Hard to describe the level of nausea I feel watching Dems pivot from "he's a fascist who will end this country" to "we're just gonna see where we can be bipartisan and avoid picking fights" in one month flat
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Literally a policy of “hey we didn’t do enough to win over people’s support this election, maybe if we do even less and capitulate more we will get more support next time!”
Why be Republican-lite? You alienate your base and Republicans aren’t going to vote for diet when real is right there. Ughhh.
Then again I’m not too surprised as when given the choice between fascism and the possibility of more progressive policy or even *gasp* socialism the Democrats and liberals will side with fascism every time.
They have enough money and power that they hope it will save them from fascism.
Their strategy seems to be “let’s just let him wreck everything and then we’ll win the next election.. which will totally happen and not be rigged… in a landslide.”
The way they almost all voted for the NDAA even though it has disgustingly anti-trans stuff in there that they did nothing to oppose. The way they've agreed with Trump on his border wall policy. The way they agree with Trump on the death penalty. How they're doing nothing to oppose the upcoming
How many WEEKS has it been, 4? Point me to your list of ways Dems have tried to be more like them.
Right now Jeffries is doing everything we have power to do since America failed the election over egg prices. I disagree with our Israel position but the party went for the votes to beat trump…
Well, this is the very same 'leadership' that lost to a known Nazi pest who ran the worst campaign in modern history, and then blamed it on the least powerful parts of the coalition and being too woke.
"I'm not appeasing H****r, I'm strategically aligning with him on certain issues to find common ground with his supporters so that they will flock to me in the upcoming election when the price of eggs has not fallen sufficiently."
I've decided I'm registering as an Independent. It's the only way to make a statement that I don't want to be associated with this ineffective shit show anymore.
Democrats are most comfortable in defeat. Victory makes them nervous because it means actually delivering on promises. Better to go big AND go home is the philosophy.
They are lying low ready to pounce.
He knows they're there.
They need to blend in, let him make the first mistake.
They can make several mistakes.
He needs to make ONE!
Yea the Democrats have proven that they can make shit tons of mistakes and get away with it unpunished, but that's a little stupid for you to say let him make ONE and we'll pounce. Typical commies.
You're right , and I've given enough blood under the 12 of the last 16 years of Democrats running this country. My best years were under Trump and the Republican leadership, and I've been an Independent with slightly liberal views until the Obamacare bullshit & fuckin cunt piglosi.
Dems would've been like, "we don't agree with Hitler on everything, but we're going to find bipartisan common ground on things like improving our train system."
Dems have no choice. They're one wheel on a bike that's crashing because the other wheel has gone all wonky. And the bike just wants to keep rolling along, so the Dem wheel is trying to do all the spinning for both of them. We're just along for the swervy, bumpy ride.
There's always a choice. Instead of being the one functional wheel following the broken one, they should act as the breaks, putting a stop to whatever they can. But they won't. Not unless their corporate overlords want them to. And that'll only happen if DumbOld stops making them rich.
Exactly right, and also why Dems have no choice. If one stops spinning, the party will kick them out, and they won't be a Dem anymore. And the overlords are steering the whole thing, not us. We're just the groceries in the basket!
Maybe because they've seen how horrible the last 4 years have been and are thinking to themselves, holy shit we've been doing so much stupid shit for so long and this guy really does make sense, why didn't we listen to him in 2020? We'd be much better off than what we are now. 🤔🤔
My approach is to focus on the necessary things and to not suffer: suffering gives fascists exactly what they want: confirmation that you are under their control.
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i don't really disagree with you but what are they supposed to do? they tried "he's a fascist" and it didn't work. dems weren't motivated to go to the polls. and they can't keep that up for 4 years anyway.
Fight every inch, every step, for every single fucking thing as if he’s an actual malevolent fascist who will go after immigrants, Black people, trans ppl, and LGBTQ+ with the full power of the state.
what does that mean, fight every inch? fight -what-? they haven't done anything yet. what are they supposed to be fighting RIGHT NOW that they're not? they still have to help run the government.
