I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if the opposition party to literal fascism can’t even do the bare minimum of actually opposing it then when the hell are they even good for?
Spare me. C'mon folks, we're the adults here. If GOP are the bad cops, then Dems are...good cops. Complicit. Start building your local support system because WE'RE ON OUR OWN.
We’ll be waiting at least 2 years, since the party has no power at the federal level. Anything they do now is performative. We took the keys from the sober drivers and handed them to Trump. Doesn’t make much sense to complain that the guys we put in the backseat aren’t doing enough driving.
Right now there’s a fascist party and a non-fascist party. Undermining the non-fascist party helps the fascists. Instead of complaining and begging “do anything,” I support constructive criticism- telling them what we want them to do and criticizing them on specific failures.
Performing is actually a really important part of what they should be doing right now. True, they can't do much to stop anything. But they can spend the 2 years being loudly obstructionist and showing voters what they'll be willing to do if they get power again.
I think if you vote against the relatively “normal” secretaries, it packs relatively less punch when you vote against sake own like Hegseth or Gabbard or RFK.
You described the situation perfectly. But at a minimum, what I would like to see is a solid blue wall of resistance, even though they're a minority. NONE of this "We're reaching across the aisle to work with our esteemed colleagues" bullshit. Vote NO on everything and everyone Trump wants. Period.
I suspect it's up to us. I just have to say, you are an inspiration in that. You are stepping up. I sure don't blame you for wanting help from people in Congress. Thank you for your reporting.
At the federal level, there's very little power for the party to work with, given how the elections went & the fact that Republicans now own all branches of the federal government. Campaign for the midterm elections in 2026 & seize opportunities at the state & local levels.
You don’t stay silent for a year and a half and then suddenly expect people to believe you’re passionate about the issues when you run in 2026. They have a voice and they should be using it. Loudly. Passionately. Right now.
I would definitely like to see more of that. I'm horrified at what's going on. The latest "pause" in federal spending is devastating to so many people & would make a good target. Don't make the typical leftist mistake of spreading too thin, though.
Let’s start with sending the 7 Democrats who voted to confirm dog killer Kristi Noem home for the next election, that means Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, Kim, Peters, Shaheen and Slotkin. If you have any illusions about her competence just look at her “hot momma” press conference today
Well, it's a problem when the plurality of voters give Trump MAGA a Trifecta control of Government, not to mention a 6-3 RW SCOTUS. Besides press releases, going on podcasts, & making protest speeches, they have no power.
Since they’re like this can folks follow @jfrejnyc.bsky.social —
We’ll be posting about a great onboarding meeting for folks in ny who want to be part of the solution.
Anxious nation voted for Trump and put the Republicans in power in all branches of Government. If Republicans don’t vote with Democrats to overturn these EOs. What do you want them to do. Blame yourselves for not seriously confronting your bigoted family members. The work starts at home.
I want the Democratic Party to loudly, publicly, and frequently assure everyone who voted for them that this isn't normal, they will not allow it to become normal, and despite their relative lack of power, they're using every avenue available to them to prevent more harm from being done.
Who are you following because the ones I follow are vocal about this. They are voting against this but they are not in power. Conservatives also control the media. All of it. Every last one of the news stations. Again are you going to boycott all the businesses that follow along with Trump?
I follow the vocal ones as well. The problem IMO is they're the only ones. For every AOC there are 5 dem reps who think "maybe if I vote with Nancy Mace to disenfranchise trans people my 'purple' constituents will stop calling me a Marxist"
This is the easiest time to be unified and they're not.
Tim I wish I could share your viewpoint. I don’t follow AOC at all . Blaming Dems will not solve the problem. The problem is the evil in our co workers, friends and family who voted for Trump. They are scarier than Trump to me. We are responsible for changing their minds. Accountability starts with
Us Blaming Democrats has only led to the rise of Trump. The harping on the good vs the evil is a problem. Will you all boycott Target and Walmart etc and stop shopping at places that don’t support Black people?
Democrats have to power to grind Congress to a halt. Force a vote on everything. So much is done by unanimous consent. Force votes. Don’t consent to shit. Don’t yield an inch on anything.
aka be Republicans. Republicans have been fucking us with their intransigence even with policies the vast majority of the country obviously want. The fact that Dems don't seem willing or able to manage a fraction of the same is infuriating.
