This...pretty much describes the Democratic Party in general: mostly full of people who, by the standards 20 years ago, would've had an R by their names.
Both parties are a cancer at this point.
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Absolutely correct. Both sides are sold out ... but MAGA doesn't even bother to keep it a secret because their cult followers are so stupid they just have to say "fake news".
Oh, apolitical, eh, very nice. An’ how’d you get that, eh? By exploitin’ the practical realities of competent governance — by ‘angin’ on to outdated ego-driven dogma which perpetuates the economic an’ social differences in our society! If there’s ever going to be any progress . . .
Dennis, there's some lovely filth down 'ere
I really think they (the Rs) are doing this on purpose to fundamentally change the other party and force it to move. It’s part of a plan to destroy their opposition by diluting it so badly that it implodes and they have no real opposition.
So democrats are republicans with a sense of shame?
Yeah I can see that
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Nope. 20 years ago all Republicans were voting for tax cuts for the rich just like today and 20 years ago even fewer Dems were voting against tax cuts for the rich than today. Dems stopped moving to the right about 25 years ago and since then have been moving left, although way too slowly.
The Dems are now far right enough that republicans who are “republican lite” can join.
Repubs are so far right, anyone who isn't a fascist is leaving.
Just the one though
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They are only both right wing if you have a euro-centric perspective. Many if not most nations are still debating liberalism vs authoritarianism rather than capitalism vs anticapitalism.
It's so much easier to move a window if both sides are cooperating.
In tonight's headlines, man with red front door paints it blue. Contents behind front door remain unchanged. More at 6.
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Any time a politician switches parties my first instinct is their district flipped, and it's just opportunism. It's not always true, but you could make a lot of money betting on it.
Joe Walsh hasn’t been in Congress since 2013. Tammy Duckworth took the seat after he served one term. This is simply a conservative who doesn’t like what AnCap fascism looks like IRL.
Sure. Let me just go check something....
"Joe Walsh represented Illinois's 8th Congressional District from 2011 to 2013. The district currently leans Democratic (Cook PVI: D+5) and is represented by Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi, who has announced a 2026 U.S. Senate bid."
I'm gonna wait until 2026 before I let him off the hook.
That’s fair
That's the same mother fucker I shut down on Reddit many years ago when he started popping off about how there is no reason for abortion in an AMA.
I simply replied to his idiotic statement:
Ectopic Pregnancy
1 in 40 chance
SOURCE
Sorry, I've since forgotten which article I cited in my original post. The word "SOURCE" was a link to an NIH article that I was citing. I can't find it now and the original post is lost to my deleting my Reddit account.
But it was enough to cause the jack ass to back pedal and make a public announcement that abortion was OK for ectopic pregnancies specifically.
It was also my highest rated comment on Reddit ever.
Fuck Joe Walsh. He's an asshole that should be no where near a public office of any kind.
He's can feel free to join whatever party he wants.
Democrats would be wise, which they clearly are fucking not, to ignore this asshole.
They will welcome any who oppose the GOP’s fascism.
Idk what yo tell you, but Democrats leaning harder to the right is clearly not a winning strategy for them.
The Democratic Party is just a collection of people. If people like him and Manchin join and vote for liberal policies that would otherwise go conservative, it's a net positive. Anything that they would normally vote against, any other Republican would also vote against.
The important bit is to push blue area representatives to represent further left ideals. That's what has fucked us over in the past.
Yes its a net positive. Like when ex-Republican turned Dem senator Arlen Spector provided the crucial 60th vote to pass Obamacare after he was primaried by the Club for Growth. Republican infighting created a crucial win for the left.
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further rot it from within
Here's basically all you need to know about him, to judge him as a person: He fell for Sacha Baron Cohen's bit "kinderguardians", which was about training toddlers with firearms.
It's a plot to get re elected.
Nothing else.
Fuck politicians and their sleezy ethics.
So what he's saying is he's going to run as a Democrat then once he wins switch back to Republicunt. Got it. We've seen this before, you ain't original.
This should should be fucking illegal!!! You should be removed from office immediately and thrown in jail for that shit! But it won't happen because the Cons are fine with that
This is an invasion if MAGA ever made one
Fuck that guy.
Sure sure, join what ever party floats your boat, but just sit the fuck down.
Correct because the political parties are not about values and morals they're just teams that can trade players. Thank you for taking your mask off and admitting that your whole organization is just another soulless for profit corpo with a marketing department. Now if you can just admit that Republican Inc. and Democrat Co. are actually the private equity firms buying up all the single family houses that would be great since it looks like it doesn't cost you to tell the truth ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ ) thxxxxxxxxxxxssssssssss
Hey look at that. The Democrats just let in a new Joe Manchin.
If a hardcore Conservative like this is willing to join the Democrats, it demonstrates two things: That the Republican Party has become the MAGA Party, and no longer exists, and the Democratic Party has moved so far right, that even conservatives prefer it to Nazis.
The real move is to leave BOTH parties, and declare as an Unaffiliated Independent, like Biden Press Secretary Karine Jeanne-Pierre just announced.
There are already more independents than either party, and NO candidate ever wins any election without winning the Indies. Independents are by far the most powerful political faction, they just don't have the money or the organization to throw their weight around, and that becomes their problem. They are defined by not being a party, but to use their inherent power, they have to behave like a party, and that essentially makes them a party, and thus, no longer independent.
It's tough to handle this fortune and fame
Everybody's so different, Joe hasn't changed
From one party controlled by the oligarchs to another
Yeh but these are the good ones.
Wait
Again, words mean jack, I’ll believe it when I see his voting record.
He left office in 2013. He ran for POTUS in 2020.
So zero action on his part as of late.
I can’t say as I only did a quick search to see if he was in office still.
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So what are the odds the DNC runs him for 2028 we thinking?
It didn't work last time, let's yet harder!
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