House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Democrats will not focus on impeaching President Trump if they regain a majority in the lower chamber after midterm elections.
“I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader added.
The House minority leader has lauded Democrats’ push for redistricting nationwide in an effort to pick up additional House seats and signaled that the party will advocate more for working-class Americans, after Democrats saw losses from the key demographic in the 2024 election.
(Obligatory https://readsettlers.org/ )
PS this is low effort memes, I’m not going to defend the meme in the comments - feel free to argue with yourselves
Edit: I’m not american so you’re extra wasting your time arguing 🤷♀️
Nah we’re not doing this “genocide Joe” bullshit again.
Stop supporting and enabling genocidal cunts, then. Otherwise leftists such as myself will continue to endlessly effort post and create a scene.
You need to accept that the shitlib/radical centrist coalition is insufficient to get Democrats to win elections, as clearly demonstrated by Biden/Harris completely failing. You need to push the Democrats to the left. You need to have a candidate actually worth voting for, someone who actually excites the electorate to go out and vote to improve their lives, not just the “technically better than Trump” candidate. That doesn’t win elections, no matter how much you rant and rave and shame people.
Deal with this reality, or accept endless Republican victories.
Stop supporting and enabling genocidal cunts or I’ll do my best to kneecap the only viable opposition and empower MAGA and Trump!
The Democrats empowered MAGA and Trump by running a completely non-viable candidate. Stop blaming voters for the failure of the Democratic party. This is all on them, 100%.
That non viable candidate almost won and the world would be a better place if she did.
I’d say this was less on the voters and more on the non voters.
People didn’t vote because they felt like Harris was not worth voting for. She lost because she didn’t actually offer anyone what they wanted, she was just a harm reduction candidate at best. That isn’t sufficiently motivating to get people out to vote, no matter how much we rant and yell and shame people.
Please, I am begging you, accept this reality. I want Trump and the Republicans gone probably even more than you do. I am trying to help you understand that we lost for a very good reason and we need to learn from it.
I think she would have did a good job personally.
No war in Iran and no brownshirts shooting Americans in the streets.
What you think, and whether she would have done a good job, is completely irrelevant. Do you not understand my point? You win elections by having a candidate that people want to vote for, usually by advancing policies which are popular.
The genocide in Gaza is now like a 90/10 issue. It is known that it was a factor in why Kamala lost the election. If she had opposed the genocide, it is very possible that she would have won.
I am not shitting on Democrats just for fun. I am trying to explain that Trump won because the Democrats advanced a shit, genocidal candidate.
If you let them do the same thing again in 2028, we very well may see a Republican President even worse than Trump.
Please, demand more than the bare minimum.
She ran on a more lethal military and that Iran was our greatest enemy…
Oh yes, why reduce harm when we can not vote and get the option that will just endlessly stab with the wheel of staby knives.
People not voting are possibly more stupid than MAGA. At least MAGA morons have SOME sort of care, even if its motivated entirely by hate.
I’ve voted in every election I was ever eligible to vote in. I am simply explaining why the Democrats lost. You can hate the people who didn’t vote if you want, I understand that frustration, but there is a very good reason they didn’t vote - because they didn’t perceive the Democratic candidate to be someone worth voting for.
Advance a candidate with popular policies who isn’t a genocidal piece of shit and watch in amazement as political engagement ramps up.
maga has candidates that they’re excited to vote for.
democrats do not.
Second worst is not good enough to win. Appealing to the voters is not beneath you.
harm reduction is a specific thing. voting is not harm reduction.
Take a look in the mirror. That’s what a fascist enabler looks like.
I have explained this, again, and again, and again: I am just explaining why and how the democrats lost. I have voted in every election I have ever been eligible to vote in, ALWAYS for the candidate which minimizes harm.
Please stop being so reactionary and try to understand what I am writing. Jumping to conclusions and getting angry at me for explaining why OTHER PEOPLE didn’t vote doesn’t make me a fascist enabler.
Funny how not setting your hand on a burning stove won’t result in third degree burns isn’t a good enough reason to not set your hand on a burning stove. You ever heard the phrase “don’t let better be the enemy of perfect”?
