2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

[Chaptersevenbankruptcy]

I think I speak for very many Republicans when I say the party should be economically nationalist and protectionist, militarily isolationist and culturally libertarian. And that's what Trump is giving us.

I broadly agree, but I don't think Trump's economic policies are actually protectionist. Perhaps if you had to describe them in but a single word, "protectionist" would be the best word. The times when he drops the act and speaks seriously though, like some of his Davos speeches betray that he has a fairly complex (if heterodox) theory of economics.

I don't think that he's so much for protectionism and against lassez faire capitalism, its that a lot of what has been sold to Americans under the guise of lassez faire capitalism is actually complete horseshit where giant, international megaconglomerates and NGOs operate as some sort of latter-day trade guilds, buying politicians worldwide on the cheap and raping everyone's wallet to the maximum sustainable degree forever.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Someone make a Bernie edit of this

Oh shit, nevermind. Here's a better version.

 

[BeboRefugee]

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Just in case anyone needed further evidence that Bernie is change, Biden is status quo, and Warren & Bloomberg exist to secure a brokered convention

Of course the GOP grandees want Biden, who wouldn't want their main enemy be one that struggles to conjugate cohesive statements for longer than 10 seconds? Question is if the ravens have been sent and the fix is genuinely in, when can we expect the Obama endorsement?

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Today are the Alabama primaries!

That means I get to go not vote for Bloomberg!

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Now if this particular era of the Democratic party decides to go right-ward, then I guess I'll follow the economic left wherever it goes next,

Video of Ashy post November 2020:

I broadly agree, but I don't think Trump's economic policies are actually protectionist. Perhaps if you had to describe them in but a single word, "protectionist" would be the best word. The times when he drops the act and speaks seriously though, like some of his Davos speeches betray that he has a fairly complex (if heterodox) theory of economics.

I don't think that he's so much for protectionism and against lassez faire capitalism, its that a lot of what has been sold to Americans under the guise of lassez faire capitalism is actually complete horseshit where giant, international megaconglomerates and NGOs operate as some sort of latter-day trade guilds, buying politicians worldwide on the cheap and raping everyone's wallet to the maximum sustainable degree forever.

This. I legit believe Trump would love to trade with China and North Korea and pretty much anyone, as long as it results in the US making money. Not when it's just China metagaming to prop up its corrupt system a few years more and cheating us out of money and poisoning both our populations, though.

Today are the Alabama primaries!

That means I get to go not vote for Bloomberg!

If I'm not mistaken Alabama has open primaries so you can vote in both.

 

[Ira the Weatherman]

Someone make a Bernie edit of this

After you're done, make one of this:

Just replace George Clooney with Joe Rogan for maximum Progressivist salt.

 

[big ol' idiot]

I think there are two reasons for that:

1. It's rather useful to know what's hapoening politically in the largest economy and greatest power on the planet. Especially seeing how polarized the most likely candidates are. A radical shift in US policy and stability ripples across the planet, no matter how subtle. It pays to be aware of the size and direction of the wabe before it comes, regardless of where you live.

2. nigger have you even been following this fucking circus, this shit is bananas. 2016 was high level free entertainment and this is already shaping up to be even better

Yeah shitposting and following the lulzyworthy shit I get but there are genuinly people who write essays on why orange man good or orange man bad instead of just pointing and laughing

 

[Shield Breaker]

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Must have been ratio'd to hell, they deleted it.

 

[It's HK-47]

... I'm not the only one that sees that tab, right?

 

[Ira the Weatherman]

Yeah shitposting and following the lulzyworthy shit I get but there are genuinly people who write essays on why orange man good or orange man bad instead of just pointing and laughing

It's politics man. Someone is going to make an effortpost sooner or later (and the ocassional one is necessary to keep the thread from just degenerating into memes) or start baiting, and it'll invite some equally serial responses, even from the people who are here mostly for laffs.

 

[heyitsmike]

What happens if Biden somehow gets a plurality? Would Bernie change his mind regarding the nomination going to the person with the most delegates?

IT'S HAPPENING!

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Biden has a significant bump from SC after he lost 3 states and, outside of southern blacks, no one likes him. Yes, sure and Hillary will win.