Dems do. A lot of you are influenced by delusion. Republicans understand the game. Yall don’t. When Dems try to get you all on the same page you find fault with something else. Never blaming the true culprits which is why many of you end up as Republicans later because you were never truly with us
Sorry, not sure of your intended point. Elected dem officials don't play the game, which includes GOP-style intransigence, and there is no unified coalition of the left in this country that can compete with MAGA group think. That's self evident. Which part is delusional?
I mean I agree with your previous comment. Dems are now completely hamstrung, but there have been decades worth of opportunities for them to shutdown at least some of the GOP's bullshit by taking pages from their playbook.
Not as long as Citizens United stands. The establishment dems are nothing more than 1980s era moderate republicans. Beholden to their corporate masters.
Anxious nation needs to call their Democratic members of Congress and demand they do something, anything. 202-224-3121.
Who else? How do we reach people in the Democratic Party?
Besides it is utterly thankless in this environment to even stick your neck out. Let the R’s have their evil fun. We all get what we deserve. I didn’t vote for him, nor did anyone I know or care about. We will all suffer for this. My hope is, those I love suffer less. Biden tried. It was thankless.
Anxious Nation should have gone out and voted to avoid this assault. Americans get the government we deserve, and based on the last election, we deserve what’s happening.
Dems are shell-shocked, not to mention in the minority because a bunch of us didn’t turn out to vote for various reasons. I think many are amazed to learn that wholesale change was possible all along if they had dared to work together and do it. But the oligarchs dared — and here we are.
Dem governors need to be collaborating right now, in secret, and planning major initiatives that frustrate and expose the oligarchs while giving people what we want, and doing it FAST. And they need to crack heads to get the different factions in the party united – or thrown overboard.
But it also needs NOT to be resistance. We need to be on offense, not simply resisting change. People want change, DESPERATELY. Maybe not the change the oligarchs want. But we're tired of incrementalism. Dems need to execute positively on our own agenda.
I’m not sure I understand why they’re shell-shocked. The party didn’t expect they’d lose? They didn’t believe any of what trump was saying? I wonder how many would be D voters did get out to vote - for the R’s?
People have been frustrated for decades at the glacial, incremental pace of change. We were convinced that that was the only option, and in the last week we have learned that government can be overwhelmed and retooled faster than we imagined. We never acted like we were in crisis.
My principal beef is with the Democratic Party as an establishment. They are seemingly incapable of opposing the MAGAts at least on any principled level. They are evidently so cowed by their dismal electoral performance that if they ever start opposing, there’ll ’ll be nothing left to oppose.
That’s the thing: opposing implies that you are responding to someone else’s initiative. They are taking action, and you are simply… resisting it. The GOP is rewriting America’s code. The Democratic Party is devoted to returning us to the glory days of WordPerfect. Or Electric Pencil.
As far as I can determine, the congressional D’s are virtually useless 😡 They appear frozen, fearful, and impotent. Schumer is an invertebrate appeaser and the house D’s scurry to the baseboards when MTG or Boebert step on the floor - except AOC.
But if you have Democratic leadership in your state, you might spare some time to point out to them the pace of change taking place in Washington, and asking them what their version of Project 2025 is. “Wholesale rapid change is possible: get to work.“
This is certainly a big part of the problem and, rather than working toward substantive change (on climate, justice, immigration, labor, corruption), the Democratic leadership has actively opposed those efforts in favor of being “GOP Lite” to woo fictional centrists they don’t understand
I think the elders of the DP have retired to their coffins for…who can say? Months, years. Pelosi: ‘ice cream, tax cutsss’ the lid closes. Thanks Nance.
Not vote for Trump's nominees. Not vote for these bullshit bills designed to hurt people (too late on both). Use their powers to obstruct bad legislation, and when that fails slow it down, and when that fails filabuster.
There is nothing the minority party in Congress can do to put a stop to this, unless they can somehow convince Mike Johnson to get on board. The only way this is going to get turned around is through the courts, and there are plenty of parties with standing to sue over this flagrant abuse of power.
I have written to all of my congresspeople. I don't know that it will help, but it's a thing I did.
