I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.
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Susan Sarandon is an idiot
She means well but we are all familiar with people who mean well but by their (in)action they only make things worse
Standing on perfection and not participating, allowing far worse to dominate, is for ineffectual losers who value their holy self-regard over obvious real world peril
It's pure entitlement and privilege, because the bad effects won't touch them, so they play their smug games
We need to vote. To replace centrist democrat shit
@benroyce @QasimRashid ...to kick the fucking gop to the curb. When you've accomplished that get back to me about "centrists." But first, clobber the nazis, eh?
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@benroyce @QasimRashid ...to kick the fucking gop to the curb. When you've accomplished that get back to me about "centrists." But first, clobber the nazis, eh?
zero argument
simple tactics: hold the line so we can fight another day
against that we have idiots who think a vote is a devotional love letter of eternal purity. which is fucking immature and stupid. but that's how they are, so they don't vote, so we don't hold the line, so now our struggle is harder
it's just fucking tactics!
the deeper issue:
we take over the democrats with real leftists in the primaries
two different struggles
complementary, not contradictory
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Voters need to understand it more so than leadership. Voters need to understand that there are some progressive wins this cycle so far, but "voting blue no matter who" isn't enough any more. A bunxh of Newsoms or Buttigiegs aren't going to save our country.
If we want to avoid returning to normal it means continuing to push even if there is a blue wave. It means rooting out every corporate democrat and replacing them with an actual leftist.
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I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.
That "normal" pre-Trump is what led to Trump. Don't believe me? Two terms under Obama led us to Trump. Then we rallied and elected Biden in 2020 and got him a trifecta government. Biden stuck to "norms," and it led us right back to Trump in 2024.
If you're not ready to disrupt the entire system that keeps electing Trump, you need to be voted out as well.
@QasimRashid
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I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.
That "normal" pre-Trump is what led to Trump. Don't believe me? Two terms under Obama led us to Trump. Then we rallied and elected Biden in 2020 and got him a trifecta government. Biden stuck to "norms," and it led us right back to Trump in 2024.
If you're not ready to disrupt the entire system that keeps electing Trump, you need to be voted out as well.
"Normal" should have been public flagellation of the January 6th terrorists and throwing in jail the adjudicated rapist, traitor and fraudster, agent Krasnov.
Followed by the voting out all the "Democrats" who voted for confimation of the extremists High court kangaroo court judges and repugnican departmental officials.
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I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.
That "normal" pre-Trump is what led to Trump. Don't believe me? Two terms under Obama led us to Trump. Then we rallied and elected Biden in 2020 and got him a trifecta government. Biden stuck to "norms," and it led us right back to Trump in 2024.
If you're not ready to disrupt the entire system that keeps electing Trump, you need to be voted out as well.
Oligarchs own America
David Sacks
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/david-sacks-trump-ai-executive-order-6019242dWars of aggression & regime change that profits the GOP & its oligarchs, foreign & domestic
Paul Singer, Ron Lauder, Betancourt, Citrone, & Addison
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venezuelan-billionaire-us-investigated-money-laundering-now-has-pentagon-oil-2026-09-05/https://www.commondreams.org/news/venezuela-oil-sale-trump-donor
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/world/europe/trump-lauder-ukraine-lithium.html
https://theconversation.com/before-venezuelas-oil-there-were-guatemalas-bananas-272973
https://inkstickmedia.com/the-same-old-pattern-that-led-up-to-trumps-iran-war/
https://www.thecollector.com/the-banana-wars-how-the-us-plundered-central-america/
https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/donald-trump-republican-party/trump-history/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/paul-singer-venezuela
https://theconversation.com/the-trump-revolution-where-it-came-from-and-where-its-going-246271
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I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.
That "normal" pre-Trump is what led to Trump. Don't believe me? Two terms under Obama led us to Trump. Then we rallied and elected Biden in 2020 and got him a trifecta government. Biden stuck to "norms," and it led us right back to Trump in 2024.
If you're not ready to disrupt the entire system that keeps electing Trump, you need to be voted out as well.
