I used to select Dem primary candidates based on policy. Now I will aggressively try to destroy any Dem who says "we need to look forward not backward" and fervently support anyone who says "I will see these motherfuckers prosecuted and jailed if it's the last thing I do."
Amen to that! 🙏
That’s pretty much what the other side is doing now.
I agree. Trump should be in jail right now. If they had gotten it done. 4 years and a waste of time and money. Putting him away should have been priority #1. All they accomplished was supporting his victim story.
Trump needs to be in the El Salvador prison.Head shaved dressed in white no talking !
I will donate to the "Drive the steam roller back and forth over those motherfuckers and consultants - and then confiscate *all* their assets" fund. Only de-Trumpification will save our Republic.
And that starts with getting the big money the fuck out of politics. Its wrecking equal amounts of havoc on BOTH sides, actually. Tainting all the "good guys" too if they are ever going to be competitive. :/
That’s exactly what I want to hear from ANY Dem candidate. I love Biden & his calm delivery from the last mess, but I don’t want to hear ‘peaceful process’ nor jokes about Trump. I want someone who will say they will sell tickets to piss on Trump’s Walk of Fame star to offset the deficit.
I struggle with appreciating Biden’s calm. I always felt he was gaslighting me a bit? The conflicting messages of I-got-in-the-race-because-Charlottesville-was-so-disturbing and I’ve-never-felt-more-optimistic-about-America made me feel like reality wasn’t balanced. If that makes any sense?
Biden was a very 1960 democrat when men tried to always be gentlemanly and conciliatory which is great accept it gets you absolutely nowhere. He was very stuck in his ways but I’m thankful he kept at it until our country was in good shape. It’s too bad he kind of gave up at the end.
“We need to look forward, not backward” is the worst thing the Democrats do.
You’re absolutely correct.
I would also add those who STILL take corporate and special interest PAC money. I mean, hello?!?!? That's what got us to this place!
Same! Being afraid of being scratched by the drama happening now has us being driven over by a tank! The it repeatedly backs up & does it again & again!
Dems are playing it safe. Gonna push an AOC ticket and she still has similac breath.
Same. Rarrrrr.
1000% Agreed
Right now the biggest divide in the Democratic Party isn't even moderate vs. progressive, it's those who want to fight vs. those who want to fold.
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Yeah. We need a couple dozen more vengeful mofos in the House and Senate.
@golden.house.gov You're fucking cooked.
We need take no prisoners, never cave, murder drone firebrand Dems. That’s how I’ll be running my next election effort. And I hope people here will be so damn tired of centrist wimps that they will bring our brand of fight to every office in the land.
“Centrist wimps” is a perfect description! 😡
That is now my litmus test as well.
There should be MORE not fewer investigations in 2026 and beyond. Criming as far as the eye can see
And that won’t win general elections because voters want to know how elected officials are going to deal with real issues. Between this idea and clinging to identity politics, the Democratic Party will continue to lose elections.
That'll preach!
A simple question for the Democrats who want to be elected in the upcoming elections… Will you commit to holding people accountable for their crimes under the Trump regime? Just Yes or No???
Does this include accountability for Biden's genocide? I'm not a Trump voter or GOP, but it's a serious question. If the battle cry is accountability then Biden and Blinken belong at the Hague alongside Netanyahu and Gallant, and Trump and Rubio.
Everyone who contributes to the genocide in Gaza should be held accountable. Unfortunately, Western genocides are always acceptable according to the West itself.
You're saying you accept this?
I agree if they don’t fight for our democracy I’m not voting for them! If they vote with the republicans on terrible bills that hurt us then I’m not voting for them!
Dem leadership is pathologically opposed to doing anything than might generate claims of partisan prosecution, to the point they actively avoid prosecuting real crimes. The Dem base wants the other side committing crimes to be treated like actions have consequences.
Nuremberg comes to mind. We are actually going to need something like that to make sure, once this ends, and I fear it will end violently, but that when right prevails again, we need to be sure a message is clearly sent to those who might try this again
I totally agree with you!
Aint no way Im not selecting candidates on anything but policies but you know what its also based on how much time they really spend with constiuents & how much time they put those policies on paper & into data it tells me if their heart is really wotking for avg people. The time of BS is over!
