Understood.

Would you consider cop cities a threat? Or a president who openly and enthusiastically supports child genocide? What about a president who mocked the Defund movement on national television during the SOTU? What about a president who allowed Idaho to get away with criminalizing abortion? Or Georgia making it significantly harder to vote? What about a president who sees a $7 minimum wage in 2/3 of the US states and does nothing to change it?

I’m not arguing in Trump’s favor here. I fully grasp that he’s shitty too.

What I’m saying is if you want real change, it doesn’t make any sense to vote Democrat, especially for one like Kamala Harris, who hasn’t even put her policy proposals on her website.

Always enjoy running into a pedant. Thank you for that.

They should have made him press secretary. He is infinitely better at giving interviews than being SOT.

Yet another instance where it matters that 2/3 of the states are controlled by conservatives and it matters a great deal that our do-nothing Democrats at the federal level are content to use their power only to enrich themselves.

Foreign citizens are not allowed to donate to US election campaign

Oh, they can indeed. That money just takes a more circuitous route. You might buy a few thousand of Trump’s books or rent a block of rooms at one of his hotels for a while. That’s a lot of money in his pocket that he can loan his campaign at 20% interest legally, and then funnel right back into his pocket. It’s legal and both sides do it.

Well, for starters I’m not from the US, so it’s not my dime

That explains a lot. It must be even easier to support war and genocide when you’re neither voting nor paying for it.

You may think it’s “on our dime” or whatever

I don’t know why you put this in quotes when it’s literally on our dime, and not only that, we’re watching the impoverishment and neglect of our own people on a historically vulgar scale in service to this war machine and genocide.

But, we’re a warmongering nation. People will always make excuses.

Oddly, this would be scarier to me if I hadn’t lived through a protracted 40-year loss of economic and social liberty on the part of the working class and working poor. It seems to me we have bipartisanship for all the really shitty things.

There hasn’t been a minimum wage increase in almost 20 years, despite the vulgar increase in cost living nationwide. The majority of Americans can no longer afford to see a doctor or get a college degree. We no longer have autonomy over our own bodies, and neither party is doing anything to stop it. They are, however, making hundreds of billions appear out of thin air for other countries’ wars. The cherry on the top of this shit pie is that 99% of voters don’t see support for child genocide or brain damage as disqualifying for the presidency.

Republicans turn back the clock. Democrats make sure no one fixes the damage. It’s the ratchet effect.

The only plus I see here is that circumstances in the US are so bad that it’s forced labor unions to get stronger by necessity.

There’s no way she hasn’t already promised to keep sending Israel free weapons on our dime. Israel is one issue where both parties’ positions are 100% the same.

Wow.

I am not one to kink shame, but dude, c’mon. THIS and Trump are the best the Republican Party could do? Out of 330,000,000 people?

It just goes to show that Republicans are monumental pieces of shit.

Neither of these choices are going to do anything meaningful? Harris is going to protect my access to my medications, she’s going to protect the environment, she’s going to protect our ability to actually elect another president after her!

Historically, Democrats have done none of that.

You can’t access your medications if you can’t pay for them, and Democrats have always sided with price-gouging and cost-prohibitive health care.

Democrats also, despite their promises to the contrary, take very good care of Big Oil and the air and automotive industries.

As for voting… what exactly have the Democrats done that is in any way significant in order to protect voting rights? All I see is the nickel-and-diming was saw on abortion before Roe was repealed and our lawmakers in Washington passing 60 meaningless bills a session then going home to count their money.

What does that even mean?

In 2/3 of the US states it’s still legal to pay 7 bucks an hour, and it’s been that way across two Democratic administrations that had control of Congress. Therefore, yes, I can reasonably conclude that Democrats are anti-worker, and to vote for them is to vote against your own interests if you are one.

You elect another Democrat and all we’re going to get for it is a ton of broken promises and empty excuses.

Harris is going to save us from Trump

Who is ‘us’ here?

Because if you’re someone who actually works for a living, neither of these choices is going to do anything meaningful for you.

And the fact that Trump is awful doesn’t change the fact that Harris is a shitty candidate too. Some of us actually have to put food on the table in this country.

The key is to categorize anyone over 12 as an enemy combatant, of course.

I agree.

Historically disappointing, like the Obama presidency. I remember being so excited when he was elected.

We had a Democrat with a supermajority and a mandate. Turns out that guy was a president for the billionaires, just like all of the others.

As they fucking should.

And not because the same was done to Biden, though the silly geese on the blue side seem to only care about retribution here.

There’s a basic, important principle here that the president absolutely needs to have a working brain. Biden and Trumps’ brains are doing what old brains do, and there’s no shame in it, but they are walking examples as to why we need an age limit for the presidency.

This isn’t surprising to me.

The last few days have felt like Obama fever all over again, which is a good and a bad thing in my book.

It’s good in the sense that Trump is way too Nazi-Adjacent for me to think his loss would be a bad thing. It’s a bad thing because Harris, like Obama and Biden, will be a billionaire’s president if elected, and the US will therefore become more fascist, not less.

I’d love it if her record as a prosecutor weren’t so lopsided against truants and nonviolent drug users, but it’s objectively better than having two candidates in clear cognitive decline.

True.

One of the first things Biden did was try to change bank regulations so they could target gig workers for taxation more easily.

These people do not care about you. They do care about the stock market though.

Guys, don’t give money to political candidates. Every cycle we read about federal legislators loaning their campaigns money at 20% interest (which is legal) and pocketing your hard-earned cash.

Instead, put it in your investments: stocks, bonds, ETF’s, whatever.

No matter who we elect they’ll fight to keep your investments sound, so at least you get some representation.

I’m glad it worked out well for you.

I’m fortunate to have my basic needs covered but the cost of living crisis has hit me pretty hard, especially with two eighty-year old parents forced to drive for DoorDash in order to survive. Biden gets to ride off into the sunset with an eight-figure fortune and a presidential pension.

I am glad to see Biden finally going away, but I have no doubt Harris will be just as bad as he was, and to me, that doesn’t lessen the blow simply because Trump is worse.