Dems get off on performative bipartisanship. Theyâll send us all to the salt mines as long as the bill of attainder has votes from both parties.
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Dems get off on performative bipartisanship. Theyâll send us all to the salt mines as long as the bill of attainder has votes from both parties.
And sadly the video got millions of tubby mediocre American men rock hard in their rural La-Z-Boys.
Now every other elected Dem needs to act this way. Enough âletâs find common ground to lower egg prices.â
sure does feel like every time I see this man in front of a microphone lately my response is âthank fuck someone besides us is finally saying itâ
Only a quisling would think you can find common ground with fascists.
And now that the photo shoot is done sheâll fly back to Canada.
Not a single Dem in Congress will say a thing about this. Jeffries will say it needs to be studied and Schumer will say âwhile we all agree crime has to come down, we need to do it differentlyâ or some other quisling bullshit.
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: â˘admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states â˘abolish ICE â˘grant citizenship to any immigrant â˘disband the 5th Circuit â˘expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
I get the sense nobody really even cares anymore. Rank and file Democrats have already given up on Schumer and Jeffries and don't consider them leaders of the party. They expect abject surrender. For fighting spirit and leadership, Dems now follow Zohran Mamdani, JB Pritzker, AOC, Walz, Wu, etc.
And yet Dems are. It treating this with the seriousness it deserves.
Baby steps toward blue state secession.
Why canât Dems bring themselves to denounce the sheer cruelty of this administration and run on a platform of accountability and retribution? Pure evil and opposing it should be the easiest thing on earth. Dems should be blazing with righteousness and anger and theyâre just silent/complicit.
One of the new worldâs greatest strengths is that people come here from all over the world and bring their perspectives AND THEY MIX. Like yes yes snobs sneer at âfusionâ but itâs such a sign of the greatness of our immigrant societies.
I firmly believe that "hey man look at all this delicious food immigrants have made and keep making" is a really powerful weapon for pro-immigration advocacy.
Conservative constitutional âlawâ has no principles whatsoever. From Roberts to Kav to Scalia to Dershowitz to Yoo to Barr - theyâre all the same: the law is whatever benefits them and their donors and their egos the most, consistency be damned.
I am absolutely a broken record but: Trumpers are well on their way of convincing a majority of the public that everything is normal and fine. And that is because @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are not out in public shouting about the occupations of DC and LA.
The headline should be âTrump announces another unconstitutional illegal order that he has no power to issue.â But now are media carry water for fascists and thereâs no objective reality.
It is such a failure of our media that they donât just stop interviews where Republicans flagrantly lie. âWe are not going to continue this discussion if you are going to continue to lie. We are talking past each other and if you are going to be here and act in bad faith, this interview is over.â
I wish Dem leadership shared this sentiment.
And that should have been the end of the interview. âWe will not continue this discussion if you are going to lie.â
Itâs a failure of our media that it gets called âturmoil,â as if it were some act of god or happenstance and not the fault of the GOP.
Writing teacher advice for Democratic strategists: Your audience is NEVER everyone, and acting as though it is will lead to generalities that appeal on average but not in specific. You find your audience through specificities. Relying heavily on polls and consultants leads to tepid messaging.
In spite of his terrible approval Dems are terrified to oppose him. Which suggests theyâre by and large okay with everything heâs doing. Not like any of them rely on Medicaid or rural hospitals, and they all vacation in Bali, not national parks.
The most cutthroat Dems willing to make any concession necessary to âwinâ including sacrificing all their principles, theyâre going to be remembered as the most depraved, selfish, cowardly monsters of them all. What do you mean youâre âbetterâ than MAGA? You are MAGA and you donât even realize it.
It's kinda weird that nobody from the White House has said anything to squash the rumors. You know they've heard the buzz. Something is up.
Even now, Schumer could be sending out a specific message to people with Republican reps, telling them exactly how RFK, Jr. is going to kill them, and telling them to call their reps and demand they impeach him. Might not work. But it would be ACTUAL ACTION instead of just typing weak platitudes.
The first steps toward blue state secession. The only way we save whatâs good of America is to ditch the red states.
Dems wonât even point fingers. Itâs always âCongress must actâ and not âthis endless slaughter of children is the fault of the GOP and they should get out of the way of meaningful gun control.â
And not a single Dem has suggested he should be impeached. Not one.
Of course an establishment Dem like Harrison says this. No wonder we lose.
Amen. I connect my tv to an AppleTV, just like most people do (or to a Roku or whatever). I donât need my tv to have Apps or bells and whistles.
Tomorrow, Amy will grant unanimous consent and make nice with her friends across the aisle.
If Trump and RFK are going to rip the country in half over public health, Dems should polarize the living heck out of this debate on their own terms. Scour the law for as many ways as possible to protect your people from Trump/RFK's reign of mass destruction. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
First steps toward blue state secession.
Labour's 'Farage is right, just don't vote for him' strategy is going about as well as expected
Their official name is the Democratic Party and the GOP call it âDemocrat Partyâ as an insult. But you know that and youâre just here to be a bad faith troll. My guess is youâre actually just some Russian teenager in y-fronts wasted on vodka in his momâs basement, getting money from Putin.
