• TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    These are weak men. They’re insanely wealthy and they can buy a lot but these are weak, weird, joyless, thin skinned little guys.

  • subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 hours ago

    They’re still trying. We’ve had a victory, and we must build on it.

    Dont be discouraged when they use their power to undermine what we have done. Keep the pressure up. Notice how their news keeps telling us that it was their bought and paid for “leaders” won this victory for us. Notice how they tell us that now is not the time for new leadership, and how those leaders will win anyway. Keep up the pressure.

    Call your reps. Call your senators. Do it every time there’s a vote on something. Anything. If they wont vote how you want vore for someone else in the next primary. Keep it up until their owned politicians lose or cant keep their positions any more.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Both sides are scared shitless of us right now, although they are desperately trying hard to not show it. We just did something that no living politician has ever seen before - through the power of Democracy/ voting, America rose up and took our country back from the worst people on the planet.

    And we KNOW it, and now we have demands, and they will be met, or what we just delivered to MAGA, we will deliver to the Dems in 2028.

    We’re in charge now, and they’re trying to pretend it’s still them.

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      Maybe stop having a two party system, remove all the undemocratic layers from voting, tax the wealth from the rich to put into school and free healthcare, and stop your government from waving its big military dick all over the world before you start call it “rising up and taking America back”.

      America has always been a problem. Trump and Co simply exasperated all the worst aspects of America into a distilled parody of itself.

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      what we just delivered to MAGA, we will deliver to the Dems in 2028.

      Oh boy, when the Dems do nothing we can vote back in the fascists. That’ll really show 'em.

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      20 hours ago

      Yep, can’t even get Dems to show up to vote on impeaching Keg’s Breath. I bet the elites are shaking in their boots.

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        Which was the point. To make us feel like it’s impossible. To make us feel like the monumental victory we just got was meaningless. To remind us the people with the money still control everthing, and most importantly to stop bothering.

        But if they have to keep telling us, over and over, and in so many ways, then we know it’s not true. If it was they wouldnt have to tell us.

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    I imagine it might be about muskrat spending a lot of money in US politics. Or the orange Cheeto?

    Though I’d call them one of the smallest pettiest men on earth.

  • whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    The top priority of both parties is still revenue growth for the s&p500 and sending tons of money to Israel. I don’t think the powerful people are too worried.

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      No, not “both parties”.

      Just 99% of Republicans and half of the Dems. Most of the newly elected Dems are from the DSA, who don’t owe their win to AIPAC or the oligarchs. And there were some in office, even before this election (e.g. AOC, Buttigieg, Van Hollen etc.). If they can gain control over the Dem leadership ( oust Schumer and Jeffries) than you have a good chance for the rule of law and governing “for the people” to return.

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      Even that’s awfully charitable. The S&P 500 going up would be visible and accessible to nearly everyone. Instead they insider trade and make money from swings in both directions, on individual stocks. Nancy Pelosi is a good example.