Then do something you spineless bag of dicks.
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I don't buy this post. Trump's Junk Drawer is full of clowns who are even crazier than Trump.
Who the f cares. These hit pieces does nothing to actually mobilise the already tamed population. As long sycophants and oligarchs see Trump as being useful for as long as possible, he will be tolerated. In a dictatorship-- either in a quasi or full fledged one--the most important resource is access to the dictator. As long as Trump is useful enough for the elites, he will stay in power, even if Trump knows everyone hates his gut.
Strictly speaking that's not true. For example, business elites almost certainly favored Romney over Obama's second term. But when it's someone as wooden as Romney, it doesn't matter how much money they pour into the race.
This time around Republicans are probably going to run some Trump stooge who's planning on the third term end-around to put Trump back in office, assuming Trump lasts that long. I think they're going to have a similar problem this time.
The only thing Stephen Miller deserves is an unmarked grave somewhere dogs go to the bathroom.
Nah, don't do that last part.
he has a face of someone who likes getting pissed on.
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Meanwhile, with a compromised press and Trump ignoring any judicial ruling he dislikes, the Democrats are still no help. They’re nearly as crazy as Trump if they think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could be a viable presidential candidate. No matter what they think of her policies, very few Republicans who despise Trump would vote for her. “I wouldn’t,” my White House source told me. “I’m not crazy. The far left is as bad as the far right, and they’re the reason I voted for Trump.” There are plenty of moderate Democrats who agree.
Imagine thinking AOC is far left. Ok now imagine thinking that kind of far left is just as bad as the far right.
Like for example, informing people of their constitutional rights, advocating for things like accessible Healthcare and protections for workers is every but as bad as shipping people off without due process to El Salvador prison where they'll die, grabbed by a militarized and masked police force that snatches people off the street, or from their homes or school.
Somehow it's the fault of the democrats who won't accept moderate Republicans. But also there are plenty of moderate democrats that agree that the far left is just as bad.
Well it's amazing that insiders are finally able to suspect something is wrong, but they are still so gripped by cult doctrine they can't make any progress.
People are still trying to push this nonsense that democratic candidates need to appeal to the objectively dumbest people in this country in order to be a viable candidate. Its ridiculous. Red voters are only ever going to vote red. They always have and they always will. Left leaning people in this country outnumber right leaning people by a wide margin (because reality has a left leaning bias). The issue is that dem individuals often just don't vote when a candidate is put forward who is cowtowing to the right. The right still votes right and the left doesn't vote. Then we get what we have now. If dems put forward a politician that progressive voters actually want they'll have a much better chance. And AOC is probably a more well liked dem politician right now (among the left) than anyone else except maybe Bernie. But he's probably too old at this point. So AOC makes the most sense right now to me and probably anyone else with a brain.
Feels like this might be the time for a coalition to run as "the freedom party" and basically run on the platform of Bernie but use completely different language. There have been studies showing that most gop voters agree with dem policies when they're not presented using the buzzwords they've been brain washed to immediately reject (eg ACA vs Obamacare).
All the low info idiots voting against their own interests would hear policies they like, and they can jerk off to the word "freedom".
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Two extremely qualified women both were defeated by the worst candidate in our countries history.
I love AOC and her policies, but this country has proven it'll vote for literally the worst encapsulation of boomer greed than vote for a capable and competent woman. Twice.
The Democrats are morons if they pick a woman to run next time. Simple as that.
Let AOC kick Schumer out and take his senate seat. She would be much more effective there.
Clinton won the popular vote, and Harris lost because of her last minute hard-right turn alienated everyone.
That worst candidate didn't win by a landslide either time, so I don't think it's fair to say America will never vote for a woman. Lots of Americans did vote for a woman. According to CNN: "More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history."
People forget that aside from the email bullshit, it was widely reported that Clinton received something like 26 million dollars for speaking engagements, behind closed doors to bankers and American robber barons. Some parts of her speeches were leaked, but she never released any transcripts. I think that fueled voter apathy and "both sides the same" feeling for a lot of people, including two-income families struggling to make ends meet.
You think if a man had done the same, no-one except Bernie Sanders would care?
As for the second strong capable woman, I voted for her, despite her seeming support for the ongoing genocide. I'm not convinced that election was legit.
