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  • kreskin@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump called "megalomaniac" by angry local at Republican town hall
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    1 day ago

    I never had any expectations of republicans, so they havent really been any more disappointing than they always have been. Authoritarian idiots who lack empathy (republicans), the rich, and religious facist nutcases have always been with us and always will be with us. They live here too, unfortunately. I did have some expectations of the Dems that have been catastrophically not delivered in the past few decades.

    To combat the troglodytes on an ongoing basis we need to maintain a good education system, minimize religious influence on government, and have a robust counterweight to troglodyte greed and self centered tendencies – that resistence is in the form of a robust leftist movement that champions the basic needs of all peoples, not just the privileged or the tribal-clique groups. Otherwise democracy cant work.

    Part of the problem in 2025 is that we have demonized, disempowered, and basically destroyed the left within the democratc party, even though their causes are exactly what Dem and Trog people say they want. So now there is only centrism, which is not a philosophy that will mount up and defend anyone against the troglodyte hoardes. Our presidential candidate standing on a stage with liz cheney talking about her glock and saying nothing about a dnc sponsored genocide, or the struggles of the common american people is pretty ample proof of that. They fear the left more than they do the trogs, and they never envisioned that the system could actually be brought to an end by the trogs. School shooting rates have never been higher than they are today. Its not even backpage news anymore for dems. That means something, dont you think?

    So here we are, watching it all get burned down with no serious leadership on our side standing up to resist it, beyond what rhetorical scraps bernie can muster, an old man standing on a beach in front of a hundred foot tsunami wave. God knows the DNC dem leaders dont have the will or stomach to lead this fight. They just want to keep getting bribes. They just appointed a new head of the dnc who already wont take a stand on anything and answers in the vaguest possible terms when interviewed. He wants the donation money to flow, not to fight and win a philosophical struggle. He should be working at the DMV, not leading a party that needs to save the US from its own worst tendencies.

    (no offense to DMV workers)

  • kreskin@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Can Trumpism be defeated? Absolutely. Here’s how
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    2 days ago

    From an Ada Limon poem:

    we are not unspectacular things. We’ve come this far, survived this much. What

    would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?

    What if we stood up with our synapses and flesh and said, No. No, to the rising tides.

    Stood for the many mute mouths of the sea, of the land?

    What would happen if we used our bodies to bargain

    for the safety of others, for earth, if we declared a clean night, if we stopped being terrified

  • kreskin@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party.
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    5 days ago

    Just like the vote was a Trump or Harris vote, period? How’d that work out for us champ? Its almost like Harris should have taken a broader view of the concrete issues at hand than just asking the voters to ask themselves “if she was better than trump”, and vote accordingly. Do you notice how that strategy is now being panned as out of touch, full of hubris, and pretty stupid?

    The world is not limited to carefully scripted yes or no’s to the only thing phrased in the only terms you want to talk about. Controlled narrow framings like yours are exactly how we lost, so thank you for your service, finitebanjo.

  • kreskin@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Justice Department's independence is threatened as Trump's team asserts power over cases and staff
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    5 days ago

    Yea, Schumers legacy is supporting zionism and messing with his glasses-- and not much else. If you read his wikipedia page theres pretty much zero in terms of leadership for any notable cause that could be cited as an accomplishment. He warms a chair and very occassionally joins other peoples causes.

    Form his wikipedia: “Schumer’s propensity for publicity is the subject of a running joke among many commentators. He has been called an “incorrigible publicity hound”.[35] Bob Dole once quipped, “the most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera”;[36] Barack Obama joked that Schumer brought the press to a banquet as his “loved ones”.[37][38][39][40] Schumer often schedules media appearances on Sundays. Some have cited his use of media as a successful way to raise a politician’s profile nationally and among his constituents.[41] Schumer has appeared on The Daily Show seven times.[42]”

    Classic centrist. No accomplishments, gloryhounding off the work of his betters, and taking up space that could be used by someone with a spine to do some actual good. And, geriatric and elected to a leadership position for some reason. I’d be curious as to where he thinks he’s “leading” the dems to.