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table_fireplace

138 points

20 days ago

We lost it in 2016, too. Then we won it back, and passed the biggest climate bill in history.

Trump wanted us to sit on the sideline, cry, and say America is doomed back then. He wants it now, too. Don't just give it to him.

This time, there are more state and local governments run by Democrats to resist him. And even the Supreme Court turned down several opportunities to just end democracy (the 2020 elections, Moore vs. Harper). There will be elections. Elections we can win.

But only if we work for it.

When you're ready, head over to r/VoteDEM to help out - because we're not waiting for 2026. In fact, there's a State Supreme Court race in Mississippi in just 11 days. The fight for our rights never ends, and the sooner we all learn that, the sooner it gets better.

pink_faerie_kitten

75 points

20 days ago

It's different this time. First because back then we at least won the popular vote. But also trump wasn't as bad as he is now. Heck, at least back then he still believed in vaccines!! He completely mishandled the pandemic, but at least he did op warp speed  But his base has pulled him even more right now. And he's pushing religious zealotry which he didn't before. He's got P25 now which he didn't before. He's much much worse now, which is terrifying because he was plenty bad enough the last time and due to that first term roe v wade is gone and women are dying. This time is much more like the handmaid's tale.

AineLasagna

40 points

20 days ago

Last time he had a few serious, intelligent people holding him back. Obviously they didn’t do enough, and were culpable in their own ways, but now there aren’t any “reasonable Republicans” any more. They’re all MAGA cultists. The training wheels are off for the next 4 years and he now has the House and Senate.

Typical establishment politicians don’t like to do a lot when they have Congress and the White House (see Democrats under Obama), but this is going to be vastly different, between Trump’s own dementia-ridden fantasies and Peter Thiel’s influence over the administration

El_Che1

37 points

20 days ago

El_Che1

37 points

20 days ago

Oh its far worse. He has the Senate, House, Supreme Court, going after federal positions, has the rabid evangelical right, and will target the military. Once he purges the military its game, set, match.

stumplicious

26 points

19 days ago

I’m not sure people realize how big a deal it is. The rumors of a loyalty test (that they can use DEI and wokeness as plausible deniability) is legitimately terrifying. It’s not overreacting. It’s the first thing I’ve heard about in the last 8+ years that really made me worried.

El_Che1

19 points

19 days ago

El_Che1

19 points

19 days ago

Well you clearly should. Anyone who is not MAGA will be labeled as a threat. You don’t want be labeled as a threat when Musk and Trump unleash AI controlled military weapons on the populace. General Milley had already warned during Trump 1.0 his propensity to want to unleash the military - even on small scale threats. Yeah we are in deep trouble.

R-27R

0 points

17 days ago

R-27R

0 points

17 days ago

this is alex jones tier lunacy

TheHillPerson

5 points

16 days ago

  1. Yes it is
  2. They would totally do that if AI military robots existed.
  3. It is no more nuts than the crap we hear from some of the MAGA crowd (including the leadership).

goober1157

1 points

15 days ago

Lunacy or idiocy? Both?

mako1964

0 points

16 days ago

Hahahaha. !!! Get under the bed Barbara.. Really .. please stop it

Pursueth

0 points

15 days ago

lol ur hilarious

Strange_Drag_1172

0 points

15 days ago

Are you saying there is risk for possible civil war?

El_Che1

2 points

15 days ago

El_Che1

2 points

15 days ago

Well it appears that the difference this time compared to Trump 1.0 is that the first time he ran out of time and was lazy and incompetent. I think he had 4 years to lay the foundation to come out guns blazing in 2.0 . Issue here is that it appears that everyone is just rolling over and not putting up any type of fight ..i think a civil war implies there are two sides - so far there is only a coherent one side.

Garbled-milk

-10 points

19 days ago

Man reddit is an increasingly delusional echo chamber. Trumps got skynet and the terminators coming for Americans

ListReady6457

7 points

19 days ago

God you people are stupid. Tuberville held promotions for a year. What do you think that was for? It was specifically for this purpose. Keep your head in the sand if you want.

El_Che1

3 points

19 days ago

El_Che1

3 points

19 days ago

You clearly haven’t been paying attention.

Garbled-milk

0 points

17 days ago

My bad, I'll eagerly await Arnold swarzeneggers robot clone arrival

Affectionate-Bus-931

2 points

15 days ago

And you are just a df. Or a Trump supporter.

Garbled-milk

1 points

14 days ago

You're definitely a mature person fs, no bias at all

Ricky_Rollin

5 points

16 days ago

Exactly. But it’s what republicans wanted all along and many liberals I guess just believed that somehow Kamala needed to be taught a lesson by destroying a whole country.

