• Heresy_generator
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    1 year ago

    And now they’ve just made the anti-democracy extremist Speaker of the House.

    The GOP Speaker and presumptive nominee for President are both anti-American insurrectionists who want to tear down our democracy and institute single party rule. And the oligarch-owned media will absolutely shut up about it and pretend it’s normal.

  • @Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    1111 year ago

    There’s gonna be some really great attack ads running in swing districts next year. Every vulnerable moderate just got handcuffed to this guy. Now they can be accused of supporting all the most extreme, unpopular, and unlawful things in Johnson’s record. And on top of that, this almost certainly means that the agenda moving forward will be dominated by things which would alienate moderates and independent voters.

    Apparently the lackluster mid terms weren’t enough of a wake up call. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be the moment that the Republicans lost the house. (Of course, I also wouldn’t be surprised to see the Democrats find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory)

    • @limelight79@lemm.ee
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      531 year ago

      And the way Trump was controlling the vote by endorsing candidates? The whole party is shackled to him, whether they admit it or not, and I hope the Democrats go HARD on that in the next election.

    • @Flambo@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      If the Republican party ever becomes irrelevant, Democrats will be stuck waiting to find out what their new opposition party will be. If it winds up being an actual progressive party, I don’t really see what options Democrats would be left with. Either they try to gain support from people leaving the Republican party, or they try to be “progressive enough” without losing corporate support?

      If Democrats share that uncertainty about a post-Republican future, and if they think the way most status quo actors seem to, then I imagine they’d prefer the Republican party to hang on as long as possible.

      What I think that strategy would look like: Democrats going as fiscally conservative as they can while still remaining left of Republicans. Democrats lamenting their inability to make progressive changes, all the while not investing much more than lip service towards advancing said progressive changes.

      • quicklime
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        211 year ago

        The Democratic Party has shown very clearly that they would much rather lose to Republicans than allow their own platform to be dragged any more than just a tiny bit to the left.

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        If the Republican party ever becomes irrelevant, Democrats will be stuck waiting to find out what their new opposition party will be.

        My guess is a split between moderate Dems and fleeing “90s Republicans” on one side, and more extremist progressive Dems uniting with extremist Republicans as allies of convenience on the other, fighting to be more isolationist and nationalist.

        Essentially I think the future debates will be over the role of America in society, as economic issues are largely a “solved meta” and most social issues tend to fall by the wayside as time marches on. No political party is seriously trying to contest gay marriage the way they did abortion, for instance.

        Middle vs non-middle seems like the battle of the future.

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          You don’t have any extremist Dems. You have a right wing party that has two centrists and you have a party full of fascists.

  • @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    951 year ago

    "Mike Johnson is Jim Jordan in a sports coat.”

    — Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Viet Shelton, quoted by The Atlantic.

    • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      161 year ago

      They will hear this question whenever they present yet another insurrectionist speaker candidate. At least if the press in the US still has guts.

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    1 year ago

    American Fascist Party. Yeah, I’m going to say it over and over.

      • Nougat
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        61 year ago

        There’s a handful of things I find myself having to repeat and repeat, to the point that it’s starting to annoy me. I’m sure someone is going to give me shit about it real soon.

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          Look. Soon enough these assholes will stop beating around the bush and make their move. It will be undeniable but they will skip right past shame and whole heartily accept the fact that yes, they actually are aligned with Nazis. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. During Bush they said they weren’t racist. During Trump they said they weren’t fascist. Next they will say they won’t attempt mass genocide.

          By then it will be too late.

          • Nougat
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            61 year ago

            You’re not wrong. Fascism isn’t coming; it’s here. And every time some fascist bullshit happens without consequences, they get stronger and democracy gets weaker. Fascist leaders have seen no consequences. The American Fascist Party (I said it again) has to be called that, because not only are they refusing to eject fascists from their ranks, they are promoting them to positions of real power.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    531 year ago

    It’s the party that worships the constitution ordering the Press on what they can and cannot do

    • Cethin
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      361 year ago

      To be fair, they’re allowed to tell the press anything. I’m totally OK with that. I’m more upset by the fact they worship and swore to uphold the constitution and then tried to overthrow democracy, and now don’t want to talk about it. Either it was a good thing and be proud of it and own it (it wasn’t, but in their opinion…), or it was bad and a mistake and you should speak out about it and warn others not to make the same mistake.

      • @Patches@sh.itjust.works
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        It was a good thing, or rather, it will be a good thing much like 1924 Putsch. It was a rough draft, and it didn’t take off but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good thing.

        • The Republican Party
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      81 year ago

      There you go thinking Republicans care about anything again. This is the party of power, nothing more. If they ever tell you they believe in something it’s because you believing they believe in that something will get them more power.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        21 year ago

        Oh I know they don’t, I just like leaving bread crumbs for people who haven’t figured it out. People have to come to the conclusions on their own, just telling them the answer will not get a positive result. This is why people who debunk shit for a living actually cause more people to believe in New Age nonsense.

      • @RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world
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        111 year ago

        Well, I genuinely don’t think Virginia Foxx should be guillotined for being a rancid, evil, racist, human prune.

        So far as I am aware, she has not committed treason or heinous acts of murder. She should absolutely be ejected from Congress for her conduct, violations of her oaths through her corruption (and possibly jailed for that), and barred from any government position under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. When she ultimately passes, it will most certainly be to the betterment of our species.

        But even through all that, I do not wish violence upon her.

  • MudMan
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    221 year ago

    Wait, her name is Virginia Foxx? Bold to keep her stripper name when she transitioned into politics. I guess she was invested in the brand.

      • @PizzaMan@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        The next budget is due in a month, so there’s a good chance he’ll be gone after that.

        So the lettuce has a nonzero chance of outlining his office.

      • While this would be hilariously humoring for most people I, opposing this fundamentalist scumbag want the debt ceiling deadline to occur without damaging the credit worthiness of the US government. So fuck them reps.

    • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      I saw some of the base already worried he’s not as racist as they had hoped. Also, there is some butthurt about him supporting Ukraine. So how long until he gets accused of being a “RINO”?

  • YeOldeDickTwist
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    121 year ago

    Who is this geriatric cunt that yelled at that reporter to shut up lmao. In what world is that a reasonable response of she’s coming from politics.