 

[It's HK-47]

Watching all of these people gradually become more and more unhinged is fucking great. Donna hopped on FOX today, faced very mild criticism from the RNC Chairwoman, and she lost her cool and started telling her to go to Hell and went on an angry rant about how "The DNC doesn't work to favour any candidate over another one."

Yeah that's cool and all but I distinctly remember you, personally, ensuring that Hillary got debate questions ahead of time. Why the fuck should I trust a single word that you have to say?

 

[heyitsmike]

Watching all of these people gradually become more and more unhinged is fucking great. Donna hopped on FOX today, faced very mild criticism from the RNC Chairwoman, and she lost her cool and started telling her to go to Hell and went on an angry rant about how "The DNC doesn't work to favour any candidate over another one."

Yeah that's cool and all but I distinctly remember you, personally, ensuring that Hillary got debate questions ahead of time. Why the fuck should I trust a single word that you have to say?

Ronna McDaniel is so, so much better than her piece of shit uncle, good lord.

 

[Cubanodun]

"The DNC doesn't work to favour any candidate over another one."

Fucking Bernie for Hillary never happened no no how dare you to say that, this Super tuesday is going to be amazing with bernie bros being cucked again and refusing to go to vote to spite the party then Biden is going to be eviscerated by Orange Man for 4 more years of radioactive salt

Come on DNC, kick the commie you know you want to

Edit: Talking with some friend via Whatsapp told me something interesting "dont you think that Trump wanted Bernie in the election so the TDS infected DNS would sabotage him because he is the candidate that he wants?"

 

[Snikch]

What happens if Biden somehow gets a plurality? Would Bernie change his mind regarding the nomination going to the person with the most delegates?

Bernie would lose anyway because Bloomberg would toss his delegates to Biden giving him a majority anyway.

I call BS (as in DNC is rigging it against Bernie) if Warren doesn't drop after losing her home state.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Watching all of these people gradually become more and more unhinged is fucking great. Donna hopped on FOX today, faced very mild criticism from the RNC Chairwoman, and she lost her cool and started telling her to go to Hell and went on an angry rant about how "The DNC doesn't work to favour any candidate over another one."

Yeah that's cool and all but I distinctly remember you, personally, ensuring that Hillary got debate questions ahead of time. Why the fuck should I trust a single word that you have to say?

Democrat calling the Republican primary process undemocratic

 

[Harvey Danger]

Wow. Just, wow

0:53: "They [Republicans] don't have the kind of democracy that we see on the Democratic side!"​

Bitch, are you forgetting about Donald fucking Trump? The guy who defenestrated 15 other Republicans to win the nomination in the most clear cut case of populism over a political party? It was only 4 years ago, are you going senile along with your two septegenarian frontrunners?

I have a lot of problems with Republicans, but the party has a track record of running clean primaries for decades. They let an ex-Democrat outsider take over and ruin their plans just because their base wanted it. How's that coming along on your side, Brazile, you disingenuous cheating hack?

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

They let an ex-Democrat outsider take over and ruin their plans just because their base wanted it.

Not even the first time, either.

 

[CheezzyMach]

A more important question to ask is what are you going to do if the current cultural zeitgeist ends and the next one shifts away from leftism?

I get not voting for a neoliberal like Bloomberg or Biden, and I figured you'd probably vote for the Greens if you vote at all. But nothing lasts forever and your past assertions of culture always moving in a more "progressive" direction is just Whig History bullshit nonsense.

The Boomers were extremely left-leaning on average in their teens, twenties, and early thirties, but then went rightward as they approached middle age, most often going in either a neoliberal direction or joining the ranks of the Religious Right and the neocons.

It's entirely possible that the Millennials and Early Zoomers could have their very own "Yippie to Yuppie" equivalent movement in the late 2020's and 2030's.

The Core Zoomers (the bulk of whom are just now reaching voting age) seem to have more in common with Generation X, being more moderate liberal or centrist overall, and the Late Zoomers and Alpha Generation are at the same age the Millennials were when the Religious Right was at its height, so I would not be surprised if the Alpha Generation kids end up going rightward as a response to the SJW's of their childhoods.

So, if the zeitgeist shifts away from the Woke Left, what will you do? Are you going to "sell out" and leave the left? Will you continue fighting for leftism in vain? Or are you just going to swallow the black pill and join the 41%?

Hasn't this dude said he hates woketards though? Because their lunacy turns people off or something.