No shit it was. He wants to run for president and he knows that stunt will make headlines but this will be buried in comments where the headline is “16 democrats vote for trump nominee” (aka exactly what is happening here)
Booker is classic neoliberal, no ethics or morals, guided by money and power. 10-15 years ago he was deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry because they are huge in NJ. Then his aspirations went higher and he realized that association was harmful, at that point he had connections that made him no longer reliant on their cash, so he shed them. It’s not growth, it’s a calculated move
Of course it was. It was just a political stunt to pump up his street cred as a warrior, in advance of an eventual announcement for a presidential campaign.
Because its not about winning, its about taking a stand.
You don't give NAZI TRAITORS a single vote of support for ANYTHING. They are Nazis, they are the most corrupt and treasonous administration in American history, and any support is collaboration, even a single vote.
It gets taken as far as required to crush MAGA, bring their treasonous, corrupt leaders to justice, and purge MAGA from our government, society, and the world.
MAGA is literally the same as the German Nazis of the 30s and 40s, and they will be operating death camps, just like their heros. They are already building a camp in Guantanamo Bay to hold 30,000 people, out of the sight of the media and the courts. They'll send foreigners to El Salvador, but they'll send Americans to Gitmo.
Are we supposed to wait until they have killed millions, and have people say "Gee, why didn't someone stop them before it got that far?"
The last three months should have been a stark reminder to everyone that after a certain amount of time in their positions, politicians stop seeing non-politicians as real people and everything just becomes a game.
mods have been deleting my comments that remind people that Biden and the Democrats gleefully committed genocide and lost the election for their refusal to even suggest they'll stop it.
When will people wake up and realize the Democrats are not on our side, not the lesser evil? They exist to give us an illusion that someone is fighting on our behalf, they exist to pacify us, they exist to allow capitalism to turn us into wage-slaves.
They'll take a knee with us, they'll give record breaking speeches, they'll march with us in the peaceful phases, they'll be on the front line even. They'll hold rallies and raise incredible amounts to "flight fascism", and then they'll step in line and vote to keep the wheel turning RIGHT.
mods have been deleting my comments that remind people that Biden and the Democrats gleefully committed genocide and lost the election for their refusal to even suggest they’ll stop it.
Why they are so threatened by AOC and Sanders, and the calls for the old guard to GTFO
I fully expect the DNC to launch a bigger underhanded attack against the both of them than the Republicans do.
Why they are so threatened by AOC and Sanders, and the calls for the old guard to GTFO
Both Sanders and AOC both support Israel. The progressive base may like them better than "the old guard" but they're not exactly in love with these two. It's a begrudging vote, not a happy one.
They've only very recently begun to change their public opinion on it. Last year this time Bernie was catching heat for refusing to support a permanent ceasefire;
Senator Bernie Sanders's refusal to call for a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has put him at odds with many of the same progressives [...] ^1
As you can see, she strongly condemns Hamas, which is great. She strongly condemns Israel, and Netanyahu, which is great. And I totally agree with the entire statement all the way down until the last paragraph;
None of this was inevitable. And it can still be stopped. Hamas, Israel, and Hezbollah should agree to a lasting ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.
Hamas is a terrorist organization which was quite literally created by Israel by their systematic abuse of an entire group of people. There's nothing about this entire situation that wasn't inevitable. You can't abuse a people for decades, encroach on their lives, livelihood, murder them, strongly police them, continually treat them like shit and sub-human and expect them not to retaliate. Much like the US is directly responsible for the situations leading to terrorist attacks against the US, Israel is also directly responsible for Hamas.
Even aside from all of this, her views on Israel again, just like Sanders are relatively new. Just last year she was about to be censured by other party members for being too soft on Israel ^1.
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference." -- Elie Wiesel
So yeah, it's great that they're just now coming around to the plight of Gaza and the Palestinians it's not like they actually believe it. It's all politically motivated. They're beginning to understand that unless they condemn Israel they won't be elected--which is pretty fucked up IMO.
Sanders didn't even show up or rally for mohsen mahdawi, who is HIS CONSTITUENT, after they were illegally detained for speaking out against Israel.
Nobody is coming for us.
Nobody in power is going to risk losing their grip on it to advocate for real material progress and dismantle the institutions that give them that power in the first place.
Nobody in congress deserves to lead the people. The workers do.
I mean, support for genocide is wholly evil, I don't care what your other policies are. lol Evil is evil lil bro. There's no such thing as a lesser degree of evil.
It would be the same if like, Donald Trump was a perfect candidate, but he's also a sexual predator. That should immediately disqualify him, otherwise you're supporting that behavior.
Bernie and AOC most closely align with my political viewpoints, but they're also supporting genocide... If I support them, then I'm also supporting genocide. Is what it is.
If that pisses you off, then maybe talk to Bernie and/or AOC about their stance on Israel.
Yes. There are several recent instances where he's "slamming" Israel. And then 3 decades where they're best friends, including up to the end of 2024....
It’s not like the guy they voted for is a rare qualified pick from the Trump camp.
It’s David Purdue, a failed pillow company CEO, as well as ceo for other textile companies. More recently he dabbled in politics as a Republican senator from Georgia, failed gubernatorial candidate, 2020 election denier, climate change denier, and generally an idiotic sycophant.
The textile experience gives him a small amount of plausibility as a choice, but everything else far outweighs that. Just another loser grifter in Trump’s orbit.
Capitalism on its own is very anti-democratic. Given enough time, most industries would become a monopoly.
A strong Democracy should have sufficient guard rails for the population to counteract the influence of capitalism: strong unions, solid worker protections, limitation of money in politics, higher tax rates on wealth, and so on. The Nordic countries are a good example of this.
Ok, I think we're miscommunicating. Either my question was't formulated very clearly, or I misunderstood what you said in the first place. I took what you said ("democracy needs capitalism") to mean "if you want democracy, you need capitalism", or alternatively "if you don't have capitalism, you cannot have democracy". My question is why you believe this (if you do, that is; I may have misunderstood).
Your answer I completely agree with, but it just argues that capitalism is harmful to democracy and that at best democracy is like a guard rail for capitalism. If anything it shows that capitalism and democracy are kind of incompatible.
And it's a side track, but the Nordic countries are not a good example of democracy counteracting the excesses of capitalism. They've just outsourced the worst of the misery to the global South. And domestically the situation for workers gets worse year by year (although they're a long way from dropping to American levels).
It does if you want people to afford to buy your stuff. Or to have your stuff on the shelves. Happy tariff day. I heard another boat returned to China with no toys dropped off.
You want a country where you can live free, you're going to have to take it yourself.
Dont worry though, that will be some other generations problem. Most of us will just have to live through the enshitification of everything. Cherish these last days. You may never see any like them again. You might even wake up one day and think, the status quo was like being stuck at the top of a Farris wheel. Scary, and uncertain but the view was amazing.
The Democrats never actually opposed fascism, they just invoked it because they knew it was unpopular. The problem of the Democrats is that you can't constantly run on things you have no intention of following through on, without having voters stop believing you eventually.
Then maybe biden should have hired an AG who was interested in pursuing justice, instead of dragging things out so biden could run as second worst to trump again.
One day people are going to realize this is just theatre. It's a club with predetermined decisions, similar to WWE. None of them give a fuck about you.
