Honesty is not always better. The brazenness is a signal that in a decaying democracy Americans now longer have the power to reign in the executive branch. At least not without a new and more confrontational strategy.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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Americans now longer have the power to reign in the executive branch. At least not without a new and more confrontational strategy.
What was the old strategy?
Pretend nothing was wrong
What was the old strategy?
Strategy?
Voting, contacting reps, protests marches.
That shit never worked either.
And that worked?
Depends on what you mean by worked. I think it did place limits on imperialist behavior even if it did not stop it. We are now seeing those limits being breached.
I think it did place limits on imperialist behavior
:-/
Well if they previously had power they didn't have inclination.
And, look at whats happening in the House, whats happening in the Senate: Democrats support this, or at least do not oppose it, or work to shut down opposition on this issue.
There are a few Democrats against this. But leadership supports whats happening.
Yes, we all know and agree that dem leadership is a problem. Thanks for pointing it out for the 9,999,998th time. Thank God we have people like you out there...
Thanks for pointing it out for the 9,999,998th time.
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Democrats are so good. They only lost because you couldn't see how good they were. If you weren't so stupid, we wouldn't be in this situation
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Democrats are fine. You're exaggerating. The only reason you think they're not good is because you fell for Russian propaganda.
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Democrats might suck, but Republicans suck worse. You have to support the lesser of two evils.
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Democrats are awful but everyone already knew that. Shut up, already. <-- You are here
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Democrats and Republicans are an evil duopoly. We should support a third party candidate. Someone who is moderate enough for both liberal and conservative voters to support.
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The Third Party is so good. They only lost because you couldn't see how good they were. If you weren't so stupid, we wouldn't be in this situation.
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Bring Back the Monarchy
That's cute, you made a whole lil list and everything. Good for you! You are special. All one would ha e to do is look at my comment history to prove you wrong, but that sounds like work 😮💨
Condescension is no substitute for defensible ideas, but at least centrists are consistent in settling for the woefully inadequate.
And yet, people like you demand we vote blue no matter who, and insist that the time for inter-party feuding is during the primary. And then when there is a primary, you tell people to shut the fuck up and not criticize leadership.
"Are we still talking about the epstein files" vibes right there.
I'm sure you won't need to be reminded then, when people are being pressured into ABWD.
I would like to know what ABWD means
any blue will do
Have no idea what that acronym is and don't really care either?!
Itt: people who come to a political space, for discussing politics, and then get mad when you do so.
People are always talking about the weather, but nobody is serious enough to do anything about it.
Frankly, I wish they'd just stop mentioning it at all.
People are always talking about the weather, but nobody is serious enough to do anything about it.
Answer always seems to be to vote for different weathermen but sure seems to keep raining.
Didn't the senate just vote to stop this basically along party lines, failing because there are more republicans right now?
Dems dragged their feet on a bipartisan bill for almost 2 weeks, at the behest of Schumer, Jefferies, until Trump actually did the thing and it was too late to stop them. It has literally been in the news since Khanna and Massie introduced the bill for 2 weeks.
If you interpret todays vote as "Dems oppose what Trump is doing..."
It has literally been in the news since Khanna and Massie introduced the bill for 2 weeks.
"What do you even want the Democrats TO DO about it?!"
points to a thing they should do
"Fuck you! That's not serious. It would never work. You've been baited into believing a utopian fairy tale!"
Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power
Precise... sure.
Yeah we accidentally killed our candidates for a puppet leader. Exactly as planned.
That FIFA Peace Prize is something else.
I thought you didn’t have rules of engagement. Pick a lane dude.
He said there was no stupid rules of engagement not no ROE
So we are literally agreeing this is open war without Congressional approval?
Nazis
"Warfighters" is so goddamn cringe
It's something from a call of duty game where even the 15 year old cringelord goes: eeew
I didn't know The Enclave had taken over pre-nuclear apocalypse...
There is nothing precise about explosives and shrapnel. After these fucking morons deplete the precision guided munitions, it's going to be B-52 cells carpet bombing the living shit out of Iran's large cities.
Insane mental gymnastics to say "Libs bad!" Unreal.
Libs bad
Biden didn't reschedule cannabis.
Lol stalking from what must be over a year ago. You're just embarrassing yourself.
Was already in this thread. Just pointing out that you lie and no one should trust anything you say.
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