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Hugo Stiglitz

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  1. If democracy is on the ballot in every election, is it really a democracy? Cake or death challenge every four years isn’t much of a participatory system of government.
  2. Rest in piss
  3. I knew 2024 would be fucked but it’s crazy living through two ongoing coups simultaneously.
  4. Biden’s biggest failure was neglecting the rising fascist movement which will destroy him and many others. Obama made the same mistake with the tea party but him being the first Black President, I imagine, made it more politically difficult to combat with a frontal assault. Biden had all the white privilege in the world and his administration decided to do as little as possible to stop Trump’s GQP movement. No expanding the courts, no real push to dismantle the electoral college, appointed possibly the weakest attorney general in history, and didn’t do much to tangibly improve the lives of everyday working folks during one of the more difficult times in American history. Yeah the stock market and the “economy” are doing great but only the rich give a shit about that stuff and only a few make a connection to politics. There’s also a laundry list of stuff he campaigned on in 2020 that he made no real effort to even advocate for, such as a public option on healthcare. And most notably missing from Biden’s agenda was a robust anti-corruption legislation package, which would have been massively popular across the political landscape if marketed properly and highly needed. You can say Biden did some good things as president, and that’s true but on the whole he catastrophically missed the moment with his presidency and that’s partially why we’re in this dark place.
  5. Jimmy Carter would be the strategic pic
  6. And why did Lee Harvey kill that cop?
  7. I mean, the whole thing is embarrassing for everyone involved.
  8. Crazy to think America could be a borderline Axis power by this time next year.
  9. I don’t understand why Trump would ever want to lock any of these Democratic Party leaders up… they are among the most responsible for his political success.
  10. I need a coconut tree to improve the context in which I live. Gonna resort to metaphysics and channel the ancestors to help guide America through this tumultuous era. I have been drinking.
  11. The Secret Service is better at bullshit than most politicians, which is saying something.
  12. Maybe we shouldn’t put national secrets on paper anymore?
  13. How many 20 year old nutjob shooters in America with an AR-15 does it take to convince people like Rex that these crazies are clearly cultivated overtime to be “crazy” by the environment they’re living in? They are no longer extreme outliers, they didn’t just all of a sudden snap from an otherwise normal life. Something is in the air that breeds these guys. And if that is true, more can be done to prevent these kids from going homicidal. I don’t have all the answers but first step though is to acknowledge that there’s more to this than the guns and that is a tall order I understand but this is a cultural phenomenon very specific to the United States, a U.S. that refuses to treat these shooters as nothing more than natural born killers to be put down when they break.
  14. Welp, it’s Monday and everything seems back to normal. Weird how that works.
  15. I knew the Democratic Party was weak but holy shit this is like political malfeasance on so many levels. Who is running Joe Biden’s campaign? Is it Dick Morris or some other washed up out of touch boomer? Kitchen table issues and healthcare aren’t even in the conversation and the only articulated agenda Biden has for a second term is somehow doing all the shit he failed to even fight for in his first term. People are not buying what he’s selling. Divine intervention is pretty much our only hope and that’s the saddest part because the other side is a bunch of unpopular weirdos with horrible ideas no one likes.
  16. This kid wasn’t a nutjob… he knew exactly what he was doing and why he was doing it. I think it’s flippant to refer to him a just another crazy. Something was wrong with him for sure, but insanity wasn’t it. The Trump movement is defined by its cruelty and intolerance. Something like this happening is not surprising given the environment this kid was probably immersed in over the past several years. It’s a sick world and that doesn’t excuse this guys bad behavior but he wasn’t crazy. JMO
  17. Y’all remember the MAGA pipe bomber in the 2018 midterms? Man that shit seems like it was 20 years ago. So much institutional/societal failure over the last ten years.
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