No shit Harris sucked, but she sucked a whole lot less than Trump and moving incrementally left from Harris would have been a HELL OF A LOT easier than moving left from Trump. I do absolutely blame the idiots who sat around and said “well, Harris doesn’t inspire me, so I’ll sit here and let the fascist collapse happen. That’ll show everyone how morally superior I am!”
The people who didn’t vote, I think, are worse than Trumo supporters because at least Trump supporters made moves to do what they thought was best while you sat around and twiddled your thumbs and let the world burn around you instead of doing the bare fucking minimum available to you to stop it, or at least slow it down to make it easier to change it in the near future
The people who didn’t vote, I think, are worse than Trump supporters…
Yeah, being mad at trump supporters voting for trump is like being mad at your dog for eating its own shit. It’s a dumb animal that eats shit and garbage, what were you expecting? I’m more mad that they have, not just equal, but over representation in this political system. We need a system where ideally, the stupid dogs have no representation, or at a minimum, equal representation to actual thinking human beings.
No excuses for the 3rd party/non-voters in 2024. Life is full of shitty compromises made worse by inaction. I’m amazed they’ve made it this far in life without noticing that, but it’s time to adult the fuck up.
Primaries for Congress are going on right now, and each one of those whiny lazy chucklefucks that got us into the mess ought to be out there stumping for their ideal candidate every waking hour of every day until November.
That non viable candidate almost won and the world would be a better place if she did.
But she chose a losing policy and lost. The entire left was telling you she was going to lose. But the left isn’t netanyahu, so centrists didn’t listen.
What “losing policy” did she pick?
Genocide, obviously. Unlimited, unreserved pro-zionist support for Israel. Neoliberalism. Take your pick, really.
Genocide.
This is the most sane comment I’ve seen from you since I joined Lemmy.
non viable candidate almost won
He almost gets it, like Kamala almost won.
yeah what gives? did we slip into a mandala universe again? (we spell it mandala here)
almost won? She lost every single swing state. It was a slaughter and not even close.
In the history of the USA Harris got the third most votes ever.
It goes:
Biden with 81,283,501 Trump (2024) with 77,302,580 Harris with 75,017,613 Trump (2020) with 74,223,975
Listen sweater maybe you don’t understand how elections work
Wow, “stop blaming voters”.
America, do you even understand how a democracy is supposed to work? Hint: it’s not fire & forget every N years.
Good luck you all, you need it.
Liberals have a real problem reckoning with the fact that Kamala Harris lost because she was an unelectable piece of genocidal trash who deserves to be put on trial for crimes against humanity alongside Biden for their unlimited support to the genocidal regime of Israel, who advanced precisely zero popular policies, and ran entirely on a platform of “We’re like the Republican Party, but slightly less worse”.
Liberals feel like their candidate was good, but only lost because voters are lazy, apathetic, stupid, etc. If the candidate was good, voters would overcome these obstacles and vote. I’m just explaining fundamental reality to people who do not want to come to terms with the fact that their political project, neoliberalism, is dead and gone.
If you’re an American then it is up to you to find a good candidate. It’s not going to work if you wait for someone to spoon feed you the “right”(enough) candidate.
I regularly encourage people to get engaged in the democratic process, especially primaries, as well as participating in workplace organizing and activist efforts. Please enjoy one of my many homemade copypastas:
Organize, protest and elect. Emphasis on organize and protest.
- Get as involved as you can with activist efforts locally.
- Organize, network, focus on building solidarity. Join or form a union. Join the IWW.
- Vote at primaries and elections for the best candidate, even if you doubt they can win.
- Don’t punch down.
- Don’t punch left.
- Educate yourself, politically.
- Push for voting reform and for anything that breaks the two-party system.
This is just… Its such a hilariously insane sentiment to express. I’m like, genuinely glad that shitlibs can’t help themselves and are willing to just live with their whole ass hanging out. Just, honestly, thank you. Thank you for always saying the quiet parts out loud. You make it so much easier to identify and understand why and how liberalism ends up at fascism.
And what you are doing is important, even if its naively so. We need this kind of thinking documented, if only to study in an effort to make sure no one ever repeats it.
Gald we have great morals and not voted for lesser genocide and allowed unbridled genocide to occur.
