Establishment Democrats are rejecting an increasingly popular position by refusing to take a bold stance that happens to be good politics.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    13 hours ago

    Schumer thinks the kill shot for the republican opposition is to focus on lowering grocery prices (something they honestly have no power or plan to do) while citizens are getting shot in the street.

    I got a newsletter from Gillibrand and she doesn’t even mention ICE, at the time a week after Renee Good was killed.

    They’re not even picking up the ball.

    • PokerChips@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Those two are con artists. It’s funny you mention Schumer having picking a topic he has no power over because I imagine that his role shtick.

      Haha the Schumer Schtick: con the public by talkng about emotional idioms he has no control over and distract away from real issues he does have control over.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    17 hours ago

    These relics think the entire reason they loss was because of the bullshit immigrant propaganda pushed by the MAGAt right. So they think their path to success will be showing those MAGAts that they too are hard on immigrants, not even noticing the baby being washed out with the bathwater.

    • Xerxos@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      14 hours ago

      Trying to be more rightwing to get more voters never worked: the right demonized the Democrats, so they will never vote for them, while going even more to the right alienates the left.

      But they will try anyway because going left would alienate their sponsors and doing nothing results in loss.

  • Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    20 hours ago

    I heard Elissa Slotkin in an interview the other day, and she would not commit to trying to pursue reduced funding for ICE, much less abolishing it…

      • 7101334@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        6 hours ago

        Nuremberg II with no Operation Paperclip. (Not that any ICE dipshits would be smart enough to qualify anyway, but just to be safe.)

  • miguel@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    58
    ·
    1 day ago

    Establishment dems are 100% the kind of people who make excuses for abusive spouses hurting their kids. We need to get rid of everyone who’s to the right of Sanders in the dem party. That dude is pretty much the only centrist in their ‘leadership’

    • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 day ago

      “We need to reach across the aisle and let him strangle his wife some more. She’s not dead, so she can clearly take a little extra. And the guy loves it. So let’s all calm down and let him squeeze her neck.”

    • Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      74
      ·
      1 day ago

      “We’ll figure out the accountability mechanisms at the appropriate time,” Jeffries told reporters.

      You’re fired.

      • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        39
        ·
        1 day ago

        Shooting innocent women in the face and kidnapping thousands of people to send to torture camps in 3rd world countries isn’t the appropriate time?

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        31
        ·
        1 day ago

        The appropriate time…aka we’re not gonna so shit. Yesterday was the appropriate time you ghoulish fuck.

  • Devolution@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Schumer: Dems are overwhelming becoming a popular resistance because of ice and republican fuck ups.

    Jeffries: Not good. We must fuck this up.

    AOC and Bernie: 🙄

    Mamdani: 😫

    Fetterman: 🥹

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    22
    ·
    21 hours ago

    Man you Americans like to shit on the opposition more than you do on the actual Nazis. No wonder you guys are fucked, if I was a leftists politician I would not want to stand up for you guys just to be called every name in the book and shit. I’d let you guys drown too

    • 7101334@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      6 hours ago

      lmao you’d have to not be American to think Democrats qualify as “the opposition” after they conducted an internationally-recognized genocide and sent police to beat nonviolent student protestors opposing that genocide

      The left has no federal representation in America and no upper-level state representation either. Greens won some local elections but that’s about it I think.

      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        54 minutes ago

        Right so this is why you guys prefer trump and we are supposed to think you’re sane? You hate the democrats so much that a pedo Nazi is preferable, that is insanity. Cause all you’re doing is helping trump and his pedos and racists, you’re being a far right conservative stooge. At least own it, say it. The democrats are so bad you prefer trump. Say it.

        As a non American i can’t tell the difference between MAGA and you guys anymore, you both support trump in different ways, you help him by helping his campaign and attacking his political enemies for him. You oppose anyone who wants to stand up to him. You refuse to vote for democrats. So what’s the difference between you and MAGA? Nothing.

        You guys bitched that you didn’t want the old white man anymore, so they gave you an educated black woman and you went “eeew no”

        Then you played right into the hands of trump, Putin and Netanyahu and let them spoon feed you the narrative you wanted. They committed genocide while pointed the finger elsewhere and you ate that shit up

        • 7101334@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          40 minutes ago

          Who tf said I prefer Trump? lol liberal mindrot, didn’t even read the rest of whatever you said

    • capital@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 hours ago

      Man you Americans like to shit on the opposition more than you do on the actual Nazis.

      Lefties around here don’t actually want to win and govern anything.

      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 hour ago

        American lefties are about as toxic and malformed as the rest of America really so it’s no surprise. I have never experienced as much racism, Thats, shit slinging and conservative tactics from the American left as I have in the last 2 years. And let’s be clear im talking about the AMERICAN left.

        The leftists around the world know how twisted a leftists American view is. It’s still the same world police “we know best and you better like it” attitude as the right but with opposite beliefs. At its core it is still very American and filled with hate and vitriol, even if the message is good. Americans have no chill, they’re in a shark tank so it’s no surprise their entire method is to be assholes

    • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      20 hours ago

      Are you insinuating that you would allow the Nazis to take over if their opponents called you some mean names? Just want to get that cleared up.

      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        20 hours ago

        Im saying your people and country are not worth saving. As an indigenous person, I just want to be clear that the US is a country of terrorists, and im glad it’s on fire

        • I_Jedi@lemmy.today
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          19 hours ago

          A collapsing United States could still kill everyone else out of spite. For example, if a civil war begins, various states could seize the nuclear silos and power plants, and then dirty bomb their enemies. The Americans would all be dead, but the rest of the world would have to deal with the radioactive crap and extremists leaking out of the States.