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lmao
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/left-wing-authoritarians-shutting-down-the-democratic-party.html https://archive.is/zR1HW quote:The Left-Wing Authoritarians Shutting Down the Democratic Party six thousand words that boil down to because a handful of people aren't falling in line behind party leadership
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 18:39 |
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Godlessdonut posted:The Parliamentarian was a very good cover for those Dems that wanted it gone. I don't think the CTC was even the parliamentarian's doing. As a predominantly budgetary measure it would qualify for reconciliation under the Byrd rule, so it was all Manchin's doing, rotating in to backstab his party out of the blue. And of course he cannot be corralled or whipped or punished in any way lest he spitefully hand his seat over to the Republicans. Is that what you want you MAGA chud? Huh what's that? He announced his retirement, handing the seat to Republicans in 9 months anyway? Hunh. Whoopsies!!
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SixteenShells posted:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/left-wing-authoritarians-shutting-down-the-democratic-party.html The democrats are a big tent party. You’re supposed to get in the tent and be part of their party. It’s their party so you have to follow their rules or you shouldn’t be in the tent
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SixteenShells posted:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/left-wing-authoritarians-shutting-down-the-democratic-party.html no salvation outside the church. no "leftism" outside the democratic party
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 18:43 |
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What if, many years ago, the very first time it became clear that Manchin wasn't on board with the Democratic Party agenda, the Party withheld resources and forced him to run as an Independent instead of a sanctioned Dem? That way, when the time comes when they need ideological unity to accomplish their agenda, they have it? Well that sounds like some very basic things I'd expect a political party to do, and if they're not doing that, I'd have some questions about how seriously they were approaching this whole "governing the country" thing.
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SixteenShells posted:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/left-wing-authoritarians-shutting-down-the-democratic-party.html What a thin skinned bitch. e: Chait posted:The movement could have run an an anti-Israel candidate against Biden but never bothered, no doubt anticipating they would lose. Coming from a party that had a fake primary and decreed that "Biden is the nominee" no matter what, that's pretty rich. Of course we all know they want the left to run an anti-Israel candidate so that they can be co-opted or their life ruined. F_Shit_Fitzgerald has issued a correction as of 18:49 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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don't you have to have authority to be an authoritarian? It's like, in the name.
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SixteenShells posted:don't you have to have authority to be an authoritarian? It's like, in the name. they hurt Jamie's feelings though
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Punished Turtle posted:starting over for new thread: This is cruel. I was excited to find out what happens next, my leg already tapping to the beat, and then this happens.
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 18:49 |
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Ytlaya posted:This is cruel. I was excited to find out what happens next, my leg already tapping to the beat, and then this happens. we almost got to the part where Hamilton negs a rich lady and she gets mega horny for him
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SixteenShells posted:What if, many years ago, the very first time it became clear that Manchin wasn't on board with the Democratic Party agenda, the Party withheld resources and forced him to run as an Independent instead of a sanctioned Dem? That way, when the time comes when they need ideological unity to accomplish their agenda, they have it? Well that sounds like some very basic things I'd expect a political party to do, and if they're not doing that, I'd have some questions about how seriously they were approaching this whole "governing the country" thing. Yeah. very fundamentally, every one of manchin’s positions that mainline dems supposedly object to is in fact a democratic position by definition. it’s a position held by a democrat in good standing.
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 18:54 |
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:What a thin skinned bitch. From comments in that article: "The real problem is that their moral outrage is meaningless because it's not accompanied by a workable alternative. Everyone hates innocent people getting killed in war, but if there is no other choice, what's the point of whining about it? To prove your moral superiority?" The Sean has issued a correction as of 19:14 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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SixteenShells posted:What if, many years ago, the very first time it became clear that Manchin wasn't on board with the Democratic Party agenda, the Party withheld resources and forced him to run as an Independent instead of a sanctioned Dem? That way, when the time comes when they need ideological unity to accomplish their agenda, they have it? Well that sounds like some very basic things I'd expect a political party to do, and if they're not doing that, I'd have some questions about how seriously they were approaching this whole "governing the country" thing. The argument is that if they'd done it in 2021 they'd lose the senate and not be able to appoint Justice Jackson, and so it's worth it but I always felt a tension there. For one thing he might not switch parties, if the threat is effective then they win. For another, they don't need him for control now so they lose nothing by threatening his committee seats and the bribery gravy train that comes with them, yet they still don't do it. And of course that same excuse was used for every blue dog: Joe Heller, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Claire McCaskill, and they lost all those seats anyway and are about to lose Manchin's.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin denied that Israel is committing genocide after protesters interrupted the committee and called for the U.S. to stop funding the war, which they referred to as genocide. "We don't have any evidence of genocide," Austin said after a question from Sen. Tom Cotton to respond to the protesters. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4582807-pentagon-chief-no-evidence-israel-has-committed-genocide/
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They did nothing wrong.
