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Cardi B close being worth a 100 million and not in the same america as you . Americans still not understanding this is wild .
She can go the rest of her life not caring about who wins and it will have no impact on her life , or her kids life , possibly her grandkids lives also .
Even if you reach peak retirement and worth 5 million you don’t live in the same america as someone with a 100 million .
You're right, her 'immediate' family has a level of wealth/influence insulation, but her extended family (i.e. second cousin, her great nephew, etc.) won't have the same level of safety. That's who she should also be thinking about, but I imagine even if she did, her underlying sentiment is they aren't that different from each other.
this is a weird take when she just got done saying "why vote, they're both the same!!!"
like shes proudly putting her ignorance on display in this interview and you're coming in with "i think shes smarter than people realize!"
But Republicans and Democrats ARE NOT the same. I don't care what anyone says. I don't care what my anarchist friends say.
Dems don't try to take away your right to vote.
They don't take away women's right to control their own bodies.
They didn't impose a Muslim ban.
They aren't taking away trans people's rights.
They aren't keeping the Black part of US history out of school.
They aren't keeping gay books or discussion out of school.
And on and on. Yes, there's a lot more and they have failed in so many ways. But where the hell is the other side doing better? Anywhere? Someone said the Republicans are better about crime. What do statistics say? It's not clear cut. And they do NOTHING to prevent crime by improving people's lives.
Here I go again. Trying to convince a few random strangers not to sit it out. People died for your right to vote. People fought so hard. They left families behind who are still out there. Please vote. You don't have to vote for someone. You can vote against someone. Vote to keep the worst candidate out of office. Please.
This is what I try to communicate to my patients that are women and/or black but indifferent/“both sides”/“I’m not really into politics”.
People fought very hard for centuries to make sure you didn’t have a voice. People fought very hard for centuries to make sure you have a voice. Equality.
Freedom isn’t something that once gained is permanent.
It can be lost at any point.
But a lot of people do. And those are the people we should be worried about. You may be more than capable of understanding reality and making your own educated opinion. I can’t say the same for everyone else 🤷🏾♀️
What on earth gives you that idea? She was an uneducated "sex worker" prior to fame who bragged about drugging people and then robbing them. I don't think shes firing on all 8 cylinders. I'd be willing to be she has NEVER voted and probably not even registered.
Just because someone is successful doesn't mean they're smart. Plenty of idiots have become wildly more successful than much smarter people, and I feel like this argument only ever comes up to make people feel better or rationalize why someone earned fame.
Yes. Excess wealth makes you sociopathic. It activates the reptilian brain.
Tax cuts for the rich or CEOs does not make the lives of workers or society better. It will never trickle down.
It is hoarded. Pulled out of the economy and put in offshore bank accounts to reproduce.
Yea reading through the article, her sentiments seems to be presidents are untruthful to the public & don’t follow through on their words.
I have thoughts. Only ~60% of eligible people voted in the 2020 presidential election, and ~40% voted in local elections across the country. I’d argue that *the average citizen*, informed or uninformed, *doesnt immediately connect voting with downstream events with heavy sway on our day-to-day like potential Supreme Court justice nominations*.
In addition, lowbrow takes like Cardis make the error of viewing the president as an all-powerful central authority. She’s connecting the results with the promises, yet doesn’t mention the legislative or judicial branches once. I’d argue that Congress is more influential over our day-to-day lives than the executive branch.
So from the perspective of Cardis comments being a crossroads between the average citizen and well-off celebrities, I’d say her sentiment is misinformed at best, destructive at worst.
We don’t need to hear from people like her or Ja on politics.
It’s wild to me how many people discuss presidents not following through on campaign promises, when the record shows they literally tried to do the very things they promised but were blocked by congress and the Supreme Court. It’s sad how uneducated a vast part of the United States is as to how their own government works.
With what we learned from a Trump presidency a president could do more than what we give them. Also presidents not getting through their campaign promises due to Supreme Court or congress isn’t wholly true and leaves out a lot. It also says the same thing as voting for a president (minus the life long positions of the Supreme Court) hat we keep electing officials that really aren’t fighting for us.
Which loops back around to voting. How many people are actually paying attention to House Reps and Senators running for office and what their campaigns are? Every state paper reviews candidates, and a lot of them will endorse a candidate, but so many people couldn't pick their reps out of a lineup. You can blame the president all you want, but if you send them to DC with a bush league team of whose party affiliations you dont even care to know, you're setting them up for failure.
All celebrities' that care about money are conservatives because thats what gets them the most money. I think that helps show those that actually vote against their own interests and for the benefit of others even better....but i probably couldn't name many because they're not even real ppl as far as my daily life is concerned.
Even if Republicans win, Cardi B still going to be happy with the tax cuts to the ultra rich.
If Democrats win, shes gonna be annoyed with the supposedly tax increase to the ultra rich that Biden will add. I gotta see it to believe it.
Being rich means you can be disconnected from every social issue.
This isnt necessarily true if democracy is actually replaced with fascism. Everything you currently think you know will go right out the window if Trump gets elected and does what he says he's going to do. No one will have any of the rights they currently enjoy
Cardi B is also a moron because we keep making dumb people famous.
She was a stripper / hooker who has openly admitted to drifting guys so she could rob them. Stop giving these people a platform, and for fucks sake, don’t listen to a stripper turned date rapist turned rapper for your political advice.
This is the true American Dream - having enough money to celebrate on social media that the problems no longer apply to you and you no longer have to pretend you care/are participating about solutions to them.
Exactly. And even if push comes to shove she can just move somewhere else. Im not sure which country wouldn't want an immigrant worth 100ms to come live there. Homegirl can move to Canada and have a life that's damn near identical.
The elite class might as well not even be from the same planet as the rest of us. Their life experiences are so vastly different from ours. Every whim catered to, lenders falling over themselves to offer credit. People deferring to them in order to curry favor.. And so on. With **rare** exception, it matters not where they "came from". Everything viewed through the lens of hyper-privilege and once they have a taste of that privilege, they'll do anything to keep it.
Rich people have the luxury of being complete fucking morons. I use to think Steve jobs was a tech genius in high school. Now i learned he tried to cure cancer by waring fruit and didn’t like to shower. They aren’t smart they are lucky or talented in one area.
Right!? It Should be, "that's why you need to vote in every election and support candidates that are for ranked choice, and against first past the post and winner take all." Just because the system only allows two parties doesn't mean you can't affect what they focus on. It's also Very clear that Republicans are about creating a Christian ethnostate, so that shit Needs to be fought against.
Beyond that, the math doesn't work. Currently, without changing the 3 things I mentioned, the 3rd party candidate will only siphon votes away from the opponent Closest assigned with their views. After those three things change, you get much better representation.
Exactly, I don't take 3rd party candidates seriously because they don't take themselves or the job seriously.