Same
If i dont hear jail time, or healthcare, or social programs, i'll stay home. Not being held hostage by these westwing cosplay losers, would rather just war with fascists if thats what we have to do
I really hoped the Democrats would replace the older leaders and focus more on bringing in younger people. They should choose candidates who have proven themselves based on their performance.
I'm glad to have your support. I really appreciate it. I'll do what's right and they will fucking fear us and have no clue what fucking hit them.
Robespierre did what was necessary to preserve the Republic against the onslaught of reactionaries both internal and external. History has unfairly demonized him and each passing year reveals that he had the right ideas all along.
YES!
We should also consider if maybe they should talk about it in primaries and less so in the election bc it triggers the whole pick a side from swing state voters and they won’t pick us.
Sames.
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That's a policy. At at this point, it's almost the only policy that matters in this country. It's the one from which any other policy worth a damn must descend.
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exactly that. And how they're acting now is not impressing me. They need to replace a lot of Dem pols. And I will never vote for Harris for anything with her quisling husband choosing $ over integrity & staying with that traitor law firm. None of that shit is going to fly. Sick of it.
I absolutely agree, there can be no more talk of bipartisanship while that cult is actively destroying everything good. The thing I want to see going forward is the arrest, trial, and conviction of all the criminals trying to end democracy. I want to hear that from Democratic candidates for office.
They don't seem to realize that no one gives a shit about bipartisanship. People care about results. That's it.
Any dem talking about bipartisanship can join the Republican Party. We need people in office willing to watch MAGAts suffer
Same same
If there is one good thing people like Garland and Schumer showed us, it’s that inactive people with good intentions are just as bad as those actively against the rule of law. Their cowardice allows evil people to rule in hopes that they will magically just disappear one day.
I've read some of Garland's history. It's too long to go into here, but I question whether he had good intentions. Biden should have replaced him once it was obvious he wasn't doing anything significant. Schumer is out of touch with reality.
Yes this
As much as I agree. At least we all know President Biden wasn't a Rapist, Traitor or a literal Moron. I will NEVER forget or forgive how he wa treated!
Well put. Absolutely the fact that is killing our country, democracy and rights under the constitution. I think they are doing as Biden did at the end...oh well we lost so I will take care of my own...when does my book tour start!?
Garland was so ineffective it's hard to believe that he wasn't complicit. I'd like an investigation launched into his cowardice just to rule that out. I also blame Biden for not asking for his resignation 6 months in.
Was he being threatened? Total failure.
I'm sure he was, but who hasn't been? Maybe he was bitter that Dems didn't fight Mitch McConnell any harder on the SCOTUS confirm, idk. I told someone earlier, though, that "a deliberate and pensive judge, a firebrand attorney doth not make." He just wasn't a good fit from the start.
If Biden had been all there, I think he would have. But things slipped because his mind was fading.
Joe Biden has a problem with public speaking, not thinking. Donald Trump has a problem thinking not speaking. History will show us like it did for Ronald Reagan if Joe Biden has a cognitive problem. He seems fine in his public outings now that he is out of office.
If he'd been that gone, surely whoever was actually running the show would have thought that the Garland problem was a big bad one. Right? There's so much about it that doesn't make sense.
I look forward to the tell-all books in 10 years.
I'm not, but I'll read them anyway and be pissed off until I die🤣
I think the reality is probably that the legal process is just painfully slow. You can blame Biden and Garland, but I will forever blame voters.
It's not just the failure of one institution. All failed! If the 4th Estate wasn't corp owned click baiters manufacturing utter bs at rates no one can keep up with, maybe the voters would've been better informed. But Garland had the chance to take Trump down and he failed. That can't go unmentioned
As an outsider, US wheel of justice was so slow. Other democracies move FAST to prevent senior politicians that violate the law to varying degrees, running for office. In recent years that includes Spain, South Korea, France, UK, Ukraine (Maidan). And America just...let Trump carry on. How the hell?
it's why the worst people in the usa gravitate towards politics there are no consequences
When it comes to Trump, there has never been a wheel of justice. It's more like a sled in a mudhole. He brazenly exploits every weakness in the system to a degree that I don't think people know how to counter it.
Everyone gets bribed....we used to prosecute racketeering.
Biden did the same. We've all been failed by good intentions.
