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I love how people in America voted Dems out because they're struggling to feed their families, and Biden's only priorities here are keeping his scumbag son out of prison and making sure war is escalated as much as possible before his term ends.
Great stuff, Genocide Joe.
I'm pretty sure Ukraine not defending itself would escalate the war, what with it resulting in Russia taking over the rest of the country.
Although I suppose that would eventually end it. Maybe in the way you want?
They're not uneducated. They're desperate, and they spent the last 8 years watching both parties ignore how much they're struggling. Why miss a day of work when you know your vote doesn't matter?
Also, you need to ditch this smugness if you want to win people to your side.
Spend 8 years watching both parties ignote their struggles, and then vote for the one that's actively promising to make them worse?
Bold move, Cotton.
Apathetic != uneducated. Plenty of people don't vote because they can't be bothered to.
My own mother refused to register for DECADES because "I don't want to be picked for jury duty." Not making that up. I finally convinced her to register after pointing out jury duty also comes from drivers license records.
Yup, and the sad part is, I called it before the election. The only reason voter participation was up in 2020 was because Covid restrictions encouraged vote by mail.
Without the vote by mail push, participation was going to drop, and because the Democrats benefited more from vote by mail, it was going to hurt them.
Surprise, surprise, that's exactly what happened.
It's crazy how liberals hate democracy immediately when their 10 dimensional multi-spreadsheet chess doesn't work out in their favor because the father of the family of 4 down the street is too stupid to realize that over a 10 year horizon earned income tax credits will have netted him $70k as long as his and his wife's combined maximum AGI doesn't go over $64k, and he only has to pays an average rent of $210,000 for that same period as long as his kids are doubled up in the other bedroom of a two bedroom 950sqft apartment. Is it too much for these morons to say you're welcome. It's like you still have the rest of your money to feed and take care of your family, kids are cheap right? If not you can just put them to work but make sure that your AGI doesn't go above $64k otherwise you can kiss that lucrative $7k a year net goodbye. I mean honestly a little thanks should be expected if you can just wait out 12 years and save that $7k you'll save up 20% of an average home price using today's prices (don't ask how much you'll need for a down payment in 12 years please).
Are voters stupid?
Yeah it's really funny because this stream of bullshit is exactly what Democrats offer and what they talk about when they talk about how they affect normal people. By the way this is all literally just tax code mixed with cost of housing averages over 10 years. It quite literally would make sense to anyone who's ever been a big boy and model citizen by standards that liberal Democrats love to tout, like being smart, doing your own home work, and loving the optimization of spreadsheets about various cost/risk balances in your life.
The fact that you cannot understand it and blame voters for being stupid entirely shows you cannot live up to that standard. So beyond just a reflexive hatred of democracy, you're not even a good lib. And maybe, if you cannot even understand the practical application of one of the shining policies that the Democratic party loves to throw in the face of people as an example of how they made their lives better and how they will continue to do so, just maybe you're also no better than the "voters" who you consider stupid.
So you're saying people should be happy Trump got elected again?
It's an .ml CCP mouthpiece. Don't feed it.
They are no longer here to be fed.
No I'm saying maybe offer people something other than tax spread sheet bullshit, which is generally all the democratic party can ever do. They fucking can't stop talking about the EITC.
So people should be unhappy that Harris wasn't elected?
Who gives a fuck? Harris' own team knew she was unelectable. This is only a surprise to libs who are so high on copium they cannot read a room.
So people shouldn't give a fuck that Trump is president?
If y'all are gonna LARP again as "serious leftists" for 4 years and then put it all down to elect another Joe Biden and go back to brunch then yeah. Sounds like what you want is to not care.
Also if you haven't noticed that half of your party now agrees with a core set of Trump policies because Biden/Harris implemented quite literally Trump policies or Trump adjacent policies regarding immigration, national security and trade.
That's not an answer. There's really only three options here- happy about Trump, unhappy about Trump, or not giving a fuck about Trump. Which is it?
Also, which party is my party? Please present evidence for me being in this party.
Escalated? Oh do tell me how exactly that's going to work. We're already at a full scale invasion with nearly a million casualties. What, are they going to invade harder? Fuck off, spew russian propaganda elsewhere. If you need help grasping the concept, here's a handy chart.
Hey, quick question, which country invade Ukraine? Did the US, is that how they are escalating? Oh wait, no it was russia that did it. Right you meant to blame russia for doing this right?
I will support the Ukraine war if you all go in-person to fight it.
Until then, I'd much rather see those dollars spent here.
Thanks.
They are spending it here.
Lots of the stuff sent to Ukraine is things that have a shelf life anyway.
It's not like you could subsist on artillery shells anyway.
So official comes out and says, we are going to deploy as much military equipment possible using the money that Congress had appropriated for it. (Note Congress was held by a Republican majority). And people think Bidens administration is somehow spending money that could have been used for the American people... Where the Republican majority congress DID NOT appropriate it.
Who do you think is making the military gear? Most sent over its old shit wasting space in storage anyway
What specific policies do you want to see those dollars spent on here. Be specific. List 5.
You'll support the Ukraine if I, a 47-year-old with severe health issues that can't walk much more than half an hour without needed to rest due to them, who has never shot a gun in his life, and who has the flattest feet you have ever seen to go over to Ukraine and fight for them? (Oh, also I'm a coward so I would definitely get scared and run away.)
I find it hard to believe that you would only support Ukraine if they allow people so obviously unfit for duty into their military.
Yeah... This is going to Ukraine, so yeah it's just kind of important.
Unless you are one of these people that think Russia should be allowed to just have Ukraine.
"the Ukraine" referred to the region while it was still part of the Russian/Soviet empire. Nowadays just "Ukraine" is the better way to say it, from what I understand.
That's what they say about every war.
Obama had us at war in seven countries, all of which were super-important too. (Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and Syria.)
But no money for health care or to put food on your table, of course.
If you expect the worlds richest man (has he done anything for anyone?) and the worlds most useful idiot (he won't even pay his bills) to help anyone, enjoy the dirt you head is buried in.
Hes one of the new waves of trolls. Either block him or make a user note so you can downvote him in every thread so people know not to engage.
I think he blocked me. Lol. He stopped responding anyway.