When someone says âDemocrat Party,â you know theyâre acting in bad faith, or just a Republican.
You said âDemocrat Party,â so we know youâre not operating in good faith. The ONLY people who say âDemocrat Partyâ are Republicans. Go back to Twitter to hang with the rest of the Nazis. I am not saying Dems are perfect but that the GOPâs official bigotry and homophobia are disqualifying.
So you voted for Trump, then?
So let me guess: you voted for Trump. Quisling.
It it National Bad-Faith Comparison day that I just missed out on?
Did you just miss out on the Bush years? The banning gay marriage, the anti-science, the âif you donât support bombing brown people you hate America,â the âtorture is okay as long as white American men do it,â the âletâs bring Jesus into schoolsâ?
Those arenât comparable at all. The âlunatic Palestine extremistsâ etc have zero power in the Dem party, whereas the racist homophobic fascists control the GOP and have for decades. Thatâs a bad-faith comparison and you know it.
Thatâs what enrages me - Dems canât come out and say âTHE REASON THERE IS GUN VIOLENCE AND SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IS REPUBLICANS.â
Heâs saying it was during the Kavanaugh hearings but the fact the GOP were a pack of racist, homophobic, hateful, lying fascists was obvious before Trump came down that escalator and should have been disqualifying to anyone who themselves werenât racist, homophobic white Christians.
The awfulness of the GOP - their anti democratic tendencies, their racism, their sexism, and their homophobia - were obvious long before Trump and Kav and should have been disqualifying.
Except not a single Dem at any level has promised to even undo what Trump is doing, let alone promised to punish the fascists responsible.
Itâs a terrible headline because it makes illegal and unconstitutional behavior sound instead like Trump found a smart-yet-legal way to get his shitty things done.
Would you have described Biden or Obama doing this as an âend runâ or as it really is: an unconstitutional and illegal act?
The unfortunate thing is that 99.999% of Americans - and all elected Dems - donât know who Wessel was or what happened with the Putsch. Americansâ complete historical ignorance of the rise of European fascism is half the reason we are here.
And not a single Dem has said RFK should be impeached. Apparently canceling public health and banning vaccines is just a distraction from the price of eggs.
He knows the answer but he knows if he says it, heâll piss off our mushroom-head wannabe dictator. Cowardice from all levels of society - pols, law firms, universities, corporations, our so-called-elite - in the face of one of the dumbest, least-popular, most awful humans ever elected.
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
It continues to amaze that we have a lunatic in charge of public health and Dems are justâŚsilent. Itâs like Dems either donât give a shit if America gets sick, or theyâre so under the thumb of drug companies who stand to profit.
And not a single Dem has called for this guyâs impeachment.
IT IS TIME FOR FINGER POINTING. Itâs not âCongressâ in the abstract. Itâs REPUBLICANS. Why canât you guys stop seeing them as your âfriends across the aisleâ and start treating them like the fascist death cult they are?
Does he not realize that the GOP WANT this? Theyâre not even remotely concerned because they donât see it as bad, and Dems arenât concerned because theyâre feckless idiots.
And a press who couldnât pass the test either and thus have no idea how unconstitutional and illegal everything he does is. If they had any knowledge, we wouldnât have stories like âTrump makes audacious moves; some experts say it is unconstitutional.â
Not a single thing Iâve said has been negative as to rural anything, except for your nonsense idea what city dwellers are ungrateful or whatever.
Okay, now we know youâre a bot or a Russian. You started with âungrateful cities,â and I was addressing that. I have nothing against rural people; I grew up in the middle of nowhere and my family still do. And I know full well that your whole âungrateful cities, noble ruralâ is hogwash.
So you have no other response to that? Do you care to explain what we should all be grateful for? The carloads of hay that the noble rural Americans dutifully cart in past the city gates to feed us urban ingrates who are decadent and living off the fat of your labour?
âUngrateful citiesâ? Whatever, buddy. What does that even mean? Youâre not some family farmer and 99.999% of rural residents arenât and arenât furnishing anything to cities. Meanwhile itâs âwe rural an are the REAL Americans, you city types are fake.â
And in what world does âletâs vote for the party thatâs going to get rid of vaccines and hospitals and cancer researchâ count as âknowing whatâs best for usâ?
I cannot understand why Dems are not treating this like the twenty-alarm fire that it is. They should be marching every day, leading and calling for protests. Like - are they just okay with it? With Trumpâs personal rule? What do they have over Schumer and Jeffries?
No, it doesn't. Reference re Secession of Quebec applied to one thing: a referendum on secession. Nothing in the constitution requires the feds or any province to negotiate on other proposed changes. It's okay for parts of the country to consider certain things non-starters.
If I were the democratic leadership, or their donors, I would be setting up shadow everything. Shadow congress. Shadow CDC. The overwhelming message being: here is where you come for facts. Here is what science really says. Here is what polling really says. Why arenât they doing this?
