Send me bad puns. Good puns welcome too. America delenda est.
The other way around, gotta sic the lions on them or they’ll sort themselves out and come back with a vengeance. The Bush comparison is on point, and remember that Trump came 10 years after Bush. “Let them have at it” is the exact opposite of a good idea.
I love the idea of a survivability onion.
Edit: Lmao it’s real.
Take notes Americans.
No reason not to try. Keep the fascists on the defensive.
Yeah my hope is that Jeffries and Schumer are votes out of leadership. Otherwise it’s gonna be status quo bullshit all over again.
I mean her campaign messaging was what she wanted us to know or think before the election. If she couldn’t even bring herself to lie properly then that’s that. Also she’s a cop so like yeah. For knowledge’s sake, though, what was her voting record like?
I mean Schumer and Jeffries are out there taking the “high” road again, so the first indication that positive change is coming would be those two fucking off to the other side of the sun.
We still have statements to go off so there’s more than enough material to shit on, say, Schumer and Jeffries, but the real meat is going to come on Nov 18th when they elect Congress leadership.
Democrats are going to be investigating everyone,
One can only hope, but it’s still to be seen.
First good use of this meme in… a good while.
Wow, you’d think he was elected to represent Israel with how he’s talking. Also it’s like he was like “oh shit, gotta pay lip service to peace and shit” at the end there.
The thing is that with a majority in the Senate they can conduct an actual investigation rather than immediately vote to acquit. This will put Trump’s corruption on full blast, partly due to the better platform, partly because the Trump admin would have to comply with the investigation, forcing the remaining Republicans into a politically disadvantageous position when they inevitably vote to acquit. That aside,
At best, it becomes virtue signaling.
Which is something the Democrats absolutely need to be doing. Remember that before this whole mess the public had almost no faith in the Democratic Party; they have to show that they’re in it for real this time and one way to do that is to carry impeachment proceedings to their conclusion.
Depends on how much spine the Democrats have. You’ve had good explanations of the playing field, but in concrete terms while the Democrats can’t do new things without negotiating with Trump (and vice versa) they can undo old things, for example stopping the war in Iran, impeaching Pete Hegseth (they’d need some Republican defectors, but for Hegseth it’s possible to get those) and impeaching Trump (they can’t actually convict without those same Republican defectors, but they can launch an actual investigation now). Perhaps more importantly, they have majorities in various traditionally red and heavily gerrymandered state legislatures, so they can turn the electoral maps there into something reasonably sane and break the GOP’s stranglehold on some of them (which is based more on gerrymandering than on actual popularity).
Counterpoint: Even centrists are adopting progressive rhetoric on issues such as affordability and Israel. Clearly they think it works.
Spending the next two years in a bunch of political theater won’t do that and Democrats will lose the trust they have now.
Problem: The American public is out for blood. Making an example out of Trump and his allies is an essential part of gaining any long-term trust from voters. According to exit polls the state of democracy was the top issue for Democrat voters, and to deliver on that requires accountability.
Solution: Democrats need to Louis XVI this motherfucker.
Vance doesn’t seem like he has much in the way of principles or spine, so he’d probably be more amenable to compromise, and in any case it’d be worth it just to make an example out of Trump.
I mean, it’s hard to be optimistic about much given the current state of, you know, reality. Turning Trump into a lame duck is very worth it, but it doesn’t mean much long-term unless these gains can be maintained/expanded into 2028 and combined with a progressive president (or at least one willing to compromise with progressives). There’s a lot of work to be done before there’s reason for optimism, and the Democratic Party is very good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Here’s a list of reasons, but the very fact that he’s willing to say “oligarchs” on his site should get the point across.
That’s like saying you can have space exploration without ballistic missiles. Once the technology is there power and/or the market will do whatever it wants with it.
Too old unfortunately, instead I vote for… wait, what choices even are there? I know there’s Abdul, but what other progressives are in/soon to be in the Senate at this stage?