• Auli@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    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.

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    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.

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    “Yea” votes included New Jersey’s Cory Booker, whose record-breaking speech on the Senate floor against Trump’s policies earlier this month seemed to inspire the rest of his party, as well as Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, a military veteran who has criticized the administration for firing military veterans from civil service positions." They talk shit to raise funds from the working class, then vote for MAGA so their corporate backers will pay them too.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        Could you walk me through why you think democracy necessitates capitalism?

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        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.

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    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

    shamelessly copied off the article

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    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.

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    Can you fight them as hard as they fought you

    Nope

    Filibuster maybe?

    Only when there’s nothing pending

    Procedural moves that slow them down

    Nah

    Could you at least not vote to enable them

    Votes to enable them silently with intense eye contact

    What the fuck can you do?

    Pulls out phone, texts you for $20 for their battle fund

    Jesus fucking christ

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    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. 🖕 🖕

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      Yes it was! And please look in folks’ comment histories, the tankies were the first ones to call this out.

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      Keep that energy, know your enemies, all of them.

      Never forget, next time they do a performance remember!

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      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.

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      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

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      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?

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        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.

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            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?”

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    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.

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      I agree. I have stepped away from party activity. They are on their own. There are other better avenues for organizing right now.

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    You DONT Understand! They COULDNT do ANYTHING except Vote to Confirm because they NEED Donations!

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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 choose to aide the trump admin.

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        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.

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          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.

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    Anybody really know politics in detail and can explain their motive?

    Are they afraid of retaliation in some form? What’s the rub?