Typical Labour, talked a big game about supporting the environment but this was the first environmental policy they passed and they failed the smell test.
I am over the moon however because this justifies everything I have ever felt about Labour being just as bought and paid for as the Liberals.
Yup, always the case, no matter where you go. Everyone answers to the money, not principle. It explains why fiction is so populated with the notion of a secret cabal of oligarchs quietly pulling the strings of global governments through financial leverage, such as the Templar Order in Assassin’s Creed or Hitman’s very own Providence. Shit like this happens and you realize how much truth is found in those tired tropes.
I don’t think I got another pandemic left in me Mr President.
Rest easy. If we don’t test, there’s no cases.
Not true. Still nutcases!
I have a bad feeling that the Semiquincentennial will give an unearned boost to the Republicans in the midterms. At least it’s fitting that both America’s Semiquincentennial and Bicentennial were under morally bankrupt scumbags who pardoned heinous criminals.
At least Ford was decent enough in person and 1976 was an election year, so there was a Democratic nominee to rally around and celebrate as the next president. Next year, we have no one to turn to and are under that smug insurrection-inciting freak with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Ironically enough, if Trump won in 2020 and Nixon in 1960, it wouldn’t have been Trump and Ford during the Bicentennial and Semiquincentennial. 1976 was also a recession year IIRC, so possible bad omen there.
But if we’re following the parallels with how it was Ford instead of Nixon presiding over the Semiquincentennial, maybe Trump will be out of office before then one way or another by 2026, and we’ll celebrate the Semiquincentennial under President Vance. If not, we’ll just have to suck it up and make it through July.
Anyway, historically, if Vance does run in 2028, the nomination is all but his. No sitting vice president in U.S. history has ever lost a presidential primary while actively seeking their party’s nomination during their term. Van Buren, Nixon, Bush, Gore, Harris, they all won their party’s nomination when they ran for it as sitting VPs.
The most recent sitting VP who chose not to run for president when given the opportunity was Cheney, and that’s because his health had gone to shit and Bush was really, really, really bad. Trump and Vance aren’t capable of that introspection though, and they’ll think they’ll coast by on Semiquincentennial juice.
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Fuck you, Jake.
I know this sounds corny as shit, but on the Semiquincentennial, I think Democrats should help the homeless. Volunteer at soup kitchens, buy pizza, make big promises. It’s a good rebranding for the Democrats for the midterms and 2028, helps spotlight Trump’s failures and is really just a good thing to do.
I have no idea why you deleted this because this is a much better idea that what the DNC are currently doing which is either nothing or giving beaucoup bucks to think tanks and consultancy firms to tell them things they already know but don’t want to accept.
There wasn’t any replies to it then, so I thought that everyone just ignored it.
The Democrats definitely need to be more ruthless or at least more proactive whenever they hold power, small or little. I get that they’re depressed over Trump winning re-election, but the Democrats are or at least should be the party of the working class, helping the needy and defending the abused. If anything, fall back on that.
They need to understand that Michelle Obama’s “when they go low, we go high” rhetoric is pie-in-the-sky children talk, and they need to get dirty. They need to get on the same playing field with Republicans, like AOC, Bernie, and especially Jasmine Crockett are doing.
But most of them are career politicians more interested in the status quo and their salaries that they get from it instead of actually leading the country and making meaningful changes to help the population thrive. The Republicans use that to their advantage so they can actively cause harm while also seeking to enrich themselves. As long as Democrats try to be centrist, middle-of-the-road, look forward not back, norms and traditions, take the high road, don’t sink to their level types, who are also beholden to their corporate donors, they will continue to fail and allow the Republicans to destroy everything and kill us all.
The Democrats need to grow brains, spines, guts, balls, or whatever body part you think they might need for the job, and get nasty with Republicans. Show the people you have the knowledge and the will to fight for them, and they will vote for you.
Attaboy, Tim.
Fucking-A, yessss!
Seriously, Don? If you’re going to tell a ridiculous lie, at least make it something cool like Biden being replaced by a KGB sleeper agent.
Smooth, Joni.
If any of y’all are in Iowa, this guy’s running against her for Senate next year.
Maybe he did but nobody got his “sleepy joe” phrase.
she who ruined school lunches mentioned.
I hate to be that guy but that article details something that is more along the lines of M.A.S.K. than Transformers.
Ehhh, 80s toys (and I’m an 80s kid)… potato potato 
I don’t have any problem with AOC as a person, she seems genuine and runs a great social media game, but those on r/politics insisting she must be the 2028 nominee and can only lose if the Democrats rig it is rubbing me the wrong way.
She’ll only be 39, has little political experience and I honestly never found her particularly charismatic. I don’t know where the idea the DNC automatically owes the nomination to a 39 year old New York House Representative or that she’s automatically the only viable candidate, let alone the best one, came from. At least Bernie has decades of experience.
Best she succeed Schumer as Senator in 2028, run in 2032 if Vance wins or 2036 if he doesn’t.
Also, I have a feeling the antisemitic attacks are probably making pro-Palestinian activism unpopular, maybe even boost Josh Shapiro to the nomination.
I don’t want her to be the nominee because I don’t want her to leave Congress. Ultimately, the key to fixing anything in this country is going to come down to passing legislation that gets enshrined into law beyond the reach of the Supreme Court, and that comes down to Congress, not the President. So we need more people like AOC who are in Congress to stay there in order to pass the laws that are needed, regardless of what the other two branches do, because otherwise, having a divided or hostile Congress on top of a Supreme Court full of right-wing extremists will mean that it won’t matter who the President is even if a Democrat is elected.