Vote blue so much that they have to keep passing progressive reform like the always do when blue wins. They made the rules, all we need to do is make them play by them.
Nothing tells them to listen to your damands like just giving them more if they do the opposite of your demands.
This sounds like an abused spouse that is saying "just give him more love and he will change. He said he will. I just have to love him more. The bruises arent that bad. He didnt mean it."
And like the abuser they are, the Democrats immediately turned on minorities whose loyalty they took for granted. They went racist against Latinos and Muslims, proving that they never cared to begin with.
Imagine being a liberal right now lmfao You’re pissed at EVERYTHING and yelling at your allies while the people you’re telling them to vote for are supporting the very thing making you furious.
All that voting Blue did in the past two decades was kicking the can down the road, while blocking aerious efforts to form a political power willing to bring the can back up the road.
Trump isn't an anomaly. Trump is the symptom of a broken system that was deliberately broken further and further with bipartisan support. And we still see the Democrats staying at breaking things further and helping Trump instead of forming a proper opposition.
They still rather fight progressives like AOC and Sanders than fighting Trump.
There haven't been 60 Democrat senators since 1979, haven't been more than 50 in over 10 years. The most productive congress in the last 20 years was when the DNC plus caucusing IND had supermajority for only 72 days, and it gave us medicaid expansion, was a single IND vote away from Public Option.
This is the time for third parties. I get why people were saying not to talk about them during the election but now is the time because it’s obvious that the Dems continue to not have a spine.
It was obvious every election cycle since FDR too. It's past time for us to stop crossing oceans and moving mountains for those who won't jump a puddle or molehill for us. Politicians, I mean. I'll still cast my vote to help the "sane liberals", conservatives, and marxists who would let me starve in the streets or drop dead in the fields while harvesting their food, or in their bathroom I may be cleaning at the time.
Not committing self harm isn't equivalent to Moving Mountains etc. This is the whole problem with that standpoint. Yes the genocides that the United States Russia and China are committing are inexcusable. They were also not actually on the ballot. There was no one who stood a chance of getting elected that was going to make those better. But there was one that vowed to make things worse. And they won. Like many of us said they would. There is no single one group that deserves credit for that victory. But the margin of votes was with in single digit percentage. It wasn't moving a mountain.
I'm not here to accuse you of being happy with the outcome. But can you admit that you might have been taken advantage of. That your sincere Ernest desire to see things fixed may have been manipulated and taken advantage of to your own detriment and the determent of people you care about. Because I can tell you 100% that fascists, leninists, and other groups absolutely we're stirring the pot. Not caring about who got hurt.
I have no problem with anyone talking to them and trying to de program any of those groups. What I do have a problem with, are people repeating propaganda and being manipulated by these groups to get everyone hurt. We are here.
As an anarchist I wish to see all national parties disbanded and abolished. Democrat, republican, green, libertarian, vanguard. And you're not wrong that a lot of this has been going on since and including FDR. He should have actually tried and hung everyone found guilty of being involved with the business plot. Instead of making backroom deals to get Social Security Etc passed. Something which the people he spared set about immediately after it's passage, gutting it.
The sad thing is, that Democrats deny their role in the failure, just as many of the so-called people on the left who spent so much time attacking them. But as they say success has many fathers, while failure is a bastard.
You’re only worried about the immediate future. Which, yes, is bad. But many refusing to vote for the DNC are doing so because they’re complicit in enabling this bullshit political atmosphere where people are so tired of bullshit politicians who do shit like break a record to “stand up to trump” and then vote to confirm his appointee. So they either give up on voting altogether or are willing to vote for a literal dictator and the DNC’s response is to fight harder against progressives than it does trump. Then in response to losing runs someone whose message is “nothing will fundamentally change.”
So, yeah, if people had completely abandoned the DNC like they should have, maybe we wouldn’t have ever seen it get this bad. But they’re happy with it this bad. They get to pretend they care and keep making money. So yeah, there are plenty of people who refuse to vote for them because they’re happily helping to destroy democracy. (Including suing to remove 3rd parties from ballots, yay!)
Are you implying that the kidnappings torture and persecution are only short-term? Do you not understand that we will have to win back our basic rights at this point. Not just for our immigrant friends and family, but all minorities? That seems a really obtuse and uninformed viewpoint. Which I'm hoping it's just a misunderstanding on my part. And that that's not your actual stance. This shit is serious and not short-term. We will be suffering this for Generations.
I mean unless you have some Surefire non-vanguardist radical action in your pocket or something.
Literally just said I know it’s bad. Not implying it isn’t. I’m saying the DNC has been actively working towards this even being possible for years. Because they only need to run hitler -$50. And they’re happy with that. They would rather lose to Trump than lose any money. And that’s why people stop voting. And that’s why Trump is fucking even possible.
I’m just fucking tired of people defending the DNC. They’re just as big of a part of the problem as republicans.
The voters are as much to blame as the dnc. Stop trying to push all the blame on to them. So which is it and be clear. Am i only concerned about short-term shit. Or is this shit meaningful and you're just flip-flopping wildly. Twisting in the wind trying to pin everything on Democrats and nothing on you or anyone else like you.
And yet, the 3rd parties themselves don't seem to do anything until the Presidential election year. If they were serious, they'd be out there now, putting up candidates in the much-easier-to-win midterms, talking about how they're really different from the entrenched parties. They don't. They only come out of the woodwork and put up spoiler candidates for President.
Absolutely agreed. And I'm not sure the better alternative to Reddit is a "federated" platform where the mods highest priority seems to delete comments that call the Democrats what they are: nice Nazis.
Yet I keep hearing from y'all (world users) "wahhhhh we need to blindly back the Democrats" and "When the dems elect someone significantly more right than Kamala like Shapiro or Fetterman we need to blindly vote for them".
Yep! Lemmy loves to complain about the Democratic party, but as soon as ya mention third-party, you're banned from everywhere for being a troll. Or Lemmy's other fav insults: Nazi and Fascist. They'll even say we're paid to talk about third parties.
At this point, Lemmy is getting what they deserve. They'll lost next presidential election to if they don't wake the fuck up. :)
Lemmy: The time has come for a new third party! One made up of honest working class people, with infinity time and money between elections to campaign starting now. Oh also you need to go from 0% to 51% in one election cycle or just scrap the whole thing.
29 years, 8 general elections, 0 electoral college votes. Zero.
To put that in perspective, more electoral college votes have been awarded by ACCIDENT (2004), than have been won total by the Green party in 29 years.
More electoral college votes have been awarded by faithless electors (2016) than have been won by the Green party.
Their best run was with Nader in 2000 and even that did not move the needle.
You let the Green party go. They can't get 1% of the vote, haven't won an election in any state, it's past time to give up the illusion that they are a real party.
Its not electoral reform or state action that we need. Its the DNC. Their policies and positions support the billionaire Problem Class. The Guillotine Party needs to decapitate the billionaire class and their political lapdogs in the Democratic party.
The funny part is that this is an actual centrist position: there is broad bipartisan support for attacking the oligarchs. If the Democrats would actually go after them, the GOP would have to do the same. We would end up with two parties focused on class warfare instead of none.
When have people (outside isolated trolls) accused 3rd-party advocates of being shills? If the "Tanky Triad" only supported an end to "first-past-the-post" voting, that would be one thing. But when I visit, I'm inundated with propaganda championing fascists who want to ignore reality and bend the population to their will. That's not liberalism, and it's certainly not Progressive Politics...
