aesthelete @ aesthelete @lemmy.world

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He was cheering the invasion and said Putin was a genius for timing it when he did or whatever.

Dude, I was watching live coverage of the 01/06 proceedings and saw the early breakouts of the problem and then the devolution of it.

Wanna know why I was watching such a boring, non-event? Because everyone with a Twitter account, the ability to read, and a pulse knew that Trump's supporters absolutely were going to try something on 01/06.

If I knew there was a good enough probability that something would go down that I was watching live coverage of what's typically not even something anyone ever talks about, the event was completely and utterly predictable.

Outside of the google office would be a sweet spot for a guillotine.

the 1983 tax cut that proved the notion of the Laffer curve held some truth

Are you kidding me? You actually think trickle down works?

Now I get why you're such a fan of ineffective Democratic shit, you're in the .00001% of "Republican-lite" voters in the country they're looking to please at the cost of the rest of the electorate.

Using your logic, Reagan's legacy was actually whatever Democrats wanted then because he had a divided government as well.

Yes, Clinton had to deal with Newt Gingrich, but as you're getting an abject lesson in daily these days, the president has and has always had a large amount of power. He could've used that for good, instead he used it to help Republicans dismantle welfare, pass "tough on crime" laws, and get his dick sucked in the Oval.

I never had the U.S. switching sides on my bingo card.

I don't know why anyone was caught flatfooted by this when it was clear to anyone paying attention that if Trump was elected, his plan to end the war was to hand control of Ukraine over to Russia.

This was as obvious and predictable as the January 6th insurrection.

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Presidents-Coinciding/Party-Government/

Divided government is very common in the US.

Petition your governments to drop IP laws for US tech companies like Doctorow is encouraging. If the US isn't going to honor trade agreements, hit us right in our gold plated scrotum.

Lol love it, though I'd like to see the conclusion of the old guy's rant so I'm only going to give it 4/5 meowmeowbeanz.

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Sure, he had a congress of the opposite party for some / most of his terms. You know who else had that? Nearly every president ever elected to office.

It makes it ever the more important to use what little time you have to push your agenda through, to veto things you disagree with, and sit your court appointees.

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I also realized I left this "point" unaddressed:

If you are unaware of what the democratic think tanks are you should address that.

Dude, I've been a bigger political news person for 20+ years than most people bother being. I can name organizations like "the Heritage Foundation" and the "Cato Institute" without a reference. You know why? Because these think-tanks are effective. Note my original comment. I said "effective policy think-tanks". Would you consider democratic think tanks effective when Obama with a sweeping mandate from the people unlike anything else I've seen in my lifetime wound up producing a copycat plan of a Republican governor?

Sure, they may exist, but if they do they're not what I'd term "effective" and me looking up their names isn't going to make them that way.

They can do mental gymnastics for the harder stuff pretty easily because those terms are in black and white. Weird is a very grey area term, and they have to explain why the behavior is normal.

They also spend most of their time trying to argue that their political party is on the side of normal; so they find it very necessary to discuss at length how normal they are which only makes them look weirder.

It really was an effective line of attack. I guess that's why it had to be jettisoned in favor of parading around with Liz Cheney.

After a while it gave me the same vibe as people shoehorning “let’s go brandon” into every situation.

Except that....worked?

One of the takeaways from the 2024 election is that if you have something that works, repetition is key for the idiot American electorate.

To add to that, even though he helped get Clinton elected, Clinton's main accomplishment was making the Democrats more useless to the people as a result. Third way Democrats have been an abysmal failure from a progress perspective. Some of Clinton's "main accomplishments" were helping demolish the welfare state, and increasing the incarceration rate.

Obama, in retrospect, can be viewed as a third-way Democrat as well, and the primary policy accomplishment his presidency produced is a Republican think-tanked, half-measure healthcare policy that was largely a gift to the insurance companies even at the onset and has since been left out in the field to be continually picked at by vultures.

I was wondering this morning why Democrats don't seem to really have effective policy think-tanks like the Republicans do and then I thought maybe they just use the same ones.

Dude hasn't been correct about how to win elections since 30 years ago, and hasn't been correct about policy ever.

I'm a little out of the loop, what are all the cat faces in the comments about?

The US is like the Facebook or Google or Twitter or Amazon of countries. Out of simple convenience and ease of use people centralized their lives around us and now that we're obviously falling apart they're going to have to make a huge effort to get rid of our influence.

I just realized that this country has been enshittifying itself my entire life.

We're the inshitternet of countries.

Alternative headline: expert on ponzi schemes bemoans what he sees as competition

I publicly support deporting this laminated-faced welfare queen.

Who knew turning America into North Korea wouldn't cause it to flourish?

I agree that a full scale war against the US military using small arms is probably not likely to go well for those attempting it, but assassinating a president is a different thing altogether. America has assassinated many presidents.