Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "REVEALING: President Obama Urged Bernie Sanders to Sell Out" video.

Well said.
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Sadly I doubt it's unique. I don't know if there are ANY mayors in this country that have a genuine desire to hold cops accountable. I mean shit between them and DAs covering for them right and left, its it's a wonder cops don't pull MORE shit. I mean I'm sure they do, there's tons of illegitimate shit they do that never makes the evening news so.... I guess like all political animals, all most mayors care about getting elected and they're probably afraid that if they take an openly hostile stance or any kind of uncompromising posture to their local police department they're afraid they might retaliate some kind of bad press that might harm them in the next election cycle. That's the only thing I can think of. So standing up for victims, reigning in any kind of unacceptable behavior, or just stopping the unnecessary street trolling by these punks I doubt 98.9% of them could give an flying fuck about. I don't want to be too too cynical, I do want to allow for the fact that theres got to be /some/ good folks out there in positions of higher public office that want to do the right thing, but it sure doesn't seem that way. Maybe we just never hear about those.
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maybe once upon a time he really did mean well I don't know. But the one good thing he did do is talk and he sure talked better than just about any other candidate I've ever heard in my life so you know, I mean you had the rhetoric game down, he had a fun attitude that endeared him to a lot of young people. But where was his heart? It was with the elites whether it started out that way or not, and I think it did. so I think he achieved the goals he set out to do and became very wealthy in the process and yeah I mean that's about it. he feinted like he wanted to help out the working class and he did deal with historical levels of obstruction I will give him that- I'll cut him a little bit of slack, but overall I think he pretty intentionally pulled the wo over all our eyes. But by the same token to be totally fair I mean we also saw what we wanted to see. you know so I think that's the best that I could sum up Obama's time in the spotlight. By the way sorry for the lack of punctuation I dictated this on text to speech.
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@Account NumberEight ah. Indeed. Yeah I think the mold was cast way back when. He knew how to talk a fantastic ground game about being a man of the people, but had no intention of following through in anything other than just very superficial, relatively ineffectual ways.
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CORRECT.
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@Unfamous_Buddha yes it's totally bogus. I wish I had a better answer to this problem.
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I mean.... Is anyone really surprised??
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Indeed.
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Jesus I didn't even know that the m********** was a goddamn psychopath I had no idea what an evil mother f*** well let's hope he gets his someday that's all I have to say.
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He is as groomed as groomed gets. Sad. He just wants to be in office, he's got a patina of super-false progressiveness to him just because he's gay, and the elites are going to love him and he's very happy to be their loyal slave and tool. There's absolutely no substance to him so I surely hope enough people can see through him from the start because I wasn't that well familiar with him when the 2020 race started but I could tell just by listening to him and looking at him and getting a sense about him that yeah this guy is an elite stooge. I mean there'd be utterly no point for me to vote for him. If Pete does pursue any further runs for office I hope enough others can realize that as well.
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He's all surface there's nothing there underneath. if he wasn't being funded by a big pockets he would be nowhere and that's all there is to it.
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Elites only care about the elite. It's that simple. They are often sociopaths IMO and spectacularly self-serving and they will ALWAYS find a way to justify it. I don't suppose Pete ever financially compensated any of those homeowners either. With the priveleged and the cold-hearted consistently holding office, at all levels of govt, this won't change. Idk. They find it so easy to get elected, and it's so hard for us. I'm honestly curious as to why that is. Of course money is the biggest factor but there's got to be more than just that I would think. Till we find a way to turn this around and start taking some of these elected positions that bullshit won't change and that's just how it is. we just can't seem to get good people elected in this country. I sure would want that to change, I mean I think we all very much want to see that change but it hasn't happened yet. And when good people DO get elected, esp locally or in state, they just end up rolling over too. So I don't know I'm open to suggestions at this point honestly cuz I'm far from giving up but I feel like I wish I could see more clearly WHAT the obvious solution is and I just don't know and that's frustrating.
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Don't hate me for saying this, but the effed up truth in this country is that voting third party is meaningless. Honestly at this point I don't know what the best answer is but just know that by voting third party you just might as well not vote. I hate to be the one to say that again cuz I know it's got to be really frustrating to keep hearing that but I didn't make situation the way it is. The corporate uni-party with two faces in this country did unfortunately. Like I said I don't know the best answer anymore but if you do want to vote and you want your vote to count, unless it's in a special local race or a seat in the State Assembly that your candidate has a real shot at winning, voting third party IS throwing your vote away. I hate to say it but we both know it's true and what good is it to have a feel-good vote if it doesn't get us closer to our goals? Just something to think about. have a good one.