@QasimRashid I kinda just accepted that we're on an unstoppable downward slope.
Don't get me wrong it's not gonna stop me personally from pushing for better as I think even the effort is valuable in itself.It's not a matter of whether you feel discouraged or not, if you stop pushing for better because you think it won't happen things will truly never change.
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I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.
That "normal" pre-Trump is what led to Trump. Don't believe me? Two terms under Obama led us to Trump. Then we rallied and elected Biden in 2020 and got him a trifecta government. Biden stuck to "norms," and it led us right back to Trump in 2024.
If you're not ready to disrupt the entire system that keeps electing Trump, you need to be voted out as well.
Even this is just a start. Billionaires and gigantic corporations have to pay for the role they played making America this way. It was their deliberate plan to do this and they’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars every year for a half century. And now we have a second contingent with even more money from Silicon Valley, who are even more genocidal than oil money.
Their wealth and their corporate size that makes them possible must be completely dismantled.
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@benroyce @QasimRashid ...to kick the fucking gop to the curb. When you've accomplished that get back to me about "centrists." But first, clobber the nazis, eh?
@phaedral @benroyce @QasimRashid Problem is the Dems in question are working with Donald and Republicans more than what the base wants them to do hence vichycrats. Johnson and Jeffries had basically the same bosses in the 2024 campaign cycle. Check out their opensecrets profiles "Top Organization and Industry Donors." And don't try to say I'm not dedicated enough I vote Democratic party every election and I also volunteer and donate.
https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/mike-johnson/us_congress/summary?mpid=1055439&cycle=2024&display=candidate
https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/hakeem-jeffries/us_congress/summary?mpid=1050304&cycle=2024&display=candidate -
I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.
That "normal" pre-Trump is what led to Trump. Don't believe me? Two terms under Obama led us to Trump. Then we rallied and elected Biden in 2020 and got him a trifecta government. Biden stuck to "norms," and it led us right back to Trump in 2024.
If you're not ready to disrupt the entire system that keeps electing Trump, you need to be voted out as well.
@QasimRashid Horrifying thing is, it’s not that they don’t understand. They’re willing to do it again, ideologically & b/c they refuse to relinquish $100Maire/billionaire support. In fact they’ll blame voters again & double down… even if it means falling to fascism permanently & the literal end of the world.
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@phaedral @benroyce @QasimRashid Problem is the Dems in question are working with Donald and Republicans more than what the base wants them to do hence vichycrats. Johnson and Jeffries had basically the same bosses in the 2024 campaign cycle. Check out their opensecrets profiles "Top Organization and Industry Donors." And don't try to say I'm not dedicated enough I vote Democratic party every election and I also volunteer and donate.
https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/mike-johnson/us_congress/summary?mpid=1055439&cycle=2024&display=candidate
https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/hakeem-jeffries/us_congress/summary?mpid=1050304&cycle=2024&display=candidate@andrew773 @phaedral @QasimRashid
none of this is news to anyone
centrist dems fucking suck
the point is to use our antipathy to show up in the primaries and replace them. primary turn out is so poor. but that's where we get 50 mamdanis across the usa
so where are these people sick of the schumers and the jeffries in the primaries?
many decide to just not vote at all
which only serves to hand MAGA fascism wins
unfathomably stupid and self-defeating
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@QasimRashid Horrifying thing is, it’s not that they don’t understand. They’re willing to do it again, ideologically & b/c they refuse to relinquish $100Maire/billionaire support. In fact they’ll blame voters again & double down… even if it means falling to fascism permanently & the literal end of the world.
