Since there’s not enough time left for him to recover from this brutal ego bruise, I predict he’ll only do rallies from now on, or appearances on far-right media, because he’ll retreat to his snowglobe for reassurance for a while. He’ll avoid addressing Kamala directly, but he’ll ramp up his own network and rile up his mob. His team will struggle to rein him in, and some appearances might be cancelled.
I did, yes. I was just commenting on the crowd’s reaction of singing a national hymn at them, and how that reminded me of revival meetings. Yes, he’s famously cheap.
And then there's the problem that the only people who have the possible power to pass electoral reform belong to one of the two major parties, and it's completely against the interest of those major parties to get rid of FPTP
This is generally true, but I’d say there’s a nonzero chance the Dems will be persuaded to support it – mostly because they’ve shown some support so far and because they don’t have a stranglehold on their base. The Republicans will fight it until their last breath, but the Dems are a coalition party held together by hopes and dreams, and they’ve been made to learn lately that they will lose if they don’t acknowledge progressives (this is part of why Walz was chosen – he’s the closest thing to a socialist they’ve chosen in recent memory). Without progressives, they will fail, and ditching FPTP would mean more engagement from a wide swathe of leftists, which would effectively shut out the far right. It’s in the best interest for the moderate left to be campaigning against the far left than the far right, and ditching FPTP would give them that.*.
Did they actually, medically faint, or did they do that Evangelical Revival ‘faint’, like the ‘spirit’ overwhelmed them? If 2 people medically fainted, it seems like something was wrong with the venue (too many bodies, not enough air con), but based on the crowd’s response (eta: singing God Bless America at them), it kinda feels like the latter.
And that’s the thing many people don’t seem to get: the US is not a 2 party system by design – there are actually many parties in the US, including Green, Libertarian, Constitution, Forward, No Labels, Working Families, Alliance, etc, many of which have been on the national ticket. Darrell Castle (Constitution Party) was on the presidential ballot in 2016, for example (I included him in a satirical anti-trump graphic I made in 2016).
The problem isn’t a lack of parties, but that the mathematics of FPTP means they literally can’t gain purchase. If you want 3rd parties to matter, instead of protest* voting or abstaining, start working towards replacing FPTP now for future elections. These conversations only seem to happen in autumn of an election year, which is far too late.
Put your effort into something like FairVote Action so we don’t have to deal with this nonsense forever.
I just searched for it a bit, but all the sources I could find (twitter, pinterest, BlueSky) also don’t say where it’s from, except that it’s a flute piece.
You may feel you have addressed my questions, but you haven’t, and your assertions haven’t held up well thus far.
I really recommend you step back and look at your views with a critical eye – forget anything I or anyone else has said, and really look at who you are without preconceptions or bias. That’s not very easy to do, but you seem the type who could do it.
I’m done for now. I’d be interested to talk with you after you’ve done this, cheers.
Look, it’s become obvious your sources are biased and you won’t consider anything I say, so this is a pointless conversation. I’m done wasting my time and energy sourcing my comments with real data and being met with unsourced right-wing propaganda or TikToks.
If you want to actually have your views matter in future elections I’d still strongly recommend you look into FairVote Action rather than getting angry at people online.
You need to provide better sources. Your first source is highly suspect, and the only source I can find that remotely support your numbers is the Heritage Foundation , who have a long track record of outright lying to scare conservatives (and it’s still far lower than 10% of the Cuban population, which would be nearly 2 million, but the total number of applicants – not all of whom were accepted – since 2020 is roughly 500,000).
The border is not open. Again, source? The border has never been open. The closest the US has come to an ‘open’ border was during Ellis Island and when it erected a huge statue that said:
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Do you disagree with those words, engraved at the feet of the Statue of Liberty?
The borders are not open. Most of the people you hear about that come through the southern border (and there are far fewer than right-wing media scaremongers about) are refugees, which are immediately directed to official offices that the US is required by mutual UN treaties to accept and process. Again, you should look into this more before getting angry about it.
Biden’s student loan relief is being repeatedly fucked by Republicans in Congress. That should take you two seconds to see. Haven’t you noticed it being on and off just within the past week? They’re intentionally making it a campaign issue to fuck with people exactly like you.
I completely agree with you about Israel. I hate this stupid holy war. But the Republicans want it to be far worse.
Biden has not made inflation worse, that’s just ridiculous. The economy is as nimble as the Titanic, and we’re still feeling the ramifications of trump’s inane economic policies. The US is experiencing far lower inflation than the rest of the world right now, in large part due to the course correction over the last 3 years. Take a course on US and global economies and get back to me.
The rest of your comment shows me you haven’t listened to a word I’ve said, and shows you to be a dishonest interlocutor. I’ve spent a lot of time here engaging with you, with honesty and diligence, and it’s becoming clear you don’t have the respect or maturity to reply in kind. If you don’t have anything productive to say in response, I think we’re done.
Biden brought it up briefly and I think it made the news cycle for one day before trump said something insane to throw red meat at the rabid press, but it’s fully possible t o expand the SC.
That’s what needs to happen. It’s been expanded before. The SC originally had 6 seats: one for each of 6 federal court circuits. In 1807 it was expanded to 7 as another district was added. In 1837, two more seats were added, again to correspond with 2 more districts.
There are now 13 federal court districts, so by precedent there should be 13 SC seats. Expansion of the SC is long overdue (no surprise, because conservatives have been opposing expansion since 1937 when Roosevelt proposed another expansion).
How am I moving the discussion? I’m directly addressing your comments, which so far have had nothing to do with the candidates’s policies, but about Harris’s ‘popularity’ and ‘nepotism’.
If you want to talk about real issues, I’m all ears. I gave you the elevator pitch you asked for. Now let’s hear yours.
No, I didn’t ignore your comment at all. I countered it with the fact that a VP becoming the next presidential candidate is not only not remotely like nepotism, but is the standard for US politics, going back to the 18th century.
Your anger at me is misplaced. I do understand how the system works, and I don’t like it either. But I prefer to direct my outrage where it will actually make a difference, and I’ve pointed out where you can, too: we need to change the system so 3rd parties actually matter. In the meantime, I’ll oppose anyone who will usher in a fascist government where women and minorities will have their rights stripped away, and where Christian nationalism will be forced into our orifices.
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I posted this just after the debate last month:
I’m not a prophet – he’s just that predictable.