PHOENIX (AP) – The 2024 presidential election is drawing an unusually robust field of independent, third party and long shot candidates hoping to capitalize on Americans’ ambivalence and frustration over a likely rematch between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.
Oh I’m sorry. I missed the point where someone held you at gunpoint and forced you to vote for a Democrat? Because from where I sit a shitload of them got together and agreed to hold a contest. The winner made it out, and the group threw their support behind the winner against the dude the other team put up. And he won.
Don’t like it? Join the fucking Republicans and vote for Trump! Go ahead! He’d love to have your support! Don’t like them either? Join the Greens! Don’t like them either? Join Cornel West! Don’t like him? Join No Labels! Don’t like them? Start your own fucking political party and register as a candidate. Don’t want to do that?
Then sit the fuck down and let the rest of the adults in the room take care of business while you suck your thumb. There’s 80 goddamned million of us who decided Biden’s the one who checks most of our boxes, for better or worse, and those of us not stuck in la la land will vote for him again, because we’re not too keen on that whole fascist hell-hole scenario thing.
I’m convinced people like you have never sat in a room with more than 4 people and had to come to a consensus decision on anything. I can only assume it’s because you’ve been shoveling movie theater popcorn and were never responsible for making any meaningful decisions, or you’re a tyrannical man-child who runs a small business like a tiny little fiefdom, or you’ve never actually had a job and have spent your whole life expecting people to give you what you want. You’re probably the dude who shows up to the fried chicken restaurant and complains that they don’t serve sushi.
Don’t want to vote? Fucking DON’T. None of the rest of us will give a shit.
So we’ve gone from “vote blue no matter who” and “Trump is a fascist we need to beat at the polls” to “Nobody will care if you don’t vote.”
I’ll admit it’s a refreshing change.
Be fair. Centrists preceded “vote blue no matter who” with “party unity my ass”.
And they’ll follow up “nobody will care if you don’t vote” with “we were owed your vote and it’s your fault we lost.”
I literally never uttered those words.
He very much is, and you’ve done nothing to convince me to vote any other way than for Biden.
I don’t give a single fuck what you do, or how you feel about it. You’re either gonna do what you can to avoid fascism, or you’re not. You wanna sit home on election day and jack off? Fine. We’ll both be put on the wall if the worst case happens, so do whatever the fuck you want in the interim. At least I’m well armed.
I’m done trying to hold the hand of idiots who can’t see the forest for the trees. You didn’t come here to be convinced, you came here to vent about your fee-fees and complain that nobody sent you a box of puppies and a winning lottery ticket. And now you’ve vented, and none of the rest of us give a shit. We have more important things to worry about. Bye, fool.
I don’t want a box of puppies and a winning lottery ticket. I want to not go broke on a dying planet. I don’t think that’s a lot to ask.
Then vote for Trump. If you want me to give you permission, then here it is. Fuck off and vote for Trump, and hope for the best.
Again, BYE.