• BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Legal Eagle put out an excellent video on the subject of we need to pursue every avenue, every method of gathering and publishing information showing what this regime did, will do, so it is at least a matter of public record. So that if the Dems gain more control over politics in 2029 that they can be persecuted and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Not doing so will just lead us back here again and again and again.

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      The Dems won because people rejected Trump. Not because people are happy with the DNC. The DNC was actually more unpopular as a whole than the GOP. Progressives crushed it, even in places where they shouldn’t have. Plus with the Michigan lady betrayal, it shows that AIPAC money takes precedent over US needs…again. anyone taking AIPAC money should not be in a leadership role as they don’t value Americans first.

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        Us dwarves up in the far North have a saying: forge while the iron is hot. Now is the time to send useless idiots into retirement, and criminals into the slammer.

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        And that present leadership is willing to make everything that happened water under the bridge essentially, the DNC is going to have a reckoning these next two years.

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      This is the time to reach out to these new or revalidated officials and tell them this is the time to take power back.

      I’ve sent emails to my new senator and house rep, but things like 5calls.org are probably useful too. The calls require (people like me) to be a little more prepared with what we want to talk about, but the time is NOW. Also set a reminder for 1/21 and remind them this was, in fact, a mandate to make things different.

      If you’ve been disappointed with milquetoast dems… call them right now. Email them at the least.

      Drown them in the proof that we demand accountability for the current regime and progress on the issues that we all want.

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        My state didn’t flip at all so I’ve no one to really call. I can just promote others do so with their elected officials because let’s be honest, the Repubs will not change.

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    “There’s 260 of us with full teams to back us up. We couldn’t possibly focus on more than one thing at a time.”

    -Jeffries

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    Fox News’s Sean Hannity ranted bitterly about Hasan Piker, the left-wing political commentator.

    “Now before, nobody in the Democratic Party stood up to Hasan Piker, and that wing of the party, but the inclusion party, they did kick out Haley Stevens. She’s out of the party. That’s what we’re dealing with,” Hannity [said](https://x.com/Acyn/status/2118163462862098499?a=vYz3Rmeie8ShkgMB0dM\&s=20).

    These ghouls really have nothing when they are throwing blame toward a twitch streamer. Pathetic cry more.

    Others could be fired, such as Secretary of Defense [Pete Hegseth](https://newrepublic.com/post/217587/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-midterms), whom Trump has been considering giving the axe.

    That would be so amazing… PLEASE

    Some Republicans seem to be in agreement: Representative Thomas Massie plans to resurrect his articles of impeachment against Hegseth, and several members of the GOP [believe](https://newrepublic.com/post/217633/pete-hegseth-impeached-before-democrats-congress) it will pass.

    If Trump doesn’t get to him first LOL

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    Dont just replace, prosecute. The Leahy laws are very clear about us not supporting regimes engaged in genocide and these chucklefucks did it anyway. They are criminal conspirators and belong in prison for abetting mass murder.

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    They do need to go. Their goal is status quo and treading water.

    I agree with some of the new folks who feel like impeachment shouldn’t be the goal. It’s too limited. Accountability and legislation need to be the goals. Impeachment is a subset of that. So is going on a press tour rager when legislation is blocked or vetoed.

    Democrats need to wake up and bring the Republicans to bear and fight for the people who elected them. Treading water and whining about Ted Cruz reading Cat in the Hat don’t get us there. Make him stand there until he dies of dehydration. Tear them down in a public forum. Do something.

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      As someone who has absolutely 0 belief in Bourgoise Democracy I’ll tell you what I think will happen: They’ll put up some sacrificial lambs like that lady who was the greek ambassador and Lauren Bobert and a few other mid level crooks. They’ll bring them into congress and grill them and then maybe they get 10 years in prison max. More likely some fines and stuff. Trump will probably pardon anyone who is going to see real consequences. They’ll then take their money and run. Dems will control the White House and both chambers of congress after 2028, but they won’t pass public healthcare, or anything else like that. They’ll do some minor reforms and maybe a public option that will become a permanent battle every single budget hearing. By 2030 midterms there will be a snapback and “Red Wave”.