Those who do not stop the crimes are not as bad as those doing the crimes. Let’s just start there. However, not stopping someone from breaking in your house is very different from opening the door for them. We need to nail those doors and windows shut. And yes anyone opening the doors push them out
say less...
That gets a follow! I'm so disgusted with the dems that act as if criminality is old news. If Garland and Biden did their jobs, I think the most important job of going after treasonous bastards, we wouldn't be here now.
Yeah so many points of failure that lead to this catastrophe. Garland! What happened there? Even from Australia he looked utterly inanimate.
He was complicit which is worse. He let it go, let time run out. He will have a special chapter in the history books along with Biden. If Biden did the one thing which was make sure Trump was prosecuted he'd have been a hero.
@aoc.bsky.social @jasmineforus.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @warren.senate.gov take fucking notes. this country has been abused long enough. it doesn't want justice anymore, it wants VENGEANCE against evil. plan accordingly, fire anyone who doesn't. the GOP must END.
So not Schumer? Def need Ds with backbone
PS I would like to add that the entire party needs to fucking burn if they can't do anything but be collaborators. Like they were always shitty but we had something to lose.
Same.
Exactly. Elect me and I’ll appoint Jack Smith as AG.
Yes I think we need some assurances from the next candidate that they are going to go after these guys. If we ever have another election.
Exactly! It's our fear of looking angry or hateful that got us into this mess. The fascists are always around...but we let them in.
Yeah I'm only supporting the scorched earth retribution platform. I don't want the Garland plan of slow rolling investigations because he's more concerned with looking political instead of just punishing these fucking traitors
Zero criminal execs perp-walked for 2008…I adopted your position years ago.
I want a Democratic pit bull who hires a rabid pit bull for AG.
Jim Clyburn.
Absolutely! The failure of the Biden administration to prosecute Trump (and his co-conspirators) with the urgency required for an election fraudster and insurrectionist, is why he is now sitting in the White House and not a prison cell. The colossal damage to the USA is already apparent.
This is the way.
Durbin gotta go
That is 100% policy, IMHO.
I vote progressive every time I can. US progressives are centrists in every other developed country. (Although you can make a legitimate claim that the U.S. has slipped into Third World status.)
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The democrats have really screwed themselves on this one because we’ve been begging them to more aggressively pursue legislative victories and they would legislate like wet cardboard.. Now we don’t care about legislation because the other party will just destroy it anyways. Destroy republicans
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This is a fucking #BananaRepublic, now.
It's stunning & head spinningly evil. We cannot back down!!
And where were those outraged Dems since Jan 6th??? It's still absofuckinglutely Mind Boggling that F47 is Not In Prison.
AOC *does* rock.
But that could lead to awkward moments in the Senate gym. You monster!
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I have little to no reach. I need your help to spread this simple graphic around. It's damn important. The admin has said they will not comply with the courts. If they get away with this they can disappear anyone they want. This effects YOU, ME and every one of us. REPOST the image!
Any Dem who takes AIPAC $ or ignores genocide and the rot of the DNC is dead to me.
I like to remind Slotkin, one of mine, that she voted to confirm 9 of 47's nominees, including Noem and Rubio. I do it every time she gets in front of a camera and tries to pretend that she didn't help create this mess.
A new party of actually giving a shit and being consistent that would be pretty neat
That's policy though – it's anti-corruption policy, which is what we should've voted for in 2020.
We DID vote for that in 2020. And then the slow walked all the potential "consequences" and didn't fight for them properly. And now here we are.
I still vote democrat every time as my values and beliefs line up with their agenda. There are some Dems that need to be voted out as they side with the Republicans knowing it will hurt the most vulnerable.
I'm for that
Absolutely correct.
This is not the time for magnanimity, this is the time for scorched earth vengeance.
It's almost like the political calculus of this moment is extremely simple and only morons can't see it!
You sir are ignorant and unwilling to change. Are youblissful?
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Ew jail? If you put them in jail they’ll just come back.
YES!!!!!!
Saw on smerconish this am that young ppl won't work. They think it's for old ppl. So maybe if 'hard work is good work' or 'we love hard work' is NOT the call to action, dems might get somewhere
I agree. Thanks.
That's the most important policy there is right now -- will you fight for democracy?
And I will follow you because this is the right energy
I’m with you
@gladiusregis.bsky.social is a motherfucking bot. Report and block.
