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liberals reassure you that good things will not happen

btw dejoy still has a job lmao

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 days ago (3 children)

One thing I'm tired of hearing from liberal apologists is "We don't know how she'll govern" or retreating to "well the Walz pick says a lot." Her and Walz have said they're going to support Isreal. And now she's saying this which 100% aligns with her business friendly record. We know exactly what she's going to do.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

every dem politician has to meet their progressiveness quota somehow. she's getting hers by being a black woman, which frees up points for her to dump into fascism

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

People will then often sorta handwaved it away. Like oh they don't mean that. Which of course makes Kamala a liar much like the dang Cheeto.

Which is it liberals? Is she a ghoul who wants to do genocide and support big business or is she a liar politician who speaks no truth? She must be one based on her own words

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I mean definitely. But liberals will somehow believe neither

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

But she might raise the tax rate on corporations by .5% (while giving them a ton of concessions like weakening the FTC and SEC)

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Going to start telling liberals I'm a single issue voter but in regards to the post office. They get my vote only after they shitcan DeJoy and fund it properly. We all know this will never happen, so I'm safely allowed to not vote for Democrats for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Going to start telling liberals I'm a single issue voter but in regards to the post office. They get my vote only after they shitcan DeJoy and fund it properly.

That was so Jokerfying to me to see that piece of shit deliberately sabotage a part of government that is actually cool and good all to try to maintain the trump-moist regime with ratfucking, and even after that regime (temporarily?) ended, the piece of shit was still there. jokerfied

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

all to try to maintain the trump-moist regime

Congress has been inching towards postal privatization for a while. Bush put the insane rules for bankrolling retirement benefits fifty years in advance into effect in order to back door defund them. Reagan capped the rate at which they could raise postal rates to prevent competition with UPS or FedEx. I'm sure Nixon did some shit, too.

It's been an office under siege for decades.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

That time you're a communist just because of the post office

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Already started putting my clown make up on as Walz bumbled his way through the politics of joy pablum at the debate.

I guess Bidenomics isn't the new party orthodoxy, but was in part Biden's personal concessions to "the Left" --explains why Bernie and AOC went to bat for him, even as he turned into the living dead in real time.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised they are looking to get rid of Kahn as they jump to the right

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

i'm sure google has been shoveling cash her way

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

every statement letting air out of her poll numbers like a deflating balloon

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

I wish this were true, but nobody is keeping the score on these shit except Wall Street ghouls.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The thing is that a lot of libs would probably support privatization of the postal system. I’ve heard them respond to its privatization with “oh. Well that’s not a problem because Amazon can easily do everything they do”

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’ve heard them respond to its privatization with “oh. Well that’s not a problem because Amazon can easily do everything they do”

Fuuuuck. Just reading that pulled me from one coast to the other and for a moment I feel surrounded by smug techbro fucks all over again. They're the same ones that said they'd be pleased if the public libraries all went away because le Amazon is like a library but better.

libbing-out libbing-out libbing-out debord-tired libbing-out libbing-out libbing-out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lol I heard this from Upstate New York liberals. The type who act like cosmopolitan New Yorkers while living in their gated cul-de-sacs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I guess I should be glad I don't live too close to the east coast's version of Napa Valley cave dwellers.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Lina Khan was supposed to be the Anti-Trust savior

vote football-lucy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

I feel dumb for ever thinking she might be better than Biden in at least 1 or 2 ways, at least beyond being not obviously senile.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

To be fully transparent, the next paragraph says her team disputes that characterization.

But I remember similar articles before Obamacare was passed talking about how the admin had started assuring private insurance that there would be no public option in the final bill.

And lo and behold, we know what happened there.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

two finance executives close to Harris

some things never change

Also:

Vice-president builds ties with finance bosses in attempt to quell support for Donald Trump

eco-porky brrrrrrrrrrrr capitalist-woke brrrrrrrrrrrr porky-happy brrrrrrrrrrrr

capitalist-laugh the-democrat capitalist-laugh the-republican

the-pigs the-pigs vote the-pigs the-pigs

you-are-a-serf you-are-a-serf you-are-a-serf you-are-a-serf you-are-a-serf

three-heads-thinking thought-l
CHAPTER 1

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

HOLY FUCK ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHERE THE HELL WILL I SIT WHEN I EAT MY FAMOUS BOWL?

(guy who thinks Kamala is going to remove all KFC chairs)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

vote for the equal of two evils

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Considering Blue MAGA ha e fully embraced the "lesser evil" label as if its a good thing, I wonder how long it will take for them to embrace that

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you want angry evil or laughing maniacally evil?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Folie a Dem kelly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

They'll be embracing Chulthu 2016's "vote for the greater evil" soon enough

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

Make America Evil Again vs In This House, We Believe In Evil

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

“America is already evil. America is already nefarious. And I promise you, our treachery, our evilness, does not depend on Donald Trump.”

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

Thanks for the DeJoy memories. I've got a lot of mileage out of him. Could not imagine a better example of how both major parties are on the same team.

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

As if genocide weren't enough