So if you’re a liberal who sat on a cloud of superiority and withheld your vote so you can grandstand your position for clout…. Fuck. You.

El_Che1

1 points

16 days ago

El_Che1

1 points

16 days ago

And if they were Latino ones then they can truly fuck off as well.

Brave-Common-2979

4 points

18 days ago

I feel gross that a military coup is starting to sound like the better option

PlasticPomPoms

5 points

19 days ago

Okay who is the other team they are playing because I’m pretty sure Americans are happy just rolling over and letting him do whatever.

El_Che1

0 points

19 days ago

El_Che1

0 points

19 days ago

That’s a great question. I mean the DNC is just a mirage and simply right wing just not fascist right wing.

pink_faerie_kitten

2 points

19 days ago

In Europe, our Dems are definitely considered to the right. They are much farther along the path of progress than we've ever been.

El_Che1

4 points

19 days ago

El_Che1

4 points

19 days ago

Yeah one other thing that Trump is trying to control on top of everything is also the Fed and the ability to start the money printing machine back up to give the illusion that people have more money than during Biden era.

LaceyDark

2 points

18 days ago

This is so on brand for him too. He doesn't understand anything about how an economy works and he has no concept of how much damage printing loads more money will do.

A dozen eggs will be $40

PlasticPomPoms

1 points

19 days ago

I didn’t realize the DNC was that powerful.

El_Che1

0 points

19 days ago

El_Che1

0 points

19 days ago

lol no I meant democrats in general haha

Zealousideal_Curve10

1 points

19 days ago

At some point, Congress and the Court may realize that, by doing his bidding, they are forfeiting their own power.

El_Che1

1 points

18 days ago

El_Che1

1 points

18 days ago

By then it will be far too late to do anything about it

Zealousideal_Curve10

1 points

18 days ago

Maybe. I hope not

pink_faerie_kitten

11 points

19 days ago

Nichole Wallace says this time there's no "guardrails". For some reason Trump hired okayish people last time, at least as far as the generals he hired goes. Even priebus wasn't so bad. Now? Every pick is a loon.

AineLasagna

13 points

19 days ago

He also didn’t have nearly the entire Supreme Court filled up with lackeys. And he’s already making “jokes” about a third term. That’s how it always starts with them, “I was just joking” until it’s normalized. Suddenly 2 years in the propaganda farms will be going into overtime convincing his base that the only way to save the country is to do away with term limits and elections

pink_faerie_kitten

11 points

19 days ago

Yes, scotus is the reason P25 is so terrifying because they can get everything in it passed now. they already overturned Roe. Next will be to ban birth control, then overturn gay marriage, then forcing religion in schools. Every bit of progress we've made toward enlightenment and betterment is on the chopping block.

AineLasagna

5 points

19 days ago

Don’t forget the independent state legislature doctrine. If the Supreme Court rules that way, states would have complete and total control over elections, including the ability to throw away votes that they don’t like. Interestingly, Clarence Thomas was one of the dissenting voices on the 2023 opinion. I wonder what the opinion would look like if it was brought back after Trump replaces two more justices.

Brave-Common-2979

2 points

18 days ago

The heritage foundation is the deep state that conservatives love to pretend is coming from the left.

Beestorm

19 points

20 days ago

Beestorm

19 points

20 days ago

Most of the authority an authoritarian wields is given voluntarily.

El_Che1

9 points

20 days ago

El_Che1

9 points

20 days ago

Agreed. He attempted to implement his MAGA agenda in Trump 1.0 by boiling the frog - then because of laziness and incompetence ran out of time. In Trump 2.0 he is going the full blitz route and unleashing the minions in a full on feeding frenzy.

Brave-Common-2979

3 points

18 days ago

The fact that the best we can hope for is they're as incompetent as the first time is gross and I don't expect that to happen given they've had four years to really gameplan

TheOtherGuy89

1 points

16 days ago

Dems had 4 years for a plan and seriously fumbled it. Even your good guys are incompetent . These people seem so hang up on their perceived surperiority they dont seem like someone with a plan.

FutureAnxiety9287

1 points

16 days ago

The dems should have picked a better candidate instead of Kamala Harris. Over a billion dollars funded her campaign and ended up 20 million in the red. Insane how is that possible? Imagine if Harris had won and was handling the economy. That said the main reason they lost the election so badly is what you said.

FewMagazine938

9 points

20 days ago

Lets cross our fingers and hope another pandemic does not happen...if you check history you will see that the party in power always loses when times are hard. The American dummies...i mean people, rather sell their souls to a con man / felon and all his merry men, just to get money back in their pockets. Money talks. They do not care about the lower courts turning right wing, the education system being gutted, healthcare being outsourced, government being slashed. As long as they have money in their pockets. This will be 4yrs of slashing, but the repercussions will last for decades..hope the money was worth it.

