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"He's not hurting the people he's supposed to" Part II, convicted felon screws you.

Oh well, I guess we're doing this again.

You'll have to speak up. He can't hear you over the leopards.

There’s no polling data showing that Gaza was even a top 3 issue among voters

I didn't say it was. As you may note from my comment.

So it speaks more to apathy than genocide

is a moot point since Biden will have killed everyone there months beforehand

One, neither Biden nor Trump are killing anyone. It's the permissive nature of the United States and their supplies.

Two, Israel isn't in a position to carry out the operation that you are indicating. They're still far short supplied on that front. Over the weekend ahead of the election, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin indicated that the negotiated terms for aid had failed, which clears the path for the US to end weapons delivery to the country under a Leahy determination. Now of course Trump will resume those shipments, but critical missile deployments are likely to end for the time being, especially seeing how it doesn't matter if Biden or Harris secure shit in votes.

Three, the UN World Food Programme has indicated about 10% of their target supply mission for aid is getting through. So there is indeed food, just not enough to feed everyone.

The thing is, the suffering will likely continue long into 2026 because Israel has every intention of sending a very clear message for future Hamas recruits. And you have a hard time sending a clear message with just dead people. The suffering and the pain is the point of what Israel is doing. The land is a nice bonus, but just killing everyone outright doesn't show the level of suffering that Israel can actually implement. It's that being able to drag one's pain and misery out for years on end that Israel is after.

If Israel wanted to carpet bomb the place, they would have asked for that at the start before the relationship soured.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.

Goddamn this hits the exact thing that Democrats really need to learn.

There's a ton of emotion in this nation. Given:

• The opioid crisis where the people responsible are in perpetual litigation.
• The wars we fought that costed us deaths of young people who had lives ahead of them, and scarred millions more. All so that a few rich asshats could profit.
• The corruption of large companies as they swindle the working class, only to watch legislators continue to profit off of insider trading.

And that's just to name a few. There's a ton of emotion in this nation. And Trump, for better or worse, taps into that emotion. The cut and dry democrats, they keep telling us, "The system will work, this time" and you have a public that just screams "well how soon is now then?"

Democrats cannot just keep tapping on the system as it currently stands when the system so obviously doesn't deliver. There are hungry democrats looking for change to the system to form a more better system that will serve them, and the party just keeps dressing the bones of the long gone bird from days long pass.

Sanders fucking sinks the nail in a single stroke of the hammer on this. And Republicans are using that emotion, that pent up distrust of the system as it is, to move people in their direction. The entire point of this living government is to have a government, to have a system, that matches the people who are alive and having to deal with it. Sanders sees that and cut and dry Democrats keep going "but Trump will ruin the system that doesn't work for you!!"

Goddamn, one day, they will learn. Democrats will pick up on what Sanders is saying one day. But holy shit, they are going to clearly take an incredibly long and winding road to get there. I don't agree with where Republicans want to take us. I don't agree with how Republicans want to get there. But goddamn, we've got to hand it to them that they're actively pointing out the exact same thing the Sanders is pointing out. "Status Quo ain't going to fucking work anymore." The sooner the traditional Democrats learn that, the faster they can come back to being relevant.

Remember 4 years of Russia-gate, everyone

That whole thing was about Russia using social media to spend disinformation. The entire thing wasn't that, Russia hacked into the ballot boxes and changed votes, it was that Russia was using social media as a means to give false information to the public.

Underpinning the whole Russia-gate episode is the fact that human beings still physically pushed the buttons they pushed and that the vote they cast was indeed the vote they wished to cast. So we still accept the results as, technically speaking, the people have spoken.

But c'mon, you've seen the increase in AI slop. You know the Russia-gate stuff is true. In fact, I would dare say this election cycle they've gotten worse at doing it as they're still pretty new at the whole AI stuff. Now where I, myself, and other Democrats likely disagree is the how to solve it. Lots of Democrats want to ban AI and regulate social media, but my opinion is you can't fight fire by banning the match. You have to teach fire safety and hope the public is smart enough to not set themselves on fire.

But the important aspect is in all of this, the ballots that were cast, we still respect the final tally. That's the fundamental difference between the Russia-gate and Trump's legal challenges. The Russia-gate stuff is basically people are being misled. Trump's stuff was that people were literally altering the ballot computer.

I think people are still being misled... BUT, Trump won this one fair and square. The law doesn't say a person being misled shouldn't have their vote count, and such a law would be insanely stupid/incredibly dangerous, even if it favored my particular team. We fix being misled by educating people and so losing this election just means that the educating folks game needs to up the ante. Best anyone can do is put the sources out there, show where the misinformation is wrong, and leave it up to the voter to read all of that come to the conclusion that matches reality. But if they don't, we've got to accept that and work on better messaging.

That's how one makes a point. They present the view, present the evidence, and use a persuasive argument. The rest is up to the voter to put together.

"They're not hurting the people they need to be hurting"

We are so going to be hearing this again.

Blame progressives and people that wanted good things

Was genocide a matter in 2012 or 2016? 2020? If 2012, 2016 and 2024 are same numbers, I'd think it's safe to point to similar conditions in mindset.

I don't blame the sky for being blue, it just is.

rather than demand Democrats change anything

This part doesn't make any sense. You can't solve a problem without first identifying the problem. You can't change anything if you deny the thing that needs to change. Am I missing some core argument of yours?

Is your new plan in 2028 to just attack everyone who isn't blindly loyal?

I'm not attacking them. Apathy is a thing. Happens. If some coach comes out and doesn't motivate their team, are we blaming the players for not getting excited enough? Like I don't understand your perspective here. Do you want Democrats to change or not? Because if sounds like whenever someone addresses the issue you knee-jerk into "I'm BeInG aTtAcKeD!!!"

It needs to be said. That's all there is to it.

state proceedings will be paused until after his term

Yes, I full expect the 34 counts sentencing by Merchan to be placed on hold until Jan. 21st, 2029. I'm surprised anyone is confused on this.

Trump won, he gets to get off scot-free from all the charges and investigation. That was literally the reason Trump ran.

Civil lawsuits

Well maybe. Depends with the new SCOTUS presumed immunity. Official acts wasn't well defined and while no one is thinking rape is an official act, the manner by which the evidence was collected can be questioned.

At this rate, the civil stuff might continue, but there's going to be so much resistance to the proceedings that they will effectively look as not even happening. The President can delay court motions because "I'm doing President stuff rn" and the Court has to presume that's true. Rise and repeat until his second term is over.

Yeah, both parties went down from 2020 counts. We literally had something like 18m or 20m who didn't show up combined.

Wild stuff. Oh well, we rode this roller-coaster once, we ride it again. Maybe this round we don't lose 2% of our population?

2012, 2016, and 2024 all have pretty equal share Dem votes, 2020 is the spike in Dem. So it speaks more to apathy than genocide.

Also, with Trump, Gaza is glass. They are so fucked now that the Biden stuff is going to look like a US school shooting where no one cares. I guess the upshot is that we won't have to worry about Gaza much longer since all the Palestinians will be turned into dust soon.

But everyone knew that. Staying home just meant you wanted the Palestinians dead at a faster rate without tangential guilt. Easy for one to excuse Trump giving the nod for bibi to end everyone if you can say "well I didn't vote for him."

Also…. No one is going to try and burn down the Capitol this time. So we’ve got that.