oakey66

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[–] oakey66 3 points 6 months ago
[–] oakey66 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Straight up witnessing elder abuse. My grandfather was getting so old that he was making basic mistakes while driving. We took the keys away because he could hurt someone.

The fact that they're allowing this man to humiliate himself and this country over and over again speaks to the cruelty of the people who are still covering for this.

[–] oakey66 23 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Shut up. No it's not.

[–] oakey66 4 points 6 months ago

I checked it out but there was nothing in my area.

[–] oakey66 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sanders is stuttering and falling asleep but yes the optics aren't great.

[–] oakey66 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Anyone with a pulse. But my preference is Sanders, Whitmer, or Pritzker.

[–] oakey66 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Are we really still talking about how Clinton being one of the least popular politicians to run for president took it upon herself to tank a must win election? Really? I need this talking point to find its place in a grave. This is stupid.

Everyone knew Trump was a trainwreck. Clinton was so unpopular that people stayed home. She snubbed key states against campaign advice. She sucks. And she lost democracy for the US. We didn't owe Clinton a vote. Clinton needed people to vote for her. She didn't do enough to earn the votes. I voted for her begrudgingly. But Democrats turned their knives on Bernie harder than they did against Trump. And it turned a lot of people off from voting. At least Biden did some semblance of appeasement for the left populist wing of the Democrats in the first election.

[–] oakey66 9 points 6 months ago

This shouldn't be downvoted. No lie was told.

[–] oakey66 29 points 6 months ago (9 children)

If we were a reasonable country, we'd have a research arm of the FDA that was employing scientists/chemists to develop drugs for the most basic health needs of its citizens and dispensing them at cost to keep drugs affordable but developing cures versus disease maintenance drugs. It was something that Elizabeth Warren proposed in 2016 that was absolutely the right thing to run on.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-scientists-cure-diabetes-using-205304771.html

But we live in a hellish American landscape where our government does absolutely the bare minimum amount of support for those in need. And does so begrudgingly.

[–] oakey66 25 points 6 months ago

I hate these articles because this same plot line has been reported by media for almost a decade.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics/

https://www.salon.com/2016/06/06/the_politics_of_bigotry_donald_trump_and_the_rise_of_white_racial_victimhood/

This has been the narrative. But media loves horse race politics so they operate like both sides have a point which gives us white victimhood. Snake eating its tail.

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