If you want better candidates you need to find them long before election day. On election day it is too late to find your perfect candidate. And yeah, its no secret democrats are right wing… not really sure what you expected.
Leftists, including me, yelled as loudly and repeatedly as possible that Biden/Harris would lose the election, long before the election was held. We were ignored, and now, we’re being blamed for the loss that is 100% the fault of the centrist/right wing of the Democratic party.
What do you think I’m doing now, literally YEARS out from the election? I am trying to help people understand WHY the Democrats lost, so that we can avoid a candidate who will lose in the same way.
I’m trying to push the Democrats back towards the left wing because that is the best hope we have of curbing the rise of fascism.
Wow, “stop blaming voters”.
Ok. Keep blaming voters. Scream at them until the end of time. It won’t change the electorate you have in front of you. You can appeal to the voters or lose. I know, it’s beneath you to treat the hostages like they’re people instead of vending machines that dispense votes when you kick them hard enough.
vending machines that dispense votes when you kick them hard enough.
They quit teaching civics in school in the US 30 years ago. So, no, the kids you’re arguing with do not understand how a democracy is supposed to work. Yet another Republican success story.
they did? shit someone tell our local districts.
That explains a fair bit… Thanks! And good luck.
🙄
It certainly seems like you have a winning message by being condescending
Well sorry if it comes off like that but I sometimes feel I’m trying to instruct in a kindergarten. Do americans not study history of democracy, or of war? It’s like they do all the rookie mistakes.
Good luck to them all.
I promise you everyone on the left understands US civics. Liberals can’t help but condescend and derail into metaphor because the arguments for their policy fucking suck.
No it’s projection which is why it’s hilarious. Cumfart spent his 2024 kneecapping any opposition to Biden and the status quo, leaving us with the only possible option which could lose to fascism.
Don’t let them fool you, Cumfart is a fascist. They would just prefer it be their preferred fascists at the helm.
I voted for Harris not the fascists.
Don’t you love the neo-liberal bullshit of critical analysis of a candidate by a leftist means you didn’t vote for them? Geeze, with them pushing away leftists, I wonder how the party will do now.
I don’t think you know what neoliberal means and when did I tell dingdong they didn’t vote?
I would appreciate it if you didn’t put words in my mouth so you can give yourself a reason to be mad.
Harris was fascist lite. Both candidates were fascists. Dont lie, you did vote for fascists, and you got what you voted for.
That’s just not true and comments like this are doing the right-wing propaganda machine’s job for it by normalizing what’s currently happening.
Don’t be like that.
Your vote is irrelevant when you did all the work to ensure fascists get get elected.
So you’re saying as a voter I’m supposed to just sit around and wait for a candidate/party to run a perfect campaign while I let my brain rot instead of rubbing some of my brain cells together to acknowledge that one option is better than the other, even if they messed up on the campaign trail?
That sounds pretty stupid and lazy.
Like, do you think election campaigns are the only way to judge a party or candidate? Like there isn’t an entire detailed history I can check out to determine what the facts are about that party/candidate?
Yeah, campaigns matter, but voters also have a responsibility and you’re trying to absolve them of that responsibility.
Oh my god, I am extremely over explaining this again and again.
No, I’m telling you that it doesn’t matter how much you scream, cry, shame, judge, rant and rave, it literally doesn’t matter one single iota if you’re right and those people are lazy and shit.
THEY WILL CONTINUE TO NOT VOTE UNLESS YOU GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR.
DEAL WITH REALITY, OR LOSE.
I love it, the left are both a large voting block for the Democrats but negligible enough to not be considered serious for legislation. Like with all fascists, you can’t reason with a neo-lib.
both a large voting block for the Democrats but negligible enough to not be considered serious
Schrodingers leftist.
Democrats need to pursue the left flank of the countries like they pursue triple Trumper votes.
If I can’t tell the difference then I’m not engaging. Good luck.
If I can’t tell the difference
Buddy, if you can’t tell the difference between the Republican and Democrat parties you need to get yourself a new pair of eyes and ears and then enroll yourself in some classes to get a better education.
EDIT: Oof. Some low IQ downvotes from hamster brains that don’t seem to remember our situation being way less intense before January 2025 and who apparently haven’t done their homework to determine the differences between the parties. Keep being ignorant. That’s how we got Trump and fascism.
