“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement,” an unnamed source told the liberal magazine. “They want this to go away..."
Spoken like a true pussy, I mean democrat.
Doesn't matter they will get labeled something else. ICE is terrorizing MN law enforcement and the right doesn't care. Insurrectionists terrorizing law enforcement on Jan 6, the right didn't care. ICE is not a classic law enforcement agency anyway. These people are idiots and likely just making shit up.
Surely Steven Miller will magically change his mind and the human rights violations will stop. Uh huh.
I'd much rather be known as anti-law enforcement than pro-nazi.
I'd be proud to be labeled "anti-law enforcement".
But this not what ice is. They aren’t law enforcement. That’s the problem, too.
They are immigration and customs enforcement officers.
And… we should be whittling their budget
If anyone had any doubt whatsoever that they don’t work for us…
Vichy Democrats
Came here for this
It'd be great to primary every single democratic congressperson. I'm sure there are good ones. But it's time for wholesale change. Make them fear the electorate.
Bunch of cowards. You can be pro-enforcement and also be pro-due process and human rights.
Exactly. Democratic policies work (most of the sometimes)... it's just democrats have no fucking backbone, no balls to demand things to get their policies enacted like republicans do. Republican policies fail miserably and royally fuck everything up. Grow a fucking pair, dems... be the change you want to see in the world.
With Democrats like these, you may as well vote PSL, Green, or DSA.
Who needs enemies with friends like these?
It’s the Diet Republicans™️. Fascism without the guilt.
That was a lot of Kamalas campaign. look at our immigration policies, it's just the republican plans or we want to fund the military even more than the Republicans
Primary them all
Democracy is out of my price range at the moment. I can't afford the salary of a lobbyists.
Then vote for them anyway when they win.
Cowards, yes, but what are they afraid of?
Oh, right, losing power. Personally. They're afraid of losing their own power. It's power that defines their self-image, and without that, they are nothing. They're "just like everyone else". Just like the poors. Nothing special. And, they so need to be special little boys and girls.
Cowards, yes, but what are they afraid of?
Oh, right, losing ~~power~~ money.
FTFY
Wrong fix, power is the path to money to these people. It’s political power.
Your fix stands for a businessman but not a pollie.
They are traitors. Just about every single establishment democrat is enabling the Trump Regime to loot America on their behalf.
Jeffries needs to be deported.
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Vote blue no matter who ratchet effect in full swing. But yeah it was the Bernie bros lol
Can we please begin to vote for a third party? Mexico did it…. Why not us?
We have 2 entrenched parties. The Republicans have about half the vote. If we fracture the vote on the left even a little bit then we lose. EG for example suppose we WOULD win with 51% of the vote suppose we convince 90% of the would be democrats to vote green.
The vote is now 45.9 Green 5.1 Dem 49% Republican aaaaand we now lose for the next 100 years. This is actually the optimistic case. Even if you get a green candidate who satisfies literally everyone on the left some will KNOW this can't fuckin work and yell at the defectors and some will dislike anything left of the dems and refuse to move so you probably get closer to 26% one and 25% the other. If carried out broadly enough you would hand an unstoppable super majority to the other side which they will use to fix it so your vote is suppressed forever.
You can't just vote third party you have to first reform the system. The most basic plausible move is instant runoff or something similar at the state level.
I keep saying both sides are fascist, just that one side is better at hiding it. And I keep getting downvoted...
Complicit.
You guys ever notice how it's always the democrats that break rank but never the republicans?
It's also always just enough democrats to make sure republicans always get what they want.
Why people keep voting for them is beyond me. They must be stupid or something.
The Blue Dogs (the group that voted for ice funding) is the same group of dems that thwarted Bill Clinton.
It's all kayfabe, it's the squared circle. Whenever actual change is on the menu, like the public option with Obama care, exactly enough dems will turn to make it not happen, reliably.
How many is the super majority? Add 2 and that's how many dems will show up to stop progress.
Who should we vote for otherwise? Every other option leads to Republicans staying in power, and they are the ones actually doing it.
Don't vote? That's fewer votes the Republicans need to win, so they stay in power.
Vote third party? That splits the opposition vote, and Republicans stay in power.
And no, neither of those choices "teach the Democrats a lesson." It just drives them to go to the people who do vote, who are more right wing, so it drives everything further right.
You want a more left wing party? Show them that the left votes and our votes have value.
Democrats don't care about your vote, that should have been obvious during Harris's campaign while they focused on the right wing vote.
That splits the opposition vote
Democrats are not the opposition, they are the enablers of fascism, they are complicit in everything happening right now.
That doesn't answer my question. Who should we vote for that doesn't result in the fascists staying in office?
I'm not gonna tell someone who to vote for, but a vote for Democrats = Fascism. A vote for Republicans = Fascism.
You guys ever notice how it’s always the democrats that break rank but never the republicans?
Massie's been in full revolt for months now. And we've had perennial haters in the GOP going back to John McCain and Ron Paul. And the Tea Party Caucus was a big reason why the GOP couldn't pick a new House Speaker for nearly a month. These opponents tend to be Libertarian flavored, and tend to undermine Neocon efforts to spend money at the risk of raising taxes
The loathsome Blue Dog Caucus are an organized conservative opposition within the liberal party. It consistently sabotages party priorities while funneling enormous sums of corporate money into leadership races.
Both exist to benefit corporate interests.
If they really were in opposition to the actual goals of the party, they would not retain influential positions within it.
Call them and ask them if today's shooting would change their mind.
The slaughter of everyday Americans has never been a weighty burden to the American government.
Shorty has something on them.
Trump straight pardoned Henry Cueller, the ringleader. He was caught dead to rights taking bribes from foreign officials and has functionally flipped teams in exchange for clemency.
Incidentally, Jefferies reinstated Cueller as senior Dem on the Appropriations Committee. He'll be the chairman if Dems retake the House this year.
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