• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t know much about her, but what little I do know, she’s the Democrat’s version of McConnell.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Nope, McTurtle got rich along the way. But his lifelong goal has been packing the courts.

      He is literally salivating like he just walked into a salad bar at the 42 vacancies Biden is about to hand over.

      Pelosi doesn’t give a shit about the Dem platform or helping people. She wants America to stay in the early 90s, that used to be enough to be considered somewhat progressive.

      But the early 90s were 30 years ago. Imagine calling someone in the early 90s progressive because they wanted America to go back to pre civil rights movement.

      That’s the same time frame.

      The right move was forming a serious left third party decades ago. We’d have a right, center, and left party and nothing would get done without some compromise between the wings, likely leading to a more fluid party structure.

      We’d never see this shit where a handful of republican extremists sabotage everything no matter who has the majority.

      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Nope, McTurtle got rich along the way. But his lifelong goal has been packing the courts.

        He is literally salivating like he just walked into a salad bar at the 42 vacancies Biden is about to hand over.

        Moscow Mitch is a politician, and a good one (in the sense of “good at manipulating political affairs”, not “a good person”). He’s a canny cunt, and that’s the most dangerous enemy you could come up with: one that knows what they’re doing.

      • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
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        8 hours ago

        No, a third party is non viable. But the right move would have been exactly what the crazy right wingers have done with the Republicans. Get organized and primary the fuck out of the people blocking things.

        The “tea party” gave us the blueprint, but we’ve been too dumb and lazy to follow it. When they didn’t give us the public option with Obamacare, every primary since then should have been about cleaning house of the corporatist, establishment Democrats and replacing them with real progressives. But since we’re too lazy and dumb to vote in primaries in mass numbers, their establishment people keep sailing to victory.

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          1 hour ago

          Get organized and primary the fuck out of the people blocking things.

          You’re ignoring primaries are rigged, the party can just ignore the results, and pro-corpo candidates take in an insane amount of bribes.