• DancingBear
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          3 hours ago

          Blue no matter who is precisely how we got Trump.

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            3 hours ago

            Blue No Matter Who is the opposite of what happened in 2016 and 2024. In 2024, Millions of people who voted for Biden did not vote for Harris because she wasn’t “pure enough”.

            The Republicans voted for Trump in the same numbers as the previous election, very very slightly more, and that’s how they won. Republicans will vote red no matter who. Conservatives are united while Progressives infight.

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              3 hours ago

              You sound like the DNC blaming voters for their shitty candidates. Do you get all your news from The View?

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                3 hours ago

                Those candidates support every stance of progressives en masse, they have every intention to fix everything wrong in this country, but bad actors like you have them branded as shitty corporate goons so we haven’t given them more than 50 senators in any congress in 10 years, we haven’t given them 60 since 1979, we gave 12 of the last 16 congresses to Republicans, and we get this constant news feed of how horrible and awful things continue to get more and more and people still don’t connect the dots.

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      6 hours ago

      Plenty of Democrats are voting to put trump nominees in office, plenty are voting on partisan spending bills. The CR vote should tip you off that any democrat is not better than any republican… half of them are complicit too. 10 Senate Dems just financed this authoritarian takeover.

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        6 hours ago

        Not a single Democrat voted to confirm Hegseth and 3 Republicans also didnt but he still got confirmed.

        Every single Democrat was present and voted no for the Budget which passed the House and it still passed.

        Even if 10 dems voted not to shutdown government and enter congressional recess, the CR only exists because Republicans wrote it and won’t compromise.

        Any Democrat is Better than Any Republican.

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          3 hours ago

          Scheumer rubberstamped autocracy by not filibustering the CR. I think anyone who protects the constitution and their constituents is better than someone who doesn’t. Not that any repuclicans fit the bill, but its not like we can just trust any old democrat. Look at Gavin Newsome sliding to the right to maintain power. That the kinda dems we want?

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            3 hours ago

            Autocracy is 100% guaranteed in the USA since November, Schumer never had any choice on the matter. Whether or not Congress went into recess Trump would be acting like a God King. The only people who can do anything about it? Congress, who in this hypothetical wouldn’t be able to because of the recess and in our actual reality aren’t able to because more than half of them are traitors.

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      19 hours ago

      In my country blue is conservatives… But I agree with the sentiment! It worked for California, it can work for your whole country, let the Dems stop fearing they’ll lose elections, give them comfortable margins and then massively support progressives who can bring in the good stuff, they won’t have a chance if the party core thinks the very future of elections is on the line, but if they think they’ll likely win anyway, you might just be able to push through a progressive candidate and end the Neoliberal decay.

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        29 minutes ago

        To be fair, California is kind of dysfunctional and constantly trips over its own regulations when trying to get anything built. For instance, needing excessive environmental impact review for things like trains that will obviously help the environment, or limiting ferry boats crossing the bay to protect the environment even though it likely results in more people driving instead.