you don’t understand so many Dems out there. There’s some wild Democrats who think the party is already far too left for them, that think that Palestinians are the ones who want genocide against Israelis, that the poors are getting too uppity. Way too many ‘moderate Dems’ out there to break the party should they push to left.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the party is well to the right of the electorate, what are you on

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

Both things are true at once. The party is ultra rightist, but there are significant numbers of Democrats who are either former republicans or "moderates", and basically have their political identity based around being "enlightened centrists" who are supposed to be to the right of the dems and left of the gop.

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

why a political party needs demcent tbh