As an Aussie watching what's happening over there, all I've got to say is that the days of honourable dueling are gone - your leaders need to understand that you're in a dirty street fight now!
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My brother taught me there is no such thing as a fair fight.
Your brother is wise.
Your brother is correct
Ah yes, the tru endgame of "the highroad strategy". Simply doing nothing as the fascists pillage the Government. At least the Dems are holding their noses high as everything burns around them!
I'm sure they're excellent patrons of the arts, such as the fiddle
Whats the best wine pairing with fascist takeover?
We are alone in this. The dems are better, but they are at fault here too because their entire strategy is being better then the republican which allows Republicans to be as awful as they please
Honestly instead of pushing me to the democrats, this has just gotten me to hate both sides, just hate one a little less.
You need to do more than finger waggle, treat Republicans the way they treat us
It’s remarkable that so many are blaming Democrats for what’s happening, instead of the Republicans doing the things, people who voted for the Republicans doing the things, and non-voters who decided they don’t care about Republicans doing the things.
No wonder your country is fucked.
Obviously, the Republicans are the party that's pushing and doing all this stupid shit, but the Democrats are not using the power they have to impede them. The CR that the Democrats helped pass removes the power from Congress to remove Trump's tariffs, for example. And the Democratic party keeps following the losing strategy of moving further right. I don't think they actually care about winning the presidency or congress again; they just want to keep the corporate donors.
I don't blame democrats for the Republicans actions, but I do blame democrats for democrats not even trying to slow Republicans down. This has been American Legislation all my life, Republican gains office, immediately lowers taxes on the richest Americans while shifting the tax burden onto the middle class and poor, while cutting service and protection for average Americans, rides out 4-8 years destroying education, veteran services, and regulations stopping full on breakdown of the US as is. A Democrat gets elected, they get nothing at all done due to republican obstruction at every turn, rides out 4 years of the problems Republicans put in place having the bad outcomes everyone knew would come, Republicans presidential nom runs off ''This democrats ruined everything! I'll clean up the mess! And I hate immigrants!!'' Republican is elected and immediately gives huge tax cuts to the wealthiest- rinse and repeat.
Republicans arent showing up to hear the message, so let's shit talk the dems.
You aren't crazy. This shit is fucked up.
Be mad about it. Be frustrated. Figure out what you can do about it in your circle of influence.
It's not just about shit talking to Dems because they show up to hear us shit talk to them. It's about the fact that 10 Democratic senators just voted with the goddamn Republicans to strip Americans of basic needs in order to give a massive tax break to billionaires.
Those Democrats don't represent me. And since one of them is from my own state I'm going to make damn sure he doesn't get another chance.
Chickens can at least peck a bit. These dems aren't even that tough
A rooster can fuck you up.
Another constituent, Donya Williams, complained Ivey didn’t know the people in his district well enough — because he admitted earlier that he didn’t know who popular podcaster Joe Rogan was until the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign.
This explains so much. They are as ignorant of the current state of things as the "apolitical" voters who thought Trump would be fine this time.
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"We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas."- The Democratic Party
“But please donate to my campaign to STOP this. We will soon, I promise”
Here's a 100 texts from candidates running for city commissioner in TN and you live on the west coast.
My god I am so sick of the emails.
I used to get emails like "Contribute to X because I will fight for our schools to provide school lunches to everyone!" And I'd donate.
Now, the emails are just "Donald wants to kill education. GIVE ME MONEY."
So you can use that money to buy another sign that says "Pweeze stop"?
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