An enraged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) again lashed out at Senate Democrats over what she called Friday evening an “inexplicable abdication.”

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    It’s frankly incredible just how devoted the US Democratic party is to losing. They’re so ridiculously ineffectual.

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    My YES vote is not an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR. My YES vote is [100 percent] about refusing to shut our government down. I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos. -Fedderman

    For fuck sake man, have you looked around? Shutting down everything and nerfing this tool’s ability to direct anyone to do anything would be less chaotic than it is right now.

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      You can’t blame him. He is brain damaged. That’s why he’s conservative. He’s the only DEI hire that should be removed.

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        alot of stroke often turn into a nutty right winger, or a nutty right winger christian. tila tequila, kevin sorbo, or had brain damage from other sources. i was watching a video of someone with schizophrenia and how he fell into the right wing/fundamentalism rabbit hole and said it was a very dangeorus mix.

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      fetterman was always a hack, i dont think he really cares about “working families” after his stroke.

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    The are owned. They are responsible to what happens now. They are not for the people, they are for themselves.

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    I can understand that some people become afraid of Nazis and bend the knee, but these people didn’t even put up a fight.

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    They knew they were going to get crapped on for this. I’m glad she’s saying it, but Fetterman and Schumer don’t give a shit you can believe that, and I see no reason to think the rest of them do either.

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      fetterman is a no brainer in voting for it, but the others have same donors as the gop probably threatened them to pull funding thier livelyhood.

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    Democrats are past cooked. I’m not sure it will.matter to primary these losers, I don’t think Dems will ever win a majority ever again.

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      only if we’re going to get on that john brown timing we should go in with a better plan. not saying not to go in on that john brown timing. john brown and john g fee both did important things and i think they both were recuired to make forward progress and our current problem is we haven’t enough browns and we have too many fees

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    Chuck you fuckin fuck you. Always plenty of Democrats to give Republicans what they want, and then when the shoe is on the foot they pretend to be overpowered at every step. Ohh won’t someone not think of the Senate parlitarian. Fucking worthless sobs.

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    inexplicable? this is what they do. this is what they’ve done as long as I’ve been aware.

    has this woman ever met a senate dem? this should shock exactly nobody. we all knew this was who they were. that’s why nobody voted for them-the fascists would do a coup, and they would just hand over power, so what would the point have been?

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    I’m waiting for the day that AOC is president and Lemmy starts painting her like Obama. Never good enough…

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        Content with saying everyone is terrible and not having any shade of difference. Content with saying everything is shameful… content that everything is genocide. Content that everything is just as bad as anything…

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          Content with saying everyone is terrible and not having any shade of difference.

          Content with so little difference. Content with a margin that never changes as centrists chase fascists to the right because they want to move right, with the pretext that they’ll gain republican voters by abandoning people they’ve always wanted to abandon.

          Content with second worst to fascism.

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            I can dig the shift and the discontent. It’s a trend that is not okay. But I do not see Obama as evidence of the wrong thing. You do what you can and when you more or less call the last great democratic president a sell out you more or less sell out an entire generation just for talking points.

            If you are saying that admin was second worst to fascism then you are telling everyone you live in hyperbole. Everything is fascism as at that point and thus fascism has no meaning any more. Everything is fascism everything is genocide and nothing has nuance… all presidents will kill you nothing matters and every vote is vote for genocide.

            More non voters sat out the last election than those voted for trump. To repeat that… for the back seats…

            People who noped out for “reasons” elected trump. They outnumbered actual trump voters. There were more non voting voters than actual trump voters….

            So keep telling everyone how shitty it is and how you’d prefer a false equivalence compared to civic participation.

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              But I do not see Obama as evidence of the wrong thing

              Obama would negotiate before he got to the table. It’s why the ACA started out as a Heritage Foundation proposal.

              You do what you can and when you more or less call the last great democratic president a sell out you more or less sell out an entire generation just for talking points.

              He was the last one who approached being good. All candidates since have been cynical “we’re second worst and you have to vote for us” candidates.

              If you are saying that admin was second worst to fascism then you are telling everyone you live in hyperbole.

              Obama was the last time centrists didn’t get the candidate they wanted. And unlike the progressives you hate, when centrists were faced with the prospect of not getting 100% of everything they wanted, they formed a PAC to get McCain elected.

              People who noped out for “reasons” elected trump.

              Have you ever considered not providing reasons? Have you considered that your voters expect things of you? That solidarity runs both ways? That touting the endorsement of dick cheney was a fucking mistake?

              You got 100% of everything you wanted. Including being able to blame anyone to your left for the loss your garbage pro-genocide wing of the party worked so hard to earn. Moving to the right like your wing always does has been an abject failure in two of the past 3 elections. biden only won because he lied and pretended to want progressive policy like BBB. harris didn’t even bother lying. You’ve hit a wall. How long do you have to continue losing to fascists before you admit that moving to the right has failed? Or is fascism preferable to such an admission?