It’s not “this one has to solve everything” so much as “this one needs to even demonstrate an attempt at the promises given.”
In 2008 Obama ran on codifying Roe v. Wade, but once he was in office? “It’s not the time.” The DNC has been lying to progressives since before I could vote.
I feel this. My in-laws voted for Trump because Biden was going to outlaw Catholicism in the United States. Absolute lunatics.
If your only options are the fascist or the guy who promised to bring the fascist to justice but actually didn’t even try, then your problem isn’t getting solved by voting in that election.
It’s in part because Biden ran on opposing fascism, got elected, and then did nothing to oppose fascism. He sold himself as a dragonslayer, but once he got in, he didn’t want to upset the pro-dragon crowd.
So, yeah, when his protege ran the exact same campaign, it didn’t instill a lot of confidence.
The US government isn’t making them do it.
The Feds aren’t making them do it, but plenty of states are working on it.
Only way to get elected if you’re north of Westchester County is to get appointed to the position first.
I wish I was exaggerating, but Hillary Clinton and Bobby Kennedy are the only non-NYC/non-incumbent senators the state has elected in nearly 70 years.
I have held my nose and voted for this rat-fuck in every election of my adult life. I keep hoping someone who actually cares about New Yorkers will primary him.
Not just Israel. He’s also here for the Baileys!
From Wikipedia:
Schumer has long claimed that his political decisions are guided by an imaginary middle-class couple, Joe and Eileen Bailey (initially O’Reilly), swing voters living in the Long Island suburb of Massapequa
What you’re missing is that this is two opposing viewpoints in a zero-sum game. You’re in one bucket or the other.
So going from 58 to 49 means that Trump looks 9 points worse, but also that Biden looks 9 points better. That’s an 18-point swing.
You can own a property and pay landscapers and handyman for less than the cost of renting. Hell, I’ve had landlords pay property managers to handle even that.
Classic Torment Nexus stuff.
Ah, so you, too, grew up poor?
The money is going to disappear soon no matter what I do; might as well do something fun.
My in-laws voted for Trump because they were certain Biden was going to outlaw Catholicism.
Trump was fucking the economy well before COVID. His first-term trade war with China was doing serious damage to several different sectors of US manufacturing, pig and soy farmers, and the price of many durable goods.
The problem is that everybody has the memory of a goldfish.
The only reason to contact the police if something gets stolen is so that you can show the report to your insurance company.
My current phone is a Galaxy S9 from 2018. I bought it used three years ago for less than $100, and it does more than I’d ever need it to.
A decade? I thought it was closer to two decades.
Felt like less racism
To you. I promise you, racism has always been a huge problem.
Counterpoint: when my wife’s ex-husband was deep in the throes of heroin addiction, he managed to rob the same bank twice and get away with it both times.
You might be right that he’d be caught eventually, but he OD’d before he could try a third time.