Are we really still doing this?

Honestly it seems like liberals hate their own base more than the reactionaries they are supposedly the opposition to

Actually that tracks, since most of the DNC has been flirting with reactionary commentators and billionaires while actively criticizing the one part of their party actually building momentum

I’d have more respect for your argument if you had something constructive to suggest, rather than simply asserting what you stand against.

I’ve made several.

The truth is that the Democrats have plenty of options in at least slowing down the rapid growth, but dismiss them out-of-hand simply because they break decorum. Booker just did a 25 hour filibuster (which is awesome), but he wasn’t even filibustering a bill. Democrats only seem to want to break decorum when the stakes are low enough not to piss off republican lawmakers, and that’s a huge problem when those lawmakers DGAF about democrat reactions and break the law anyway.

This is the time to be raising the alarm and making noise (remember when libs were whining that 16 months before an election was ‘not the time’ to be protesting democrats?). I don’t care about the occasional good thing the dems do in opposition to fascism, I care about all the things they’re not doing. They’re still acting as if there will still be elections, even though they spent the last 2 years screaming that there won’t be any more if trump wins.

At some point they have to start behaving like they actually believe what they’ve been trying to convince the rest of us of.

you still aren’t making any actual proposals for what they should be doing

Because what you’re looking for is some kind of policy proposal or voting strategy to stop a fascist movement, and I’m telling you that we’re beyond that.

Democrats should be physically impeding the dismantling of our institutions - that means disrupting the normal proceedings of congress and the legislature in order to raise the alarm, or at the very least not punishing the members of the party who are, and not breaking the line to side with the republicans when it actually matters (Schumer is the fucking minority leader, not some random spoiler).

When the strategy of the minority leader of the senate is to cooperate with the republicans in tearing apart the government in the hopes that voters blame them for a dip in the stock market 2 years from now and vote them out, it tells their constituents that they don’t really believe we’re witnessing the end of democracy. One of the top 2028 presidential contenders welcomed a white nationalist onto his podcast to talk about the ‘real concerns’ with transgender participation in sports. The DNC chair is out in public soliciting donations from “the good billionaires” while the base is setting records rallying against oligarchy.

The democratic party would rather collaborate with the reactionaries in the conservative party than recon with the growing populism in their own base, and that’s the entire-fucking point.

Well they sure as fuck shouldn’t be capitulating to the fascists

I would expect that someone who really thinks we’re at the end of democracy would be (at the very least) breaking decorum to derail the fascism machine before it picks up steam, not censuring their own colleagues for loudly defending what they all presumably believe in.

“What else could they possibly be doing?!” they cry, as ICE agents are pushing legal permanent residents into black vans and flying them to a prison in El Salvador for exercising their 1st amendment rights.

Democrats vote against all the Republican bills

If this were even true (what was Schumer in hot water over again?), what the fuck does ‘voting against republican bills’ do when the black-shirts are already rounding up immigrants?

Democrats can’t run around screaming about the end of democracy for 8 years and then wax romantic about the need for ‘bipartisanship’ when they’re starting to line people up against the wall.

Wasn’t it Obama that normalized the indiscriminate use of drone strikes in civilian areas without congressional approval?

Democrats are just more competent about their use of military action.

Liberals and progressives staying home wouldn’t matter if the democratic party appealed to the working class as a whole instead.

Just for the record, this is what democrats always do, and it’s why they keep fucking losing.

Democrats would rather have trump than have a social-democratic platform, and it shows every time they have the opportunity to fight him and chose to capitulate instead. The democrats aren’t a left-wing party, certainly not now, and arguably not since FDR.

Second cousin, once removed, apparently

By the way, Sen. Charles Schumer, the Senate minority leader, is the first cousin of Amy Schumer’s father Gordon. The senator and the comedian have worked together to promote gun control.

Defeated Democratic candidate: accepts responsibility in the lightest possible way

Liberal fanboy: Noooo, it’s not your fault, it’s the children who were wrong!

Elon to Trump: “I can’t fund 2026 midterm candidates if Tesla goes broke”

Trump:

I’m really confused as to why ‘Russians’ are generalized as the last domino here

Like, could have easily been ‘Putin’, but even then are we content with stopping at removing despots? Let’s at least aim a bit higher, maybe ‘oligarchy’, or even ‘capital owners’ if we’re being ambitious.

Definitely illegal, and definitely a test balloon for what types of executive authority they can get away with.

They chose Khalil specifically because of the subject of his protesting - they might get a handful of judges that allow this abuse because of the near-universal bipartisan support for Israel.

Whether or not this sticks will be an indicator on how far the US slips into fascism, and I’m certainly hopeful this gets reversed quickly.

The one on the bottom right might have actually gotten me if i didn’t know what the Mazda cx line actually looks like

For anyone still curious, the ban was lifted already

If he was less supportive of Israel and law enforcement I’d be more excited about this.

Honestly there isn’t anyone left in the party that I’m happy with - even AOC started transitioning into radlib territory.