They think the greatest own in politics ever was when that general said "at long last have you no shame" to McCarthy and they've been trying to bring it back ever since.
My favorite moment was when they thought it was a real own to send cakes to the Republicans. Like, why would you think people wouldn't want cake? How is that anything but a reward. They are so irredeemably feckless.
it's no surprise the democrats' response is like "we wrote this memo" because that's the sort of thing that works on them. a harsh enough memo can stall their agenda clear to the next election
What a strange comment. The feasibility of one has almost nothing to do with the other. Particularly considering his survival was due to poor aim and incompetence of his assailants and not any quality of him or his movement.
jfc you people cannot be serious
do I really have to say that I do not in fact think that mofo survived because of some supernatural shit or his politics?
i was saying that, compared to weak-ass assassination attempts, american democracy is even weaker
Imagine if they take back power one day, they'll come after trump, have absolute executive power to do anything and they'll do absolutely nothing because "we're not like him"
Exactly, Biden promised it last year after the presidential immunity ruling
“I know I will respect the limits of presidential power as I have for the three-and-a-half years, but any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law"
"We have all the power in the world to make everyone's life better, but you know what, it would make the republicans sad, so we'll just do nothing instead, how about that?
You can't be asking these questions Shaun! There's an election in two years I'm sure this post will contribute towards the Democrats losing seats I'm sure!
Dems are far from beyond reproach, but the things they wish to do (make government do more) is harder to do than what Trump wants (make government do less).
Once the senate parliamentarian's bill passes its 3rd sub-committee reading by a 99% majority or higher they can begin drafting the final section that, if it passes, bring articles of impeachment against Trump by the year 2035. Assuming of course that the Supreme Court doesn't say no
The majority, even though they don't have to, lets the minority stymie them with parliamentary process for only one reason: that they expect to hand power over eventually, and will suffer payback if they run roughshod over the minority.
Democrats spent years deluded that power will be handed back
The Democrats are upset. If you're upset too, consider donating $75 or more to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and they'll use that money to fund campaigns for current and prospective candidates to tell you how outraged they are from now to the November 2026 midterms.
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a nonviolent protest in a nondisruptive area with a bunch of signs and slogans about how unbreakable the human spirit is or whatever will surely do something this time
democrats are unable to do anything because they are a disempowered political minority. on an unrelated note, I choose to blame the fact that democrats can't do anything on twitter communists
The parliamentarian has to do with what Congress can pass, not the executive. The reason Trump is able to do all this is because of a more favourable judiciary, which leftists like you caused by focusing your ire more on democrats and not Trump because you’re bitter the party didn’t nominate Bernie
I'm sure you were out there demanding RBG resign during the Obama presidency, or calling for a recess appointment when Congress refused to confirm Obama's Supreme Court nomination in '16.
To be clear, Shaun is specifically referencing the period from 2021 to 2023 when Dems had both houses of Congress and the Presidency, and still couldn't get anything done because of some new guy no one had ever heard of before called "The Parliamentarian," like some kind of political supervillain.
"Trump is managing to do things because a British leftist supported a candidate in the presidential election where Trump lost." sure is a take.
"We mustn't hold Dems to any standards lest they be even MORE ineffective" is starting to get tired after a decade of hearing it, no matter who is in power
Hey man, I think this was a joke
I also think you’re in a dead-end ideology fighting for your life for scraps that will never come
Hope you figure things out!
They don’t actually have a good argument when it comes to this they just want you to stop insulting dems and think it sounds clever to tell you to insult republicans instead
At this point the people defending dems need to fucking move if they don’t wanna be trampled by the clear angry mob forming despite their protests lmao
You people have only been a hinderance in stopping the rise of fascism because of your in group incentive to look cool by criticising Dems all the time and promoting nihilism.
it isn't us who are the hinderance, it's the politicians. it's not a bad thing to critique the people who are supposed to represent us, especially when they are so against radical action, even in the face of what's going on now. they get stopped at the door and shrug and take a 3 day weekend ffs.
But the dems didn’t do anything. That alone is worth criticism. They didn’t codify queer rights because manchin said no, they allowed Roe V Wade to die, they snubbed their own popular VP because he took attention from Kamala, they snubbed the guy who was already incumbent. Establishment Dems suck.
