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[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 1 day ago

It’s not like the guy they voted for is a rare qualified pick from the Trump camp.

It’s David Purdue, a failed pillow company CEO, as well as ceo for other textile companies. More recently he dabbled in politics as a Republican senator from Georgia, failed gubernatorial candidate, 2020 election denier, climate change denier, and generally an idiotic sycophant.
The textile experience gives him a small amount of plausibility as a choice, but everything else far outweighs that. Just another loser grifter in Trump’s orbit.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!!!!

jfc.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trump ran as a Democrat at one point. Just vote for him, the rules are the rules.

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[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 207 points 2 days ago

Including Cory Booker... 🤷‍♂️ 🙄

Was everything he did recently just as performative as with MAGAts??

Way to put up roadblocks and speedbumps when it really counts Dems... Feckless Fucks. 🖕 🖕

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 2 days ago

No shit it was. He wants to run for president and he knows that stunt will make headlines but this will be buried in comments where the headline is “16 democrats vote for trump nominee” (aka exactly what is happening here)

Booker is classic neoliberal, no ethics or morals, guided by money and power. 10-15 years ago he was deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry because they are huge in NJ. Then his aspirations went higher and he realized that association was harmful, at that point he had connections that made him no longer reliant on their cash, so he shed them. It’s not growth, it’s a calculated move

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[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 35 points 2 days ago

Of course it was. It was just a political stunt to pump up his street cred as a warrior, in advance of an eventual announcement for a presidential campaign.

Then he votes for the MAGA Nazis.

He's a collaborator.

[-] wpb@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Yes it was! And please look in folks' comment histories, the tankies were the first ones to call this out.

[-] waylandyr@lemm.ee 69 points 2 days ago

Of course it was performative, it all is.

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[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 122 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cory Booker—New Jersey

Chris Coons—Delaware

Tammy Duckworth—Illinois

John Fetterman—Pennsylvania

Ruben Gallego—Arizona

Maggie Hassan—New Hampshire

Tim Kaine—Virginia

Andy Kim—New Jersey

Angus King—Maine (independent who caucuses with Democrats)

Amy Klobuchar—Minnesota

Gary Peters—Michigan

Jack Reed—Rhode Island

Jacky Rosen—Nevada

Jeanne Shaheen—New Hampshire

Elissa Slotkin—Michigan

Mark Warner—Virginia

shamelessly copied off the article

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We're still counting fetterman as a Democrat? Aight.

Also wasn't everyone fawning over Booker for the sit in DAYS AGO??

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Gallego: We ditched Sinema because of shit like this.

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[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 33 points 2 days ago

Primary every one of them.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

What if the primary in question is rigged?

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[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They will end up in camps anyway. At least they will deserve it.

The Democrats never actually opposed fascism, they just invoked it because they knew it was unpopular. The problem of the Democrats is that you can't constantly run on things you have no intention of following through on, without having voters stop believing you eventually.

[-] TheSilentNickel@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Democrats never actually opposed fascism, they just invoked it because they knew it was unpopular.

Yep, and Lemmy totally fell for it. Then turned around and shunned the people who refused to fall for it.

Lemmy is getting what they deserve for blindly worshiping the Democratic Party.

Third-party is the way to be free from this nonsense!

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

seems like they wouldve been able to confirm either way, even they went against, and they were probably bought off just before the votes. there were already well known DINOS in both house, its just them preserving thier gravy train from donors of both parties.

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