There are so many procedural things they could do to gum up the works in Congress, so many ways to interfere and slow things down. The Supreme Court gave Biden carte blanche and he is doing fuck all
They could and should have blocked Trump and the insurrectionists from even holding office in 2020
This makes me incandescently angry. A writer I respect very much often chides people for treating R politics like a natural phenomenon and only assigning agency to Ds but it's not zero sum. I can condemn R bullshit and also want Ds to do more than act disappointed, laugh at gaffes, and fundraise.
they absolutely can and should. trump literally sleepwalked into office because the average american doesn’t think biden did anything in 4 years except inflation. dems need to quit blaming the right’s propaganda machine when propaganda is literally a politician’s job
You're right, they should just give up, roll over, and let them tickle their tums. /s
You go ahead and give up if you want to, but keep out of the way of people who are willing to fight fucking fascists
They need to fight and they aren’t. Sometimes I think the left is unrealistic in their expectations of Dems and our political system but Dems should be fighting tooth and nail right now. They have nothing to lose. They should also promote younger more progressive leadership instead of blocking AOC.
Stop saying they’ll ’work with Trump’. This completely undermines their message that Trump is a threat to democracy. You can’t campaign on the idea that he’s an authoritarian and then turn around and try to be bipartisan. It’s ridiculous.
Dems weren't motivated to go to the polls because the Party was so busy reaching across the aisle to "moderate" GOPers they forgot to support their base. As usual.
Doing more of the same isn't going to turn the tables; it'll let the Trump Party run the tables in '26 and '28.
What? You don't think it's cool? I think it's downright awesome that Democrats have decided to sink to their most meek and spineless right after handfeeding a group of wannabe fascists all the power they need to bring this country to its knees. Just freakin' epic.
Shows you how serious they were about it. They were just parroting leftist phrases, but put nothing behind them. No wonder so many people sat out the election when the insincerity was this transparent. This party is run by spineless, out-of-touch cowards who should have been booted decades ago.
Democrats know exactly what they're doing and are pretending like they are afraid to do anything to the left of their party, which is just manufacturing consent for more of it. They're not stupid. They are fascists.
If all those times they’ve stabbed the people in the back was done with actual knives through actual stabbing, everyone they’ve stabbed in the back would have long bled to death by now.
I am still way too upset to just wait and see how it goes. He told us what he is going to do and he even has a written plan. It’s time to stop PLAYING nice, hopeful guy! He needs to be stopped and called on everything he does constantly. Can’t just hope for the best people! He is an evil man!
My answer to them for that is:
Oh, like f***ing hell we’re NOT doing any of that.
Those people DGAF about bipartisanship and if you don’t fight, you die.
You try this bipartisan crap and don’t fight, I won’t be voting for your punk ass again. Consider yourself on notice.
We can strategically withhold votes to get things we want because god knows repubs in the house are a mess. But besides that maga controls all the levers of govt plus has a Supreme Court that has proven itself to be an unethical mess. America voted for this.
General strike! Protest in the streets! Help us be antifascist via methods we don't have access to!
What is a group of people that YOU have access to that scruffy antifa does not? Can you watch that group? Sabotage their efforts towards evil? Radicalize them?
As long as Nancy Pelosi can still trade her stocks, she will hinder the party’s desperate need for reform. Even if she has to do it from her hospital bed.
I voted for Kamala (and promoted her as President long before Biden bailed).
You’re NOT doing any good complaining. Do something or go back to twitter.
And you know, I have a lot of quiet critiques of the whole "don't comply in advance" command broadly applied, because I sometimes see it directed at vulnerable private individuals who probably SHOULD be thinking about how to be more strategic about life under a vengeful fascist.
Speech or Debate Clause = it takes one Congress Member to have the entire transcript of the George Stephanopoulos segment read into the record, and it is basically immune from ever being used as precedent.
It takes one Congress Member to do it, just to make a fucking point!
