• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    Its frustrating that they only throw the blame at Trump and “MAGA world” when every single Republican voted for this ridiculous ICE budget.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      17 days ago

      There are no Republicans. That was their larval stage, before they morphed into their final form -MAGA.

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        16 days ago

        I don’t like this framing as it exonerate Republicans (even if that isn’t what you intended).

        These absolutely are Republicans, and this is what their party has been about since at least Watergate.

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          No it doesn’t, it indicts all of them in the crimes of MAGA. When this is over, MAGA will be designated as a serious, ongoing, violent, seditious, national security threat, and prohibited from existing, promoting, or recruiting, and that will include Republicans. They will have to start a new party, with a new name, that abides by newly reformed campaign Finance laws, and no previous MAGA will be allowed to hold office under 14A/S3.

          The Republican Party is officially dead. They can revive the Whigs.

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        16 days ago

        Sure but most of them didn’t vote to increase the budget 400% leading to all the nonsense we see today.

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          16 days ago

          It’s always just the right amount of Democrats though. And if you replace any, there will always be another Democrat to take the fall.

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                16 days ago

                Ok but hear me out, most of those tens of millions of voters don’t think the Democrats will save them, it’s just if you have any political stance other than white nationalist, they are the only viable alternative.

                You a lefty or a centrist? What are you gonna do, vote green party in the nationals?

                “Blue no matter who” isn’t a rallying cry of solidarity, it’s really saying “We’re the best you’ve got, so vote for us even if we suck”

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                  That’s exactly the problem!

                  The “best we’ve got” are working WITH the white nationalists, our parties are co-dependent AND switch their platform at whim regardless.

                  For example, Democrat used to mean “labor party”. They abandoned labor a long time ago, it was dead by the 1990s. They abandoned labor once they were in power.

                  Republican used to mean “state’s rights”. They abandoned State’s rights very recently once they were in power.

                  Both parties have the same “employers” and our “issues” aren’t even really issues. We’re distracted with gay marriage so we don’t actually address international banking cartels controlling our “money” supply, insider trading, asset forfeiture, and so on, endless real issues with tens of millions of citizens robbed blind with no end in sight.

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      16 days ago

      It’s frustrating to me that they only throw the blame at “Republicans” when the Democrats openly work with them. “We’re the labor party tee-hee we’re just really bad at labor stuff it’s hard lol”

      And it’s frustrating to me that they only blame political parties, and not the wealthy institutions and people that use them for their own agenda with massive infusions of cash.

      See the Heritage Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and their financiers just to start. Thank you.

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      16 days ago

      Yep, congress could end all of this tomorrow. I think the R congressmen and senators need much more pressure. Trump acts like a lightling rod and draws everyone’s attention. Congress should be feeling much more heat to do the right thing.