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How much slamming will it take to stop the full-tilt fascism train? Are we almost there yet?
Don't forget finger wagging and strongly worded letters
slamming alone is not enough i’m afraid. they also need to “rip” and “jab” them
We need more forceful language like annihilates or obliterates or I dunno excoriate. I find any headline that uses this style of headline is generally crap though generally.
i’m partial to “eviscerate”. but i agree, i feel like these headlines are just a more clickbaity way of communicating “X says Y” and typically that’s not super interesting. especially when lots of other people are already saying Y.
I'm so tired of Democrats taking "the high road." The high road doesn't fucking exist anymore and y'all are just fucking everyone over. Trump is literally on the road to destroying this country and Democrats are trying to do things "the right way."
Fuck that shit. It doesn't work anymore. They're just accepting the premise of assholes. I hate to say it, but unless they fight back with the same kind of energy than they're fucked. If you try and do shit the right way Trump will just undo everything with a wave of his tiny hands.
I'll go a step further. Motherfucker cancelled all federal grants and aid, AMONG OTHER acutely awful executive orders.
How about Democrats "slam" Trump for dismantling our government and actively harming our nation from the first moment he was inaugurated? The time to fight about egg prices ended Nov 07.
Let me see some of this energy Dems! (and from someone other than AOC and Bernie. WTH is wrong with the rest of you!)
Because the people who voted for him think it's a good thing that he's cancelling those things. They want him to dismantle "big government" because they've been mislead into believing that the reason they're struggling financially is somehow because of wasteful government spending.
You can't attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.
But the reason most of those people voted for him is because they are struggling financially, regardless of what the actual reasons are. They want him to come in and take a wrecking ball to the government in the belief that it will somehow make their lives better. I don't see how it's a bad thing to drive home, repeatedly, that they are wrong. That all of Trump's promises will amount to nothing, and that their financial struggles are only going to get worse under him. Because if you want his supporters to abandon him, you have to appeal to their sense of self-preservation. You have to remind them, over and over, that he's not making life better for them.
Because the people who voted for him think it’s a good thing that he’s cancelling those things. They want him to dismantle “big government” because they’ve been mislead into believing that the reason they’re struggling financially is somehow because of wasteful government spending.
You can’t attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.
The people who voted for him aren't going to change their minds regardless, or they'll decide we just need someone even worse. I want to see some fucking fighting (not physical fighting - some fire from these democrats!), not finger wagging. We had four years of fucking finger wagging when we should have been locking him up.
That all of Trump’s promises will amount to nothing, and that their financial struggles are only going to get worse under him.
I'm thinking they are going to get that message pretty quick now with all federal aid and grants cut. It will still be Biden's fault to them, like the folks who went to their death from covid swearing it was a hoax.
Sorry, at this point I could give a shit about what Trump's voters think or whether they turn on him. Sure, it will be satisfying when it happens, but they aleady absolutely fucked us all, and I no longer even think I have an idea where the bottom is going to be. Fuck them. Whatever embers of empathy I may have tried to preserve for them all these years is gone. They have fucked themselves, they have fucked the rest of us, and barring a literal miracle I doubt anyone over 40 has much chance of seeing things righted within their lifetime.
The reason you give a shit about his voters turning on him is because you need them on your side, not his.
This is simple pragmatism. If you want your country back, you have to rebalance the scales. And that means convincing a lot of those people to start acting in their own self interest; regular people vs billionaires instead of red vs blue. Some of them are too lost to hate to be worth talking to, but not all. And you need all the help you can get.
As Jon Stewart put it on an episode of The Daily Show following the election, "The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are playing checkers"
I'd say the Democrats are trying to play Chess while the Republicans are playing Dodgeball.
I'd say at this point that the Democrats are bringing a chessboard to a gunfight. They decided that knives were too uncouth.
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Honestly, it’s almost embarrassing. Democrats continue to fight using Queensberry whilst Trump et al are, again, acting with impunity. They’ve got to smell the coffee and take the gloves off.
Take the gloves off right now and do what?
Use harsh language? Encourage Democrats to engage in acts of violence?
I understand your frustration of feeling helpless while the tangerine terror fucks everything and everyone up, but without control of the house and/or senate, there isn't that much they can do right now.
I think they need to be aggressive, publicly, with their highlighting of Trump’s “shortcomings”. Like billboards. Or interviews on TV. Or (ab)using privilege in the House. Etc. Just say stuff that’s true that they wouldn’t normally want to say. “Trump finger raped a woman”, “Putin’s lapdog”, “Pornstar fucker”, “Friend to pedophiles”.
In your face shit that’s inappropriate. Or was inappropriate until Trump changed the rules.
Just keep repeating it day after day, and like Trump, it’ll become part of the narrative through repetition.
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This is often my point. There's a major problem with the statement "Democrats need to do something in the house". And that problem is not with the second half of the sentence, but the first. "VOTERS needed to do something in the election." America is not just the DNC no matter how much we love finding scapegoats.