Which isn't to say I won't do other things, but it's not like it precludes that.
@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Get your elected members unified in both houses NOW
in order to obstruct all Trump/RNC/Project 2025 plans
dunno, Elissa Slotkin ans Gary Peters both won their elections despite me not voting for them, precisely because they were essentially running as republicans. And look at that, they're voting with republicans to confirm every shitty cabinet pick and pass every fascist power grab bill
How do Dems not have a highly publicized document called Project 2027 that sets out ideological policy? Online voting, universal daycare, single payer healthcare, funding science research, etc.
It might have helped if Dems showed up to vote, if the "purity voters" hadn't helped to elect Trump, and if those "Genocide Joe" clowns could have figured out that Bibi/Trump/Putin/Kushner played them to avoid a two-state solution for the Palestinians. And those Latinos are getting deported.
The same ones that gave us Trump in 2016 handed him back to us in 2024, and they tell me that I'm such a fool for voting blue Every. Damn. Time. Since Jimmy Carter. Thinking you're Oh SO Superior for not voting for either party is what gives us dictators like Trump. Tired of smug 3rd-party maroons.
Yeah. These guys are too busy running purity tests on Democrats while doing nothing to ensure that the fascists don't get elected. I saw a comment by a far right German that leftists only know how to complain on the internet. They don't vote so they are not afraid of them..and they are kinda right?
I feel like the moment when Obama chided the crowds when they're booing to not boo but vote was so ominous. The man knew these guys are all noise and whining and don't do most necessary thing to actually help keep a democracy alive which is vote
dems will lose again and blame some marginalized group or them not being rightwing enough, wholly forgetting this period where we all saw them either stand completely still or rush to ‘bipartisanship’ & call on everyone to be collaborative with the fascist machine churning at full speed.
The Democrats knew very well where the country was heading. Still, they chose to live in denial, did not protect the country by firmly prosecuting the January 6 putsch instigators, and did not prepare for the moment of fascist takeover.
Left-leaning voters bitch and moan about Democrats 24/7, make every excuse as to why the Democratic candidate is subpar, then when Democrats don’t win, those same voters wonder why Democrats don’t DO SOMETHING.
I've voted (and worked) for them over decades. They fucking suck ass. Bunch of conservative cowards who eat their young and do not care about their constituents. Especially that necrotic "leadership".
Any Democrat who feels that they can't or won't Do The Most Basic Part Of Their Fucking Job because some people were mean to them online should quit and make way for someone who will, and then disappear from public life forever. "They were mean so I can't do my lucrative job" is not how this works.
Putting up their feet because the people they’re supposed to help disapproved of their brutality and asked where all their money was going. They truly are cops.
No wonder the dems love giving money to actual cops. Whatever happened to defunding the fucking pigs? It was popular and progressive, so of course the dems were against it
Yes, the clown show we all witnessed, that was lefty voters fault. Perfect Dem failure. Whose accountable? Well, it can’t be the grown ups in the Party.
Do something about what? The beneficial legislation that Democrats do pass is either ignored or dismissed.
Also, because of Blue Dogs, upper hand for Dems is not a 1-2 person majority. A veto-proof Democratic majority would be nice, but Americans ain’t about that life.
Biden was literally handed an opportunity by SCOTUS to just throw trump in prison or have him deposed. Democrats sat on their hands in many similar instances where they have the capability to take action and instead did nothing. They aren't helpless, and this helplessness act is the problem.
And Jan 6th, when it failed, was the greatest political gift of a generation. D leaders could have capitalized on it and squashed the Rs. Instead, they rehabilitated them.
No, no, see, if the voters don't eat whatever shit the Dems give them without complaint then it's the voters who are the problem, not the shit peddlers
Just curious, how does one get a party who ignores and then blames the people who are more likely to support them than these unicorn centrists they spend all of their time appealing to?
But there are fundamental ways in which the two parties are the same. Accepting corporate bribes and doing their bidding over the objections of their constituents is the most important one. If neither party is willing to change that dynamic nothing will improve.
