President Obama on the stakes of 2024: "What we're seeing now is a byproduct of 2016 where a whole bunch of folks, for whatever reason, sat out. They said, 'well, we're not enthusiastic, we're not feeling inspired, why bother'. And hopefully, we have learned our lesson. Because these elections matter in very concrete ways and we are now seeing how much it matters when it comes to the Supreme Court."
@Npars01@GottaLaff The funny thing is how often I hear that line from people who work for the government (police, fire) and whose salaries and generous retirement are DIRECTLY FUNDED BY THOSE TAXES. 🤷
@Npars01@GottaLaff I think highlighting this and the fact the IRS is now going after them, along with all the anti-trust cases going after massive corporations would be the thing to highlight or the DOJ findings against the Phoenix PD…
Hopefully the campaign will fire this up after a bit
@GottaLaff yes but as long as the Senate remains a toss up the ability to confirm SCOTUS judges is in jeopardy regardless whether or not a Dem is elected president thanks to McConnell's precedent of stonewalling confirmations. Founders never calculated for corruption on the GOP scale
@GottaLaff in 2016, the Democrats ran a thoroughly uninspiring candidate against a populist, lost, and blamed the public.
Now they're doing it again with someone even less popular while he unapologetically supports a genocide, and they're already blaming the public for their failures.
Kinda makes you wonder if the two-party system is really meant to represent choice at all.
@GottaLaff I do want to see Obama call out Dems who didn't commit to codifying reproductive rights and voting rights when we had the opportunity.
Even if we didn't get it done prior to 2022, Dems should have gotten caught trying.
It's never a fool's errand if voters would see the messaging that we're not the ones who are holding back progress on abortion rights, voting rights, student loan forgiveness, income inequality.
We're not republican-lite, we're Democrats and we need to act like it.
@etherdiver@Badger_AF@GottaLaff Obama never had 60 seats for that. There were only 60 Democratic seats for about 50 days, and it included several abortion opponents like Ben Nelson.
@GottaLaff yup! Some people believe that the Constitution and federal rules are the law of the land and they quote Article 4 Section 2. Such as Thomas Hartmann on Substack. That’s not my read, but be that as it may, in my opinion the Untouchables have become the Supreme Law of the Land with their bump stock ruling!
@GottaLaff He is aware he’s part of the problem right? Many people voted for him because he promised to bring positive changes, only for his policies to be more or less a continuation of Bush’s. Right down to droning people in the ME, allowing monopolies to expand and throwing out immigrants.
Many of us learned our lessons about letting republicans seize power, yet the democrats should look inward if they want to know why people are unenthusiastic about voting for them.
@GottaLaff
Yes, we have an abundance of lazy, myopic assholes who didn't learn anything from the 2016 election, have forgotten Jan. 6th, and didn't bother to watch the Jan. 6 hearings.