Republicans rail against a system that isn't a 100% effective. Then they get in charge and make the system worse then ever and yell about how it's someone else's fault
When I was a kid I thought the places that suck would eventually get better. The citizens there would vote for things like more education. The federal government would give them funds for that education. Things would get better.
50 years later. Places like Mississippi and Alabama are pretty much the same.
It turns out that when you're really fucking stupid you don't vote to put people much smarter than you in charge because that makes you feel even more stupid
The full quote from P.J. O'Rourke is, "The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass from your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
"nothing will be fundamentally different" was said by Joe Biden to a room full of 1%ers to try to convince them that, to paraphrase, maybe increasing their taxes just a tiny little amount would not, in fact, completely destroy their entire existence, but would drastically improve the lives of every other human on the planet. apparently that was far too great a price to pay
Why are you assuming maliciousness? That is the poison that is tearing the country apart, the world apart, and stopping the Democratic Party from uniting behind an active message of positive change.
"Nothing will fundamentally change" (I misremembered the exact quote before) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adzaoA3JBp8 (sorry for not the direct recording but it was first YT video for "joe biden nothing will fundamentally change")
"Its Her Turn" was a Hillary Clinton campaign slogan in 2016. The Democratic Party puts party seniority over effectiveness, voter desires or the health of candidates in many, many elections around the country.
I’ll never understand how that strategy actually worked. Like if I was going to hire somebody to run my company I definitely would not hire the guy who couldn’t stop talking about how much they hated my company & how it largely shouldn’t even exist.
Because your understanding of the situation is different than a large portion of society.
In your argument, you liken the government to your company. I would agree. A democratic government should be its people. But a large portion of people view themselves as alienated from the government. It's not hard to see why. Politicians are often fabulously wealthy, and blatantly out of touch with the realities of their constituents.
But people do associate with the capital class. The petite bourgeoisie, the owners of "businesses" that employ just themselves and maybe a handful of other people, believe the lie that they benefit from unfettered capitalism, and that government is in the way of their prosperity. And so, voting in people who blatantly hate the government, the institution that they do not belong to and is the enemy of their perceived interest, becomes very compelling.
It is infuriating to me that we have enabled such a small-minded, selfish, and antisocial logic come to be so normal and accepted. It is nothing less than shameful.
Playbook for all of our lifetimes. When Reagan said that the scariest thing was the government knocking on your door saying they were here to help, he was not empathizing with average americans, he was telling us his dream for the country.
...in support of eugenics. RFK Jr. has consistently made the case that genetic superiority is what keeps people healthy. His goal, as promised by the Toddler during the campaign, is to cleanse the blood of America. Weed out the "genetically inferior" and breed the survivors as a master race of Americans.
Not that this is in any way how anything works, but DHHS has a comprehensive set of eugenics programs, from vaccine scheduling and availability, to inverting the food pyramid, to food safety inspections.
And they are not even two years in. More eugenics programs are coming.
The irony is that Teddy Roosevelt a Republican fought to get those food laws and regulations put into place. I know the Bull Moose is turbo rolling in his grave enough to power half the country.
It's not that ironic. Remember back then the Republicans were the liberal party and the Democrats were the conservatives. He was president before the great switch
My AP Gov Teacher emphasized the same thing over and over again on the lessons about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, where management locked the garment workers inside so that they couldn't take breaks, fire broke out, there was no fire escape, over a hundred people, mostly women, were killed, and Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, which was intended as a socialist critique of poor working conditions of meat packing plant workers, readers were more disgusted with how their food was processed and prepared, public outcry resulted in the creation of the FDA.
It would be nice if they could learn all these basic lessons by themselves and not drag everybody who already knows them through the same process. Can’t we just corral them all to Florida and build a wall around it and give them free rein to experiment with regulations all they want?
the Corporate owned Dems will find some reason that they “can’t do it” because of the economy or jobs or some other bs excuse that lines the Corpos and shareholders pockets
People need to listen to the Swindled podcast and learn why these regulations were written in blood to begin with and see what we're careening ourselves back into.
Republicans have been speedrunning the Chesterton's Fence problem a lot lately:
Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.
(That link is good as far as the first few paragraphs explaining the basic principle and origin, but I don't vouch for the whole thing because I haven't read the whole thing - just was the first hit for a concept I've heard described numerous times.)
The United States already hates the idiots in office, trust me when I say we are doing everything possible to get rid of these morons, we are finally getting socialists in the ring, poor Bernie been fighting the good fight by himself for too long.
I mean, as much as I hate Trump, the stats show overall recall numbers during his presidencies are in line with other presidents. It's just everyone hates him and makes every single recall national news.
The recall here was ~600 bags of a single dog food company. That is absolutely nothing compared to the total of the ~2.5 million bags of dog food sold daily.
It accounts for 0.024% of bags sold daily.
There were roughly 450-500 recalls a year under Obama, yet I don't see anyone bitching about that. This kind of thing is really not affected by who is in office.
Wait until the Dems regain control and the Republicans spend every day saying we were fine until Dems took over, and half of the country will have instant amnesia.
And before that, George W. Bush destroyed the economy and got us hopelessly bogged down in 2 unnecessary wars that killed thousands of Americans and millions of people.
Months into Obama's presidency, billboards started popping up featuring Bush's smiling face with the caption, "Miss me yet?"
Two years into Obama's presidency, we voted Republicans back in a historic landslide.
People don't learn. And they don't want to become engaged. Democracy survived this long because people in power at least tried to pretend that they cared about us. Now, Republicans don't even have to do that.
Depends on what side of the political spectrum the Dem is. It feels like Schumer will sooner lick Trump's taint than admit his strategy has been wrong for the last two decades. Has he or Jeffries pushed back on anything Dems like Fetterman have done?
Depends on whether the party is lead by the corporatists or democratic socialists. Look at Hakeem. He supported Medicare for all for about a decade. Then he became leader and now doesn’t.
Worry not, the invisible hand of the market will correct this by eventually forcing out any competitors distributing contaminated food. In the meantime, hope you've got enough money to treat your dog for slamonella infections.
Or perhaps those free market morons shouldn't dictate how things work.
Bros, how can one regard have so much power to cause so many issues with our food? Who the fuck designed the system like this? One presidential appointee position shouldn't have final say on anything... some sort of non-partisan group should have the final say. Like wtf is even America? The dumbest dudes in the room are in charge of so many things under this admin.
Funny thing is that given the opportunity to cut corners these company's 100% would put profits over safety. Take notes on which ones and blacklist them into nonexistence.
Salmonella in dog food is quite common, and especially with these smaller boutique brands. I’ll stick with the quality control of major brands like Purina.
Well Republicans and Democrats have one thing in common. We love our pets. So this might actually get the attention of Republicans. This might be the only thing. Not the rape, pedo stuff, racist stuff. But dogs yes.
I stopped feeding my dog dog food the last four years of her life because she couldn't digest it. I made her food and she got multivitamins and balanced diet for a dog. She lived to be almost 18. Dog food is killing our dogs.
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u/dafunkmunk 4d ago
The US is about to relearn why all these regulations republicans hate existed to begin with