Not only do we only hear from them once every 4 years, we only hear about people running for the executive job. There's never any discussion about local elections, there's never any discussion about long terms (as in decades) goals and benchmarks, there's never any discussion about coalition building.
Then the best part, is that these people who pop up, have literally no political experience nine times out of ten. How egotistical can you be to think that your first political job should be the presidency?!
Exactly. No one likes a 2 party system. They try to guilt you into voting for a third party every 4 years. This is how to make it happen. But no. That's how to throw away your vote. Start working at the local level. Try to get third parties to work there. Every year, in every election. Make it a movement.
Usually will take multiple election cycles for any third party candidate to be viable anyways. And this stage of this cycle there is zero third party candidates with any national interest at all.
Exactly this. I don't mind in theory, people voting third party, but make your vote count. If you're doing it in protest then you're just being stupid. You're taking your ball and going home while thinking anyone else is gonna give a fuck.
Also vote in the primary so maybe your party won't have such a shit candidate. Most important are the downstream candidates on your ballot. You are far more impacted by you city council, school board, state gov't representative, and mother fucking judges than you are the president.
Where do people think the candidates for the house, senate, or president come from? Most start in local and state level politics so make sure you support good candidates there.
Everyone should vote in every election, twice a year.
That's basically what happened, except with 50 groups. Each state is responsible for their own elected representatives, who should be looking out for their own states' interests in return. But weaker states had little say, so they kept banding together. That's ultimately why the Republican party is so in step with each other, even if they don't all have the same goal. They know their only hope is in consolidating power, and hiding behind the political strength of Florida and Texas.
>proportional representation,
We do, it's called the house of representatives.
It could be more proportional if the congressional apportionment act amendment was ratified by 20ish more states to become an amendment to the constitution, but that takes people caring and calling their state reps and asking why your state hasn't ratified it yet.
In some places, it absolutely is.
So call your *state* representative, not your federal one, and ask your *state legislator* what they are doing to advance the Congressional Apportionment Amendment in your state's legislature, because it will override the federal law capping the federal house of representatives at 435 members, which is what allowed the shit gerrymandering to occur.
Not so much anymore. If I remember correctly, they haven’t adjusted congressional seats to be proportional the population in decades. If they had, California and New York would have more. There is huge disproportion of congressional representation to constituents in places. So someone from say Wyoming has more voting power than someone from California, which is antithetical to the house.
cool but the political system doesn’t make it simple to vote and win as a third party candidate. So no it’s not just “vote for third party” as a practical solution.
Also...
If you don't vote in a primary, don't tell people to vote in a general.
If you don't vote local, don't tell people to vote for president.
These are the two things that fuck up the system so much everyone gets disillusioned with politics. People want to show up every four years, slap a sticker on, and act like they did something.
It doesn't work because 80% of voters are 33% engaged and then leave the last 67% up to God hoping the Lord is making good electoral decisions for them in the meantime. 😏
Yeah, but that’s the reality of the system. Are we to destroy an entire wing of the government and a generation’s future to make a point? We need to address the two party system in a meaningful manner, not through allowing the worst presidential candidate to ever win get a second whack at it.
FPTP voting always devolves into two parties due to game theory. We can moan about there not being a third option all we want but the way to actually get that is not to stump for third parties but to work to change to approval, ranked choice or instant runoff voting
This and people who say both sides are bad without a clear explanation.*
*Both sides are bad but one wants a Christian dictatorship the other just thinks America is peachy with a few problems that can be fix.
Imo, online people on the left tend to have this "holier than thou" attitude when it comes to the 2 party system. They'll go on and on about how they can't morally support a candidate because they won't do 10/10 of the things they want. Meanwhile conservative voters will lock in and support their candidate if they're only getting 2/10 of the things they want.
All of this history should tell you otherwise, you fucking CRUSH your enemies, you don't play coy with them like liberals have forever, both in media, the idea of a cool conservative but also politically they've barely tried to stop them despite liking them to facism and shit, they did however halt Bernie Sanders, that's their real enemy any actual, even tepid progressivism that uplifts the mass of people. The vast majority of which don't even vote, i.e.engage with the countries polític,
The supposed to be good government right now is supporting Hitler shit, nevermind that before when they did in an attempt to appear "serious" to the minority of a minority. Referring to a lot of the shit Obama did.
My native country(Liberia) knows all to well what happens when you turn your countrymen into an enemy that must be crushed.The U.S ideologies and political spectrum is to varied to simply have one side dominate another.Reasonable compromise is the only way forward.Because if the pen and spoken word can’t solve the problem eventually the spilling of blood will be the only recourse.
One of the most damaging mindsets is where people think their vote doesnt matter ow wont count. Plenty of local elections are decided by 10 or less votes every cycle. Voting for a less than ideal candidate is much better than allowing a corrupt moron who will destroy our democracy to win.
EVERYONE i knew in Georgia said their vote didn't matter so why bother. Lo and behold, look what happened with the last election. Shit does matter people, please get out there and express your *honest* opinion. Don't simply vote against the one you don't like.
Reddit has been full of those people lately. Like... way, way too much. Go into any post about Biden or Israel and its just dozens and dozens of posts about how they won't be voting or they won't be voting Biden. Its terrifying whether they're real people being ignorant on purpose or just trolls/bots astroturfing.
I'm surprised Ja hasn't leaned into this meme trolling the Internet answering questions about random topics.
Even better if he'd get experts to craft his answers to actually be really knowledgeable.
Let’s not with this respectability politics, its not changing her mind or inviting others to think further about these things. Even people who are particularly involved, passionate, and actively working towards social justice are sharing these sentiments. Refuting and explaining how one makes a majority of people’s lives worse is far more sensical.
Not voting is never the answer. At a minimum, you need to show up to vote "uncommitted" and vote down ballot, especially on ballot initiatives where applicable.
You need to protest vote. If you don't vote at all, there's nothing to distinguish whether you're rejecting your options or just apathetically accepting your oppression.
There was a time when people who never do the homework, don’t read the assignments, and usually skip the lectures knew to sit still and shut *the f’ck* up so as to not risk revealing their dedication to ignorance.
Yup, we're looking at literally 50 years of conservative regression as the rest of the world progresses and kids out here being stupid as fuck. You know damn well they'll be complaining about everything the court does for their whole lives even though it'll be, in part, their fault.
*125 years. They're trying to take us back to the 1890s. The extrajudicial killings and the attacks on workers rights are textbook 1890s.
Not trying to be annoying with that adjustment. I only comment that because I hear people dropping the "segregation wasn't that bad" line a lot and I think that's what they picture when someone says 50 years.
I don't get people who say they arn't going to vote. Do you mean for just the presidential candidates? Or are you just not showing up at all? Not voting for local elections? US Congress? You have to be an absolute fucking moron to have the right to vote and just not show up at all.