      As for the foreign policy stuff I didn’t mention it because to quote Biden, “Nothing will fundamentally change.”

      I hope I’m proven wrong. I really do.

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        That’s exactly what will happen if we don’t completely replace leadership starting with these two.

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          Personally I don’t think the issue is just your leadership. It’s all of them. The democrats are all just playing you guys for fools. Even the ones who talk about medicare for all and stuff don’t intend to actually do it save for very few of them, and once they get in a few months later they’ll be voting for Defence Budget expansions, and all that other stuff just like anyone else. Unless Americans get in the street and start burning shit down nothings going to happen. Be French.

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    Democrats need new leadership, not just new faces playing the same political games. No more political theater.

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    Primaries for 2028 will be super important. We will need to primary Dems that don’t step up and prosecute.

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    same as in 2016.

    DNC leadership dictates to the plebs, not the other way around, just ask Bernie.

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    I pray to god that they put people in power whose #1 priority is addressing the cost of living crisis. If they keep pushing idiots who are more concerned with identity politics than the well-being of the American people, this powder keg is going to explode.

    There can only be so many young men who are unable to find a job and unable to afford a house before you end up with a civil war. Trump completely ignored our economic problems. If the next administration does the same the only outlet will be violence.

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      that they put people in power whose #1 priority is addressing the cost of living crisis.

      To do that they’ll have to look far below the surface at the actual root causes. And fixing that, even if they do everything 100% perfectly, will take a long time to accomplish.

      Hopefully the American people have the patience and wisdom to allow that to happen, and don’t just toss them all out if there aren’t instant results. (I don’t expect the electorate to have either, but I am willing to be pleasantly surprised.)

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      American politics is confusing even for those of us who try to keep up.

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        No it isn’t.

        The Republicans pull right, and the system along with the Dems do everything to not pull left again. We are seeing this right now, in real time.

        The corporate media keeps repeating “The Dems must not overreach”

        Jeffries just said today “The American people don’t want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf.” So there goes investigating the corruption.

        Same as it ever was…

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          Jeffries just said today “The American people don’t want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf.”

          Returning to enforcing laws is not the same as “getting even”.

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    Non-American here. I don’t think it will be successful… Almost all your politicians are bought and owned by Israel and paid for with your own tax dollars that your politicians send to Israel.

    Yeah you’re better off but Israel runs your lives through bribes.

    I truly believe the Millennials and Gen Z will be the first generation of Americans to tell Israel that they can’t take all your money to murder women and children for no reason.

    I think you’ve done an amazing job and I wish you well.

    I am in Australia and our loudest, most evil politician is a horrible woman I’ve hated since I was a kid in the 90s and she (and her billionaire benefactor) wants Israel to have a place in Australia.

    Free Palestine, Free it from the evil of a terrorist state!

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      I think that what’s happened in America at the midterms can be another motivator for us to vote against ON and their ilk in the VIC election, similar to what happened in the federal one. I’m from Victoria, and the amount of attention her vapid party is getting isn’t reflecting the word on the street. I’m hopeful.

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        I’ve hated Pauline Hanson since I was a kid in the 90s and she was screaming about the Chinese.

        I don’t think she has as much support as the media pretends she does but the media are the reason she’s suddenly a thing again.

        She was supposed to fuck off to the UK to get away from the Chinese. I was devastated when I learned she had come back

        Now she’s just Gina Rineharts mouth piece and she only exists because Gina Rinehart wants to take all our money and prop herself up the way Trump, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg have done for the last two years.

        The only upside is that Pauline is a woman and dumbass bogans don’t respect women.

        I’m still off the opinion that every problem we’re all going through is because that piece of shit Peter Dutton wanted to rule Australia and he broke the system because he’s such an unlikable cunt…