Would have made a good campaign message, IMO - ThreadSky

juddlegum.bsky.social • 42 days ago

Would have made a good campaign message, IMO

Reposted from Acyn

Biden: Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.

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glenn61.bsky.social•42 days ago

Naw...not one mention of cheap eggs.

pnwcoffeeswiller.bsky.social•40 days ago

2 white men whining here about Biden instead of the misogyny and corruption that derailed Kamala.

hothits.bsky.social•41 days ago

You're counting on the average person to understand what that means.

rxdavid.bsky.social•41 days ago

The same thing crossed my mind as I watched. It was the message we needed before the election.

drewreidkerr.bsky.social•41 days ago

And the Dems still would have lost.

cdpositive.bsky.social•42 days ago

It was, over & over & over. No one was listening.

PS. Unlike 34-felon, President Biden abides by the Hatch Act & doesn't campaign from the WH.

jesuszoidberg.bsky.social•42 days ago

Maybe, but then again, this country is very dumb.

vorticism.bsky.social•41 days ago

Again, too little too late. Biden and the Dems had years to reinforce institutions and the constitution, they did nothing.

duannied.bsky.social•42 days ago

A word with too many syllables for MAGA to understand. They don’t understand how the concept affects them.

lauriebrookins.com•42 days ago

Too bad many knee-jerk people wrote him off based on one evening when he had a cold.

digitmusic.bsky.social•41 days ago

2 months too late. Still wondering how we find ourselves here.
The entire DOJ and intelligence community knew we were on our way to fascism…but no one said anything…at least not loud and in an official capacity.
WHY?

allimcc.bsky.social•41 days ago

day late and a dollar short

aussiecynic.bsky.social•41 days ago

He’s late to the realisation 🤣 complicit as all hell as well..

gkiltzva.bsky.social•41 days ago

More proof that we need an age limit for president like we have for Military Officers

norsemanil.bsky.social•42 days ago

Put it on the list along with the umpteen other good campaign messages that our low information voters wouldn’t listen to or care about.

bpaige.bsky.social•42 days ago

You weren’t listening if you didn’t hear this.

gh-kirsch.bsky.social•42 days ago

It's never too late to make it. Never too early to remind 'em.

roccafella07.bsky.social•42 days ago

Like media would have cared or aired. It does not matter what he would have said or should have said this country asleep at the wheel and is not paying attention and no amount of twisting words or what he should’ve could’ve said is going to change that people are gonna need to suffer consequences.

hannabec.bsky.social•42 days ago

I really wish he would have said all this before the election. But even if he had, we wouldn't have heard about it from mainstream media.

baldgeezer.bsky.social•41 days ago

Oligarchy is too long of a word for most Twitler voters to understand.

dermann51.bsky.social•42 days ago

Way, way, way too late.

dps68.bsky.social•42 days ago

AGREED!

schmargaret.bsky.social•42 days ago

It was. People did not understand the gravity.

artweber.bsky.social•41 days ago

Oligarchy. Plutocracy. Theocracy. Kakistocracy.

ALL are elements of the upcoming nightmare administration with Trump as king.

Our Founding Fathers would be horrified.

Resist!
https://usa.gov/elected-officials
https://indivisible.org
https://aclu.org

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
-- Rosa Parks

briananthony.bsky.social•42 days ago

MAGA supporters more than likely do not know what the word means though. We are in very dark times ahead.

poivrotfarci.bsky.social•42 days ago

Instead, Harris campaigned with billionaires and celebrities.

terryalfredo.bsky.social•41 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/terryalfredo.bsky.social/post/3lfteuwjwq22t

senorjuanton.bsky.social•42 days ago

The next Democratic campaign better be trust busting and taking on oligarchs if they want to win. This Third Way, consultant-driven campaigning is a recipe for defeat.

sealab2025.bsky.social•42 days ago

Young…connections to Latin America…trust busting….AOC as new Theodore Roosevelt???

senorjuanton.bsky.social•42 days ago

My only concern is how much misogyny is in the electorate.

sealab2025.bsky.social•42 days ago

Agree that this is a concern with Trump winning his elections against very qualified women. But then again, no one thought in 2004 that 4 years later the country would elect a black guy from Chicago (Hawaii/Kenya) named “Barack Hussein Obama” in a landslide over a war hero.

senorjuanton.bsky.social•42 days ago

That took a historic economic collapse, unfortunately

crwhudson.bsky.social•41 days ago

And he was a man

bccoyne.bsky.social•42 days ago

Pretty much what Bernie has been saying forever.

bpaige.bsky.social•42 days ago

Bernie the grifter? The guy who’s been in a legislative body for 59 years & never written & passed a bill of any consequence? That Bernie? The guy who stole another reps M4A bill & tried to pretend it was his? THAT Bernie? He “says” a lot. Just doesn’t DO anything

bccoyne.bsky.social•42 days ago

Quite the ill-intentioned gibberish, here. Thanks for stopping by.

bpaige.bsky.social•41 days ago

lol
It was very intentional. Facts work like that

bccoyne.bsky.social•41 days ago

Um, do you not understand what I wrote?

