• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    The fuck sticks won’t stop until wr have gas chambers again. I’m so tired of humans. How fucking hard is leaving other people alone?

  • Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip
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    Have any leaders or top democrats held press conferences or anything denouncing these actions or showing support for her? It seems like they are just leaving her on her own to deal with this which is pretty shitty…

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      Unfortunately for Omar, the billionaires who own Dem leadership don’t want any social dems in congress. It’s too popular an idea and billionaires fear the populace taking back power.

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        He sure as shit better. With dark skin and the first name Hakeem he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t say something even if self preservation is his only motivation.

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          He thinks he’s “one of them” because they throw him a few pennies. Greedy traitor.

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      They’re doing everything they can: talking about it. We voted them into the minority, they have no ability to do anything.

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          Lol wtf does some random article from 2019 have to do with today?

          “Right now, Democrats have no power to do anything but talk about the thing that happened this week, and they are talking”

          “Well SEVEN YEARS AGO they criticized the lady they’re talking about now!! On a topic that ha nothing to do with her immigration status, which is currently being discussed. EVIIIL”

          Genuine question, not trying to be insulting: are you stupid?

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      Neoliberals are conservatives. That’s how we ended up here.

      Conservatism is fascism and it has infested both parties. Allowing conservatives to continue existing among us will always lead to fascism.

      Our push to the left must be merciless and unending. Normally, peace cannot cure fascism. We must accept that violence may be necessary to survive this.

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        Yup. When is the last time we saw dem leadership organize the party effectively, or release meaningful pushback to culture war rhetoric? It’s nada all the time with these clowns. Fucking Schumer and Jeffries apply all their efforts to serving billionaires and are happy to be unpopular as long as they get to lead the losing party. I’m sick to death of hearing how brilliantly Pelosi handled Republicans during her tenure— she literally fucking led us right to where we are now. Fuck anyone who serves billionaire interests.

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      Typical leftist bullshit.

      “Republicans are doing something bad so what are the Democrats doing without any power or majorities?”.

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        During the Uvalde shooting, did it not upset you that the police stood around doing nothing? Even as the minority party, the Democrats have some power they can exert. At the very least, they can make a big stink about the situation. When the Republicans inevitably obstruct them, the Dems can highlight how the Republicans are obstructing justice.

        Instead, what we’ve seen the Democratic party do time and time again is just sit on their hands, defeated. Rolling over like dogs, unwilling to even appear to care. Hiding away and hoping nobody notices them standing off to the side.

        Yes, obviously people are upset when the Republicans do something bad. They want the Republicans to be held to account. The people that should be holding them to account is the oppositional party and the Democrats aren’t doing that.

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          They are doing something about it. They’re writing letters and complaining about it in the news.

          That’s all they can do, considering we voted them into the minority.

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            I want the ranking Dem member on every committee to conduct inquiries. Make a billion motions, cast votes, debate, whatever to result in some kind of legislative action. Hold formal proceedings, conduct investigations, subpoena people.

            I want the Democrats to launch Benghazi style investigations like the Republicans did that helped tank Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. The only difference being that there is actual wrongdoing here.

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          Omar does have people fighting on her side. As my Nation colleague John Nichols reports, she remains popular with her constituents in Minnesota, and the state’s Democratic Party has rallied to her side. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries decried Trump’s “vile personal attacks” and the fact that Trump’s “violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family.” Even former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was critical of Trump. In a post on X.com, Greene asked how “pretending to get ready to deport Ilhan Omar is going to bring gas down under $2, make health insurance freaking affordable, make a family’s weekly grocery bill make sense, and stop sending our beloved military off to fight for another fucking foreign war???”

          Greene’s pointed rebuke of Trump stands in sharp contrast to Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who in the five days since the raid has yet to say one word in defense of Omar.

          https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ilhan-omar-raid-trump-reaction/

          But there are people speaking up for her within the democrats and the media is right lit up about this right now.

          Your comparison to the Uvalde shooting is bullshit because the cops there not only didn’t do anything but they actively held people back who were trying to help too.

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            I agree that it is good that Jeffries is speaking out in defense of Omar, but I would argue that the only reason he is defending his progressive colleague is because he’s been recieving a bunch of pressure to do so. It is very obvious why the leader of the party is not defending Omar; it’s because of the progressive ideals she espouses.

            Leftists need to continue pressuring the Dems apparently for them to do the basics of their job. I see no reason why Jeffries would defend Omar without having experienced the pressure and criticism. He and the other Establishment Democrats in leadership positions have been actively sabotaging and holding back their progressive flank.

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              Don’t move the goalposts you compared the democrat’s reaction to the raid of Omar to be the same as the police response to Uvalde shooting.

              Which is bullshit.

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                Hakeem Jeffries saying, “This is bad y’all” is the same as police showing up to a shooting and playing Candy Crush on their phones. I want Hakeem Jeffries to pledge launching an investigation and using whatever power his party has, even if it ends in the president pardoning the people responsible. Just like I wanted the police to storm into the school and take down the shooter killing children. I want action being done.

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    “Reportedly”? Like it isn’t obvious? As in, it’s obvious they’re trying to eliminate their political opposition by any means and this is the first step of that?

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      But it’s it really the first step. Feel like they have been making plenty of steps already.

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      It’s something like when someone openly commits murder but, until they’re convicted, they only “allegedly” did it

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    I can’t wait for them to deport her ass so my gas prices and food prices will finally go down.