When have people (outside isolated trolls) accused 3rd-party advocates of being shills?
Take a look at some older posts from before the election. It was a fucking witchhunt on third-party advocates. Every single one was accused of being a paid russian shill. Every. Single. One. lol
Do you have some examples? Like I said, all I experienced was disingenuous comments.
EDIT: My bad, I thought we were talking about people (plural) advocating against 3rd-party candidates in general. I still haven't seen that. But yeah, Jill Stein is sus as fuck. You're allowed to think otherwise, but pointing that out doesn't make someone a shill.
EDIT: If you don't think Jill Stein is a Russian asset after reading all the credible allegations, I don't know what to tell you. Of course you're allowed your opinion, but that's still not evidence of people saying 3rd-party candidates in general are bad.
Aside from Jill Fucking Stein, I still don't see evidence that wide swaths of people were advocating against 3rd parties in general. Yeah, there are definitely credible allegations against her, and both Putin and the GOP absolutely took advantage of her spoiler status in the election. Maybe you think she sat at the table with Putin himself without knowledge of him using her?
I get it. I too want this entire administration to burn, but at the same time, Perdue was a sitting Senator. A co-worker. Almost normal compared to Bondi or RFK Jr.
And this isn't a cabinet member. It's not like Perdue is going to make any real progress with China on anything.
No, they're not. What happened to Obama's scotus pick proves you can gum up this process and prevent appointments. And you can do it without losing voters.
The senate rules changed, if I remember correctly in 2013 and 2017, so that presidential appointments and scotus judges could not be filibustered. A simple majority can change the rules for the next congress and the majority party is Republican and the next congress will either be a Democrat majority or it will be a full on dictatorship.
That's not what I said. There are better ways to fight.
Fight the turly terrible candidate choices, not the ones who you might actually have a chance of working productively with.
Chuck Schumer is abysmal and needs to step down, and he was wrong about the budget. But the essence of his argument has some truth - politics is a two-way street. In the rare case where there is a possibility of cooperation, that sets a better standard and will likely be more effective than endless partisanship.
Fight the turly terrible candidate choices, not the ones who you might actually have a chance of working productively with.
Things centrists never say about progressives. Because centrists only have intentions of working with their republican buddies to accomplish their mutual goals.
I think you're being understandably but uncessarily cynical for the purposes of this conversation.
I proudly call myself a far-leftist. Even a "woke" one. But victory for the ideals that drive us will not come from endless othering of those who we disagree with. Perfect is the enemy of the good, so the saying goes. I would say it's now the enemy of even just a little bit better as opposed to so much worse.
With that being said, we should never compromise on expressing what we actually believe. I want universal basic income, guaranteed minimum income according to a livable wage, weath taxes, and much more aggressive income taxation of the 1% and 0.1%. I want universal healthcare, open borders, and end to private prisons. But fuck me if I won't vote to make what social security we do have just a little bit better.
As politicians and lawmakers, we need to be the bigger party in the room that doesn't stoop to their level.
I know right now things demand radical defence of democracy, but that doesn't happen by politicians giving up what little power and platform they might have. They can go to work when they're not out on the streets with the protestors.
I think you’re being understandably but uncessarily cynical for the purposes of this conversation.
Every time I think I'm too cynical, democrats prove me wrong. They don't get to come back from supporting a genocide.
I proudly call myself a far-leftist. Even a “woke” one.
But?
But victory for the ideals that drive us will not come from endless othering of those who we disagree with.
Oh yeah. Wouldn't want to other those people who carry swastika flags and chant "Jews will not replace us" after all, they're the only demographic that matters to the democratic party, and they're willing to throw all of us under the bus for a 1% chance at getting a single nazi vote. You're bus fodder just like me and don't you forget it. The femtosecond republicans express the slightest displeasure at your existence, you'll be under the bus with all the disposables you don't consider worth defending because it might other some contemptible nazi.
With that being said, we should never compromise on expressing what we actually believe.
With every betrayal, democrats converge on expressing what they actually believe.
I want universal basic income, guaranteed minimum income according to a livable wage, weath taxes, and much more aggressive income taxation of the 1% and 0.1%. I want universal healthcare, open borders, and end to private prisons.
There is no major party that does not fight against everything you claim to stand for here.
As politicians and lawmakers, we need to be the bigger party in the room that doesn’t stoop to their level.
We're dealing with nazis. You don't win over nazis by appeasement. You don't win them over with magnanimity. They do not want to parlay. They want you dead.
I know right now things demand radical defence of democracy, but that doesn’t happen by politicians giving up what little power and platform they might have.
Then maybe they should stop giving up whatever power they have every time they have the opportunity to do so.
How would you deal with these Nazis and other fellow Americans who you disagree with? Let's say you're the new president and your party controls both houses of government.
Trump is allowing people to be disappeared to El Salvador. Would you do the same to these people you call Nazis? What about the 45 million or so people who voted for this shit?
I agree the political situation sucks. But solutions aren't easy, and eventually, at the end of the day, we have to be united or there is only war and violence forever.
Fight the turly terrible candidate choices, not the ones who you might actually have a chance of working productively with.
This makes absolutely no sense, why not fight both?
Is there a fight limit you don't want them to waste on small fries? Or is their energy limited due to exhaustion from all their paid appearances and campaigning tours.
Name one good reason why they shouldn't be fighting ever single battle!
Why fight when (a) it's not going to change anything and (b) winning the fight gets you a worse outcome.
If it isn't going to change anything but there's a reason to fight on principle, by all means. But fighting for its own sake makes you look stupid and immature.
Technically, if the Democrats reject this guy he still gets confirmed. If every Democrat, Independent, and also 3 Republicans reject this guy, he still gets confirmed. As was the case with Pete Hegseth, whom is way worse than Purdue in every way.
Pretending that the primaries (when they happen at all) are fair doesn't mean they are.
The party went to court and successfully argued that they don't have to run honest primaries. Anyone who suggests primaries as a means to end the entrenched conservative hegemony in democratic party leadership knows better and is gloating.
All criticism of your shitty worthless republican-lite party does not mean advocacy for voting for the slightly worse party it keeps trying to be.
,,,yes? that's literally my issue. It's advocating to not vote, which is russian propaganda driven and only serves to reduce real ability to fight fascism in favor of grandstanding online as a keyboard warrior.
Don't need to rig the vote if you sue to keep challengers off the ballot and then decide not to hold primaries at all.
That is not a common practice. It happens, yes. But it's not common
So who will you vote for the next "election?" Supreme Führer Trump and his league of cartoonish evil, or the spineless cowards who will do nothing to make things better?
dems are as crooked as the rest. nancy does insider trade since decades and chuck schumer is just evil ignoring what israel does.
or remember the black fig leaf obama? nobody has ever ordered more deadly airstrikes in countries you are not at war with.
i think this entire "american dream" thing was just metaphoric for a modern form of slaves and kings. just think of it: who were those that left europe for the new world? sleezebags, greedy goldsearchers...just ppl who were bad anyways. and thats what their entire fake culture is built on.
All politics are performative. Blocking Trump's appointments would be a sign that they're willing to fight for democracy....but they aren't., so they don't.
This is just more evidence that every time Dems blamed not being able to enact their promises on Joe Manchin, there were always going to be just enough Democratic "defectors" that their donors didn't really have to worry.
