AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
mfw you still use Windows in 2023 2024
Settlers right yet again.
Yeah, I never bought the idea that the US will be dethroned through wise fiscal policy, which is why BRICS not optimizing when and how to dedollarize doesn’t meant a whole lot to me. There has to be a military confrontation. The US needs to have the “sick man of the world” placed on it. The problem is that the US also has nukes and in a hot war with other nuclear powers, the US will just go directly to nukes. It seems like the best way forward is for the US to engage and lose in a hot war with a nonnuclear power. Right now, it seems like this nonnuclear power is the Axis of Resistance and Yemen in particular.
This is just what happens in a declining country with an enforced two party system: people blame the decline on the incumbent party and vote for the other party in a desperate attempt to right the ship. But the decline continues and people blame the decline on the new incumbent party and vote for the old incumbent party back in a desperate attempt to right the ship.
At the end of the day, Harris couldn’t distance herself from the Biden administration by virtue of being part of it. Her not invoking the 25th amendment meant that she either cosigns to everything the Biden administration has done, including genocide in Palestine, or lacks the leadership qualities to make decisive decisions. Factor in her being a terrible candidate in general and the (truthful) perception that she didn’t earn her spot as the presidential candidate (ie she lost the only primary she participated in and was only handpicked at the last minute) and it shouldn’t be that surprising that she got BTFO.
I honestly think any Democratic candidate that isn’t working directly for the Biden administration like Gruesome Newsome would beat Trump because Trump is also a known quality and a shadow of his former 2016 self, but it goes back to what I said in the first paragraph. The US is going to be worse off in 2028 than in 2024, people will blame it on the GOP, and whoever is the Democratic candidate would BTFO their Republican rival. The smarter political operatives like Gruesome Newsome understand this and are setting themselves up to run in 2028. He’s probably going to push some ghoulish “liquidate the homeless” initiative in California to show how he’s “tough on crime.” I guess this also shows Harris’s poor political instincts. In a way, the DNC pretty much set her up for failure whether they realized it or not.