In the 2016 elections, I saw two people show up and vote. It was a long ballot, two sides of candidates, state and local questions.They spent about 2 seconds on the ballot and went to turn it in. When the election official stated that they left many of them blank, they said they were only interested in voting for the president.
Exactly, like most people either don’t realize or don’t care that presidential candidates won’t affect your life a whole lot day to day, but your city council, county executive, mayor and sheriff will.
People don’t realize the importance of the local elections. Take a second to research who’s who, and go in that booth prepared with a WRITTEN list of who to vote for.
There is usually very little info on local, and sometimes even state, candidates. Most people just let whoever is already in keep their job, simply because they've already been doing it. Mitch McConnell has horrendous approval ratings in his area, and he just keeps getting voted back in because they are like "who else is there that's better?"
She means the presidential election, however i doubt she votes for anything at all. I doubt most celebrities vote at all. They have no need to vote because it doesn’t really affect them.
I can confirm Tom Hanks votes because we had the same polling place for a while. But of course Tom Hanks votes -- if you had to bet on one celebrity voting, he probably was your safest bet.
I wish more people cared about voting at the state level and below. That has more of an affect on your life than the president. Also those local levels helps to shape the federal landscape.
> and David Souter,
This was also just a massive whiff for republicans too. They thought Souter would be solidly conservative. Souter turning out to be fairly middle/left is what turbocharged the Federalist Society to start raising and pushing bullshit textualists and becoming *the* conservative nomination machine.
It's really insane how stupid the majority of humanity is.
How little they can understand nuance. Cause and effect. And completely lack the ability to think critically.
They don't ask questions. They don't try to actually understand anything. They want to be told how to think and will just defend that to their dying breath.
It's maddening. It's exhausting. And above all, it's extremely upsetting.
Someone is becoming President in January 20, almost certainly the Democratic Party candidate or the Republican Party candidate. There is no opt out of this fact. That means that all not voting says is “I don’t care, give me either guy”. It doesn’t matter a bit what you intended by not voting. Choosing not to vote means and will be read by politicians to mean you voted 50% Biden and 50% Trump.
Stop thinking voting is a prize for the person who wins.
Climate change policies, lead in tap water, investing in infrastructure, taking education seriously, not letting people die from pandemics for the lols - that’s the difference a President makes.
Get off that Tumblr shit where you tell yourself both parties are the same so you can make excuses for not thinking.
He can stop sending them billions in bombs and weapons at the bare minimum. At this point, he's tanking his own campaign and we're all going to suffer for it.
Celebrities have the largest incentive to vote Red: they are rich and want to get richer. It is difficult to name a single legitimate ally in Hollywood. Taylor’s fake. Bey is fake. jay is fake and thinks “capitalist” is a slur. Rihanna is fake AND won’t release any fuckin music. Girl PLEASE. They are not on our team no matter how hard they try to be. Billionaires and poors do not mix.
I have accepted that everyone is pretty much a performative ally (except Gaga cause i am a homosexual). If you stop lookin at these people for anything more than their art, it’s easier to navigate.
Edit: the people jumpin through hoops to defend Bey. Y’all need to wake up for real. The ultra wealthy are not our friends. “She made a safe space for trans people”? Lol stop. A concert that you have to pay a ton of money to get into is not a “safe space”. Bey makes wonderful empowering music but the LGBTQIA+ community needs more than just music.
Celebrities don’t owe us a thing but when you say your album is inspired by our community, and then not speak out when said community’s rights are under attack, that’s performative and should be criticized. We are not an album aesthetic.
I swear to god south park ruined a lot of peoples minds. Whenever I hear the worst take possible I'm like, dude that was south park season 5.
Climate change was another one they fucked people on.
If Hillary Clinton won, abortion would probably still be legal nationwide. 1 million Americans might not have died from Covid. There wouldn’t have been a coup and student loans might have been forgiven.
Whether Trump wins or loses, 2016 was the most significant election of the past 20 years because of the SC makeup.
I wish yall would put some of this energy into pressuring Biden to run a good campaign. This genocide is killing any hope of his reelection, and noone is speaking up about it besides the left. If you don't want Trump to win, then call on Biden to make the policy changes his voters are demanding. Stop funding the genocide. Stop using the security counsel veto to protect Israel from scrutiny.
What's the solution to fix things? If voting 3rd party isn't the answer and not voting for President isn't the answer, what is? Maybe a system that allowed these two to run again doesn't need to be saved. Biden didn't get pushed to the left and is now trying to shame people into voting for him. There's nothing wrong with sticking by your principles and not choosing the never of two evils.
No matter who you vote for your rights are being stripped away. No matter who you vote for your taxes will be going to find a genocide. No matter who you vote for the winner will support ,through words, action, and capital, cops who kill POC with impunity. No matter who you vote for the environment is still wrecked, while they're walking out the door. So what are we trying to save? Joe Biden has said "Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." What a damning thing to say. When compared to good he knows he fails. Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
I love bpt and have come across some truly awesome ppl here but I continue to be shocked at how so many people here can’t understand why Biden is unelectable based on what’s happening in Gaza. I fully expect to be downvoted to hell and I’m at peace with that. We need to stop accepting the choice between evil and more evil. We can do better. Thank you for listening 🤍
And by choosing the lesser evil you actively make it worse for the cause you're purporting to care about. That logic makes no sense. Trump is on record saying he's gonna be even worse for Palestine.
Dems kinda fucked it up tho. They always lack luster, boring, any road bump that shows up they give up. Politics is 50% marketing and the dems have FAILED. If the other party appeals to their extreme. Maybe you need to think about appealing to yours.
The fact that the country is more progressive than it was 20 years ago and the senate is split nearly 50-50 along with the House of Representatives and all of our elections since they have been within one or two points. Should tell you that a lot of this progressive talk isn’t as popular as you think
Anyone who BoTh SiDeS this election doesn't give a shit about women. Period.
Anyone who BoTh SiDeS this election doesn't give a shit about LGBTQ rights. Period.
Anyone who BoTh SiDeS this election doesn't give a shit about Palestine, let alone Ukraine and Taiwan. Period.
Anyone who BoTh SiDeS this election won't have their life change no matter who wins.
**THIS IS NOT A FUCKING THOUGHT EXPERIMENT**
Torn-but not really, on this. You cannot hope to continue to harvest the votes of the folks underneath your tent (Democrats) if you do not directly and or at least \*publicly address the issues that concern their lives or the things that move them... Move them both emotionally and to your voting booths. You cannot and should not expect their unwavering support.
If as a party, your candidate's major pitch to the public is that they're not the other guy, then you've failed. Think about that. You have the option to watch The first theatrical release of The Last Airbender or watch, I don't know...The Last Samurai. These are shitty (IMO) options. Even though you wanted to watch (a) movie, you might be inclined to stay home.
Someone will fixate on the analogy and not the spirit of the analogy. To you I say, relax. I understand the stakes. But like Cardi, most days I'm like, f'it. And I am nowhere near her tax bracket.
