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Journal by fustakrakich

That the Democrats lose House seats, do not win the Senate and barely manage to drag their demented presidential candidate towards a stalemate tells a lot about their lack of sane policies. A donor party completely disinterested in what the people really want - medicare for all, no fracking etc. - will have little chance to survive a future onslaught of conservatives with a more competent figure head than Donald Trump. ...should Trump lose this election, Trumpism will only grow and make the U.S. ungovernable.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 05 2020, @04:44PM (15 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday November 05 2020, @04:44PM (#1073459) Journal

    We're gonna win by the rules of that system. I'm just saying it's fucked that we need at least four million extra votes to make it happen.

    National popular Vote passed in CO, by the way. Sorry khallow!

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 05 2020, @04:58PM (14 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday November 05 2020, @04:58PM (#1073468) Journal

    I'm just saying it's fucked that we need at least four million extra votes to make it happen.

    No, it's fucked, that despite all his hostility and bullshit, the democrats still can't get 40 million votes to make it happen. You still don't get the message.

    As predicted, congress is still ~50-50. Exactly how the Party wants it. The best the dems can accomplish is deadlock (which now we need), story of their lives..., more correctly their intention all along. The Broadway play is a smashing success

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2020, @05:38PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2020, @05:38PM (#1073490)

      Exactly. Because if the democrats had won the prez, and overwhelming majorities in the House and the Senate, then they would actually have to govern instead of argue and complain about "obstruction". They would have no excuse, if they had all the votes.

      Now they can continue to complain about being "obstructed" by the republicans, which of course their base will believe because CNN will tell them it is true, and they can continue as they were.

      Their worst nightmare would have been to have now been on the hook for actually doing something, with only themselves to blame for the inevitable blowup.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2020, @06:27PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2020, @06:27PM (#1073506)
        You're not wrong to call out dems for not doing a good enough job, but repugs do NOT get a pass because yes, they have obstructed a HELL of a lot.
        • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 05 2020, @07:22PM

          by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday November 05 2020, @07:22PM (#1073516) Journal

          Nobody is giving the GOP a pass. The democrats catch their well deserved shit because they don't really oppose the republicans. If they did, the numbers would reflect a real massive popular support for them.

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          La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 05 2020, @07:51PM (9 children)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday November 05 2020, @07:51PM (#1073524) Journal

      No, it's fucked, that despite all his hostility and bullshit, the democrats still can't get 40 million votes to make it happen.

      Biden has over 72 million votes right now. That's the most any President has ever gotten.

      Are you saying we're supposed to flip 40 million Fox viewers? I don't get what you're trying to say...

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 05 2020, @08:13PM (2 children)

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday November 05 2020, @08:13PM (#1073529) Journal

        Biden has over 72 million votes right now.

        So what? The other guy isn't far behind. The candidates that you cling to are not very motivational. You remain totally dependent on the other guy's fuck ups to "flip" any votes. In the meantime there's a whole shitload of non voters that you can try to convince that your party is different and not fully complicit. As usual that campaign never goes anywhere.

        And congress? Oh well... Botched that even worse. Steady as she goes...

        For Trump? Yeah, we can blame the democrats [washingtonpost.com]...

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        La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @09:13AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @09:13AM (#1073683)

          The other guy is a Looser! A Tosser! A Wanker! A Republicant! Sucks to be him! Oh, the humilitation! The shame! The personally secured loans!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @09:03PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @09:03PM (#1073879)

          You still can't get a delusional lefty to understand that DJT didn't win, HRC lost. Literally any other Democrat would have beaten Trump. The sole thing that got him elected was half the population voting against "Killary".

          Then they tried to repeat that feat with the second most hated senile idiot they could find, and almost succeeded.

      • (Score: 1) by NPC-131072 on Thursday November 05 2020, @10:07PM

        by NPC-131072 (7144) on Thursday November 05 2020, @10:07PM (#1073558) Journal

        Hello fren,

        We must mobilize the forces of truaninonashufodoprezure.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 05 2020, @10:10PM (4 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) on Thursday November 05 2020, @10:10PM (#1073559) Homepage Journal

        Allow me to repeat that I'm a conservative minded person who would have happily voted for Tulsi. So I agree with Fusti: it's a shame that Biden wa the best you could offer.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @04:50AM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @04:50AM (#1073641)

          And when it comes to Trump you say "I wish he would shut his mouth" because you're perfextly fine with his type of fascism. Here is what his good friend and founder of your favorite 'newz' site had to say recently.

          In the video of his podcast War Room: Pandemic, Bannon called for Fauci and FBI director Chris Wray to get fired at the start of President Donald Trump's second term should he be re-elected. In the video the former Breitbart executive chairman said he'd "like to go a step farther," but said "the president's a kind hearted man."

                  Disturbingly, he doesn't hesitate before saying he'd like to "go back to the old times of Tudor England" to implement medieval sentences for Fauci and Wray. "I'd put the heads on pikes, right? I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to Federal Bureaucrats: you either get with the program or you're gone.

          Quality people you prop up there boy.

          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 06 2020, @05:32AM (2 children)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) on Friday November 06 2020, @05:32AM (#1073648) Homepage Journal

            Titty for tatty: You're happy to prop up petty dictators who have clearly stated that they have no respect for the Constitution which they are sworn to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

            No sworn officer of the United States has sworn to defend the government, or to defend any particular office. They are sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. That includes the Second Amendment, just as much as any of the rest of the constitution.

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            Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @06:20AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @06:20AM (#1073653)

              We are going to take you out, Runaway! We will do it by not responding to your posts. Your journals with rot and die on the vine, from lack of comments. Your election commentary will go unnoticed, un-commented upon, unremarked. We will have nothing to say to you. Yes, this is harsh, since we know you have no friends anywhere else, but for the same reasons those friends dumped you, we at SoylentNews must also bid you adieu. Goodbye , Runaway.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @07:39AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @07:39AM (#1073668)

              zombies
              oh
              my
              god

              i've eaten your brainz runaway, and gnawed on that titty too. little too much gristle but what's a zombie gunna do? as i tried to explain, even texas has gun control. i'm not sure who i'm talking to at this point, since i can't catch a whiff of brains even around your ears. even we zombies have rotting brainz.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @10:06AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @10:06AM (#1073694)

      The best the dems can accomplish is deadlock (which now we need)

      A good number of congresscritters are ripe for covid. Keep it on the exponential like now for 2-3 weeks, overflow [youtube.com] the hospitals with Runaways and then bless mitch mcconnell and his ilk with rona.