#biden fucking sucks we get it

[castielsprostate]

us-ians try not to fuck up this election and vote blue challenge (impossible) (they don't care about anyone but themselves) (they're unable to see the devastating consequences if that orange buffoon is re-elected) (they don't understand how their own government works) (voting blue is literally the only option you have if you want to survive past 2030. like there is literally no other fucking option. if you do not vote blue this year, so much blood will be on your hands you can't even imagine it i don't think) (us-ians are too shortsighted to see what will happen to the rest of the fucking world if their little orange dictator gets reelected and they. don't. care.)

[flying-cat]

I can't imagine being anywhere near as insane as Trump supporters because my dad told me that he, earlier, drove past a guy putting a "Harris Walz 2024" sign outside his house and decided to yell out at him "TRUMP 2024 YOU COCKSUCKER" and flip him off. And he laughed when he told me because he thinks that yelling at a man (emphasized man because he thinks men should be "better" than women, and "better" would be voting for Trump in this case) who is voting for a "whore who slept her way to the top" (his exact words) is funny. And expected me to laugh with him. And got angry when I didn't and just stared at him in disbelief. Even though he already knows that I don't like Donald Trump. These people fully expect others to find their weird ass derogatory words and behavior FUNNY. Donald Trump is leading a cult of old people who he brainwashed into being delusional with him.

[sophies-junkyard]

This whole election just got flipped upside down, and I know that’s scary. But I also hope that this MOBILIZES people. We don’t have to have a geriatric president anymore. We have an obvious replacement for Biden in the race. Like… I know she’s not perfect. Everybody sucks I know I know I know. But I feel a tiny bit of…. Hope? I mean in a choice between Kamala and Trump the answer is So. Fucking. Obvious.

GO VOTE.

[dittolicous]

i dont care where you live in the usa or w/e... if you dont vote for biden you are throwing away your vote and enabling trump. because *everyone* thinks their vote doesnt matter and piddles around because of that. hell, everyone thinks 'its only me, it wont make a difference' about THOUSANDS of things, like littering, picking seashells, taking stones from rivers, etc. and in all of those situations THEYRE FUCKING WRONG. if anything unites us, its our damn ability to think we alone are the outlier despite everything indicating otherwise.

and miss me with that 'biden is just as bad/is a murderer' shit. 1) cool, and how do you plan to change things in a mr. nazi-dictator trump world? how are you ACTIVELY making a difference? 2) CHANGE IS INCREMENTAL. the reason things suck so much is because the left keeps taking slow change as 'no change' and giving up before we can gain any momentum to make big change!

if you vote in hamas or w/e to protest... you might as well throw dirt at all those suffering innocent people. you arent saving palestine that way. that is not a helpful protest. you'll only enable trump to win by throwing away your vote. it is the one bit of actual power you have, so USE IT RIGHT! stop in-fighting for one moment! look at what is possible to achieve in reality! dreams arent fulfilled overnight!

when you feel like your vote doesnt matter, remember this - you have to try anyways

[ohello0]

Cutting UN food aid to Yemen and then bombing them wasn’t enough apparently

Biden cut off funding to UNWRA and the best reasoning I can think of is maybe he’s the only person on the planet who believed “the UN is Hamas!” defense from israel at the ICJ

[sawkinator]

you know I think another angle people should think about wrt voting third-party instead of Joe Biden and consequently definitely leading to Trump taking office again is:

Joe Biden would be far more likely to be held accountable for the Gaza genocide

Trump attempted a coup and they're still letting him run for president, and he will absolutely continue supporting Israel among other morally reprehensible shit like uhhh literal martial law for the whole country if he wins, and you know if the UN or something tries Trump for supporting genocide he will face no repercussions because he will have the full backing of the GOP and a packed Supreme Court and a bunch of fucking billionaires

meanwhile if Joe Biden gets in international trouble for supporting genocide while in office, not only will several more progressive Dems support it, the GOP will be CHOMPING AT THE BIT to get Biden (rightfully) on the hook for the blood on his hands

I really truly hate Biden and the entire government for continuing to support the slaughter of Palestinians but you really are truly fucking braindead if you think voting third-party is going to do any more good besides making you personally feel a little better while you help Trump get re-elected and screw over the rest of the world even more

[wandering-wolf23]

Periodic reminder that is-the-owl-video-cute is an internet rando and not someone you should look to for political advice. Read up on Project 2025 and vote accordingly

[raeathnos]

Actually saw a post this morning that said ‘if you vote at all for either candidate in the next presidential election you support genocide and are a horrible person’ and I just…

I cannot fathom that level of stupidity. Also, I’m extremely suspicious of anyone who tries to tell others that voting doesn’t work, is bad, etc.

Please don’t fall for the same mistakes as 2016. Yes things are bad, yes there is bad on both sides, but refusing to vote doesn’t change anything or help anyone.

I’m begging y’all to think and use your heads.

[gotta-bail-my-quails]

before talking about who to vote for, can we talk about how the voting itself is utter bullshit though? The USA is straight up not a democracy. I get that people are fed up with the choices and that other people have pointed out there aren't any other choices (because third party voting is not viable here, so it's the lesser of two evils) but also maybe we are fed up with the fact we aren't able to have a choice either? And that if we do continue to participate in this system, we will only be telling it we are okay with it giving us no other options? Even without the clear violations of free speech/protest, actions done without input (ie. Presidential orders), and straight up denial of existence if you aren't a certain type of person, the electoral college system is SO TREMENDOUSLY BAD AT BEING DEMOCRATIC IN A VACUUM/ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE CANDIDATES ARE NEAR PERFECT. People in states with smaller populations have greater representation in the electoral college due to the number of electors being based on number of Reps in the House (based proportionately on population) and Senators (which is 2 per state, meaning those 2 are split much more for big population states than small ones so small ones have more "elector" per person) so we don't even have the same power as some USA citizens. Not only that, but in some states, if the majority is for one candidate then ALL the votes are switched to that candidate. So you could have 51/100 people vote for you but have it seem like 100/100 did. Also, if there's a tie, it goes to Congress and our reps are genuinely allowed to just. not vote for who we want them to.

