• SomeKindaName@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    A ham sandwich can be eaten. Eating is good. That’s 1 pt ham sandwich, 0 gop. Ham sandwich does more for Americans than gop.

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    Sure the meme is Kamala can be a terrible President, but I would vote for a Ham sandwich to keep the GOP from power ?

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    Doubtful on part 1. The senate seems to be flipping red this time. No senate, no new laws. Kamala won’t be able to do shit without the Democrats passing legislation.

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          Yup, a frequent refrain of there’s is that the dema should be more effective since they’ve “been on power” multiple times over the last 50 years, during which a grand total of four of those and change featured a majority that could have actually done anything, and which alao had several members that would actively sabotage that majority doing anything.

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      I don’t know why you’re being down voted. The Financial Times laid out the same dire situation yesterday. The New York Times said it two days ago. The best she can do in the first term is play defense and home the ground game gets good. But it’s a hard position to be in because people are looking to either winners change. Without legislation, I don’t know how she can do that.

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    Don’t worry, voters will definitely hand both houses to the Republicans in 2026 if she’s elected and they’ll take their orders directly from Trump.

    Because that’s what always happens.

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      I just hope Trump is dead by 2026.

      There could always be some other MAGA asshole to fill the void, but the dissolution of Trump’s cult of personality would be a crippling blow.

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        There’s always an asshole. Newt Gingrich, Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump. And our electoral system and goldfish-memory population will continually put them into power.

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          Don’t blame “the population”, if everybody had exactly the same starting conditions, they’d end up the same. I’m autistic and generally - from experience with people - think that every popular thing is crap and every popular idea is crap, and the more hated something is, the more wisdom may be in it.

          But. The population generally has the same kind of memory as you. There are a lot of traps and distractions, they fall for some, you fall for some others. There’s no need to blame the victim.

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          Newt, Mitch and the others only have their local GOP cult, they don’t have the national cult that the orange turd does.

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            Okay, Rush, Hannity, and Alex Jones & The Turds.

            There will always be an asshole. That’s the entire reason we even have government in the first place.

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      That’s not what happened in 2022, at least not quite. Don’t underestimate Trump’s ability to insert himself and mess up whatever easy wins the GOP would otherwise have.

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    I mean Kamala will be a horrible president. It’s not possible to be a good president when it is a job to uphold the American empire and its power. Kamala will be horrible though with her support for the ongoing Gaza genocide, terrible and half arse healthcare and environmental plans when we can afford to be half arse on neither, she is also trying to outflank Trump to the right on immigration and police violence.

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    “Objectively” is such a fun way to describe what will always be a divisive position of power. Was any one president considered objectively good?

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      Grant’s administration was deeply imperfect - corruption ran deep - but he eradicated the first KKK. I feel like that’s an objective good, and anyone who disagrees isn’t worth listening to.

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      Well, Al Gore was voted president, and he didn’t make any objectionable decisions while George Bush was living in his house and working in his office.

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          You can thank Roger Stone for that, if you’d forgotten or if you were too young at the time to care or realize wtf was going on.

          I was 15 in 2000…I fell into the latter camp.

          He was one of the organizers of the Brooks Brothers Riot, which accomplished its goal of shutting down the Florida recount.

          Obviously, since this didn’t happen yet, Trump didn’t know about this when Stone compelled him to run in the reform party that year (when he dropped out in February). The two of them worked together for a long time prior, Stone was a lobbyist for him.

          But I’m sure Trump knew about that when Stone became a campaign consultant in 2016. That was also when he got involved with the person selling Hillary’s “derogatory financial info”, as the Mueller investigation revealed.

          Didn’t matter tho. Trump commuted his sentence and pardoned him.

          After all, the election was coming up. Stone already helped Bush secure a seat in 2000, and dug up dirt that cost Hillary the election. Dirt that wasn’t even really that dirty, just needed good spin.

          And of course, he was instrumental in planning J6.

          Dude is literally the most treacherous of treasonists. Comic book levels of villainy. No doubt he’s got something queued up to “ensure” a Republican “win” this year. He was primarily responsible for the last two Republican “wins” and really wants that third.

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    This meme is pseudo-scientific without any understanding of objectivity.

    I’d vote for a ham sandwich if I lived in a magic place where it mattered. This sham democracy is why we’re stuck with worthless votes for garbage people. There’s no way to vote ourselves out of a fundamentally corrupt system.

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        It is exactly what the people, this person doesn’t like, want them to do though! So clearly they are morally superior to those who choose a lesser evil, and work to push better candidates where it is possible, like their local governments, courts, and sheriff’s offices.

        I mean, it’s not like locking in a party federally, while pushing for close attention on the local level. Locking in a large amount of voting districts. Then selecting for further, and further, right wing options, for those positions, ever worked for the GOP. Oh wait, no, that is exactly how the ethno-state evangelicals formed both a death grip on the GOP, and the GOP a death grip on the government, despite being minorities.

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      It is a sham democracy, but the votes do still matter. Worst case, we have a choice between half assed climate policy that at least acknowledges it needs attention, or climate accelerationism. We have the choice between half assed women’s rights, or women being pushed further towards being second class citizens. We have the choice between half assed protections for the queer community, or the continued dehumanization and harm towards the queer community.

      The list goes on. The two candidates aren’t equal.

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    well we already the “Worst President” < that dump inept man!!! so anything is better! Kamala will be AWESOME!

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      Is there a candidate that would help protect the Palestinians? Like a legitimate one that has even a remote possibility of winning? Nah? OK I’ll vote for the other things I care about then since that one is out of reach.

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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        I think Kamala will be an objectively great president

        That means, not just in comparison to Trump, but actually good in general. The moment you say or endorse that statement, talking about Trump or whether there’s a viable alternative is 100% whataboutism.

        I respect you less than OP because you’re now pretending like you care about Palestinians, and it’s just because there’s no alternative that you support Harris. I prefer it when y’all take the mask off, because it’s pointless to argue against something the other side is only pretending to believe or value.

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              Because your comment is so disconnected from reality that it’s the only thing that makes sense to me. Genuinely concerned for you.

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                  I think you replied to the wrong comment. The quote you’re including and answering does not exist here.

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                The absolute liberal irony in this is fucking hilarious.

                You people are just genuinely lost in hyperreality, aren’t you?

                p.s. try sneering harder, you’re totally winning over the working class.

                • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  “If I act like a smug asshole, people will want to vote who I like!”

                  It doesn’t work for Musk, it won’t work for weirdos online who think bad polices are okay when it’s blue.

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      Same with a burger. Your lettuce should be dry (pat it with a paper towel if you must) and put it as the bottom layer. This creates a moisture barrier that stops your bread/bun from turning into a soggy mess.

      On a sandwich, the cheese should be on the other side for the same reason. Keep all the wet stuff from turning your bread into slop.

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        This person sandwiches…

        Absolutely correct on all accounts. These are important laws, and many of us have independently arrived at them due to previous errors in sandwich construction.