Zoom in far enough and everything is made of the same electron. But in the bigger picture you’re still looking at two different things.
Harris chose a losing policy. She lost.
Not that any centrist has read this far, but I voted for her. I fully expect abuse from people who made the assumption that I didn’t as soon as I said she chose a losing policy.
There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging a candidate chose a losing strategy but still voting for them because you also acknowledge the opposition is worse. I did the same thing.
Unfortunately, a lot of stupid people were convinced to not vote or vote for a 3rd party with no possibility of winning.
There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging a candidate chose a losing strategy but still voting for them because you also acknowledge the opposition is worse. I did the same thing.
Saying anything about harris that centrists don’t want to hear is regarded as a prima facie confession of being Someone Who Didn’t Vote For Genocide Like We Ordered!
Unfortunately, a lot of stupid people were convinced to not vote or vote for a 3rd party with no possibility of winning.
Yeah, the electorate has stupid people in it. It also has people for whom genocide is a dealbreaker. A skilled politician could win them over. Centrists will just shout at them.
“it’s the only viable opposition because VBNMW only goes one way!”
If you want left wing votes, you better have left wing candidates. Unless you really like how 2024 turned out, I’d recommend learning that.
My best friend died in Trump’s concentration camps so I hope you feel good about teaching me that lesson.
I didn’t teach you that lesson. But seems you still need to learn it.
Hell nah, I’m not doing this tonight.
Perfection is the enemy of progress or something.
If you think electing a genocidal democrat is progress, as far as I’m concerned, you are as much an enemy of mine as a MAGA supporter is.
I am not asking for perfection. The bar is literally underground. We are talking about fucking genocide, here, not microaggressions.
This shit is literally how Trump got into power. You need to blame the Democrats for this. It was an entirely unforced defeat, all because Biden/Harris needed to dickride Israel directly into hell.
Fuck. That.
They keep proving the joke of “we tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”.
The thing is, in their hearts, they know what the problem is. They need to give ground to the left. They’re just throwing a tantrum and refusing to accept it because in the past they’ve been able to win with a coalition of centrists, moderates and liberals. Those days are now gone, and this coalition, which has been looking down and sneering at the left for decades, really doesn’t want to have to capitulate to our demands. But if they don’t, they’ll just cause republican fascists to come to power. For many right wing democrats, fascism is preferable to socialism.
There is a very good reason the DNC hasn’t released the election post-mortem report, because it probably confirms something close to what I just described - though, probably watered down slightly. The leaks we do have confirm that the Democrats lost votes because of their pro-Genocidal stance.
And they won’t ever put their hands up and admit their approach is what caused defeat because they would require some self awareness, self analysis and then admitting that the ‘left’ not holding their noses and voting for their piss soaked candidate wasn’t the cause of the defeat.
I’m not in the US but only recently learnt that since ww2, no democrat has been elected with a majority of white voters. Carter came closest with 48%. Running a candidate who supported cop cities with her entire chest isn’t going to endear your core voter base.
You got the genocide you consider perfection.
Your reading comprehension is lacking if that’s your take from that comment
During the primaries we can and should try to make our voice heard to get the most perfect candidates possible on the ballot. During election we do what we must to prevent sliding further into authoritarianism.
Ok, when is the right time to advocate for positive change as ordained by The Holiness Blarth?
Whooo boy I kicked the fucking tankie hornet’s nest.
This post is attempting to create a litmus test that no presidential candidate from the left is going to get to the general election adhering to. This is typical Russian/Chinese propaganda, the same type of which was used to turn voters apathetic against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, which undoubtedly resulted in many, many people leaning left to abstain from voting.
We’re not doing that again.
But we really are going to keep doing this, so long as the Democratic party refuses to run actual progressives.
“Don’t fucking bomb foreigners” isn’t a weird thing to be unwilling to compromise on.
I agree and don’t want to support a party that is okay with continuing to meddle in the Middle East.
However, creating a litmus test for liberal voters that results in MAGA candidates being elected who support even worse policy is not the way forward.
However, creating a litmus test for liberal voters
Its not the fucking litmus test that lost them the election, it was the fucking candidates unwillingness to fucking meet the moment when the voters were incredibly clear about what their standards were.
