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Trump official calls Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid ‘wrong’
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I'm tired of you "liberals" looking for every opportunity to punch left instead of facing your real enemies. You're feeling smug because you did the one and only political action you're aware of, which is to tick a box every few years.
Every single bit of progress was led by people doing more, by people standing up, by people applying pressure between election days.
I'd trade every liberal that's now crying with their tail between their legs waiting for a chance to vote for those principled people who were applying real pressure to the government to resist genocide. Guess what: most of them also still voted blue.
All of you "vote blue no matter who" dogs barking at anyone who even dared to demand better from the Democrats are why that party has become complacent and completely and utterly useless. If you were more like the ones wanting more, if you joined them years ago instead of allowing the bare minimum of being "less bad" to be the only fucking platform of the Democrats for my entire adult life, then there would have been a party worth voting for and a party that's fighting back now.
They're lazy, out of touch, useless politicians, and YOU are to blame.
I literally don't know how to respond to the level of cognitive dissonance on display here. Not only have you guaranteed the people of Gaza willl not even have a home to go to, once trump gets on with moving them out, you've essentially handed Ukraine and it's people to the Russians. Not to mention the loss of your healthcare, damage to your healthcare system, erosion of your education, damage to your judiciary, removal of lbgtq+ and racial equality rights, loss of geopolitical soft power, loss of data privacy as Elon runs amok though your public systems, erosion of trust with your allies, rampant pardons on literal insurrectionists, neutering of your governing and legislative bodies, rise of anti intellectualism, curbing of public discourse and media freedoms, and all this in the first 6 weeks.
Well done, sir. I'm sure youre very proud of what you've accomplished.
The idea that Gaza would have been a-ok if Harris won is insane.
A Democrat victory would have meant next to nothing to the Palestinian people. Dems don't care about them either.
It's also a lie that pro-Palestine voters withheld their votes in any significant number as well. That's just the MSM trying to pass the buck onto the left while ignoring the fact that the Dems have nobody to blame for their loss but themselves.
You're buying into propaganda from the Dems's "good guy" billionaires.
Guy kicked off the thread by wishing bad things on genocide protestors, I find it hard to believe they care about these issues. In any other country they'd be a conservative
how'd you know I'm Donald Trump? this is my alt. Idiot
Just like the DNC and Democrat party leaders you think the solution is to blame progressives and keep attacking the left.
Take some responsibility for your loss.
How about they take responsibility for their choice? If a child makes a mistake, you teach them the bigger picture, but you always make them take responsibility. If you coddle them, they'll never understand their actions, and you end up creating another trump, acting with impunity and expecting special treatment. Every. Time. Dem or republican, that's not on.
These morons need to understand that the world is a series of interconnected systems, and that their actions affect others. They'd rather burn down their country for the sake of their oversimplified world view and one trigger issue. The people defending them shut down discussion using the same tactics as they did, literally on a script, making me wonder if they are also organized behind the scenes. They endanger others by their decision, so if others need to vent back at them, then boo fucking hoo.
And what did those principled non voters achieve? Nothing and they have made the situation which they where protesting worse. Now Trump well own Gaza notice he never says America he says I well own it.
when genocide is squarely in the middle of the overton window, maybe it was too late to act.