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 19:22 |
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ex post facho posted:he tried to warn us He's looking alot more like fatterman in this pic
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 19:25 |
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Crazypoops posted:He's looking alot more like fatterman in this pic Fetterman is too big to fail
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 19:30 |
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VitalSigns posted:The argument is that if they'd done it in 2021 they'd lose the senate and not be able to appoint Justice Jackson, and so it's worth it but I always felt a tension there. My thinking on that argument, is that the best approach for that problem is avoiding it in the first place. Obviously you can't always have that; Sinema didn't look like she would be such a spoiler at the get-go, for example. But let's look at abortion. The party continues to nominate and support anti-choice candidates at the same time it's claiming it's opposing Republican attempts to restrict abortion rights. How is the party going to protect abortion rights if abortion rights aren't a litmus test for party support? If you enforce party unity on abortion rights, you are much less likely to end up with a small handful of senators holding up abortion right legislation because we need them for judge nominations. (the true problem is that there's not enough national support for a "let the government run itself and gently caress off to do insider trading" platform)
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 19:32 |
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Democrap Arizona AG who only won by 280 votes is violating the law by not enforcing Arizona Supreme Court decision. AG's need to start facing prison time for life
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The Sean posted:From comments in that article: When your convictions are on sale to the highest bidder, the idea of having real deeply held convictions for which you're willing to go balls to the wall must seem like an alien concept.
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https://x.com/HuffPostPol/status/1777771420442820759
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where’s hammer guy
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SixteenShells posted:What if, many years ago, the very first time it became clear that Manchin wasn't on board with the Democratic Party agenda, the Party withheld resources and forced him to run as an Independent instead of a sanctioned Dem? That way, when the time comes when they need ideological unity to accomplish their agenda, they have it? Well that sounds like some very basic things I'd expect a political party to do, and if they're not doing that, I'd have some questions about how seriously they were approaching this whole "governing the country" thing. um excuse me sweaty, what kind of message would this send to future democrats?? that they are expected to stand for and believe in things, and hold their members accountable, even if not beneficial to them in the immediate quarter-term future??? is that a future you want???
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 20:11 |
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press 5 for genocide
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SixteenShells posted:My thinking on that argument, is that the best approach for that problem is avoiding it in the first place. Obviously you can't always have that; Sinema didn't look like she would be such a spoiler at the get-go, for example. But let's look at abortion. The party continues to nominate and support anti-choice candidates at the same time it's claiming it's opposing Republican attempts to restrict abortion rights. How is the party going to protect abortion rights if abortion rights aren't a litmus test for party support? If you enforce party unity on abortion rights, you are much less likely to end up with a small handful of senators holding up abortion right legislation because we need them for judge nominations. https://twitter.com/politico/status/1687104618126544896
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Nonsense posted:Democrap Arizona AG who only won by 280 votes is violating the law by not enforcing Arizona Supreme Court decision. AG's need to start facing prison time for life owned lol
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 20:23 |
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spacetoaster posted:What was that? willa pointed out that lyin' leon was overly obsessed with her so leon edited every single one of his posts that ever mentioned her by name before posting 'anybody can click post history and see i never do that'
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https://twitter.com/ComptonMadeMe/status/1777486922753220853 Looks like AIPAC is going to get both Bush and Bowman.
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Jonathan Chait posted:Imagine a world in which Congressman Jamie Raskin attempts to deliver a speech on “Democracy, Autocracy, and the Threat to Reason in the 21st Century” and is unable to deliver his remarks because Trump supporters drown him out, and authorities justify the disruption as an exercise in “democracy.” Democrats attempting to raise money for the opposition are surrounded on the street by Trumpists shouting “gently caress Joe Biden” and abusing them with racial epithets.
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 20:30 |
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close, goldmine, make another succ thread
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 20:31 |
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It's like a kindergarten teacher for adults
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 20:38 |
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loquacius posted:god I hate these fuckin morons
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# ? Apr 9, 2024 20:38 |
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twitter just plain doesn't work at all, it sucks rich people genuinely like Elon and don't want to bully him and take his poo poo.
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atelier morgan posted:willa pointed out that lyin' leon was overly obsessed with her so leon edited every single one of his posts that ever mentioned her by name before posting 'anybody can click post history and see i never do that' oh it's so much worse than that, he edited *most* of them in order to leave a "believable" amount left his argument was that he was the reasonable one, unlike that crazy, obsessed Willa. He knew better than to leave 0.
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SixteenShells posted:What if, many years ago, the very first time it became clear that Manchin wasn't on board with the Democratic Party agenda, the Party withheld resources and forced him to run as an Independent instead of a sanctioned Dem? That way, when the time comes when they need ideological unity to accomplish their agenda, they have it? Well that sounds like some very basic things I'd expect a political party to do, and if they're not doing that, I'd have some questions about how seriously they were approaching this whole "governing the country" thing. the sinema stuff probably wasn't and that's why everyone got pissed at her. she wasn't needed and all she did was make the party look incompetent. Automata 10 Pack has issued a correction as of 20:48 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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