We are alone in this. The dems are better, but they are at fault here too because their entire strategy is being better then the republican which allows Republicans to be as awful as they please
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I was thinking the other day, wondering, "What % of legal - born and raised - Americans seeth with hatred for the United States, and would actively hurt America, anyway they can. What % and what political stance they have, and of course, it's the democratic party.
Lemme rephrase... Simply, if you're American, but you also hate America and are politically active. 98%, you're a democrat.
What one focus on in life will become a bigger part of one's life. The left needs to ditch the hate. I'll come back when "democrat" isn't synonymous with hate.
The GOP cosplay as patriots to confuse small minded fools that striving for a better life is un-American. As if our founding fathers weren't looking for a better life.
You're looking at the map upside down.
Bigotry is so insidious in America that when you call it out for the poison that it is, bigots call you anti-American.
I say bigotry is unAmerican. All the best Americans fought against that shit
You should try and figure out why you believe this. Clearly people here don't agree, and it doesn't ring true to me either. How many people do you actually know who seethe with hatred for the US?
Chickens can at least peck a bit. These dems aren't even that tough
Another constituent, Donya Williams, complained Ivey didn’t know the people in his district well enough — because he admitted earlier that he didn’t know who popular podcaster Joe Rogan was until the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign.
This explains so much. They are as ignorant of the current state of things as the "apolitical" voters who thought Trump would be fine this time.
French aristocracy? Who ordered French aristocracy?
Well holding signs and doing nothing didn't work?
May I suggest a major and I mean major leaflet campaign?
Steady on. Next you'll be saying it's time for the slogan t-shirts.
Nah, we need to bring in the big guns for this one. Stickers with slogans.
Are we allowed to glue the leaflets to bricks?
Is an M67 a Leaflet?
"We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas."- The Democratic Party
“But please donate to my campaign to STOP this. We will soon, I promise”
My god I am so sick of the emails.
I used to get emails like "Contribute to X because I will fight for our schools to provide school lunches to everyone!" And I'd donate.
Now, the emails are just "Donald wants to kill education. GIVE ME MONEY."
So you can use that money to buy another sign that says "Pweeze stop"?
The amount of “gib monies plz” messages I got infuriated me. Like you aren’t doing diddly squat why would I ?!?
We got a make them actually work for their money. If they want us to donate then they should do something they said they would do.
yeah, they have gotten so much fucking money. I could have done more good just spending that same amount on potatoes, or paying people to dance.
Like, I think someone in the DNC should be out there, putting out answers. What did they do with the money they got? Where did it go? Time for an audit.
Most expensive concert tour ever.
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What would constitute fighting?
People keep complaining about Democrats not doing anything, but under current constraints there isn't much they can do.
People seem to spend more time complaining about Democrats not opposing Republicans than they do complaining about Republicans destroying America.
The damage Trump and Musk can do is directly proportional to how fast they can speedrun fascism before they lose the House and maybe the Senate in the midterms. So the main lever that our elected Democratic reprentatives actually have is slowing down that effort in any way they can. That means filibustering, delaying votes, interrupting, shaking canes, getting escorted out, etc etc. Generally throwing sand in the gears of the administration. It's not just performative, although that's part of it. It's to slow-roll the fascism so we have a better chance to fight it.
For one, let the goverment shut down. The majority of people will blame the president no matter the circumstances.
The majority of Congressional Democrats tried to let the government shut down.
I hear you - I see plenty of outrage about Republican action though. What can Democrats really do but try to rely on Judges to do their jobs and campaign until midterms. Maybe they can rally enough people to march on Washington, but that may just speed up authoritarian gains.
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I think we may may finally be getting our message across. Here's why:
Last night, Adam Schiff, one of the Democratic lawmakers I respect the most, was on Kimmel, and was very rough not just on the HitlerPig Crime Family, but also Chuck Schumer.
But what really struck me, was that the very honorable, polite, and respectful Adam Schiff took the opportunity to basically say "Fuck You" directly to the president - TWICE!
Kimmel asked him if he had said thank you to HitlerPig, and Schiff said he used a different two-word phrase, but one of the words was "You," and everyone got it and laughed. At the end of his interview, he made another joke that was another very obvious disguised "Fuck You."
They were obviously baiting HitlerPig into a tirade, but seeing Schiff go on national TV and saying Fuck You to HitlerPig twice marks a very new direction in messaging for the Democratic party. I hope this is the beginning of pivoting from appeasement to Hard Ball.
Schumer and Pelosi don't have street fighting skills, they are from the era where Republicans weren't all violent dixiecrat trash.
Schiff and the newer ones don't bring harsh words to gunfights.
They're boomers. They never had to fight dirty. Theyre part of the Democrat gameplan to compromise on everythin
That's awesome. I've started to get some social media feeds on YouTube from Adam Schiff and they've been pretty provocative and direct, which is desperately needed.
Ocasio-Cortez/Sanders 2028
I feel that Sanders is probably too old and that he can pass the torch on at the next election. It's sad, but I still don't think we need an 80 year old running for office.
nah fuck that. Bernie will go out in a blaze of glory, double middle fingers to the sky, falling straight from the oval office into a coffin after guaranteeing All Americans get equal access to universal healthcare and a secondary four year/vocational school education. He'll take money out of politics and raise taxes on the 1% so hard they'll revert back into normal fuckin people. He'll invest in High speed rail, green energy, while simultaneously legalizing weed.
The man has been working his whole life towards these goals, I say we help him get there.
I think Walz/Ocasio-Cortez would be a much more popular and palatable suggestion for the electorate, even though I personally prefer your proposal
Nah, we tried appealing to the center shit and that got us nowhere. Go hard on restoring working class America. Fuck racism, sexism, and ignorance - that shit got us a slow slide down to where we are now .
Kick the fucking oligarchs out and tax the fuck out of them. Rich should mean enough money to be very comfortable and never worry again, but not enough to buy elections.
That's naïve as fuck and it's not worth the risk. We need to eject these fucking assholes. AOC on the VP will draw in all the same people who she would otherwise attract as president. Bernie is too old for many, many people. Walz is a leftist who can speak in safe, simple White-America terms aand appeal to people who would are wary about AOC. Yes, it sucks that America is sexist, but it also sucks that we are plummeting into fascism. This is a winning ticket.
Now thats a ticket I think a lot of Dems could get excited about. Focus on economic messaging, maybe put trans issues on the downlow (WITHOUT throwing us under the bus, not suggesting go full McBride) and youre golden
I think after Biden and then Trump, people will be completely fed up with old white guys. I seriously doubt even Santa Claus could get elected. I'm in my 60s and a huge Bernie fan but we need some younger people on the ticket.
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