Why do you think not wasting resources introducing legislation that’s guaranteed to fail is “rolling over and pissing themselves like whipped puppies”?

It’s very important to demonstrate your party’s values by introducing and passing bills that reflect those values so that you have a record of where you stand that people can see, regardless of whether those bills get vetoed or not. Saying you should wait until you have full power, or assuming they are “guaranteed to fail” is self-fulfilling prophecy and is capitulating in advance.

1. It demonstrates exactly what the Dem party’s priorities are and what they will do when they have power. People will clearly understand what they will get if they elect a Democratic president and congress.
2. People will clearly understand what the Repub party’s priorities are when they vote NO on bills that they personally want passed, and when a repub POTUS vetoes them.
3. The Dem party will receive positive feedback from constituents when they pass bills that constituents want, and that will make them more likely to continue passing even more bills that people want.
4. It gets publicity and (if popular) builds more public support, which puts more pressure on both reluctant “moderate” Dems and even the Repubs, to get on board with voting for popular legislation if they realize they are more likely to get re-elected when their constituents like what they’re doing, but less likely to get re-elected when a lot of people see them kowtowing to their donors and voting NO on popular legislation.

“I do not think it is time to propose things that the president of the United States is guaranteed to veto,” Schatz said. “I think that is somewhat of a bit of wasted energy. And then if we want to be more aspirational, if we want to make more bold policy changes, we’re going to have to take the presidency and both chambers and that’s for 2028.”

Schatz, you ignorant slut [old people will get this reference]. You don’t think it’s time? Why do you think anyone would even vote for Democrats in 2028 if they roll over and piss themselves like whipped puppies in 2027? JFC will Dems ever show some fucking courage?! Do you have any idea what the assignment is for gods sake?!.

Thank you Rep. Khanna and those few other Dems who get it, and please may enough other actual progressives get elected this cycle to join you and do something for a change. Show us you’re willing to pass legislation that actually helps people and they will vote for you. Act like Schitz and you’re out.

The color assignments happened by chance. The networks used to arbitrarily choose red or blue or even some other color for each party to show them on the maps, and one network might use different colors than another. Then one year (2000), a year that they were showing R’s as red and D’s as blue, the colors stuck and stayed that way–probably because the counting went on for so long that year.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-became-red-democrats-became-blue-104176297/

There are plenty of articles online about the subject. I’m old so I remember it myself.

There aren’t even enough open seats for them to win that many.

What about a tortoise? Don’t they live longer?

1. A democracy doesn’t take away people’s rights when they reach a certain age.

2. That’s so cute that you think it’s the person’s age that matters. If you want take voting rights away from the kind of people who vote for fascists, it’s the men (of all ages) that you need to stop. https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-gender-and-age-analysis-of-2024-election-results/

Neoliberals

I hope he lives a while longer, so he can watch in horror as the DSA wing takes over the Dem party just like MAGA took over the Repub party.

I wonder if her middle name is Ann. 🤔

It’s OK, everything’s fine. An LLM chatbot came up with that name for CNN, so it’s Fair Use.

Because it’s only been 1 week in awake time.

He already did. https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-tells-supporters-cheat-hell-092940521.html

In the original video, you could see sweat on his face and he looked like almost puked but managed to force it back down.

The whole raison d’être of this regime is to tear down and destroy everything people value, partly to demoralize and for their own feeling of power, but especially destroying the democratic system to make way for the techno-fascist oligarchs’ takeover of the government.

BUT the people can take advantage of this situation and co-opt their tearing down of the neoliberal order, to replace it with democratic socialism instead. It can happen.

Check this video from Literate Machine on how (it also has a link to the written version in the description if you prefer to read instead of watch)

OK Oz, here’s lesson #1 for ya. Nothing costs a buck.

Whatever else can be taken from this, one thing we know for sure is that she doesn’t have what it takes to be a leader.

Super Slop.

Of course not. I was just answering the question. Obviously all the answers here are subjective.

Yes, and also “to each his own”

Wine.