Many things can be true at once. Huge political missteps by dems, an unpopular candidate AND the democratic voters continue to do the work of their opps. The "hold dems accountable+ all parties are the same" took a toll on the party & it didnt push the party left or get an election win.
then why are you defending them if they refused to hold themselves accountable for abandoning policies for the right? they have constantly capitulated for their own self interests despite claiming to "have our backs" and then making excuses of "someone should do something".
That’s right, punch on the politically powerless left instead of blaming the do-nothing liberals *currently in office* that never try to make anything better.
The senate just confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary Of State with a 99-0 vote.
Yes, it's called democracy. That's how it is supposed to work. We elect leaders to represent us, and when they don't, we criticize them (or elect new ones).
Please enlighten us as to exactly what Democratic legislators & party officials are doing besides manning their call centers, paying social media surrogates exorbitant fees to spew rhetoric, & generally living in a world they evidently believe insulates them from the consequences of their inaction.
Yea! For real! I mean, all dems can do is completely surrender. It’s imperative that they say nothing, do nothing, and fight for nothing. What these leftists need to understand is that the democratic party can never fail it can only be failed.
No, see, impotently screaming at people on Bluesky because you're mad that they want people whose job it is to stand up to fascism to do that is the REAL noble cause here
Some choices in Life are binary but some [white] people choose to believe otherwise. There are two political parties in America. Two. The Democrats aren't perfect but the Republicans are batshit crazy, and yet the "two parties are the same" somehow.
Yes. You hold the people accountable who can be held accountable. That's not the fascists. And again, the DEMS IN OFFICE need to do their fucking jobs and oppose what's currently happening
Centrist voters give us Democrats who have simply abandoned everyone. For you, the democrats can never fail, they can only be failed. They need to do better
I am not “left-leaning” and am absolutely horrified by the lack of energy by Dems. We’re not even talking about elections right now. We’re talking about putting up some kind of opposition to insanity
registered dem voters took a nosedive this election and they still wanna blame leftists like they didn’t lose their own reliable voters through poor decision making
This sounds a lot like “if you hate the police, don’t expect help when you call 911” I can complain about them all I want, they’re still supposed to do their JOBS
Most Dem candidates didn't defend trans people or undocumented immigrants or Palestinians this last election cycle. They brought this on themselves and have already betrayed us. Stop giving them a pass.
Even still, those who were voted in should be shouting from the floor of the House in opposition to fascism. Where are our party leaders? Preparing for mid-terms is not going to save us.
It would show that they're not going to stand by and watch this happen. It would show they are willing to organize their base. It would show that they will not comply with his directives. It would show that they can't take over the government on a whim with no opposition.
A party run by people in their 70s and 80s won't be stepping up to this moment. Younger Democratic officials need to step up, ignore the idea of "wait your turn", push aside the old "leadership", and take charge immediately.
Sad news friend, the only thing they are going to do is go to jail on corruption charges.
This delusion held by many Americans that a political party can in some way stop a lawless president creating a totalitarian state. With traditional politics, suggests many of you don't know what fascism is.
New York Democrats worked top to bottom to oust my Congressman (Jamaal Bowman) and replaced him with another GOP Lite (George Latimer). I have no idea how we beat this.
Start with calling his office daily. Latimer is not only an AIPAC stooge, he's not very bright. But he has enough connections to keep climbing the professional politician ladder. He must be stopped.
Oppose all cabinet nominees. Start to impeach the orange felon, and keep impeaching 'til mid terms. It won't work but it will win the mid terms.............Also show some spine.
Sorry Marisa, the messages are currently being crafted by the Pod Save Crew, to be filtered by the Bulwark, and then presented to Longwell's Focus Group of 2028 undecided voters who are scared of brown people and hate taxes.
Do something? The American people handed Trump and the Republicans all the power in government. They control the presidency, the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court. On a state level it's 30-17 in legislatures and 27-23 in governorships dominated by them. The people are to blame.
I don't like the Democratic party and think they're incompetent, but the American people voted for Republican run government. It needs to hurt so America won't do this again.
If Dems save us from the consequences, voters will just say it wasn't that bad and keep voting for Republicans.
Make sure you are following your representatives on Bluesky. Maybe they are communicating & you can help spread the word. How are you getting your news about your local rep? AOC and Crockett have a big following, so we all hear them, but help your local people get heard & hear our engaged feedback.
