• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    They are traitors. Just about every single establishment democrat is enabling the Trump Regime to loot America on their behalf.

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    I keep saying both sides are fascist, just that one side is better at hiding it. And I keep getting downvoted…

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    You guys ever notice how it’s always the democrats that break rank but never the republicans?

    It’s also always just enough democrats to make sure republicans always get what they want.

    Why people keep voting for them is beyond me. They must be stupid or something.

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      The Blue Dogs (the group that voted for ice funding) is the same group of dems that thwarted Bill Clinton.

      It’s all kayfabe, it’s the squared circle. Whenever actual change is on the menu, like the public option with Obama care, exactly enough dems will turn to make it not happen, reliably.

      How many is the super majority? Add 2 and that’s how many dems will show up to stop progress.

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      You guys ever notice how it’s always the democrats that break rank but never the republicans?

      Massie’s been in full revolt for months now. And we’ve had perennial haters in the GOP going back to John McCain and Ron Paul. And the Tea Party Caucus was a big reason why the GOP couldn’t pick a new House Speaker for nearly a month. These opponents tend to be Libertarian flavored, and tend to undermine Neocon efforts to spend money at the risk of raising taxes

      The loathsome Blue Dog Caucus are an organized conservative opposition within the liberal party. It consistently sabotages party priorities while funneling enormous sums of corporate money into leadership races.

      Both exist to benefit corporate interests.

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        If they really were in opposition to the actual goals of the party, they would not retain influential positions within it.

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      It’s because both parties are owned by the same Israeli lobby and the Zionist tech bro oligarchs. It’s not even a conspiracy it’s easily verifiable. Epstein and Gizzline worked for Israel to collect blackmail for Israel. We pay for Israeli’s to have universal healthcare, free college and a $400 monthly payment per child until they turn 18 but those things are evil and “communist” here. We the American taxpayers pay hundreds of billions for this stuff while Americans die and go into debt for sickness. Israel is a hostile foreign power do friends blackmail their allies? https://www.trackaipac.com/congress https://wonderisrael.com/monthly-stipend-for-a-jewish-kid/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Israel

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      Who should we vote for otherwise? Every other option leads to Republicans staying in power, and they are the ones actually doing it.

      Don’t vote? That’s fewer votes the Republicans need to win, so they stay in power.

      Vote third party? That splits the opposition vote, and Republicans stay in power.

      And no, neither of those choices “teach the Democrats a lesson.” It just drives them to go to the people who do vote, who are more right wing, so it drives everything further right.

      You want a more left wing party? Show them that the left votes and our votes have value.

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        Democrats don’t care about your vote, that should have been obvious during Harris’s campaign while they focused on the right wing vote.

        That splits the opposition vote

        Democrats are not the opposition, they are the enablers of fascism, they are complicit in everything happening right now.

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        So we can have double-tap Obama and Genocide Joe? JFC dude, we deserve better

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    Remember that these people have now aided and abetted the murders of Nicole Good, Alex Jeffey Pretti, and countless others not caught on video.

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      Trump straight pardoned Henry Cueller, the ringleader. He was caught dead to rights taking bribes from foreign officials and has functionally flipped teams in exchange for clemency.

      Incidentally, Jefferies reinstated Cueller as senior Dem on the Appropriations Committee. He’ll be the chairman if Dems retake the House this year.

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    I love that this article makes funding ICE the fault of the Democrats, ignoring the fact that they are a minority. And the people in the comments here are eating it up.

    Do I think the Democrats have the good of the American people in mind? No. Do I think this article has successfully manipulated people into mentally shifting the blame, if momentarily, to the wrong party? Fuckin’ oath!

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      Bullshit. The Republicans are the fascists in power. Being angry at them is the default, nothing to say. The Democrats can be either resisting or enabling. People have every fucking right to be mad at the enablers who should be resisting.

      Your comment is the equivalent of saying “yea the crime in my city is caused by criminals and corrupt cops, but it’s mostly the criminals, so look why are you eating up the propaganda that you should be mad at the police?”.

      As non-maga American voters you guys need to be holding your enabler Democrats to account. We, the rest of the world, know the Republicans are beyond your control. Your fucking Democrats though? That’s on you.

      Edit, here: https://youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0

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        Seven House Democrats voted for the ICE bill after minority leader Jeffries decided Dems couldn’t obstruct the vote and the bill was certain to pass. Of course, this was a Republican bill which Republicans all voted for, but that doesn’t matter to these horseshoe left ideologues. They’re all in with the GOP, because the GOP sprays accelerationist fire onto the government never mind the damage to peoples’ lives.

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      Dems have approved record funding for ICE every single year for the past 25 years. Dems can stop this anytime they want.

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      Bernie’s been in politics for decades, and how dare he’s not done anything about this! I don’t care if he’s in the minority and by definition the country is conservative but why the hell did we just vote him in? He’s really just Republican light!

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        Bernie is voting against these policies and the other democrats for them, just enough to get it passed always. Just like when the government was shut down and the Republicans were wildly unpopular, Bernie voted no, the other democrats “minority that can’t do anything” voted yes and we got healthcare cuts.

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    “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement,” an unnamed source told the liberal magazine. “They want this to go away…"

    Spoken like a true pussy, I mean democrat.

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      But this not what ice is. They aren’t law enforcement. That’s the problem, too.

      They are immigration and customs enforcement officers.

      And… we should be whittling their budget

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        Technically they are, or at least should be. Customs and border control laws are still laws.

        However, what they’re doing now is lawlessness.

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      Doesn’t matter they will get labeled something else. ICE is terrorizing MN law enforcement and the right doesn’t care. Insurrectionists terrorizing law enforcement on Jan 6, the right didn’t care. ICE is not a classic law enforcement agency anyway. These people are idiots and likely just making shit up.

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        Not even that. Republicans will call them anti-law anyway. They have been for years.

        This abstaineousness earns them nothing. The only reason to assume they took this position is that it’s what their donors want.

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      Surely Steven Miller will magically change his mind and the human rights violations will stop. Uh huh.

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        They want it to go away, they just don’t want to have to do anything to make it happen. They’d like the no risk, all reward option.

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    It’d be great to primary every single democratic congressperson. I’m sure there are good ones. But it’s time for wholesale change. Make them fear the electorate.