Oh they didn't shut up Walz because he was more popular than Kamala. They did it because he was being mean to Republicans and that's not allowed (Rrpublicams can be mean to Democrats all they want though).
🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣 you guys won. You stoped popular democratic change. This is what you works so hard for. Don’t be embarrassed now. You picked trump enjoy the world you wanted. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
-blocks Bernie
-Biden fails to drop out after first term
-4 month campaign, no runway, no online game
- crowns Kamala despite no base
- brings in a cool left wing VP and then muzzles the only popular message of the campaign
Your party ran to the right of Trump on genocide, immigration, and abandoned LGBTQ rights. A guy with policy nearly identical to Biden and Harris is currently in office, the only difference is he's not lying about what he's doing. You're the ones who got what you wanted.
Obviously the real solution is to side with the fascists? To give up on electoral politics completely?
Or maybe to support a 3rd part that'll get a couple percent of the vote?
until y'all have a democratic system where fascists aren't rewarded and put into power, change in your country will come from outside. electoralism only gets you so far, which is to say not much
Of course, you could argue part of the reason fascists are rewarded and put into power is that people are like "Fuck the Dems. They're not good enough."
Electoralism isn't everything or even enough, but it should be a bare minimum.
you tried that first one this past year, friend. how did promising to build trumps wall for him and kill all the Palestinians Netanyahu asked for pan out.
-end the support for genocides in gaza, syria, yemen, and elsewhere
-being work on ending fossil fuel dependency and saving the planet
-universal, public healthcare
-free higher education at public universities, and forgiveness of all student loan debt
-end corporate lobbying
that's a start
Nihilism is a philosophical position that says nothing, absolutely nothing, that we can experiences in our lives has any lasting meaning. That's not the same thing as failing to be impressed by the status quo. If humans put serious effort into feeding children, I'll be more interested. Go do it.
Yes, nihilists is the wrong adjective in their context, but they arguably may have done more damage by not facilitating a status quo. The cranky old men who took power, relish 'disruption' in an almost nihilistic sense. They broke a status quo, but they actively to harm the children, not help them.
But if leftists are just a vocal minority, that holds no power, why blame them? Minorities can't do anything, just like dems can't do anything to stop the republicans, and you can't blame them, leftists can't be blamed for democrats
It must be wonderful to live in your brain, just cruising through life having no idea how the world works but still being fully confident in your opinions, reality be damned
So when Biden was President, and Kamala ran on codifying Roe, why didn't they simply just do it via EO? Or wiping out student loan debts entirely? Seems like you can do whatever the fuck you want if you're a Nazi, but not if you're a Democrat cos of "norms and traditions."
They could have issued a bunch of executive orders that would immediately have been tied up in Court, eventually been struck done and accomplished nothing. This wouldn't have satisfied you.
Trump's orders are also being fought in Court, but the Court is right wing and sympathetic,
so he's got an advantage. A lot of stuff is still being blocked though. Besides that, since he's trying to break things, at lot of the damage is done as soon as the order is issued. Even if, for example, some fired staff sue and are eventually reinstated.
Sure, things will get caught up, but that's just how things work. Bills get caught up in courts too. It's part of the American system. Biden went the safe route, but that doesn't translate to normies who aren't Politicpilled. They just see Trump "doing things" and think "Well wtf Dems?" & it's true.
Yeah or maybe Biden being a catholic Zionist who spent his entire political career catering to corporate interests has something to do with why he wasn’t willing to issue executive orders in support of popular positions that directly oppose own longstanding personal beliefs.
Exactly! They're like "Oh no we can't do that cos the GQP will do it. and blah blah" OK AND??? Fucking do it, get your shit done, and unfuck the god damn country you pussy dems... If folks are calling y'all Communists and Marxists, then GO DO MARXIST SHIT! Fucking capitalist neolib fucks
You have only been a hinderance in stopping the rise of fascism because democrats are liberals, and if you scratch them a fascist bleeds.
If you don't like genocidal fascists stop voting for them.
Just fyi, German communists explicitly wanted Hitler to gain power in the 30s because they thought the revolution™ would be easier to achieve under him.
Sometimes liberals side with fascists to keep leftists out, and sometimes it's the leftists siding with the fascists... Not black and white.
