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Liz Cheney weighs third-party US presidential run, says Trump threatens democracy (www.reuters.com)

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U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of ex-President Donald Trump, said she is weighing a third-party bid for the White House in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not clicking on your link.

My man, it's Wikipedia. It's where he copied the text from. You could afford to put in a little effort to engage in good faith.

Liberals are anti-war. Progressives are pro-status quo, which is pro military industrial complex

Progressives absolutely support cutting military spending to divert funding to single-payer healthcare.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Cutting military spending is not anti-war.

Cutting military spending is a clever deal to keep the wars going AND fund Healthcare.

Progressives are pro-war, and that isn't liberal.

Liberals traditionally are Democrat and are increasingly disenfranchised.

Jesus, are you 12?

Give me that urban dictionary link that tells me what a liberal Democrat is. Fuck.

[–] Zoboomafoo 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have never seen this take before in my life

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Never?

The term progressive isn't new.

The new use of the term stems from when Hilary, in a primary debate, refused to identify as liberal (being a life long staunch conservative until she was stuck on her liberal hubby's coat tails), and instead insisted that she was a progressive.

She lost the election to Obama.

When it was time for Progressive-Democrat Hilary to take the office from Liberal-Democrat Obama, she lost to Liberal-Recently-Democrat Sanders... then the DNC disagreed and cast a "revote" to put up Progressive-Democrat Hilary anyway.

She lost the election to Trump.

In the biggest slow pitch in history, America "anyone else"-ed itself into Progressive-Biden, who has spent 4 years jerking off Republicans into a frenzy (oh sorry, reacharounding... er... reaching across the aisle) and funding genocide. Like you'd expect if you listened to Hilary about what a modern Progressive is.

You have been completely unaware of all of this?

They report this stuff extensively...