I didn’t abstain, but the blame doesn’t lie entirely with them. This feels like 2016 all over again, down to blaming the voters instead of the party.

People want change and are unhappy with the state of things, so the Democratic Party runs a status quo candidate against a (psychotic liar) who is making promises about change.

At least a charismatic candidate like an Obama (who doesn’t actually rock the status quo boat too much) would have rallied voters. Why is the Democratic Party so bad at this?

We’ve been spending the last generation funneling as much money to the oligarchs as possible. We’ve seen what that did/does to Russia’s capabilities and we’re somehow surprised that it works the same way here too.

It takes a lot of sugar for it to act as a preservative. Like candy levels of sugar. Below those levels it’s part of a growth medium (i.e., food).

Of course he is.

He’s not the bar we need to rate everybody against, though. Being better than Trump is not enough. Let’s hold our government to reasonable standards.

We built an entire system based on perverse incentives and then act surprised at the outcomes.

In before “But… but… whatabout Trump!”

Not too far from the truth. The scientists are also putting random stuff in there just to see what it looks like!

Many of them are voting for Trump because the Democratic Party has abandoned them entirely for decades now. It’s stupid to fall for his lies, but he’s at least bothering to address them as a demographic in need of attention (with lies, of course).

Listening to NPR the other day, there was a piece on how many of the unions aren’t endorsing Harris (either candidate, actually) and that it’s because the working class whites men that make up the unions aren’t ready for a mixed-race female president. Of course jumping right to blaming the voters of bigotry instead of admitting that neither Harris, nor Biden or the party in general, has done anything to earn a union endorsement. If they were just bigots, wouldn’t they be endorsing Trump?

Should we really be propping up wealthy business owners by letting them create a underclass of desperate workers that can be deported at any moment?

Just because Trump is against something doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Broken clock and all.

Deportations aren’t the answer as much as actually prosecuting the “employers”, but having our economy dependent on unauthorized workers is not good at all.

I would argue that this sort of logical path wouldn’t be too shocking for the founders and they would just count on civility or elections to keep this from happening. The executive pardon itself is a fairly indefensible and corruption-facilitating loophole in the justice system.

He’s the biggest liability to all of his companies. Good on SpaceX for firewalling him from the company as well as they do.

And they stand there over her like a bunch of fat Tweedle Dees and Dums after they knock her down.

Pathetic

No, the immediate problem is that we know that people make decisions based on a vibe and who orates better and (out of all of the qualified people in the country) we still hang our hat (and the future of the country) on a poor orator with a bad vibe. It’s 2016 all over again and it seems like nobody’s learned a thing.

This shouldn’t be a hard race at all. Why are we insisting on handicapping ourselves like this?