It doesn’t get more pathetic than this.

Oh I disagree that the Democrats won’t be more pathetic than this.

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    Uhh, more Americans blamed Republicans and Trump’s approval tanked.

    This guy is full of fucking shit. There was no reason relent and it would’ve set Dems up for success next year.

    Primary them all.

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        You’re not wrong sadly:

        • We saw that with Cuomo going Independent against Mamdani
        • We saw Sinema flip Independent
        • We saw basically the same thing when DINO billionaire Bloomberg derailed Sanders and Warren in 2020.
        • We’ll almost certainly see Fetterman do the same thing.

        At least with Mamdani’s case, it was worth trying.

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      Yup. Snatching defeat from the stomach of victory.

      I mean these spinless MF’ers had to reach down deep, past the jaws of victory, just to pull out the comfort of being a conservative.

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    Did King really believe this, or were there other reasons why he caved? His son, Angus King III, is running for governor of Maine, and Senator King’s decision may have been a misguided attempt to help him. King is also not up for reelection until 2030, so perhaps he thought he could escape electoral consequences.

    Isn’t the election already over? How does caving now help? And if the gubernatorial election hasn’t happened yet, well, vote for the other Democratic candidate, I guess?

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    Millenials, Gen Z this is your chance. Start running to take congress and senate positions in the next elections. Or find new people to support. Things do not have to stay the way they have been. There is enough of the voting population outside of the boomer gen now to change voting outcomes but you need to put yourself out there and not hope for someone else to do it for you.
    In the meantime, do what you can with your spending. Don’t send any money to billionaires even if that means giving up stuff you currently buy. Time to start starving the billionaire class since the (current) governments are owned by them.

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    Oh boy is that sad. Standing up to Trump works just fine. To put it politely, you get fucked for sure when you roll over, at least when you stand up there’s a chance.

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    Well this is pretty much exactly what Republicans needed.

    They pitched that they were perfectly willing to be reasonable and the democrats were the crazy ones.

    Now they pass an extension, specifying to block the non-existent illegal immigrant gap and say “see, we were ready to take care of the people, but the democrats forced things to be bad, and these few democrats reluctantly came over which just proves they were in the wrong”

    Another chunk of what I assume is their strategy: Make 2025 bad in ways to make it easier to make 2026 feel great by comparison.

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    Remember how well “if you can’t fight them, join them!” worked for all of those people in Nazi Germany and WW2? Definitely caving in to the Nazis was a smart move…

    Trump is a loser piece of shit wannabe Nazi, you don’t cave to Nazis, you fight them at all costs because caving is always worse than you think it is.

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    The Democrats don’t do shit except send me weekly texts from ActBlue begging for money. That’s the only time I hear from them or there is some outreach. I’ll never send a cent ever again. The state of our country is partially their fault for not even maintaining a functional party with candidates that don’t require holding your nose.

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    Just make him a fucking king already then, you spineless mollusks. That’ll make your jobs much easier so you won’t have to make hard decisions like choosing to fight for your constituents.