You don’t get to decide what other voters standards are. You can only assess what they are and the advocate for candidates to meet those standards, otherwise, the candidates will lose. Its not more complicated then that.
You want Harris to have won? Then you should have been putting every iota of effort into getting her to change her policies on Israel and Gaza. There was no other path for her to take the white house.
Well, by all means, let’s encourage young voters to abstain and allow the worst shit to happen, right?
All or nothing.
Or, you know, you could just have fucking listened to what the voters were telling you.
Global warming is going to destroy the planet because people aren’t using paper straws
it was the fucking candidates unwillingness to fucking meet the moment when the voters were incredibly clear about what their standards were.
Know who else was incredibly clear about their intentions?
Donald Trump.
Was I happy Kamala/Biden didn’t meet the moment? Fuck no. Did I still vote for them cuz I have brain cells and I knew there was only one other viable alternative that was undeniably worse? Fuck yes.
It isn’t just about candidates reaching voters. It’s also about voters being responsible enough to do the right thing, even under shitty circumstances.
It isn’t just about candidates reaching voters. It’s also about voters being responsible enough to do the right thing, even under shitty circumstances.
I just don’t know how much we have to beat you over the head with this to get you to understand.
If the above quote represents your understanding or thesis on how voting or elections work, you will continue to lose elections to Republicans on our behalf. You don’t get a choice on how voters behave, no matter how much tut-tutting or hand wringing you do.
You have to meet voters where they are at. You do not have another choice. What you are offering is a false equivalence, and is the very reason why Democrats lost to fascists. You don’t get a choice.
So when is the right time to advocate for positive change as ordained by The Holiness Blarth?
Anyone to the left of indiscriminate genocide is a tankie. You heard it here folks. Ratchet effect go buuuuurrrr!
Left of Reagan is a Tankie.
Wanting to not commit genocide? Tankie.
Saying a candidate needs to support popular policies in a popularity election? Tankie.
Someone found a dollar on the ground before you? Tankie.
Oppose sending tanks into Lebanon?
You guessed it . . . Tankie
Those damned anti-war tankies!
Your type cost us the last election. Go be a republican.
Just to be clear - you’re upset that the left wouldn’t support your pro-genocide candidate, and so your solution is to tell the left to not vote for you in the future?
Explain that logic to me?
I think you might have replied to the wrong comment.
You’re telling people that won’t vote for neoliberal warmongers like Harris to “go be a Republican”. Do you think that’s a good electoral strategy?
I’m telling shit-libs who insist that voters have to accept pro-genocide candidates to “go be a Republican”.
I love when the mouth frothing nazi tells me I’m brainwashed by sinister outsiders into thinking nazis are bad
Yeah but they’re right. I don’t want to eat anymore maga shit sandwich and gun to the head id rather drink blue dog democrat piss. And yeah we have guns to our head, the government has a big army and now ice and all that. Just gotta vote for the lesser of two evils, it’s the dogpiss system our parents brought us to in order to escape their third world dogshit system. In between elections do the best you can what else can we do? Take up arms against palantir drones? Well, you’re not wrong but I wont be the first one, sorry not sorry.
All those people already murdered by those drones but ‘over there’ and ‘brown’ so this guy is still waiting for the first one
Well im a fat sack of shit who doesn’t have guns so you tell me how much help i would be
You got me, total Nazi here.
The reason the nazis were bad is the same reason you’re bad
So yes
You’re a fucking nazi. By any reasonable definition.
I’d say you’re hilariously out of touch with reality, but I’m sure this is just your day job, comrade.
Your beliefs make you a nazi but your behavior makes you a vapid redditor trying to get by on smugness alone
“I would say”
Pathetic loser affectation
bud the litmus test on this post is literally just “actually go after the criminals who are trying to drag this country to fascism.”
If a politician is unwilling to do even that what the fuck is actually the point of electing them.
I understand you’re fine with genocide abroad, but we’re going to have genocide here if this administration’s Gestappo don’t start receiving funding cuts and limitations on their power.
Describe to me in detail where I said something that makes me a tankie. Remember, the definition of a tankie is someone who wants to use violence to promote authoritarian communism.
