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Democratic leadership wanted this because Israel wanted this
Recall what Schumer believes his job is
C O N T R O L L E D O P P O S I T I O N
I can't wait to begrudgingly tell people to vote for Gavin Newsom so he can defeat Donald Trump's run for a third term.
I can't believe our best bet is yet another billionaire. I really hope James Talarico can make it
I've said that any billionaire is automatically off my list, but Pritzker has been saying the right things. I like Kelly, too.
Newsome is a Manchurian MAGA phony. He's the Democrat that the Oligarchs will support. If he becomes president, MAGA will be back AGAIN in four years.
My choice will be the candidate who explicitly says that his top priority will be to crush MAGA, prosecute their followers for their CRIMES (Which are many), and purge it from our government and society. MAGA is a proven National Security Threat, and their leaders are Domestic Terrorists, so it shouldn't be a problem to prohibit MAGA from existing. I have other issues that are important to me, but they are ALL on the back burner until the MAGA threat can be properly sorted out.
Coworkers
Dems playing good cop, while Republicans are bad cop.
Both parties have been led to this by decades of AIPAC bribery.
That's actually the ideal scenario because the alternative is they're just that bad.
Dems: checks bank account for March 1st paycheck. Yep, it’s there. Shrugs. Keeps doing what they’re doing.
Not cowardness they truely support it
¿Por que no los dos?
DNC politicians couldn't care less about people getting killed (children included) as long as the AIPAC and MIL checks keep getting paid.
This is the same dem leadership that was calling him taco trump for simply saying he'd negotiate with Iran before Trump attacked them. Of course they are aroused by this, even more than they think the voters are
Time for the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries to get the hook, and be dragged off-stage. Losers.
Primary every one of these wet fucking paper bags
I'm not a "third party voter" guy. But between ICE and now this - Bernie Sanders has a power he could use, is definitely aware of, and doesn't.
If Bernie sanders announced that the Democratic party was a failed party he is the only progressive leader in this country that could actually form a third party that would literally replace the Democratic party overnight. At least in terms of current democratic voter approval ratings. His voice alone would build so much momentum.
I think he is too much of a liberal Zionist to leave the Democratic party. Or he's just really not who he once was. It's just a shame. He was an important figure to moving this country to the left and made a lot of young leftist into what we are today. Many of us seeing him as a right winger at this point.
The Democratic party is so unpopular. There is no better time to destroy it and replace it. I don't think it is possible to work within it anymore. What are we voting for in November when half the Democrats will still support ICE and endless war?
Edit: Can't even get someone to disagree with my initial comment. Just "you're a tankie" and "you don't understand politics". With nothing else to say about it.
Would love someone to tell me they disagree that Bernie and AoC forming a new party would not be extremely popular and why. I really would. I can be wrong. But no one has replied to what I said and I'm sitting very controversial.
Thats a lot of words to tell us you dont follow american politics accurately.
Speaking of third-parties. Back in 2020 Howie Hawkins was running as the Green Party Nominee for President and during the Democrats campaigning he went on the record stating that if Bernie Sanders won the Democrat nomination, Hawkins would withdraw from the race. -I think most people here remember how those Democrat primaries went down. I just find it ironic that as much as Dem voters removed about wanting the Green Party to go away, the one time it was realistically possible the Dems conspired to ensure it didn't happen.
Sadly we are still dealing with that today. The votes on my comment show that. Can't even get anyone to actually discussed what I said.
We are still living with so many Democrat "progressives" that never learned what that word meant. It's definitely a split between the people that wanted to vote for a Social Democrat offering no wars and free healthcare. Vs. more neoliberalism but with "the first female president".
There are still a massive amount of people that never learned progress beyond identity politics capitalism.
It's a reason the Democratic party needs to die. For every "vote blue no matter who" person we lose we'd get 10 alienated and non political people excited to vote for a candidate that will lower their rent and healthcare costs.
I don't think a third party is possible. But I do think if Bernie and AoC were behind it that would be the best chance. Especially now. With BOTH parties somehow at historical low approvals at the same time.
All I meant in my original comment. That no one seemed to understand.
Of course, they're making cash money off the war. Hopefully AOC runs with Bernie advising her.
Hopefully AOC runs with Bernie advising her.
Agree but, IMO it's how AOC got elected that is the key to fixing America. Americans need to make that happen every single election. Systematic problems need more than 1 presidential term to reverse afterall.
Regardless of your opinion on AOC, this documentary about how she got elected lays out the steps.
Independent local grassroots electoral movement. Dedicated to getting/organizing volunteers, signature gathering, door knocking, everything from getting candidates on the ballot to winning in the election.
Candidate nominations. AOC didn't sign up, her BIL or someone nominated her and the Grassroots Movement approached her to run.
PRIMARIES. PRIMARIES. PRIMARIES. Target establishment DNCs who clearly have more in common with corporate lobbyists than their own constituents.
Run the numbers game. Only 1/4 of their candidates won. Democrats should face a primary EVERY SINGLE ELECTION.
Oh no, not a backlash!
a STRONGLY WORDED backlash!
Backlash lol they should be arrested and charged treason.
Backlash is so much better than frontlash
The right Eyelash can be pretty devastating.