Very very very tired of the circular logic used to blame them for losing an election to an imbecile, against promises two brain cells could have realized would never ever be delivered.
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Democrats playing chess while republicans are shitting on the board
Democrats taking a nap while republicans are shitting on the board.
Apparently that's a valid move, they won
I mean of course, because the game that's actually going on is real life and not chess. If you saw a guy playing chess by himself in the park and a dude runs up and let loose on the board, who won? The guy who just lost twelve and a half pounds or the guy sitting in it saying "hmmm, the Dennis Prager gambit?"
That's gotta be one of the most hilariously and depressingly accurate descriptions of the situation I've seen
Google "En Poosant"
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Trump flips the board, pieces go everywhere and exclaims, "I win! I'm the best at Checkers!"
Democratic National Committee, don’t just stick to your old tired playbook of telling everyone that Trump is bad and doing the things he said he’d do. It didn’t work last time.
DNC, start immediately telling all Americans why this is wrong, what you will do different with the executive power, and keep up that messaging in a media blitz to win back all the working class voters who didn’t show up last time. Get a plan now for who you want to run on your ticket, and push them into the spotlight to advocate for us with progressive policies that help the working class. I’m a dreamer, but for the love of all things good, please let them be an actual progressive.
“We are the Democratic Party. Democrats are fighting for a better, fairer, and brighter future for every American: rolling up our sleeves, empowering grassroots voters, and organizing everywhere to build a better America.”
Really? Fucking prove it, then! Be the party of brawlers and stop maintaining “decorum”. MAGA is playing dirty because you’re weak and they know you won’t do shit. Fight for the working class like your mission statement alleges.
So tired of backsliding to the right on this tilted table.
Dems serve the same capital as Trump. Never going to control inflation. It's a feature not a bug.
I mean, it's pretty hard for them to do much when they never seem to have both houses of Congress.
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Call him a liar. To his face. To his subordinates. To his mother. To his cousins. Keep calling him a liar until he understands he is the Dishonest Don.
He knows. He doesn’t care.
And neither will his supporters.
“ITS PATRIOTIC TO PAY $12 FOR AN EGG, IT HELPS AMERICA 🇺🇸”
He actually does seem to care, a lot. It's why he always says fake news, if he didn't care about being called a liar, he'd ignroe it entirely. Losing control of the narrative drives him absolutely insane, it's why the whole "weird" thing got him so unhinged.
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SLAMMED
Donald Trump PILED DRIVE'D HEAD FIRST INTO A FOLDING TABLE by Democrats pointing out his policy promises are a 50 ton diesel trunk full of horse shit. . On the one had it's a good criticism because this is what he cult thought he wasn't lying about it. On the other hand, he fully admitted his polices would cause run away inflation and fuck the economy to death in his ''When I said I'd ruin your life last, I lied'' secret sex metaphor dungeon 30 feet below Mar-y-lago.
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Coming through big time on some other day one shit though.
And just to be clear I mean all the bad shit.
Does anyone else have "Slam" on their BINGO card? That's my free space.
The con man who sells shoes, NFTs, launched a meme coin and bankrupted a casino was never going to lower prices on anything. Fools got played!
When I read talking points like this, I think about: Who would they convince? I don't think many people honestly believe Democrats had a capable plan to fix these grocery prices in the first month of a Kamala presidency. Yes, Trump over-promised, and unfortunately, that was probably the right tactic.
I'm still not absolving voters for falling for such snake oil though. Sometimes when grandma clicks the "You have a virus" prompt for the 400th time you have to start blaming her.
Actually, the last important bit to me is who exactly is saying this. Recalling from memory, Elizabeth Warren once put forward a suggestion to require that 40% of a company's board be voted in by employees. It's very possible that with a less corrupt, profit-seeking corporate landscape we wouldn't be in this situation. So even more than Kamala she may have credit to blame others for such things.
Did Kamala/Democrats promise to fix the food prices? Followed your election and don't recall them saying that, it is possible I could have missed it
The reason Kamala lost is because nobody in the Democratic National Committee thought to say "We will raise your wages and break up the monopolies raising prices at the grocery store and the pump"
Because the main DNC campaign donors are Billionaires and Lobbies, and well, see, that would eat into corporate profits. The Republican Billionaires however are very very happy to lie to get exactly what they want. So Trump won. Because, and I don't say this lightly, 30% of Americans are greedy gullible morons. And our political system is so broken due to vote suppression and the ignorant fact that population center votes count for less than rural ones.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/politics/restrictive-voting-laws-brennan-report/index.html
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020
Meanwhile all lawmakers had gains in stocks larger than the average Joe. The fuck they care about prices
And cutting energy costs will rid poultry farms of bid flu how exactly?
"I will drag your asses into prosperity and healthcare whether you like it or not."
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