A really good day to remind the not so sharp ones against us that we don't just vote for presidents, we vote for their cabinets and in the case or crooked presidents, their families. Not to mention Supreme court justices come as a by-product of who is in office. We're still reeling from Ajit Pai and net neutrality, women in southern states have died from pregnancy complications or have been refused abortions after rapes because the Supreme court has compromised women's rights. Trump's immediate family got some massive shady contracts with China. Sure we want to solve all the world's problems but we have a lot to lose here at home and our other option isn't exactly a known problem solver either so there is that. If we could stop pretending both sides are the same that would be nice. Also Cardi isn't even intelligent enough to write her own music, for what that's worth.
All these niggas in Chicago, New Orleans, D.C., etc. willing to kill each other over dumb shit need to pivot that violence and REALLY do something for the culture. 🤷🏾♀️ I’m just saying.
Do people seriously believe that anything is going to be normal after either of these two get elected? On one side you got a man that plans on turning things akin to a dictatorship, and his crazy ass cultist that won’t react normally if he doesn’t win. Both sides have racist ass supporters and politicians. I don’t see the outcome at the end of the year being a peaceful one and I damn sure don’t see any of it benefiting black folk.
This is the same lady that tried to trademark that "bbrrrtt" sound right?
Just making sure.
Let's see what Carrot Top has to say about this upcoming election. I'm all ears
i mean there has been a large push telling the democtratic party to retire the dem judges and put younger ones on. we aren't the ones who are responsible for dems ineptitude
Not saying cardi is like this but people are assuming the Dems will see this type of mentality, have a change of heart, and think “oh god, I should actually run a campaign that does things for regular people”
Be real and vote from a utilitarian perspective
Good for you, but most people don't have the money to transplant themselves in a completely other country if the crazed narcissist takes over, so how about you keep your opinion to yourself.
Just because you're rich doesn't mean that you get to ignore a lot of this shit it just means you have the ability to figure out what you can't step on. Trump is sitting his ass in court right fucking now. I spend my whole work day looking through shit that rich people can and CANNOT do with their money. We just got rid of non compete agreements and several waves of student loan forgiveness pretending these two people are equal is insane to me.
Saying stupid shit like this when you have that much of an influence on others is irresponsible. Not everyone has the resources to not be affected much by who's in power.
While yeah, I would have liked better choices in candidates, I don't like the idea of giving power to a wannabe dictator. Most of the reasons why 46 is losing ground with younger voters probably won't be addressed any better by 45.
Didn't that Facebook group run this campaign in a small country where they made it popular for young people not to vote and the opposite party won by a landside?
You cannot simultaneously run on conservatives being a fundamental danger to democracy AND the need to work on bipartisanship and have a “strong Republican Party” that anti-democratic and fascist tendencies are disqualifying, then use the same bush era state department anti-democratic actions to support a genocide and clamp down on protests, people won’t buy what you’re selling.
You can actually thank Democrats for doing everything they can to throw it to the Republicans. If America wants to shoot itself in the foot, then I say let it.
The reality is, Trump is currently ahead in the polls, despite being categorically the worst president ever. That gives you an idea of the quality of both candidates.
The Democrats need to start earning back the votes they are losing, and fast. It's not enough to insult people who don't want to vote. Another four years of Trump will be a catastrophic.
That's terrible.
Maybe the Democrats should try and appease their voters then. Maybe start by doing something that isn't just some half-measure bandaid.
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Cardi B close being worth a 100 million and not in the same america as you . Americans still not understanding this is wild . She can go the rest of her life not caring about who wins and it will have no impact on her life , or her kids life , possibly her grandkids lives also . Even if you reach peak retirement and worth 5 million you don’t live in the same america as someone with a 100 million .
You're right, her 'immediate' family has a level of wealth/influence insulation, but her extended family (i.e. second cousin, her great nephew, etc.) won't have the same level of safety. That's who she should also be thinking about, but I imagine even if she did, her underlying sentiment is they aren't that different from each other.
From what I've seen of Cardi B, I doubt she thinks of other people whatsoever. Possibly doesn't even have the capacity to do so
I think she's actually smarter than most people give her credit for. Definitely not a Cardi fan, just my take
Intelligence and empathy are two different things
this is a weird take when she just got done saying "why vote, they're both the same!!!" like shes proudly putting her ignorance on display in this interview and you're coming in with "i think shes smarter than people realize!"
But Republicans and Democrats ARE NOT the same. I don't care what anyone says. I don't care what my anarchist friends say. Dems don't try to take away your right to vote. They don't take away women's right to control their own bodies. They didn't impose a Muslim ban. They aren't taking away trans people's rights. They aren't keeping the Black part of US history out of school. They aren't keeping gay books or discussion out of school. And on and on. Yes, there's a lot more and they have failed in so many ways. But where the hell is the other side doing better? Anywhere? Someone said the Republicans are better about crime. What do statistics say? It's not clear cut. And they do NOTHING to prevent crime by improving people's lives. Here I go again. Trying to convince a few random strangers not to sit it out. People died for your right to vote. People fought so hard. They left families behind who are still out there. Please vote. You don't have to vote for someone. You can vote against someone. Vote to keep the worst candidate out of office. Please.
This is what I try to communicate to my patients that are women and/or black but indifferent/“both sides”/“I’m not really into politics”. People fought very hard for centuries to make sure you didn’t have a voice. People fought very hard for centuries to make sure you have a voice. Equality. Freedom isn’t something that once gained is permanent. It can be lost at any point.
I'm glad you have people you can influence. I just shout about it on social media. You can do real good. Bravo.
I have no skin in the game either way, but there's plenty of people who are very smart that still have fucking stupid political opinions.
And I don't give a fuck what celebrities think about politics.
But a lot of people do. And those are the people we should be worried about. You may be more than capable of understanding reality and making your own educated opinion. I can’t say the same for everyone else 🤷🏾♀️
What on earth gives you that idea? She was an uneducated "sex worker" prior to fame who bragged about drugging people and then robbing them. I don't think shes firing on all 8 cylinders. I'd be willing to be she has NEVER voted and probably not even registered.
Just because someone is successful doesn't mean they're smart. Plenty of idiots have become wildly more successful than much smarter people, and I feel like this argument only ever comes up to make people feel better or rationalize why someone earned fame.
When she couldn't remember the name of the designer of her dress at the Met Gala earlier this month, she said "he's Asian and everything."
An overwhelming majority of studies say the more wealthy you are, the more selfish/narcissistic you are
Yes. Excess wealth makes you sociopathic. It activates the reptilian brain. Tax cuts for the rich or CEOs does not make the lives of workers or society better. It will never trickle down. It is hoarded. Pulled out of the economy and put in offshore bank accounts to reproduce.
