Obama/Biden didn't do nearly enough rolling back even the most unpopular excesses of the Bush/Trump admins when they had the chance. 2028 candidates need to be willing to threaten prosecutions/retribution. The GOP only understands blunt force, and dems need to be willing to punish them accordingly. - ThreadSky

jarjarfan69.bsky.social • 29 days ago

Obama/Biden didn't do nearly enough rolling back even the most unpopular excesses of the Bush/Trump admins when they had the chance. 2028 candidates need to be willing to threaten prosecutions/retribution. The GOP only understands blunt force, and dems need to be willing to punish them accordingly.

Reposted from William B. Fuckley

I was joking about this like a day ago, but we might really have to do like a lib PRI soft dictatorship for a decade or so to get back to anything close to normal and stable.

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hoovybaby.bsky.social•29 days ago

Obama and Biden could have both dismantled even 1% of the imperial executive Bush assembled and Trump is exploiting, but instead they stood around holding their dicks

dudebrabroman.bsky.social•29 days ago

Biden was running to the right of George bush on immigration on some shit like what are people talking about

jarjarfan69.bsky.social•29 days ago

I fully expected Biden to do basically fuck all on any of it, but young, naive me really did think Obama would recognize the moment and at least roll back a good chunk of it. His legacy is toast because of his own cowardice.

zoloftenthusiast.bsky.social•29 days ago

I want full blown socialists to run in the midterms. Promise UBI and wealth taxes, nationalizing utilities and housing and decriminalizing drug use. Drive a fucking wedge between the left and right. Bright lines that differentiate the two options. Fuck the democrats, burn them first.

gtmac.bsky.social•29 days ago

He fucking promoted all the CIA torturers. wonder why things have gotten more fucky.

coldwarhist.bsky.social•29 days ago

And if they did, they'd fold immediately, because they're reckless cowards. But they have to actually threaten them with something real.

nutsling.bsky.social•29 days ago

but they won’t because they want the same things and letting the Rs openly and blatantly do them is good for their brand

dashwallkick.bsky.social•29 days ago

even when Trump dies and the party is out of ideas they're just going to pick then next idiotic catty ogre who does all the shit the democrats simply assume he won't do. so, okay -- they want to be disciplined, then discipline them.

somnantflier.bsky.social•29 days ago

They won't. They have so thoroughly failed their constituents at every level for so long it's absurd that they can call themselves leaders

jarjarfan69.bsky.social•29 days ago

To be clear, I realize this is super unlikely. The party apparatus will want a "healer" candidate in '28, hoping that they can recapture the Obama '08 magic with positivity because they think that is what led to that particular landslide when it was actually the base's incandescent rage that did it.

apprehensivepie.bsky.social•29 days ago

if trump runs for a 3rd term they'll almost certainly trot obama out

thedesertsage.bsky.social•29 days ago

"Now is the time to look forward and move on."

johnmulloy.bsky.social•28 days ago

Just getting through this year will seem like 10

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