I'm not just fed up with these politicians, I'm fed up with the system that put them on my fucking ballot.

So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

[thegingerparty]

What really kills me is that there are 15 million people who voted for Biden last year who chose not to vote for Harris. You want to try and tell me America doesn't have a misogyny problem than explain to me why that many people CHOSE on purpose to not vote for a qualified black woman over a literal fascist. A rapist. A convicted felon. FIFTEEN. MILLION. I hope all of you step on a Lego today. I hope you get stuck behind slow drivers who stop at yellow lights when you could both make it through. I hope your children grow up and are disappointed in you forever for this choice. I hope you lie awake years from now in regret. And all 15 million of you had better get your act together and vote blue in the midterms.

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

i kinda wanna make a critical post about Some Notable People not speaking up and outright endorsing anyone this election but i also know that it probably wouldn't've changed very much and therefore 'doesn't matter' but actually, yes, it does matter because it sets a good precedent. and besides. why would they be out there hyping obama or even biden the fuck up but then talking about voting harris in hushed voices. like it's probably a mix of misogyny and just plain old liberal democrat cowardice. because i KNOW these People probably don't care that much about any differences in their policies, at least not significantly enough for it to seem unreasonable to hype up harris as the better choice.

[hareofhrair]

Gonna need yall to stop putting Biden is Just As Bad propaganda on my dash. Had to unfollow someone because I don’t want to a start a fight with them over it, but I’m about to bite the next person who puts that shit in front of me.

If you don’t like Biden, vote in your god damn local and mid term elections for third party or further left candidates so that we get better democratic candidates for future elections. But this one is already fucking decided, and I’m NOT ending up under a Trump led dictatorship because yall value protecting your personal sense of moral purity over the collective good. Whether it offends your personal morals to vote for Biden is IRRELEVANT in the face of the alternative.

This isn’t a lesser of two evils situation. One guy sucks. The other guy is LITERALLY PLANNING TO OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCRACY AND INSTALL HIMSELF AS A PUTIN STYLE DICTATOR.

PLEASE look up Project 2025 and stop acting like abstaining is some kind of personal ethical decision!

[sharpasanaro]

THIS is why proper candidate research is important!!!! PLEASE, I am well aware that the Biden administration is far from perfect, but people need to start using common fucking sense. Unfortunately a third party candidate isn’t a viable option if we want to keep Trumplestiltskin out of office, Americans need to vote Biden. After that, y’know what, if he dies in office, at least we’ll get Kamala. Will it be fair that she wasn’t elected, that it had to be “hey, the old white guy died and you’re next in line” situation? No, but at least Kamala Harris will be a better option for VP than whoever the fuck Trump makes his VP.

I really think people have forgotten just how bad things were under the Trump Administration. Literally every day there was news about some service being cut or someone terrible appointed somewhere they shouldn't be or what have you. He constantly flirted with WW3 and military dictatorship. It was such a blur of badness that there aren't big standouts for people to point to to make him "the XYZ president." it was everything. all the time. Why do we not remember this.

[illogicalghost]

genuinely in awe with how half of this country is still rooting for trump after all this. do they have no critical thinking skills? are their heads so far up their own asses they can't possibly see a way out? its not even going to matter if the jury finds him guilty or not in any of the multiple felony trials hes found himself in, his loyal fanbase of total fucking morons is still going to vote for him even if he ends up in jail, which he probably won't, he'll find another way to weasel his way out of that too no doubt. it's so depressing. american politics are so fucked. the republican party should be reclassified as terrorists with the amount of hate crimes they're passing as laws. the 1st amendment doesn't even fucking matter anymore, theocrats have taken over pretty much the entire government and continue to make everyone's lives absolutely miserable. what's the fucking point? even if you get a democrat elected theyre either too scared to do anything that won't get then reelected or the republicans in the senate or whatever just shut down their bills. what is going to fix america at this point when half of it is dragging us back into the dark ages and the other half is too worried about their poll numbers to do anything about it? its so hard to be hopeful for the future when everyone's rights are being taken away...

[andhumanslovedstories]

Eight years ago I was so deeply invested in the American presidential election, I listen to multiple weekly podcasts, I was on twitter, I checked the polling updates, read the articles, watched the news, I could tell you the political happenings of every week of 2016, and we were on the road for a large portion of it so we had to work for it. We watched one of the presidential debates in a Las Vegas Panera before heading back to our campsite. I did something similar for the 2020 election because jesus christ what a fucking Historical Year. Now it’s 2024, and gearing up for the grind once more is such a dismal feeling. I don’t want to have to have an opinion on Nicky Haley’s viability as republican candidate. I don’t want to follow another twelve Trump trials. I don’t want to watch everyone even slightly left of center once again devour each other as we polarize about it’s a bigger war crime to vote for Biden or not vote for Biden. Everything is going to get so unpleasant and it’s so important and the stakes are so high and it’s gonna suck the whole time. I’m trying to think of one funny thing that could plausibly happen that would fill me with joy and not terror for the future of America and also the world, and so far I’ve only come up with Jeb Bush giving a presidential campaign another go.

[bearfeathers]

VOTING IS A CHESS MOVE NOT A VALENTINE