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David Dennison

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  1. 2 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    This is nuts...

     

    It's not nuts.

    It's racism. It should be called racism and anyone who supports this president should be called what they are: racists.

    Donald Trump gives white America permission to be white supremacists. The left should never stop calling him and his supporters what they are.

     

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  2. 1 minute ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Rafiki, the smartest, wisest character in the entire movie is voiced by a minority actor John Kani. Oh no, there goes a leg of your revisionist history farce about the intentional use of minorities for the bad guy roles being some nod to white racial superiority.  James Earl Jones, another minority actor, if I'm not mistaken played Mufasa (the wise and great king of the pride).

    Oh and his mother was played by another minority actor, Madge Sinclair.   All of those actors played the good guys, and gals in the Lion King. What dog whistle message is that trying to send ?  I guess Cheech Marin and Whoopie are just bad people ?  Never known Whoopie to play the bad guy, and Cheech, well he just played them so well, but I guess he was just a beaner, stoner in all those Cheech and Chong movies.

    Rut rho...facts, they some tricky little devils.

    Here's a tricky little devil: you are content with supporting evil.

  3. 1 minute ago, Mojo Hand said:

    When donut-fetching Republican half-wits claim that they have no responsibility for the things Trump does, just remember how emboldened he is to do everything he does by their support:

    Trump is, of course, lying about his rating and that of previous Republican presidents, but he's still consistently in the high 80s among Republicans, and it makes him feel secure that he can get away with what he's doing. 

    With that kind of party support, he can get away with it as long as he is the president.

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  4. Just now, retread said:

    The feckless Ds refuse to use the one tool at their disposal to deal w Trump's lawlessness.

    The lies and propaganda spewed by the Rs next year will be off the chart.

    That will happen no matter what Democrats do.

  5. 16 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

     

    I'm against any bill that presents a pathway to citizenship. If you aren't a criminal, have learned English, and have a stable job you can stay on a guest worker visa that is automatically renewed every 10 years. Of course, once the safe third country agreement is signed with Guatemala the detention centers will become less crowded.

    Why don't you learn Spanish, you lazy fuck?

  6. 36 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    And vote for who else, exactly?   Voting third party only helps Republicans.  The way to improve the party is by voting for better Democrats.   Which includes primarying bad ones, like the Justice Dems have done, which is why the AOC group is there to begin with.

    My rep is pretty progressive, has come out for impeachment hearings, and voted no on the Senate border bill.   My city has lurched to the left in local elections.   And I've got Warren for president.   So I don't see any need to vote for anyone else. 

    Movement left is going to be slower than I would like. The Democratic majority exists because of moderates, not progressives. It's probably going to be that way for a few more cycles if Democrats want to keep the majority. 

  7. 2 hours ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Sure, fail like continuing to win a majority in the House only to pass nothing and rubber stamp Mitch McConnell's bills without change.   When that is "success," the Dems have absolutely failed.   Or when your biggest "wins" over the last 25 years are enacting the Heritage Foundation's health care plan, welfare "reform," and the crime bill. 

    It's like when aggy finished 3rd in their division but in the top ten and thought they were elite.   When that's your best, you are losing more generally.   Winning for the Dems should mean enacting actual progressive policies, and losing should mean getting shit like Obamacare through as a compromise with the right.   That's the situation the right has achieved — winning for them is the most awful of right-wing policies, and losing is when the Dems enact the conservative health care plan and take the blame for its shitty parts. 

    You should stop voting for Democrats. Enacting progressive policies requires progressives. The Democratic party isn't progressive. 

     

  8. 1 hour ago, Mojo Hand said:

    It's not about where the party is ideologically.   Sure, the AOC group is further left than most, but the House bill that got all but their votes was much further left than the Senate bill that the Dems rubber stamped.  Protections for people in the camps is an easy sell to everyone except the racists on the far right. 

    It's about where the party is strategically, and has been during the entire GOP takeover of government over the last 25 years.  Dems think that voters are ideologically static and try to pander to the common denominator.   Republicans know that a huge chunk of voters are ideologically flexible, and they push those voters towards their extreme.   The result is extreme right policies when they're in power and more traditional Republican policies when the Dems win a foothold in Congress or the presidency.  Those same voters can be pushed the other way if presented with confident, unified persuasive efforts from Dems. 

    The AOC group has the strategy exactly right, and the Dems will continue to fail until they realize it. 

    Continue to fall like winning a majority in the House of Representatives or something else?

  9. 19 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Man this thread is a special kind of stupid. My guess is this what twitter is like. You guys really believe this shit, your echo chambers are amazing to behold.

    It's a lot like watching the right.

  10. 23 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Give the right fuel?  The times of worrying about that are over.  

    I think this is correct. I don't see how this country unifies in light of current political divisions. The Civil War was the result of similar divisions that could not be healed through peaceful means.

    If Democrats ever get as dug in and intransigent as Republicans, hold on to your butts.

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