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  • His rationale for turning republican is that he’s had a sudden mental & cognative decline? He’s actually admitted that?

    He spent the campaign before the stroke talking about how progressive he was and progressive policy was the only path forward…

    After the stroke and election, he openly admits to not understanding why people would ever think he’s progressive…

    Either he’s lying and it was all scam, or he legitimately doesn’t remember anything about his own campaign and what he was saying during it.

    Either is a good reason to kick him out of the party (and office), but Dem leadership has only cared about defending incumbents without question. Because most of the Dem leadership represent voters who don’t agree with them anymore.

    So if the party stops blindly defending incumbents and starts having unbiased primaries, a lot of Dem leadership will lose their personal power.



  • Anybody hear absolutely anything from Greg Connelly?

    Remember just a few weeks ago Pelosi threw her weight behind him to block AOC because she swore a septigenarian actively battling throat cancer would be a better spokesperson to lead the Oversight Committee?

    He does have a quote in the article, but it also points out he missed the window to call musk to testify as part of normal procedure…

    We put someone in an important spot to fight fascism, and they dropped the ball and now we all pay the price.

    But it was his “turn” so I guess we can’t complain.



  • Regardless of who won, the genocide was set to continue.

    The only leverage they had to get Biden to stop supporting a genocide was to threaten to withhold votes

    When Biden/Kamala refused to listen, some voters held their ground.

    Enjoy your protest vote, hope it works out for you guys.

    I held my nose and voted D like I always do.

    But I understand why others didn’t, and that a candidate who already agrees with their base has a better chance then one who the base disagrees with.

    So logically, we need to not keep trying to force a candidate on dem voters who is more conservative then Dem voters.

    If you want to yell at people who were chased away from the political process by Biden/Kamala’s policies…

    You’re going to have to go find them, they’re politically disengaged, they’re not going to be hanging out in political social media communities.

    You’re gonna have to leave the comfort of your couch and do it face to face, go get right up to them and taunt them about the generations of family who have been abused and killed.

    I won’t wait to hear back how it went, but I wish you the best of luck.


  • “Over the past 16 months, the Biden-Harris administration’s full, unobstructed support for Israel’s campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing has failed to remove the Palestinians of Gaza from their land,” Hudhayfah Ahmad, a spokesperson for the Muslim-American led Abandon Harris campaign, said in a statement to Newsweek.

    “It is not Trump—just as it was not Biden or Harris—who decides what the Palestinians can or cannot do; that decision belongs solely to the people of Palestine.”

    I hope what’s happening to the Palestinian people never happens to you, but if it does I hope people don’t treat you the same when you beg for help for your friends and family who have spent their entire lives under occupation and multiple genocides.

    Hopefully someone doesn’t have to write a new poem, but it seems like humanity didn’t learn the lesson last time:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came




  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldThere Is No Going Back
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    it is vital that they see the important truth that there is no going back to the status quo

    The status quo was already shit and widely unpopular with everyone except the wealthiest…

    It wasn’t enough to motivate more people to vote for a moderate than trump.

    We shouldn’t be focused on trying to bring back the status quo we had under Biden. Because if we do, we’ll lose another election




  • That would make sense, if they didn’t seem to spend an inordinate amount of time accusing people of not voting because they talk about what the party could do better, and “joking” about genocide.

    I took a look at their first page of post history and didn’t have to dig any deeper to block them.

    I don’t think I’d have found anything constructive if I scrolled deeper.

    I mean, do you honestly think anyone watched the last three elections and think the best path forward is attacking the left?

    Even if they’re being genuine, it’s a terrible strategy to get Dems back in power.

    So whether it’s intentional or not doesn’t really matter. They’re actively hurting the party with every comment they make.