The proposed State of Liberty and the proposed State of Lincoln have been longtime efforts to get themselves two senators and some electoral college votes of their own.
Or: dose them both the fuck up. Let's see the both of them up there rolling like the old lady from Requiem for a Dream.
With this level of support and rhetoric:
Well shit, if you have a republican congressman voting then out should already be the default condition.
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And of course Cuellar.
Just once I'd like to see one of these democrats who break with the party on key issues not get leadership backing to defeat their primary opponent.
I mean, yeah engagement on these topics only adds to the kafkaesque noise trying to be stirred up. The counterproductivity is too real.
Expressly not caring what fascists actually do so long as their messaging is quiet is... definitely a tied and true strategy.
If you're out here everyday arguing Tankies are Fascists, then it is a bit curious you'd make something where 80,001 fascists are protrayed and the one fascist that actively doesn't vote for fascism, the tankie, is considered the problem.
Out of all the 80,001 fascists: this one chose to abstain from voting for fascism. That one deserves the scrutiny, the criticism, the exorication, because...
This message condones 80,000 votes for explicit fascism before accepting a single communist abstention.
Wtf is this messaging.
Well yes, that is one thing that helps lead to that other thing.
The DNC funded Schiff hard and even funded the GOP candidate for attack ads against her. I mean you're objectively correct: she lost. But she was fighting two parties by the time the primary happened.
She announced her intent to run too early back when effort was still being made to "Weekend At Bernies" Feinstein, which waa her undoing.
Ah the daily fascism discourse multiplier thread. There's never any meaningful discourse that comes out of these: just divisive kafkaesque noise.
Two minutes is probably all that's necessary.
Maybe a week long festival in the late summer.
Presidentially: yeah.
Congressionally and locally: not nearly as much. There's a pretty solid track record especially since the Citizens United and SpeechNow decisions of the Democratic Party either mobilizing against progressives and for conservatives in primaries where there isn't even a GOP threat.
They even took down Katie Porter because she didn't kiss the ring of Dianne Feinstein.
But yeah, the acute threat the GOP poses gives them harm reduction status.
I think that's been a proven case for European parliamentary democracies giving way to right wing and fascist parties. But that's more the reverse: the liberal and center-left move center and then lose.
But US politics doesn't have much leftist policy to shed, or many leftist politicians to exoricate, so it is more that even when Democrats win, policy stays right of center. Which is where the frustrated remark "both parties are the same" comes from, which everyone also shits on.
Since you know, the centre right continually stretches further right like a rubber band.
I always figured his next step was announcing an onlyfans or appearing on blacked.
Well it is perfectly fine to believe Biden would have called for a ceasefire or conditioning aid to Israel on his own accord without any political pressure.
Fair point. However:
Biden's moves to condition aid to Israel
Do you believe Biden would have ever made those moves without those protests?
Or perhaps, even, the leverage of people's votes might have played a role?
I am not so sure he would have made any move to condition aid without this disruption and threat.
I mean: Biden was pretty damned adamant against a ceasefire, but called for one less than a month after he got hit with Uncommitted primary votes. So I think there is some kind of relationship there at least worth crediting.
as seriously as those causes deserve,
Look, I am not going to ignore that you're responding to your own made-up quote but I'll bite: 'What does the Palestinian cause deserve?'
No protesting or political leveraging by privileged little shitstains, obviously.