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[–] surph_ninja 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That’s nice, Bernie. Now can you please stop voting to confirm Trump’s nominees?

It’ll be easier for people to believe he’s not a king when you stop bowing to him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is he actually confirming the nominees?

[–] surph_ninja 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think this might be because they're worried that if Rubio doesn't get it that Trump will nominate someone even worse.

[–] surph_ninja 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t care. We cannot continue this ’lesser evil’ bullshit. Look where it’s gotten us.

[–] Pilferjinx -2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ignoring the "lesser evil" route got us Trump and his cabinet. Good for us. Things will get much worse much more quickly. There's not going to be a revolution or some great reset. Just oppression. Hard miserable oppression.

[–] surph_ninja 1 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

Both candidates were openly supporting genocide in the last presidential election. Neither were a lesser evil.

[–] Feathercrown 0 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

That's outright not true. You can claim Kamala wouldn't have tried hard enough to stop the genocide but she did NOT openly support it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Bernie never fails to disappoint when he is needed.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He is not a king

People sure do act like he is

[–] FordBeeblebrox 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The timeline where Gore won the election he actually did win then handed the reins to Bernie has warp travel and human/alien babies by now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I sometimes wonder if we're in the wrong timeline like on that episode of NextGen where Tasha Yar was never killed, they encounter the Enterprise-C, and Guinan tells Picard "it's not supposed to be like this, there should be children on this ship," or words to that effect.

However, people probably felt that way too when JFK was shot; from where I'm standing, the real fracture in the timeline occurred on 9/11, and things have only gotten more batshit crazy and fractured as time goes by.

[–] FordBeeblebrox 2 points 21 hours ago

That seems entirely possible. For all we know these ghouls in the GOP are actually the Loom in human form just consuming all the life in this dead end timeline. We need a Crusher

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

We got the timeline that happens when we allow things to happen for decades without protesting (the European way) when politicians try anything the first time.

[–] MintyFresh 15 points 1 day ago

Bernie's too good for us. He could have done way better imho...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

If you get all the levers of government under your control - you kind of become a king.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

If it quacks like a duck...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

If something isn't done this year he will be

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, the founding fathers made a constitutional monarchy in all but name. Every president keeps fucking with what little constitutional restraint they had in the first place and face no consequences (only to pretend they're widdle powerless and restrained bois when politically expedient), all that happened is the veil has been lifted.