Absolutely useless

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    You have meek fuckers in leadership because that’s who the corporate/wealthy donors want there. If you want to get rid of them you’re going to have to get rid of the money and influence that put them there.

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    you can try, it’s unlikely to happen.

    Unfortunately we seem to have zero good public speakers in out government, the one thing that actually seems to matter politically, just doesn’t exist anymore, apparently.

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    Absolutely. I’ve been calling my Senators since Thursday telling them that if they don’t publicly call for Schumer to step down, then they are culpable for his decisions. Supporting fascist enablers is supporting fascism.

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    They’re not meek, they profit from the status quo.

    These people have no business in governing modern day people, these dinosaurs need to be let go.

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      they benefit and profit by not being the blame of the GOP whom they are also grifting form.

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      10 hours ago

      I know what you mean and mostly agree with upper age limits on office holders but children can receive social security survivors benefits. It is not just (although mainly) old age pensioners.

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    Schumer has been in Congress since 1981 and politics since 1975, so maybe stop fooling yourselves that he’s going anywhere

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    Here’s the actual story, Schumer relented one day after GOP and DNC megadonors threaten to pull funding away from 10 Democrats.

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    From 2008 through Bidens term, when the GOP wanted to use the threat of a Govt shutdown against Democrats as leverage negotiating as a minority party. Now, the Democrats want to use the same methods as a way to have some power. The problem with this line of thinking is that the current administration does not want most of the Government open. They want to shut it down and give DOGE time to make sure none of the employees come back. This is the total opposite of the leverage the GOP had over Democrats who only wanted to keep the Government open. It was never going to work and they would have just been helping DOGE complete their goals. After all their goal is to dismantle as much of the Federal Govt as possible.

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        Trump cant do nearly as much damage to a government thats utterly closed down. If the dems had a single stone shared between the lot of them they’d shut it all down. Or maybe the dems are corrupt, but its the same outcome either way.

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    Only if you’re ready for a decades long campaign to flip towns, cities, districts, and state level legislatures like it took the republicans from 1972 to just a month ago.

    That’s what we’re up against.

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      The US needs to break the two-party system so minor parties and independents actually have a chance at representation.

      Of course there’s no incentive for the establishment to do that. Is there any way for new candidates to run with the major parties, but on a platform to introduce preferential voting when they have the numbers? I don’t know much about factions within US parties, but they certainly exist in my country, and can transform parties quickly if they think they have election-winning appeal.

      It would have to happen bottom-up, as you say, so people can get comfortable with such a big change. Also, people are much more likely to elect independents at a local level.

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      He’s very dependent on donations from the banking industry, it’s all there on OpenSecrets. Both NY senators voted to end cloture because that’s where wall street is. Gillibrand seems to be avoiding criticism for some reason but it’s the same exact story for her. Wall street was already suffering from the Trump tariff decline and couldn’t take any more from a shutdown.

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      Well he’s a zionist. And the zionists bought both parties but preferred trump in power. So yeah.

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      You mean like recently? No. It’s been a lot more than a feeling since 2016, for me at least. A known fact I guess you could call it?

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      I felt that about the lot of them since the state of the union address.

      they’re giving off strong “fuck you, got mine” vibes.

      I doubt any of them realize the following though.

      What do you get if you take everything away from a person?

      you get what you fucking deserve.

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    We’re not going to give Donald Trump what he wants, so we’re going to pass this spending bill that gives him everything he wants! That’ll how 'im!

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        So we should just give him everything he asked for on a silver platter with no resistance whatsoever and not offer any meaningful alternatives?

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          It’s like invading Iraq when a bunch of Saudis that hate Iraq attack you. You have to ask yourself “is this exactly what they want me to do?” And then “If I want my revenge, whom should I attack and how?”

          Attacking federal workers on behalf of Trump is not the way to “Stand up to Trump”