• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    6 months ago

    Alternative headline: DNC keeps platforming paleoconservatives 🤦

    Just because Trump is a bridge too far for them doesn’t mean they’re not the enemy when it comes to everything except presidential endorsements.

    The DNC promoting these Dick Cheney-style ghouls is moving the media Overton window further right to the enormous detriment of everyone who’s to the left of Ronald “sledgehammer to the economy to benefit the rich” Reagan.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        6 months ago

        We don’t need them. Stop alienating the left and the people in the ideological sliver between the most conservative Democrats and the least conservative MAGA cult members become electorally irrelevant.

        • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          5 months ago

          If they stop alienating the left and everyone else who’s vehemently against genocide,

          literally nobody has done more in government to push for a ceasefire than biden and harris…

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            5 months ago

            Yeah, excuse me if I don’t jump for joy at the thought of a cease fire that Netanyahu has no intention of honoring if, against all odds, he signs it.

            What’s needed is for the US and other countries to stop supplying weapons to commit genocide with, at the very least, and preferably treat the fascist apartheid regime like they treated that of South Africa.

        • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          6 months ago

          If they stop alienating the left and everyone else who’s vehemently against genocide, the people in the ideological sliver between the most conservative Democrats and the least conservative MAGA cult members become electorally irrelevant.

          While I wish that were true, it’s simply not, there’s still more movable “moderates” in between Democrats and MAGA for them to matter massively electorally, and still far far too few leftist Democratic voters for them to have to listen to.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        6 months ago

        Problem is, they still want to splash gasoline everywhere because they pretend they like the smell while they own the place that sells it, and deny having to do anything with creating the current problem at all.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        a house fire they helped light and fueled, before they retired and suddenly started speaking out, totally not in an attempt to angle for a speaking head job at some network where they can play both sides.

        call me crazy, but I don’t particularly want an arsonists help with regards to putting out fire.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      6 months ago

      The DNC promoting these Dick Cheney-style ghouls is moving the media Overton window further right to the enormous detriment of everyone who’s to the left of Ronald “sledgehammer to the economy to benefit the rich” Reagan.

      It’s absolutely insane to see folks who would have gleefully endorsed Project 2025 any other day of the week show up to say “Donald Trump was mean to me, personally, so I’m supporting Kamala Harris this year.”

      They’re not your fucking friends.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      good lets bring back that republican party so congress can be about debating boring things like tax policy instead of having them fight to ban books, ban trans people, or ban immigrants.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        5 months ago

        Lord. I miss the days when I could say “I think the Republican candidate will meaningfully weaken American influence and moral authority on the world stage, damage our national finances in service to business elites, and cause needless deaths both at home and abroad through reckless and callous policy” instead of “Jesus fucking Christ, this is just outright, directly stated fascism, why are all of you ghouls still voting [R]???”

        • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          I remember when I was crazy for suspecting evil of the GOP, am I crazy now father? Actually I’m just kidding, my dad hasn’t been for Republicans since they shit themselves upon seeing a black man in the Whites Only House

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      5 months ago

      Sadly at this point I’ll settle for anyone left of “Hunting the homeless for sport with brand new Assault Rifle 15s from the most recent school shooting”

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        5 months ago

        I completely get where you’re coming from, but that’s how it got this bad in the first place: by people always settling for the lesser evil and never demanding anything more from their representatives than “at least be marginally better than the other side” of the broken and corrupt dichotomy.