bpaige.bsky.social•41 days ago

Embrasse mon cul. Vous disiez que rien important ou vrai. Va te faire foutre. Tu comprends ça?
Tu es un enfant arrogant mais ignorant. Grandir.

fredolives.bsky.social•42 days ago

But then Democrats wouldn’t get that sweet campaign cash from the very oligarchs he’s warning about.

dadasupreme.bsky.social•42 days ago

Exactly

highhobbit.bsky.social•42 days ago

btrwkart.bsky.social•42 days ago

All the Dem pundits and election advisors need to be fired.

mir-scs.bsky.social•42 days ago

I was thinking the same thing.

sactosteve.bsky.social•42 days ago

Coulda, shoulda, woulda?
Maybe if he hadn’t been thrown under the bus?

lakers-lover.bsky.social•42 days ago

🎯🎯🎯

kirmley.bsky.social•42 days ago

I think stopping the genocide in gaza would have been a better message. I won't forgive him.

realdeal64.bsky.social•42 days ago

Judd Im to the point that I think nothing any Dem could have said would have changed the outcome.
America is going to burn down. Trump and the billionaire tech bros made sure of it. We are now the cautionary tale. Democracy dies in lies and apathy.
Ps I will fight until Im dead.

billnemacheck.bsky.social•42 days ago

CMIIW, but couldn't we argue the oligarchy started in earnest with citizens united?

livingwillie.bsky.social•42 days ago

I appreciate the President’s warning about the oligarchy who are taking control of our government, but the horse is out of the barn. They are in place & ready to take over.

ewbanh.bsky.social•42 days ago

Man, if only someone in a position of power had been able to do something about this over the past four years!

philipmartin77.bsky.social•42 days ago

mr-rpk.bsky.social•42 days ago

Except the oligarchs used their megaphones to denounce such talk as “fear mongering”

mrcole332.bsky.social•41 days ago

A great campaign message would’ve been “I’m not running in 2024.” And it should’ve been made 18 months ago.

maggyw.bsky.social•41 days ago

He wasn’t given the chance

atlantishome.bsky.social•42 days ago

Yes.

moberzan.bsky.social•42 days ago

Idk how I feel about that. In a small way I think, but hate that, the country needed to learn a very big lesson about the role of government in/not in our lives. People have taken our democracy for granted joking about those who care. I don’t think they would have listened and then there’s FOX

anemiab.bsky.social•41 days ago

A good message would have been the dumb ass democrats not cannabalizing their incumbent candidate 3 months before an election. Or maybe all 3 branches dealing with an attempted coup immediately instead of pretending it never happened and letting it continue.

bubbawny69.bsky.social•42 days ago

i hate it when people fight when it's too late. the time to fight is when you're in office. he should have come out swinging day one in 2020. what a disappointment he's been in his fighting to defend america.

burndiggity.bsky.social•41 days ago

I have a news flash for Joe. The oligarchy ship has already sailed. We are well underway on this journey.

a-gay-frog.bsky.social•41 days ago

I agree.

I honestly got a bit tired of the message of finding common ground and working with republicans towards the end of the campaign. I don't think republicans want to work together.

theonlyrealtmcmaui.bsky.social•40 days ago

"Taking shape" Joe?
Come on. They've been edging us in this direction for decades!!!

timlagor.bsky.social•41 days ago

Note how he's not actually doing anything to stop it

bradmossesq.bsky.social•42 days ago

They tried. It went nowhere. Inflation overwhelmed everything else.

harendt.bsky.social•41 days ago

Racism and misogyny overwhelmed everything else.

lkhblue.bsky.social•42 days ago

Fear-mongering propaganda, slander and lies overwhelmed everything else.

harendt.bsky.social•41 days ago

Exactly.

chuck50.bsky.social•42 days ago

No. Racism and sexism over whelmed everything else.

chrisfumo.bsky.social•41 days ago

that doesn't explain - at all - why Biden's approval was far higher in late 2022 and early 2023 when inflation was far, far higher

(and Democrats did far better in the 2022 election bc of this)

chrisfumo.bsky.social•41 days ago

(Biden's approval was back up to 46% exactly with Likely Voters - in the methodology silver was using at 538 bf he was fired - in Jan 2023, on the day the documents story was reported

over the next 10 days, it tanked back to 40%; it never recovered)

chrisfumo.bsky.social•41 days ago

I remember staring at the 538 approval tracker for over an hour on my commute home that day; knowing that Biden's approval would take a big hit; I didn't think it would never recover!

obviously - Dems would have won the WH and House and more senate seats, had Biden been at 46% approval in nov 2024

chrisfumo.bsky.social•41 days ago

it's stunning how static his approval rating was throughout much of 2023 after the media cycle of the documents being found; and then it got even worse in late 23 and into 2024 as the israel/hamas war continued

chrisfumo.bsky.social•41 days ago

virtually everything we've been told for yrs was essential to a Democratic President's popularity - overall inflation rate, gas prices, border encounters - were far, far lower throughout 2024 than they were in 2022; and Biden was way less popular

