• brooke592@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    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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      23 hours ago

      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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      23 hours ago

      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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        10 hours ago

        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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        1 day ago

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