I'm not donating to your political party if all you're going to do is post. I can do that for free. I will donate if you have a project to resurrect FDR and give him a gun
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we should have seen election reform decades ago. a limit on how much money can be raised and spent. Running for office should never be a trillion-dollar industry. Never trust a politician that calls that their "career" ... This whomever raises the most wins is b.s. too
Amen, but when minor parties that, on principle, don't take corporate, lobbyist, PAC, foreign influence money try to participate in our electoral system and to get this reform message out,
they're quashed, and by some of the $billion that usually messages reform.
i wonder if this is because the worship of the dollar has become so normalized, and the holding of integrity has been called "weakness" if the public as a whole held integrity as its requirement for politicians and disdained those who were easily swayed by money our lives would be so different
I will not endorse giving anyone a gun. But I do endorse not donating money to a candidate or political party, or voting for them if all they are going to do is post and no actions taken.
I’ve stopped my giving as well. National Democratic Party, as soon as you wake up, get vocal, and fight fire with dynamite, I’ll restart, until then starve.
Align yourselves with powerful organizations that are fighting back. Bernie Sanders has begun a separate investigation. Now the FBIs' James Dennehy. https://bit.ly/4hIrfdU
Unfortunately the most popular interpretation of “going low too” politically is “so does this mean that you are going to let me say slurs again?”
Like grow up. And take politics more seriously than a like six year old who just discovered what cussing is
People are dying and you just wanna say
What would a single FDR with a gun do? Unless maybe he was like some cool SUPER FDR with like Gremlins powers where we could dunk him in water and make TONS of FDR’s and THEN they can go all New Deal on everyone’s ass! We gotta be thinking BIG people!
I’ve never felt like any of the Dem’s problems would be remotely altered by them having more money. They don’t even do messaging like, “We would do X, but it costs Y.”
I would like all registered Dems to pick a day and in mass change to independent. I’m a life long dem, but I’m will do so if it will scare the shit out of them and get them to do their fucking jobs and uphold the constitution.
Teddy Roosevelt.
He walked softly when needed.
He charged up San Juan Hill when needed.
He protected our land.
He protected our country from all enemies both foreign and domestic.
And knew what it took to win a battle.
We need fighters.
We need leaders who will march with us.
Who will get arrested with us. Who will demand a return of our democracy. Not leaders who just talk
Just post message on social media
Uh, I was up all Friday night doing that. My help is not appreciated here. Kicks dirt looking at ground.
Okay! Well, call me crazy, my doctor will, I think a nee hobby would be good. Drinking heavily. I promise, well, no, I don't, but I'm sure I'll be thinking about you guys.....
I am fed up with the texts and emails begging for money. We already pay their salaries, they aren’t getting another penny from me until they actually show up and fight like maga does
Do NOT bring FDR back, they tried it in the 80's and the machine-spirit of his wheelchair fused with his rotting carcass. He is now sealed below the Washington Monument for at least 9 generations yet.
Teddy on the other hand would totally choke out any demon that tried to take his soul, way safer.
I am gobsmacked at the constant donation grabbing by all the parties, from the fattest wallet down to those below the poverty line. Its despicable in my opinion.
Assclown Hakeem Jeffries just pledged that Democrats will 'fight' Trump’s agenda 'in the streets'. This is a perfect example of why you rubes lost every branch of government and are on the outside looking in.
Maybe not, but they can oppose every candidate Trump put forth, call for action against Elon Musk for legally stealing our data, bring articles of impeachment against Trump, even though it won’t go anywhere. Show us that they actually care
What are you doing? Written or called any members of Congress? Got any plans for when ICE takes your neighbors away? Done anything to support LGBTQ people besides post on SM? While Dems are trying to keep the country from fracturing &/or going to war it’s up to we the people to be loud.
I’ve never given a single penny to a politician, and never would. I couldn’t imagine giving my hard earned money to a statist ruler. They already steal enough of my money through taxes.
I'm still a little pissed at Biden for choosing not to "use his immunity" to uphold his constitutional duty to defend the US from all enemies "foreign AND DOMESTIC".
He ended his term like "Hey guys, the country is fucked, k-bye"
This #DNC is starting to annoy the base. WE see little action, and every contact or survey ends with a demand for money. It seems that if you don't donate your opinion, it doesn't matter. We need leadership and inspiration. WTAF?
Do they know how many have turned off corporate news?
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Even though I hate to go on twitter, it is the only way that I can express my fury at these no good rotten Republicans! It's infuriating that we all have to suffer for these stupid jackasses that voted for the Criminal Trump and his henchmen!
