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MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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Pick up the phone is literally doing the bare minimum. You're literally giving up before you've even started. Or do something else - your imagination is the limit. Bitching at randos online doesn't do anything.
And according to you, asking your politicians to actually do something is too risky. Talk about glass houses.

Pathetic.
 

SteveGrabowski

Diamond Member
Oct 20, 2014
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Pick up the phone is literally doing the bare minimum. You're literally giving up before you've even started. Or do something else - your imagination is the limit. Bitching at randos online doesn't do anything.
It's pointless, the republic is lost. The time for action was a year ago when you acted like I was a moron for pointing out the painfully obvious fact that Biden was absolutely cooked. You bitching about the Republicans online doesn't do anything either. But I'm supposed to go and complain to Cruz about a president Cruz's voters love because you guys fucked up and backed Biden to the bitter end when it was too late to give the people a voice in a primary.
 

DZero

Senior member
Jun 20, 2024
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LOL you think I should beg Ted Cruz to save us from Trump and scoffed me for contacting my Democratic representative to try to get Biden out of the race in time for a primary back when Trump could actually have been stopped.
Since Republicans are also rebelling to him is likely that a massive purge happen and if republicans don't accept his terms, a new party will born and likely wiping the republicans and democrats together.
 
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Moonbeam

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Save the date.

The Democrats faced an uphill battle. The massive right-wing media sphere, especially including social media, and also a complicit mainstream media, the general shittiness of humanity which is easy to appeal to with hate.

But let's face it. The things that we as Democrats could have controlled, were miserable.

Biden completely fucked this country, and the Democrats went along with it. They failed to adjust their messaging and strategies enough as well, they didn't understand the situation correctly.

Personally I think it would have been better if Biden lost in 2020 at this point. Anything good he did will be undone, and I used to think the judges he got in there were was good but, doesn't really matter when the executive's not going to listen, and the enforcers are part of the corrupt autocracy.

If we knew Biden was going to fuck us so bad this time around, at least if Trump won then it would have still been covid it would have been a shit show, they wouldn't have had the organization of 4 years to plan this all out, They still would have had a dysfunctional government in place And not as capable of destroying democracy like they are now.

Oh well šŸ¤·šŸ¼
Yes, Oh well. You sound like you are mad if Democrats win or if they lose. Perhaps emotions are making you irrational. I have no issues with feeling things, but it would be noce to know why we do. Otherwise it's just reacting. I have no problem, again with reacting but it should create questioning one's sanity and a desire for greater understanding. Unfortunately we are ego identified with our emotional states as if they encompassed reality, but if you examine yourself you will discover they are the product of old feelings of hurt you have carried for a long time. I don't think there is anything special about you as regarding being exceptional angry, it's just that you take a certain ego pride in being that way. Most people were told not to get angry or else. They will likely feel more sadness, in my opinion.
 

BonzaiDuck

Lifer
Jun 30, 2004
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At this time, the brash moves of the Trump entourage with Musk may have damaged their numbers with many clueless people who just chose Trump because he's not a woman, not of mixed race, not intelligent, not bursting with years of experience in San Francisco, Sacramento, the US Senate and the Vice-Presidency.

But Musk may have made some people wake up. Wha-a-t? He's a convicted felon, and this guy who was never elected to do anything is gonna meddle with my retirement records, my payments from Treasury or Social Security checks, my tax records? We're not supposed to have criminals running the government. . . . .

They'll be anxious, and anxiety is not fun. they'll remember. Meanwhile, I just pray for a massive stroke, irreparable heart attack, hypnotized to go sleep-walking on the I-95 truck lanes during rush-hour, or just an exploding projectile guaranteed to spread PTSD with the cell-phone Zapruder re-make.

Otherwise, stop grousing about Biden, Harris, Democratic mistakes -- whatever. There's a criminal in the White House . . . a CRIMINAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE! . . . . A criminal in the white house . . . A CRM IN-I-NAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE! That's like hiring The Wild Bunch to administer your bank while you're down the street at the Temperance Meeting.

There's a chance to turn this around. They've already created great outrage. Just telling people "there will be a little pain at first" -- that's a pretty weak sales pitch. Let's help them make some bigger mistakes. But get people worried about their money and entitlements -- upon which they may sorely depend? Priceless.
 