I'm forming a new party called the "Guillotines for anyone with more money than me party"
We'll guillotine anyone with more money than me. That's my whole platform. I don't have a lot but I'm comfortable. If you also don't have a lot but you're comfortable boy do I have the party for you!
Hmmm, it's like they're all rich and know that in the end it'll be fine for them under a fascist regime?
I'm not an American, but I have to give the Trump supporters they are right about one thing: the Democrats do not seem interested in fixing their problems. Trump's just honest about it 🤷
David Perdue not the worst option. Former politician, former CEO of Reebok. At least it's a businessman and not a Xenophobe, any aggression between the US and China I think will be very squarely not his fault.
Yes correct. Because fundamentally there is no significant difference between Democrats and Republicans. Money and favor buy votes across the aisle the same as it buys anything else regardless of political affiliation.
seems like they wouldve been able to confirm either way, even they went against, and they were probably bought off just before the votes. there were already well known DINOS in both house, its just them preserving thier gravy train from donors of both parties.
This is how Democracy works. We had an election and America chose Trump. Hard to believe but it happened. America comes together to let that person lead until the next election, this is how America is supposed to work. It is sad that so many people don't understand how the system should work.
I never thought the election was rigged. Political rivals talking shit about eachother isn't anything new. I'm not sure exactly what you are crying about but the election is over.
I think everyone should support whomever wins the election as that is the will of the people. That is how democracy works. Whoever wins in 2028 I will do my part to support, that is my responsibility as a citizen that supports democracy.
Only with the extreme Overton shift in the US. Democrats may be more progressive than Republicans, but that’s really not saying much. Most actual Democrat policy is right of center, to the frustration of representatives like Sanders and AOC.
The US only has a far-right party and a further right party. When has the Democrats ever advocated for anything at all left of center, other than Bernie's Medicare for All, which since most nations on earth have some government provided healthcare, is more centrist, than center-left.
What far left? You mean the “far left” that continues to support the surveillance state in the US or the “far left” that continues to support the total destruction of Gaza? I can keep going, those are only the first two that came to mind.
I don't get this whole Gaza thing. Seems you Americans are distracted by Gaza well your own house is burning down around you. Take care of the house fire first.
While what’s happening in Gaza is horrific, it’s sadly far down on the list of grievances against the so called “far left” in the US. It was just one that came immediately to mind. They’ve also had no problem with “Citizens United” which allowed unlimited money in politics, they’ve continued to support the police state in the US, a lack of any meaningful movement on healthcare.
Joe Manchin is no longer a Senator but he used to be considered a “centrist”. He was a fucking coal barron who used his influence to get his daughter a made up MBA, she in turn was CEO of Mylan when they jacked up prices on the life saving Eli-pen.
Including Cory Booker... 🤷♂️ 🙄
Was everything he did recently just as performative as with MAGAts??
Way to put up roadblocks and speedbumps when it really counts Dems... Feckless Fucks. 🖕 🖕
No shit it was. He wants to run for president and he knows that stunt will make headlines but this will be buried in comments where the headline is “16 democrats vote for trump nominee” (aka exactly what is happening here)
Booker is classic neoliberal, no ethics or morals, guided by money and power. 10-15 years ago he was deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry because they are huge in NJ. Then his aspirations went higher and he realized that association was harmful, at that point he had connections that made him no longer reliant on their cash, so he shed them. It’s not growth, it’s a calculated move
I had hoped he was going for redemption. Feckless moron doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of being president
I wonder who he's going to pretend to date for his next run.
I recall that he was also in favor of charter schools, which made him non-viable for me years ago.
I hoped that maybe he had a real change of heart last month, but I guess that was just a publicity stunt.
Of course it was performative, it all is.
Of course it was. It was just a political stunt to pump up his street cred as a warrior, in advance of an eventual announcement for a presidential campaign.
Then he votes for the MAGA Nazis.
He's a collaborator.
Yes it was! And please look in folks' comment histories, the tankies were the first ones to call this out.
Keep that energy, know your enemies, all of them.
Never forget, next time they do a performance remember!
so blocking the appointment of the U.S. ambassador to China, in a vote they can't win looking at the numbers, helps the revolution how?
Because its not about winning, its about taking a stand.
You don't give NAZI TRAITORS a single vote of support for ANYTHING. They are Nazis, they are the most corrupt and treasonous administration in American history, and any support is collaboration, even a single vote.
and how far should it be taken? shut down the government? occupy buildings?
Way more
how will you vote
I’ll vote just fine because I don’t live in a shithole country.
But Jesus Christ- Imagine being American and thinking voting was going to save you in 2025
how will you vote?
It gets taken as far as required to crush MAGA, bring their treasonous, corrupt leaders to justice, and purge MAGA from our government, society, and the world.
MAGA is literally the same as the German Nazis of the 30s and 40s, and they will be operating death camps, just like their heros. They are already building a camp in Guantanamo Bay to hold 30,000 people, out of the sight of the media and the courts. They'll send foreigners to El Salvador, but they'll send Americans to Gitmo.
Are we supposed to wait until they have killed millions, and have people say "Gee, why didn't someone stop them before it got that far?"
how will you vote?
Can you fight them as hard as they fought you
Filibuster maybe?
Procedural moves that slow them down
Could you at least not vote to enable them
What the fuck can you do?
Jesus fucking christ
Cory Booker—New Jersey
Chris Coons—Delaware
Tammy Duckworth—Illinois
John Fetterman—Pennsylvania
Ruben Gallego—Arizona
Maggie Hassan—New Hampshire
Tim Kaine—Virginia
Andy Kim—New Jersey
Angus King—Maine (independent who caucuses with Democrats)
Amy Klobuchar—Minnesota
Gary Peters—Michigan
Jack Reed—Rhode Island
Jacky Rosen—Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen—New Hampshire
Elissa Slotkin—Michigan
Mark Warner—Virginia
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We're still counting fetterman as a Democrat? Aight.
Also wasn't everyone fawning over Booker for the sit in DAYS AGO??
I heard that apparently (rumors) Fetterman might run in 2028 to give the illusion that we still have a democracy
He’ll probably show up to the debate in a bath robe.
Gallego: We ditched Sinema because of shit like this.
Primary every one of them.
What if the primary in question is rigged?
Delay, deny, _____?
The last three months should have been a stark reminder to everyone that after a certain amount of time in their positions, politicians stop seeing non-politicians as real people and everything just becomes a game.
mods have been deleting my comments that remind people that Biden and the Democrats gleefully committed genocide and lost the election for their refusal to even suggest they'll stop it.
When will people wake up and realize the Democrats are not on our side, not the lesser evil? They exist to give us an illusion that someone is fighting on our behalf, they exist to pacify us, they exist to allow capitalism to turn us into wage-slaves.
They'll take a knee with us, they'll give record breaking speeches, they'll march with us in the peaceful phases, they'll be on the front line even. They'll hold rallies and raise incredible amounts to "flight fascism", and then they'll step in line and vote to keep the wheel turning RIGHT.
Why they are so threatened by AOC and Sanders, and the calls for the old guard to GTFO
I fully expect the DNC to launch a bigger underhanded attack against the both of them than the Republicans do.
Both Sanders and AOC both support Israel. The progressive base may like them better than "the old guard" but they're not exactly in love with these two. It's a begrudging vote, not a happy one.