Right. That’s how I feel. Why should I donate money just to hear you “burn” someone on social media and tell me what I already know about Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Tell me what you’re going to do.
I’m seriously relieved president Jimmy Carter passed away before he had to witness the catastrophic destruction of our Country and our allied relations.
Thats the same reason I'm not filing taxes until next term. IRS has a 10 year window, elon isn't going thru my shit when he can't even protect the data in his own company from getting hacked and sold. I'm not stupid like they want to think we are.
I'm getting angrier with every ad I see asking for financial support to the Democrats right now. Seriously? So you can do what, buy nicer cushions for continuing to sit on your asses and do NOTHING? You don't need to crowdfund doing your effing job!!!
Understandable. Somehow and some way this all will end. It hurts now, but this too will pass. Use your own gun to protect your family and home. The choices belong to you.
An Untouchables reboot but this time it's Charles Martin Smith's forensic Treasury accountant going rogue after Elliott Ness has been disappeared by Henry Ford goons
FDR and MLK would be wonderful. Men that knew how to stand up and take care of their people. The only guns I have are shotguns. Would need a lot of scatter shot.
Not doing it slowly normalizes their platform. People used to not want to be those things. If so many people are comparing you to Nazis, would you maybe try to figure out why instead of just doubling down?
If we are to look at this critically, most people, probably almost all that are supporting the other side don’t and will never believe they are nazis. Factually, it’s inaccurate anyways. “I’m not even German”
The issue is our focus. We should be helping improve lives of people in this country first.
This resurrection shit is dangerous. Just look at the zombie Kennedy they are trying to foist off on us as health tzar. Worm in the brain doesn't even begin to cover it.
thats all they will and can really do, unless we have a couple billion to buy off more ppl nothing will happen no matter how much they post, vote or give interviews
Ummmm … FDR was the one who signed Executive Order 9066 and opposed anti-lynching legislation, fearing it would harm him poetically. But, really, do you need to go further than EO 9066?
The Green Party of the U.S.' original Green New Deal that was greatly developed by Howie Hawkins and campaigned on by Green candidates since 2010, in its undiluted form before being borrowed and think-tanked into fluff, was on steroids.
It shall be resurrected. https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal
Are those the same people who insist that IF ONLY a few more of us voted for their candidates, they would have a chance to win, rather than just act as spoilers?
And we explain that we’d need a different electoral system for that to work—but they never do the activism necessary to change the system!
The party for third party voters who gave us trump. I’ve read the GND twice & it’s garbage written by pundits, not environmental scientists & engineers.
No, you don’t. We absolutely need to take action on anthropogenic climate change & address environmental injustice. But we do not need a document written by policy wonks.
To clarify, wonk policy is a problem, it is explicitly not the problem I would push to resolve at the moment. Wonk policy is something Elon will find and blame on Democrats while he explicitly violates constitutional law.
From the time trump announced his candidacy in Nov 2022 many of us sounded the alarm on autocracy. “I told you so” is as useless as “thoughts & prayers” now. Seems as if those who refused to hear then still aren’t listening now. “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of good than malice.” ~Bonhoeffer
ME: hey DNC, what have you been doing?
DNC: Sending out emails begging for money to fight Trump/MAGA
ME: So, what did you do with all the money?
DNC: We sent out more emails begging for money to fight Trump/MAGA
ME: OK, what else did you do with all the money?
DNC: We hired a bunch of consultants
ME: Hey DNC, did you hear that trump oligarchs want to cut Social Security & Medicare?
DNC: Yes, that’s terrible, we’re going to send out more emails begging for money to stop trump oligarchs from cutting Social Security & Medicare
ME: Why not just fight to stop trump oligarchs from cutting Social Security & Medicare?
DNC: We don’t have any money; spent it all on emails and consultants.
At a time when everyone who isn’t maga needs to be united against a fascist regime run by billionaires who can survive an apocalypse in their bunkers you sure know how to play into their hands.
Technology is so that we could have fair information to everyone without lies in on central place. All paid with equal budgets for all candidates on line. No need for donations ever. Bring back truth in news, advertising and campaigns. we could have healthcare, Education political $ waisted.
No donations ever. All that money is waisted. it goes nowhere. They don’t pay for my job search why are we paying for theirs. As soon as they get elected. they just try to fundraise instead of doing their jobs. Give themselves raises , have all the perks but none for the people
I hope @kenmartin.bsky.social reads this bc it will be his biggest challenge. Democrats have too many elites in their ranks and a lack of work ethic. It’s hard to lead the “working” class with a bunch of do-nothing freeloaders.
