Liberals oppose every war except the current one, etc.

I have no doubt they'd find a way to square that circle in their minds. "Cheney might not be perfect, but we have to stop Palin from being one heartbeat away from the presidency!!!!"

We really don't have to hand it to him, but honestly, whether we go by the actual context of his ramblings or the one libs keep dreaming up, it shouldn't matter when these murderous creeps are involved. Send the Cheneys and Boltons to the front or send them to the wall. Either way, justice will have been done.

Man how much lower can this worm dig? Almost glad he never had a shot to sit on the genocide king’s throne.

Sorry people aren’t as willing to abandon their morals and fall in line for a pyrrhic political ghoul as you, Bernie.

Here’s how John Kasich can still win!

Holy shit right? Absolutely loved pfsc, still remember building up a bunch of new ones and then starting the story over again to catch up. I still have the book and have lent it to friends, and it's always been interesting to see what they think of it.

Also this unlocked a memory where one year in college for a party I made an "America Is Okay I Guess Sometimes" t-shirt. Relevant comic:

Actually kinda great to look back and see how I was already on the path to by 2012 lmao

brat and it's the same

Indeed it is. That must be why you're somehow going to lose to Trump just as hard as the guy you replaced.

Personally I’d prefer if the campaign and party that keeps caterwauling over how much more rational, composed, and committed to truth they are than Trump would stop acting like Trump in both word and deed. It would really make their deranged, existential fears about “democracy” being “under attack” seem more credible.

Tbh my immediate thought was “oh that’s perfect. This is probably how the Harris team is formulating positions on everything irl” before laughing at what was actually at the bottom of the board.

Hmm, weird. This doesn’t sound like an explanation of actions that an oppressed people could take against their oppressors.

Want to try that again?

Do an experiment, Einstein! Grace us with your genius! I’m sure he would’ve come up with a good reason to tut-tut the prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto for capturing a few Nazi “civilians.”

and ignore the yapping mutts.

Call it KHive

He also managed to mumble this out during the debate a week ago, too. However, we can't be sure Biden even knows what year it is, so it's unclear if he still believes this hilarious lie or if he thinks it's 2022.

Damn, this made an otherwise shit day actually feel better . Truly uplifting news and a big fat Death to AmeriKKKa and everyone else who targeted and tortured him for the crime of exposing their atrocities to the world.

Same. My friends and I had a big laugh over the resurrection of Paul Bearer.

Oh well still hilarious.

Edit: Oh my god, now I'm going through his account and there are some amazing works in there. 10/10 bit.

This thread could've been its own post here imo. Just too good.

Like I really don't want to hand it to the guy, especially in a hypothetical, especially because he is an incompetent fascist, and especially because I'm sure we'd have invariably wound up in the same place as we did under Brandon before long because the orphan crushing machine would have eventually been given more orphans to crush regardless of who was president. But there is no doubt in my mind that plenty of hogs would've cast their "closely held" beliefs about the nanny state aside in 2020 if the Trump White House even feigned some kind of support for taking better precautions (or just appealing to the racist heart of Amerikkka by framing it as a "protect American patriotism from the elusive China flu!!!") instead of coming around to side with the plague rats. That's countless lives that could've been saved in the process.

If the Dems still won control of Congress in 2020 I imagine they'd have become the ones reflexively acting to curtail second-term Trump's attempts to end pandemic aid or the moratoriums, and might've even cared about pushing for upgraded ventilation, better testing and tracking infrastructure, remote work policies, and additional stimulus checks. It'd be funny if something good happened in this country as a result, simply because the Dems were actually engaged in harm reduction over the cheeto winning re-election. Instead they just became a new wave of plague rats under their own incompetent fascist.

He was also toast before he got the shot in the arm that was all of the other Reagan Democrats dropping out simultaneously except and we were ordered to treat the Jim Clyburn endorsement and SC primary win as if it decided the whole election. Right before all this the man was talking about leaving record players on for kids at night to help them learn, saying he didn't care about young people's issues, saying he'd veto M4A, and getting chewed out by his eventual VP pick for being a segregationist.

I'm still convinced that if Trump started selling cloth "Keep America Great" masks on his campaign website or worn one around for a few days he would've won.

See, no amount of turd polish is gonna make that turd shine. You can't paper over the poison that the bill is laced with and expect to be praised for stumping/voting for it when people who are the unwilling recipients of the poison get strapped down to the table for no other reason than an absolutely abominable ploy to "paint the other guys as hypocrites" or to shut down "the whiny complaints of Trump"—a guy who, by the way, isn't even in the government. The bill:

• Changed to asylum rules that would have risked removing the legal review of cases by judges (which lots of mainstream press disgustingly dressed up as "speeding up the process")
• Included billions in additional funding for the fascist border patrol and the private companies operating the concentration camps
• Revived construction of the wall Trump wanted
• Imposing dystopian levels of round-the-clock surveillance (also run by private prison corps) on immigrant families

Then there's the provision that would give the president unilateral power to restrict asylum whenever they get nervous around one of the White House's maintenance workers (and of course Biden made this even more draconian in his executive order by halving the number of crossings that would allow the president to trigger the closure).

The spoonful of sugar the Democrats managed to get into the bill effectively pits different sets of traumatized groups (that we had a hand in traumatizing) against one another: The party can sing the praises of the "good" parts of the bill while anyone pointing out all of the fashy shit in it that's actually really fuckin' bad can be refuted by referring back to the few issues Dems didn't agree to allow the GOP to fully steer. That Biden seemingly believes the executive order will be struck down anyway just continues to affirm he's just as willing to toy with people's lives, enact racist and inhumane policy out of moral cowardice, and waste time on a lark as the GOP is, while facing far less scrutiny for doing so because "it could always be worse!"

I'm old enough to remember when these policies were as sickening to the current president and his party as they were and still are to me. Democrats like Biden and Chuck Schumer were quite vocal about the the previous regime's border policies and how needlessly harmful they were. Now that it's more politically advantageous to jump on the mixed austerity-and-manufactured border "crisis" bandwagon, the most vulnerable people, their families, their relatives, and the advocates that do crucial work filling in the gaps the US government refuses to fill are left high and dry wondering where the party that was supposed to be there for them went and why they're now pawns in an electoral gambit that didn't even fucking pan out!

Now we'll get to watch the GOP draw a new line in the sand and demand the Dems step over it so they can meet in the middle, and because they have no answer that will satisfy their base/protect the vulnerable and satisfy their business partners, friends, future and former employers, or the industries that thrive on exploitation of the most vulnerable. Or they win this year and just do this shit anyway—after all, any Democrats in Congress who get re-elected and supported the 2024 bill will be on the back foot for explaining their flip-flopping to the far-right opportunists who will absolutely drag them through the mud over it, and batting away an empowered Republican party even more eager to maximize the suffering of brown people instead of shifting things back into their own favor for once.