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:klxrfdfgw46owgd4lbeezssm/post/3lfb5dcjdh224

chrisfumo.bsky.social•41 days ago

though - as I point out in the posts I just linked, the mainstream media stopped talking about the political importance of gas prices once they tanked and then stayed at historically low levels through late 2023; while Biden's approval got even worse

truth-sandwich.com•42 days ago

And bigotry, from both ends.

drmkb.bsky.social•42 days ago

And fear of trans people. Because of course

kenkiyama.bsky.social•42 days ago

It had an impact in 2020 when Trump was fresh in voters’s minds. After four years of both-sidesing and a 2024 campaign of sanewashing by the Beltway Media, along with the relentless hammering on negative “vibes” made it seem that Trump wasn’t so bad.

cdwilsher.bsky.social•41 days ago

Inflation was exactly the same when Obama was reelected (PCE =2.4%) and unemployment almost twice as high (7.7% v. 4.1%).

How did that guy get elected.

Trump won because of: A. mean people who wanted the people they dislike punished; b. stupid people who believed Trump's promises; c. the rich.

cdwilsher.bsky.social•41 days ago

Also, the misogyny.

lestatdelc.bsky.social•42 days ago

Which is ironic given that Biden less office with inflation at 2.9%, which is in line with other administrations.

lestatdelc.bsky.social•42 days ago

"leaves office"

(fucking auto incorrect)

mikeintlh.bsky.social•41 days ago

I don’t think they really tried it.

tickles73.bsky.social•41 days ago

Of course they did. The response was always “but it doesn’t feel like a good economy. Well, everyone is going to feel it now. Because learning is hard.

barney1958.bsky.social•41 days ago

You misspelled “corporate greed”!

teleportnow.bsky.social•42 days ago

Hammering home for four years that corporate greed was the cause of inflation, and every other problem in America too, would have helped. Hard to do when you have to spend so much time begging for funds from the oligarchs you’re criticizing.

ricosuavejd.bsky.social•42 days ago

It wouldn't have landed. I like it, but it'd fall on deaf ears with the general public.

They were tuned out and it was staying that way.

suzieq3.bsky.social•42 days ago

It’s a conundrum isn’t it. Why wait until the end to call out what’s been happening for decades? Did he not notice until they made their way onto the inaugural platform? Why call for an end to dark money, no stock trades, SCOTUS term limits now? Why not in 2021?

maytagsmom.bsky.social•42 days ago

🤦🏽‍♀️

rednightowl.bsky.social•42 days ago

This is our message for 2026.

karencox1963.bsky.social•42 days ago

This could be the last election

angeloftheozarks.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yes, but then people might notice his oligarchs.

uncle-duke1959.bsky.social•41 days ago

Oligarchy has to many syllables for many Americans.

boonedocksbuilder.bsky.social•42 days ago

He did - for 2028.

mlyly.bsky.social•41 days ago

He said that and you and the other political influencers refused to listen.

wrongwritegirl.bsky.social•42 days ago

Then he would have to explain why the Delta ceo got to dictate shorter quarantine times to the CDC.

vickib.bsky.social•42 days ago

Sure, but no one was paying attention.

teleportnow.bsky.social•42 days ago

Yep. Maybe they can cobble that together and walk the talk next time. You know, if there is one.

mmwoodcock.bsky.social•41 days ago

I am the dem outlier in my repub family, & I remember 8+ yrs talking to my sister's friend who is an anarchist about the state of our country being full oligarchy... She wanted a (political) label for me, & he said I was intelligent LOL (I was mid 20s, so they all think they know better).

mmwoodcock.bsky.social•41 days ago

Both sides have corruption going miles back. Recognize that both sides have politicians with their hands in the pants of behemoth conglomerate-owning sociopathic rich guys. The media makes a sport of trivial issues to keep sides divided when they are all in cahoots to keep the hierarchy.

vileevillevi.bsky.social•42 days ago

He still needed their money

maplepoutine.bsky.social•42 days ago

Biden, the man who was right but too late…

ddavidwatts.bsky.social•42 days ago

American voters don’t care, they’re for the most part dumb af.

ilbrilgue.bsky.social•41 days ago

They were afraid that people who weren't going to vote for them wouldn't vote for them.

goodytwo.com•42 days ago

People knew this, but not enough cared.

nicolaasstulting.bsky.social•41 days ago

It would have been a good message, but as he says, it is now up to us as individuals to stand up against the billionaires who are trying to buy dominion over multiple countries so that they can steal all of the money for themselves while they spread hate and disinformation in the media they bought.

mattdos205.bsky.social•42 days ago

Americans are stupid, and Democrats really suck at politics... They couldn't even win the house!!

czarofangola.bsky.social•41 days ago

People couldn't remember the Charlie Foxtrot that was the Trump presidency. You think this would resonate with people who feared their children undergoing transgender surgery at school?

philmaier.bsky.social•42 days ago

What fucking good did these norms do anyone. Warning us on the way out, reminding us nothing was prioritized to protect us from all of this to come is just a kick in the nuts.
We fucking know Joe!

miazz.bsky.social•42 days ago

yep

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