Hrc worshipped Kissenger
Yes, centrists wanted Kissinger's protege in office.
Gross.
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Trump's officials are quietly concerned about his "blatant criminal behavior."
I don't buy that for a second. They absolutely love it.
because of “DEI going too far” and because “woke culture was dividing the country,”
No, woke culture unites the country. That's the fucking point. "Woke" means you accept that everyone is different and you agree to tolerate and respect those differences. Your insistence on hating people you view as different is what divides us.
The “I” in DEI is literally “Inclusion”. Nothing more divisive than inclusion, surely.
Gotta love how "divisive" is always a dog whistle for "how dare you do anything that would question our authoritarianism."
- Diversity: No, no, no! We can't have that. Obscenely wealthy, white, male, cis, hetero, neurotypical, Christian nationalist, Republicans only. Diversity means giving others a voice, and letting them have a voice means we lose power... unacceptable.
- Equity: Absolutely not. Neoliberalism demands that anything someone does or create belongs to their corporate liege-lords. You will rent and subscribe to everything you need to survive. You will own NOTHING. Even your taxes will be funneled to the wealthy so that you will get nothing in return. No equity. You are serfs. We OWN you.
- Inclusion: If you aren't an obscenely wealthy, white, male, cis, hetero, neurotypical, Christian nationalist Republican who has the desire and means to cheat, steal, and destroy so that the club can amass even more wealth and power, then you shall not be included. You can still white knight for that behavior, we like that, encourage it even, but you still will never be included. It's a small club, and you ain't in it.
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I get how this happens. Everyone is all on board when it's all talk or they're Monday morning quarterbacking, but when they're involved and they're acting then it's real to them. What had been hyperbolic spiraling and chaos from a distance with plausiblity of intents is now watching a man actively break the law as they assist.
That's not to excuse it. They did and do harm. But this is the second time he's been president and this keeps happening and he churns through people like this.
This person says they signed on to the Trump team because of "DEl going too far"
Translation: This person says they signed on to the Trump team because of “Minorities and women getting too much equality and needed to be put back in their place”.
So what about the Democrats, I asked? “They hate us and won’t accept us. And if they don’t change their attitude, Trump and MAGA will keep winning.”
That was echoed by former Republican congressman Joe Walsh, who regularly speaks out about this. “If there’s not room for center-right former Republicans in today’s Democratic Party, then today’s Republican Party will remain victorious and our democracy will disappear,” Walsh told me.
Most of us will accept you. Just stop being awful people. It isn't hard.
If there’s not room for center-right former Republicans in today’s Democratic Party...
My man, there was room for hard-right current Republicans Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney. You know what their support brought to the ticket last November? Two votes in Wyoming.
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“Center right?” Spare me. He was MAGA through and through until 2.0 took hold. This language is explicitly used to reinforce the Overton Window further to the right while still whining that the “left” is mean. Dems are already corporate as fuck and would rather eat their own left of center than fight against full corporate control of the federal government. Simply caring/pretending to care in some cases about minority groups Republicans ostracize is a bridge too far for poor, wayward souls like Joe Walsh. Fuck off.
Here's the problem.
Strip Trump and MAGA from the GOP, and what are you left with?
The same shit-ass party that brought us Trump, only less emboldened.
They still want tax cuts for billionaires, no universal health care, no workers rights, no mention about climate change, no rights for LGBTQ people, no women's rights, no non-white people in America.
Etc.
The only difference between "the party of Reagan" and MAGA is that under Reagan the GOP was much quieter about being assholes.
You know how the US and the USSR were allied against Germany, but the second WWII was over they started pointing their guns at each other? That's where I feel like we're at now with "center-right" Republicans like Walsh. Sure, I'll take the help of anyone who recognizes that Trump is a threat to democracy and the ideals of the US, but the second that's dealt with there's gonna be problems.
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Someone has got to start talking about “inclusion” instead of division
“We understand the problem, but we see no solution."
STOP HELPING HIM IS A GOOD START.
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You guys in the press, with very few exceptions, are not trustworthy
And then he went to Salon ?
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why wouldnt you, your working with A DELUSIONAL narcisscists that only answers to several masters; Putin, MSB,qataris,,,,etc.
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