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It is (correctly) fashionable to hate Fetterman now, but a lot of online leftists deliberately memory-hole the fact that he was their preferred candidate, and do no introspection about that at all. Don't ask what lessons might be learned about populism or being 'anti-establishment.'

Fucking Trumpers. California, vote NO on this bull shit!

Tell me the steps you are taking to ensure democrats regain the majority.

Because getting on SM and yelling at elected democrats to do things they've either, 1) already done or 2) don't have the power to do actually depresses voter turnout which is counterproductive.

Venezuela 2.0. Still blows my mind that there was barely any blowback to that. I think their current boldness is probably a direct result of the lack of consequence in Venezuela.

John Oliver felt obligated to slip in some Democrat bashing, as usual.

Gotta maintain street cred with the marks who voted us into this shit.

Fuck him. And I’ll say it to his face.

It just would be nice for people to focus on the fucking lunatics assassinating/abducting foreign heads of state for a little while.

The Dem obsession is childish.

Not centrist Dems. FUCKING THIRD WAY. It's always FUCKING THIRD WAY!

Axios is trying to ragebait you into hating Dems more than the GOP for crying out loud.

Kind of. But the thing is, you can't just post about politics all the time no matter what's going on. Even people in active war zones don't do that. It's not good for people to live in a constant state of anxiety, and it doesn't solve anything.

And almost always defended as constructive criticism meant only to make the party better. Somehow.

“The Nazi tattoo guy who retweets white supremacists and goes on antisemitic podcasts and says both parties are the same will be a reliable democratic vote, don’t worry” I mean LISTEN TO YOURSELVES

We deserve better voters, at the very least ones who understand that the President CAN declare any country a national security threat and launch an attack without Congress, and by virtue of their authority alone - makes the attack legal.

Jeffries voted against Trump having that power.

Did you?

The 'both parties are the same' trope is just another form of propaganda inflicted upon the US by our geopolitical enemies who want the US become an authoritarian state that they can control.

1 - Rile up the base with anger
2 - Disenfranchise the independents and non-political with apathy

Bluesky is a trip. Trump and conservatives bomb a whole ass country. And what two things are trending? Schumer FIRST and THEN trump's actions. This happened completely independent of democrats 100% and bluesky STILL created a way to blame them.

I don't give a damn if you voted for Harris. Your rhetoric more than likely convinced 5 others not to vote at all.

A combination of users who can’t read and users lying for clout is fucking poison, goddamn.

To be clear, the GOP majority abdicating its congressional responsibilities and ceding its power to the executive is a choice.

Republicans could call votes and end this today if they wanted to. They choose not to.

I just urge people to use their platforms and their voices to try to spread good messaging and reasons that we should get a majority to help fix these situations. Having unrealistic expectations about Democrats is not helpful and it's counterproductive. That's all.

That's literally what you're doing bud lmao you're just being a liar at the same time.

You're not somehow a better person by making shit up and then pretending as if it's going to somehow result in good things happening.

Stick to sports and tech, bro

Seriously. I am so sick of these clout farmers coming up with a list of touchy-feely things that either Dems have already done or are impossible to do, and all of them are performative theatrics and nothing that will actually stop the administration.

In June of last year, the Trump administration declared to the world that Iran’s nuclear program was “completely and totally obliterated.”

🧵

It's really starting to feel like people who call themselves "journalists" are infusing their own useless opinions instead of reporting actual news.

They did make those prosecutions.

They indicted him. Twice.

And voters, not Biden, not Garland, not Smith, but VOTERS let him go free.

All they had to do was fill in the circle w/ Harris' name, and Trump is in a New York jail.

But that would require voters to acknowledge Republicans exist.

"Bipartisanship is good now, despite my screaming for two years about Liz Cheney once endorsing Kamala"

I’m being sarcastic. He sets up his comment by saying he’ll say what others won’t, implying it’s a brave stance to say Biden failed us.

It is astonishing in a terrifying way to see *HOW* worthless the journalist class is.

A "politics reporter"? Really?

What a snide dismissal of the influence & agency of primary voters.

I appreciate that support, no doubt. I just ask that you take care not to indulge in spreading the kind of ill informed criticism I see here every day, always characterizing Dems as having nefarious and selfish intent because they haven’t said the right words or fixed things while in the minority

I disagree with your premise. There were no good options, so focusing your criticism on Dems has only one real effect. Driving more negative and divisive sentiment about the party we need to empower MORE if we are ever going to defeat this fascist regime.