With Attention on Presidential Contest, GOP Goes on Austerity Rampage
With Attention on Presidential Contest, GOP Goes on Austerity Rampage
One leading Democrat warned Republicans' spending proposals would "demolish public education" and "let corporate price gouging run rampant."
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Great. Worked so well the last time we did it. We recovered faster than any other nation and have a lower inflation rate than any other nation, so let's crash the economy with austerity measures.
I'ma need some help. My democracy is isn't doing so hot.
Well, the GOP is the party of "fiscal responsibility" after all... .
Tax and spend is fiscal responsibility. Cutting taxes on the rich and then stating there's not enough money for medicare is not a sound fiscal strategy for anything other than fomenting the demise of the current governmental system.
Oh wait! That's the point!
Drown it in a bathtub my ass. I'll drown a thousand fascists in bathtubs before I let this democracy die.
Yep, the fiscally responsible party that balloons the fuck out of the national debt whenever they are in office and then fear mongers about it when they are not.
By their own logic, Bill Clinton was the most fiscally responsible president in the last like 50 years, but oh well Republicans are extremely good at lying and Democrats are awful at countering said lies.
Isn't your GOP always saying that though, but always spends more?
Yep! But spends it on contractors for the DoD! Not any of that filthy commie shit like education or clean water or... The list goes on and on.
We are electing a King this November thanks to SCOTUS and the GOP.
Is Biden a good King for us? That's what we need to be asking.
I'm down for whoever is on the ticket that isn't trump. If that's Biden, so be it, if it's Kamala, I'm for it. Whatever. Just whoever it is needs to articulate an actual argument against Trump and for themselves with a plan for the future. Freezing in the headlights to a mad man speaking only lies is not the way.
At this point, I’m starting to get get really worried that Biden might go down as the most catastrophic example of the sunk cost fallacy in modern history. His Friday interview only intensified my concerns about him - that, I should add, are not centered around his age, but the fact that he appears to be largely out of touch with the core domestic issues that he must fight against in this election.
This is a concern that I’ve had since 2016, and is one of the main reasons I didn’t like him in the primary back then. Like, he was saying a lot of the right things, but I frankly didn’t believe him… and that’s kinda panned out for pretty much his whole term as far as I’m concerned.
Like, yeah, he’s had some policy wins, but none of them are actually addressing the root cause of the issues we’re facing recently: fascism is rising, and we need to build a firewall against it. That’s it. That’s the overriding concern. And it feels like he’s just done nothing meaningful to address anything close to the root cause. He’s so far up his own ass about his vaunted “ability to compromise” that he has failed to understand that a large swath of the right wing of American politics have effectively devolved into what I would describe as legislative and cultural terrorism. He doesn’t - and, perhaps, can’t - understand that we’re not playing poker anymore. He keeps bringing a deck of cards to the gunfight that American domestic politics have devolved into.
If he had his head in the game with regard to how serious this needs to be taken, I could forgive a lot of other failings. But he clearly doesn’t have his head in the game. He thinks it’ll be fine if he “gives it his all”, ignoring that his “all” really doesn’t appear to be enough in this scenario - yes, somewhat due to age, endurance, and mental acuity, but much more importantly due to his frame of mind, ego, and hubris.
TL;DR I am very fucking concerned that he just doesn’t understand how serious the consequences of failure are here, and his Friday interview kinda solidified my concerns on that front.
Yep. "Give it your all" means fuck all to me if the opposing view wins and I end up in a fucking camp for being gay!
If voting is all you do, that will kick the can down the road and buy some time (I assume a Democrat will win), but will not change the dynamics at play.
Buying time is good but insufficient to keep our democracy.
Umm, really not looking like a Democrat is gonna win to me at the moment.
Mass civil unrest will be the only force for positive change long term. I'm just afraid that we won't get that until trump is half way to king and back.