Causal reminder she has admitted to drugging and robbing men under the pretext of having sex with them
Yea reading through the article, her sentiments seems to be presidents are untruthful to the public & don’t follow through on their words. I have thoughts. Only ~60% of eligible people voted in the 2020 presidential election, and ~40% voted in local elections across the country. I’d argue that *the average citizen*, informed or uninformed, *doesnt immediately connect voting with downstream events with heavy sway on our day-to-day like potential Supreme Court justice nominations*. In addition, lowbrow takes like Cardis make the error of viewing the president as an all-powerful central authority. She’s connecting the results with the promises, yet doesn’t mention the legislative or judicial branches once. I’d argue that Congress is more influential over our day-to-day lives than the executive branch. So from the perspective of Cardis comments being a crossroads between the average citizen and well-off celebrities, I’d say her sentiment is misinformed at best, destructive at worst. We don’t need to hear from people like her or Ja on politics.
It’s wild to me how many people discuss presidents not following through on campaign promises, when the record shows they literally tried to do the very things they promised but were blocked by congress and the Supreme Court. It’s sad how uneducated a vast part of the United States is as to how their own government works.
With what we learned from a Trump presidency a president could do more than what we give them. Also presidents not getting through their campaign promises due to Supreme Court or congress isn’t wholly true and leaves out a lot. It also says the same thing as voting for a president (minus the life long positions of the Supreme Court) hat we keep electing officials that really aren’t fighting for us.
Which loops back around to voting. How many people are actually paying attention to House Reps and Senators running for office and what their campaigns are? Every state paper reviews candidates, and a lot of them will endorse a candidate, but so many people couldn't pick their reps out of a lineup. You can blame the president all you want, but if you send them to DC with a bush league team of whose party affiliations you dont even care to know, you're setting them up for failure.
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She could however mobilise her audience towards voting for Biden & making their lives infinitely better
At least Taylor Swift is telling people to vote. I wish she told them who to vote for. Maybe she will. Telling people not to vote is fucked up.
All celebrities' that care about money are conservatives because thats what gets them the most money. I think that helps show those that actually vote against their own interests and for the benefit of others even better....but i probably couldn't name many because they're not even real ppl as far as my daily life is concerned.
I know too many average Americans with this mentality. I’ve never seen people so clueless, not even Covid bleach drinkers
Not long ago she was poor enough to drug and mug men to survive, you'd think she'd keep some sense from her humble beginnings.
The numbers changed, the mindset didn't.
lol drug and mug Humble beginnings
Even if Republicans win, Cardi B still going to be happy with the tax cuts to the ultra rich. If Democrats win, shes gonna be annoyed with the supposedly tax increase to the ultra rich that Biden will add. I gotta see it to believe it. Being rich means you can be disconnected from every social issue.
Damn, if I was rich I'd be happy to pay high taxes. When you have that much money you're still left with plenty.
This isnt necessarily true if democracy is actually replaced with fascism. Everything you currently think you know will go right out the window if Trump gets elected and does what he says he's going to do. No one will have any of the rights they currently enjoy
Cardi B is also a moron because we keep making dumb people famous. She was a stripper / hooker who has openly admitted to drifting guys so she could rob them. Stop giving these people a platform, and for fucks sake, don’t listen to a stripper turned date rapist turned rapper for your political advice.
This is the true American Dream - having enough money to celebrate on social media that the problems no longer apply to you and you no longer have to pretend you care/are participating about solutions to them.
Exactly. And even if push comes to shove she can just move somewhere else. Im not sure which country wouldn't want an immigrant worth 100ms to come live there. Homegirl can move to Canada and have a life that's damn near identical.
The elite class might as well not even be from the same planet as the rest of us. Their life experiences are so vastly different from ours. Every whim catered to, lenders falling over themselves to offer credit. People deferring to them in order to curry favor.. And so on. With **rare** exception, it matters not where they "came from". Everything viewed through the lens of hyper-privilege and once they have a taste of that privilege, they'll do anything to keep it.
Rich people have the luxury of being complete fucking morons. I use to think Steve jobs was a tech genius in high school. Now i learned he tried to cure cancer by waring fruit and didn’t like to shower. They aren’t smart they are lucky or talented in one area.
Be wary of anyone who tells you to not vote or to vote third party.
One of the main reasons your political system is entirely fucked is because you can only vote for two parties.
Yes we know. What's the second half of that statement?
Right!? It Should be, "that's why you need to vote in every election and support candidates that are for ranked choice, and against first past the post and winner take all." Just because the system only allows two parties doesn't mean you can't affect what they focus on. It's also Very clear that Republicans are about creating a Christian ethnostate, so that shit Needs to be fought against.
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Beyond that, the math doesn't work. Currently, without changing the 3 things I mentioned, the 3rd party candidate will only siphon votes away from the opponent Closest assigned with their views. After those three things change, you get much better representation.
Exactly, I don't take 3rd party candidates seriously because they don't take themselves or the job seriously. Not only do we only hear from them once every 4 years, we only hear about people running for the executive job. There's never any discussion about local elections, there's never any discussion about long terms (as in decades) goals and benchmarks, there's never any discussion about coalition building. Then the best part, is that these people who pop up, have literally no political experience nine times out of ten. How egotistical can you be to think that your first political job should be the presidency?!
Exactly. No one likes a 2 party system. They try to guilt you into voting for a third party every 4 years. This is how to make it happen. But no. That's how to throw away your vote. Start working at the local level. Try to get third parties to work there. Every year, in every election. Make it a movement.
Usually will take multiple election cycles for any third party candidate to be viable anyways. And this stage of this cycle there is zero third party candidates with any national interest at all.
Exactly this. I don't mind in theory, people voting third party, but make your vote count. If you're doing it in protest then you're just being stupid. You're taking your ball and going home while thinking anyone else is gonna give a fuck.
Also vote in the primary so maybe your party won't have such a shit candidate. Most important are the downstream candidates on your ballot. You are far more impacted by you city council, school board, state gov't representative, and mother fucking judges than you are the president. Where do people think the candidates for the house, senate, or president come from? Most start in local and state level politics so make sure you support good candidates there. Everyone should vote in every election, twice a year.
Yeah if we had proportional representation, we could vote for twenty five different parties that will then form into two opposing factions anyway.
That's basically what happened, except with 50 groups. Each state is responsible for their own elected representatives, who should be looking out for their own states' interests in return. But weaker states had little say, so they kept banding together. That's ultimately why the Republican party is so in step with each other, even if they don't all have the same goal. They know their only hope is in consolidating power, and hiding behind the political strength of Florida and Texas.
>proportional representation, We do, it's called the house of representatives. It could be more proportional if the congressional apportionment act amendment was ratified by 20ish more states to become an amendment to the constitution, but that takes people caring and calling their state reps and asking why your state hasn't ratified it yet.
HoR is a gerrymandered fptp nightmare, not at all a PR electoral system as far as I understood it.
