I know what you’re saying here but the king is absolutely a part of the Australian government and this is cheap equivocation on behalf of the Australian prime minister who should know very well that Australia is a not a republic.

You can’t be the head of state for a constitutional monarchy and claim that the monarch isn’t a part of the government.

Not a government decision?

Help me understand where I’m getting confused here.

Yeah but if this happened under Trump they would have signed this motion pressing down harder on their pens and Trump would have said something mean and/or ridiculous on TV, so we can’t get distracted by this because we need to vote for 99.999% Hitler instead of 100% Hitler, okay?

Waiting on the CIA to issue me with a stinger so I can go and pose with it out the front of Killiechassie for a photo op

So the Democrat strategy of “I’ve already moved my stuff here so I might as well keep this spot” isn’t viable?? Who could have seen that coming?

Biden’s campaign is in tatters.

The Reichsadler theory

Quick questions for them:

What has Biden actually done to protect trans people through legislation?

Do they believe that international law needs to be upheld?

Do they think that it’s okay to be complicit in genocide?

Interesting that it comes up on a Bernie tweet but not a Hillary tweet, eh? Almost as if AOC knows which side her bread is buttered on.

Mastochism

There’s something poetic in how all of their efforts are apparently blowing up in their faces right now.

If they devoted their energy to pushing Biden left instead or to turning against Biden early on in order to demand a better candidate, this wouldn’t have happened.

Instead they pushed the line that Biden is our only option and I’d guess that a good proportion of reluctant Biden voters who were chastised into backing him a second time are gonna be rapidly losing their already dubious conviction to back Biden, but also it seems like suddenly there’s a rift amongst the diehard Dem camp where one side is still rallying behind Biden while the other has lost their faith in Biden being a viable candidate.

Aside from it being a state of chaos under heaven there’s gotta be some bitter irony in that second camp, having spent so much time scolding other people into voting for Biden who are now the ones that are about to get scolded by the diehard Biden camp for not supporting Biden hard enough.

A part of me hopes this is a major inflection point amongst the US progressive cohort and that we’re gonna see a large splinter group that finally wakes up and realises how toxic their vote-shaming strategy is and how chasing the DNC rather than expecting the DNC to appeal to the voterbase is a fundamentally broken strategy. I know that progressives are terrible at keeping score but surely there’s a golden opportunity for agitation by reminding this newly disaffected cohort that the DNC destroyed their chances at beating Trump the first time around by bringing Bernie to heel and running Hillary instead and now they’re doing the exact same thing by pushing Biden at any cost rather than finding someone who has broader appeal and popular support, or even just someone who can finish a sentence coherently.

Strange to think that the key message that the DNC has been pushing—that we must put up with anything in order to defeat Trump—might be the very thing that turns people away from the democrats because they have lost faith in the DNC and its lame duck nominee.

There’s a reason why nobody will let Elizabeth Warren cook. Here’s the result from the last time people let her:

I remember when Biden campaigned on the promise of addressing COVID by following the science.

Instead he got rid of mask mandates and there is serious discussions about banning masking in US states, biobot is no longer recording COVID data, and COVID is surging in the US.

But we all just need to trust that he’s going to tell the truth this time around. There’s an old saying in Tennessee…

Do I smell another recall?
Somebody reset the timer!

What they’re selling:
Dark Brandon

What you’re getting:
Dim Biden

In the earliest iteration of this press release, they referred to him as Baiden or Baidan. I can’t remember which exactly. They later edited these mentions to being spelled Biden.

Idk if it was just a mistranslation from the Korean version or whether it was intended as a slight against Biden. My headcanon is that it was the latter though.

Typical tankie lies.

Biden wouldn’t be able to climb the stairs to get into the cockpit in the first place so your terrible analogy is completely deboonked. I am very smart and very liberal.

“Would you rather eat the dish that is 100% platter of shit with broken glass in it or the dish that is 99% platter of shit with broken glass in it and 1% chicken?”

“Um, no thank you.”

“See? This is exactly what’s wrong with this country!! 😡😡”

The peak of liberal political analysis is just analogy.

Trump is Voldemort and Hillary is Hermione Granger.
Trump is Jojo Siwa and Biden is Billie Eilish.

Fucken, whatever it is all it amounts to is this aesthetic “I don’t like the bad thing because the bad thing is tacky and lowbrow/threatens to destroy the world but I like the good thing because it’s nice and refined and clever/is the thing that’s going to save the world”.

That’s all they can ever do.

"Biden is like liquid medicine: not something that is your preference to drink, it’s bitter and uncomfortable but ultimately you know that what is more important is your own health–the health of the nation and of the world–than drinking coke instead.

Meanwhile Trump is like ipecac. People drink it because they think it will get rid of the problem and it might just do that but you’re going to make yourself very sick in the process, you’re going to create a huge mess, and you will feel weakened and full of regret for your choice by the end of it. Then you are going to need someone to come along and start cleaning up the mess that your poor decision-making has wrought."

It’s so incredibly smug and self-congratulatory. Usually it’s really wordy and the analogy becomes more tortured as the whole thing progresses.