Hasn't Sanders opposed Israeli military policy pretty publicly, including voting to block arms sales? [1] [2]
Didn't AOC accuse Israel of committing genocide on the house floor? [3]
In what way do they support Israel? It hasn't been my impression that they support genocide or American culpability in it.
They've only very recently begun to change their public opinion on it. Last year this time Bernie was catching heat for refusing to support a permanent ceasefire;
Additionally, this is AOCs stance on Israel: https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-statement-first-anniversary-october-7th
As you can see, she strongly condemns Hamas, which is great. She strongly condemns Israel, and Netanyahu, which is great. And I totally agree with the entire statement all the way down until the last paragraph;
Hamas is a terrorist organization which was quite literally created by Israel by their systematic abuse of an entire group of people. There's nothing about this entire situation that wasn't inevitable. You can't abuse a people for decades, encroach on their lives, livelihood, murder them, strongly police them, continually treat them like shit and sub-human and expect them not to retaliate. Much like the US is directly responsible for the situations leading to terrorist attacks against the US, Israel is also directly responsible for Hamas.
Even aside from all of this, her views on Israel again, just like Sanders are relatively new. Just last year she was about to be censured by other party members for being too soft on Israel ^1.
So yeah, it's great that they're just now coming around to the plight of Gaza and the Palestinians it's not like they actually believe it. It's all politically motivated. They're beginning to understand that unless they condemn Israel they won't be elected--which is pretty fucked up IMO.
Sanders didn't even show up or rally for mohsen mahdawi, who is HIS CONSTITUENT, after they were illegally detained for speaking out against Israel.
Nobody is coming for us.
Nobody in power is going to risk losing their grip on it to advocate for real material progress and dismantle the institutions that give them that power in the first place.
Nobody in congress deserves to lead the people. The workers do.
So a lesser evil?
I mean, support for genocide is wholly evil, I don't care what your other policies are. lol Evil is evil lil bro. There's no such thing as a lesser degree of evil.
It would be the same if like, Donald Trump was a perfect candidate, but he's also a sexual predator. That should immediately disqualify him, otherwise you're supporting that behavior.
Bernie and AOC most closely align with my political viewpoints, but they're also supporting genocide... If I support them, then I'm also supporting genocide. Is what it is.
If that pisses you off, then maybe talk to Bernie and/or AOC about their stance on Israel.
Umm, okay
Yes. There are several recent instances where he's "slamming" Israel. And then 3 decades where they're best friends, including up to the end of 2024....
Yah the one governor hugging Trump. I mean come on.
And just to be clear, you think The Grifter Party cares about you? Sorry, Green - the Green party.
Sometimes I get their name and their actions mixed up.
So what are you going to do? Not vote?
Guillotine Party.
Them: Option A is evil Nazis, option B is nice Nazis.
You: So what are you going to do? Not vote?
Those are not the options.
The only reason Cory did his speech was to cover for Chuck Schumer declaring his job as a Senator is to serve Israel.
I was thinking it
I keep hearing project 2025 was a decades plan and the Dems had nothing planned to counter it. Now I'm guessing they are part of the plan.
Dems are bought that's why.
It’s not like the guy they voted for is a rare qualified pick from the Trump camp.
It’s David Purdue, a failed pillow company CEO, as well as ceo for other textile companies. More recently he dabbled in politics as a Republican senator from Georgia, failed gubernatorial candidate, 2020 election denier, climate change denier, and generally an idiotic sycophant.
The textile experience gives him a small amount of plausibility as a choice, but everything else far outweighs that. Just another loser grifter in Trump’s orbit.
God damn, how many more failed pillow company execs does he have left?
I was wondering same!
Maybe it’s something to do with hotels...?
You DONT Understand! They COULDNT do ANYTHING except Vote to Confirm because they NEED Donations!
Donate harder and maybe they'll consider doing something!
Bourgeois party. Capitalism is incompatible with democracy.
Democracy needs capitalism.
Capitalism does not need Democracy.
Edit: some context because this triggered a few people: it's a quote from Robert Reich.
Could you walk me through why you think democracy necessitates capitalism?
Capitalism on its own is very anti-democratic. Given enough time, most industries would become a monopoly.
A strong Democracy should have sufficient guard rails for the population to counteract the influence of capitalism: strong unions, solid worker protections, limitation of money in politics, higher tax rates on wealth, and so on. The Nordic countries are a good example of this.
Ok, I think we're miscommunicating. Either my question was't formulated very clearly, or I misunderstood what you said in the first place. I took what you said ("democracy needs capitalism") to mean "if you want democracy, you need capitalism", or alternatively "if you don't have capitalism, you cannot have democracy". My question is why you believe this (if you do, that is; I may have misunderstood).
Your answer I completely agree with, but it just argues that capitalism is harmful to democracy and that at best democracy is like a guard rail for capitalism. If anything it shows that capitalism and democracy are kind of incompatible.
And it's a side track, but the Nordic countries are not a good example of democracy counteracting the excesses of capitalism. They've just outsourced the worst of the misery to the global South. And domestically the situation for workers gets worse year by year (although they're a long way from dropping to American levels).
Without democracy, capitalism just becomes fascism.
Agreed that capitalism can morph into a hideous beast if not controlled, but would you consider China fascist?
No.
It does if you want people to afford to buy your stuff. Or to have your stuff on the shelves. Happy tariff day. I heard another boat returned to China with no toys dropped off.
The dnc is a sunk cost.
You want a country where you can live free, you're going to have to take it yourself.
Dont worry though, that will be some other generations problem. Most of us will just have to live through the enshitification of everything. Cherish these last days. You may never see any like them again. You might even wake up one day and think, the status quo was like being stuck at the top of a Farris wheel. Scary, and uncertain but the view was amazing.
I agree. I have stepped away from party activity. They are on their own. There are other better avenues for organizing right now.
The Democrats never actually opposed fascism, they just invoked it because they knew it was unpopular. The problem of the Democrats is that you can't constantly run on things you have no intention of following through on, without having voters stop believing you eventually.
Alright at this point we should just clean house everyone in executive, Congress and Judiciary needs to go
Or, hear me out, make sure people like Trump always lose in the future so they can't initiate any appointments ever again.
Then maybe biden should have hired an AG who was interested in pursuing justice, instead of dragging things out so biden could run as second worst to trump again.
B-but the decorum, the hypothetical high road!
People like Trump shouldn't be eligible for fucking office. If you have Felonies pending or served you should never be able to run for office period
Yeah, that's great, but he is. What now?
I get black bagged and die.
Like it's almost like you ignored the context completely or something.
You mean being convicted of breaking the law shouldn't be a badge of honor?
Anybody really know politics in detail and can explain their motive?
Are they afraid of retaliation in some form? What's the rub?
They are republicans in disguise..
One day people are going to realize this is just theatre. It's a club with predetermined decisions, similar to WWE. None of them give a fuck about you.
People realized it over a decade ago.
So what shall we do about it?
Vote blue so much that they have to keep passing progressive reform like the always do when blue wins. They made the rules, all we need to do is make them play by them.
If this is how you characterize the biden administration, you're expecting people to be too easily content.
Nothing tells them to listen to your damands like just giving them more if they do the opposite of your demands.
This sounds like an abused spouse that is saying "just give him more love and he will change. He said he will. I just have to love him more. The bruises arent that bad. He didnt mean it."
