If you fucks don't do everything you can to overwhelm the midterms to primary every incumbent democrat, you better not complain when President Newsom rolls back 20% of Trump's policies and decides that some trans people can be released from some of the camps.
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Anyone that runs on executing the current administration for treason gets my vote
Shapiro is bought and paid for by Israel. He cant possibly win an election the presidency, for starters, and even if he could win he'd be working for a country thats not ours, that wants America isolated from its military allies so it can act unconstrained by consensus. Shapiro would be the death of the democratic party for good.
To add to his lack of qualifications, he's new to politics. He's in his first term as a governor. He doesnt even know how national politics works, and he hasnt championed anything notable. He got a budget that added school breakfasts, and increased funding for state police. And thats about it. Thats not a leader for our times. Its insulting to see his name brought up as a candidate, yet again.
The party caved on asking ICE to not wear masks.
Articles and posts like this truly reveal the oblivious bubble people live in where they still haven't come to terms how much their federal government has been corroded.
Shapiro is Israeli intelligence and he served in the IDF.
The democrats will do nothing. The only way America will see justice is a complete overhaul of the system
Quaint of you to think we’ll have one. Assuming we do get one they don’t pull the typical BS of sweeping republican wrongdoings under the rug, kumbaya, can’t we just move forward and let the republicans block all our appointments as usual?
It’s going to take breaking the government and hitting a reset button, armoring it against corruption and billionaires, completely redoing how candidacy, campaigning, lobbying, how wealth and money work in society, and many, many other things work. It literally cannot be a Democrat (or a republican) because no democrat is capable of breaking and rebuilding the system. They are too beholden to party and money.
There needs to be a revolution within the Democratic party, today. Not in a week or a month, today. We're not able to oppose fascism because the fascists are fucking clever or strong or smart: We're not able to oppose fascism because the Democratic leadership dont' want to.
If we don't replace Schumers and Jeffereies, its cooked. It wont matter. No circle jerking about November going to help. We need war-time leadership in the DNC now. Alas, Babylon. They need to start acting like a government in absentia, because they already are one.
I expect any Democrat in the primary who wants my support to be protesting until they get tear gassed or arrested.
I tried calling my rep. Automatically forwarded straight to a full mailbox. I'm not a major donor, so I guess I can just shout into the void.
The monied class, the one that actually drives policy, has a direct number
Did you try tweeting your rep? That seems to be the only way to get their attention these days.
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Spoiler: They won't. They will "compromise" and try to "mend wounds". Democrats are just "Diet Republican" flavored politics.
Democrats are pacifiers for us. US: "Hey we want free healthcare!" Democrats, "Shh shh shh, there, there, it's okay sweetheart." They serve the same billionaire masters as Republicans.
What they are describing is not a Democratic president. It's an independent candidate running on the Democratic ticket.
Yeah, that's the only way to elect a progressive.
Unfortunately that won't happen until the US becomes a democracy. The current voting system is designed to prevent popular or progressive candidates from winning.
Shapiro is not a progressive-- by what facts would you claim that he is? He advertises himself as someone who brings republicans and dems together on issues. He's as centrist as they come.
West.
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You guys think they're gonna have another election? Lmao they're done mate, the country has been taken by fascists. That includes the Dems btw, they keep funding the brown shirts and have made no attempt to stem the horrible crimes of the administration. They are complicit in the downfall of the USA. The ONLY way America survives this is if the people become UNGOVERNABLE.
Not sure what the article says because, paywall. But, given the thumbnail, I just want to make sure people understand that Shapiro represents the entire opposite of Democrats actually doing anything about fascism. Shapiro is a fascist collaborator, both in terms of his work for Israel, and domestic policy. He’s essentially a Republican, that is to say, a fascist.
yes I volunteered for the idf but totally not anything combat related. And please ignore all the times I say idf or Israeli talking points
Looking Forward, Not Backward was the original sin of the Obama administration.
