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am_Unition  ·  261 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The New "Over the Top" Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024

Biden on Seth Meyers.

I guess now that I think about it, no one has just.. let him talk, right? He probably really does have handlers, or people who are at least subconsciously acting as some, keeping him from doing this kinda stuff, I guess. For whatever reason, he's been almost solely doing news/press conferences and speeches. He's lucid af. I know we all have our good days, maybe he was having a great day, but that was pretty good.

He blows it uber hard on Israel though. "I'm a Christian Zionist". That's gonna smell realllll moldy in the near-distant future. Seth did a good job pressing him about it, but Biden's almost entirely Israeli parrot. Eh, we talked about this elsewhere, I'll move on.

Biden's biggest rhetorical problem is that he says "...look, .." too much. That is acceptable. He's almost funny a few times (he is but shH). The Joe Biden LLM "beta_dark" is online and generating real-time content with admirable performance and minimal prompting. But seriously, this is tack he should take to win. And after all that shit, just say "oh yeah, and they repealed Roe. Watch, they'll come for Obergefell next, and contraception." Dare them to, bro. Kick Alito in the spiritual dick. Who cares anymore what him and Thomas have to say? And, again, don't forget to shit all over the House GOP, too. What cheap tactic are they not yet using that they can threaten to deploy? There is nothing. Say these kinds of things to people! Tell people how pathetic and stupid the GOP has become. Summarize the tactics they've tried to use against you. In between your anger (righteous, imho), laugh at them, because clowns like to know that they're appreciated.

As for all of the shitty corporatocracy garbage still deeply tied into the democratic party: Of course we should aspire to weed it out, but the only way it even possibly gets dealt with is if Trump fucks off. It's in the same vein as: I get how people can be pissed about the dems' failure to enshrine Roe, or legalize weed, whatever, but I'm sorry, "teaching dems a lesson at the ballot box" is torturing yourself. And me. edit: The "uncommitted" mass-coordinated protest vote in the Michigan primary tonight was righteous. Hell yeah, let the dems know they need to change. I can only get mad when it's protest votes in the general election.

We've gotta confront plenty of intra-dem problems, and Gaza is a fucking tragedy, but I have to vote Joe, no contest. Gaza-Israel would be no different, or maybe worse, with Trump. A tinge of guilt about this, but the video makes me feel just an infinitesimal bit better about things. Maybe the first time since dark brandon did the philly speech about fascism and Trump. Some of the legislative accomplishments have been pretty good, but this vid is close to The Way.





spencerflem  ·  261 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah I dont get why he hasnt been more on the offense. His main pitch is being "Not Trump", the resistance to their tyranny, and yet he usually acts like the GOP are respectful colleagues that he has a few quibbles with.

kleinbl00  ·  260 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nothing the Biden camp says now will make anyone vote for them in November and everything the Biden camp says now will be hopelessly parsed and regurgitated and recontextualized and recut like the Dean Scream until it's all butter emails butter emails butter emails butter emails.

When your enemy is making a mistake, do not interrupt him. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The correct move is to let Donald Trump hold the spotlight for everything that is about to happen to him until it stops happening to him. And it's not going to stop happening him for the foreseeable future.

spencerflem  ·  260 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I dont want him to win ofc, but its looking like Trump has at least 50/50 odds in the general. I'm not sure whatever you're hoping will happen to him will happen.

kleinbl00  ·  260 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's February.