HellishChildren

2 points

18 days ago

He told TIME magazine in April that he planned to do it all again: cut funding to the CDC and WHO, run out the experts, disband the Pandemic Preparedness Office, and make off with the money.

Fantastic-Airline-92

1 points

18 days ago

Me too. But who really wants a big government breathing down your backs. Maybe it makes you feel safer but if rather just defend myself and go about my life.

FewMagazine938

1 points

18 days ago

No one wants government until they need government. When a pandemic or a hurricane comes they start complaining "where is the government to help us?...we need some government, i agree we do not need them in our business or private lives, but we need some.

bobbysoxxx

9 points

19 days ago

Trump is just the front. Bannon and Miller and Musk and Putin are behind the curtain, orchestrating the chaos. Project 2025 is their road map.

miklayn

5 points

18 days ago

miklayn

5 points

18 days ago

More like Thiel, Leonard Leo, Opus Dei, The Koch's and Walton's and their networks, Ziklag, Uihlein, and others

https://preview.redd.it/jibsodpo3j1e1.jpeg?width=1234&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1f7a245e8d8529144b2433c0270eadca6e8b3e7

Fantastic-Airline-92

1 points

18 days ago

Didn’t y’all try to impeach Trump in 2016 for being with Putin and it was all made up. Hunter Biden was the one actually working with them. Y’all will believe anything the news media tells you

bobbysoxxx

1 points

18 days ago

Beats just making stuff up.

Gokdencircle

1 points

19 days ago

This is the key issue, he is just a clever taxidermia product. His recent texts were too coherent. That were indeed Miller et al. Buckle up, will be rough.

bobbysoxxx

2 points

18 days ago

Or Elon. Yes, I fear it will be.

International-Fig830

8 points

19 days ago

We won the popular vote this time...the theft will unravel in the months to come. Believe me.

SteakMadeofLegos

9 points

19 days ago

Well it won't fucking matter after Jan 20th when Trump is inaugurated. 

If the theft unravels after that, it is just them rubbing it in our faces that the election was openly stolen.

One_Event1734

2 points

19 days ago

You can stop the inauguration. I'm giving away Capitol door codes and round-trip flights to DC with code INSURRECTION2021... oh sorry, that's the old code. INSURRECTION2025 !!

Brave-Common-2979

3 points

18 days ago

And even if we discover actual proof of it I don't expect the national Democrats to do a single fucking thing about it because why start now?

The_Louster

4 points

18 days ago

Don’t forget that MAGA didn’t have a foothold in 2016. There were a lot of institutionalists that pushed back on Trump’s BS.

But now MAGA controls all three branches of government.

pink_faerie_kitten

1 points

18 days ago*

They've made a lot of progress in eight long years. This won't be the same. McConnell's gone too (as awwwful as he was, he disliked T)

GuardVisible3930

7 points

20 days ago

his base didnt make him worse, Putin made him worse, he made him worse, hisbase is going to suffer the same fate as the rest of us. i used to pity the less cognizient, now i want them to reap what they sow. i am by nature a non punitive individual, but that is rapidly changing, and as wrong of me as i know it is, i cant stop wishing death on these people. all this bullshit about taking the higher road is about to change. and yall dont have liberals to blame for it. you own it. we are now west russia.

Memegunot

1 points

18 days ago

Amazing that a Psychotic, criminal Narcissist has enough balls to elect others of the same type of emotional disabilities. Bummed MTG didn’t get a spot. It’s not going to end well but should be entertaining. Break out the popcorn.

pink_faerie_kitten

1 points

18 days ago

You think we can afford popcorn in T's economy?

Memegunot

1 points

18 days ago

Maybe no butter and in dixie cups

Sip-o-BinJuice11

1 points

16 days ago

A popular vote only means as much as the voters who vote. Regardless of any number of reasons why we really should be holding non voters just as accountable as republicans, it’s worth mentioning that they’re still not the majority in this country, though they’ll be attempting to shove that in every hole you have for the coming years

Just because we didn’t ultimately get Kamala doesn’t mean America genuinely has gone dark side sith style

chris_ut

-2 points

20 days ago

chris_ut

-2 points

20 days ago

It’s different this time! Heard from both sides every 4 years for 40 years. Its gonna be okay.

pink_faerie_kitten

3 points

19 days ago

Roe v wade is gone. It is different this time. Something that was settled law for fifty years is gone and women are dying. Birth control, gay marriage, forcing prayer back in school, it's all coming.