I am still furious with the people who refused to vote you could have done something but you sat on your ass and sat it out to allow the idiot back into office then you blame others for not doing more. I'm also highly critical of the MAGA trash who celebrate bankrupting themselves in aiding their
Who is leading the Democratic Party now? Schumer and Jeffries have both been posting things that are completely out of touch and neither is leading an opposition. We cannot have an opposition without a leader.
Meanwhile @schumer.senate.gov votes for his nominees and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social invokes a fictional deity rather than obstruct, fight, delay, and defend.
What happened to the people fighting for democracy? 4/5/2024 spoke loudly for many, so this pontification is null and void! Either the people fight for democracy or it is what it was built to be. Capitalism!
A party funded by the same oligarchs that fund the other fuckers ain't gonna do shit for regular ppl.
Hope the population figures that out and dumps these neoliberal hypocrites.
Time for an anxious nation to initiate a general strike... to hijack Nixon's infamous words "make the economy scream"
Oh, wow. Thanks for verifying. It really seems like an incredibly stupid thing for Jeffries to tweet and does make me think his head is not where it needs to be right now.
Not the point, I know, butI don't understand why Jeffries wrote, "God is still on the throne," as opposed to the more common "on *His* throne." It evokes quite a different image than I imagine he intended.
I mean, I get it, but the voters literally had a chance to take fate in their own hands and do something rather than wait around for dems to keep saving them somehow
If your opponent is "gaming the game" and there are no consequences for doing so, you will not defeat them by following the rules. You will only feel morally superior in your losers' chair.
The majority of "news" outlets have spent far more of their time on Hunters laptop than they have on, say, Project 2025, SCOTUS picks perjuring themselves, or ignoring the blatant constitutional violations.
It's time that they abandoned the fucking norms they hold so dear, and take a page out of the Republican playbook to obstruct by any means necessary instead of standing around handwringing about how they just don't have the power to stop this trainwreck, unless, of course, you donate more 💰 TODAY.
It's not like we didn't know Project 2025 was gonna happen. The #GOP does not play fair and does not believe in compromise, #Dems need to stand up & fight back!
Not just skeeting! That is so unfair. They are taking full SEMINARS on how to post good, so that they can go viral like that senator who accidentally TikTok'd himself shitting his pants. 🌊💪💙
Keep waiting. They’re still arranging “press conferences”. They need to be on every form of SM, independent news & broadcasters 24/7 in 2 min segments.
The ruling faction within the DNC has been refusing to meaningfully support state efforts to engage voters for years now. They use our donations to employ their similarly-bubbled consultant buddies & refuse to take the advice of anybody outside of their clique. They made massive mistakes this 1/2
2/2 year, from sidelining Walz post-debate to alienating many but their bluest-of-blue dog voters by trotting out the Cheneys. Maintaining enthusiasm is NECESSARY. They did not do so. Natl Dem leadership *refuses* to do the work to engage/strengthen/expand their base. Howard Dean was 100% correct.
We all want to believe that we vote analytically, but studies prove over & over that emotions are our main driver. It is *hard* to get an unenthusiastic constituency out the door.
Instead of honest introspection, the DNC lashes out by seeding social media w/their latest scapegoats.
I wasn't clear, & my apologies. The clique (and I use that term deliberately) that has dominated DNC leadership for far too long puts little effort/cash into the scut work needed to engage/empower/expand their base. They leave this to the states while giving them little support to do so. Natl 1/2
I'm ready to show up for a fiery speech and go march. Meanwhile, Senate Dems are putting out a statement about what Trump did a week ago, which has been almost forgotten in the shit-flooding zone.
I am ready to trade in my post-election despair for some anti-fascist action, but Dems don't seem to be taking the lead. Is anyone in Dem leadership actually interested in mounting a meaningful resistance?
I think we need rallies and marches. I have a feeling that the current level of anger and frustration could generate the same level of action as the joy of the Harris campaign did.
The question is simply what percentage of people will wait around hoping for the Powers that Be to step in to make things right again before finally realizing that it's not going to happen.
Me: Democrats need to put forward some substantial policies to fix healthcare, housing, education and wage growth that they will all get behind.
Delusional Dems: They have! You are an idiot not paying attention!
