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I suggest changing the headline to "outgoing administration continues to sabotage government for next administration as popularity continues to decline during i
by throwaway5752 6y ago
I suggest changing the headline to "outgoing administration continues to sabotage government for next administration as popularity continues to decline during incompetent response to viral pandemic".
Another example of something that was so important they waited until less than 3 months before the election to do it. It hardly needs saying, but this is devastatingly bad environmental and climate policy.
- xeromal 6y agoClearly this whole situation is political but I'd make 2 points. 1. You might be surprised at the election outcome. 2. The headline is based on the article, not what people think it should be.
- non-entity 6y agoI doubt they were being serious about the title.
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- JKCalhoun 6y agoI can only have my confidence in the U.S. voting public renewed or absolutely shattered this November.
- xeromal 6y agoI definitely understand and feel the same way but I also think he's gonna win despite every fuck up he's made along the way.
- jfengel 6y agoEven the outcome I would prefer isn't going to come anywhere near renewing my confidence. If it happens at all, it will only because a catastrophe made the incumbent's incompetence affect some of his supporters directly -- many of whom will still, in fact, remain supporters. Even before that, enormous numbers of people were harmed, but they weren't among his supporters. Indeed, for them, the negative outcomes were the desired effect. Even if they lose in the fall, they will continue to prefer to insult, harass, and even defend murder if it's of the people they don't like. November won't even begin to fix what's wrong. It began long before 2016, and my biggest fear will be that come 2024 they'll elect somebody who is not only hateful, but also competent, and not saddled with a crisis immediately before the election.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoNovember will not fix what's wrong, it will begin to fix what's wrong.
- mrguyorama 6y agoIt will prevent further backsliding. It would take 20 years or more of significant effort to undo all the damage caused. Look at the ramifications of other "bad" presidents. This comment works for both sides of the political game, even though I only believe it works for one
- bryanlarsen 6y agoThere's middle ground. For example, Trump could lose, but some Senate seats that should flip might not.
- anon73044 6y agoHow did that George Carlin joke go? Garbage in, garbage out.
- refurb 6y ago"The voting public is only smart when my preferred candidate wins."
- godzillabrennus 6y agoDon’t post the desired results on here. Go make phone calls and help the campaign you care about.
- bobthepanda 6y agoThe good news is that past Trump administration environmental rollbacks have been so sloppy and so hasty that they've actually ended up being overturned in some courts, and the resulting legal ambiguity that has resulted has actually resulted in fossil fuels projects becoming less viable since they're guaranteed to be tied up in litigation.
- sschueller 6y agoHe might get re-elected. To me it seem like the DNC is doing everything it can to make that happen. :/
- enraged_camel 6y agoWhat exactly is the DNC doing to make Trump get re-elected?
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- ianleeclark 6y agoNot accepting largely popular policy positions into their party platform is one.
- sonotathrowaway 6y agoCan you name three? Without Medicare for all, seeing as it’s not actually a popular platform issue.
- ianleeclark 6y agoHey, let's ignore this one issue that has majority acceptance across political lines and upwards of 70% Democrat approval because I've got a grudge against it. You can do what you want, throwaway account. When you get Matt Gaetz in 2024 let me know how it feels. 4 years of more means testing will get you there real quick.
- enraged_camel 6y agoI agree that M4A should be adopted, but disagree that not adopting it is hurting Biden. He's doing spectacularly in both state polls and national polls. Back in Spring this could have been ignored, but the election is less than 3 months away now and he has managed to not just retain his lead, but increase it. There's no reason to rock that boat now with major policy adoptions, in my opinion. For what it's worth, if Dems manage to gain control of the Senate, then I think President Biden will sign anything that is put in front of him, including an M4A bill. Not doing that would actually cost him the 2024 election.
- LatteLazy 6y agoBefore everyone knew he'd lose until he won. But this time everyone knows he will lose...
- refurb 6y agoYou need to get out of your bubble more. Automatically painting the other side as stupid is why the Democrats lost in 2016 (i.e. "deplorables"). It only drivers those voters to the other side.
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- throwaway5752 6y agoI'll thank you to not put words in my mouth. Or you can point out where I "painted the other side as stupid". You can make assumptions about my "bubble" or my "side" but we all exist in our own epistemic closures and you may want to examine yours just as much as I make sure I examine mine.
- burfog 6y agoOutgoing? Here in real life, off the internet in a swing state, 100% of the people I know have become Trump supporters. Opinions on his response to the viral pandemic include "fine", "irrelevant because not his problem", and "who cares". Opinions on his environmental and climate policy are uniformly "more please" and "crank it to 11". The only dip in popularity came with the bump stock ban. That really ticked people off.