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[–] Maggoty 21 points 4 hours ago

Wait... Are they admitting that they were just coasting before? Like, what the fuck guys? The GOP has been in full partisan war mode for 17 years. And you guys are just now realizing you need to get off your ass?

Also, the call to get off your ass is because you think they're going to reach out for votes on key bills? After all this you're still on about bipartisanship?

No. You let them fuck it up. You run ads about them fucking it up. You put their dysfunction on a fucking stage for the world to see. You do not rescue them. They would not rescue you. They have a trifecta. If they cannot pass anything with a trifecta that's a good result for you. (For anyone worried about the filibuster, it doesn't apply to budget bills, they don't need Democrat votes to fund the government)

Let them be hoisted by their own petard.

[–] bitjunkie 6 points 3 hours ago

More meaningless rhetoric as the camps are being opened. Fuck the Dems. They were supposed to protect us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Don't get me wrong I despise MAGA but holy cow, Democrats are spineless cowards.

[–] Allonzee 10 points 4 hours ago

Democrats used neoliberalism.

It made Republicans laugh.

[–] kikutwo 17 points 10 hours ago

Oh, they are still around?

[–] kreskin 30 points 12 hours ago

If we could harvest the Dem leaderships lack of energy to do anything we might be able to create vacuum energy or antimatter.

[–] FlyingSquid 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's no such thing as a finger-wagging street fight, Democrats. Sorry.

[–] fallowseed 11 points 11 hours ago

aoc shouting WORLDSTAR

[–] Diplomjodler3 27 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So what are they going to do? Write a strongly worded letter?

[–] Rhoeri 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

An aggressively shaken fist in their general direction.

[–] Diplomjodler3 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Now now! Whatever happened to civility?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Maybe theyll offer a compromise that only gives them 90% of what they want instead of 95%, that'll show them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

We should not stoop to their level.

[–] oakey66 45 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Suck my balls. They're not going to do shit. They've learned absolutely nothing.

[–] Maggoty 4 points 4 hours ago

Oh according to the article they're excited to ... Work with Republicans on key votes.

So they're going to do something, they're going to help the people they said are destroying our country.

[–] oakey66 45 points 16 hours ago

They'll primary AOC before they "Street fight" republican fascism. And the fact that they're still making this about Trump and not the Republican party as a whole is extremely telling.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They've learned from the GOP that you can be very financially successful saying you're the only group that can do anything to help...with just a little bit more money.

Then every time you try and do something, it fails because you didn't have enough money, and blame everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's like dems whole deal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's how both of them work, Trump's emails are structured the same way.

"Donate today or a [person from a political party] will eat your baby! Only [candidate] can stand up to the mean ol' [other party]."

Then 3 days later, video of the two opposing candidates sitting together, laughing, sharing a bottle of scotch, and their spouses sharing recipes at an event.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but gop actually does more work to destroy than dems do to move left. So in my mind donating to gop is actually value if you're a d bag.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Moving left and destroying rule of law are not, by definition, opposites.

Building resilient, rights respecting, widely trusted, and protective institutions is the opposite of tearing it all down, and Dems haven't been good at that in 30 years other than Obama doing a lot to boost up OMB to utilize data and evidence in decision-making. And just look how that's going at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Yeah that summarize how I feel. Dems idle center while gop is in fact doing work. The worst possible kind but a GOP supporter is probably happy.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Rhoeri 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Rhoeri 8 points 16 hours ago

Hah! Well played!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 16 hours ago

I'll believe it when I see it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

This better be a literal street fight.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

This better be the fucking street fight from Anchorman with a hand grenade and a circular saw and a dude with a claymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

Fuck a street fight, I wanna see a drive by shooting.

[–] Rhoeri 2 points 16 hours ago

Fingers crossed.

[–] Brkdncr 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I almost don’t care. They need to figure out what the rest of the USA wants and prep for the next election.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 16 hours ago

Next election?

[–] Saljid 30 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Kinda funny how people think this could still be voted, discussed or reasoned away. Get a grip and look around, the Gleichschaltung is in full swing. Camps are being established.

[–] Rhoeri 6 points 16 hours ago

Sadly, this is true.

[–] someguy3 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I want to see some Nazis get hadoken'd