You said positive change/disagreed with them. All it takes
We’re not doing that again.
I dunno. The U.S. is a pretty stupid nation. I could totally see us falling for that bullshit again. You see the fools that are ready to fall for it again all over this platform.
Right now. But this ain’t it.
“Genocide Joe” was bullshit? Are you denying the genocide or what his first name is?
What’s easy to deny is that the alternative would be any better, and was, in fact, much worse. At least there were calls within Joe Biden’s party to put a stop to it and headway was being made.
MAGA doesn’t give a fuck about Palestine and feels nothing when brown people die.
At least there were calls within Joe Biden’s party to put a stop to it and headway was being made.
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies.
MAGA doesn’t give a fuck about Palestine and feels nothing when brown people die.
Objectively better than you getting angry at anyone who refuses to vote for their butcher
Yeah his name is Benjamin
Literal nazi apologism
yup look at that user history. LOVES using the genocide cynically for their own selfish political goals, HATES anyone who talks about the genocide as it actually happened. Not good enough to murder children, with their blood fresh on your hands you have to pick them up by the dismembered shoulders and dance them around like marionette dolls begging to support their murderers to save their lives.
It’s hard to imagine Gobbles being capable of anything as disgusting
And these are the ‘good guys’ in America. Death to America.
You’re literally only helping the Republicans with garbage like this. Bye.
Oh no the bad people might do bad things
"guys, by not supporting Mussolini you’re just supporting Hitler!
Why can’t I defeat fascism?"
Notice how these posts suspiciously are more prevalent now during primary time and will ramp up during general election time again.
Funny because we post this type of stuff all year every year.
Y’all said I’d disappear after the last election and only show up again for the next one, but in fact:
Yep, I actually congratulated them after Trump got elected and they upvoted me.
You know, I was just thinking about how long it’s been since I had to post this:
“If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.”
While they wear the label like a skin suit, progress is the farthest thing from their mind.
“We don’t want Genocide Joe, we want Genocide Trump. Now with even more genocide, and in additional countries!!!”
No one said that.
They probably won’t do shit about cost of living either. The only time it’s gone down in the past 20 years was in 2009 after the housing market crashed. That likely had more to do with the recession; and if anything the Democrats’ actions were a hindrance to that reduction.
You americans are going to have a rough time now that you have burnt all your soft power and goodwill. Sure you have other problems too, but I don’t think any political party can just “turn the ‘cost of living’ knob up”.
I think it’s fine to expect your party to be capable of doing things that aren’t accomplished by turning a single imaginary knob. Imagine applying this to any other situation: “sorry, there’s no ‘do the dishes’ switch so I’m gonna have to tell you to lower your expectations.”
Sure they could. Just cut the military budget in half and give it to the people, simple as. They just don’t want to.
Then put a 99% tax on assets over 1 billion. Fuck billionaires, you can’t get there without being evil.
But we all know both parties get their pockets lined by the Epstein class and that’s why it won’t happen.
takes notes … needs to be … a recession …
Yeah, Obama and Timmy’s choice was to bail out Wall Street and let main street take the hit. And they still can’t figure out how they lost support in 2010.
Prices basically never go down, what you need is stability so that the earned income can rise to match the new prices.
On the flip side, there isn’t a whole lot the president can do to reduce inflation, but there sure as fuck is a lot they can do to make it worse.
PS this is low effort memes, I’m not going to defend the meme in the comments - feel free to argue with yourselves
Edit: I’m not american so you’re extra wasting your time arguing 🤷♀️
farts loudly
“Yeah I farted on purpose and yeah it stinks. I don’t care if you don’t like it, and I’m not listening to your complaints.”
“EDIT: Seriously, I don’t care. Just came back to make that clear. The part about me not caring. You better not think I care.”
Meme aside, I’m absolutely voting blue no matter who because
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Literal fascists are in control of our federal government.
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There is no viable 3rd party. No 3rd party is seriously trying to be viable. And American citizens aren’t taking 3rd parties seriously by voting for them in local/state elections. So there is absolutely no chance of a 3rd party accomplishing anything in the near or even remote future.
I’m not sure if anyone remembers, but none of this crazy shit was happening before January 2025. I’m voting to go back in that direction.
