• flan [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Soon the DNC will be nothing more than Biden and his staffers who manipulate him like a large marionette. They will be president but an impotent president because the parliamentarian will be in the way.

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      I think it’s already there, and has been for years. Like the “party” is a couple of dynastic power cliques and the scum that circle their feet foragin for scraps from the high table. There’s nothing that you could call a political party in the conventional sense.

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        I saw a Bluesky post that said Americans think a small group of people choose national candidates. It was by a clever liberal so at first I thought he was being snarky and making fun of his own followers. But when he replied in the comments I realized his post wasn’t ironic. It was 100% unironic. He actually has American civil religion brain.

        I’ve seen his posts for years and it makes me laugh that it was only that day that I realized he’s a shitlib. I’ve never seen him say anything about “The West Wing” - but I decided right then he’s surely a fan boy.

        This Biden situation really has brought out the shitlibs would can’t resist using social media to lecture people on how things actually work and/or need to work.

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        Ninja edit

        a big takeaway from all of the Biden drama is that huge swathes of the public — including reasonably engaged people — think that political parties are a small cabal of elites who select candidates by hand

        https://subium.com/profile/notalawyer.bsky.social/post/3kwj3o3rbhl2s

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          Ugh the DNC has literally said this in open court what is wrong with Libs??!?!?!?!?

          And they’re all still malding about 2016, of course. Fucking… losers.

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            He’s a lawyer too so I assume he’d die on the hill of the phrasing “[nobody] selects candidates by hand”. People vote so blah blah blah.

            Also - Bluesky is hilarious right now. The libs are basically smugly saying one of the following or even somehow both at the same time.

            • Nobody can be certain about anything.

            • Congress is back in session. AOC endorsed Biden plus any and all efforts to remove Biden are now dead. Get over it convention chaos bros - he’s the nominee.

             

            I can’t be certain Biden’s going to have more “bad days” but I’m damn close to certain. Does that count?

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                Yeap.

                Here’s a tweet that could actually be from the future.

                “Look, when Biden fell down and broke his hip in September - that was exactly the time for the extreme-left to help out. But did they? No! They made meme after meme kicking the president went he was down. Sure, I get it. They hate Biden and they hate America. But they helped Tr*mp! They helped elect Tr*mp! It’s like they voted for Tr*mp! And Tr*mp won! I - for one - will never forgive them. 1/87”