Verdant Banana @ verdantbanana @lemmy.world

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unrealistic in its timeline?

people have waited for decades for a president from any party to give any amount of shits

"It intimidates naturalized citizens and discourages them from voting by suggesting that by registering to vote, they are committing a crime and will be referred for criminal investigation," Kate Huddleston, senior legal counsel at Campaign Legal Center, told ABC News.

this is a multistate issue here in the US that is not talked about by either Democrats or Republicans and has been an issue for years

then that is not democracy but fascism both ways

life is like a hotdog

you could eat it as it comes plain and dry

or you could eat a hot dog that is full of toppings and substance

we don't have to choose between two plain hotdogs if we do not want to and that is what the US citizens have chosen to do every election since forever

plain dry propaganda hotdog is not all there is even if the Democrats and Republicans keep telling us otherwise

this is what a two-party system looks like

immigration is not tolerated by either party because that would bring new people with new ideas that would not align with the carefully crafted narrative the two parties have helped write

"They don't have Pacific Oceans."

Donald Trump

if enough people dissented and voted third party that would certainly send a message and reveal the sham that is the US voting system

sounds good on paper but that is where the reality ends

not enough people would be able to take advantage of these policies like they would if we just upped the minimum wage

sidestepping the disease and going after symptoms will not heal the sickness

the country would not end in flames if people vote third party

that is just propaganda you ate willingly

great if you are a small business

also great if you make enough to afford a home

but yay a tax credit

sounds like the Democrat's and Republican's propaganda got to you

Just like Republicans the Democrats like to spin things to make themselves look better but at the end of the day it is just a dressed-up pile of horseshit

Harris's pick for vice president was Walz and that spoke volumes on her position on oil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Line_3_protests

Resistance to the Line 3 pipeline expansion is led by Indigenous women and two-spirit people.[35] Ojibwe-led groups including Giniw Collective, Camp Migizi, Red Lake Treaty Camp, RISE Coalition, and Honor the Earth among others have been at the center of resistance.[36] Demonstrators and protesters organizing in opposition to the pipeline refer to themselves as "water protectors"[37] and follow a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience that includes direct actions.[38] Organizers aim to convince the Biden administration to revoke or suspend the pipeline project's federal clean water permit.[23] Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has not taken a firm stance on the pipeline expansion, which received federal approval under the Trump administration.[18][23]

Opposition to the pipeline persisted throughout the years-long permit process and continued as legal challenges to the project were mounted.[39][18] Opponents of the pipeline organized protests, at one point making an encampment outside of the offices of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.[17]

After the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave final approval for the project, it was granted a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency construction storm water permit on November 30, 2020.[40] Construction of the pipeline immediately commenced.

https://apnews.com/article/harris-fracking-energy-climate-trump-election-debate-1b86dfb4297facd0b89c487724a9e5b0

Liam Donovan, a Republican strategist, said it was notable that at a debate in energy-rich Pennsylvania, Harris chose to “brag about something that President Biden has barely acknowledged — that domestic fossil fuel production under the Biden administration is at an all-time high.″ Crude production averaged 12.9 million barrels a day last year, eclipsing a previous record set in 2019 under Trump, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The statement was “another sign of Harris’ sprint to the middle″ on energy policy and other issues, said Donovan, who works with energy industry clients at the Bracewell law and lobbying firm.

Harris went one step further, rebranding the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act — the administration’s signature climate law — as a boon to fracking and other drilling, thanks to lease-sale requirements inserted into the bill by independent West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a key swing vote in the Senate and a strong supporter of the fossil fuel industry.

Harris’s comments disappointed some in the environmental community.

“Harris missed a critical opportunity to lay out a stark contrast with Trump and show young voters that she will stand up to Big Oil and stop the climate crisis,’' said Stevie O’Hanlon, a spokesperson for the Sunrise Movement, one of the groups behind the Green New Deal.

“Harris spent more time promoting fracking than laying out a bold vision for a clean energy future,’' O’Hanlon said. “Young voters want more from Harris’’ on climate change, she added. “We want to see a real plan that meets the scale and urgency of this crisis.’'

Her group is working to turn out young voters, “but we hear people asking every day, ‘What are Democrats going to do for us?’” O’Hanlon said. “To win, Harris needs to show young people she will fight for us.”

Other environmental groups were less critical, citing the looming threat to climate action posed by Trump, who rolled back more than 100 environmental protections during his term as president.

“There is only one presidential candidate who is a champion for climate action and that is Kamala Harris,’' said Alex Glass, speaking for Climate Power, a liberal advocacy group. Harris “laid out a clear vision to invest in clean energy jobs and lower costs for working families,’' Glass said.

By comparison, she said, Trump “will do the bidding of his Big Oil donors.’'

did you not see were Walz used a federal Trump program to increase police funding to strongarm protesters that were protesting against an oil pipeline

both parties are paid by oil

being younger and more mentally fit than Trump is not a justification or a qualification to elect someone as leader

Democrats support old fashioned politics that will slow progress down like molasses just as much as Republicans and so do the voters who keep showing their support for the slow regressive march backwards towards the good old' days with voting

how else could the Democrats win?

every election they pander more to the right and if someone does not run that is worse what would they have to campaign on?

progressive politics?

Harris is set to hold two rallies in North Carolina and one in Pennsylvania as part of the kickoff for her "New Way Forward Tour," which her campaign said is an effort to "capitalize on her decisive victory" against former President Donald Trump at the ABC News debate earlier this week.

what new way forward? is she going to suddenly come out strong on anything with a plan forward?

she said nothing in the debates about anything that affects the US citizens on a day-to-day basis and neither did Trump

no matter who wins there will be more police funding, less healthcare, no women's rights, no healthcare reform, nothing to help the environment, more genocide, more antiimmigration, more world policing, stagnant pay, and lots of molasses

what does Harris bring to the table besides being more mentally fit and yes younger but still too old to relate to the populace just like Trump

more of a dissident of the United States btw

not able to vote or do a lot of things that people who will blindly vote for Democrats or Republicans and play ball take for granted

the more the US falls apart under Democrat and Republican leaders the more people seem to latch on to them, but it is the wrong lifeboat and the last hundred years should have been a red flag that something more is needed to keep this sinking country afloat

people need help with childcare and affordable housing because of bipartisan politics

takes a higher minimum wage and better education to help with both of these plus workers' rights and universal healthcare and police reform and environmental reforms

what good is help with childcare bills when the parent and/or parents is/are not paid enough to purchase food or other necessities and while they are on their way to get their child from that child care facility that they get assistance with they get pulled over and hassled by police and when they finally come home the electricity is off because they are not given living wages for the work they put in and then the kids grow not understanding as adults how to fix the situation in their country because they lack the tools better education would have provided thus the circle continues and the Republican and Democrats get their low paid factory worker that lacks the knowledge to improve their lives and will keep propping up the two party sham

takes more than just helping with childcare which is only needed because Democrats and Republicans both do not support living wages because their financial backers do not support it

was all show that seemed rigged and was void of substance that the US citizens desperately needed decades ago