‘You Little F*cking 26-Year-Old!’ James Carville Torches Young Voters for Not Supporting Biden
‘You Little F*cking 26-Year-Old!’ James Carville Torches Young Voters for Not Supporting Biden
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“So, I hear this a lot,” began Carville. “‘James, young voters are just not into this. It’s two candidates, one’s in their 80s, one is almost in their 80s, they’re concerned about things that Washington politicians, and you just can’t blame them for-‘ Oh, shit. Fuck you!”
“If Trump and [John] Roberts and Alito and [Neil] Gorsuch and [Clarence] Thomas and Leonard Leo and the Heritage Foundation, if they get a hold, there will be no government left, there will be no rights left, you will live under theocracy, you’ll end up with Christian nationalism. But that’s all right, you little fucking 26-year-old, you don’t feel like ‘the election’s important to me. They’re not addressing the issues that I care about,'” said Carville.
Carville concluded by advising the press and Democratic operatives “to tell these young people to get off your motherfucking ass and go vote because you should vote like your entire future and the entire future of this United States depends on it because quite frankly, it does — and that’s not an exaggeration.”
I never thought that in my life me and James Carville would see exactly eye-to-eye on things, but there you go. IDK if talking this way is tactically productive, but he's not wrong. They should have this guy intervene in every newscast about how Trump's ahead 3:1 among first-time Wisconsin voters with odd numbered license plates or whatever, to yell "Fuck you!" at the anchors with little bits of spittle flecked around his mouth.
It's the candidate's job to serve the will of the people, not the other way around.
If you want people to vote for you, you have to do the things the people demand. Like, oh, say, not enabling and funding genocide.
If it's super mega omg important that people vote for you, then it's on you to you do those things really hard.
If you consider the principle of democracy valid, then whatever the voters choose is correct by definition.
And by the same token, if they don't vote for you, you have only yourself to blame.
That's the game. Don't like it, don't play.
This is just a weird paternalistic point of view to me.
It is absolutely true that rich abusive criminals are in charge of the country, doing all kinds of horrifying stuff. You can put Biden in that category if you want; at least as far as Gaza is concerned I won't really fight you on the classification.
Sitting back and waiting like "well it's on them to fix it, and until then I won't take steps that will change the outcome to one that's better" is absolutely guaranteed to fail. If you want things to be better, work for better outcomes. That is the only way it will ever happen.
You wanna work for better outcomes in Gaza? Fuckin a man that sounds great, tell me how. You wanna give Biden a hard time about Gaza? Fuckin a man sounds great.
You wanna commit to sitting out and not taking positive steps until something changes from above to make it worth your while? If that's your choice, then buckle the fuck up, because I think there's a definite possibility that you might get a chance to firsthand experience how much worse than present-day reality it can get if enough people do that.
You don't keep enabling an abuser in the hope they'll eventually reform.
You walk the fuck out, and if that means being homeless, that sucks balls but it still beats staying.
And if someone calls you a fucking idiot for not being grateful for a roof over your head, you spit right in their eye.
Again: You're using a model that doesn't translate into politics.
Leaving an abuser is a hard road to a better outcome. Working to end the genocide in Gaza is a hard road to a better outcome (and yes, absolutely if that includes affirmatively putting pressure on Biden in whatever way.) Categorically refusing to vote for the non-democracy-ending candidate until something changes by magic from above is not a hard road to anything. It's just more genocide (by quite a lot).
It's like trying to fistfight the police when they're going to arrest you. It's like getting abused by your abusive partner and so refusing to make a decision to leave because the shelter is behind on their taxes. It's like getting a cut that's infected and refusing to get it treated because you don't like the American medical system and think it needs to change. It doesn't make any fucking sense. It's just a non sequitur.
The problems are real, but refusing to engage with the system where the outcomes can be impacted, until they get better on their own, will in this case make those real problems absolutely catastrophically worse.
IDK how long I want to go back and forth about it, but that's my feeling on it.
If someone can be an evil piece of shit and still win elections, what's their incentive to not be an evil piece of shit?
One of the two is going to win the election. It's not like if you sit it out, nobody wins. At this point, all you can influence is which one. Trump is a far worse option in pretty much every category.
There's two conflicting metrics:
The fact that the dems are willing to play chicken with the entire country and would rather see it fall into the hands of MAGA than let go of their precious genocide says a whole lot about their motivation.