It’s a necessary step to regain credibility with the rest of the world!
I will never forgive the spineless politicians that are currently, supposedly, making laws that limit our freedom.😡
@warnock.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov (sorry for the swear word, Reverend, I’m just a lapsed Presbyterian)
Yup
Prosecuting them is the only way we move forward. Future leaders must understand this.
Exactly. Scorched fucking earth!
Hell yes
Agree! Saying boo hoo I wish Joe was still POTUS gets us nowhere. Outside the box people. Take them down.
That's still policy though
The democratic party is incapable of that message. Its time for it to break up.
Yes. I'm hoping there is a fundamental shift in the Dem party that we are energetic democracy defenders FIRST, other policy after.
We force the shift. Otherwise it doesn’t happen
This lifelong, active Republican says there is no reason to vote for us and every reason to vote against us by any means.
THIS is the new way to judge candidates. Do they recognize the danger of the GOP & do they understand how much intentional harm & damage they are doing & most importantly are they going to act accordingly & try to remove these people from power & from the possibility of every gaining power again.
Justice is the foundation of peace. So yeah, any and all motherfuckery needs to be persecuted.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
@fetterman.senate.gov @johnfetterman.com That's you sport. I'll contribute to the person who primaries you.
Word - bitches.. Fire these fascist fuckwits.
I’m with you. I’ve never been so disturbed by what I’m seeing every day or looking at every day when I open my phone it one headline after the other about Trump and musk, trumps unqualified cabinet getting away with being the worst group of inept people ever to disgrace the U. S. A.
Beyond inept.
2 areas for me (president) 1. Aggressive stance on prosecuting all the people committing crimes ie Hiring an AG who commits in public to doing so 2. Enlarge the SC & federal courts - End citizens united
Add a Constitutional amendment that details ENFORCEABLE penalties for the executive branch thumbing its nose at the legislative & judicial branches.
The U.S. needs to become an ICC signatory. I’d vote for anyone seriously proposing that.
I could not agree more.
AMEN!
My political wishlist for Democrats in the primary: - prison for this current administration - massive environmental investment - massive infrastructure spending - end to America as the global policeman or interfering political agent in the world, retreat to rules based international order
-healthcare -women's right to autonomy -voting rights
Your second amendment rights should be enough to protect the last two. Democrats have really become too reliant on voting to ensure freedom than your actual ability to defend and protect those rights by any means necessary
Absolutely! Any campaign platform that is fully devoted to cleaning out corruption like an enema and punishing *all* the corrupters with jail in Guantanamo will win big in my book. THAT will reset the right conditions then for looking forward. Otherwise we only extend the disease.
I feel the same way.
Same but also not. I want someone with economic and social policies that belong to this century and are forward looking to what we can be.
Prosecute, convict, and then bring into the execution chamber. Traitors who basically destroyed American values themselves need to be destroyed from the face of the Earth. On the order of 100 or so will need to be execution chambered.
That is how you rebuild trust and move forward. By stopping these motherfuckers, once and for all. There’s no space to be nice about it, or to them. (We can still be nice to one another)
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the only way to stop them is to hold them accountable. No one should be above the law and if you’re not willing to make sure that they are, then you are part of the problem.
Ed Case is one of my State reps. I'm so pissed at that guy.
Sounds good!
Yep
Bi-partisan shouldn't even be in their vocabulary.
🤪🤪🤪 Exactly! 🤣
Haven't we had enough of retribution tours? Holding the MFs accountable is something the courts, not an individual and certainly not a political candidate, should be about. I'd like to see what their policy proposals are rather than their rush for judgement.
Yes, crows! We're going to need to enlist the help of a whole lot of crows if we're going to do this right.
I’m tired of corporate democrats, we need people who are fighters not puppets for billionaires.
I want to primary them all.
we need voters to hold these politicians accounting voting them into office is the beginning of the work not the end
It’s the end because the damage he’s doing on the world stage to our Allies won’t simply be undone with an election change. We were the head of the table, those days are now gone and we aren’t getting back there anytime in our lifetimes.
elections have consequences
I keep daydreaming about being one of those politicians. Now I'm too damn old to do it.
