I'm guessing that even if bush sr. or bush jr. made a monumental and highly visible self-inflicted blunder like this it would have been career defining and disastrous. Let alone if Hillary, Kamala, Obama, Clinton, Newsom, Biden or god forbid Carter did something even remotely as stupid.

It's been less than 2 years since people were absolutely losing their mind at "Biden's inflation". (Which was primarily an offshoot of how horrible the start of the pandemic was handled) Yet here we are and it's crickets now that The States of America has the worst inflation in the G7. WEIRD......

The past 11 years have made a lot of Americans lose sight of one simple thing. There is actually right and wrong. What is right may shift over time, but it is very rare when decent caring people end up on the wrong side of history and all too common for a lot of us to be on the wrong side.

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There is one frustrating thing about @nerd4cities.bsky.social videos. They are so well done that even average Joe's like me end up radicalized. Now I'll spend days stewing about street designs and won't be able to go anywhere without subconsciously judging every awful road I see... #notallstreets

Very happily unfollowed the stranger today. Saying @hannahsabiohowell.bsky.social "is a good candidate but she isn't spectacular". Asking a candidate to be "spectacular" in order to receive your endorsement is a funny way to cover for endorsing a crony.

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If someone were to want to argue that voting isn't about stopping the intentional infliction of harm, I'd not argue with them. Maybe voting for people who don't intentionally harm their constituents doesn't create better outcomes, but better outcomes make people vote to not have harm done to them.

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The problem with America is that MOST people "have the feeling" things would be much like they are today if Clinton had won in 16 or Harris won in 24.

In 935 days, if things were to transpire according to the traditions established over the past 80 years, there should be a new president. In the past this would be about the time you'd hear the party affiliated w/ the lame duck president start to discuss their possible replacements.

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936 days to go I should add that I personally don't think that will be the end. It's just according to the "norms" of recent American history when a two term president would typically step aside.

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My @bsky.app favorites feed today is people w/ back to back posts literally like this...... This despicable regime did the most inhumane gut wrenching horrific monstrous criminal act! Must be stopped! Immediately! Very next post I vow never to vote for the leading Democratic candidate(s)! Ever!

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This is about a specific article on a specific topic....... but it could be about almost any of the insane things happening right now that some people are just now starting to see. 10 years ago there were people desperately trying to tell America what would happen. Will average joes ever see it?

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I'm not an economist. Don't know much about "the economy". Every day I see another figure, stat, chart, graph, story... about how bad things are getting for average Americans, how things like this happen during depressions/recessions, bad signs for inflation, wealth gap exploding, bubble popping...

After 10 years, there has been no cumulative effect of all the horrible policy. Minus a little blip in 2020 from lots of outside forces. Americans continuing to bury their heads in the sand is just having an opposite cumulative effect of delaying the pain and suffering. The bill will come due.....

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Americans are less than 5 months from a scenario where if Democrats claw back the house and senate there will be two excruciatingly looooooong years where trump will be a lame duck and lashing out in exponentially increasingly more dangerous and frequent ways. Most Americans simply don't care. Yet

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With the excitement in New York tonight this feels exciting for Seattle!

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What a wild moment in American history where such an epic screw up is not even a top 1000 dumbest/worst thing that he's done. Would have been mortifying and career defining blunder for any other politician.... for him it's just a Tuesday.

Very scientific way of saying ....... #ettd

The very second the polls close for the midterms, America is going to instantly start to spiral into chaos. It could happen sooner, but this will definitely be the start of a very dark time in American history. Even though I understand it will happen, I don't know what to do to prepare. It's scary

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sensing so far though, that the morality/anti-corruption lane in the primary is going to be a crowded one (rightfully)

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People love to point out amazing things about the Dutch and the Scandinavian countries. I like to point out there are places in America in the ballpark of these places in terms of wealth, life expectancy and education. America just has a lot of toxic states dragging the good ones down.

💯% there needs to be accountability for the past 10 years of corruption. Not holding nixon accountable is why we're in this position. The scary part is how much effort it's going to take AND having to rebuild the country again at the same time All while Americans "just want to get back to normal"

The artificial facade of America is becoming completely untenable and unsustainable. The reality of how poor Americans are becoming contrasted against just 1000 ultra-wealthy people now controlling over 50% of America's wealth. To continue to PRETEND things are just fine is utter insanity.

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The most dangerous thing for the US is after the midterms the two or three guys that picked the last election can't agree on a candidate and burn down the country fighting each other for their puppet and ultimately control.

For the past 10 years, the United States of America has become entirely a ponzi scheme, with fewer and fewer people at the top hoarding exponentially larger amounts of wealth. This is entirely unsustainable and will ultimately be catastrophic for the entire global population.

Just a vibe.

First off. I don't think a Democrat can win in 2028. Even AOC. With that being said, if a Democrat wins in 2028, they're in an absolute no-win situation. They'll be expected to fix everything on day one, and it would be an absolute sh¡tshow with EVERY American shredding them every waking hour.

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