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‘The American people did not vote for whatever the hell this is,’ warns House Democrat
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A whole lotta dipshits voted for lower egg prices, or stayed home, voted their useless protest vote or outright voted for donvict, because "genocide joe" or whatever.
But we are all going to get this instead, I guess. It's not like many normal Americans were not warning them...Gaza and egg prices will be unaffected by donvict, maybe made worse by his fumbling idiocracy.
Biden already said that the US doesn’t recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. Aaaaand Kamala ran on a pro-fracking platform.
I mean, jfc do you people have the memory of goldfish or were you just not paying attention in the first place? Proud to be one of the 13 million, personally. Have fun voting for Liz Cheney when she runs as a democrat in four years!
Yes. They were flawed.
Explain to me how Trump being President helps the Palestenians or the environment.ve4sus a Bid3n or Harris administration.
Even if their policies were 100% in lockstep on Palestine and the environment (Trump will ABSOLUTELY be worse for both), there's a million other ways in which Trump is worse.
You motherfucers who cast votes for third parties, refused to vote, or really did anything but vote for Harris were signing a fucking suicide pact for the rest of us while pretending you were taking the moral high ground.
Everything that's coming is your fault. All the suffering, death, destruction - all of it. Your hands are bloody. It should keep you up at night, but your heads are so far up your own arrogant asses you no longer smell the shit you've spread.
When you had the choice to put up meaningful opposition to fascism, you chose not to.
Fuck you, now and forever.
I agree with some of what you said here, but I think blaming third party voters is a tired and disingenuous take. I haven't done a deep dive on the numbers, but from what I remember of election day even if every third party voter voted for Kamala she still would've lost.
People who refused to vote ARE a reasonable contribution to the loss, but I still think it's strange to blame the voters in a democratic vote rather than the parties/media who were supposed to create enough impact to make people vote for them in the first place.
Strategic voting is flawed not only in the sense that it's impossible to coordinate a strategy amongst an entire voter base, but also in the sense that it's counting on people to vote for someone who they don't want to vote for.
there are many groups to blame
The important thing to do when casting blame on groups is to ensure you are not part of those groups.