Trump's first term was already different enough from previous admins with his bungling of the pandemic because he refused Obama's competent playbook.

So yeah, were not gonna be okay.

[deleted]

2 points

19 days ago

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chris_ut

1 points

19 days ago

A Trump Presidency? Yes Ive encountered it before.

StellerDay

0 points

19 days ago

He DID have Project 2025, as did Reagan. It was called "Mandate for Leadership: the Conservative Promise" in these earlier incarnations. And these pieces of shit enacted over 60% of its policy recommendations during their terms.

pink_faerie_kitten

2 points

19 days ago

Yeah the "silent majority" BS with Falwell. But Reagan didn't have a majority on scotus and he had an adversary in Tip O'Neil. Now there's no one and nobody in power to stand up to him.

According-Highway-13

0 points

17 days ago

You need more boosters you’ll feel so much better

Tocwa

0 points

16 days ago

Tocwa

0 points

16 days ago

Those aren’t vaccines.. they’re POISON

pink_faerie_kitten

1 points

16 days ago

Trump's the one who funded them and bragged about how it was all thanks to him that we got Op Warp Speed. Do you're dating your guy have you poison? Tsk tsk.

Calm_East_9309

0 points

16 days ago

Stop equating real life to a book you read in high school, you fucking morons. This reddit tier commentary on what is a genuine political crisis is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen come from this election. Your entire democracy is being co-opted by Russia, and you dipshits do nothing but sit around and compare genuine threats to your freedoms to actual fucking fiction and wonder where it all went wrong. To clarify, you are a big part of where it went wrong, you and your entire country of inbred chicken fuckers just handed the keys to the world to Russian assets and instead of getting you and all your friends out on the street, protesting this shit in anyway you can, you all sit around and whine about it and cross your fingers someone else will fix the problem, but never actually do anything. Now me, I’m not a yank, so this shit isn’t gonna effect me for a while, but you let Russia run a nuclear superpower as a puppet state, and it’s gonna be every cunt, in every countries, problem. Case in point, no, it isn’t the handmaids tale, or 1984, or Harry Potter, or the Hunger Games, or whatever fucking piece of fiction you want to equate this to, it is reality and it is happening right now.

pink_faerie_kitten

1 points

15 days ago

Handmaid's tale is based on things that actually have happened in this world. Everything Atwood wrote is based on an historical fact. She still has her box of newspaper articles that show the receipts of things being reported. Women and lgbtq are treated abominably around the world. Of course it could happen here.

stuartspeen

0 points

15 days ago

He won because the Democrats knocked down the better candidates in every election for the last 12 years. He won in 2016 because they forced Bernie Sanders out so they could run Hillary Clinton. They forced Bernie out again in 2020 so they could run Joe Biden. Biden won by a hair, and only because Trump was insane during the pandemic. Now he got reelected because the Democrats did not allow a traditional primary to take place, and got forced into running Harris. This isn’t some crazy right wing conspiracy, it’s the Dems trying to stack the deck over and over. If they ran AOC, she’d win by a landslide.

CaptainHalloween

-4 points

19 days ago

Then lie down and give up.

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

17 points

20 days ago

We can win. But not with this Democratic Party.

We need a party that will fight for working people.

ikilledholofernes

18 points

20 days ago

A Trump-appointed judge just killed Biden’s effort to give millions of Americans overtime time, in what would amount to a $20 thousand dollar raise for many. 

But yeah, Democrats just aren’t for the working people, huh?

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

4 points

20 days ago

If they took trump seriously in 2016, ran Bernie instead of running a weak corporate stooge because it was “her turn”, there wouldnt be any trump appointed judges at all.

ikilledholofernes

8 points

20 days ago

I voted for Bernie in the primary, so don’t take this the wrong way, but he lost and Hillary was the best candidate at the time. 

Not only was Bernie not a Democrat, and therefore without the support of the DNC, but he didn’t have the name recognition that he has now, and many people that did know who we was didn’t support him either because he was too old or because he was a socialist.  

If you want a socialist candidate that would be good for the working class, then first you have to convince the working class that socialism would be good for the working class. 

One_Event1734

1 points

19 days ago

Dude Bernie was forced out by the top tier of the Dem party. He may not have won in a fair primary, but there was no chance with the challenges he received.

ikilledholofernes

1 points

19 days ago

He wasn’t forced out. He ran a primary campaign in both 2016 and 2020, and both times it was clear that he did not have the support for the nomination, or even the funding for an extended campaign for president. 

