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As is universally acknowledged in the media, the 2026 midterm election was the greatest electoral repudiation of a sitting president in over half a century, and one of the largest in American history. The shift against Trump ran through every region of the country and every section of the population, and it was sharpest among rural voters, young men and workers whom Trump had claimed as his base.
The vote was a rejection not only of Trump but of the entire agenda of his administration. It expressed mass opposition to the growth of social inequality, war, the assault on immigrants and attacks on democratic rights.
Yet the Democrats came out immediately offering bipartisanship.
Hakeem Jeffries, who is expected to become speaker of the House in January, declared that Democrats are “ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground” and that “the American people don’t want us to get even.” He added that not a single member of his caucus had raised impeachment with him.
Barack Obama declared that Americans “want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them.” The same line was repeated in various forms by newly elected Democrats: a call to “restore a sense of decency and bipartisanship in Washington,” (Kansas Senator-elect Adam Hamilton); the assurance that “come January, we will be forced to work together,” (Iowa Governor-elect Rob Sand); a disavowal of any interest “in moving Minnesota to the left or the right,” (Minnesota Governor-elect Amy Klobuchar).
James Talarico, elected to the Senate from Texas, said he had not been elected “for retribution.” On immigration, the policy of mass roundups, detention camps and deportations, he said one should “give the president credit where credit is due.”
This response demonstrates the fraudulent character of the elections and the imperviousness of the ruling elite to the will of the population. The Democrats are not acting as an opposition party that has defeated the government. They do not need Republican support. They will hold substantial majorities in both the House and the Senate. Why, then, are they talking about bipartisanship at all?
They treat the losing party as if it had won, and a hated president as a suitor whose favor they seek. It is as if Abraham Lincoln, reelected in November 1864 on a program of prosecuting the war to victory and abolishing slavery, had responded by offering “common ground” to the Confederacy.
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Democrats: We HATE Republican politicians! Republicans: We HATE Republican politicians! Democrat Leadership: We MUST come Together and do WHATEVER Republican politicians want!
Saddest part is this instance knew it would happen the entire time
A time honored classic, liberals winning because of conservatives openly doing truly heinous stuff, only to immediately state their support for aforementioned stuff
Anyone over 40 saw this coming and if they tell you otherwise they are lying.
I voted for Obama the first time. It really shouldn’t take people much more than an election cycle to figure it out
Turns out you can just wheel out Obama clone #114514 with new window dressing
2016 was the first election I was cognizant for, I was starting to get it by 2020 and I fully got it following 2024. Btw happy cake day
i think anyone who remembers 2020
AND libs will never admit it or remember next time.
James Talarico, elected to the Senate from Texas, said he had not been elected “for retribution.” On immigration, the policy of mass roundups, detention camps and deportations, he said one should “give the president credit where credit is due.”
Evil shit
I would say that the Democrats are basically just the Stauffenberg-Tresckow group of weak ass electoralism, but even those literal Nazi fucks wanted to end the war.
(You do not gotta hand it to them, to be clear. They all should have gotten the pit.)
Time to pull this one out already?
James Talarico, elected to the Senate from Texas, said he had not been elected “for retribution.” On immigration, the policy of mass roundups, detention camps and deportations, he said one should “give the president credit where credit is due.”
oh 100% white Obama. This is more on time than a Mussolini train.
Once again the dems prove that theyre not against anything republicans do, just how they do it.
I’m honestly surprised Trey Parker and Matt Stone aren’t the Democrats’ biggest cheerleaders.
When you begin looking at democrats as South Park republicans, everything makes more sense. Democrats are libertarians but they put on this cartoonish Lovable Loser vibe, which makes them even more lame.
The whole pathetic “who like, caaaaaaaaares maaaaan?” The weaponized incompetence just because God forbid ANYONE gives a shit about anything! Dems want to retire so badly as a party, but that would risk creating a power vacuum on an alternative to the GOP.
…just how they do it.
And maybe not even that; just what they say while they’re doing it the same way.
You’re supposed to say, “This is for your own good,” not, “Fuck you, losers.”
Barack Obama declared that Americans “want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them.”
Personally I think bisecting all republicans with a tractor would be more efficient than finding a hydraulic press big enough to fit them all inside of.
And the unexpectedly high youth turnout that made this blue wave so successful is going to get disillusioned by the broken promises and sit it out for the next election.
That’s what they want
Good. Dissolution them straight into direct action. They should be disillusioned with the fucking ballot box, and electoralism generally.
No matter how much you :vote: democrats will always manage to wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory.
Preservation of status quo is a victory for them.
Nah, they just have a different definition of victory and goals.
what was that Biden quote? nothing will fundamentally change
Listen, fat [unintelligble]
that’s definitely my next album name
Damn, I wasn’t expecting this until next Tuesday.
Pre-election. They loved to use the empty word “Affordability!” with zero details because - of course - they were planning to do jack shit.
Post-election. They love to use the empty word “Accountability.” with zero details because - of course - they are planning to do jack shit.
Hakeem Jeffries, who is expected to become speaker of the House in January, declared that Democrats are “ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground” and that “the American people don’t want us to get even.”
Accountability means they will release a statement condemning Trump for bending one of the paperclips in the President Harding Paperclip Collection
The American people don’t want us to get even
Well that didn’t take long.
in a few years they’ll do it before the election
[N]o one’s standard of living will change, nothing [will] fundamentally change.
October 2019fair point
Tomorrow comes today!
I mean, they already ran candidates who were basically 100% agreeing with the Republican agenda explicitly in their campaigns (war, transphobia, xenophobia, etc.). I’d say that year has already come.
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Liberalism is the disease, conservatism is one of the symptoms, neoliberalism is advanced stage liberalism. But otherwise yes, absolutely.
I am almost certain that poster is a fed.
thank you for bringing this to our attention.
That person is either trying to instigate a civil war, or is trying to honeypot comrades.
Either way. Bad actor. The worldwide comrades have only one true enemy, but that enemy does not need to be “solved” when their wealth can be politically nerfed.
That person is either trying to instigate a civil war, or is trying to honeypot comrades.
well, when you read all their comments, they rather seem like a right-winger larping on what he thinks a “progressive” would hate. but the things they rail against are so all over the ideological spectrum that it’s impossible to really pin down exactly what their politics are. what really seals the deal for me is the constant arguing that everyone they call for the culling of are “traitors” to the US. putting it mildly, leftists don’t usually get so nationalistic. even your hardest Soviet-stanning commie is going to say reactionaries are enemies of the people first and foremost. and I don’t see many leftists ever calling for culling whole population groups just because they’re conservatives.
anyway, we had ourselves a chat and decided to ban them from the FAF. they’re either a cop, a nazi honeypot, or an idiot who is a danger to themselves and everyone around them.
conservatism is one of the symptoms, neoliberalism is advanced stage liberalism
And fascism is the synthesis.
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