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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 8 hours ago

No wonder Pelosi liked him.

BuT iT wAs HiS tUrN!

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Phew, can you imagine these guys winning the presidency?

Wait.. they’re the good ones!?

[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 15 points 10 hours ago

They are mostly corporate neoliberal centrists. There are very few actual liberals or progressives left in the Democratic Party. They can’t deliver on any meaningful legislation because it always gets shot down by the Republicans or even their own party.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

You know I thought it was low effort cringe when I first heard "demacrips and rebloodpicans" in a body count song, but Im starting to like it more by the day

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

Sounds like a perfect match for that shithead pelosi.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Would you people be done with this group of inept septuagenarians called the DNC. Pluck out a liberal from 30-40 years ago and show them everything their going to lose and they would puke in their mouth. It's the same people that have virtually given our government away since Reagan. They fucking suck at this, be done with the DNC and don't give me any two party bullshit. What you have is one party where they both desperately drive you into the others arms. There won't be a two party system moving forward. Mark my words, we are done with free and fair elections.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I would describe it differently. They aren't inept, and they are skilled at getting exactly what they've gotten. Their system is working exactly as they hoped it would.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I don't give them that much fucking credit. I do believe they are cretins but I also believe they are really bad at what they do.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 116 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

That's why Pelosi chose them, specially over AOC. She's the other side of the US oligarchy, the one that's ok with the slice of cake they have now and don't want to push the US into a complete dictatorship just to try to get more. She's one of the people in the democratic party that's most abusing federal insider trading and conflicts of interests.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Seriously. She's just a smarter oligarch than Trump. She's smart enough to realize that keeping a flawed and corrupt democracy is better than no democracy at all. She realizes there's no real point in having wealth if you and yours have to live in some totalitarian shithole. And also, wealth tends to be very vulnerable to arbitrary confiscation in authoritarian regimes. Trump is an oligarch, but he's just stupid and prideful enough to think that he and his will always remain at the peak of the pyramid, and that autocracy will work in his favor.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

She is smart enough to make sure the democracy remains flawed and corrupt.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

She’s smart enough to realize that keeping a flawed and corrupt democracy is better than no democracy at all.

Playing Jenga with my democracy, smugly certain I won't be the one who pulls the last block.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

She's one of the ones we need to eat imo

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

The fact that we need to check for a D or R next to this person's record just tells you that emphatically the two parties lines have been increasingly blurred.

He is smart in that sense. He will be dead and gone. If he ever did love anyone he'll be sure to tell them fuck you, too, because the man hasn't felt joy since maybe being a small child.

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Pelosi and all other geriatric politicians need to retire

[–] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

more like these scammers should be jailed. only good thing that trump would do in his presidency is to send doj after them, but pelosi might already have made a deal with him.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 179 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Fucking of course he did. Jesus christ.

This is why I say that the DNC is fully dead. AOC and the rest of the young progressives in Congress need to just get with Sanders and straight up found a new party. This is so fucking dumb.

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 hours ago

I can't wait for a new left party.

[–] londos@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Hey hey, it's not fully dead, it just has terminal cancer.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The new and improved democratic party is back in business everyone!

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

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