No action against ICE in January means I’m buying a gun full stop
EVERY DAMN TIME
These fucking clowns ALREADY throwing away their advantage. Do you need any more proof these assholes are just putting on a show? They’re worse than the WWE.
I get annoyed, but not surprised when I see this shit now. Nothing has changed about these politicians. They still take corporate and PAC money to run their campaigns, so they are still beholden to those same interests. They never seem to learn because they can’t. Nothing will change that as long as their seat in office is contingent on keeping capitalists happy.
I really hope we get to the point where there are promising primary challengers to these pieces of shit.
Yeah, play right into MAGA’s hands, that’ll show the public what happens when they demand change.
Don’t let those poors start feeling like they have representation in our government!
Wait, wait, so…they warned not to talk about ending US support for Israel, abolishing ICE or impeaching Trump…but instead to focus on improving affordability for average households, which they can’t actually do since the crisis is mostly caused by Trump’s foreign policy?
America is screwed…
A significant part of the higher cost of living is due to fuel prices, which were caused by a war that Israel and the Gulfies aggressively lobbied Trump into starting.
Never, never trust centrists. Push them aside.
Don’t push them aside. Throw them in fucking prison.
I mean Trump can veto anything they pass, so it’s not like your first few points matter either. If they pass a bunch of bills that would help the economy and Trump vetos them, that makes the GOP look even worse than they already do. I’d rather they do that than impeach him at this point. We all know he’s a corrupt piece of shit but we also know impeachment is a waste of time because the cult will keep backing him.
Shut the FUCK UP
American Elections Be Like…
Worth noting how enthusiastic Democratic voters are when there’s no female presidential candidate on the ballot. I hope the DNC doesn’t take this Democratic response to the economy and war by going back to focus on tired feminist and transgender issues.
“Lazy and corrupt politicians warn that if we do any work now then the poors and plebs will expect more work from us later. And why work when we can do virtually fuck all and get paid shit loads of cash for it?”
Why not? What, specifically is too far and what happens after?
It’s in the article.
They claim that they will lose the next election if they do all the things that people voted for.
They’re wrong, but that’s the argument.
They lose half the time by not doing them so…
It would be anything. Maybe even politicians doing things for the electorate instead of for the billionaires.
In a complete shock to everyone, they’ll side with the Republicans.
Anything that can remotely impact the capital of billionaires, such as prosecuting Trump, getting people healthcare or blocking weapons to Israel.
Sounds about right.
Not go too far from the wishes of the oligarch, Epstein class!
advocating for all the things “Dems” promosied in the past but never delivered.
Fuck the centrists. They gave us Hillary, and she lost, and then they gave us Harris, and she lost. They’re chronic losers, they love it, and they’ll never change. CNN reports on them like their opinion matters, because CNN is centrist, too. Meh.
CNN is now owned by a right wing nut job. It isn’t even centrist anymore.
When I ask around and look for centrists in real life, I cannot find them. I can’t find people who want the climate to collapse slowly, or want ICE reined in, or - and this is the big one - want insurance companies in charge of health care.
We’ve been fooled. They got everyone to capitulate and vote for things nobody wanted.
My parents. Yes they still watch tv news. Yes they voted against the billionaire tax in California because the democrats told them to.
And don’t forget that the reason, the ONLY reason Biden won was because of Covid and Trump’s mismanagement of it. Without Covid, Trump would have won reelection in 2020. Centrist dems have been a losing brand for three election cycles at this point.
“if we promise too much, then they might expect us to follow through when we’re in power”
“This is not the time to show how progressive we can be. People need to see us fighting.”
That’s… That’s the same thing
They mean “fighting against progressives.”
Being anything other than progressive at this point comes off as cowardly and complacent tbh. If you’re not left wing, then you’re not fighting.
Being progressive in the U.S. largely means moving towards what is centrist by European standards anyhow.
European countries are racist, homophobic and transphobic as fuck let’s be honest here. The world fucking sucks. You’re not special
In reality, there are various definitions of “progressive”. Yours is yours, agreed on by millions, but millions of other people use different definitions.
Each person’s views will be slightly different, but ‘progressive’ in the context of American politics generally implies a platform that includes a support for universal healthcare, free college tuition, universal childcare, LGBTQ+ rights, being pro-immigrant, and anti-billionaire, among other unifying issues. Foreign policy preferences are more likely to vary, but being pro-Palestine and pro-Ukraine are to be generally expected.
LGBTQ+ rights
I don’t know any Democrats who are crazy about “BTQ+” rights. That’s why they piggyback onto the gay movement.
Really depends on the issue. Somewhere like Oregon is far, far more progressive on issues like trans healthcare than anywhere in Europe.
Also we are still way far behind on what we should have honestly. Ask me about HB 2002. They dropped my case even though a hospital lead me on for months about HRT and surgery.
People need to see us fighting.”
fighting against the fascists or fighting each other
yes
“Be more like the republicans!”
Bug Bunny “NOO” meme.