And like the abuser they are, the Democrats immediately turned on minorities whose loyalty they took for granted. They went racist against Latinos and Muslims, proving that they never cared to begin with.
You ask them to paint and take away their pigments and canvas. You display the result as proof that they're no artist at all.
Controlled opposition party strikes again!
The Republicans are the Sword, and the Democrats are the Shield.
Imagine being a liberal right now lmfao You’re pissed at EVERYTHING and yelling at your allies while the people you’re telling them to vote for are supporting the very thing making you furious.
Fuckin’ awesome.
Rhoeri is gonna rest their case so hard when they get here. Then we will all be sorry!
Rhoeri will say "lmao" and end any and all criticisms with citations!
If we all showed up to vote blue then thwre would be no Trump appointments to be mad at.
All that voting Blue did in the past two decades was kicking the can down the road, while blocking aerious efforts to form a political power willing to bring the can back up the road.
Trump isn't an anomaly. Trump is the symptom of a broken system that was deliberately broken further and further with bipartisan support. And we still see the Democrats staying at breaking things further and helping Trump instead of forming a proper opposition.
They still rather fight progressives like AOC and Sanders than fighting Trump.
There haven't been 60 Democrat senators since 1979, haven't been more than 50 in over 10 years. The most productive congress in the last 20 years was when the DNC plus caucusing IND had supermajority for only 72 days, and it gave us medicaid expansion, was a single IND vote away from Public Option.
But if we vote/advocate third parties, or converse in conservative spaces or .ML, .Lemmygrad*, on Lemmy, we're trolls or shills. 🤮
This is the time for third parties. I get why people were saying not to talk about them during the election but now is the time because it’s obvious that the Dems continue to not have a spine.
It was obvious every election cycle since FDR too. It's past time for us to stop crossing oceans and moving mountains for those who won't jump a puddle or molehill for us. Politicians, I mean. I'll still cast my vote to help the "sane liberals", conservatives, and marxists who would let me starve in the streets or drop dead in the fields while harvesting their food, or in their bathroom I may be cleaning at the time.
Not committing self harm isn't equivalent to Moving Mountains etc. This is the whole problem with that standpoint. Yes the genocides that the United States Russia and China are committing are inexcusable. They were also not actually on the ballot. There was no one who stood a chance of getting elected that was going to make those better. But there was one that vowed to make things worse. And they won. Like many of us said they would. There is no single one group that deserves credit for that victory. But the margin of votes was with in single digit percentage. It wasn't moving a mountain.
I'm not here to accuse you of being happy with the outcome. But can you admit that you might have been taken advantage of. That your sincere Ernest desire to see things fixed may have been manipulated and taken advantage of to your own detriment and the determent of people you care about. Because I can tell you 100% that fascists, leninists, and other groups absolutely we're stirring the pot. Not caring about who got hurt.
I have no problem with anyone talking to them and trying to de program any of those groups. What I do have a problem with, are people repeating propaganda and being manipulated by these groups to get everyone hurt. We are here.
As an anarchist I wish to see all national parties disbanded and abolished. Democrat, republican, green, libertarian, vanguard. And you're not wrong that a lot of this has been going on since and including FDR. He should have actually tried and hung everyone found guilty of being involved with the business plot. Instead of making backroom deals to get Social Security Etc passed. Something which the people he spared set about immediately after it's passage, gutting it.
The sad thing is, that Democrats deny their role in the failure, just as many of the so-called people on the left who spent so much time attacking them. But as they say success has many fathers, while failure is a bastard.
You’re only worried about the immediate future. Which, yes, is bad. But many refusing to vote for the DNC are doing so because they’re complicit in enabling this bullshit political atmosphere where people are so tired of bullshit politicians who do shit like break a record to “stand up to trump” and then vote to confirm his appointee. So they either give up on voting altogether or are willing to vote for a literal dictator and the DNC’s response is to fight harder against progressives than it does trump. Then in response to losing runs someone whose message is “nothing will fundamentally change.”
So, yeah, if people had completely abandoned the DNC like they should have, maybe we wouldn’t have ever seen it get this bad. But they’re happy with it this bad. They get to pretend they care and keep making money. So yeah, there are plenty of people who refuse to vote for them because they’re happily helping to destroy democracy. (Including suing to remove 3rd parties from ballots, yay!)
Are you implying that the kidnappings torture and persecution are only short-term? Do you not understand that we will have to win back our basic rights at this point. Not just for our immigrant friends and family, but all minorities? That seems a really obtuse and uninformed viewpoint. Which I'm hoping it's just a misunderstanding on my part. And that that's not your actual stance. This shit is serious and not short-term. We will be suffering this for Generations.
I mean unless you have some Surefire non-vanguardist radical action in your pocket or something.
Literally just said I know it’s bad. Not implying it isn’t. I’m saying the DNC has been actively working towards this even being possible for years. Because they only need to run hitler -$50. And they’re happy with that. They would rather lose to Trump than lose any money. And that’s why people stop voting. And that’s why Trump is fucking even possible.
I’m just fucking tired of people defending the DNC. They’re just as big of a part of the problem as republicans.
The voters are as much to blame as the dnc. Stop trying to push all the blame on to them. So which is it and be clear. Am i only concerned about short-term shit. Or is this shit meaningful and you're just flip-flopping wildly. Twisting in the wind trying to pin everything on Democrats and nothing on you or anyone else like you.
And yet, the 3rd parties themselves don't seem to do anything until the Presidential election year. If they were serious, they'd be out there now, putting up candidates in the much-easier-to-win midterms, talking about how they're really different from the entrenched parties. They don't. They only come out of the woodwork and put up spoiler candidates for President.
Absolutely agreed. And I'm not sure the better alternative to Reddit is a "federated" platform where the mods highest priority seems to delete comments that call the Democrats what they are: nice Nazis.
Blue MAGA
Yet I keep hearing from y'all (world users) "wahhhhh we need to blindly back the Democrats" and "When the dems elect someone significantly more right than Kamala like Shapiro or Fetterman we need to blindly vote for them".
Exactly! The time for third parties is between elections. 😜
Yep! Lemmy loves to complain about the Democratic party, but as soon as ya mention third-party, you're banned from everywhere for being a troll. Or Lemmy's other fav insults: Nazi and Fascist. They'll even say we're paid to talk about third parties.
At this point, Lemmy is getting what they deserve. They'll lost next presidential election to if they don't wake the fuck up. :)
Lemmy: The time has come for a new third party! One made up of honest working class people, with infinity time and money between elections to campaign starting now. Oh also you need to go from 0% to 51% in one election cycle or just scrap the whole thing.
So how many election cycles do we give them? Serious question.
Look at the Green Party as a prime example:
1996 - 0.71%
2000 - 2.74%
2004 - 0.10%
2008 - 0.12%
2012 - 0.36%
2016 - 1.07%
2020 - 0.26%
2024 - 0.56%
29 years, 8 general elections, 0 electoral college votes. Zero.
To put that in perspective, more electoral college votes have been awarded by ACCIDENT (2004), than have been won total by the Green party in 29 years.
More electoral college votes have been awarded by faithless electors (2016) than have been won by the Green party.
Their best run was with Nader in 2000 and even that did not move the needle.
I can't imagine why there should be a limit. What happens when we reach it?
Why on earth did he reply to your 5 month old comment? Weird.
