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Do nothing democrats holy shit my god I can’t breathe
America is hopeless
If you're that smooth brained that you voted for her you should be kicked out of office immediately and your post should be made available for somebody with an IQ that is larger than my shoe size.
There. Is. No. Excuse.
Come on, no one is this dumb. The senators knew they'd do this from the moment they voted to confirm. This is just premeditated political backtracking to fix as much damage as they can now that they've received their reciprocal favors.
Indeed. Any Democrat who voted for that piece of shit should be primaried.
Is there a route for impeachment? I'm sure it won't go anywhere with the Republicans in control of house n Senate, but at least get it on the record and get the country talking about her incompetence and psychopathy and how someone so unqualified ended up in that position
Embarrass the enablers as much as possible.
They were looking for reciprocal support. Only they also don't have the guts to raise any issues thay could use it for.
Ya don’t say…..
i hope you get to tell this to a tribunal that tries you for cooperating with fascists once this is over
Americans will pack the tribunal with judges instead of antifascists.
Yooo, Democratic Senators, fuck youuuu!
Signed, an independent US citizen who has repeatedly voted for your shitty controlled opposition candidates because it was glaringly obvious to me SEVERAL YEARS AGO that anything Trump brings to the table is significantly worse for humanity than your bland business as usual.
Like, Trump was so, so bad that in retrospect it makes more sense that HE was the controlled opposition so that status quo capitalist corporate democrats could win their elections and keep the people “happy enough” while letting the elites play their games.
But no. Now he is much worse, mask-off, nominating unqualified morons and traitors to help administrate the federal government, and you fuckups in the “at least we aren’t an openly bigoted death cult” party did not stop it in cases where you could have.
trump was
Literally a plot by the clinton campaign, yes. They thought he'd be an easy win, even for her, after ratfucking sanders.
Have you considered that them not stopping it when they could have is because we didn't vote for them afterwards, so they didn't have power before the election?
Ummm.....what?
So, are you saying that they voted to confirm her out of...spite? And you are presenting that as an argument on their defense???
Are you...an idiot?
oh noes
I've really got to wonder what passes for good judgement nowadays.
Gee that name Tim Kaine sounds familiar.. where have I heard that before?
WTAF. This is some real Susan Collins type of energy.
Did they furrow their brows? Wring their hands?
Good morning, idiots. Did it never cross your little minds that a Trumpist candidate could be anything but pure shit on legs?
Exactly. This is why I have so little respect for Democrats these days. They go on TV and call red alert and say Trump is awful and Trump is horrible and we all have to do everything we can to oppose Trump, and then they go ahead and rubber stamp his candidates and his agenda, refusing to use political options that are very much open to them create the opposition they are so loudly claiming is necessary.
If Trump is truly that awful, they could simply refuse to confirm his candidates, make them fight tooth and nail and bargain with them for every single vote.
But they did not. So the only conclusions are either a, they did not actually feel Trump was awful and all the red alert press conferences were just performant political theater, or b, they have not actually stood up for real principle or wielded real power in so long they don't remember how to do it.
IMO, it was performative. I think the Democratic Party for the most part is controlled opposition for the owner-class. It's foolish to continue to support them, or really any facet of this oppressive government.
Clean 'em all out and let's build anew.
Yup. We need a new party, with the goal of overhauling the political system so that we aren't stuck with Geronocrats nor Turdpublicans. First past the post has led to being forced to choose between a log and diarrhea.
"We wouldn't had confirned her if we knew about her massive cocaine habit."
We need a general strike
We need an opposition party
We need to arm ourselves
Build a support network in your community.
Start yesterday if you can. Start doing it now if you can't.
Start a garden, make tools, do whatever you can to make you and your neighbors a little more self sufficient.
We need a general strike. We need to be prepared first
“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week.
What timeline had you excited about her?
DNC has proven their uselessness over and over. You can only send so many strongly worded letters. How many hearing do they need where they berate the person and nothing changes. They are complicit at this point. They are just fine with everything that is happening. All they do is theater to show how “upset” they are.
I think the destiny of the Geronocrats is all but sealed.
Oh my fucking god the DNC is so goddamn feckless. It damages my calm whenever I think about it.
I'm half convinced the DNC is a conservative psyop
The Democrats are a conservative party. They want to get back to the days when the parties had no ideological differences and were just clubs that voters picked personalities they liked most.
That ended during the progressive era, when some politicians (in both parties) got ideas about making the country better for working class people. The Republicans had more friends that were rich as fuck so they started propaganda campaigns among Republican voters and the progressive Republicans were primaried out of office.
Now the Democrats are stuck with the leftist label they don't really want. Some of their voters do, but only some. American voters want leftist policies to be enacted but are allergic to leftist politicians and organizing.
the DNC is as hostile to the american people as Republicans are. Its time to stop pretending they arent, the DNC is just a weaker, more pathetic arm of the RNC
These idiots whore themselves out for some meaningless perks to vote in someone that killed their puppy because it didn't fetch. They're realizing the perks weren't worth it and trying to earn some sympathy which makes it so much worse. The ones that aren't saying anything are sitting fat and happy roasting marshmallows over this dumpster fire.
Yeah no fucking shit