“Who cares if Trump wins; they’re both bad / nothing worse will happen l both sides”

Trump's RIGHT NOW basically talking about forming up goon squads and kicking out immigrants on the basis of some law passed in the 1700s and people are still pretending like this dude isn't basically a Hitler.

“I don’t vote for genocide”

Yeah....about that....a vote that helps Trump is one that not only exacerbates the ongoing genocide in the middle east, but starts up a new one right here. He's talking seriously about military tribunal and gas chamber type shit in "Operation Aurora".

I agree that Biden's administration wasn't perfect or even very good in this regard. But like with the Afghanistan withdrawal and other issues his administration was completely set up for failure before they even set foot in office.

The best he was able to do was get the vaccine out to everyone, and to his credit, he accomplished that. Once the vaccines were distributed and everyone who wanted one had gotten a shot, the public appetite for continuing COVID mandates was completely gone.

I think I am probably talking too much about presidents or the public. The key mover was industry the whole time. Industry was willing to hold out until the vaccines were distributed. After that, industry wanted everything "back to normal" ASAP.

They're still fighting for "back to office" mandates to this day.

Once the virus went from stable to constantly evolving, there was no chance of eradication.

Trump's early mishandling of the virus and America's outsized influence over the rest of the world helped push the virus this direction long before it was a foregone conclusion that it would be endemic.

Honestly they were all correct if we simply:

A) Got enough masks

B) Got people to properly wear the fucking things

Granted, the Biden administration has had a lot more time under the COVID pandemic than Trump had, but the Biden administration has handled COVID in a very far from ideal way (see all the CDC missteps under Biden, for one example).

Not only did it have more time under it, but it also inherited a public that was much more threatening toward anyone attempting to advance COVID control measures, including common sense ones like masking indoors.

The utter lunacy that polluted the public square during the late 2020 - early 2021 time frame caused a lot of the deaths that happened under Biden's early days to be in the category of being completely preventable but a large portion of the country had been fed bullshit for a year that told them to resist every possible preventative measure.

Fentanyl-related offenses should receive the death penalty, but it's completely fine to just sell opioids to millions of people for decades and possibly cause a societal meltdown in the process because that's just being a smart businessman or something.

So yeah… we all know they won’t be around to take their bow and own it.

I've noticed that it's not only undecideds that disappear after the election. It's also everyone that voted for the last Republican after the inevitable (because they're terrible at governance) crisis occurs. I remember when George W. Bush's presidency ended in complete disaster, and suddenly there was nobody that voted for GWB to be found.

Ultimately, if Trump wins, there will be plenty of blame games afterwards, but, in my opinion, they won't matter. That talk may occupy a lot of paper space in the quaint period between him winning the election and January 20th, 2025, but a second Trump presidency will be such an utter disaster that the talk of "how we got here" will be rendered irrelevant by the urgent need to survive the many self-created crises that it'll cause.

And I suspect that you're right, it will suddenly be impossible afterwards to find people who were on the fence about supporting Harris.

Just try to picture an actual human being who’s politics have left them scratching their heads between Harris and Trump. “If only Harris would do a little more for corporations. Oh well, I guess I’ll stick with the racist orange insurrectionist.”

The more I think about it, the more I realize that economics is a pseudoscience specifically designed to couch terrible actions of governments and corporations behind inevitability arguments.

After all, we cannot have prices rise.

So, we must continue with the sweatshops. We must continue with the factory farms. We must continue to drill baby drill. We must continue to build shoddy houses on flood plains...and on and on and on.

When people say they trust Trump more "with the economy", it's perhaps because they know he'll continue all of the above with a sloppy, sweaty grin and a shitty, little dance.

Is it ok to slut shame a website for having too many partners?

You guys it's almost like the media wants him back in office or something.

I like how they're trying to encourage people to say no to drugs with an expensive vehicle from a company headed by a notorious drug abuser.

Because the media continually accepts and perpetuates the right wing framing of everything.