@QasimRashid Election-wise ofc we have to vote for them in the general b/c of the spoiler effect. That battle is won or lost in the primary.. & due to the structure of the American constitution, dominance of capitalism, etc. But ofc it takes acting politically beyond that
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@andrew773 @phaedral @QasimRashid
none of this is news to anyone
centrist dems fucking suck
the point is to use our antipathy to show up in the primaries and replace them. primary turn out is so poor. but that's where we get 50 mamdanis across the usa
so where are these people sick of the schumers and the jeffries in the primaries?
many decide to just not vote at all
which only serves to hand MAGA fascism wins
unfathomably stupid and self-defeating
@benroyce @phaedral @QasimRashid I mean this year in multiple states Senate primary including mine have mentioned they will not support Schumer so hopefully we're working on it. My congressional district was denied a Democratic primary and the system was also abused to prevent Democrats from running independently.
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I desperately need Democratic Party leadership to understand that winning the House and Senate cannot mean a return to "normal" pre-Trump.
That "normal" pre-Trump is what led to Trump. Don't believe me? Two terms under Obama led us to Trump. Then we rallied and elected Biden in 2020 and got him a trifecta government. Biden stuck to "norms," and it led us right back to Trump in 2024.
If you're not ready to disrupt the entire system that keeps electing Trump, you need to be voted out as well.
@QasimRashid In this election if you’re a Democrat & you have the best chance of winning in the General, I’m going to vote for you. I don’t care who you are. Period the motherfucking end. Once the primary is over, I do not give two shits. You are getting my vote and that includes motherfuckers who stir up
trouble 2 months before an election under the guise of purity bullshit. Trump didn’t happen because of the Dems. Trump happened because we didn’t vote enough Dems in PERIOD. -
@QasimRashid In this election if you’re a Democrat & you have the best chance of winning in the General, I’m going to vote for you. I don’t care who you are. Period the motherfucking end. Once the primary is over, I do not give two shits. You are getting my vote and that includes motherfuckers who stir up
trouble 2 months before an election under the guise of purity bullshit. Trump didn’t happen because of the Dems. Trump happened because we didn’t vote enough Dems in PERIOD.
The worst centrist Dem is infinitely better than any GOP candidate. Vote. -
@benroyce @phaedral @QasimRashid I mean this year in multiple states Senate primary including mine have mentioned they will not support Schumer so hopefully we're working on it. My congressional district was denied a Democratic primary and the system was also abused to prevent Democrats from running independently.
@andrew773 @phaedral @QasimRashid
that's wrong
but like you said:
"mine have mentioned they will not support Schumer"
and how was that arrived at?
it wasn't arrived at through those who don't vote
and empty "dems suck" comments result in that
dems *do* suck
so we *fix* that
in the primaries
we don't just throw up our hands and let MAGA take over. that's insane
and i'm not accusing you of that, but you have to accentuate the way forward, not just issue complaints
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@QasimRashid If you are more concerned with bashing dems than punching nazis you aren't helping.
@phaedral @QasimRashid many dems went on fox news to, attack the progressives and Hassan piker. You looks like a political cultist
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The worst centrist Dem is infinitely better than any GOP candidate. Vote.
@mastodonmigration @QasimRashid Yep, and the purity BS is already starting. We need to point it out for the dangerous stupidity it is loud and often. If the people who didn’t find HC or KH pure enough had gotten off their privlaged high horse and just voted Dem we wouldn’t have had tRump a single time let alone two. All the deaths under tRump are as much on their heads as they are the republicans & tRump.
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@QasimRashid In this election if you’re a Democrat & you have the best chance of winning in the General, I’m going to vote for you. I don’t care who you are. Period the motherfucking end. Once the primary is over, I do not give two shits. You are getting my vote and that includes motherfuckers who stir up
trouble 2 months before an election under the guise of purity bullshit. Trump didn’t happen because of the Dems. Trump happened because we didn’t vote enough Dems in PERIOD.@Pineywoozle @QasimRashid Trump happened because of the two party system and the lesser of two evil bs. Enjoy another Trump in 1 or 2 next elections. It is time for your evil shitty empire to collapse
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The worst centrist Dem is infinitely better than any GOP candidate. Vote.
@mastodonmigration
@Pineywoozle @QasimRashidfor real, people who dont live in gop-majority states cant fathom what its like to have their rights constantly being taken away
often times, its the democrats who providing the only protection for minorities and marginalized communities