I am so fucking sick of people saying Trump's re-election is the fault of lefties complaining about Biden rather than the abject failure and cowardice of senior Dems
If you guys would start fighting the GOP, and actually fighting for gun control, and actually calling out the reason for the daily slaughter of American kids by guns (it's the GOP), maybe there would be hope. But Dem senators are a bunch of performative quislings, so we know you'd never do that.
"That already burned down and sooner or later will burn again" is something that (1) applies to everywhere and (2) can only be said by someone who doesn't have the faintest clue about Altadena or the circumstances of the fire. Said as an Altadena resident who hasn't been home in 8 months.
If.
When we finally rid ourselves of these fascists, Quislings like Bowser should be run out of public office and civil society. Or given the Vidkun treatment.
Not the Onion.
Even AOC can't bring herself to say "REPUBLICANS HAVE TO DO SOMETHING." The reason why "Congress" and "Government" get such bad polling is because those terms obscure WHO is responsible for the deadlock and the dysfunction. It's 100% all on the GOP, not "Congress" or "the House" or "government."
I think he should go to every funeral and say this to every parent of any kid shot in an act of gun violence. And those parents should be given a gun to hold.
Shit like this should get you disqualified from having any job that involves thinking or discretion. And Dems should be pouncing on this, but somehow right-wing fake Christianity is so privileged in this country that you can't even call him out for being a ridiculous hypocrite.
Perhaps if there were more pushback from, say, elected Dems, the public would see differently. But most Americans have no concept of the issues involved, and given the vacuum from the opposition, Trump's statements like "DC is full of crime" get believed by the masses.
So what should we do about it? How about some specifics? The GOP blame these shootings on atheism and liberals and whatever other nonsense. Why canât Dems say âthis is all the fault of the GOPâ?
America is going to shit because Dems are owned by AIPAC.
All of the gun violence in America is squarely because the GOP refuse to do anything about it, but you won't hear a single Dem pointing fingers at their "friends across the aisle." It will just be empty statements about "we need to do something [unspecified]" and "thoughts and prayers."
Fuck these Nazi scum www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT, Senator? You don't solve gun violence by making nice with the GOP, or by voting for a Kushner as ambassador, or racing to social media.
LIKE WHAT, SENATOR? Does it occur to you that this gun holocaust in America IS THE FAULT OF THE GOP, the people you are always compromising with and calling your "friends across the aisle"? Dems love to say "let's do something" (without saying what) and then go back to making nice with fascists.
This country is devolving into a dictatorship and Jefferies is still worried about the price of eggs basically. It's as if they are existing in two different realities.
Every Dem who today says âwe need to stop gun violenceâ will avoid saying âand itâs all the GOPâs fault,â and will probably later today instead talk about how much they want to work with their friends across the aisle to lower crime in DC and Chicago (but not all those red cities with higher crime).
i mean we could pretend this is the high road lecture society and continue to enable fascism, or we can get in the mud and be crass and low brow and win elections and pass all that boring policy. i know which path i prefer.
Like WHAT, Senator? Dems love to say "we must do something" but never say what that is. We have a mass shooting problem in this country BECAUSE OF REPUBLICANS - the same people you spend the day calling "my friends across the aisle." How about POINTING FINGERS AND BLAMING?
refamiliarizing myself with some Supreme Court cases and I feel like if there's one thing I want incoming law students to know (hell, one thing I want lawyers to know too), it's that constitutional doctrine is just some shit some assholes made up, dassit
Nah, itâs just another day in America. A failed state has to be one that watches its kids get slaughtered on the regular and does absolutely nothing.
weâve truly entered the american century of humiliation
Jeffries: âDemonstrations are a distraction from the hard work we are doing to compromise with our friends across the aisle.â
America is a country that watched an entire classroom of kids get slaughtered and didnât pass a single new gun law (multiple times). AI could encourage an entire town to commit suicide and we wouldnât try to regulate it.
And yet no Dems are pushing back. Best they can do is âwe all want to lower crime in DC but Trump isnât doing it right.â They always accept the underlying bad-faith premise.
Was the research firm also being paid by the GOP to give Dems this idiot advice?
The fact that not a single Dem is talking âelect us and we will punish these assholesâ always fills me with sadness
America, where guns have more rights than people.
In contrast, every Dem ever from Clinton to Jeffries speaks only in workshopped, focus-grouped consultant speak that always comes across as fake and insincere. Dems muzzled Walz and Harris because they actually did sound authentic.
Yeah, because Dems just write off whole states and also donât try to convince anyone.
Right. And thatâs when you say âokay, no support from the Dem party, we are running an actual Dem.â This whole âonly Manchin can win WVâ was nonsense put forward by Manchin.
And in the face of all this, Hakeem Jeffries is saying itâs all a distraction and Dems will respond sometime in the future.
No one in England or Canada ever heard of the backbench MP from Flopbottom-Worcester hchestershiresly or Poutin-la-Maudite single-handedly derailing their partyâs agenda, but Manchin, with fewer constituents that a random LA suburb youâve never heard of always managed it.