If you're a politician don't have the stomach to stand up to fascists, you have had AMPLE time to move the fuck on and make room for someone who WILL manifest meaningful opposition to an existential fascistic threat to democracy.
Those people who won’t move, know they will be ok either way. The Nancy Pelosis, the Chuck Schumers, the old guard. Those who have been in power for so long they amassed millions in wealth. It’s not enough for them.
Ah, but that would require
-self-awareness
-willingness to surrender power/money
-unselfishness
-commitment to improving living conditions for others/preserving democracy
This this THIS.
We've known what the future could look like for a very long time now. If people in power weren't willing to put themselves on the line to oppose it, they should have GOTTEN OUT OF THE WAY.
The Republicans who couldn't sit with fascism were driven out last cycle. You couldn't miss this if you were Ray Charles. They were coming for us & these elite DC types fiddled their asses off.
The most disappointing thing has been seeing the so-called "rich and powerful" individuals & institutions -- with far more power to resist Trump's worst impulses than most of us -- immediately fold over and acquiesce.
True. I guess my stance is that all of that political capital has been built up & should be spent on protecting people and democratic society rather than on creating oligarchy as it looks like they are trying to do.
The best scenario I can envision is the death of the Democratic Party and its replacement with a Labor Party. The dinosaurs(D) ignoring the bright streak in the sky probably deserve to go extinct.
Amen. Bring in youngsters who actually care about democracy rather then whatever complicated ego-driven court games most of the current crop would rather play while our democracy burns to the ground. But at least they feel relevant
Ain't just Dems. This old lying con pops his head up to wave his finger one more time for the little people who made him a millionare socialist.
He lied to us all, along with rest of the cowards in the Common Ground Club
Bernie was doing a rhetorical move that I don't think worked. Agreeing just to attack the idea.
But he's trying to use a clever debate tactic for a country that reads at a 3rd grade level.
What I'm waiting for is .... when will liberals and the "vote blue no matter who" folks start being critical of the party and taking them to task? There are still too many punching left rather than punching up.
imo: They will not change without MUCH effort from us - they are getting, at most, 10% of the truth from their media, and they are very scared. I believe the time to radicalize liberals is now, turn that fear into action. I like "40 Ways": https://justseeds.org/graphic/40-ways-to-fight-fascism/
That's what happens when the incoming government not only has the intent of sending your party to the gulag, but also the political majority to do so. (1/2)
And evidently, the party doesn't have enough members willing to become political prisoners for the greater good, else they wouldn't be complying in advance (2/2)
Like, that they’re complicit and have been all along? Like, that politics is just some sort of twisted sportsball to them, and their ideology is just a front to entertain and rile up the masses while they extract all the wealth they can out of our bodies?
And where are Dems in the fight to protect women? A SC bill to execute women who have abortions, gets no coverage in the mainstream or on Bluesky. These 6 men have been empowered by Trump & need to be humiliated until they back down. This is a fight that was won before: https://bsky.app/profile/qasimrashid.com/post/3ldlojvoayk27
Every one of them has a website or social media presence. All it takes is a click or two and to leave a message saying just that.
“Fuck bipartisanship.
Fuck trying to find common ground. Fuck complying in advance. You better fight or miss me when I don’t vote for you again.”
Registered Dem, reliable voter who volunteered A LOT of hours back to canvassing in 2008 w/ my daughter in a baby carrier on my chest. I put everything aside for months leading up to this last election. And Dems are just.... folding. Don't come back to me for money and time if you can't fight
They're bringing tea and biscuits to a knife fight while loudly chastising anyone who calls them out on it. I would say that the jokes write themselves, but there's nothing funny about this level of fecklessness.
Take names, and take notes. Then primary their asses in 26, and vote in young blood. And don’t worry that a republican might get in. If they are not fighting, then they are no better than a republican.
Ballot access is hard unless you have tons of money. Even Ross Perot couldn’t get on all 50 states. We need to put the people we want in charge of the party.
