he’s gonna get blown out in the lowest-turnout election in modern American history
In the lib brain - American civil religion is the most important thing in the universe and voting is a sacred covenant. The typical r/politics redditor the night of election day will unironically say…
Look, if people had turned out - Biden would have won and our democracy would have saved. But they didn’t so we fucking get Trump again.
I’ll want to say - I dunno - isn’t the super-low turnout Biden’s fault?
It’s wild how there’s so much entitlement inherent to that attitude:
“Um Sweaty, don’t you realise that you’re morally obligated to vote or else you will get my disapproval?”
“Um Sweaty, don’t you realise that you’re morally obligated to vote for Our Guy™ or else you will get my disapproval?”
“…gosh, why are all these people so out of touch??”
There’s a non-insignificant chance that if they managed to scold everyone into voting that people might actually vote Trump in protest and they’d need to reckon with that instead of, you know, chastising people even more. I don’t think it would be likely enough to happen but the fact is that it’s not completely off the cards. It’s more likely that you’d see a swing towards third party candidates and spoilt votes that they’d get infuriated over people “ruining democracy” by not adhering to the demands that these voters play by their arbitrary rules and they’d lament how the Dems “could have” won that swing state if only that 0.5% of spoilt votes had actually gone to Biden.
In a broader sense this is why countries like Israel play with shorter sentences for refusing conscription and why there’s a lot of leniency built into how long you are imprisoned for and why imprisoning conscientious objectors for short-ish periods serves a structural function that supports the state; if you jail conscientious objectors for like 10+ years then you turn those very disaffected non-participants mostly into bitterly disaffected recruits who then start resorting to becoming Chelsea Manning figures or they start a culture of the ol’ classic Vietnam War fragging of commanding officers (tyfys to those brave Vietnam War veterans unironically btw) , either of which is far more disruptive than having the government put a tiny percentage of resistors into a temporary time-out.
(Not shitting on any conscientious objectors here tho. I have nothing but love and support for them and I support their committment and personal sacrifices they make on ethical and political grounds. Just speaking about how the government structures and mitigates the threat these people are capable of posing.)
In a similar sense, if you’re “conscripting” people into being compelled to vote then you risk blowback from that. And I’m not talking like countries that have “compulsory” voting where the government sends you stern letters or they make you pay small fines for not voting here.
abortion is on the ballot in many states
Who should I vote for if I want to protect women’s bodily autonomy? The party that is limiting it, or the party that shrugged and said they won’t do anything to protect it?
Yeah this is where I’m at. Why exactly is abortion on the ballot during Biden’s term? Shouldn’t we blame this problem on him then? Biden has very clear steps he could take to protect abortion. He could put clinics on federal land, or pack the supreme court with 10 pro-choice judges. He could do anything other than absolutely nothing.
It’s also not on the ballot in my state of Texas.
Bidens gonna win mainly because abortion is on the ballet,
Roe v Wade was lost under Biden’s administration.
Biden had control of the house and senate when he was elected and did nothing to protect the right to abortion.
Democrats have been running on promises to codify Roe v Wade into law for decades. Curiously, they never actually try to make good on it when they get into office on that promise.
You have to be a grade-A sucker to believe Biden is going to do fuck-all about women’s rights if he gets re-elected.
I think I failed to convey my original point. The comment I responded to said this will be the lowest-turnout election in history and Biden will lose.
Because abortion is actually going to be on the ballot in numerous states I think this may be one of the highest turnouts ever, and I think the people turning up to vote yes on protecting abortion will also vote for Biden, regardless of what he actually does for abortion.
Fingers crossed if he wins they will actually make it federal law, but that’s not what I meant when I said abortion is on the ballot.
Biden is losing in polls at around the margin of voters who are deeply invested in what’s going on with Gaza. He’s lost the support of virtually every Muslim in America, and that’s important in states with a lot of Muslims like Michigan and Minnesota. He’s rapidly losing support among younger people, who are also the ones most interested in abortion rights.
I actually do think Biden may win, but my gut says it’ll be a very funny situation where he wins the electoral college while losing the popular vote.
Thank you, I don’t know if it’s because I made a mistake or what but I’m happy to bring you pleasure
and yes I will come back to this post
please do, tag us all. we will all make fun of you again
if i was a single issue voter for abortion, I wouldn’t vote for a lifelong anti-choice democrat who allowed abortion rights to be revoked under his presidency.
