US Politics Thread

[ChicagoBlue]

Hope you guys in Jolly Old got to see the CNN Town Hall by Kamala Harris and watched her hit it out of the park.

She is being held to a completely different standard than the Orange Shit Gibbon, who is the detritus at the bottom of the barrel AFTER it has been scraped!

It is an absolute no-brainer, but feels like (at this point) ANYONE supporting Trump has no brain!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

 

[ChicagoBlue]

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Exactly!

We have reached the point where the Trump reality feels like parody, and parody feels like it doesn’t go far enough to create the distance between reality and parody for it to create any effect.

The slow roll to fascism is real, and it is always done willingly. The frog is warming nicely…

 

[KS55]

What kind of dystopian hellscape is this???

Looks like a smack botty for Harris, then. I must be dreaming, this can’t really be happening.
Reminder: This is the USA, the most powerful democracy in history.

 

[moomba]

Not weird and creepy at all, LOL.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

When does the civil war start?
Sorry, I mean when is the election?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Not bullshit in the slightest.

As one political commentator said, the MSM (CNN being perhaps the worst protagonists) expect Harris to be 'flawless' whilst allowing Trump a free pass for being 'lawless'.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

In British elections at every level candidates have a maximum allowable spend. They must submit their accounts to a speclfied body. Any American would be astonished at how small those allowances are.
In UK general elections the party allowance is £54,000 per seat contested, about 70,000 USD.

I think US politics desperately needs something similar to reduce the dependency on, and power of lobbyists.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I think US politics desperately needs something similar to reduce the dependency on, and power of lobbyists.

Yep. Nothing will change in America as long as they continue to basically allow corporations to bribe politicians and in many cases, basically write the laws for them. Literally every social problem in America seems to be ‘most Americans want X, but this privatised industry funds the politicians and makes sure it doesn’t happen.’ From healthcare, to prisons, to even minor things like having to file a tax return every year. Do you think there’s any normal person on either side of the political spectrum that wouldn’t fuck off filing your own tax returns every year? Yet it still happens because there are big companies profiting off the requirement.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

When does the civil war start?
Sorry, I mean when is the election?

The civil war starts immediately after the election.