seeing both libs and chuds taking turns freaking out over the results has been fun, but the high can only last so long
i dont kno about u guys but i dont think we’ll be doing much laughing over politics for a long time…it didnt rly sink in for me until tonight but this is literally the worst outcome, i did not consider a scenario with Biden and a GOP senate, i dont think anyone did post covid it seemed like an assumption he would win the senate if he won in a presumed landslide
this is the worst of both worlds, all the worst most insufferable ppl are validated by Biden’s “electability” over Bernie and we have no path to push for Dems to actually do something to improve ppl’s lives
it’s like Bernie/the left lost twice from both sides and it fucking sucks
this is like if the response to the 2008 financial crisis was Biden starting his Presidency in Obama’s last 2 years
I don’t know that I would have trusted Biden + a Dem Senate to get any change done, no matter how inconsequential it would be to everyday people. Obamacare was the crowning accomplishment of Obama + a Dem Congress, so its hard for me to believe that Biden would have done much more than that.
What worries me more is that a Biden victory would validate the Dems “Republican Lite” strategy and having a Republican Senate will give them a built in excuse for not doing anything at all. Not only that I fear that Biden really will try and go the austerity route to appease Republicans.
the goal/hope/case for leftists voting Biden was to protest Biden and the Dems on day 1 and grassroots pressure to stop a repeat of Obama’s first 2 years
fuck Chomsky and anyone who listened to him tbh
Yeah, it’s a naive idea to believe. Especially when you consider that Obama and the Dems brushed aside a number of grassroots movements (Occupy, BLM, Dakota Access Pipeline).
Leave him alone he’s 90 something.
The people who listened to him need their brains checked.
Biden + Republican Senate = hypercharged imperialism plus economic violence against the American people in the name of pragmatism… not even to mention the kind of national security laws they’re going to pass to target the left and anyone with an anti-imperialist thought in their head. Those outside the US lose, those inside lose.
I remain convinced the best case would have been Trump winning another term but Dems taking the Senate for maximum infighting, division, and internal strife.
Those outside the US lose, those inside lose. Yes but on the bright side, we both lose half as bad as their energy is split between us, so there’s that. I remain convinced the best case would have been Trump winning another term but Dems taking the Senate for maximum infighting, division, and internal strife. same
I don’t feel confident that I even know which outcome is the worst anymore. America is walking through a political minefield and the only discussion now is about whether it’s better to beeline straight across or sort of zig zag around.
the narrative I’m seeing is damage control for Dems losing the Senate as if they were not heavily favored to win and that Biden was a uniquely good and only he could have flipped GA, AZ, etc
and blaming Bernie the left for Florida and everything else
“Andrew Yang was on the panel making decent points, considering he’s a libertarian, and rebutted that point saying specifically that these words are hard coded to dumb definitions and that democrats need to get back to talking to the working class about material issues like their labor and making sure they’re taken care of.”
Nah, they’re gonna triple down and try to stomp us into centrist scumbags. Go to war with your base, great idea, see y’all at the guillotine :)
