Welcome to 2024, the Year We Stop Trump’s Rolling Insurrection

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Welcome to 2024, the Year We Stop Trump’s Rolling Insurrection
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These names you keep giving politicians... Why?

Is it hatred against career politicians?
A way for people to remember bad things they've done?
Is it mostly tongue in cheek?

Legitimately curious

Because they aren't very bright and they need it to be simple. They've found a mindless mantra they can recite and, by golly, they're going to keep saying it.

why is everyone mad that I hate both candidates lol.

I said it pretty clearly, I'm not happy that I have to vote for an incumbent who I didn't want just because the alternative is objectively worse.

Also because I like calling people funny names.

why is everyone mad that I hate both candidates

I assure you, no one is mad that you hate both sides. They're "mad" because you oversimplified a ridiculously complicated situation with huge global ramifications, in an attempt to equate both sides because you think holding that position makes you smart and independent..when in reality it is neither smart nor independent.

I didn't equate both sides though, I said I hate Biden and Trump is objectively worse.

That doesn't mean I'm not going to vote for him or not vote at all.

My whole point is that I am not looking forward to voting for him knowing that he is much much better than Trump, but that he will not change his policies, which I disapprove of.

Because the average voter is as mature as the average politician, I guess. 'Of the people' and all that jazz.

All of the above lol.

Genocide Joe because of his obvious involvement in Gaza and because of his copy paste foreign policy from the Obama administration

Criminally insane orange because he has been criminally charged multiple times, acts insane, and is also orange lol.

It's just too easy to make fun of them because the two party system heavily restricts your ability to vote for a candidate that you actually want or need.

So every election period always starts off with a candidate who I almost always didn't want or vote for, and immediately expect nothing from which is usually what happens.

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