President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

There's this character in Melancholia - terrific movie - in which a misanthrope (Kirsten Dunst) says, "The earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for it. Nobody will miss it."

Once that notion takes hold - and in American progressivism, it has - it can be very hard to expunge.

A lot of people just don't see a future. They see Trump as Caligula. They see the country and perhaps the world at the end of an age. It's part of why you've seen art and music and movies and speech in general in retreat; there's a devastating hopelessness at the core.

One of the most important reasons for a Harris win was to at least stop any further retreat by many of our brightest, most creative people. For several reasons, including an increasing parochialism and religiosity on the left, it didn’t happen.

 

clearly she lost because she never got the endorsement from George W.

 

I will address this sometime tomorrow but probably not in this thread because it's not relevant. I have honestly made myself a Post-it-Note to do so. I promise. I'm headed to bed, so you will be tagged.

 

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Boy is it gonna suck when this thread is locked, replaced by a dusted off (even if new) Trump one.
(ICYMI, this is the first post on this thread).

 

When they make the argument about a woman’s autonomy over their body, the GOP counters by saying that women already have control over their own body by saying no to sex; that the fetus is a separate body and that the fetus’ body is just as important if not more important than the woman’s body.

The rape/incest argument works to make the emotional tug strings, even though it’s only 2-3 percent of abortions. The argument works to counter the “why didn’t she just close her legs” argument because the victim wasn’t voluntarily having sex.

I actually thought the Dems did a decent job arguing their side on this issue. They even played the GOP’s own sloganeering game with their “Mind your own business” catchphrase and the ads showing the GOP congressmen watching couples have sex. Problem though, is that season ticket costs are more important than bodily autonomy to 52 percent of the population.

 

Imagine having the balls to come to this board and lecture to get over it and put on your big girl pants after the United States elects this:


Jesus fucking christ.

 

Your every-so-often reminder that it was once considered disqualifying for a presidential candidate to let out a scream at a rally.

 

Good God. It's really happening.

 

Too many voters just don't know or care what Trump is capable of....or what is absolutely incapable of.

 

But Trump voters are hurting.