This really seems to follow what most people seemed to know about Trump well before he ran for president.
His whole lifestyle is built on exaggerating his wealth by putting his name on that and leveraging it to his advantage, and then putting planes, cars, houses, gold toilets on the business expenses to enjoy the spoils of luxury, but not actually ever building actual successful businesses.
Anyone who thinks they figured out who the "good" politicians are are getting taken for a ride. The system is set up so the good ones are always weeded out or subverted well before they're able to make any kind of change. Anyone near the top of the two-party system works for the donor class while doing the absolute minimum required to to sell the illusion that they're working for the people.
There are some, Katie Porter from California comes to mind...
Wait, since when is DeSantis the "good" Republican right? I mean I guess he's preferably to more Trump but that's the most "damned by faint praise" thing you could say about anyone.
I'm having trouble figuring out who the "good" Republican right would be... Romney?
Ah yes, Mitt Romney. This is a classic DNC tactic. Romney was the antichrist in 2012, McCain before him, Bush Jr. etc... but now the new guy is way worse.
They are already using those talking points with respect to DeSantis. "Sure Trump was bad but not THAT BAD, DeSantis on the other hand...."
It's effective but it rings a little hollow.
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Ah yes, Mitt Romney. This is a classic DNC tactic. Romney was the antichrist in 2012, McCain before him, Bush Jr. etc... but now the new guy is way worse.
They are already using those talking points with respect to DeSantis. "Sure Trump was bad but not THAT BAD, DeSantis on the other hand...."
It's effective but it rings a little hollow.
Only because time after time people on the right ignore the warnings and continue to vote for these despicable excuses for humanity.
Ah yes, Mitt Romney. This is a classic DNC tactic. Romney was the antichrist in 2012, McCain before him, Bush Jr. etc... but now the new guy is way worse.
They are already using those talking points with respect to DeSantis. "Sure Trump was bad but not THAT BAD, DeSantis on the other hand...."
It's effective but it rings a little hollow.
Romney and McCain were actually never really the "Antichrist" - in 2008, the boat anchor was still George Bush and McCain's whole thing was to try to differentiate himself from that legacy by being a "Maverick", whatever that means.
The tactics against Romney were pretty standard, "Richy rich Republican doesn't care about the common man, doesn't know how the other half lives, look at this video from a fundraiser where he basically calls 47% of American gutter trash, har har binders full of women har har". One thing I recall from that campaign was Romney being openly mocked for suggesting that Russia was a major antagonist for the USA, to a point where Obama laughed at him in a debate for being out of touch with modern reality... whoops!
DeSantis is a prick, and he's basically getting the same treatment that Ted Cruz got last time around - i.e., better than Trump, but still an absolute prick who no one should want anywhere near the top of a Presidential ticket. I don't think there's anyone who's honestly suggesting he's preferable to Trump or that Trump was "not that bad".
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Ah yes, Mitt Romney. This is a classic DNC tactic. Romney was the antichrist in 2012, McCain before him, Bush Jr. etc... but now the new guy is way worse.
They are already using those talking points with respect to DeSantis. "Sure Trump was bad but not THAT BAD, DeSantis on the other hand...."
It's effective but it rings a little hollow.
There exists, of course, the possibility that the GOP leaders actually are getting worse.
Condemning the use of the veto in the security council while the US is the country that has made use of it by far the most. Insisting on offering aid without political interference when the US is well-known for political interference as a component of aid. Pushing for quality infrastructure development projects overseas when the US isn't good with infrastructure either at home or abroad and it's their self-identified rival that he attacks in his speech that is actually doing that work. It goes on... and with no acknowledgment of American history. So very, very American, to posture as the morally superior global leader talking down to the rest of the world when transparently working to secure hegemony and self-interest.
I hate that I have come to dislike Biden so much. The US has a party of cynical and megalomaniacal plutocrats with cult-like followers on one side and pragmatic but hawkish and self-righteous imperialists on the other.
Edit: I'll correct that Russia and the USSR's vetoes taken together are more than the US's vetoes, but the US has used the veto 82 times, far more than the UK at 29, China at 17, or France at 16.
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Seems weird that an appointee wouldn't have to recuse themselves from a case that involved the person that appointed them.
I actually disagree on its face.
By that logic 6/9 current Canadian Supreme Court Justices couldn't rule on any federal legislation as 5 were appointed to the Supreme Court by Trudeau and the Cheif Justice, while appointed to the court by Harper, was elevated to Cheif Justice by Trudeau.
Now, in the US the system is setup that the Presidnet reccomends and the Senate interviews, debates and then appoints. Except, it's now a rubber stamp and very partisan where Canada the legal judiciary is relatively independent.
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Anyone who thinks they figured out who the "good" politicians are are getting taken for a ride. The system is set up so the good ones are always weeded out or subverted well before they're able to make any kind of change. Anyone near the top of the two-party system works for the donor class while doing the absolute minimum required to to sell the illusion that they're working for the people.
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Enough of your "both sides" BS. Only one side is actively working to take rights away from women and LGBTQ. Only one side is making plans to invalidate future elections if they don't win. Only one side has turned into a cult following an unstable man child. Whining about "both sides" being run by the elitest donor class is ridiculous considering there are basic human freedoms at risk of disappearing in the US
Well, he isn't wrong and you're also right. Anyone near the top of their two party system does work for the donor class and they absolutely do the bare minimum required to suggest they're working for the average American.
But....the right is pure evil in what they do socially these days.
