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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Biden’s idea was that ordering the DoJ to go after his political opponent, justified or not, would be something that would never be undone and the American people would never forgive.

    He also had faith that the American people, when presented with a choice between a bumbling fascist idiot and anyone else, they would make the right choice. If he’s right, not putting any pressure on the judicial branch should do the least damage.

    He gambled for what he thought was the overall best outcome and lost. It’s no coincidence that was also the path that required him to do nothing extreme.

    America had forgotten how to do bold things. The Dems realized they couldn’t campaign on status quo even though that was pretty decent and improving. And when they needed to come up with something more, their best answer was, “idk, $50k towards your first house, if the Republicans let us?”

    I don’t know which is worse, Obama for not forcing his Supreme Court justice through or Robert fucking Mueller, who was too fucking scared to actually outright say he’s guilty af, even if he did line everything up for Congress to draw that conclusion.






  • It’s just as likely there’s no conspiracy there. It’s reasonable that Reddit was just big at that one particular place, more than other place (per capita), which can make sense given that those people actually talk to each other more than a typical city would.

    I do think the US government was pretty good about not propagandizing its own people from within the government. There was a long period of time where non-partisan roles were expected to remain non-partisan. That’s part of why the Biden admin didn’t go after Trump like they should have. They didn’t even want the potential appearance of partisan government. In hindsight, yeah, that may have been foolish. They were fighting a five alarm fire with dollar store plastic squirt guns.