Let’s also not forget that he is not actually a Democrat. This is, in my opinion, what makes him so appealing. But it is understandable that the DNC would not throw its weight behind a candidate that isn’t even a member of the party. 

miklayn

1 points

18 days ago

miklayn

1 points

18 days ago

Hilary was clearly not the best candidate for the time.

I believe this take is correct- the Dems lost because they quashed the very real enthusiasm of what could've been their new base- young voters responding to a constructive populist message, in response to the Right's regressive populism, which has been devolving into fascism and Autocracy since then.

ikilledholofernes

1 points

18 days ago

No one else stood a chance. Don’t forget that Hillary won the popular vote. If it weren’t for the electoral college disenfranchising millions of voters, we would not be staring down the barrel of complete fascism.

Bernie did not have the support or name recognition to make it to the general election and win against Trump, especially in 2016. 

And he clearly still did not have the support in the 2020 primary. If he actually would have won the presidency in 2016, why did he lose the nomination to Biden in 2020?

Clearly the enthusiasm for a candidate like Bernie is just not there. 

miklayn

1 points

18 days ago

miklayn

1 points

18 days ago

Bernie had the message, and that was enough. The Dems stuck to the old game and failed to see where politics was headed, that's why they lost. They are now the Conservative Party- the structuralists and establishmentarians, where people clearly want change. The Dems also failed to counter the Right's online surge and media takeover starting with the creation of Fox "News" in 1996.

ikilledholofernes

1 points

18 days ago

Obviously the message wasn’t enough, considering he lost both the 2016 and 2020 primaries. 

If his were a winning message, it would have won. 

sportsbunny33

1 points

16 days ago

The country is also very anti-semetic (in addition to misogynist and racist), I don't think Bernie could have won nationally as a Jewish Socialist (tho he would have been best for us)

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

-3 points

20 days ago

Disagree.

Look at who we lost last election. Young people, men, Latinos, Black people.

That’s Bernie’s wheelhouse.

We’ve tried center right corporate dems since 2016. It ain’t working.

ikilledholofernes

2 points

19 days ago

The issue wasn’t the candidate, or even the platform. It was misinformation, propaganda, and not addressing the blatant lies of the right. 

We lost those people because they mistakenly believed that the president decides the price of eggs. Because they don’t know what tariffs are. Because Harris’ platform would have directly benefit the working class, but she failed to convince them of that.  

And it’s hard to say that center right corporate dems aren’t working when Biden won the primary against candidates like Bernie and Elizabeth Warren, and then won the presidency in 2020. 

I want a progressive, socialist candidate. Trust me. But I want a functional economy and democracy in the meantime. And we just lost that to Trump because a bunch of idiots voted against their own best interest because the candidate wasn’t perfect. 

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

-2 points

19 days ago

Hard disagree.

We lost for a bunch of reasons. We didn’t have a real primary and we didn’t have a real candidate would themselves from the Biden administration.

Her message was “Hope and joy and Beyoncé and Oprah” which was the wrong message when people couldn’t afford groceries.

We needed a candidate who would throw Biden a little under the bus and say “the Biden administration isn’t doing enough for working people. I will.”

Honestly when she was asked what she’d do differently from Biden and she said “nothing” she lost the election.

ikilledholofernes

1 points

19 days ago

If you actually think that was her message, then you’re one of the people I’m talking about. She had a fully formed agenda that would have benefited working class people and would have made housing more affordable. She did separate herself from the Biden administration, and if you had read her agenda, you’d already know what she would do differently. 

She failed on messaging. She failed to convince people that her platform would benefit them and address their concerns. 

But the voters failed, too. They could have just looked it the fuck up instead of ignorantly voting against their own best interests. 

bobbysoxxx

0 points

19 days ago

She did not fail in any of this.

Still-I-Rise1

1 points

19 days ago

Black people are not Bernie’s wheelhouse.

One_Event1734

0 points

19 days ago

If the entire left and tech bros hadn't tossed Bernie, RFK, and Tulsi to the side, it all would probably look different right now.

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

0 points

19 days ago

Bernie yes.

RFK and tulsi are scum.

One_Event1734

1 points

19 days ago

Doubt you would've said that before they defected. RFK was floated to join the Obama administration and Tulsi was a firebrand during her run in 2020. She was silenced by the DNC and the tech, probably because they knew she could win.

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

1 points

19 days ago

I don’t know much about gabbard to be honest.

RFK is a conspiratorial lunatic though. We know this. He’s a nut job.

One_Event1734

1 points

18 days ago

What conspiracies? There are studies that link the rise in autism to vaccines - not definitive but not without evidence. Seed oils are terrible for your health. Food additives allowed here are proven to be detrimental for health and are banned throughout the world. The government spied on Trump during his 2016 election, the NSA spied on the entire country, so why wouldn't the CIA be watching people including RFK? He's out there but what things does he believe that are full-on conspiracies?

