Well, I'm just going to go extra woke, now. Go woke or go broke.
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The problem with people with no moral or intellectual compass is that they just look around them for what's 'working' and attempt to copy that.
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I know how she can test her theory.
Run a primary opponent against her who feels differently. Let the market decide.
Lmao fuck that and fuck you, Slotkin.
Elissa, stop running your mouth and do it yourself if you have a better idea.
If they quack like a republican and walk like a republican, they're a republican
This is the DINO that went on after HitlerPig's SOTU and tried to sell the absurd concept that millions of people voted straight Democratic tickets, except for HitlerPig at the top.
Sure, there were probably some dummies rhat did that, but they're as rare as white squirrels. She's just the water carrier for the same old weak, spineless weenie Dems who are perfectly happy being smug about their "peaceful transfer of power" to Nazis who obviously rigged the election.
You will not win running on a Republican platform,but half baked. That's what we have been shown. I will support the lesser evil, but no one else will. Harris never really attacked the rich. Who are you going to elect? "Immigrants are the problem but hey guys let's not be too hasty" or "IMMIGRANTS ARR The PROBLEM! KILLKILLKILL". I don't like either, but you both identify the same people (wrongly) as the main problem in society, and then they offer a (mosterous but still concrete) solution, while you offer nothing.
Fuck that! I want my progressive cadidates woke AF!
Sounds like a moron who needs to be primaried.
I'm an independent but mostly lefty guy and this lady has never sat well with me. She's a corporate dem through and through.
kamala never mentioned identity politics on the campaign
"Dem senator is a compromised lackey"
Yeah, no shit. That's the problem.
Just another clueless asshole.
Put her near the top of the list to be primaried.
“Everyone you mentioned has a lot of words, but what have they actually done to change the situation with Donald Trump and the cuts and the attacks on our judiciary and the attacks on our Constitution?” asked Slotkin, who claimed her responsibilities fighting Trump’s government cuts forced her “to be more than just an AOC.”
Fair.
“I can’t do what she does because we live in a purple state, and I’m a pragmatist,” she concluded.
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who claimed her responsibilities fighting Trump’s government cuts forced her “to be more than just an AOC.”
Alright, why are you less than an AOC then?
I understand all of the "we can't just be activists, we have to be effective and use our power" arguments if (a) you have power -- which they're split-minded about, sometimes it's "well, you know we are the minority party" and sometimes it's bullshit like this -- and (b) you use it to do something more than an activist does. The minority party in the Senate has done less than be activists. They caved and gave Trump the continuing resolution he needed to continue dismantling the government and wiping his ass with the Constitution. Slotkin isn't even doing as much as Corey Booker.
They had leverage and they refused to use it, because despite all of the rhetoric, deep down they still believe this is the time for politics as usual.
We're well along the path where we could be post-political in a real sense, where political enemies are sent to the gulag in CECOT or "suicided" by shooting themselves in the back of the head. As a former CIA person ought to know, changes in rhetoric aren't going to save you from that.
It's time to realize the only ones who are to save us from ourselves is us.
Hooray another sack of shit politician attempting to derail from real issues