I feel like the dems are following the script of the wrong genre. Like we can’t hit the person with fangs, bloody claws and a distended jaw with a shovel because this is a romcom! We don’t do violence in romcoms! If we act like this is a romcom, the monsters will all turn into benign ex-boyfriends.
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Why be Republican-lite? You alienate your base and Republicans aren’t going to vote for diet when real is right there. Ughhh.
They have enough money and power that they hope it will save them from fascism.
The party needs new leadership starting a decade ago🙄
if they really thought he was hitler, they would have acted very differently
Am over all of them.
they can to OPPOSE the MAGAtraitors. BUT we will not BE LIKE MAGGOTS.
Right now Jeffries is doing everything we have power to do since America failed the election over egg prices. I disagree with our Israel position but the party went for the votes to beat trump…
They fear him, they fear those who love him, & they will lick his boots.
He knows they're there.
They need to blend in, let him make the first mistake.
They can make several mistakes.
He needs to make ONE!
Live with that!
https://bsky.app/profile/flyingpace.bsky.social/post/3lcyqm2sxxs2n
Limit news intake to avoid being overwhelmed.
Take small local actions to improve the lives of family, friends, and neighbors.
Take care of your self, first. Because without a well cared for you, the energy you need to give others will not be there.
Then, focus on those closest to you. Grow outwards from there. Leave no one behind.
They're just handing it to him on a silver platter
https://epochemagazine.org/20/how-neoliberalism-failed-to-keep-fascism-at-bay/
Coward with a wagging finger needs to point it back at himself
He's no different than the other's 'common ground' bs.
But they don’t care! They never did!
They can’t keep that up for four minutes and that’s disqualifying.
Every single one should resign and commit seppuku and let someone take their place who can and will.
JFC.
They could and should have blocked Trump and the insurrectionists from even holding office in 2020
You go ahead and give up if you want to, but keep out of the way of people who are willing to fight fucking fascists
I expect at least as much dedication from those ostensibly against fascism.
After all, fascism is evil and fighting fascism is good.
If Trump is a fascist and a threat to the country then He must be resisted at all costs.
So either they don't care if he's a threat or they were lying, or both.
Doing more of the same isn't going to turn the tables; it'll let the Trump Party run the tables in '26 and '28.
Oh, like f***ing hell we’re NOT doing any of that.
Those people DGAF about bipartisanship and if you don’t fight, you die.
You try this bipartisan crap and don’t fight, I won’t be voting for your punk ass again. Consider yourself on notice.
We can strategically withhold votes to get things we want because god knows repubs in the house are a mess. But besides that maga controls all the levers of govt plus has a Supreme Court that has proven itself to be an unethical mess. America voted for this.
What is a group of people that YOU have access to that scruffy antifa does not? Can you watch that group? Sabotage their efforts towards evil? Radicalize them?
https://justseeds.org/graphic/40-ways-to-fight-fascism/
Maybe the Democratic Party isn't as attuned to the needs of the middle class as I thought.
Where'd that Coffee Party get off to...?
You’re NOT doing any good complaining. Do something or go back to twitter.
But Dems?
For real, the whole "Liz Cheney could face firing squad!!!11one" should have been squashed years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_or_Debate_Clause
It takes one Congress Member to do it, just to make a fucking point!
If you're a politician don't have the stomach to stand up to fascists, you have had AMPLE time to move the fuck on and make room for someone who WILL manifest meaningful opposition to an existential fascistic threat to democracy.
-self-awareness
-willingness to surrender power/money
-unselfishness
-commitment to improving living conditions for others/preserving democracy
We've known what the future could look like for a very long time now. If people in power weren't willing to put themselves on the line to oppose it, they should have GOTTEN OUT OF THE WAY.
Absolute betrayal of all he stood there for the last 9 years condemning.
Coward 😡
He lied to us all, along with rest of the cowards in the Common Ground Club
But he's trying to use a clever debate tactic for a country that reads at a 3rd grade level.
Almost!
“Fuck bipartisanship.
Fuck trying to find common ground. Fuck complying in advance. You better fight or miss me when I don’t vote for you again.”