Agree! Are our Democratic leaders doing anything more than posting notices of grievances on social media and alerting us to what the Numbnuts in Chief is doing? Hey representatives, we've got that covered. You need to actually be doing something.
People do not know how to think critically. They stopped teaching that. Now they think by emotion, and we are 19th in the world in education. Facts is what matters.
If it hurts your feelings, then you need to learn to be an adult.
There are cameras and camera phones everywhere. Also, calling in threats is a Felony. Types of vandalism listed here can also put innocent people in harm’s way. I personally would not recommend much of this due to safety concerns.
Yes, be creative, indeed, not disagreeing with you there. Work with what you got (have you seen the gardening tools aisle at Lowe’s?). If people choose to employ these methods, they have to be careful and be willing to accept any fallout.
Could pick flowers from government land
buy a Get well soon card
Take it to the Republican offices or government offices
Stack them up like what happened with Princess Di
Get the attention of all j/s
Bug the Twats a lot
Same. I refuse to donate a penny to any local , state or federal politician unless we see decisive action. Not a damn penny. And I've donated more than I should have the last 8 years and look where we are now. Lame ass feckless democrats.
Right. I don't have a bone in my body that has ever wanted to be in politics but I'm seriously considering running as a fucking socialist at this point.
FYI- my fun comment on here made a Boomer BIG MAD, and he had to go all racist/sexist/mansplaining to feel like he won. 😂
I guess "Okay Boomer" really does piss them off THAT badly!
It does. Though in all fairness, there are some boomer aged people out there that are not that way.
I'll be honest, I would take FDR or Teddy happily over what we have to deal with now, but if it's gonna be FDR, Henry A Wallace and Frances Perkins need to be brought back, too.
Perkins was remarkable. First ever woman to be a member of a presidential cabinet,(and in the line of presidential succession, too) as labor secretary. She was one of the main driving forces behind The New Deal, especially social security.
Teddy and FDR both had great things to say about her
I also just want to throw it out there because a ton of people don't realize it, Teddy Roosevelt founded the OG progressive party, The Progressive Bullmoose party waaaay back in 1912 or so.
Most people don't even know the parties switched multiple times, with the last great flip being in the 60s. Asking for early America history is a bit much!
I think that ultimately, if we want to move forward there will have to be a viable third party. One that actually listens to the concerns of the working class. It may be time to dust off Wallace's American progressive party, and tweak the platform to modernize it.
The 2nd Amendment actually tells you to do so. TOPPLE TYRRANICAL GOVERNMENT. I know the Constitution because I served my country faithfully & wanted to be informed if this ever happened. She specifically stated "nazis", which DO INDEED threaten our nation. You DEFENDED them. WHY? CHECKMATE. BOOMER.🙃
-That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.
People really should learn to read again. It's a handy skill.
I keep screenshots of the Constitution IN IT'S ENTIRETY on my phone for easy access at any time. Just in case. It's important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS & USE THEM PROPERLY.
Why are you insulting people old enough to be in the "Baby Boomer" era. A shitload of us are diehard liberals. This kind of agism is just plain getting old.
I'm good, however, with you calling them fascists or Nazis. That's a proper insult.
I'll always advocate destroying Nazis. Less than 60 years ago, this entire country agreed.
Like a disease, allowing them a pass just let's them spread.
Of course they were. It's a serious question.What was your answer? What, pray tell, can a back-bencher in the minority party actually do? What exactly is accomplished by "saying something" to the media?
that is all that i asked for. and i don’t need lectures, Margaret. If you’re fine with your representative being a do-nothing in the face of an authoritarian coup, you’re part of the Democrat problem.
So tired of people saying this. When repubs are in the minority, they manage to obstruct just fine, but somehow when Dems are in that position, they're helpless little wimps.
They could take a page from McConnell and learn to grind everything to a halt.
I liked seeing senators outside USAID saying they were going to try and get in and find out what was going on. I'd want them to introduce bill after bill and flood the Congress with proposed legislation and force leadership to deal with it.
One of the senators today mentioned an organization that was part of the OMB memo lawsuit. I'd be blasting the names and donation links for those organizations in my district newsletter.
