Democrats have, again, learned nothing

  • @Fades@lemmy.world
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    147 hours ago

    Fuck this evil bitch, she is clearly determined to die in her fucking chair just like Feinstein and RBG. Fuck all three of those greedy fucking pieces of shit.

    At least Nancy can continue to directly profit via the stock market while she continues to play the failed queen maker.

    She holds plenty of the blame for our fallen democracy too.

  • @ceenote@lemmy.world
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    6211 hours ago

    Democrats have, again, learned nothing

    They already know full well they need to make a populist shift to win. They’d rather lose than alienate big money.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      The left wing of the party needs to leave the party. Stop enabling the right wing. Make it clear to Americans there is a centrist party and a far right party right now.

  • @WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    4011 hours ago

    Hopefully his cancer takes him soon. That would be a fitting divine punishment for his hubris and refusal to have a shred of dignity and retire at an appropriate time. People who demand power “because it’s my turn” are despicable sociopaths. Damning a nation for their own vanity. His soul is as diseased as his body.

        • FuglyDuck
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          12 hours ago

          You could always send dick pics. I’m sure if you don’t have one or don’t want to send your own, there’s plenty of people willing to send ‘em to you.

          Ask pretty much any woman, they’ve probably had a few they don’t want.

        • Ben Hur Horse Race
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          511 hours ago

          ive volunteered for texting campaigns. when you text STOP you believe it’s triggering some program and doing it automatically, but its not. the volunteer sees your response then clicks “mute” or “remove”, it depends on the campaign and the response.

          if you type “fuck off”, they will mute the conversation and you won’t get any more messages (until next campaign)

          • FuglyDuck
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            12 hours ago

            Uhm.

            There absolutely are bots that respond to key words.

            But sometimes they just flag you as a live phone number.

          • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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            710 hours ago

            Yeah but I want to tell the person three or four levels up to fuck off, not some idealistic person who thinks these sort of things aren’t just an annoyance.

          • @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            38 hours ago

            That’s amazingly bad management for such a campaign, wow

            The dispensary I worked at handled it automatically, the only human input needed was drafting the actual texts

  • Snot Flickerman
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    13 hours ago

    We have tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas!


    For all the neoliberal Dems crow about Republicans choosing party over country, this is what choosing party over country looks like. The corporate wing of the party would literally choose fascism over leftism.

  • @spaduf@slrpnk.net
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    4113 hours ago

    The reason Pelosi’s doing this is because she’s scared shitless of the future but can’t come to terms with her part in this mess. If you listen to her speak candidly about Trump (the NYT interview is a great example) you can tell she legitimately fears for her life after what happened to her husband. As a result, she actually believes that the only way to save the country is to move right. She’s wrong of course and the data bears that out but there’s a large contingent of the Democratic base that agrees and she doesn’t have to look far for a permission structure.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      That’s because they’ve been manufacturing consent since Clinton. The incessant need to be bipartisan without it being returned means Democrats are justifying further right policies every cycle, just to say they worked across the aisle. The people that want the Dems to move further right are Republicans who left because of the Tea Party. And MSNBC/CNN are all over it too.

    • @phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      58 hours ago

      And has cancer, and not one of the good ones. Esophageal cancer has a ~15% 1 year survival rate in the US. Obviously if caught early prognosis is much better but it is a rare one to catch early.

    • @goferking0
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      510 hours ago

      So they consider him one of the young bucks?

  • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    Yay let’s get a geriatric to chair the meetings and fall asleep after making Hitler comparisons or claiming that the death of the Republic is upon us. We’re in dire straits so it’s time for our most feeble and ill-equipped to lead us still!

  • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    611 hours ago

    Kinda sorry to hear that, but won’t go batshit crazy about it. AOC will be just fine. She’s evolved into quite a Congress Critter, and is one of the top communicators in the House. Her time will surely come. She’ll be around for a long time if that’s what she wants to do. Dems have gone new blood on 5 committee chairs.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Her time will surely come. She’ll be around for a long time if that’s what she wants to do.

      After the water wars and world war 3 surely.

        • @goferking0
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          810 hours ago

          don’t worry Charlie we won’t pull the football away this time

          • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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            Connelly is pretty well regarded in the caucus.

            Raskin wanted Nadlers chair on Judiciary. Nadler ended up telling him he was going to retire anyway and go ahead.

            Committee chairs aren’t the be all and end all. Looks like some people around here are probably more upset than AOC herself.