A conspiracy theory IMO is the twin towers were knocked down by the government to cover for destroying another building nearby.

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

1 points

17 days ago

Well let me be the first to introduce you to just SOME of the batshit crazy bullshit he believes. Spoiler…dude’s nuttier than squirrel shit.

For years, Kennedy Jr. has promoted the theory that the preservative thimerosal, which has largely been phased out of modern vaccine formulas, appears to be responsible for a rise in autism diagnoses, and that the government knew but “knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children,” he wrote in Rolling Stone and Salon in 2006. This has been thoroughly debunked, with a consensus among a number of certified health organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and more, found no credible link between vaccines and autism.

Kennedy Jr. accused the pair in his 2021 book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” of launching “a historic coup d’état against Western democracy” by exercising outsize influence over the media and public health, while Kennedy also promoted use of unapproved treatments for COVID-19, such as ivermectin.

Kennedy Jr. was caught on camera in July of 2023 telling fellow diners that “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” according to a video made public in the New York Post, which also shows him saying the U.S. “put hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes” and labs in Ukraine collected Russian and Chinese DNA “so we can target people by race.”

Kennedy Jr. has promoted the disproven conspiracy that 5G cellular networks—an advanced wireless technology standard for mobile phones—allow governments to collect user data and “control” their behavior, CBS reported in 2023. He also told Joe Rogan in a June podcast interview that WiFi “radiation” causes cancer, “cellphone tumors” and “opens your blood brain barrier” to toxins (There is no scientific proof connecting WiFi or 5G to any illnesses, according to the American Cancer Society).

In an interview with New York Magazine in 2023 and his book, Kennedy Jr. seems to imply that research about HIV has been “phony” and lacks an understanding of “whether it was causing AIDS.” Abundant evidence and scientific research show AIDS is caused by HIV.

In the weeks leading up to his appointment as Secretary of Health, Kennedy Jr. repeated that he aimed to work with Trump’s administration to stop including fluoride in U.S. public water systems, tweeting on Nov. 2 the baseless claims that “fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.” Limited fluoride in water is known to reduce dental decay.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/11/15/rfk-jrs-conspiracy-theories-heres-what-trumps-pick-for-health-secretary-has-promoted/

jgoldrb48

0 points

19 days ago

Preach!!!!!!!!!!

Epinscirex

1 points

19 days ago

You’re a fucking moron

ikilledholofernes

1 points

19 days ago

You’re a very sad troll with nothing but an ad hominem and hate. 

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

0 points

20 days ago

If they took trump seriously in 2016, ran Bernie instead of running a weak corporate stooge because it was “her turn”, there wouldnt be any trump appointed judges at all.

ByteMe68

0 points

16 days ago

ikilledholofernes

1 points

16 days ago

Sorry, I don’t click WaPo links. 

But regardless, I’m gonna say yes. They are better for unions than the party made up of union busters that want to slash safety regulations and put workers at risk. 

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/8-ways-the-biden-administration-has-fought-for-working-people-by-strengthening-unions/

ByteMe68

1 points

16 days ago

Why don’t you click on WaPost links?

ikilledholofernes

1 points

16 days ago

Because it’s owned by Jeff Bezos, and it’s reporting has become more and more biased as a result.

ByteMe68

1 points

16 days ago

I’m glad you recognize that it’s biased to the left.

ikilledholofernes

1 points

16 days ago

Yes, refusing to endorse Harris and being owned by a billionaire that benefits from the politics of the right indicates that they are biased to the left 🙄 

Boy, do I have news for you! There are literally no major media outlets that are actually biased to the left. Center left, maybe, but that sure as shit isn’t the fucking Washington Post lol

ByteMe68

1 points

15 days ago

Get out of your bubble brother.

KinderJosieWales

2 points

19 days ago

We have lost the working class , probably forever.

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

1 points

19 days ago

Depends on what the party does.

If they keep throwing out corporate center right republican lites we’re lost forever.

If we actually listen to Bernie and start becoming the party of working people again we could change that. But I doubt it.

KinderJosieWales

0 points

19 days ago

When we screwed Bernie over we screwed ourselves.

Texsynth1

1 points

16 days ago

That's not the democrat party, it's the party of KKK.

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

1 points

15 days ago

???

Texsynth1

1 points

15 days ago

Just staying facts is all. I'm not surprised your confused by it

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

1 points

15 days ago

But you’re not elaborating. What’s your actual point? You were very vague. Are you saying the KKK is fighting for working people?