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@baizhanghuaihai2298 I'm just saying that I don't think third-party voting is a good strategy on a national level but possibly on a local or state level it might be. Look I hate 99% of the Dems too and obviously I'm never going to vote for a GOP wackjob. The only strategy that I can think of is to vote against the GOP federally, and try to vote locally and at the state level for progressives or genuine Leftists (if you can find any on the ballot).
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Cool Bazing, you threw your vote away I hope your vanity vote makes you feel a lot better as it accomplished absolutely nothing to change the political landscape. But hey if that's all you wanted great then it accomplished its goal. you feel better, awesome. That doesn't change anything but hey you feel better and I guess that's not nothing.
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@Unfamous_Buddha SAME here but I'm just being the cold dose of reality for y'all to try to acknowledge. keep on throwing your vote away see how far that gets us. I already told you I hate the f**** Dems and that's never changed although I do appreciate the handful of progressives that are trying to make a difference. You people need to nut up and face reality. in our lifetime the third party problem isn't going to go away. doesn't mean you shouldn't try but when you're talking about DC politics either don't vote or realize that voting for third party is equivalent to NOT VOTING. I don't like the Dems either so where does that leave us? not many choices but just don't pretend that your vanity third party vote means anything, as much as I respect the third parties, I mean I'm a hard leftist okay, so I'm right there with you- but I have the maturity to face a reality that I may not love but at least I can recognize it. The Azovs in Ukraine are getting their asses rightly kicked right now by Putin's forces. they know it but they're pretending it's not happening because they don't want to admit it. But it's happening and the sooner they wake up and face their reality as soon as they'll be able to end a fruitless struggle and end the conflict. It's childish to keep voting third party and do nothing else. I already explained why we should vote strategically in DC and maximize our chances for genuinely left candidates in our local and state races. if you can't read then I don't know what to tell you. I'm just giving you the truth. Am I lying??
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@Unfamous_Buddha no man it doesn't they don't give a s*** especially if they win that election you think they give a s*** about the 1.5% of people that vote for meaningless fringe parties?? Please see the big picture. I'm not even saying vote for the Dems, I'm just saying that we only have two real options and they're both s*** when it comes to federal elections. Look my preferred party is PSL but at this moment in time I know that they couldn't win an election nationally nor could any third party. it's possible PSL might win on a local level if enough unaffiliated and Democrat voters choose that candidate, that's if they're planning to run any candidates in the near future and I don't know if they are or not.
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@Unfamous_Buddha when they have access to so much big money and being that they only care about themselves anyways, they could give a fuck about us fringe people they know they have enough to win so they don't care about the 1% of votes that flock to outside parties. Like I said- best move right now, is just to vote strategically in DC and focus on local and state elections where independent candidates have a better chance of overcoming the corporate parties' monopoly on the political process.
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@Unfamous_Buddha not really, not no matter who, but are the cons better?
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Those of us on the Left with good hearts and morals need to get a HELL of a lot tougher if we ever want to have any real influence or power in this country. because the ones that don't want to work with us & the ones we are going up against sure as hell don't plan to cave. They extremely focused, some of them are ruthless, and they ALWAYS got another trick up their sleeve. and until we learn how to do that and get some real goddamn balls for once in our lives, they're just going to keep winning. And I think they've won enough. I think they've had it THEIR way long enough. It's time for the OTHER 80% of us to have a shot. They ain't selling out on their standards. It's sad that Bernie took a fall - I'm sure he did the best he could I mean I love him but he's 80, he's got to be tired. there's only so long you can keep up the fight. I really do appreciate what he's trying to do he gave it his best for 40 years and who can ask for more? I mean that's twice my age it's amazing that he's done half the shit he's done over the past 6 years. But yeah I mean they out maneuvered him and he went along with it. if we EVER hope to be a force in this country to reckon with, we BETTER start getting some balls real fast.that means we DON'T give in, we DON'T roll over, and we DON'T get out maneuvered. It also means we don't voluntarily quit. I mean otherwise it's over forget it let's just let the chips fall where they may the neoliberals or worse than neocons do whatever the hell they want for the next 80 years, and we'll just have to live with it. I don't think any of us wants that. We better get a LOT harder a lot faster and a whole lot tougher NOW otherwise it's over, time to go home and just focus on whatever else we got to do in our lives. They've got their strategy and gameplay it's about goddamn time we get ours.
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For whatever reason he rolled over. I love the man but he's 80. I think he just got tired. I guess he did the best he could and now we just have to try to go on and find somebody who ISN'T going to take a fall in the third round. That's all we can do.
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