Kaido

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kage69

Lifer
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Team Treason gutting the FBI and CIA while putting sell outs in charge of them - Xi and Putin probably near fainting from ecstasy.

Meanwhile Bibi's over there with a cigar in his mouth, smiling while he toasts a drink to the East.

 

ivwshane

Lifer
May 15, 2000
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Team Treason gutting the FBI and CIA while putting sell outs in charge of them - Xi and Putin probably near fainting from ecstasy.

Meanwhile Bibi's over there with a cigar in his mouth, smiling while he toasts a drink to the East.


That is simply disgusting.
 
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DZero

Senior member
Jun 20, 2024
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I dunno if this has been posted but yesterday they offered buyouts to the entire CIA workforce. America is done as a country.

America? USA itself is the Soviet Union before 1991. Or the US before the Secesion War. But the result won't end uniying the country.
 

ivwshane

Lifer
May 15, 2000
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Team Treason gutting the FBI and CIA while putting sell outs in charge of them - Xi and Putin probably near fainting from ecstasy.

Meanwhile Bibi's over there with a cigar in his mouth, smiling while he toasts a drink to the East.


Any word from those who didnā€™t vote for Harris because of Palestine?
 

NWRMidnight

Diamond Member
Jun 18, 2001
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Right now essentially it's just about there. And the primary opposition to that happening, may not have a lot of power to stop it, but what they do have they're too pathetic to use it.

We're going to have to fight to get it back.

The national level dems are mostly a failure. The media is also a failure. My advice is to focus on your state elections. That's what I'm doing trying to get the absolute best most strong gubernatorial candidate in. And the right local politicians to back them up.

This is going to be about the states fighting against the undemocratic federal government now
You left out "voters are a failure" as they expect to be spoon-fed information by the media, and politicians, which it sounds like that is your expectation as well. Sorry but the majority of the failure falls on the voters, as much as you refuse to admit. You want change, stop placing blame on the media and the politicians for lazy voters who expect to be spoon-fed.
 

Reflex

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I do blame the nazi party but what's the point? The republic was lost when we didn't get a primary so we'd have a fighting chance in the election. Anyone with a room temperature IQ had to know this was exactly how a Trump presidency would be when the clerics on the supreme court decided he was completely above the law on anything Trump called an official action.
The Republic was lost when we chose not to pass HR1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. So in the first few months of 2021 it was over and lots of us saw this coming as a result.

We have governed as a center right party since Clinton, and finally we are indistinguishable from the Republican party of 20 years ago. We spent the last four years aiding and abetting a genocide, hiring more cops, increasing military spending, deporting rather than naturalizing more residents, expanding prisons while failing to expand Obamacare. The few bright spots, such as the antitrust expansion are slow processes and unfortunately will not pay off due to the new administration.

So yeah, we lost. And we were lost the moment we embraced the concept of 'triangulation' as though the far right was a movement that could be negotiated with, legitimizing them in the process and losing our values along the way.

This was preventable, but not by some hypothetical perfect candidate. It was preventable by doing the hard work of building our platform, communicating our goals to the public, and passing it in small chunks over decades at all levels of government. Which Republicans have been doing since the late 70's.

The Democratic party needs to proudly be the party of civil rights for all, equity in opportunity and support, and demonstrating our values by example and policy both nationally and internationally. We consistently fail that bar which aids the narrative that "we are all the same" in the minds of voters.

The right has no need to hide the fact that they are the right, they espouse their values, even the unpopular ones, and few punish them for it. The left needs to stop apologizing and aggressively respond to societal problems with how leftist policies address them, while highlighting problems right wing solutions create for people in every class.
 
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MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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You left out "voters are a failure" as they expect to be spoon-fed information by the media, and politicians, which it sounds like that is your expectation as well. Sorry but the majority of the failure falls on the voters, as much as you refuse to admit. You want change, stop placing blame on the media and the politicians for lazy voters who expect to be spoon-fed.
You have no idea how politics work to absolve the opposition of any responsibility on how to operate in a difficult environment.

That's just ridiculous. Dangerous. Insane. And your thinking will result in total submission and no functional opposition.
 
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