You stupid, rotten, useless cunts!
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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THEY ARE TERIFIED.
Why isn't MSNBC on the vigil? Why isn't CNN on the offensive? Why did the WP sell out its editorial column?
THEY ARE TERRIFIED.
You don't even know how bad it is, because the commercial entities that the US has entrusted with their information are now looking out for themselves.
THERE'S A REASON THAT THE PRESS IS THE FOURTH COLUMN. and we get to see why in the worst way.
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Defeating Republicans with complete submission. Maybe they'll wear matching colors to show they're voting it in protest.
I heard they have black paddles and everything.
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Appeasement. Cowards, the lot of them.
Jesus fucking Christ we need a working families party so bad in this country. Why isn't Bernie, AOC or any other leader starting to coordinate such a thing?
We have a Working Families Party. Democrats sued to keep them off the ballot in swing states.
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Because it's just not feasible without election reform. Over 99% of legislative offices (both state and federal) are held by either a Republican or a Democratic nominee. We're on presidential election away from it being 60 years since a 3rd party presidential candidate received a single electoral vote. And Perot won just shy of 19% of the national popular vote in 1992. We need a progressive groups funding progressive primary challengers, and progressive voters turning up for them.
We need a progressive groups funding progressive primary challengers, and progressive voters turning up for them.
We need fair primaries.
Honestly, I think a civil war is going to be needed if America is ever going to be fixed. It would be nice if I am proven wrong, but things really don't feel good right now. :P
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The only way murica comes back is with a revolution. No politicians give a fuck about anyone but themselves and their family. Glad im not murican
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At this point how many times do people need to get that Dems won't fight for you even at their lowest popularity.
Call your senators, they can still block this despite Schumers push. This is not a done deal. The vote is tomorrow. If all republican vote for it, they need 7 dems. 8 with Rand Paul who has said he'll vote no. (Republicans are not using reconciliation so it needs the the filibuster)
Many senate dems are publicly coming out against voting for cloture (meaning they won't vote to let it get through the filibuster). As of what I last read, around 10 dems are thought to potentially vote to let it pass filibuster. Most of those are still not sure. We only need a handful more of those to become noes and it will get blocked. Some yeses have flipped to noes because of public pressure. We cannot let up now
Link to find direct numbers your senators
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Or call the capitol switch board (202) 224-3121
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Yippe! Even more spineless than we thought!
what a failure.
Guess I’m not voting blue no matter who anymore because they’re a bunch of SPINELESS FECKLESS DICKLESS MORONS.
Not feckless. They know exactly what they do, and they do it with gusto.
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Not even a day after this spinless asshole said they'd stand strong.
I guess all the endless calling our representatives just means fuck-all doesn't it?
Yeah, pretty much.
But here's my final correspondence to my Democratic Senators
I want to share how absolutely disappointed I am with the Democratic party and how they are handling being the opposition party thus far especially with this latest round of budget bills that screw over the working families by cutting Medicaid/care. Not even one freaking day after after stating that Democrats would stand strong and not vote for this abomination of a bill, your leader goes and announces they're going to vote for it.
This party has no spine, no convictions and won't stand up to fascism and continues to roll over and vote for anything the Nazi-salute party shoves your way. I am absolutely sickened at this lack of leadership and standing up against these fascist and honestly, I don't see a point in voting for Democrats moving forward when this is the lesser of two evils but then again, I'm sure leadership here will vote to remove our right to vote soon in the grandest gestures of capitulation so I guess there's that.
I wouldn’t put that much effort into something that was going to be ignored and thrown away
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And people have the gall to shame people who stayed home and refused to vote for Kamala.
(Note, I voted for Kamala. You have to point that out or liberals shit themselves.)
We need to let the Democratic Party die completely. They are captured opposition.
Liberals pretend that it was democracy vs. fascism on the ballot in 2024. It wasn't. Democracy wasn't on the ballot. What was on the ballot were two choices:
- Fascism in 2024.
- Fascism in 2028.
Those were the only two choices. Just like Democrats now, Kamala and friends would not have made any meaningful change. They would have just coasted, sitting on their asses, doing nothing until Trump or someone worse rode into office in 2028.
Democrats didn't even bother preparing for Project 2025, even though they had the whole thing detailed in advance.
If Democrats aren't going to use what power they have while out of office, they don't deserve to be put into office.
We need a new party, a popular front that will start by crushing the Democrats and then move on to crush MAGA. We cannot kill MAGA until we first kill the corporate Democrats. They're a captured opposition that sucks all the oxygen out of the room and prevents any real good from happening. In many ways, they are worse than Republicans. At least Republicans are honest about their evil.
We need a new party, a popular front that will start by crushing the Democrats and then move on to crush MAGA.
So make it then.
Other more progressive better parties already exist. They don't get votes. What is your party going to do differently to get votes?
But why make a new party when you can vote out establishment corporate Democrats in primaries, remaking the Democratic party? Seems pointless to start from square 1 when the Dems are right there ripe for a take over.
Are they required by law to hold primaries?
No but it's incredibly incredibly rare for them to not hold primaries. It only happens when there is, either an obviously massive lead, an incumbent president, or when someone is running unopposed. Both parties do that. Primaries happen 99% of the time. People say primaries didnt happen in 2024 but they absolutely did in almost all 50 states president wise and in all 50 states lower than president wise.
So while there is no law that says "you have to hold a primary" they will still be holding primaries. There's only been one time when in modern history when the incumbent isnt running and there weren't primaries held to find his replacement and that was last year with Harris.
Primaries have the problem where so few people come out to vote in them, at least on the Democrat side, that even if the people broadly seem to support a candidate in the area, they'll often not even bother voting in the primary. This happened in 2016 when Bernie lost the primary by 3 and a half million votes and only would have won if all but 9 super delegates went to him which never would have happened because he didn't win a majority of the votes.
Primaries will happen, we can vote them out. AOC did it in 2018 and we can do it nationwide next year.
Honestly i think it would be easier and faster to take over the republican party sometimes
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Spineless pieces of shit. Empty suits.
These days the only hope I have left for the US is that everyone on the left become a dem party member and primary the shit out of all these "high road" cowards.
Trump and co won't stop, and there won't be a backlash if it's not supported politically.
This assumes they even let you run. Or that you can afford to run or that they don’t pour millions of dollars into beating you.
We are absolutely fucked beyond a complete revolution, as much as that will hurt a lot of people.
Not a single spine in congress. None.