Molotov cocktails are only effective by lone actors at night, or by salvo. A guy tried using 3 on a deli in NYC broad daylight, light-toss, light-toss, grabs the third gets tackled fire's out. A solo throw is easily snuffed, lesson learned from Ukraine during the initial invasion-saturation is key
Cause for better or worse he was a traitor to his class and managed to drag the US to some form of social democracy without it being called social democracy.
I'm with you. In fact, Teddy AND Taft; Taft was the real trust-buster. They put restraint of trade in its place and paved the way for the Federal Reserve, the FTC, and the breaking up some big trusts.
To be fair, Taft appointed some real whoppers to the USSC. And, he inherited a protracted great depression; the '93-'97 one likely lasted till '07, and that wasn't just a panic. In the 1890s, the highest rate of M+A ever happened; no regulations; no workers and poor rights. It was a rough time.
"May 31, 1910
Injunction on freight rates
Taft obtains an injunction to prevent western railroads from raising freight rates. Taft was a fervent anti-trust supporter whose unrelenting anti-trust crusade outmatched even that of Teddy Roosevelt." UVA-Miller Center
He advocated for the 16th A; signed legislation to reduce the tariff, which had caused the 1893-1897 great depression, and which is a source of destabilization right now. Taft busted more trusts than TR (my main original point); he got anti-corruption agent Charles E. Hughes on the USSC. Go deep.
"During his tenure, he improved the economy, built roads and schools ..." The White House Historical Association.
UVA counters what you googled with: "Although the word "disaster" is perhaps too extreme ..."
I would even support with donation a program to buy elected democrats a book about FDR which they can read on the hope it might convince them that it is in fact legal for dems to have a backbone, be independent actors and do things.
Or read a couple books of Caro's LBJ material (Master of the Senate, Passage of Power) to figure out how to get tough, controversial legislation through Congress.
I’m a lifelong Democrat and my father, now 92, idolizes FDR, but, really, you want to extol the virtues of the man who signed Executive Order 9066 and hold him up as an example Democrats should follow today?
I'm not holding Japanese internment up as the FDR example dems should follow, obviously. He did some awful, awful things. I was referring to when he saved the American system and economy at home then the entire world at war with courage, communication, and a command of the national and world stage.
I mean, “Did they round up and imprison Americans, strip them of their rights, take away their property and money, and place them in harsh and humiliating conditions for multiple years without due process?” is a bar that maybe should be placed a LITTLE higher as a “purity test.”
FDR dismantled the federal government by any means necessary- mostly unconstitutional at the time- is that what we want because…? And how exactly did he single-handedly save the entire world at war? Asking as a history professor.
They are speaking of the BODY of things he did. He & the Liberals of his time, built the America we know.
We cannot idolize ppl; they are flawed humans.
Fetterman was the first political donation I made in my life.
The whole "my wife was targeted by racists" never rang true, but I sent a check anyway.
I should have known better.
I want my money back.
Hey! You can actually do this- although I’m not sure what the limitations are. I did this the second he started to turn. It took me a few tries but I ended up with the correct email, and I was refunded all of my monthly donations to him from when he was lt gov.
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they're quashed, and by some of the $billion that usually messages reform.
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/constitutional-crisis?source=web-share-api-button&utm_source=web_share_api&share=a3bbaefc-c2c7-4390-bb75-ff8b2c5d5198
Next time I'm gonna use Bernie Sanders and one of the Boston Dynamics dogs so he can do a cool flip at the end of his rants.
Like grow up. And take politics more seriously than a like six year old who just discovered what cussing is
People are dying and you just wanna say
Like priorities y’all
Start a project to stop DNC from blocking third party candidates.
“I’m back.”
FDR and the Bull Moose.
hahahahaha
He walked softly when needed.
He charged up San Juan Hill when needed.
He protected our land.
He protected our country from all enemies both foreign and domestic.
And knew what it took to win a battle.
We need leaders who will march with us.
Who will get arrested with us. Who will demand a return of our democracy. Not leaders who just talk
Just post message on social media
We need a rebellion
Okay! Well, call me crazy, my doctor will, I think a nee hobby would be good. Drinking heavily. I promise, well, no, I don't, but I'm sure I'll be thinking about you guys.....
Teddy on the other hand would totally choke out any demon that tried to take his soul, way safer.
But yeah, we don't need any fucking Roosevelt we need Lenin.
They were maybe three people I personally supported because I knew them indirectly
The party needs to learn to live on $10-$20 donations in from people once or twice a year and that’s it
We need to get VIOLENT.
You. You ought to do something.