Precisely my point: German communists actively tried to prevent the liberal SPD from winning, in favor of the fascist NSDAP with Hindenburg. If German communists hadn't helped put Hindenburg in power, Hindenburg may never have given Hitler supreme chancellorship.
That's called accelerationists dumbass. Every part of the political spectrum has em. Left, right, probably center. I mean maybe centrist ones jerk off to the status quo faster or something.
Anyway, like 3 guys saying to make shit worse to speed up the revolution isn't a common communist belief
You have only been a hinderace in stopping fascism because you keep voting for and defending fascists and fascist capitulators just because you like the color of their hats. You are a fuckin Nazi, bud.
Ah so this is what the labour party people who went over to "help" actually did. Taught you to be like this. I'd stop that if I were you, rather than shaming people into voting for you it makes them hate you. See Labour approval ratings.
Yeah I’m sure it’s a chronically neglected wing of the democrat party that helped fascism along and not the guys who continued executing fascist policies in spite of their protests
Hey quick question; in a country of 330million that has only 2 parties, do you think it might be reasonable for voters to not like either of the 2 parties and expect more of the party that's at least closer to them on the political spectrum?
Nobody would try to look cool by saying "politicians are bad and useless," one of the least controversial opinions in human history and a nearly bipartisan sentiment at that
Nope, not "you people," me specifically. I am the one who decides US general election outcomes. I did not ask for this power but libs keep saying I have it over and over. Don't make me use it!
We don’t hate Democrats more than Republicans. But we criticize Dems and hold them to high standards, because we want them to improve. Being “better than the Republicans” is the bare minimum, frankly.
If you never criticize them, they’ll never get better, and will keep shifting to the right forever
So I guess you're taking this all the way back to Hillary losing and blaming leftists for having supported Bernie at the very least then which is just so stupid, do yu really think she lost as a result of Bernie supporters and not like, the director of the fbi lying or her inability to campaign.
Man, your little flow chart would be way more compelling if not for the fact it spiral’s of into fantasy and showcases whoever made it/anyone who promotes it has little to no grasp on reality
Liberals never stand up to fascism because they're ideologically aligned. People calling Dems lazy, old, out of touch, warmongering losers isn't why they kowtow to Trump.
I'm gonna be honest, the libs are getting radicalized. I'm starting to see a lot more..... radicalized libs agitating for more revolutionary actions as they feel discontent with the Dems & see Trump continuing to consolidate and take power.
I don't think they're as liberal as they may claim to be.
In part because for so long our Overton Window has been out of whack to where Nancy Pelosi was seen as a "progressive". This is a good thing because for people it'll allow them sort themselves out more better than all of us being forced into two camps.
It's supposed to be motivation for the Democrats to do good things. That is how a healthy democracy is supposed to work. Voting is 1% of it. Look how the French do things. This kumbayah shit is so embarrassing.
We are not friends. This is not about getting along and having fun. It is about doing what must be done to fight fascism. It is about acknowledging and adapting to new realities instead of running crying to the old playbook at every sign of a fight.
You ever wonder if maybe the Dems are banking on their opposition being cartoonishly evil in a sort of "well they have to vote for us now cos our opposition is blatantly evil" and so they can get away with doing barely anything that the people voting for them need and/or want?
okay so the democrats are so great, yet you people blame everyone else for their problems, and even if they easily could stop it or do anything, you people go out of their way to say "here's how they couldn't actually do anything at all!" and expect people not to be happy? you get what you deserve
Fixed it for you. The Democrats almost never do anything "good" at least at a national level, what you consider "good" in your chart is what we consider "ok". I'm afraid we'll never agree on this (you are a dirty stinky liberal). And the reps never do anything good, why include it?
see i would think being a hateful bigot is primarily the fault of the hateful bigot, not whatever boogeymen they're blaming their bigotry on, but that's just me
You don't think this is you trying to do "cool posturing" by engaging in your in group incentive to continue to punch Leftward? All one has to do is stop by the KHive sections of social media and see some very cultish like repetition of Left Bashing memes like it's a beatitude or something....
Liberals need to understand that "looking cool" pales in comparison to having healthcare.
