• NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    Stop voting for these incumbent “establishment Democrats.” These boring corporatists who only care about their phony baloney jobs. They have never cared about ordinary people. Vote for Democrats who want real change.

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      We’ve never had a government that put the needs of the people ahead of the wants of the rich. The closest we had was FDR, and even he only pushed the New Deal to stop us from demanding an even better deal.

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      Are you under the impression 1/3 of Americans made academic decisions to protest poor candidates by not voting?

      1/3 of Americans didn’t vote because they’re uneducated, lazy slobs. Stop fooling yourself.

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        Why are you complicating things? Whos taking about academia? If people don’t see candidates that inspire them they stay home. This is pretty basic. The uneducated lazy slobs came out in droves for Trump whos vote share kept increasing, so why is it the uneducated slobs that dont like Trump didnt? Don’t fool yourself thinking all the slobs stayed home but also managed to vote for Trump. One group was inspired by the hate, and one group was uninspired by the lack of resistance.

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          So you truly believe that 1/3 of American voters didn’t vote in protest?

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    I just don’t see how anyone can hear this and see them as effective leadership. Minority party or not. Like it makes me, a dedicated left wing person, not want to support democrats because they seem to have lost the plot

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      They haven’t lost the plot, they like the plot. They don’t agree with you, they don’t like you, they don’t want to help you.

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      Completely agree. There are no US politicians who are willing to offer social progress or even support middle-class workers. If you’re not a campaign donor, you can’t get shit in this country.

      Not that it matters who votes for who. After the 2024 election, it’s obvious the winner isn’t decided by votes anyway.

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        It doesn’t help that most of them are so old and rich they’re completely detached from the realities of the people they’re SUPPOSED to represent and serve.

        Many of them either have never been anything other than at least upper class, or their time spent below upper class is decades away and very very irrelevant compared to those of us who are not, especially during this time.

        They do NOT represent us. How the hell can anyone expect them to serve us?

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    Chuck Schumer literally governs based off an imaginary republican family he made up in his head who he runs all of his policy decisions by before voting. He has talked about this openly and repeatedly, for years. He calls them the “Baileys” and they voted for Trump.

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    PRIMARY ALL OF THE FUCKING DEMOCRATS!!!

    Unless they are actively opposing this regime, they are complicit. Full stop. Some worse than others, but just replacing Schumer won’t do shit if the rest of the Democrats in Congress are the same milk toast centrist corporate assholes.

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    Dont listen to their words, only watch their actions. By actions alone, these 2 are MAGA.

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        Is it perhaps possible they’ve been negatively coerced or threatened? I feel like this might explain a fair amount of behavior of their ilk and we are dealing with the mob after all.

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          They’re fall guys. They’re handsomely paid to take the blame and be called republican plants, they ensure the DNC cannot achieve goals counter to their and their donors’ interests, but they need to maintain progressive rhetoric to keep the voter base pacified.

          If they’re replaced, two new fall guys will pop up on future issues. They allow the DNC to operate as a complicit cooperator while claiming to be the opposition.

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    “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.

    Didn’t realize this was an inappropriate time to try to stop them from kidnapping and murdering people.

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      “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.

      This reeks of post school shooting rhetoric, ‘now is not the time to discuss gun law’ in the immediate aftermath of mass child slaughter.

      The appropriate time was years and years ago, or at the very latest January 20, 2017.

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      “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.

      Counterpoint: no you fucking won’t

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      Jeffries has always struck me as someone lukewarm, uncharismatic, and even unintelligent. So many better options for that position, but he was chosen for the obvious virtue signal.

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    Schumer and Jefferies need to fuck off, and NY voters need to vote in some replacements.