You’re not wrong.

The difference is their brain-damaged guy behaved as he always does, where Biden clearly did not.

I’m not judging you. (And I should have made that more clear. I apologize.)

I’m judging the sentiment, and until Democrats learn to actually speak to workers, they’re going to lose elections.

If you’re working 2-3 jobs and upwards of 100 hours a week, none of it will matter to you. All you know is you have to struggle to live and no one we elect will change it.

And this sense of superiority and refusal to understand or empathize is why hundreds of millions don’t listen to you.

That’s a good question, I think.

I know most people don’t, but I consume a few foreign news sources myself. It helps to lend a broader perspective on US governance, and with the US press running cover for fascists, it’s an increasingly valuable way to learn more about US events.

I mean, that we know of.

Clinton was fairly brilliant in branding his wars as ‘peacekeeping actions’ and Obama rebranded civilians as ‘enemy combatants’, so while yes it may be unofficial, we’re still essentially at war everywhere.

I keep hoping someone will slip a nuke or two to Palestine so that whole business can be stopped, but I don’t think it’ll ever happen.

Fair point.

No matter who we elected we were getting a useful idiot for the rich, but that’s partisanship for you.

Yeah, our Kurdish allies learned the hard way not to depend on US support during Trump’s first term, and honestly, I’d love it if he pulls our country out of more wars, even if he does it for the wrong reasons. I’ve never supported the US being the policemen of the world.

As much as I hate to hear about war spending increasing planet-wide, it’s definitely dawning on our allies that depending on the US for protection and support is no longer a tenable position. It might turn out to be a good thing that more countries develop a modern military apparatus, though, particularly as there are several Putin-type heads of state in the world.

I love Bernie but unless you live in Vermont, his presence is now irrelevant, and the DNC isn’t going to allow another one of him to spring up again.

Their platform was weak.

They ran an old man with brain damage for most of the campaign.

His replacement spent two months of campaign time telling poverty wage workers to be joyful and didn’t even put a platform on their website until a few weeks before the election. Watching that felt very tone deaf and condescending.

The other meme they repeated was how weird Trump and Vance are, as if they didn’t already objectively know the voters don’t care about that.

They didn’t run a good campaign.

People stayed home.

Abstaining is a vote unto itself, and partisans of both flavors are wont to ignore that voting doesn’t materially affect the lives of the poor and middle class. No matter who they elect things get worse, so when faced with the choice of missing a badly-needed day’s pay and voting, they choose to get paid.

Waking up to a quiet, clean house every day, with no children.

No.

It’s over. Trump is never going to be held accountable for any of it. In a few years he’ll die peacefully in his bed like Kissinger did.

I wouldn’t be surprised.

You’re not wrong.

I don’t think that’s accurate.

At it’s most fundamental level this is about 100,000,000 voters who can’t afford to miss a badly-needed day’s pay, something that hasn’t been addressed by either ruling party.

Eh, let’s not ignore that the Dems nominated an old man in clear cognitive decline, accompanied at all times by people intended to keep him from wandering off or saying something stupid, Dianne Feinstein-style.

And they failed repeatedly.

This isn’t on the Greens, Socialists, or whoever you want to make the scapegoat. It’s on Dems.

Just finished “The Lesser Dead” by Christopher Buehlman.

WONDERFUL vampire horror book.

100%

Here in deep-red Missouri the $15 minimum wage passed in a landslide, but for some reason, all Democrats wanted to talk about was tax cuts that no one thinks they’ll actually pass anyway.