No one wants to dunk on the Democrats. I want to like them. I was a fucking Hilldog bro.
If the Democrats were as good as you said they were, we wouldn't have Trump in the first place. Hillary Clinton literally propped the damn dumpster fire up in the GOP primaries thinking he was easier to beat.
“The Democrats wouldn’t have driven directly off that cliff if you hadn’t spent the entire election yelling at Democrats for heading directly towards a cliff at full speed.” This is what you sound like.
I sometimes feel a severe pang of regret, regardless of the fact I live in a red state, that I didn't just put my head down and vote for Kamala.
Then I see how spineless and nihilistically cowardly the Democrats are, and it stops mattering. All of this would probably still have happened eventually.
Personally, every month of blatantly racist bullshit and crocodile tears from liberals & their representatives has only made me prouder of not having voted for Kamala. If anything, I almost wish my down ballot Democrats were less progressive so that I had had an excuse to vote against them, too.
as long as both parties exist in their current state, the outcome of any given election is meaningless. We have to radically overhaul or even destroy the ones we have as soon as possible.
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Wage cost of living adjustment.
The democrats are spineless losers who have rolled over and shown their soft lil tummies
yeah no lol
honestly i gotta respect the skill but not the planning
*technically
do I really have to say that I do not in fact think that mofo survived because of some supernatural shit or his politics?
i was saying that, compared to weak-ass assassination attempts, american democracy is even weaker
“I know I will respect the limits of presidential power as I have for the three-and-a-half years, but any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law"
https://apnews.com/article/biden-election-2024-debate-c47243b3cedb88ce6ea7905a1975e164
Oooo we are gonna write SUCH a strongly worded letter about this... AND it's gonna be laminated!
Democrats spent years deluded that power will be handed back
Trump appoints himself parlimentarian. Democrats quickly capitulate.
after all it's how we saved gaza
"We mustn't hold Dems to any standards lest they be even MORE ineffective" is starting to get tired after a decade of hearing it, no matter who is in power
I also think you’re in a dead-end ideology fighting for your life for scraps that will never come
Hope you figure things out!
The party choosing to court W Bush voters who didn't vote for them and not Bernie voters who would, is also the Bernie voters fault.
The party choosing to not pursue popular policy through legal means, voter fault.
and you expect my vote for this shit? get lost loser
"but they didn't do anything"
yes, we have been noticing that for ten years or more
-Biden fails to drop out after first term
-4 month campaign, no runway, no online game
- crowns Kamala despite no base
- brings in a cool left wing VP and then muzzles the only popular message of the campaign
- Gaza
-"biden did nothing wrong"
- bails on Rogan
..."the left always complain when they get what they want"
Or maybe to support a 3rd part that'll get a couple percent of the vote?
Electoralism isn't everything or even enough, but it should be a bare minimum.
This rhethoric works both ways, bozo.
-being work on ending fossil fuel dependency and saving the planet
-universal, public healthcare
-free higher education at public universities, and forgiveness of all student loan debt
-end corporate lobbying
that's a start
Trump's orders are also being fought in Court, but the Court is right wing and sympathetic,
If you don't like genocidal fascists stop voting for them.
Sometimes liberals side with fascists to keep leftists out, and sometimes it's the leftists siding with the fascists... Not black and white.
Completely unrelated but who'd you vote for btw?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428/
Anyway, like 3 guys saying to make shit worse to speed up the revolution isn't a common communist belief
https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lioxrw4k622l
If you never criticize them, they’ll never get better, and will keep shifting to the right forever
This is truly a wondrous piece of art, do you have more? Do you take commissions?
Then I saw it. Lol
I remmeber when this pup first came on the scene. A left-liberal clout chaser.
I don't think they're as liberal as they may claim to be.
No one wants to dunk on the Democrats. I want to like them. I was a fucking Hilldog bro.
Then I see how spineless and nihilistically cowardly the Democrats are, and it stops mattering. All of this would probably still have happened eventually.
Everything they haven't done since then has me wishing I had just stayed home.
I'm still amazed that Harris managed to vanish both more than $1 billion and then herself so efficiently.
She's not a leader! Leaders don't disappear when times get bad.
They lead. They get the out there and actively inspire the populace to action.
One would also hope they can actually account for the funds they receive.