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[-] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago

We Lost the House and Senate for 60 Years.

I sure fucking hope so, you piece of shit.

[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 116 points 4 days ago

The Republican party deserves to die for allowing Donald Trump to rise to power. The Democrat party deserves to die for being useless to stop them. America needs a whole new fresh start with new parties

[-] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

or better yet, no parties at all and force some of our morons to actually learn their candidates beyond just party lines.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

That's how long it will take to rebuild US foreign policy, 60 years. I hope Rand is correct, fuck the GOP.

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[-] rodneylives@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago

What will probably happen is a one or two term slump. What's different between then and now is the internet and social media, which fills most people's brains with a deluge of noise. In addition to the effects of misinformation daily telling people that the moon is the sun, most algorithms prioritize novelty, and nothing's more novel than the most stupidly wrong-headed take. We constantly hear the opinions of people who should be laughed out of the room! We sit and chuckle, but there's tens of millions of people who have poor media skills who it can actually influence.

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[-] Triasha@lemmy.world 141 points 5 days ago

I wish American Voters had memories longer than 4 years. But they don't.

They got pissed at Bush and the Republicans in 2006 for the war and in 2008 for crashing the economy.

And 2 years later in 2010 they voted in a red wave not seen since reconstruction.

Donald Trump tried to overthrow the government and 4 years later they gave him another chance. If Trump shot a crowd of people on 5th avenue the kids of the victims would vote for him 4 years later.

[-] smayonak@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago

There were massive voter suppression campaigns in both those election cycles. And it doesn't help that the neo Liberals highjacked the democratic party, marginalizing labor. People are not motivated to vote for the lesser of two evils.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 47 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

People are not motivated to vote for the lesser of two evils.

Neoliberals and centrists need to get this through their firewall of condescencion towards leftists, no matter how much y'all hate leftists (and laugh at leftists with your more conservative friends) you need to understand the average person in the US hates you and your leaders far more than than they hate genuine leftists that actually fight for the working class instead of spitting on them and publicly calling them stupid.

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[-] Sizing2673@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Hopefully! The world would be a far better place. Globally and domestically.

Conservative policies just have their own heads up their asses sucking Trump's rich spoiled cock

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 261 points 5 days ago

He doesn't give a shit about the mass starvation, shantytowns, global economic depression, and rise of Nazism into the largest war in human history that left hundreds of millions dead. No, he's worried because his party wasn't in power.

Fuck yourself with the largest, sharpest cactus that exists on the planet, you slimy, snivelling pathetic excuse for a fucking human, Rand Paul.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 44 points 4 days ago

Republicans should be wiped out. Fools, monsters, and traitors. They've done incalculable damage to the world and all those who live here.

Every Republican that dies should be cause for celebration.

[-] AnjunaSouls@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Look, I'm pissed too, I want them tf out of power and I want them to face consequences for what they've done. But celebrating the death of every Republican is more than a little extreme. The top dogs / those responsible? Sure. But let's not go calling for the deaths of our countrymen - who are, tbh, blind fools who've been brainwashed by propaganda. That doesn't make them worthy of death. I'd recommend avoiding turning the heat straight to 100 unless you want to watch our country walk an even darker path in coming years. If you've convinced yourself that's the outcome you actually want - of civil war and all the other fucked up shit that tends to come with war - then you're your own type of blind fool.

[-] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

I’m sorry. My grandpa taught me the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. He was a smart dude

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[-] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 84 points 4 days ago

Don't threaten me with a good time!!!

Also, it's a wheel. The Cons ruin the economy, voters get mad and vote Democrat, Democrat fixes economy, voters don't like the spending even though it's improving everything so vote Con, the Cons ruin the economy, ect ect so on and so forth

[-] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 days ago

The Democrats get penalized for not fixing it fast enough or good enough.

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 12 points 3 days ago

"Fuck the people this will harm, what about my political party!?

[-] ozoned@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

First time ever that I hope Rand Paul is correct. Don't threaten me with a good time Rand Paul!

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 97 points 5 days ago

Notice that's their top concern. Not hurting Americans, not pissing off allies, not a recession, not handing off the title of World Superpower to China, but losing their jobs is their top concern.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 days ago

*losing power over others not just theor jobs

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[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago

Hopefully the republicans can go the way of the whigs, the democratic party can become the conservative party they so desperately want to be, and we can create an actual party on the left.

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[-] pinheadednightmare@lemm.ee 23 points 4 days ago

I used to be a swing voter before Trump, after this admin, I will never vote for a Republican again. Especially since most support him.