Precisely. We were all hyped up hoping for change, and this would have been a massive one. Instead we got 8 more years of war, RomneyCare with no public option, and continued expansion of executive overreach including extrajudicial killings. Such a disappointing continuation of the status quo, and there are blue maga out there who pretend like it was the greatest presidency of our lifetimes for some reason.
including extrajudicial killings
Oh, you mean fighting back against non-state actors such as Al-Qaida that were actively waging war against the people of the US? Yeah, he should have just done a Schumer and written them a strongly-worded letter.
I'm far from an Obama fan, but I really get sick of repetition of keyword-based bothsides memes with no thought behind them.
Military action against non-state actors is almost as old as the US, with the first instance being the use of the navy against the Barbary pirates. And no form of military action has ever had a judicial process behind it. But I guess someone just learned the phrase "extrajudicial killing" and didn't bother to try contextualizing it.
And why is it always used in the context of Obama, when he generally showed more restraint than most of his predecessors and successors?
Obama was the first to use drone strikes to kill an American citizen without due process, and claimed that judicial process wasn’t needed since he was on foreign soil. You can read more about the al-Awlaki killing here if you want, this article lays out the case for how Obama escalated beyond what even GW did in the initial years of the war on terror for abusing the executive power to murder perceived political dissidents who were American citizens.
In the lead up to this, I believe what you’re referring to is the infamous wedding party strike. Dozens of Afghani civilians slaughtered while attending a wedding, because the US claimed there were Taliban insurgents present. Gee, where have we seen that line of reasoning in recent times? Oh yeah, similar excuse Netanyahu has used to completely level Gaza with the help of America. I’m not saying Obama was necessarily genocidal, but I also strongly rebuke his legal argument for these drone strikes resulting in extrajudicial killings as I believe it set a terrible precedent which we are suffering from at home today.
there are blue maga out there who pretend like it was the greatest presidency of our lifetimes for some reason.
As a older millennial, I think it actually was the greatest presidency of my lifetime... As fucked as that is. Maybe Clinton was better but I was too young to have been paying attention.
If clinton testifies that trump gave him a blowjob, he will go down as one of the best-- simply for saving whats left of the "republic". If he fails to do that he's a mixed bag, and a bit of a failure.
Better if he says "No, he didn't blow me. Someone else was blowing me. And when I jizzed, it got in his face because he was licking my ass."
I think they're going for saying it like it's a big accomplishment rather than a sign of how terrible our presidents have been. Yeah he cleared the bar but it's so low and it was barely cleared so is it really that much of a brag
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I just read that Kamala Harris might be in the 2028 election. The very same one that couldn’t mention anything bad with the US because ir might upset someone. The very same one that sidelined her popular VP pick to campaign with republicans and celebrities. The very same one that never won a presidential primary.
At this point its like they want the Republicans to stay in office...
The point of centrists is to lose to republicans. They play the culture war game to keep people fighting over pointless crap while the wealthy rob our country blind.
They won't do shit. Just like always, they're gonna waste four years maintaining the status quo then cry into their hands when the fascists take control after they've done nothing to address the material conditions of Americans.
Insert We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas meme
The only way this will happen is by stealth. That is, a candidate that is mainstreem and moderate and has no history of being progressive or ethical, changes their stripes after they get elected. Any candidate who identifies themselves as somebody who will hold the GOP to account or has a history of trying to do so, will mysteriously never get anywhere near the Dem nomination no matter how popular they are. (cf any honest look back at how Bernie Sanders had the Dem nomination stolen from him both times by chicanery and backroom dealing by the corporatist Dems)
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Never underestimate a Democrat's ability to snatch defeat right out of the jaws of victory.
I'm not holding my breath for actual reform... we need a Democrat to win not because of what they'll bring to the table, but to keep the Nazis off of it long enough to sift through the ashes of our nation and start piecing together the bits that still function after Trump.
That's more of a bandaid than anything else... what we actually need is things like ranked choice voting, term limits, and guillotines.
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I can't get over the naive assumption that there will be a "next democratic president" before shit truly hits the fan.
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Trust me bro we will vote harder and defeat fascism bro, this time it will work bro, this democrat candidate wont shift to right for votes bro please bro, only republicans are the problem bro
Josh Shapiro lol
The 28th Amendment better be that the name Donald J Trump or Trump shall be striken from existing and never to appear on any public and government buildings and facilities hereafter.
Add coinage to that list.
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