To be clear, I’m totally onboard with reforming the Democrat party by primarying out the bad actors. That’s way, way more likely than making a 3rd party viable in the short amount of time we have left before we aren’t a democracy anymore.
I’m absolutely voting blue no matter who
Well, then you’ve got a decision to make. Because even Senate Dems aren’t voting Dem anymore.
none of this crazy shit was happening before January 2025
You remind me of the Israelis who cannot conceive of a historical moment prior to October 7th, 2023.
Well, then you’ve got a decision to make.
No I don’t. I’m not in Fetterman’s district.
You remind me of the Israelis who cannot conceive of a historical moment prior to October 7th, 2023.
No I don’t. I remind you of someone that can remember what living in the United States was like before January 2025 and it was nowhere near this insane and stressful.
Does anyone still think Fetterman is a Democrat?
Ask Brian Schatz. You’d think the Dem Whip would keep this chucklefuck in line, but so far I haven’t seen him pay a price for any of this.
Golly your solution is great
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the blue no matter who thing is funny because trump originally was going to run as a democrat. would they have still voted for him?
Yes lol
How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy
Hillary was more afraid of Jeb Bush than anyone else in the GOP field, because she thought she’d lose to him the same way Gore lost to his brother. So she brought in her close friend and mega-donor, Donald J. Trump as a stalking horse who could humiliate Jeb from the right. Trump was more than happy to campaign as a Republican, because he had a chip on his shoulder over Barack Obama sullying the White House with his black ass. So the two conspired to give Hillary a Presidency and Trump a lucrative grifting opportunity.
A vote for Hillary, in the primary, was effectively a vote for Donald to advance to the General.
its still crazy to me how the “low energy” insult wiped out jebs campaign overnight
Jeb’s campaign was powered entirely by his ability to brown nose his mega-donor base of support. It wasn’t that “Low Energy Jeb” mortally wounded his campaign. It was that Jeb never had much of a base of support to begin with.
There’s a fantastic exchange between Jeb and a constituent in New Hampshire, wherein the constituent bemoans the lack of quality plumbing and the need to rely on individual septic systems across the state. This is due to New Hampshire’s hard granite foundation, which is expensive to drill through when laying public works. The constituent asked Jeb how the federal government could assist in improving New Hampshire’s public works. Jeb responded that federal money going to New Hampshire public works would have infringed on the libertarian ideology of the state’s people and its founders.
At a town hall meeting in Raymond, Bush was asked three times about the small town’s strained septic system. “This is not the problem of the president,” Bush responded playfully. “I’m not going to solve your septic problem tonight, I’m afraid.”
This was on a bus tour he’d dubbed the “Jeb Can Fix It” event. (There’s a video archived somewhere, but this was the best reference I could find).
Nobody who was voting actually liked this guy. That’s why he came out behind both Kasich and Cruz in the NH primary.
Without Trump running, my money is on Cruz - or maybe Kasich - prevailing in the end.
No.
That’s why he didn’t run as a democrat.
Because he knew it wouldn’t work.
Because liberals hold their constituents to higher standards than conservatives.
that goes against the “blue no matter who” thing
How so?
He didn’t run as a Democrat so we weren’t tempted to vote blue no matter who in regards to him.
Are you drunk?
big yikes from this comment 😬
Vote establishment out, they carry considerable blame for our current predicament. “Proud Zionist” Biden literally said last election “nothing will fundamentally change from Trump”, that’s who they are.
Don’t forget the “Bi-partisanship” we needed after Jan 6th. Donald Trump tries to make a coup happen, but what we needed was “Bi-partisanship”. Whole Republican Party kept backing Trump’s play, and running cover for him, but we needed “Bi-partisanship”.
Still pissed about that particular speech even though it has been 6 years.
Jeffries, I hate it break it to you but if you think you’re going to pass anything while The Orange Menace is in the White House, I’d love to sell you my share of the Brooklyn Bridge.
You might as well keep trying to impeach Trump. In fact, we’d think you have balls if after each defeat in the Senate, you drum up another impeachment vote.
And I’d like to remind you that Republicans passed the repeal of Obamacare repeatedly in the last two years of Obama’s presidency.
