#democratic norms

[thepoliticalvulcan]

Biden talks about being a transitional figure then runs again.

Biden runs again despite what must be obvious even to him he doesn’t have the stamina to actually campaign.

Biden talks about the importance of small d democracy then is mum while the Dem establishment ensures there is no meaningful primary and even the primary schedule itself is manipulated to ensure Biden has the appearance of momentum.

He makes a big show of not meddling in the investigations and prosecution of Hunter. Promises he won’t pardon Hunter. Does it anyway.

This is the Biden legacy. Performative objectivity. Respectability theater.

Don’t get me wrong, my prison reform instincts are not reactionary. Just because the elite infuriates me doesn’t make me think anything Hunter has done warrants hard time. The failson deserves a lot of consequences. A lot of restorative justice, whatever befits being a serial liar and whatever else he’s provably done rather than the fever dreams of the right. But just because the Trumps are worse doesn’t make this right.

I voted blue for harm reduction, I know that staying home or voting red out of some naive idea about punishing the Democrats is functionally a statement that I am willing to take a chance on the GOP achieving its maximalist goals: concentration camps for undocumented immigrants and political prisoners, denaturalization, the official end of any public health or education, the end of any trans rights and major rollbacks of gay rights etc.

But boy, when it becomes clearer and clearer that Biden and co. wasn’t taking Project 2025 or Trump’s social media rants as seriously as I was, I understand the anger of the Obama to Trump voters. Acting on their rage at the never ending hypocrisy of the Dems is juvenile, but they sure seem to be enjoying it.

I wish I had some conscionable political outlet for this anger. (I’m a red state public employee, most of the usual suggestions about local involvement would be unwise. They absolutely do retaliatory firings here but they do it smart, in ways that are difficult to challenge.)

[thepoliticalvulcan]

Mark my words, the expulsion of representatives for poor decorum in a system that ranks last on democratic norms will likely provoke copycats and escalation. I don’t condone like behavior from blue states but I’d be genuinely surprised if it doesn’t happen.

These words will be in my grandchildren's history books

[rodaportal]

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[super-lad]

It’s really something to feel disheartened by your fellow Americans after this election and then getting the double whammy that is cheering on gun violence and death as some moral imperative for change. Like it really is time for the sane people to retreat into the woods I feel.

[skitskatdacat63]

Wdym Flavio called himself a democratic dictator, and said that he's pulling all the strings behind the scenes(x)

[normmacdonald]

Post the transphobia post

"I won’t do those jokes anymore. Which is fine, because the reason I didn’t do the joke on the special is because I came to an understanding that other people came to much sooner than I did. Which is what? Which is that a lot of people are idiots. You don’t want to have a joke be misunderstood and then someone goes and beats up a trans person."

Norm Macdonald on jokes referencing transphobia

Surely this is the quote you were referring to, right? You didn't see a screenshot of a joke Norm made on SNL in-character in 1993 being circulated in a popular tumblr post and go on to assume he was a transphobic piece of shit without making even a token effort to follow up on it, right?

Right?

[demimonde-semigoddess]

I'm just saying if we fired like a good 30% of the dnc and banned them from management positions for 4 years maybe we could have an electoral cycle that doesn't suck tremendously.

[loki-zen]

do you seriously think they wouldn’t go though

It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real

There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations

Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that

The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.

There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)

The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.

Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.

Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.

[primepaginequotidiani]

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[grayrazor]

US Presidential Election between Lex Luthor and Norman Osborne, who you voting for?

[sorryiwasasleep]

No because holy fuck, I haven’t even gone past what it says in this post and just…

DO NOT FUCKING LET DESANTIS MAKE ANY HEADWAY. THAT FUCK WILL TAKE THIS SHIT AND RUN AND THE SUPREME COURT IS JUST AS FUCKED SO THEY WON’T STOP HIM.

This thread is incredibly important to read.

It is also extremely difficult to read. I don't know if I need to point this out, but the document itself is obviously full of bigotry so please take care of yourself if you choose to read it. Antisemitic phrases like "cultural marxism" and "global elites" appear before the document even really gets rolling, and are mixed in with transphobia, racism, and more.

If you want a taste of how this document starts in the first main section about "The Family", here is a taste:

"This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists."

It is all bad. ALL of this document is bad, and dangerous, and threatens the lives and the safety of everyone living in this country.

[michellesanches]

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[socialistexan]

Oh, so she's a high road coward just like every other fucking Democrat, got it.

I'm tired of this shit.

We've "appealed to decorum" our way into full blown fascism and this just proves they're going to stay on that path.

Why is it Republicans can constantly break the rules and get away with it while Democrats just do fuck all because of norms that were made up by them in the first fucking place!

[bkkblogs]

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[wilwheaton]

The reason for Biden not to do this was to allow his son to remain collateral damage of the GOP war against his presidency and to leave him in the hands of the Trump DOJ for at least the next four years all to make a point of principle about being better, different, more righteous, more norm-honoring than Donald Trump. Truly. No one gives a fuck. If anything, that logic I just laid out sounds like one of those fastidious, hyper-process-oriented and baroque bits of reasoning that have of late left Democrats mesmerized while the real world is passing them by.

The Pardon

I fully support this pardon, and I encourage President Biden to go to TOWN on using his SCOTUS-approved unchecked powers of the presidency to pardon and protect and Trump-proof everyone and every institution he can before the fascists take over.

Do more, Joe. Really push the limits, because norms and traditions haven’t meant anything to anyone who isn’t an elected Democrat since 2016, and they will cease to exist in a little over a month.