“They want 1939 Germany but they're going to get 1789 France if they keep fucking around.”
@benroyce
Why exactly is Chuck Shumer now the scapegoat for the MAGA-induced mess?
all blame goes to maga
secondary blame goes to nonvoters
tertiary blame goes to spineless centrist dems
for our mess
i do agree though if someone spends all of their time dividing and conquering for the right, by attacking dems only and ignorinng maga, they're not even on the left, they're fake left, they're agent provocateur from the right
but that's not the guy in the video
anger at schumer is acceptable: he's completely out of touch
@benroyce @oliverboehme Do not forget the main architect who gave the shitbag the keys to everything with his 'immunity' and 'official duties' bullshit: #JohnRoberts is the primary villain. He and his cohort of rancid cunts #Alito #Gorsuch #Thomas and #Kavanaugh
@kristen_d @benroyce @oliverboehme Biden could have used the powers Roberts gave him to stop all of this.
I don't blame Biden for being unwilling to be the monster history required at that moment. But still - he could have prevented all of this.
@Amoshias @kristen_d @benroyce @oliverboehme Yes, he could have jailed Trump, jailed the Supreme Court. Or assassinated them. But he didn't want to the one to end America by making himself king. And sure, that only gave us a couple more months of America before Trump ended it, but
I understand Biden wanting to go out still the leader of a democratic nation.
@cherold @Amoshias @kristen_d @oliverboehme
biden was banking on the american people showing the fuck up and voting
biden didn't abandon america because he didn't bring a machine gun to the supreme court
americans abandoned america because "well biden should have done this and that and blah blah blah and that's my rationale for not doing shit, even the easiest fucking thing"
your leaders suck, america, BECAUSE YOU SUCK
@benroyce @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme I'm going to diverge from you here. (Not the last line though, we're in lockstep there.)
Simply sitting around and expecting Americans to vote for responsible kings until the end of time is not a rational plan. Biden needed to take action to make himself NOT A KING. That would have required him to do horrifying things, and he's not the man to have met that challenge.
@Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme
agreed 100%
we can't just shame nonvoters, we need to give them something to believe in
i would like to think people have enough brains to understand strategy, but i understand cold calculation is not good enough
we need a real lefist candidate to put the fire in their belly
@benroyce @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme
We also need to recognize that to date, there is no personal financial incentive for Democrats in Congress to BE the opposition. They’ll keep doing what they’re doing, as long as the cash continues flowing into their pockets.
The only exceptions are people like Bernie Sanders and AOC, who don’t take corporate payouts. And that group is a truly minimal slice of the Congress pie.
@chessert @benroyce @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme and should really create a new party IYAM
@cmthiede @chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme
it's far easier to take over the democrats from within
another party, if it ever eclipses the dems, you're looking at many elections of GOP dominance until then
because you've divided the left and we have a stupid fucking voting system
and in that time period MAGA will just kill democracy altogether
i'm simply pointing at the path of least resistance:
take over the dems
far far easier than another party
@benroyce @cmthiede @chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme
Although I have to wonder in some red locations, if running Independent and caucusing with Dems is the way to go. Some places don’t even have Dems running. Idc how it’s done as long as come election time there’s only one sane person running against a Republican, so votes don’t get divided.
@lucybeahere @cmthiede @chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme
zero argument
i'm speaking in broad terms, there are specifics that argue for independents
@benroyce @cmthiede @chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme
Yes, we are definitely in agreement. The most important thing is to unite against Republicans. We keep saying it, and the urgency of it grows all the time. The GOP is not just corrupt. These people are deliberately trying to rush us along towards the end, either for the rapture, or to capture all resources and create their own little bizarre states, complete with secure bunkers. They’re all nuts.