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The silence from the Democratic leadership is deafening. Yes there are a few non-progressives that have gone rogue, but for the most part it has been all's quiet in the chickenshit front.
Controlled opposition. FUCK THEM ALL.
Not sure how y'all didn't learn from the government shutdown, it was only 2 months ago. Democratic leadership is getting the job done, it's just that Democrat voters miraculously haven't realized what "the job" is yet.
"getting the job done"? What have they done?
Here's a good primer.
Both parties are literally owned by Israel and the Zionist oligarchs. Our country is literally occupied by Israel. https://www.trackaipac.com/shame
They’re not chickenshit. They want this. The wealthy need the military in the streets to stop populist uprisings.
We need more politicians like Mayor Joker.
"Can you tell us what you're doing here today?"
"Some mayoral candidates take bribes from Big Money. I'm skipping the bribe part and just taking the money, and giving it back to the citizens. Here's your money, chumps!"
"What do you hope to accomplish as Mayor of Gotham?"
"Where to start? Education reform. Every child should have the choice to be in a dual immersion class, and be bilingual. I also want free universal healthcare. Do you think Arkham would have a three year waitlist if everyone had access to free mental health services? And the rich one percenters are gonna pay for it all. Big changes are gonna happen. Hahahaha!"
"You want the rich to pay for all this, are you like a, socialist?"
"I'm not like a socialist. I AM a socialist. And together, we're gonna fix this city!"
Ummm, is Batman's greatest nemesis supposed to make more sense than Batman?
In that season, yes. Amusingly, Joker had Batman put away for tax evasion in the season finale.
I am looking forward to the Mayor Joker & Scooby Doo crossover. Batman turns out to be the pharmaceutical CEO, Bruce Wayne!
...did Luigi kill Bruce Wayne's father?
Plot twist: it was a Terminator movie spin-off and Bruce was its target!
Once Americans realize that both Democrats and Republicans are controlled by the same puppet master, then we can see change.
The "puppet master" is greed.
Americans will whine "but what about the democrats?!?" all the way down the road to fascism.
Y'all didn't vote for them, there's nothing they can do. How about blame the fascism on on the fascists doing it?
The democratic leadership are in the absolutely best position to lead the people against fascism though. You'd expect someone like their presidential candidate to stay in the spotlight, being a leader and showing the people what to do, by being at the protests, help planning civil disobedience against fascism, give people hope and will to fight, but instead the people have been left to fend for themselves, with no actual structure or union to gather behind. It's doomed to fail if the resistance doesn't have any leadership.
Newsome is busy fighting the 5% one time billionaire tax and pandering to Israel….his handlers say funny things online sometimes though
lol .ml take
You seem smart. What is the Hannibal Directive?
No, not really. Democrats are doing fuck all to fight back. A couple are speaking out sternly, but few are taking actual action. This isn't just at the federal level, but also state level. Find the loopholes, sue to slow down progress, do literally anything to obstruct this. Instead we get crickets.
It is a .ml take in that it's accurate.
Wrong. .ml is a dogshit, racist community full of misinformation. There's nothing accurate over there other than hate for minorities and love for Nazis.
Wait so it's not an accurate take?
.ml, but not wrong.
On the internet you can provide links that prove people wrong if you want to actually make an argument
oh, you sweet innocent child