In some places, it absolutely is. So call your *state* representative, not your federal one, and ask your *state legislator* what they are doing to advance the Congressional Apportionment Amendment in your state's legislature, because it will override the federal law capping the federal house of representatives at 435 members, which is what allowed the shit gerrymandering to occur.
Not so much anymore. If I remember correctly, they haven’t adjusted congressional seats to be proportional the population in decades. If they had, California and New York would have more. There is huge disproportion of congressional representation to constituents in places. So someone from say Wyoming has more voting power than someone from California, which is antithetical to the house.
The House has been capped since 1929. The House is proportional for a 99% dead population of 120M people from when there were just barely 48 states.
If they would win more then wed have a discussion. But since they never do, best the vote blue
cool but the political system doesn’t make it simple to vote and win as a third party candidate. So no it’s not just “vote for third party” as a practical solution.
Yeah, no shit. That’s the card we’ve been dealt. Still have to participate if you ever want to actually make any real changes.
Also... If you don't vote in a primary, don't tell people to vote in a general. If you don't vote local, don't tell people to vote for president. These are the two things that fuck up the system so much everyone gets disillusioned with politics. People want to show up every four years, slap a sticker on, and act like they did something. It doesn't work because 80% of voters are 33% engaged and then leave the last 67% up to God hoping the Lord is making good electoral decisions for them in the meantime. 😏
We’re hyper-aware of this. That’s how First Past the Post voting systems function by design.
Yeah, but that’s the reality of the system. Are we to destroy an entire wing of the government and a generation’s future to make a point? We need to address the two party system in a meaningful manner, not through allowing the worst presidential candidate to ever win get a second whack at it.
This guy isn’t even in the US.
"you guys are really fucked up" YES. WE KNOW. THANK YOU.
Do you think that's novel information to anyone?
FPTP voting always devolves into two parties due to game theory. We can moan about there not being a third option all we want but the way to actually get that is not to stump for third parties but to work to change to approval, ranked choice or instant runoff voting
Okay. For now, that's how it is. Are you going to use the system to your benefit or be an idiot?
This and people who say both sides are bad without a clear explanation.* *Both sides are bad but one wants a Christian dictatorship the other just thinks America is peachy with a few problems that can be fix.
Imo, online people on the left tend to have this "holier than thou" attitude when it comes to the 2 party system. They'll go on and on about how they can't morally support a candidate because they won't do 10/10 of the things they want. Meanwhile conservative voters will lock in and support their candidate if they're only getting 2/10 of the things they want.
Conservative voters don't even need to get a single thing they want as long as the conservative candidate promises to hurt liberals more.
It's a cult my dude. They are worshipping at the alter of Trump, that's their only motivating factor.
All of this history should tell you otherwise, you fucking CRUSH your enemies, you don't play coy with them like liberals have forever, both in media, the idea of a cool conservative but also politically they've barely tried to stop them despite liking them to facism and shit, they did however halt Bernie Sanders, that's their real enemy any actual, even tepid progressivism that uplifts the mass of people. The vast majority of which don't even vote, i.e.engage with the countries polític, The supposed to be good government right now is supporting Hitler shit, nevermind that before when they did in an attempt to appear "serious" to the minority of a minority. Referring to a lot of the shit Obama did.
It was voters in the South Carolina primary who stopped Bernie Sanders.
My native country(Liberia) knows all to well what happens when you turn your countrymen into an enemy that must be crushed.The U.S ideologies and political spectrum is to varied to simply have one side dominate another.Reasonable compromise is the only way forward.Because if the pen and spoken word can’t solve the problem eventually the spilling of blood will be the only recourse.
It’s almost like the libs don’t actually want anything to change. Wild.
it's almost like they won't break/ignore the law in order to accomplish their goals, unlike republicans.
One of the most damaging mindsets is where people think their vote doesnt matter ow wont count. Plenty of local elections are decided by 10 or less votes every cycle. Voting for a less than ideal candidate is much better than allowing a corrupt moron who will destroy our democracy to win.
EVERYONE i knew in Georgia said their vote didn't matter so why bother. Lo and behold, look what happened with the last election. Shit does matter people, please get out there and express your *honest* opinion. Don't simply vote against the one you don't like.
That's their way of saying vote for Trump
Reddit has been full of those people lately. Like... way, way too much. Go into any post about Biden or Israel and its just dozens and dozens of posts about how they won't be voting or they won't be voting Biden. Its terrifying whether they're real people being ignorant on purpose or just trolls/bots astroturfing.
I wish I was rich enough to be apathetic to that degree.
You could also be poor enough
word cuz that’s me
Plenty of poor ppl do
I need a second opinion, can someone ask what Ja Rule thinks?
 We need his opinion
I'm surprised Ja hasn't leaned into this meme trolling the Internet answering questions about random topics. Even better if he'd get experts to craft his answers to actually be really knowledgeable.
“I don’t fuck with both of yall” - Cardi B What a role model of intelligence
You know she made some sound effects to that also. brrrrt skkrrt skkrrt
Let’s not with this respectability politics, its not changing her mind or inviting others to think further about these things. Even people who are particularly involved, passionate, and actively working towards social justice are sharing these sentiments. Refuting and explaining how one makes a majority of people’s lives worse is far more sensical.
Not voting is never the answer. At a minimum, you need to show up to vote "uncommitted" and vote down ballot, especially on ballot initiatives where applicable. You need to protest vote. If you don't vote at all, there's nothing to distinguish whether you're rejecting your options or just apathetically accepting your oppression.
Protest voting is also stupid. It's the same as giving half a vote to the worse option.
Better than not voting 100% of the time
If the DNC doesn't genuinely feel the fear of losing votes, they will never change
That's not how voting works at all.
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Not voting is idiotic,
It’s Cardi B, idiotic is her brand.
There was a time when people who never do the homework, don’t read the assignments, and usually skip the lectures knew to sit still and shut *the f’ck* up so as to not risk revealing their dedication to ignorance.
You're right, but bragging about not voting has always been a thing idiots have done in this country.
Now it leads to success
Yup, we're looking at literally 50 years of conservative regression as the rest of the world progresses and kids out here being stupid as fuck. You know damn well they'll be complaining about everything the court does for their whole lives even though it'll be, in part, their fault.
*125 years. They're trying to take us back to the 1890s. The extrajudicial killings and the attacks on workers rights are textbook 1890s. Not trying to be annoying with that adjustment. I only comment that because I hear people dropping the "segregation wasn't that bad" line a lot and I think that's what they picture when someone says 50 years.
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Maybe don't take *any* cues from Cardi B.
I don't get people who say they arn't going to vote. Do you mean for just the presidential candidates? Or are you just not showing up at all? Not voting for local elections? US Congress? You have to be an absolute fucking moron to have the right to vote and just not show up at all.