Me: It’s time to block that nonsense. I want them to win and that argument ain’t it.
Can we please focus on the enemy? Dems simply aren’t “being silent”. It’s incredibly difficult to respond to shock-and-awe, which is why the oligarchy is using it. Schumer and many others posted like crazy last night.
I think what people are craving is word of a protest and/or general strike.
Voters gave republicans power, voters upset that democrats aren’t stopping the republicans. The American voter gets what they deserve. Nobody is coming to save us from their choice.
I am afraid they do not have what it takes! We should’ve gone to the capital & made ourselves heard before Biden left office! Tried to organize a rally but I am one & it takes many!
If you are talking creative ingenious revolutionary ideas, i'm all in. But not revo, revo, that's what they want to be able to call the miltary against the people. Ours needs to be tactical, like ww II small grps that infiltrated and mucked up the works from small town to town.
I try to post tips, recently on-site work warning system & others.
Found tizzyent on YT & TT he & his followers call out racists or abusers. If you need to know there are millions fighting against these guys unconventionally. Worth a look https://youtu.be/qMY9bFrYpzg
I've given up on the Democratic Party. I'll be changing my party affiliation to "Indepent" shortly. After they fucked Bernie I gave them chance after chance. No more. The only thing I won't change is that there is not a snowball's chance in hell of me ever voting for someone with an (R).
Same. I am going to look into thr Forward party and any others that I come across. I have been registered independent since the early 2000s. It doesn't keep us from voting in whatever primary we choose here.
I agree but how do you get the media to bring it up to a level of covering Trump BS? The Washington Post just said Trump is normal and that's good. It's so twisted.
Because of misogyny, misinformation, weak voter turnout, the “undecided” debacle, & the infighting regarding Israel, the country gave free rein to the GOP to destroy democracy.
People now want something to be done by the very people that they stripped power from. Remember this feeling in two years.
I'm not sure what people expect them to do, or what they're able to do. I know none of them want this & are making some sort of plan, but they certainly can't make secret info public. They could be executed. They know that. We all know what fascism does to the opposition. They're not doing nothing.
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My rage needs somewhere to focus! Right now, it’s focusing on their silent compliance. I want RESISTANCE! I want FIGHTERS!
(202) 224-3121
It was called........an election.
A dem MUST run for every open seat.
We’ll be posting about a great onboarding meeting for folks in ny who want to be part of the solution.
This is the easiest time to be unified and they're not.
Who else? How do we reach people in the Democratic Party?
The anxious nation voted to give total control of the government to the Republicans.
Now they nation is going to get what they deserve, good and hard.
Elections have consequences. The nation doesn't deserve to be saved by the Democrats anymore. They voted for fascism. They get fascism.
Republicanism demands opposition to monarchy as a first principle.
There are 215 House and 47 Senate dems.
Have you checked with every single one?
Take you time to read what has been happening in the courts and protests across the country.
general. strike.
They could be more
Vocal but I’m not sure what else. Vote against everybody which they at least did for dod
But it also needs NOT to be resistance. We need to be on offense, not simply resisting change. People want change, DESPERATELY. Maybe not the change the oligarchs want. But we're tired of incrementalism. Dems need to execute positively on our own agenda.
But if you have Democratic leadership in your state, you might spare some time to point out to them the pace of change taking place in Washington, and asking them what their version of Project 2025 is. “Wholesale rapid change is possible: get to work.“
They are backed by blue oligarchs, they do not care what happens to citizens
That's not the party's fault.
Which isn't to say I won't do other things, but it's not like it precludes that.
Your constituents need you to STAND UP for us. PLEASE.
Get your elected members unified in both houses NOW
in order to obstruct all Trump/RNC/Project 2025 plans
just sayin
moron get elected twice in three elections
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/biden-speech-last-night-called-trump-fascism-good-rcna46000
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lgsgdpbz522o
Ridiculous cycle.
Who *is* allowed to bitch and moan about Democrats?
That's been the job since before the first city was founded. You get the power, but that comes with responsibility and blame.
it's a party problem, not a voter problem.
Also, because of Blue Dogs, upper hand for Dems is not a 1-2 person majority. A veto-proof Democratic majority would be nice, but Americans ain’t about that life.