If a third party can't win an election in nearly 30 years, it's not really an alternative to anything. Time to let it go.
Let it go and do what? The plan that has won over the last 30 years was the fascist one.
You let the Green party go. They can't get 1% of the vote, haven't won an election in any state, it's past time to give up the illusion that they are a real party.
Primaries are where you fall in love, the General election is where you fall in line unless you want the opposition to win.
The folks I banned here weren't honestly advocating third party, they were conservatives attempting to split the Democratic vote.
Once the mask came off they were banned. I probably gave them more rope than I should have.
Guillotine Party. A Democratic version of the Tea Party. Don't promote a third party; replace the current one from the inside out.
Promote electoral reform. Something we can do one state at a time.
Its not electoral reform or state action that we need. Its the DNC. Their policies and positions support the billionaire Problem Class. The Guillotine Party needs to decapitate the billionaire class and their political lapdogs in the Democratic party.
The funny part is that this is an actual centrist position: there is broad bipartisan support for attacking the oligarchs. If the Democrats would actually go after them, the GOP would have to do the same. We would end up with two parties focused on class warfare instead of none.
When have people (outside isolated trolls) accused 3rd-party advocates of being shills? If the "Tanky Triad" only supported an end to "first-past-the-post" voting, that would be one thing. But when I visit, I'm inundated with propaganda championing fascists who want to ignore reality and bend the population to their will. That's not liberalism, and it's certainly not Progressive Politics...
Take a look at some older posts from before the election. It was a fucking witchhunt on third-party advocates. Every single one was accused of being a paid russian shill. Every. Single. One. lol
When I am accused of such things, I tend to doxx myself as Yevgeny Prigozhin. Claiming to be a primary source within Wagner has its uses.
I'm not even sure if you're joking or not, but you do know he's dead, right?Edit: Nvm, you're joking.
Of course. It is a closely guarded Russian secret that I escaped by parachute. The mighty Putin went through great effort to fake my death.
That's how extreme some Lemmy's were for sure! lol
Do you have some examples? Like I said, all I experienced was disingenuous comments.
EDIT: My bad, I thought we were talking about people (plural) advocating against 3rd-party candidates in general. I still haven't seen that. But yeah, Jill Stein is sus as fuck. You're allowed to think otherwise, but pointing that out doesn't make someone a shill.
So... Still no sources. Not one...
EDIT: If you don't think Jill Stein is a Russian asset after reading all the credible allegations, I don't know what to tell you. Of course you're allowed your opinion, but that's still not evidence of people saying 3rd-party candidates in general are bad.
Aside from Jill Fucking Stein, I still don't see evidence that wide swaths of people were advocating against 3rd parties in general. Yeah, there are definitely credible allegations against her, and both Putin and the GOP absolutely took advantage of her spoiler status in the election. Maybe you think she sat at the table with Putin himself without knowledge of him using her?
https://beehaw.org/post/19739290 sorry, I originally thought your comment was itt. ^
I get it. I too want this entire administration to burn, but at the same time, Perdue was a sitting Senator. A co-worker. Almost normal compared to Bondi or RFK Jr.
And this isn't a cabinet member. It's not like Perdue is going to make any real progress with China on anything.
China isn't budging on shit.
Democrats reject this guy, a worse candidate is put forward next. Seems like a stupid hill to die on. They're going to appoint somebody.
Edit: I didn't know he'd be confirmed anyway. If true, then I agree a Democratic rejection out of principle would have been a better statement.
No, they're not. What happened to Obama's scotus pick proves you can gum up this process and prevent appointments. And you can do it without losing voters.
Democrats are choosing to aide the trump admin.
The senate rules changed, if I remember correctly in 2013 and 2017, so that presidential appointments and scotus judges could not be filibustered. A simple majority can change the rules for the next congress and the majority party is Republican and the next congress will either be a Democrat majority or it will be a full on dictatorship.
Nobody is voting for another year and a half. And hardly anyone for another three and a half years. Democrats need to pick the battles that matter.
And by an astounding coincidence, none do.
Plenty do. There is another budget vote in less than half a year.
Oh cool. Like the continuing resolution they caved on.
Cynicism like this is why humanity is doomed. Or am I misreading you and you actually think things can (if not will) get better?
Let me get this clearly: because if they fight back, maga will be even nastier, so Dems did the right thing to save us from a worse outcome?
Well fuck me, I've been at unfair to them. I owe them an apology.
That's not what I said. There are better ways to fight.
Fight the turly terrible candidate choices, not the ones who you might actually have a chance of working productively with.
Chuck Schumer is abysmal and needs to step down, and he was wrong about the budget. But the essence of his argument has some truth - politics is a two-way street. In the rare case where there is a possibility of cooperation, that sets a better standard and will likely be more effective than endless partisanship.
Things centrists never say about progressives. Because centrists only have intentions of working with their republican buddies to accomplish their mutual goals.
I think you're being understandably but uncessarily cynical for the purposes of this conversation.
I proudly call myself a far-leftist. Even a "woke" one. But victory for the ideals that drive us will not come from endless othering of those who we disagree with. Perfect is the enemy of the good, so the saying goes. I would say it's now the enemy of even just a little bit better as opposed to so much worse.
With that being said, we should never compromise on expressing what we actually believe. I want universal basic income, guaranteed minimum income according to a livable wage, weath taxes, and much more aggressive income taxation of the 1% and 0.1%. I want universal healthcare, open borders, and end to private prisons. But fuck me if I won't vote to make what social security we do have just a little bit better.
As politicians and lawmakers, we need to be the bigger party in the room that doesn't stoop to their level.
I know right now things demand radical defence of democracy, but that doesn't happen by politicians giving up what little power and platform they might have. They can go to work when they're not out on the streets with the protestors.
Every time I think I'm too cynical, democrats prove me wrong. They don't get to come back from supporting a genocide.
But?
Oh yeah. Wouldn't want to other those people who carry swastika flags and chant "Jews will not replace us" after all, they're the only demographic that matters to the democratic party, and they're willing to throw all of us under the bus for a 1% chance at getting a single nazi vote. You're bus fodder just like me and don't you forget it. The femtosecond republicans express the slightest displeasure at your existence, you'll be under the bus with all the disposables you don't consider worth defending because it might other some contemptible nazi.
With every betrayal, democrats converge on expressing what they actually believe.
There is no major party that does not fight against everything you claim to stand for here.
We're dealing with nazis. You don't win over nazis by appeasement. You don't win them over with magnanimity. They do not want to parlay. They want you dead.
Then maybe they should stop giving up whatever power they have every time they have the opportunity to do so.
How would you deal with these Nazis and other fellow Americans who you disagree with? Let's say you're the new president and your party controls both houses of government.
Trump is allowing people to be disappeared to El Salvador. Would you do the same to these people you call Nazis? What about the 45 million or so people who voted for this shit?
I agree the political situation sucks. But solutions aren't easy, and eventually, at the end of the day, we have to be united or there is only war and violence forever.
This makes absolutely no sense, why not fight both?
Is there a fight limit you don't want them to waste on small fries? Or is their energy limited due to exhaustion from all their paid appearances and campaigning tours.
Name one good reason why they shouldn't be fighting ever single battle!
Why fight when (a) it's not going to change anything and (b) winning the fight gets you a worse outcome.