Don’t worry, he’ll keep passing insider trades to his friends while he publicly laments trump’s lack of tact.
Sure, but first we need to drive Jeffries and Schumer out of the House/Senate.
The image is about ice and the quotes are about impeachment. Nice use of right wing tactics.
Restructure ICE to deport MAGA.
To where? I guess Russia might want them, can’t think who else would. North Korea would take them just for publicity value. I can’t think of any other country that would even consider taking a mass arrival of deported magas. I guess they’d learn what it’s like to be an unwelcome immigrant.
North Korea would take them just for publicity value
like that one maga that moved to russia and was immediately drafted
Congratulations, you’ve just invented the Stasi.
Stasi wasn’t deporting. Stasi was imprisoning unwanted individuals. E. g. people who wanted to leave westwards.
My country’s right-wingers, who I actually know and interact with, are horrid, despicable people who are constantly hate-criming minorities, holding back progress, and trying to bring back every backwards oppressive institution they can, they have no insight, nothing worth saying, they can’t be reasoned or negotiated with, and they ought to at least be shut out of the political process, if not forcibly reeducated or removed from society.
I don’t know much about right-wingers in communist countries, but presumably they must be heroic freedom fighters who should be blindly supported at every opportunity.
(Libs be like)
🎂
I don’t know much about right-wingers in communist countries, but presumably they must be heroic freedom fighters who should be blindly supported at every opportunity.
I mean, you joke, but that was straight up the rhetoric around Victor Orban when he came to power 16 years ago. Same with Putin in the early '00s. And now we’re getting an earful of it about Reza Pahlavi with respect to Iran.
The majority of voters don’t want to abolish ICE. Just like they didn’t want to defund the police.
They want police to follow the law and be held accountable and ICE to not be used as Trump’s personal army.
This seems like an attempt to make leftists look bad by pushing a sentiment that is unpopular with voters
According to some polls, abolishing ICE is a majority position. Some of the most popular politicians support abolishing ICE. If more genuine politicians campaigned on it, offered good concrete policies, and communicated it well, I’d bet the sentiment would be even more widespread. I believe defunding the police could also become a majority position if that was done as well. Politicians have a great influence on public opinion.
Yes maga is dogshit but the democrat leadership is in bed with them, that’s the problem and there’s no easy solution. Even if Ocasio Cortez and Sanders and others are amazing, they need more allies because schumer and jefferies are lockstep with trump behind closed doors.
I don’t like it, either, but it’s politically the smart thing to do (EDIT: I’m referring to not seeking impeachment here - ICE still needs to go for sure). Rather than reignite the partisan wars, show the less extreme Trump supporters that the other side is actually prioritizing “the people” & their needs more than Trump ever did - it’ll do more to win their support than attacking “their side” ever will.
I disagree. Democrats need to appeal not to reactionary right-wing or centrists, but rather people who did not vote, by using left-wing populist messaging to counter right-wing populism.
Look at the success of Mamdami as a template. That’s how we win - with candidates who are actually worth voting for, with policies that actively improve the lives of the working class, rather than the totally failed tactic of appealing to some mythical moderate voter with the “we’re slightly less terrible than the republicans” approach.
I don’t disagree with that, and I’m not saying Trumpers should be a priority, but attacking him is only going to stir up anger without accomplishing anything truly positive at this point. Plus Trump is at least a thorn in the puppet-masters" sides with his randomness, while Vance would be a good little boy and do exactly what he’s told by his handlers. I prefer Trump continue fucking up their plans a bit.
oh, I think I misunderstood, I thought you were saying that the left shouldn’t abolish ICE. I agree that removing Trump from office wouldn’t be worthwhile.
Ah, no - I was just referring to the impeachment. ICE - at least in anything vaguely resembling its current form - definitely needs to go.
show the less extreme Trump supporters
Doesn’t exist
Courting the right, like that Cheney stunt, it’s never worked before but I’ll bet it’ll work this time boy oh boy!
“So by decrease the cost of living that means doing more than offering a one time tax credit to small business and first time home buyers?”
“uhhhhhh… look over there Trumps doing a funny dance”
Silly people here having arguments like they exist in a democracy that will change their lives for the better if only smart choices were made.
