President Trump fell asleep at the 9/11 memorial ceremony.
The president dozed off at multiple points during the event Friday, slumped over in his chair with his eyes closed and his head hanging down while everyone else onstage—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Melania Trump, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—was clearly awake.
Only because I have no choice. I voted Green.
Removed by mod
Sure, Jan.
We’re just not gonna blame Kamala Harris for looking at a bunch of people who can’t afford groceries and insisting that we be joyful. Awesome, perfectly run campaign.
We’re gonna blame the guy who voted for a politician that he actually agreed with instead.
This definitely isn’t on me. It’s on you guys.
Removed by mod
LOL americans
Surely the point of voting is to actually vote for the political party you want ? Or is it not a democracy in US?
you can democratically vote for the fascist party, you can choose what speed they get there, that’s it.
It’s not a democracy in the US. You vote for who you really want in the primaries. In the general there are only two viable options.
Except you can’t since the primaries are also rigged
Seems like there was only one viable option
That really comes down to how we’re defining viable.
Well Harris clearly wasn’t viable
Here comes the BlueMAGA genocide apologist brigade
Read what I wrote, and then come back with a reasonable response whenever you’re ready. Thank you.
Removed by mod
Removed by mod
You would’ve let a lot of people get fucked because you’re a selfish american who have no trouble being gigantic hypocrites punch down on others for their own benefit and are OK with their shithole extorting, terrorizing and murdering in other countries as long as they aren’t bothered.
Trump is the best thing that could happen for the world.
You totally deserve it. I hope you suffer as much as possible and your violent cancer country gets destroyed from the inside.
Regardless of votes, remember who it’s really on. The ones who are playing us against each other. Yes, it’s also the fault of people who voted for him many times, and for those who split a vote where only two party voting would have given him a loss. AND for those who allowed the DNC to make so many bad choices. AND Harris for dropping what seemed to be a working campaign for a bit. AND… well, it goes on.
But it’s the ones laughing at the top. They’re the real problem. Never forget. They love to see this finger pointing at the bottom, it makes them feel safe.
“you guys”, as if even the whole of Lemmy (most of which probably aren’t even living in the US) would have been enough to make a different DNC candidate happen. I haven’t even seen anyone who says that they actually like Harris.
Removed by mod
Of course, it’s just when you don’t see anyone liking Harris, it’s stupid to blame these people for the DNC picking an unpopular candidate. Unless a majority of US Lemmy users says they don’t vote in primaries or something.
Removed by mod
I’ve had a similar experience with California governor Newsom. Like or hate his politics (I generally agree with them), he was genuinely nice the numerous times I waited on him. He’s a restaurant guy at heart, and was interested in our operation, so we talked about that a bunch.
So you’re pro genocide
Removed by mod
When you’re comparing yourself to the Republican candidate, the bar is already in hell…
You were neutral on genocide?
There seems to be abundant evidence that they didn’t.
Didn’t what?
They didn’t like her.
Remember, when she tried to mount an actual campaign she didn’t even make it out of Iowa.
Who wouldn’t like a ghoul that deservedly got the name Copmala?
Great candidates, can get in a ‘lesser evil’ contest with that disgusting sociopath Hillary.
What a shitshow
That’s your example why she would’ve been a bad choice?
True, the fact she’s a genocidal monster should have been the go to
🫂 I voted for someone in jail for wearing black.
Electoralists are really hounding you, when they should have ended First-past-the-post millennia ago.
It’s probably easier to just blame me than look at the absurdity of what Democrats did in 2024 and admit it to themselves.
As far as voting reform goes, the American people have been powerless to do that in any meaningful way for our entire history. The founders only gave wealthy, landowning men the right to vote. There was never any real intention for the poor or working class to be able to select a president. Our only real political power is local, and at least locally, good things are still possible. (For now.)
It’s plenty easy to blame both.
Not for a partisan ideologue.
Millennia ago there was Athenian democracy. Randomly select citizens to fill roles in judiciary, executive council and assembly for a year. Pretty hard to corrupt. Worked well for centuries, they even returned to it after king making coups. Representative democracy was corrupt and serving the rich and powerful about day one. Sure, first past the post is awful, but there’s higher things to aim for than Instant-runoff or whatever. Direct democracy is more viable than ever.
I am intrigued by the roman system of electing two of every position for one year terms. They wouldn’t elect one proconsul (leading an army contingent or something of the like,) but two. Sometimes in a campaign it reached absurd levels as each would take turns leading the army every day.
But what we should do, and this is a moonshot that would take time, is a new constitutional amendment establishing a Tribunate, the tribune with the power to veto acts of government, provide asylum to the accused, whose own safety is invoilable.
The Roman peasants got the tribunes in 500 bc then 350 bc they expanded it in two general strikes, where they encamped to one of their great hills and refused to work until they got reforms, the tribunate being one. It was organized by tribe I think. They also forced a written set of laws in the first one iirc, the twelve tables, as the rich just made shit up as they went prior.
Supports status quo politicians that will continue regressing everything
Said politician is far-right and wants to commit a genocide
Turns out most people here are in fact centrists
I don’t know that they’re necessarily centrists. I think they’re as hopeless as I am and, at this point, things just feel less bleak electing a genocider that pretends to like gay people or whatever vs a genocider who hates and insults everyone. (Not that I would agree, and in fact, it infuriates me even more when a politician leverages the language of equality and progress to cover war crimes.)
But hopefully they recognize that they have actual power in their local neighborhood and aren’t willing to vote ‘blue no matter who’ there.