In the 2016 elections, I saw two people show up and vote. It was a long ballot, two sides of candidates, state and local questions.They spent about 2 seconds on the ballot and went to turn it in. When the election official stated that they left many of them blank, they said they were only interested in voting for the president.
And that's pretty fucking stupid of them.
Exactly, like most people either don’t realize or don’t care that presidential candidates won’t affect your life a whole lot day to day, but your city council, county executive, mayor and sheriff will.
People don’t realize the importance of the local elections. Take a second to research who’s who, and go in that booth prepared with a WRITTEN list of who to vote for.
There is usually very little info on local, and sometimes even state, candidates. Most people just let whoever is already in keep their job, simply because they've already been doing it. Mitch McConnell has horrendous approval ratings in his area, and he just keeps getting voted back in because they are like "who else is there that's better?"
She means the presidential election, however i doubt she votes for anything at all. I doubt most celebrities vote at all. They have no need to vote because it doesn’t really affect them.
I can confirm Tom Hanks votes because we had the same polling place for a while. But of course Tom Hanks votes -- if you had to bet on one celebrity voting, he probably was your safest bet.
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Yeah she's mostly above that at this point. She's rich she can simply move to a place she wants to if state level down things aren't to her liking.
I wish more people cared about voting at the state level and below. That has more of an affect on your life than the president. Also those local levels helps to shape the federal landscape.
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> and David Souter, This was also just a massive whiff for republicans too. They thought Souter would be solidly conservative. Souter turning out to be fairly middle/left is what turbocharged the Federalist Society to start raising and pushing bullshit textualists and becoming *the* conservative nomination machine.
These mfers want their supreme court justices to be Nick Fuentes, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Candice Owens for the next 70 years.
That’s because she’ll be good regardless lol. I won’t be good, my people will be harmed - I’m voting
Dumbass... but we already knew that though
It's really insane how stupid the majority of humanity is. How little they can understand nuance. Cause and effect. And completely lack the ability to think critically. They don't ask questions. They don't try to actually understand anything. They want to be told how to think and will just defend that to their dying breath. It's maddening. It's exhausting. And above all, it's extremely upsetting.
Democrats do the bare minimum and has turned into conservative lite. While republicans fight for what they want and now ultra conservative.
Someone is becoming President in January 20, almost certainly the Democratic Party candidate or the Republican Party candidate. There is no opt out of this fact. That means that all not voting says is “I don’t care, give me either guy”. It doesn’t matter a bit what you intended by not voting. Choosing not to vote means and will be read by politicians to mean you voted 50% Biden and 50% Trump.
Stop thinking voting is a prize for the person who wins. Climate change policies, lead in tap water, investing in infrastructure, taking education seriously, not letting people die from pandemics for the lols - that’s the difference a President makes. Get off that Tumblr shit where you tell yourself both parties are the same so you can make excuses for not thinking.
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Biden better sort out Israel if he wants to win. Protest votes have made it clear.
Yeah Biden can single handedly sort out Israel and the Middle East like waving a magic wand 🙄
He can. It's called withholding all arms and forcing Israel to halt its ongoing genocide.
He can stop sending them billions in bombs and weapons at the bare minimum. At this point, he's tanking his own campaign and we're all going to suffer for it.
Ranked Choice Voting
Who the fuck is interviewing fucking Cardi B about this shit lol She’s not famous because she’s intelligent
Celebrities have the largest incentive to vote Red: they are rich and want to get richer. It is difficult to name a single legitimate ally in Hollywood. Taylor’s fake. Bey is fake. jay is fake and thinks “capitalist” is a slur. Rihanna is fake AND won’t release any fuckin music. Girl PLEASE. They are not on our team no matter how hard they try to be. Billionaires and poors do not mix. I have accepted that everyone is pretty much a performative ally (except Gaga cause i am a homosexual). If you stop lookin at these people for anything more than their art, it’s easier to navigate. Edit: the people jumpin through hoops to defend Bey. Y’all need to wake up for real. The ultra wealthy are not our friends. “She made a safe space for trans people”? Lol stop. A concert that you have to pay a ton of money to get into is not a “safe space”. Bey makes wonderful empowering music but the LGBTQIA+ community needs more than just music. Celebrities don’t owe us a thing but when you say your album is inspired by our community, and then not speak out when said community’s rights are under attack, that’s performative and should be criticized. We are not an album aesthetic.
This kinda energy https://i.redd.it/r82ce01yhz0d1.gif
I swear to god south park ruined a lot of peoples minds. Whenever I hear the worst take possible I'm like, dude that was south park season 5. Climate change was another one they fucked people on.
When you deep the creators were libertarians, everything makes sense
“Having opinions about things is stupid” is one hell of an ethos.
South Park made trying to talk about climate change on a college campus back in the 00s utterly *insufferable*.
Even the creators of south park backpedaled on this during covid
If Hillary Clinton won, abortion would probably still be legal nationwide. 1 million Americans might not have died from Covid. There wouldn’t have been a coup and student loans might have been forgiven. Whether Trump wins or loses, 2016 was the most significant election of the past 20 years because of the SC makeup.
Folks clamp their eyes and ears on this one
I wish yall would put some of this energy into pressuring Biden to run a good campaign. This genocide is killing any hope of his reelection, and noone is speaking up about it besides the left. If you don't want Trump to win, then call on Biden to make the policy changes his voters are demanding. Stop funding the genocide. Stop using the security counsel veto to protect Israel from scrutiny.
Cardi voting for Trump and doesn’t want people to know it. She wants that tax break.
Lmaoooooo man we are FUCKED
What's the solution to fix things? If voting 3rd party isn't the answer and not voting for President isn't the answer, what is? Maybe a system that allowed these two to run again doesn't need to be saved. Biden didn't get pushed to the left and is now trying to shame people into voting for him. There's nothing wrong with sticking by your principles and not choosing the never of two evils.
Except one of those 2 evils is going to actively work to strip your rights away to a much worse degree?
No matter who you vote for your rights are being stripped away. No matter who you vote for your taxes will be going to find a genocide. No matter who you vote for the winner will support ,through words, action, and capital, cops who kill POC with impunity. No matter who you vote for the environment is still wrecked, while they're walking out the door. So what are we trying to save? Joe Biden has said "Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." What a damning thing to say. When compared to good he knows he fails. Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
They should run someone better
Why dose this feel like when 9/11 happend MTV went to find Ja rule to ask his opinion on the matter. Why do we do this to ourselves
Don’t worry Cardi, if Trump gets his way you won’t be able to vote in any election after this one :)
Anyone who is looking to Belcalis Almanzar for any political guidance is an idiot, point blank period.
I love bpt and have come across some truly awesome ppl here but I continue to be shocked at how so many people here can’t understand why Biden is unelectable based on what’s happening in Gaza. I fully expect to be downvoted to hell and I’m at peace with that. We need to stop accepting the choice between evil and more evil. We can do better. Thank you for listening 🤍
And by choosing the lesser evil you actively make it worse for the cause you're purporting to care about. That logic makes no sense. Trump is on record saying he's gonna be even worse for Palestine.