You don’t have to “eat shit.” Make the Democratic Party work for you. But it’s easier to claim “both parties are the same.”
The senate just confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary Of State with a 99-0 vote.
Weird way to fight fascism.
Their job is to represent us.
The reason we demand more from the Dems is because we vote for them. That’s the whole point.
Right. Enjoy this “nominally worse” regime.
They’re supposed to be punished for things being bad as an incentive to figure shit out
The reps can turn stints as representatives into well-paying consultant jobs. They’ll be fine, whether or not re-elected.
You may not like it, but it’s reality and not changing any time soon.
Don't care if you think Gaza was important or Dems didn't give you enough reasons.
You were all warned plenty. You knew who Trump is. And you chose to let the leopard eat.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/harris-trump-biden-why-democratic-turnout-cratered-1235164354/
Trump is empowered for years because the Dem base were toddlers.
And they did organize their base except their base didn't turn out.
Sometimes voters get it badly wrong, as they did with Brexit, and it's time to face up to that.
This delusion held by many Americans that a political party can in some way stop a lawless president creating a totalitarian state. With traditional politics, suggests many of you don't know what fascism is.
If Dems save us from the consequences, voters will just say it wasn't that bad and keep voting for Republicans.
Blaming Democrats for not stopping Republicans…while so many people do not vote for Democrats… 🤔
I was told to “enjoy the camps”when I pointed this out as being incorrect
So, let’s see, we have Teen Vogue and Rolling Stone.
They have the rest.
https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3lgqxczzpdk2d
What happens isn't on the Democrats. At all.
Most of them are Vichy Dems.
Hope the population figures that out and dumps these neoliberal hypocrites.
Time for an anxious nation to initiate a general strike... to hijack Nixon's infamous words "make the economy scream"
There must be a different view of this from the tops of the ivory towers because they are not panicking anywhere near enough.
Do you expect the arsonists to modify their own behavior?
The republicans have been working to shred the government for my entire life, yelling at them isn't going to change a goddamn thing.
Dems need to get off their ass and provide some fucking opposition.
The majority of "news" outlets have spent far more of their time on Hunters laptop than they have on, say, Project 2025, SCOTUS picks perjuring themselves, or ignoring the blatant constitutional violations.
They choose garbage and shirk their duty.
And yelling at Dems gets you...?
Tell me, since theyre in the minority, just exactly what moves they have?
When have republicans being in the minority ever stymied their ability to gum up the machine?
The majority of our party folded to Republicans to Bush and Cheney
History repeating itself
WE MUST STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN
They can’t stop eo’s from being written which is like 98% of what has actually gone down so far
GOP voters: not evil enough, also I think you are literally satan
other voters: housing and healthcare please god we're dying we cannot afford our basic needs christ almighty
Dems: why are we losing elections? oh well $300tril to israel
So many people need to experience the find out stage.
Voting is a staircase not an escalator or teleportation device.
Don't care if you think Gaza was important or Dems didn't give you enough reasons.
You were all warned plenty. You knew who Trump is. And you chose to let the leopard eat.
Your post is purely empty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Instead of honest introspection, the DNC lashes out by seeding social media w/their latest scapegoats.
Why would the Democratic party support efforts "outside of their clique"
Sounds like you want a different party.
I itching to fight, to defend liberty & democracy 💪💪💪
melt. what more do you want?
The question is simply what percentage of people will wait around hoping for the Powers that Be to step in to make things right again before finally realizing that it's not going to happen.
Delusional Dems: They have! You are an idiot not paying attention!
Me: It’s time to block that nonsense. I want them to win and that argument ain’t it.
I think what people are craving is word of a protest and/or general strike.
What more do you want him to do?
It’s all they ever do. Never attack the GOP.
Get the fuck out of here with that asinine take.
Here in NY the Dems partnered with the GOP to wage a write in campaign for mayor of Buffalo when the incumbent lost to a socialist.
I try to post tips, recently on-site work warning system & others.
Found tizzyent on YT & TT he & his followers call out racists or abusers. If you need to know there are millions fighting against these guys unconventionally. Worth a look
https://youtu.be/qMY9bFrYpzg
People now want something to be done by the very people that they stripped power from. Remember this feeling in two years.