A lifelong anti-choice democrat who allowed abortion rights to be revoked under his presidency AND THEN, in the run-up to his re-election campaign, had the fucking brain genius idea to say in the past year:
“I’ve never been supportive of, you know, ‘It’s my body, I can do what I want with it’,”
Democrats: If you don’t vote for our antique candidate who literally opposes women’s bodily autonomy, the other antique guy who also opposes women’s bodily autonomy might get in!
Biden is literally the current president, his party could save abortion right now if they wanted to
Legitimate question: is abortion on the ballot in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, or Georgia?
Because if not, then it’s entirely irrelevant. Totally irrelevant. As much as everyone talks about voting (or not voting} for Biden or Trump, for the overwhelming majority of Americans who don’t live in a swing state their voting for president is pointless. So unless abortion is on the ballot in swing states it’s a non-factor.
Abortion does motivate people, and that factors into it if it’s on the ballot in swing states. But when you look at presidential candidates you would be hard pressed to find a candidate with as bad of numbers that Biden has inside and outside of his party. Not even LBJ had as bad of numbers and he dropped out of the race because he knew how unpopular he was.
Edit: According to this map, the only swing state where abortion might be on the ballot is Arizona; and Nevada if you count that as a swing state.
Lmao bidens going to win because abortion is on the ballot
You’re an absurd person, do you know that?
Do you know that Biden is personally responsible for helping block enshrinning abortion rights into law at least twice?
Do you even pay the slightest attention to the actions these people take, or do you just cheer and clap while reading press statements and Twitter posts
Gullible fool
the reality is most Americans don’t care that much
But we do. And thats we refuse to vote for genocide enablers but I understand condemning genocide is a skill issue for you
When I come back to brag it’s not because I support Joe sending aid to Israel to commit genocide, it’s because y’all are so deep in your echo chamber you are basically MAGA but opposite and it will amuse me when you’re wrong.
Sorry an outsider has spoken in the sacred echo chamber, dissenting opinions do not belong here
Bidens gonna win mainly because abortion is on the ballet, and yes I will come back to this post when he wins to remind you I was right.
I’ll remind you constantly when he loses
If Biden wins it will be because he convinced morons like you that “Abortion is on the ballot”. It must be nice to have no thoughts and just repeat advertising slogans. Do you just have “Eat Fresh” playing on loop in your head as well?
If abortion is on the ballot, then go vote for that actual policy in your state. There is no way to guarantee that Democrats protect abortion rights even if elected, and their track record is piss poor. Electing Biden will do nothing about abortion in individual states, and we know that because he isn’t doing shit about those restrictions now.
I mean I’ll be voting for Biden mainly because Trump’s a dictator wannabe (you guys like that right?) and Biden has sorta done an okay job supporting Ukraine with military aid, which I also support. Abortion is on the ballot in my state so I will be voting to support that as well.
most Americans don’t care that much.
Our foriegn policy has direct effects on global markets. Our excessive sanctions squeeze supply and drive up prices. Our overt and covert meddling in the Global South effect prices and eventually mass migrants. They’ll get mad at the “invasion at the border” but they refuse to take that next logical past the nose leap and ask what is the root cause of this? They’ll move armies of trucks and tractors for symptoms, but refuse to see America for the damned monster it is despite people through the generations pointing to exactly the problem
Fascists that control the finacial class in this country.
Smedley Butler warned us they wanted to do a fascist coup. Eisenhower warned us of the investor-defense Military Industrial Complex. Kennedy warned us that those who are unable to protest in their nations for peaceful change will result in violent overthrows. Wesley Clark said we were taken over by a Policy Coup by the Project for a New American Century
It takes maaybe a few hours of cursory education to see finance corrupt politicians and finance manipulating foreign policy and how that directly effects prices at home.
The knock on effects of this war and subsequent consequences in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe will directly be felt in American pocketbooks forever. Once it inflates, capital wants to lock in those inflated prices. That is the nature. Every dollar they earn, have earned, will earn is now worth less because they didn’t give a shit about some brown people being genocided.
You guys are weird, abortion is on the ballot in many states
Yeah in specific state ballots you dumb fuck lmao, that doesn’t magically translate into turnout for the general election, especially considering Roe vs Wade was lost under Biden’s watch and he doesn’t support “abortion on demand” as he calls it
Do you even support abortion, feels like you just picked an issue at random to try and engineer a gotcha, despite the fact you clearly had no idea about Biden’s stated position lmao try again
I do support abortion, it’s on the ballot in my state and I’ll be voting yes!