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He ended his term like "Hey guys, the country is fucked, k-bye"
Get 10% of the 80 million non voters to the polls in 22 months
Do they know how many have turned off corporate news?
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Even though I hate to go on twitter, it is the only way that I can express my fury at these no good rotten Republicans! It's infuriating that we all have to suffer for these stupid jackasses that voted for the Criminal Trump and his henchmen!
In the usa - it’s one bird with a slightly less schitty left wing, but it’s (still) a PoS bird.
The days of letting the politicians play at being adults is over.
I won't donate a dime until they start speaking up or get out.
Parties plural- only MAGA.
If we want a real
Party we have to create a real one.
Parties plural- only MAGA.
If we want a real
Party we have to create a real one.
Sounds like trying to solve a snake problem with a mongoose, though.
That is the strategy, right?
Right?
The issue is our focus. We should be helping improve lives of people in this country first.
Even regular folks have to give two weeks work before getting paid for the first week.
Late stage capitalism. This is just what it looks like. It's not pleasant when empires and economic systems die.
(This thing needs an edit feature!)
It shall be resurrected.
https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal
It only ever surfaces to play spoiler in the presidential elections every 4 years, then vanishes again.
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
And we explain that we’d need a different electoral system for that to work—but they never do the activism necessary to change the system!
Finally, someone gets it.
We need a separate Progressive Party. Let Dems negotiate with us, instead of ignoring us.
DNC: Sending out emails begging for money to fight Trump/MAGA
ME: So, what did you do with all the money?
DNC: We sent out more emails begging for money to fight Trump/MAGA
ME: OK, what else did you do with all the money?
DNC: We hired a bunch of consultants
DNC: Yes, that’s terrible, we’re going to send out more emails begging for money to stop trump oligarchs from cutting Social Security & Medicare
DNC: We don’t have any money; spent it all on emails and consultants.
Guns fear his stick.
You see, the real nazi's are in fact the ones screaming nazi the loudest. I hear segregation has it merits too.
People do not know how to think critically. They stopped teaching that. Now they think by emotion, and we are 19th in the world in education. Facts is what matters.
If it hurts your feelings, then you need to learn to be an adult.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co
Got a better idea?
Be creative j/s
buy a Get well soon card
Take it to the Republican offices or government offices
Stack them up like what happened with Princess Di
Get the attention of all j/s
Bug the Twats a lot
Get smarter!
(Or an Atlas with LosTech)
Step one: don’t vote for Democrats enough to give them any power.
Step two: Democrats don’t have power to do anything but speak.
Step three: be pissed off because they’re not doing anything except for speaking.
#AtlanticCityDebt #Drumpf
Planning on running Ralph Nader again?
I guess "Okay Boomer" really does piss them off THAT badly!
I'll be honest, I would take FDR or Teddy happily over what we have to deal with now, but if it's gonna be FDR, Henry A Wallace and Frances Perkins need to be brought back, too.
I don't know much about Perkins, but what I recall about Wallace was very good. FDR was problematic, but.. far, far better than this Mango.
Teddy and FDR both had great things to say about her
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Perkins
My dad was alive back then. You need to go back to "where everybody is dead" to start on "early."
I'd give them.. 2 days, tops, on survival odds.
People really should learn to read again. It's a handy skill.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
I'm good, however, with you calling them fascists or Nazis. That's a proper insult.
Like a disease, allowing them a pass just let's them spread.
They asked me what do I want her to do?
They were dead serious.
They could take a page from McConnell and learn to grind everything to a halt.
If people don't give their elected officials power at the ballot box, they can't do shit.
It’s like folks think anything they may be planning would be telegraphed. I know exactly what I’d do and I would not tell the media.
We need wins at midterms. Period.
So... I agree?
Injunction on freight rates
Taft obtains an injunction to prevent western railroads from raising freight rates. Taft was a fervent anti-trust supporter whose unrelenting anti-trust crusade outmatched even that of Teddy Roosevelt." UVA-Miller Center
UVA counters what you googled with: "Although the word "disaster" is perhaps too extreme ..."
And I mentioned the books because I have read them. Why are you so defensive?
It must be emotionally tough to sit alone addamently defending a bunch of people who lost to DT... again.
We cannot idolize ppl; they are flawed humans.
https://youtube.com/shorts/zBYoYr7NAZA?si=pFBpF9u8qssRnTvA
Last scene finds him in a nursing home, watching his caretaker turn the pages as sad music plays.
The whole "my wife was targeted by racists" never rang true, but I sent a check anyway.
I should have known better.
I want my money back.