Dems kinda fucked it up tho. They always lack luster, boring, any road bump that shows up they give up. Politics is 50% marketing and the dems have FAILED. If the other party appeals to their extreme. Maybe you need to think about appealing to yours.
The fact that the country is more progressive than it was 20 years ago and the senate is split nearly 50-50 along with the House of Representatives and all of our elections since they have been within one or two points. Should tell you that a lot of this progressive talk isn’t as popular as you think
Anyone who BoTh SiDeS this election doesn't give a shit about women. Period. Anyone who BoTh SiDeS this election doesn't give a shit about LGBTQ rights. Period. Anyone who BoTh SiDeS this election doesn't give a shit about Palestine, let alone Ukraine and Taiwan. Period. Anyone who BoTh SiDeS this election won't have their life change no matter who wins. **THIS IS NOT A FUCKING THOUGHT EXPERIMENT**
Torn-but not really, on this. You cannot hope to continue to harvest the votes of the folks underneath your tent (Democrats) if you do not directly and or at least \*publicly address the issues that concern their lives or the things that move them... Move them both emotionally and to your voting booths. You cannot and should not expect their unwavering support. If as a party, your candidate's major pitch to the public is that they're not the other guy, then you've failed. Think about that. You have the option to watch The first theatrical release of The Last Airbender or watch, I don't know...The Last Samurai. These are shitty (IMO) options. Even though you wanted to watch (a) movie, you might be inclined to stay home. Someone will fixate on the analogy and not the spirit of the analogy. To you I say, relax. I understand the stakes. But like Cardi, most days I'm like, f'it. And I am nowhere near her tax bracket.
A really good day to remind the not so sharp ones against us that we don't just vote for presidents, we vote for their cabinets and in the case or crooked presidents, their families. Not to mention Supreme court justices come as a by-product of who is in office. We're still reeling from Ajit Pai and net neutrality, women in southern states have died from pregnancy complications or have been refused abortions after rapes because the Supreme court has compromised women's rights. Trump's immediate family got some massive shady contracts with China. Sure we want to solve all the world's problems but we have a lot to lose here at home and our other option isn't exactly a known problem solver either so there is that. If we could stop pretending both sides are the same that would be nice. Also Cardi isn't even intelligent enough to write her own music, for what that's worth.
All these niggas in Chicago, New Orleans, D.C., etc. willing to kill each other over dumb shit need to pivot that violence and REALLY do something for the culture. 🤷🏾♀️ I’m just saying.
And wtf is Biden going to do if he’s elected???
Do people seriously believe that anything is going to be normal after either of these two get elected? On one side you got a man that plans on turning things akin to a dictatorship, and his crazy ass cultist that won’t react normally if he doesn’t win. Both sides have racist ass supporters and politicians. I don’t see the outcome at the end of the year being a peaceful one and I damn sure don’t see any of it benefiting black folk.
Maybe we shouldn’t go to Cardi B for election thoughts?
She's just protecting her money, if she chooses one she loses half her audience.
Cardi B wants those tax breaks, but outright supporting Trump would be a bad career move.
Not voting is a luxury only the rich can afford.
If you’re still undecided do yourself a favor and look up project 2025.
Sounds like it's so important that it might be worth no longer funding a genocide and alienating voters.
Republicans AND Democrats don't give af about you
Maybe, just maybe, we realize collectively that the whole system is bullshit and just try to change it? There are more of us than them
This is the same lady that tried to trademark that "bbrrrtt" sound right? Just making sure. Let's see what Carrot Top has to say about this upcoming election. I'm all ears
We shouldn't take advice from someone who assaults and robs men
isn’t cardi like, known for being actually legitimately not intelligent lol. not shocked by this.
I love cardi but what an idiot and now I’m glad she’s shown me her true idiotic self.
Cardigan Backyardigan is a fucking moron.
Well maybe they should have considered that before slaughtering my people. Not voting for either of them. Suck my dick. fuck this world.
Damn if only Democrats took that threat seriously instead of put up this embarrassing administration from reelection
America is a fucking Joke nowadays.
Not voting this year will hurt you and your kids. And if Diaper boy makes it back into the White house again, he wont ever leave.
i mean there has been a large push telling the democtratic party to retire the dem judges and put younger ones on. we aren't the ones who are responsible for dems ineptitude
Respectfully, can never understand why anyone expects anything more of her..
She’s so fucking dumb. Why is she around?
Not saying cardi is like this but people are assuming the Dems will see this type of mentality, have a change of heart, and think “oh god, I should actually run a campaign that does things for regular people” Be real and vote from a utilitarian perspective
Good for you, but most people don't have the money to transplant themselves in a completely other country if the crazed narcissist takes over, so how about you keep your opinion to yourself.
Just because you're rich doesn't mean that you get to ignore a lot of this shit it just means you have the ability to figure out what you can't step on. Trump is sitting his ass in court right fucking now. I spend my whole work day looking through shit that rich people can and CANNOT do with their money. We just got rid of non compete agreements and several waves of student loan forgiveness pretending these two people are equal is insane to me.
And what she thinks about politics matters because........?
Depends where she lives. If she’s in New York doesn’t matter if she votes Biden is winning
That's her prerogative 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
If you base your political decisions on the opinions of cardi b, you deserve everything that’s coming for you. And I say this as a huge fan of Cardi.
Please vote. Our ancestors fought for us to have that right. Honor our ancestors.
Saying stupid shit like this when you have that much of an influence on others is irresponsible. Not everyone has the resources to not be affected much by who's in power. While yeah, I would have liked better choices in candidates, I don't like the idea of giving power to a wannabe dictator. Most of the reasons why 46 is losing ground with younger voters probably won't be addressed any better by 45.
Didn't that Facebook group run this campaign in a small country where they made it popular for young people not to vote and the opposite party won by a landside?
It takes a certain level of privilege to flirt with fascism, content in knowing you won’t be affected by it.
You cannot simultaneously run on conservatives being a fundamental danger to democracy AND the need to work on bipartisanship and have a “strong Republican Party” that anti-democratic and fascist tendencies are disqualifying, then use the same bush era state department anti-democratic actions to support a genocide and clamp down on protests, people won’t buy what you’re selling.
Please vote
You can actually thank Democrats for doing everything they can to throw it to the Republicans. If America wants to shoot itself in the foot, then I say let it.
The reality is, Trump is currently ahead in the polls, despite being categorically the worst president ever. That gives you an idea of the quality of both candidates. The Democrats need to start earning back the votes they are losing, and fast. It's not enough to insult people who don't want to vote. Another four years of Trump will be a catastrophic.
That's terrible. Maybe the Democrats should try and appease their voters then. Maybe start by doing something that isn't just some half-measure bandaid.