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Yeah, "We aren't going back!" ended up taking us right back to the Jim Crow 1950s. I worry though this extreme lawlessness means they are dug in and won't ever voluntarily give up power. That was part of the hold Hitler had on Germany--too many people were complicit in his crimes to risk defeat.
Yes.As Bannon says now, "its all or nothing". This is one of the most important factors in being able to de-escalate whenever possible.Never back up though. But not creating more complicits. Rather show impressive force AND sense, father-figure style, and win them over. They desperately need that.
Justice isn't aggression, it's accountability.
Justice isn't aggression or retribution; it's accountability.
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Vote PSL then
Exactly what ever Democrats should do scorched earth is the answer to this MAGA question
That was what happened after the civil war…
Yes, and we need to continue calling our senators and congresspeople every day to scream: stop this 🍊 Hitleresque madman and multiple felon from destroying everything.
The felon and his maga cronies in government got to go! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjRYPgUe/
I’m looking forward to seeing these fuckers in jail
Same
Well, let’s do both.
Dems and GOP both work for the same Oligarchs
I was in my kitchen last night fantasizing about this exact thing. Why we are in this fucking mess. Merrick Garland fucked us so bad and should be a pariah. This is the way.
Yes. If Dems have zero interest in holding these people accountable they need to stay home. And by looking forward, it better be doing their damndest, getting rid of electoral college, expanding the court, term limits, no insider trading and working to end citizens united.
Obama said that about the Bush/Cheney wars though ie “let’s not look back”.
Every Democrat ever.
Unfortunately you're not the voter Dems need to communicate to.
Let me guess: the voter Dems need to communicate to are Republicans.
I think the biggest problem with the current crop of Democrats in national office is that they think winning over Republicans and "swing voters" is easier than inspiring people who normally don't bother to vote to get off their arses.
the reason dems lost and trump won is bcos ppl who turned out for biden in 2020 didn't turn out for harris in 2024. it wasn't bcos they didn't appeal to nazis strongly enough. it was bcos their typical voters were uninspired.
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Absofuckinglutely. !!!
We let Jefferson Davis and Lee walk. We let the Congressmen who collaborated with Hitler walk. We let Nixon, Kissinger, Bush, and Reagan walk…and here is the result. This time, we dig a grave, bury them deep, and pour salt on the graves. And then we stand watch.
No Accountability NO FUNDS very straightforward.
Yes!!
damn right.
Yes !!
I'm on your side.
Listening? @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social
And this is what every Dem should be saying for the next 40 months.
That's 100% correct! We never finished reconstruction after the civil war and look what that got us. It's super important that anyone who does something illegal and unconstitutional is held accountable.
Same.
Every one of Trump's loyalists thinks he won't turn on them. Once he has everything he can rape from this country; he & his family have an escape plan. If his minions don't, he doesn't give a shit. They're too dumb to understand that.
We need to clamp Trump in Irons
Republicans too
@schumer.senate.gov says you’re overreacting!
Promote and restore democracy by jailing your political opponents.
Amen, brother!
How far back? Because frankly that mindset is long overdue. I suggest starting with Bush and Cheney
They had many chances to stop Trump, but they gave him a pass, that's why we are here 😔
This should have been everyones attitude after jan 6. The fact that 4 years of biden led to doodle squat consequences for this lot is unfathomable.
Biden set the tone. He should have cut Trump off at the knees after Jan 6. He could have.
Yes. You WILL have to rise FAR above the dems current understanding to get this. Into grounds they abandoned 30 years ago. After clinton, i think. "Its the economy, stupid!" And it is....the idiotic Reagan economy that does NOT lift all boats.
Turns out that white rich people bend the law to look out for each other.
None of this will happen because you are angry but ineffective. The administration is becoming permanent. There will be no prosecutions.
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I’m sure Trump will hand out so many pardons on the way out that there won’t be much left to prosecute
Sounds like the best way to move forward. We have a lot on "our side" that need to be primaried in '26.
Only 17 years too late, but yes.
i'd go back to 2000
I’ll vote for the first person who says “This isn’t over until Kristi Noem is in one of those cages”.
Jasmine Crockett would absolutely say this.
When she made her asinine video I was so hoping one of those cell doors were going to open. They’d eat her alive.
Someone on Bsky broke down all the media manipulation on the video. As a piece of manipulation, it was done really well. I wish there was more discussion on how media manipulates for specific responses
