Mike Pence said “consensus is the opposite of leadership” so, you know, good to see their grasp on reality is as solid as ever
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”consensus is the opposite of leadership”
What does that mean 😭
"Cooperating with others and making compromises is weakling behavior"
It means Mother said if he can't force his way in a room full of his peers, then he's weak
It means authoritarianism equals leadership to them
Lots of freedom and democracy there...
Mike Pence jacks off nightly to a picture of Dick Cheney (he would have sex with his wife but it wouldn’t have been for conception, and therefore it would be a sin lol)
they’re fucking nuts. one of them said “climate change isn’t real, we need to keep extracting as many fossil fuels as possible”, they all talked about how we need to break up teacher’s unions, how we need to abolish the Department of Education, how we need to spend billions on our border like Israel, etc.
The amount of cheers was unsettling.
there’s no hope for this country, it should just be abandoned honestly
Can we just throw the whole country away and start over?
Maybe we could call the process a “communist revolution” or something?
Pointless foreign war going badly? ✔
Worsening internal proletarian conditions? ✔
Popular distrust in government and its fundamental philosophy? ✔
Encroaching police state and murdering of protesters? ✔
I could see the USA going the way of either 1905 or 1932 sometime soon. Obviously I prefer first, but it's the Yankees, they probably will go for the latter. But it's not like this hasn't happened at least once every decade for the past 70 years and no revolution materialised. The true sack of potatoes were the American Tubers all along.
Honestly a general strike might be a cool idea at least for basic things like healthcare, rent control, guaranteed sick leave and other things like that, that basically every other stable country already has. Socialist parties are missing out on the opportunity.
Yeah, it’s a shame any left movement is crushed so methodically that fascism feels like only a matter of time in the US… :(
The hope is they have won the popular vote once in 8 elections and that was only because the entire might of all news outlets was cheering for bombing Iraqis.
What an amazing democracy.
God I wish we had a representative democracy. Then we could have fascists in power like Italy.
Aspetta ... forse non c'è mai una democracia perfetta?
Sì, infatti ogni democracia ha I suoi problemi: meglio che uno stato autoritario.
How about we renegotiate the Civil War? Is it too late to give them the southern states and tell them to leave us alone?
it would be far better to finish what reconstruction started.
I don't go 12 hours without cursing Andrew Johnson's name and the names of all his descendants
wHy DiDnT tHeY jUsT lEaVe ThE pOoR wIdDlE sLaVeRs AlOnE!?
Sherman didn't go far enough.
Bruh
Pence even said like “we need to deal with the problems of Social Security and healthcare” like are you kidding me? Retirement at 65 has god-awful benefits, you basically have to retire at 67-70 to actually get OK benefits that can afford you to barely retire. Healthcare is essentially not a thing here, more specifically AFFORDABLE healthcare that most people desperately need
Mike Pence is a hilarious candidate. Less than 3 years ago, there were Republicans storming DC looking for Mike Pence to hang him, now he thinks he has a shot at POTUS. Vivek is really trying to separate himself from the herd more than anything and it didn’t work in his favor at times. DeSantis was struggling the whole time. The question asking if they’d support Trump was so funny. They said raise your hand if you WOULD support Trump if he got the nomination and everyone but 2 people raised their hand. And besides Vivek who raised his hand quickly and kept it up, everyone else sorta did it after seeing other candidates do it, they were pretty reluctant to do so and I thought it was funny how they still have to bend the knee to a mf who has a fuckin Mugshot🤣
Vivek
Now this is just an insult to the Sixth House and the tribe unmourned
Vivek had the most uncomfortable, canned open mike comedian introduction speech out of all of them AND the nerve to break the fourth wall by calling out how everyone has a rehearsed introduction.
He's a bigger weasel than 
and I love it
And he got called out by Christie for stealing Obama’s “I’m a tall skinny guy with a weird last name” bit lmfaooo
Afaik they all signed a document to be in this debated saying they'd support whoever won
Lol I didn’t know that, kinda a repetitive question then
I watched hasans coverage and oh boy 😂
Oh man I totally forgot about Hasan Lmao I’ll have to seek out his coverage as I imagine it’s way more palatable
It's pretty funny that he consumes sooo much american media that he unironically could roleplay a better conservative than the actual conservatives at the debate 😂
Portuguese? Aren't you a Cold Yank?
I’m both lol born and raised in Canada but my family are Portuguese immigrants! I live together with two family members who watch Portuguese tv so the only English news I get is on Twitter, TikTok, and on here.
Puts into perspective all the (justified) ripping on libs we do here.