Furious Democrats are pushing “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to primary Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after he agreed to vote with Republicans to avoid a government shutdown, according to reports.
I’ve never felt more defeated electorally than by the current crop of Democrats.
Losing to Hillary in the '16 primaries was rough, but it wasn’t even close to enough to get me or almost anyone to drop out of politics. At least the 2020 ratfucking gave us the platform. Losing to Trump, now twice, also pretty rough.
But what Schumer and Jefferies are doing now, its more defeating than anything before. Its not just a weak resistance, or a paper or performative resistance: its anti-resistance. What Schumer and Jefferies have done, through their insescent weakness, will be long term more damaging to the party than anything that Kamala or Biden did or didn’t do, in-spite of their own obvious and utter failings.
News flash: The Democrats are throwing the mid-terms. Now. Right fucking now and right in front of you. The blew the fucking election, and now they are putting in double time to blow the next one.
And you have 0 control or leverage to be able to stop them because they don’t want you in their party. They don’t want to share power with brown people. They don’t want to share power with queer people. They don’t want to share power with immigrants or atheists or scientists or anyone who isn’t an ivy league, beltway insider. They will not be giving over the reigns to the party, no matter how pretty-please with sprinkles on top you ask them. They don’t want to share power with the tent-poles of the big tent party. You are a consumable resource to them. They’re going to throw you and the entire Democratic project under the bus to preserve their posture in a kabuki power game with themselves.
There is no path to salvation through the Democratic party. To quote Carlin: Its a BIG club, and you ain’t in it.
There is no path to resistance through the Democratic party. The way things have been done in the past hasn’t worked. You don’t have decades to find your footing and figure out how to stop this.
You have days, weeks.
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There is no path to salvation through the Democratic party.
Doesn’t sound like blue MAGA to me.
They don’t know what the word means.
the OOC was calling BLue maga in the initial post.
I mean if you are going to make accusations, at least get the accusations right.
Terminally online: ✅
Blue MAGA: ❌
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Lol. You just making trollish, baseless claims.
The only land where what you are claiming happens is the little fiefdom in your imagination where I live rent free.
I mean you don’t even know the meaning of words: why should anyone, even yourself, take you seriously?
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Bruh I’m just glad you out yourself on display so that no one has to guess.
The 30th is coming. Let me know what I don’t have to pay for rent.
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Sounds like a good plan to me. AOC needs to head the DNC.
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Gillibrand was literally the AOC of yesteryear. You can push populist candidates to your party of capital until the cows come home, but special interests will swallow them up every single time for eternity. You need to think beyond the democrats and American electoralism in general for that matter.
AOC won surprisingly at her first foray into politics when she was up against an established monied opponent. If she primaries against Schumer, she might just be able pull it off again. Remember that even some MAGA appreciates her anti-oligarchy run, which in turn makes her look authentic for the masses. The look for authenticity in a politician is what many affluent people-- both liberals and conservatives alike-- do not understand of the Trump phenomenon, or even the popularity of Sanders, Walz and AOC.
Schumer’s current term ends in 2029 so this is just more performative nonsense.
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Not necessarily. Sinema did her bullshit impression of McCain at the very beginning of her term. She was toast from that moment on, AZ dems froze her out and started working to replace her from that moment on.
That’s still 4 years away. Next year or even 2 years? Performative. But a whole 4 years is a good chunk of time to maybe put a spine back into Dem leadership.
Sounds like she should start campaigning now. It’s not like Schumer’s gonna grow a spine between now and then, so AOC will just acquire more to run against.
I’m pretty sure anything the NYPost has uncovered about Democrats will also be published in a less terrible paper.
Wonder why you’ll dismiss it then too.
Lol, wut? There are like three other breaking news topics on this and the NY Post doesn’t have any special access with Democrats. They’re reporting on other reporting. Why post hack conservative papers for news about Democrats?
Would you believe it from a source you like? I mean, trump praised schumer’s cowardice, so maybe you’d like to hear it from him.
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We need this, the GOP must be destroyed by a strong Democratic party that doesn’t have the work ethic of a Uvalde cop.
Drop the word “Democratic” from that sentence and you’re correct.
Third parties aren’t viable
Third parties are not viable in the US Two Party System, it’s Dems or bust
This isn’t a two party system. Both parties are owned by the same group of billionaires.
That’s an illusion of choice no different than picking from among the companies owned by Nestle.
People seem content with billionaires controlling american
political systemlife I guess.
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Hmm yes, any one with any pro-Russian belief has to be a Putin troll farm slave.
Nonsense.
.ml right again.
I would have been more excited about this if she hadn’t carried water for Biden and Harris allowing a genocide at the Harris convention.
There was a genocide at the Harris convention?!
AOC should keep her house seat, but they need to push someone in the senate to replace him, preferabally a vetted out one that is not a dino. DEMS need to start vetting out DINOs, or Gop that switch to D just tog et elected.
No, she has become a powerful voice, and she needs to be in the Senate. It’s long past time for that spineless weenie Schumer to GTFO. I’ve never forgiven him for the way he stabbed Al Franken in the back. His cowardice is a major reason that MAGA has grown so strong. If he wont go on his own, she should throw him out in the embarrassing and humiliating fashion that he has earned.
Doomed to fail and everyone will again throw up their hands and shrug as they let republicans take down their entire country.
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Yes lol me as a Canadian and my apparent responsibility to save you and your American friends from yourselves since y’all can’t even be assed to fight to defend your yourselves.
Could you lot not just make her president (if you’re lucky enough to have another election)? I mean if a whole bunch of people registered as democrats for the sole purpose of making her the official candidate?
That’s not how it works here. We the people don’t really choose who runs, we just have the privilege of backing a preselected candidate that will continue to do the bidding of lobbyists or have the opposition who is also being supported by lobbyists but also Russia and they also eat babies. It’s a joke and has been for forever and people are just now catching on now that it’s too late.
I assumed that party members voted on who they put forward as their candidate.
