• Laurel Raven@lemmy.zip
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      6 days ago

      They’ll see that as too controversial, wouldn’t want to divide the people…

      (/s, just in case)

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      Ideally people would have seriously punished Ford for letting that Nixon prick get off scot free and fought against the personality cult that was built up for Reagan, but if we’re talking about this century, the democrats should have come up with something as soon as the tea party lunatics got in position to kneecap public sector unions during the first Obama administration.

      It didn’t help that the occupy protesters were made to look like their message was a motley hodgepodge of pet causes with no real cohesiveness.

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    Translation: “We need time to figure out a way to look like we’re doing something without risking actually changing anything.”

    If we’re not careful, we might accidentally do something that the voters like but that our owners don’t approve of.

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    Spoiler alert: it will be “send us more money!”. That’s what they always settle on.

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      That dickhead got roasted for “concepts of a plan”, but just when you think the Democratic party can’t get any more pathetic they go and show how hopeless they are. AOC needs to break and start a party with Bernie.

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    “Personally, I don’t want to give Republicans an inch on their claims they care about national security after their pardons,” said Murphy, D-Conn. “My hope is that we’re going to be down on the floor and on TV and back in our states talking about the danger of these pardons.”

    At least there’s someone awake at the wheel

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    Well the republicans are in some kind of hyperfascist accelerationist mode so I’m not sure exactly how much time we have to give them.

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      They wouldn’t have lost either.

      Pelosi tanking kneecapping any attempt to curb congressional insider trading certainly didn’t help. Nor did funding a fucking genocide. Their continued subservience to donors over their voters drives people away.

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        Yes time and time again they’ve proven that they’re willing to put anything and everything ahead of helping the American people. They want to have their cake and eat it too and are willing to go as far as losing elections if it means they don’t have to turn their backs on corporations or foreign governments engaging in genocide.

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    We’ve decided to rename the Democrat party to Republican Lite in order to appeal to more voters.