[-] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 17 points 4 days ago

I will go to my grave before I support a Republican for anything. I wouldn't vote for a Republican for street sweeper.

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[-] smayonak@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Guess who is using data illegally gathered from social security to prevent legal voters from voting? If you guessed the king in orange you'd be right.

They have been purging voter rolls all over the country for a long time now. But their methods have vastly improved recently. In the swing states last year they purged 3.5 million voters. In the midterms next year they want to challenge the eligibility of everyone.

Only voters with a passport or original birth certificate would be allowed to vote.

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[-] ptee@lemm.ee 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I hope this leads into demolishing republican party and moving on from the clearly faulty two party nonsense of a system. You can't keep functioning if you're on the verge of becoming authoritarian regime with oligarchs.

[-] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago

Of course that’s all he cares about. Fuck him, I hope he loses everything he holds dear.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago

Oh no!

.... Anyway.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago

I don't think they need to worry, the dems like losing a lot more.

I've stopped believing there is anything that will make people stop voting Republican

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[-] vhalragnarok@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Good. Fucking good. Also fuck with Social Security while you are at it and secure your fucking grave permanently.

[-] KingOogaBooga@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

So they get power and do a bunch of shitty things. Then no one wants them in power anymore. Seems the country was doing quite well without them at the helm. Now....not so much.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 60 points 5 days ago

Sure is telling that his biggest worry is republicans losing power and not the sort of fucking depression that was the cause last time.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 68 points 5 days ago

Wouldn't that be nice.

Nicer would be the utter destruction of the Republican Party, followed by a split between the Corporate Democrats and Progressives into two parties.

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[-] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

They might have to eschew morals and start gaslighting the populace to regain influence.

Wait...

[-] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 14 points 4 days ago

Really? I don't think your idiot voters will remember for longer than 5 years. And with an opposition like the Dems it'll be easy for you to get back into power. Don't overestimate the Americans. We all made that mistake once.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

Man if only he could like vote to get rid of them or something. too bad he's literally powerless and can't do a thing to stop this. /s

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[-] slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago

From your mouth to Satan’s ears!

[-] vvilld@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Don't threaten us with a good time...

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 27 points 4 days ago

Both you and Mitch McConnell are the reason he's here

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

So things aren't necessarily all bad.

[-] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

It would be too soon, if we got rid of them and these Corpo Dems. We could remove citizens United and few other worthless pieces of legislation. That and stop this fucking election tampering in the name "stopping fraud" fucking clowns making voting a single day during the work week and these Red hatted goons cheer for this shit like the mouth breathing inbred ghouls they are because they hate everyone else is beyond annoying.

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago

What does he expect. Libertarianism is basically enacting the policies that led to the great depression. Trump is reacting in the way that made it worse, but you are the kerosene to his spark. Expect great depression when you get what you want.

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[-] lack@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

A proto-Mitch McConnell being born

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[-] caboose2006@lemm.ee 21 points 4 days ago

I might be excited if the Dems would do anything with their power.

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[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 22 points 4 days ago

…then f*cking impeach, you imbecile…

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[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Truman’s campaign against the “Do Nothing” Republicans is not the cause, but it’s when these huge majorities for Democrats got cemented in place for decades:

Isolationism is not dead. Far from it. Even if the Republicans get a presidential candidate with a good record in foreign affairs, he will not be able to drown out the raucous isolationist outcries of the rest of the party. And that prospect is beginning to scare the voters--and it ought to scare them.

Now, we can always rely on the Republicans to help us in an election year, but we can't count on them to do the whole job for us. We have got to go out and do some of it ourselves, if we expect to win.

The first rule in my book is that we have to stick by the liberal principles of the Democratic Party. We are not going to get anywhere by trimming or appeasing. And we don't need to try it.

The record the Democratic Party has made in the last 20 years is the greatest political asset any party ever had in the history of the world. We would be foolish to throw it away. There is nothing our enemies would like better and nothing that would do more to help them win an election.

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.

-Harry Truman, Address at the National Convention Banquet of the Americans for Democratic Action, May 17, 1952

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/129/address-national-convention-banquet-americans-democratic-action

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[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

I was wondering when he would pop his Rational Self-Interest head up. He's been uncharacteristically silent for a while, not performing his usual contrarian stunts for attention. He was smart enough to keep his head down for this insanity.

But when something threatens his money, he'll be there.

[-] enkille@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago
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