I picked abortion to comment on because it’s the biggest issue amongst most American voters (in my eyes), abortion will get people to vote in general and that likely includes voting for a president.
It’s our fault though and not the fault of the guy doing a massive genocide. No it’s the lefts fault as always
The left in the US is simultaneously pathetically weak and big enough to completely change the results of the elections
My Voting for Jill Stein in Michigan counts for 100x the votes of other states. Bask in my POWER to make liberals collapse. They call me The Delegate
Damn, I guess doing genocide on live stream has consequences?
“Israel-Hamas War” Why do they do this? Everyone knows they aren’t going after Hamas and juat using the whole thing to ethnically cleanse the land for their own. As some “final solution” crap. Why does the media insist on these absolute gaslighting labourous terms?
I know it’s rhetorical just sick off seeing them all phrase it like this or "Iran-backed-Yemini-associated resistance group it’s so Winston Smith-ing. Who talks like this. They are doing it to actively remove “Gaza” or Palestine from the converstion. It’s annoying.
You know why they do this, but if you want to violently beat yourself over the head with confirmation of what you already know, read Parenti’s Inventing Reality.
Is Inventing Reality a better read than Manufacturing Consent? I found Chomsky’s book too dense to go through.
Gotta start wondering if Joey and the DMC et al are losing on purpose at this point. It would take nothing to win this presidency against Trump. 8 mean the barest break in the beatings would be enough for us plebs. But i think they kinda liked the open grift not to mention the donation train.
In a perverse way, a Trump presidency would legitimize the Dems (and this false democracy) for that much longer.
Democrats are trying very hard to win while playing by the rules of capital and empire. They can’t pivot to winning policies not because they are trying to lose, but because all the people who’d seriously consider those policies are drummed out of the party.
This but also capitalism has reached a very late stage in the US and Bernie-esque policies, while probably still achievable in a practical sense, are probably enough of a threat to the interests of capital that it might have motivated Business Plot reboot or it’s possible that it would disturb the fragile balance of the market enough that it might be enough to cause the house of cards to start collapsing.
Think like if the US nationalised healthcare or intervened in the real estate market and started providing public housing - there’s a non-zero chance that this would pop a bubble in the market that would cause a ripple effect throughout the other bubbles like in the finance industry such as BlackRock which might just level entire sections of the US economy.
I’m lowkey hoping that Tesla goes belly-up in the near future and this is the catalyst for exactly what I’m describing above.
America dying in a blowing up tesla would be extremely funny. I would be laughing in the bread line.
My lathe prediction is still bitcoin bailout
Gotta start wondering if Joey and the DMC et al are losing on purpose at this point
Of course they are
It’s easier to do $1000 a plate fundraising dinners about how evil the Trump Republicans are when you’re fighting against them, far harder to do that shit when you’re in power
Trump might destroy our alliance with Europe and weaken NATO and cause general chaos amongst the imperialists
I had some degree of faith in this before but idk, he seemed to get reined in somewhere along the way after he started to stray too far from obstructing US foreign policy and into actively undermining it (think how he flipped on his position on the DPRK for some indiscernible reason - either he was on a grift and trying to woo the DPRK government and he entered into the following phase of trying to railroad his objectives with them and they said “Lol no” so Trump decided that they were terrible because they weren’t willing to play ball in exactly how he demanded they should, or the CIA had had enough of his shenanigans and decided to show him the Zapruder extended cut or they dug up the Epstein Cinematic Universe movies that he was on set for during the recording and they said pull your shit in or we’re really going to make you into a star.)
Whatever the truth of the matter is, I feel like his policy on this stuff shifted pretty significantly and kinda out of nowhere. The dude’s clearly the most stable genius out there though so it’s hard to tell whether there’s something behind the scenes directly shaping these changes or if he’s just a wrecking ball that’s careening between one thing and the next.
Whether it’s true or not the liberals believe it is true. They are genuinely scared of that outcome.
Somehow they are oblivious to how much damage Biden has done with the way Israel has been handled though.
I don’t think the US president has that much power, the ruling class will probably make sure atlanticism continues unimpeded
Watch as the US takes the europeans with them as they drown
presidents actually have immense amounts of power (on paper) regarding treaties, alliances, war and foreign policy