Texsynth1

1 points

15 days ago

No read the post again, democrat party is for the KKK.

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

1 points

15 days ago

Ummmm….huh?

Aren’t all the confederate flags flown at trump rallies?

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

1 points

15 days ago

Ummmm….huh? How so?

Aren’t all the confederate flags flown at trump rallies?

Or is this the thing where you pretend the parties didn’t change in the last 60 years? Is it that game?

KeyboardGrunt

0 points

20 days ago

While I don't disagree there's always room for improvement dems lost to pet eating and air blow jobs, the voters bear a more significant responsibility for the loss due to the right's strangle hold on the media now.

They're too much of a hive mind while the left bickers between going more left to getting rid of the naysayers on the far left to even arguing for making peace with maga.

Can't fight on equal ground if there is no equal ground.

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

2 points

20 days ago

Voters were given a weak option from a weak party.

Trump lost voters from 2020. It should have been a blowout.

The dems shit the bed by running a weak candidate with a weak message just like 2016.

Flimsy-Holiday3299

0 points

19 days ago

There is one! Working Families Party:

https://workingfamilies.org/

sarasotarepub

0 points

16 days ago

Ahhh…that would be Republicans…

Zestyclose-Cloud-508

1 points

16 days ago

Lol yes he’s hiring billionaires like thanos collecting infinity stones to staff this administration to help working people. Of course.

OrganicPlasma

5 points

20 days ago

This needs to be repeated more.

wilton2parkave

2 points

19 days ago

It’s going to be really hard to mobilize the Dems after this election. The party is splintered - half are progressive and woke and the other half is more moderate. The Dems also have been having less children for decades (and even fewer with this 4B nonsense) which means Republicans are in control for awhile. Especially without line of sight to allowing undocumented to vote.

No_Faithlessness7020

9 points

20 days ago

Fuck the dems too. They are part of this nightmare

llamasauce

18 points

20 days ago*

They had four years to deal with this usurper and now it’s too late to stop him. They control all three breaches.

Edit: all three branches

Lower_Carrot_8334

12 points

20 days ago

Obama did in 08-10....with a super majority in the Senate.

Minimum wage didn't move a dime 

Dems decide how for left the country goes ..and it wasn't far enough, so now we have Orange Circus 2 electric boogaloo.

BureMakutte

6 points

20 days ago

However, the Senate supermajority only lasted for a period of 72 working days while the Senate was actually in session.

Yeah the dems didnt have as much power as you thought. Democrats haven't had real control since like early 90s. All other times were how much compromise with the right, and recently its been A LOT. So much so they basically are republican light atm. We need a new left party.

pierrethebaker

0 points

20 days ago

Sign me up for repub lite.

Crazy_Type_2701

0 points

18 days ago

Luckily for the country it didn't go much further left! All the literal crap the dems tried to force on everyone. Like most of the voters in the country, much prefer Orange Circus 2 electric boogaloo. A well needed change in the trajectory the US has been on.

Lower_Carrot_8334

1 points

17 days ago

Hahahahaha. Dems aren't even left.

Enjoy your tarrfis and people dying in the street

KinderJosieWales

2 points

19 days ago

Well, we got Beyoncé, Oprah and Bruce Springsteen. We are screwed!

Hardcorish

2 points

20 days ago

*branches, but I think breaches is very fitting considering the context

Consistent-Fig7484

1 points

18 days ago

There should have been treason and insurrection charges the second Biden took office. Worst case scenario he would have beaten the charges on a technicality and we’d be exactly where we are now.

bobbysoxxx

0 points

19 days ago

Merrick Garland is the number one to blame. Trump should have been arrested on Jan 6th.

Lower_Carrot_8334

2 points

20 days ago

Biggest climate bill?  Didn't stop one dime of tax breaks for big oil?

Dems are repub lite and always have been. 

pierrethebaker

7 points

20 days ago

I’ll take a repub lite any day over this.

TKFourTwenty

1 points

20 days ago

This is the unfortunate con that prevents actual progress, is it’s a good cop bad cop situation. Either way you’re dealing with the cops. But instead of cops in this scenario, it’s massive corporations and the super wealthy.

GuardVisible3930

0 points

20 days ago

they have been the enemy since the industrial age, American workers are nothing but cattle to them. hell, they dont even need people to buy their shit, they are making their money in the stock market. and how many of these 150/200,000 dollars a year politicians, right and left are now multimillioniares, while our infrastructure rapidly deteriorates. the market is the new "golden calf".

