I know it’s an empty threat, because #TACO.

But damn I wish somehow he does revoke the church tax exemption, it is massively bullshit considering their outside political influence. Not to mention the absurd wealth of the grifting megachurch pastors. Tax those fuckers!

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This is a sad truth, you’re right.

I hoped for change, wanted him to be better, but was proven wrong. Obama was yet another milquetoast democrat.

I wish Carlin were still alive, but no I don’t expect one person to be able to move a mountain. It takes a whole admin to do that. Many of whom the president can appoint, but still.

I know all about what happened with RomneyCare. Biden gave away the public option before they even started negotiating. He literally just gave it away like the absolute turd that he is.

I also agree with voting vociferously in the primaries, but my point is that maybe taking over the Dems is a lost cause and more trouble than it’s worth. Just let them become the corporate party with Repugs, and form a new progressive/populist party instead. It would be a whole lot easier to build from the ground up.

Looking Forward, Not Backward was the original sin of the Obama administration.

Precisely. We were all hyped up hoping for change, and this would have been a massive one. Instead we got 8 more years of war, RomneyCare with no public option, and continued expansion of executive overreach including extrajudicial killings. Such a disappointing continuation of the status quo, and there are blue maga out there who pretend like it was the greatest presidency of our lifetimes for some reason.

Schumer is garbage.

People are hurting because centrism prevents us from selecting better candidates in what is already essentially a uniparty, far-right authoritarian system. You strike me as someone young so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here that you aren’t just trolling or blue maga.

Look into what happens when actual progressive challengers arise and attempt to unseat incumbent corporate dems. All of the sudden, Dems become quite competent and effective in going to war politically, and will dump millions or even 10s of millions in the primary to ensure the progressive is defeated. This results in people like Henry Cuellar getting elected thanks to backers like Pelosi, and Cuellar votes with Trump 95% of the time. The obvious conclusion to draw here is that Dems are not in fact opposed to fascism, rather they partake in kabuki theatre to give the appearance of opposition while in reality they facilitate the corporate and oligarch takeover.

You yourself claim we need to push for progressives in the primaries. Part of that push must be making it absolutely clear that corporate dems do not represent the people, and are not welcome to run for office. One of the worst aspects of dems and part of what makes them so unlikeable is their smug attitude that we will be forced to vote for them with no alternative. Well, the authoritarian rule of the Trump regime is the alternative. Some of us have lived through almost 40 years of Dems reneging on “day 1 promises,” constantly finding reasons not to deliver for the people (senate parliamentarian won’t let us, Repugs will be mad and yell at us, etc). Enough is enough. If Dems refuse to deliver, then it is well within the people’s rights to refuse to vote for them. If there is one key learning from this era of the grifter, it’s that consequences matter, and without them we will be trampled. What should be the consequences for Dems continual betrayal of their voters interests?

“Trump Bad” has been an absolute, objectively failed strategy for over 10 years now. It’s not good enough, and if Dems want to win they will have to do significantly better than that tired old refrain (they won’t, because they are paid not to by their donors, just like Newsom).

You say this as if it’s imagined and Newsom doesn’t already have a terrible record of fucking over Californians in favor of corporate hegemony. Consider the imminent threat AI companies pose to our resource infrastructure, and then what that would mean if Newsom were in charge.

How about we just hold a fair primary and let the people decide. We don’t need to continue anointing corporate trash like Newsom.

It’s incredibly sad that a farce of a show is the best we get.

Article V convention to add an amendment to get money out of politics, wolf-pac.com

We should also look at getting rid of the electoral college and FPTP, replace with ranked choice as the default. Then win congress, restructure the SCOTUS, and overturn citizens united which should be easy with the above amendment.

The establishment critters all come out of the woodwork when asking this of your state reps and claim it’s too dangerous because Repugs will take advantage to rewrite the constitution and take away all our rights. Considering they are doing that regardless, I don’t consider it a risk at all.

Oh what I would do to be rid of FPTP and enjoy the ability to vote for anyone left of center in this country.

You’re right, republicans have exploited the ratchet effect to drag the Overton Window clear off into the far right territory of full throated authoritarian rule, and democrats’ bold strategy of do nothing and see if the people’s suffering gets them more votes next time has utterly failed.

Didn’t need to be, he is a full on self-avowed Zionist.

Biden was fucking garbage - a corporate tool all too eager to sell us out to corporate rule and a servant of Israel without even needing to be blackmailed by the Trump-Epstein child rape operation. Hell, Biden wasn’t even mentally there half the time, his staff covered up his dementia riddled brain for the latter half of his term as he stumbled about shaking hands with invisible people on stage.

And still, Trump is objectively worse by several orders of magnitude.

It’s Israel. Just because Epstein shared intel with Russia doesn’t make this a KGB operation. Wild how desperate the news media is to draw attention away from Israel and Mossad. They are very obviously still pulling the strings today.

Until we force them out of office, unironically yes. One of the things those with power get off on is exploiting the vulnerable and powerless as a flex. It’s the same reason so many of them hung out on Trump-Epstein island back in the day. They enjoy rubbing our faces in the fact that they consistently do nothing to help us, and routinely sell out our best interests to the donor class.

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