• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Nice play with the capitulation on the shutdown in return for “we pinky promise we’ll let you call a vote for the thing you want but no bet on actually passing it lol”. A real political masterstroke, that.

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        2 days ago

        Schmuck Schumer. It’s long past time to primary that smarmy, insipid little bitch. AOC should turn on him, and take him out, the same way she took out the calcified old fart whose seat in Congress she took.

        I want to see her in the Senate, causing trouble like Bernie. He’s really old, and like it or not, he can’t last much longer, and AOC would be a perfect replacement for him, until more progressives can win Senate elections, which is coming. Otherwise, we won’t have any real progressive representation in the Senate, and we need a LOT more, not none.

        If Schmuckie won’t back down and decline to run, and endorse her, then she should savage him with his piss poor record of defending America from the MAGA scourge, and his massive insider trading fortune. Right now, we need every one of our elected representatives to be all hands on deck, full court press, everybody in the game. We can’t have people more concerned about preserving their ill-gotten gains, than doing their jobs, so sweep them out, MAGA and DINO alike.

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      I mean they only did a continuing resolution so they can 100% force the issue again. Maybe once the average American actually sees the increase they’ll care.

      Personally I think this was the strategy from the beginning, but the way they played it made them look really weak.

      There’s also a very good possibility they are juat bumbling around with no real strategy.