If that faction of the party is allowed to prevail, there won't be any point. They need to learn their lesson, fast. They can either cooperate now, or get their ass thrown out of power in november. Their choice.
I think you're misguided if you think Trump's damage would be limited to four years. How many years of damage will we suffer just from his current three supreme court pics?
Plus, you make it sound like Biden could wave a wand and change everything in Gaza. He is applying pressure, but the situation is more complicated than you imply.
It's really simple: demonstrate that he has some kind of moral principles. Some atrocity he refuses to countenance, some red line he will not cross. Some point at which he'll say "you know what, no, we're not going to be part of this, we're out."
It might not stop them, but it would show he wasn't an actual monster.
Which is a pretty low fucking bar, tbh.
Yes -- which is why people in-the-know who are training neural nets periodically get frustrated and say "You know what, this thing's not producing the results I want, it did something really wrong as a matter of fact. Fuck it, I'm going to stop applying a gradient in the direction of better results, until it gets its act together."
Oh and also the neural net is physically in charge of all of our lives in this example
I can give you a bunch of examples of Biden pushing domestic economics and climate change policy real real firmly back towards the center. But, on the broader point about the Democrats in general I actually agree with you. If anything I said sounded like "Let's stop working to make the Democrats better or else find a replacement," it wasn't intentional on my part. Both of those sound like great things to do. (And fixing FPTP to avoid this situation in general in the future)
In the meantime, I do think that voting for the non-apocalypse, and choosing the outcome of "needs some improvement and really should be replaced" over "will definitely try to end the world," are good things to do.
It's like if the neural net runs the life support on the spaceship, and it's clearly not doing a good job and we desperately need to find a better solution, and so one guy says hey it's been so long of this that let's just turn off the life support, what's the worst that could happen.
These are great ideals. Let’s come back to reality. For every person that doesn’t vote, they are tacitly voting for Trump. I’m going to have to throw hands when they take my healthcare away. Please don’t make me have to throw hands. I’m not saying you, but rather the oppressors.
Pretty sure they don't tally up all the people who didn't vote and add it to Trump's total. If Trump wins you want to be mad, be mad at the people who voted for him.
Yeah that’s not how it works in a first-past-the-post election. Like we do. RepubliQans cheat, and they vote in lock-step. It’s a law. Massive D turnout is the only way to win.
This is why the whole “biden bad me no vote” is also a russian troll talking point. It’s a happy circumstance for them.
For the record, I'm an advocate for everyone voting. Everyone should vote for who they want to represent them.
But that doesn't change what I said. People who didn't vote for Trump aren't the ones responsible for Trump winning an election. Thinking otherwise is just backwards
enabling and funding genocide.
Israel and the US have been strategic allies since the 1960s. There aren't any (and won't ever be any) American politician who won't honor that. I'd bet my last dollar you'd call any and all military aide "GeNoCiDe SuPpOrT". Ie, you'll hate any us political option. So what's the point? Just say "nuke the us" and move along.
This ain't my war, and just like all the others I've seen I don't like it. You can't stop it anymore than anyone else so stop slinging mud.
Yeah, kids should recognize how fucked up our government is and lower their expectations. This is why we need more civics education: So we know exactly how little our government is capable of.
Nobody ever told him you'll attract more flies with honey than vinegar?
They know fptp voting forces us to eat whatever shit stinks the least and they're mad the youth won't play ball...but it's not them it's everyone else who's the asshole.
Ask yourself this. Does carville look like an asshole to you?
He does to me.
Bruh this is the time for principle. We cannot allow Donald Trump to take back the White House. I don’t even like Biden, but I’ll vote for him if it means that Donald Trump stays out.
I agree that FPTP is garbage. We all still need to vote.
You're missing their point which is that they would like Donald Trump as president.
They keep saying the word 'genocide' like it means anything before trump throws the us military into Israel and speeds this process up 1000x.
Manmade horrors beyond your comprehension
Everyone should vote, yes. For the person they want to be president/represent them.
I would rather have Vinegar Man than any 100 anchors going on TV and treating this election like a normal election where neither of the candidates wants to kill his political opponents and have the military seize the voting machines, and the Supreme Court is thinking about letting him
You attract the most flies with shit
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
lol