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        Not wierdly, this shit is exactly how Biden still retains a rabid fanbase, despite being a president and having a track record. His fans straight up don’t know the shit he did/is doing and project their fantasies of him being the savior of trans rights and the environment, somehow.

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      I hate myself for even commending Harris on the Tim Walz pick.

      Harris chickened out of Medicare for all. We know she’ll sooner or later be bullied out of the unrealized capital gains tax.

      Enjoy my second vote in a row, Green Party. See you in four years for my third.

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    Yeah coconut brat summer works for the immediate, but summer’s ending soon and her campaign is going to start looking shallow if there’s no Big Idea policy proposal.

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    I think a lot about how liberals are obsessed with policy minutiae that just doesn’t matter. Nobody actually cares about tax incentives but liberals and they only care because they think it means their candidate is a nerd. The results matter. The implementation doesn’t matter. I don’t hear talk of either. But politicians should say things like:

    • Climate change will kill us, and we are going to stop that from happening.
    • Everyone should be able to see a doctor without ruining their budget, regardless of income or social status.
    • We are going to have safe, indoor accommodations for the unhoused wherever they are.
    • We are going to have stable and secure housing for everyone.
    • We are going to stop the mass shootings.

    Journalists will ask how these things are possible, and the answer is simply that we are going to do whatever it takes because it’s important for a society to function in this way if it is going to last.

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    Why is it that nobody seems to be noticing or remarking upon how the Very Serious Good Governance liberals keep abandoning all of their standards the very moment it no longer becomes politically necessary or useful to do so? The whole ass Room Full of Adults just threw up its hands and said “Well we may live in a democracy but it’s not like we can hold our politicians to any standard whatsoever and this is fine.”

    no-mouth-must-scream

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      Is Tim Walz going to be compared to Jon Snow next?

      I thought about it for an entire 2 minutes and the only ones that come to mind from both looks and general personality are Pycelle and Craster, for both VP candidates, but i’m not sure which is which.

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          But there are nasty things underneath, like genocide. So i’m probably insulting both Craster and Pycelle a little there.

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            I mean you said general personality. Genocide supporters can be gregarious! I’d compare him to a more charming villain than either of them. Someone evil underneath but charming on the surface. Like books!Littlefinger or something. (show ruined this by making him too obviously evil).

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        the only ones that come to mind from both looks and general personality

        Did that matter for the libs’ KHALEESI™ pick? good-morning

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      they hardly ever did anything to begin with… it’s pretty well the plan… they are just to the point where they don’t have to pretend anymore but I’m not sure why