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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

People, teach your kids politics. We need to arm our next generation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

I'm guessing they're doing it because A) they keep playing "the nice guy", B) they want a precedent for their next possible administration, or C) all of the above.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

E) they’re all kleptocrats in on the grift, and just playing “good cop”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

This is the most likely answer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

D) They are controlled opposition, and have been for several decades at least.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What precedent? McConnell already set that in stone. And Gingrich before that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Also, what "next possible administration"?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago

D) they are spineless cowards and don't want trump to put is crosshairs on them

[–] [email protected] 61 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I get the sneaking suspicion that all the "but both parties are the same people" are going to end up kind of right -- but maybe not in the way they thought.

From my vantage point, there is only rich vs poor. Any other ideological divide either a) has been worsened by rich vs poor, or b) was invented to keep attention away from rich vs poor, à la divide and conquer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

I've been screaming this for a while now. It's the 99% VS the 1%. Funny how they can control us with such a small percentage.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago

Lol. "Kind of right". Rich vs poor. Yeah. Same thing dude. Most dems and Republicans get more money while in office. Not 2 times or 3 times. No hundreds of thousand or more. There are a few better than the rest but all of our politicians who can make waves are owned by an outside party with an agenda.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD (Nov 8th, 1964) – Senator Underwood was a top contender for the Democrat presidential nomination in 1924. However, he obeyed his conscience by speaking out against the Ku Klux Klan, one of the Democrat Party’s most powerful forces.

His courageous stand cost him the presidential nomination and then his senate seat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Goddamn rich white people. Always doing the worst smgdh

[–] [email protected] 68 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Recall them all. Democrats refuse to learn and won’t step down, recalls are our best shot at getting non-corrupt representation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Less than half of US states allow recalls of state representatives and the constitution prevents recall of any federal Congress person by states. We can't.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago

I would love to see their reaction to that happening

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wonder how that would work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

According to the constitution, it wouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

not a democracy, and that was so for long at this point

[–] [email protected] 26 points 14 hours ago

But we don't have the MAJORITY, everything is supposed to be THEIR FAULT!

IT'S IN THE PLAYBOOK!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What horses do these morons think they're trading?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

They're trading magic beans

[–] [email protected] 28 points 15 hours ago

I'm only donating to progressives, notably AOC.

I've unsubbed from most Democratic lists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Christ, I'm just hearing that Curb Your Enthusiasm music all the time. Imagine a slow zoom on Schumer's goofy look up there along with....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MYAGyZlBY0

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