I’ve seen people saying this. Guess I’m not seeing it.

Looks way better to me than almost any Marvel/DCEU slop over the past few years.

So every state has now been called. Kamala lost 6 states that Biden had won, and the popular vote currently seems to have shifted roughly 6* points to Trump. This is coming off of a midterm election where democrats historically overperformed. Meanwhile, democratic senate candidates have won in every swing state except PA, and the damage in the House has been minimal.

Do I think this means that Kamala was a singularly bad candidate? Honestly, I don't. Obviously Biden dropping out in the 11th hour and endorsing someone with lower approval ratings than him (at the time) seems questionable, but I'm not sure how much better anyone else would have performed with these conditions. I think that anyone would have been somewhat of a lamb to slaughter and it likely would have been very chaotic to nominate someone besides Kamala. Maybe one of them could have eked out a win through the blue wall, idk.

I don't think there's any silver bullet that would have changed the outcome but they really should have figured out a counterargument on inflation. This is something that has frustrated me for years and I kind of just became numb to it. Everything they tried was far too late and really pathetic. Imagine if Trump presided over record inflation (although we may not have to imagine for too long). He would have immediately become defensive, passed blame onto everyone but himself, and his talking points would become conservative dogma. Just look at voters giving him a pass on the pandemic for how well this can work.

If there's any silver lining to be found here, it's that we consistently see republicans underperforming Trump. And while democrats are on a soul searching mission these next years, I'm sure Republicans will do absolutely no introspection as to why this is the case.

Man I wish I had taken some booking action on Kamala now
Like, shoulda just threw half my last paycheck on a bet

I was thinking about it earlier today. Robinhood has it front and center on their app.

When the world needed him most, he returned

I also started rewatching after the newest Deadpool, but didn’t finish it.

Pretty cliché script tbh. I wonder who wrote it.

Already August. Feel like I’ve barely got to enjoy summer.

They’re going to get Biden to drop while his resolve is weak

"In deciding not to charge Biden with any crimes, the special counsel wrote that in a potential trial, “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”"

As I said, a weak case.

Trump was president when the documents were moved [...] the president has discretionary power of classification.

Trump was neither president when the documents were being held, nor did he ever declassify them.

(and also posed fake documents for photos to release).

This is false.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/fact-check-trump-claims-fbi-search/index.html

There are many people who should be facing prosecution under the letter of the law who are not.

First time learning about the American legal system?

If you were truly making a principled argument here, I could sympathize with you, but you're literally just using these examples to defend someone that violated the law far more flagrantly than anyone you've referenced.

A "show trial" is a trial meant to be political lawfare to lock up or impede political opponents from participating in democratic elections in the political context.  The charges against trump fall under that definition.

Just to be clear, you go on to litigate a bunch of trials that came from jurisdictions other than the DOJ (aside from the classified documents) and one that the DOJ actually passed on. I'm not intimately familiar with every single Trump legal issue, but I've heard experts claim he easily could have "won" some of these with better arguments. So hardly a "show trial".

I do wonder how you would explain Trump's legal issues before getting involved in politics, such as running a scam university, among others. Because from my perspective, it should be evidence of a pretty clear pattern of behavior, rather than a widespread conspiracy between multiple jurisdictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump

I take issue with many other things that you've said but figure I might as well keep this somewhat succinct.

TDS.  Trump was in office already for four years and was just a guy.  He had decent economics, good foreign policy, mid domestic affair handling like COVID.  Please stop terrorizing yourself with people's insane fanfic tier writing like this.  If you truly believe these things I can do the full explanation to you why you can rest easy on this fearmongering point by point, because this article seems engineered only to try to horrify low information voters and can be fixed by just learning more about current events.  On its surface, we should find it hard to believe that "autocracy" is the fear here if they're not criticizing the Biden DOJ targeting political opponents to jail them leading up to the election when this article hysterically cries wolf about Trump abusing or circumventing the justice system when he didn't even follow through on, "Because you'd be in jail" during his first presidency.

Trump’s DOJ was independent during his first administration. Given his actions after his defeat, and statements made since then, we have strong reason to doubt that would be the case in a second term. Do you think he’s constantly asked about this for no reason?

Based on our convoluted system, if a fraction of a fraction of the electorate decides to stay home in some key states, Trump will win.

I’m less worried about Biden’s ability to serve than his ability to lose to the autocratic candidate, which seems increasingly likely.

But the problem is that Biden is getting decreasingly electable. They're gambling with democracy itself, just to get more personal power. It's pretty sick.

Not sure I necessarily agree with everything in this post, but strongly agree with this part.

I think they need to put someone like Buttigeig in, and maybe have Biden serve as VP again.

It’s a Hail Mary but I think it’s genuinely a better option than continuing the current course.

This is interesting. Some of your previous writings gave me manifesto vibes.

When I started posting here I always got an INFP result on the mbti test, now I always get either INTJ or INTP

Just took it for the first time in several years and got ENTP-A which (I think) is what I always used to get.

Tried to make this as accurate as I could. Anything more than a layover, I put in green.

If Niagara Falls counts, I've been to Canada.

Not planning on dying any time soon 💯

Not sure how anyone would be informed if I do