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[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

Imagine being a liberal right now lmfao You’re pissed at EVERYTHING and yelling at your allies while the people you’re telling them to vote for are supporting the very thing making you furious.

Fuckin’ awesome.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!!!!

jfc.

[–] lemmingthelemmers@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

SHOCKED PIKACHU FACE

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 39 points 7 hours ago

I keep hearing project 2025 was a decades plan and the Dems had nothing planned to counter it. Now I'm guessing they are part of the plan.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 8 hours ago

It’s not like the guy they voted for is a rare qualified pick from the Trump camp.

It’s David Purdue, a failed pillow company CEO, as well as ceo for other textile companies. More recently he dabbled in politics as a Republican senator from Georgia, failed gubernatorial candidate, 2020 election denier, climate change denier, and generally an idiotic sycophant.
The textile experience gives him a small amount of plausibility as a choice, but everything else far outweighs that. Just another loser grifter in Trump’s orbit.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 74 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

“Yea” votes included New Jersey’s Cory Booker, whose record-breaking speech on the Senate floor against Trump’s policies earlier this month seemed to inspire the rest of his party, as well as Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, a military veteran who has criticized the administration for firing military veterans from civil service positions." They talk shit to raise funds from the working class, then vote for MAGA so their corporate backers will pay them too.

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 32 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The last three months should have been a stark reminder to everyone that after a certain amount of time in their positions, politicians stop seeing non-politicians as real people and everything just becomes a game.

[–] 3abas@lemm.ee 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

mods have been deleting my comments that remind people that Biden and the Democrats gleefully committed genocide and lost the election for their refusal to even suggest they'll stop it.

When will people wake up and realize the Democrats are not on our side, not the lesser evil? They exist to give us an illusion that someone is fighting on our behalf, they exist to pacify us, they exist to allow capitalism to turn us into wage-slaves.

They'll take a knee with us, they'll give record breaking speeches, they'll march with us in the peaceful phases, they'll be on the front line even. They'll hold rallies and raise incredible amounts to "flight fascism", and then they'll step in line and vote to keep the wheel turning RIGHT.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

mods have been deleting my comments that remind people that Biden and the Democrats gleefully committed genocide and lost the election for their refusal to even suggest they’ll stop it.

Why they are so threatened by AOC and Sanders, and the calls for the old guard to GTFO

I fully expect the DNC to launch a bigger underhanded attack against the both of them than the Republicans do.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Why they are so threatened by AOC and Sanders, and the calls for the old guard to GTFO

Both Sanders and AOC both support Israel. The progressive base may like them better than "the old guard" but they're not exactly in love with these two. It's a begrudging vote, not a happy one.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 hours ago

Yah the one governor hugging Trump. I mean come on.

[–] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 21 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Bourgeois party. Capitalism is incompatible with democracy.

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[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 91 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Cory Booker—New Jersey

Chris Coons—Delaware

Tammy Duckworth—Illinois

John Fetterman—Pennsylvania

Ruben Gallego—Arizona

Maggie Hassan—New Hampshire

Tim Kaine—Virginia

Andy Kim—New Jersey

Angus King—Maine (independent who caucuses with Democrats)

Amy Klobuchar—Minnesota

Gary Peters—Michigan

Jack Reed—Rhode Island

Jacky Rosen—Nevada

Jeanne Shaheen—New Hampshire

Elissa Slotkin—Michigan

Mark Warner—Virginia

shamelessly copied off the article

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 46 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

We're still counting fetterman as a Democrat? Aight.

Also wasn't everyone fawning over Booker for the sit in DAYS AGO??

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I heard that apparently (rumors) Fetterman might run in 2028 to give the illusion that we still have a democracy

He’ll probably show up to the debate in a bath robe.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Primary every one of them.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

What if the primary in question is rigged?

The Democrats never actually opposed fascism, they just invoked it because they knew it was unpopular. The problem of the Democrats is that you can't constantly run on things you have no intention of following through on, without having voters stop believing you eventually.

[–] immutable@lemm.ee 158 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Can you fight them as hard as they fought you

Nope

Filibuster maybe?

Only when there’s nothing pending

Procedural moves that slow them down

Nah

Could you at least not vote to enable them

Votes to enable them silently with intense eye contact

What the fuck can you do?

Pulls out phone, texts you for $20 for their battle fund

Jesus fucking christ

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 175 points 20 hours ago (12 children)

Including Cory Booker... 🤷‍♂️ 🙄

Was everything he did recently just as performative as with MAGAts??

Way to put up roadblocks and speedbumps when it really counts Dems... Feckless Fucks. 🖕 🖕

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Yes it was! And please look in folks' comment histories, the tankies were the first ones to call this out.

[–] 3abas@lemm.ee 5 points 9 hours ago

Keep that energy, know your enemies, all of them.

Never forget, next time they do a performance remember!

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 22 points 13 hours ago

Of course it was. It was just a political stunt to pump up his street cred as a warrior, in advance of an eventual announcement for a presidential campaign.

Then he votes for the MAGA Nazis.

He's a collaborator.

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

No shit it was. He wants to run for president and he knows that stunt will make headlines but this will be buried in comments where the headline is “16 democrats vote for trump nominee” (aka exactly what is happening here)

Booker is classic neoliberal, no ethics or morals, guided by money and power. 10-15 years ago he was deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry because they are huge in NJ. Then his aspirations went higher and he realized that association was harmful, at that point he had connections that made him no longer reliant on their cash, so he shed them. It’s not growth, it’s a calculated move

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 31 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

The dnc is a sunk cost.

You want a country where you can live free, you're going to have to take it yourself.

Dont worry though, that will be some other generations problem. Most of us will just have to live through the enshitification of everything. Cherish these last days. You may never see any like them again. You might even wake up one day and think, the status quo was like being stuck at the top of a Farris wheel. Scary, and uncertain but the view was amazing.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 hours ago

I agree. I have stepped away from party activity. They are on their own. There are other better avenues for organizing right now.

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