If it isn't going to change anything but there's a reason to fight on principle, by all means. But fighting for its own sake makes you look stupid and immature.
Someone has to be ambassador to China.
It's probably going to be someone most on the left so not want.
So you choose the one that you can stomach while you have a vote.
Just to note, but even Republicans stonewalled every confirmation.
Technically, if the Democrats reject this guy he still gets confirmed. If every Democrat, Independent, and also 3 Republicans reject this guy, he still gets confirmed. As was the case with Pete Hegseth, whom is way worse than Purdue in every way.
That detail I didn't know. If there was a chance to act on principle here I agree. Why not?
Sorry yall. It was Fetterman or Oz and we fucking ended up with both.
Feckless.
VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!!!!
jfc.
This is what primaries are for. If you vote up or don't vote, it's a vote for fascism.
Ha.
You pretending they do not exist does not change reality. Presidential is not the only race, nor is it even the most important overall
Pretending that the primaries (when they happen at all) are fair doesn't mean they are.
The party went to court and successfully argued that they don't have to run honest primaries. Anyone who suggests primaries as a means to end the entrenched conservative hegemony in democratic party leadership knows better and is gloating.
So your response is that you'd rather watch the country burn in hell than vote democratic to stave it off?
Fair? When did I say fair? They're not fair. But, the votes in them are not rigged.
All criticism of your shitty worthless republican-lite party does not mean advocacy for voting for the slightly worse party it keeps trying to be.
Don't need to rig the vote if you sue to keep challengers off the ballot and then decide not to hold primaries at all.
,,,yes? that's literally my issue. It's advocating to not vote, which is russian propaganda driven and only serves to reduce real ability to fight fascism in favor of grandstanding online as a keyboard warrior.
That is not a common practice. It happens, yes. But it's not common
Unironically that would have prevented all of this, yes.
Trump ran as a Democrat at one point. Just vote for him, the rules are the rules.
Traitors to america
So who will you vote for the next "election?" Supreme Führer Trump and his league of cartoonish evil, or the spineless cowards who will do nothing to make things better?
dems are as crooked as the rest. nancy does insider trade since decades and chuck schumer is just evil ignoring what israel does. or remember the black fig leaf obama? nobody has ever ordered more deadly airstrikes in countries you are not at war with. i think this entire "american dream" thing was just metaphoric for a modern form of slaves and kings. just think of it: who were those that left europe for the new world? sleezebags, greedy goldsearchers...just ppl who were bad anyways. and thats what their entire fake culture is built on.
It’s rich v. poor, y’all.
And the Rich have convinced the Poor that Harris, the Tax-the-Rich Candidate, was the corrupt one.
I mean.. It is until it isn't. I wonder how many rich people were either tossed aside, or killed by Hitler.
This is not the same. Wealth is way more concentrated.
All politics are performative. Blocking Trump's appointments would be a sign that they're willing to fight for democracy....but they aren't., so they don't.
This is just more evidence that every time Dems blamed not being able to enact their promises on Joe Manchin, there were always going to be just enough Democratic "defectors" that their donors didn't really have to worry.
All the politicians are paid by the same billionaires.
But the blue ones say they are my friend and the red ones do not.
I'm forming a new party called the "Guillotines for anyone with more money than me party"
We'll guillotine anyone with more money than me. That's my whole platform. I don't have a lot but I'm comfortable. If you also don't have a lot but you're comfortable boy do I have the party for you!
Behold, a democrat:
Welp, Duckworth just lost my vote.
Hmmm, it's like they're all rich and know that in the end it'll be fine for them under a fascist regime?
I'm not an American, but I have to give the Trump supporters they are right about one thing: the Democrats do not seem interested in fixing their problems. Trump's just honest about it 🤷
It's utterly baffling.
The Democrats fix the economic damage after every Republican administration. Reagan, W. Bush, Trump... going all the way back to Nixon and before.
Broken link.
Who and for which position?
Not my question at all.
Which position and who? People are up in arms over a potential good choice, but i have no way to know.
Sorry, David Perdue for Ambassador to China
A guy with literally 0 State department experience, and a single term in any elected office.
Like, dude probably has some contacts in China but this appointment makes no sense.
David Perdue not the worst option. Former politician, former CEO of Reebok. At least it's a businessman and not a Xenophobe, any aggression between the US and China I think will be very squarely not his fault.
They will end up in camps anyway. At least they will deserve it.
Yes correct. Because fundamentally there is no significant difference between Democrats and Republicans. Money and favor buy votes across the aisle the same as it buys anything else regardless of political affiliation.
seems like they wouldve been able to confirm either way, even they went against, and they were probably bought off just before the votes. there were already well known DINOS in both house, its just them preserving thier gravy train from donors of both parties.
This is how Democracy works. We had an election and America chose Trump. Hard to believe but it happened. America comes together to let that person lead until the next election, this is how America is supposed to work. It is sad that so many people don't understand how the system should work.
I never thought the election was rigged. Political rivals talking shit about eachother isn't anything new. I'm not sure exactly what you are crying about but the election is over.
I think everyone should support whomever wins the election as that is the will of the people. That is how democracy works. Whoever wins in 2028 I will do my part to support, that is my responsibility as a citizen that supports democracy.
Yes. America chose him. He won the election. The citizens selected Trump. The voice of democracy has spoken.
Yes America had an election and Trump won that election. I don't think that is in dispute.
It’s time for the US to form a centrist party, instead of people having to choose between far right, right, and far left.
The dems are the centrists. We need an actual left party.
Only with the extreme Overton shift in the US. Democrats may be more progressive than Republicans, but that’s really not saying much. Most actual Democrat policy is right of center, to the frustration of representatives like Sanders and AOC.
Still, what the USA needs is a left party, not a centrist party.
The Socialist party already exists?
OK, then what the USA needs is a left party with funds and good advertising.
while the MSM is mostly owned by conservative, they will make sure any other party dont get press.
They're centered in terms of being centered against Republicans not left vs right
its already center right, no need for centrism.
Where is this "far left" you speak of?
Like where is any party saying to abolish private property, arrest the billionaires, and give the entire means of production to the working class?
Nancy Pelosi queen democrat literally said we live in a free market after making her 200 million playing stock market games.
Every single democrat, Bernie and AOC included, just gave full-throated support to Biden as he presided over the greatest wealth transfer in history.
The US only has a far-right party and a further right party. When has the Democrats ever advocated for anything at all left of center, other than Bernie's Medicare for All, which since most nations on earth have some government provided healthcare, is more centrist, than center-left.
What far left? You mean the “far left” that continues to support the surveillance state in the US or the “far left” that continues to support the total destruction of Gaza? I can keep going, those are only the first two that came to mind.
I don't get this whole Gaza thing. Seems you Americans are distracted by Gaza well your own house is burning down around you. Take care of the house fire first.
While what’s happening in Gaza is horrific, it’s sadly far down on the list of grievances against the so called “far left” in the US. It was just one that came immediately to mind. They’ve also had no problem with “Citizens United” which allowed unlimited money in politics, they’ve continued to support the police state in the US, a lack of any meaningful movement on healthcare.
Joe Manchin is no longer a Senator but he used to be considered a “centrist”. He was a fucking coal barron who used his influence to get his daughter a made up MBA, she in turn was CEO of Mylan when they jacked up prices on the life saving Eli-pen.
Only way to get reforms like that is to vote blue.