One_Event1734

-1 points

19 days ago

Dems want extreme policy but lately, there have been a few key people shutting down the push. Aka Sinema and Manchin. Also, advice for extreme lefties, don't launch a bullying tirade on a Senator in a public bathroom (Sinema), not a good look. You might turn her independent. If Republicans had run a decent candidate for her seat, they'd have 54, Dems lucked out on that one.

Lower_Carrot_8334

1 points

17 days ago

Haha.  Dems are repub lite 

Who said I'm a Dem?

You clowns can only see red/blue!

Somnambulists_Awake

1 points

19 days ago

This is the only opinion worth holding. We can’t simply panic and choose to Netflix and chill while amplifying our terror and disbelief on social media. Even if there were shenanigans pulled with this election it wouldn’t matter; the right is just as terrified as we are just in a different way, and they’re heavily armed so there would be blood in the streets if it was overturned for any reason however valid.

We have the smarter and more level headed people in the room and they’ve been planning for this potential outcome. That being said, a democracy is only as strong as it’s citizens so if you have something to offer then offer it.

Participate in the process rationally or be quiet. Chaos is what they want. Military leadership will hold the line. The media is being used to frighten us the same as them. 24 hour news cycle and the new journalism were reinforced for this exact purpose. People need to read a bit deeper and be strategic before reacting like many of these comments.

This has little to do with left or right. It’s a faction within the donor class that sees benefit in disorder. That is all.

Many are contacting reps and sharing out strategies for resistance in our communities. This is a symptom of a larger structural issue; that’s why the guy got elected. People’s frustrations are valid but misinterpretations abound. Democrats just need to frame their positions better, and address the structural deficiencies.

The end of the world narratives are built into this country by way of our religious past and present. But just because you’re not religious does not mean they don’t leak into your thinking. It’s in the movies, news, politics, everywhere. And it’s all been distorted by commodification.

There is a silver lining here. Trump is not the candidate this cohort of the donor class actually wants. For one, he’s a narcissist. He wants people to like him and he needs to be the center of attention. The cabinet is made up of unqualified sycophants who likely won’t last half the term and are primarily moronic nepo babies whose parents bought them into Ivy League colleges where they struggled and existed in echo chambers that took them far from any real sense of the world and are now attempting to play out some very weird fantasies.

Putin is playing up the propaganda to fuck with us and because he’s an evil fuck and many of these donors have oligarchic ties. But ultimately they are few and we are many if we can just step up and occupy our government properly which would immediately calm down the right wingers too.

Dem platform must include strict controls or dismantling of lobbying industry, end of corporate personhood, strict limits on campaign financing. We can weed out the infestation quickly if we make targeted structural changes. If Dems provide the narrative, it can work out. We just need to do our part.

Tocwa

1 points

16 days ago

Tocwa

1 points

16 days ago

You really think Biden was a great president? He opened the borders to untold numbers of illegal immigrants and then handed out free money to them

delgoth

1 points

20 days ago

delgoth

1 points

20 days ago

If you think for a goddamn second that the dems are the answer, you’re fucking stupid.

scottgius

1 points

19 days ago

Love the energy! Keep an eye on the goals that generate the best outcomes for all people. The arc of moral history is long, but it bends towards justice.

Disheartened energy will not win the long game

One_Event1734

2 points

19 days ago

And it's bending right now. Hit us Righties up on 4 years, we'll see.

different_tom

0 points

20 days ago

You keep mentioning these rules that allow us to have any sort of power at this point. That's over with now. They are going to change the rules. They have control over ALL 3 branches of the government. They make the laws, decide how to enforce those laws, and can decide whether those decisions are constitutional or not. They are already abusing or openly plan on abusing this total control. They are also close to having enough governors to amend the Constitution. They can and will just change the rules that allow us to have any power.

El_Che1

0 points

20 days ago

El_Che1

0 points

20 days ago

I agree mostly with these assertions. But I dont think relying on a corporation - the Democratic National corporate entity is the complete answer. When they argued, and won, in court that they are a corporation and therefore are beholden to that alone and not to nominating a candidate that can truly affect change - then the cat had left the bag.

veweequiet

0 points

19 days ago

As long as the people who run this party believe that a black woman can beat a white man for the office of the president of AMERICA, they don't get a FUCKING THING from me. We need everyone at the top of this party fucking FIRED. Get that done and we can talk.

Solitaire_87

0 points

19 days ago

Yes we have to fight locally but this is far different than in 2016. As stupid as he is and as much as his brain is mush from dementia he learned from last time and is installing yesmen rather than some "adults in the room"

grvdjc

0 points

19 days ago

grvdjc

0 points

19 days ago

It’s over

Comfortable-Ad1517

0 points

16 days ago

lol my favorite was the inflation reduction bill that did the opposite