Podunk

Dems biggest problem has never been results. They have done that. Time and time again. Fix the economy. Solve unemployment. Shot the steal. Whatever it is. They have actually done it each time.

But i have never seen a group that has been so mindblowingly incompetent at messaging.

Take some fucking credit you dipshits!

Seriously. Biden did almost everything we asked him to do. But the party never took credit or bragged about it enough. So much so that despite accomplishing the status quo, he still came across as a loser and lost the election for his incumbent.

They did what we asked. But we were too timid or pc to take the fucking credit! we lost because of some semblance of decorum or some other nonsense.

Brag about it you pussy ass removed!

"Life without parole" vs "the death penalty" hold a different connotation for the average person.

Its about perception. Not logic.

The death penalty had never really made sense for 80 years. Basically ever since we eliminated firing squads or the guillotine. Ever since we said, "guilty, kill em now, move on"

But we hold execution in a much higher regard. The death penalty is certain. Life in prison... well thats ambiguous. We are still fighting a culture war on the death penalty for literal decades now, despite the fact that it makes absolutely zero difference to anyone not directly involved in the crime.

The actual, logical, real world difference is minimal. But if you want to send a message. Well then, the perception is magnificent.

Sentenced to death has meaning. Until you drag it out so long everyone forgets.

No. They want to take away a martyr.

How long is the average stay on death row?

And how long is the memory of the average american voter?

You and me will have moved on to the next battle and ten other battles by the time they shoot him. Collective memory will have other priorities and we will forget.

Thats the trick. The appeals process alone takes so long that you will either be completely lost by that point, or your disinterest shouting support for fifteen other vigilantes, that it wont matter.

If they convict, hes fucked. Hes not a martyr. Hes a statistic. And thats how they convince the next one not to do it. You are not joan of ark. History will treat you not as a savior, but as a wildcard random.. So why bother? A healthcare ceo is not franz ferdinand.

We arent there yet...

Have you seen how long it takes someone to get through death row? If convicted, he will sit for 20 years. Far far beyond the current political discourse.

If he gets convicted, that will be a stink for a while. But by the time they kill him, he will be a distant memory.

Martyrs die when the timing is optimal. If it isnt the right time, they are just a name on a gravestone. And we have plenty of those.

Yeah my internet history alone would eliminate me from that running.

The winners are "pre selected". Thats how his bullshit workaround works. Its been admitted. But for the uninformed, it sounds like a lottery.

It isnt.

even if a communist or anarchist or whatever tried to play the game and if it were a true lottery, you would be committing a far worse disservice by keeping quiet at this point.

Stay quiet and maybe get a million. Its the democrat way if you look at our current dem politicians... do you really want to be like them right now?

I know ted is a piece of shit, but that post, and literally everyone else's response to it, including booker who referenced the post in the last 30 minutes before the record was broken, knew that it was a joke.

Ted tried it already and failed to hit the record. He knows how hard it is.

That was an assholes way of appreciating something, without admitting that he has respect for it.

For fucks sake.

Ill be honest, thats a victory in itself. Creating a crack isnt a loss. Its progress. As small as it may be. A damn doesnt fail because of a meteor hitting it. Its a crack here, a fracture there. It adds up.

The resiliency of that mentality isnt impenetrable.

Rest in peace you poor bastards. Forced to fight a rich mans war... for nothing.

There is a part of the constitution that prohibits someone that has completed 2 terms as president from being vp afterwards.

I understand what you are saying. But i believe that it is not really representative of what is happening or needs to happen to the usa as a whole.

Brownback just wasnt strong enough of a virus to build immunity to this sickness.

He may have been an slight inoculation for some people, but the immune system as a whole went on and then forgot about the weak virus.

what is happening now is a bigger bug. Lets just hope the fever doesnt kill us.

Yeah i think we will soon be far along enough that my personal feelings about this, in comparison to a random unpopular kansas govenor, are irrelevant and not a fair comparison. Its hardly a fair comparison right now.

I had to look up brownback tbh.

The "sam brownback concept" isnt a thing. But there are real examples of the yoyo slinging back hard enough to hit someone in the face and make them reconsider letting out the string again.

Im worried that at this point, for all the destruction and permanent damage hes done, that we may just need him to stick around and break more things.

If he kicks off tomorrow, we could have this happen again. It all gets washed under the rug and hes replaced with more subtle powers. It only took 4 years for the majority of the usa to forget the first round of damage he caused, after all.

But then again, if he lasts too long, we risk never recovering.

There is a sick, nihilistic balance to all this now imo. I want a guarantee that we dont slip down this road again. And unfortunately more pain may be the only way to guarantee it for the next few generations.

I feel dirty even saying it. But in my gut, i believe it.