• @UsernameHere
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    If we don’t elect more progressives into the Democratic Party then progressives wont be able to make decisions in the DNC let alone win elections against the GOP.

  • @francisfordpoopola
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    51 hour ago

    When she won the Speaker vote she immediately came out and said she would focus on bringing the Demo party back together. Not ensuring the country gets the best product… But ensuring they were as tight as possible. That told me what she really cares about. Don’t even look at her stock purchase history… Shit.

    • @Botzo
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      32 hours ago

      All government employees should have mandatory retirement at the maximum social security benefit age.

      Just kidding, that would only be a recipe for removing a maximum benefit age and just graduating it at a stupidly low rate to age 100+.

      I hate this timeline.

    • @btaf45
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      She is retired. Which means Pelosi didn’t “win” anything at all. She isn’t the Speaker. Clickbait headline to troll fools.

      • @workerONE
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        She’s not retired though

  • @WoodScientist
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    284 hours ago

    The Democratic Party needs to be burned to ashes. And I say this as a Democrat. It’s time for it to go the way of the Whigs.

    • @btaf45
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      The Democratic Party needs to be burned to ashes.

      So that we can have One Party GOP rule? Nice try Ivan.

  • @WoodScientist
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    64 hours ago

    If Trump does go full dictator, the only upside will be that all these self-serving greedy old bastards will be the first against the wall.

    • @[email protected]
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      No they won’t. They know how to play the game and they’ll throw everyone else under the bus to save their own skins.

  • @[email protected]
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    145 hours ago

    the party would rather have members who play nice with money and power and make public pointless grandstanding actions in public rather than members who connect with the actual people, listen to the people, and fight for the people.

    with 3 exceptions, I have always voted for the democratic candidate in the 22 years that I have been eligible to vote. and I refuse to register with the party because the national party does stupid shit like this. it’s as though they are intentionally trying to never join the party. and yet I get bombarded with fundraising emails and snail mail. MEIN GOTT the begging.

    i vote for democrats because they are closer to where I am and they are viable. how many nonpartisan voters like me aren’t that tactical and stay home and cost themselves elections?

    before this election I was not in favor of an electoral age cap for office. now I’m strongly in favor of one. it’s clear as day that these gerontologic electeds who have been in office since clinton and bush, the first bush, that they are so out of touch that mercury has a better chance of touching pluto than they are with the base of the party. vote out all of the olds. I don’t just want them not in power but still in office because then they could still have influence behind the scenes. get them away from the controls of power.

  • @givesomefucksOP
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    376 hours ago

    Fresh off hip replacement surgery, Nancy Pelosi, 84, secured another victory. House Democrats on Tuesday afternoon decided that 74-year-old Gerry Connolly—who announced his throat cancer diagnosis in November—will serve as ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, besting 35-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a closed-door caucus vote. “Gerry’s a young 74, cancer notwithstanding,” said Virginia Democrat Don Beyer, a Connolly ally. Pelosi had opposed the 35-year-old’s run for the role, “approaching colleagues urging them to back Connolly over Ocasio-Cortez,” Axios reported last week.

    Don Beyer is also 74, which is why he won’t say 74 is too old.

    These people won’t step down, as painful as it may be we need to primary them completely out of office if we want a chance against fascism.

    • @Sanctus
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      144 hours ago

      A young 74? The fuck did I just read?

    • Arghblarg
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      176 hours ago

      Vote only for candidates who promise to fight for maximum age limits for all Congressional, executive and judicial positions. End the gerontocracy.

      • @ieatpwns
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        84 hours ago

        Vote for candidates that aren’t a fall risk

      • @givesomefucksOP
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        96 hours ago

        The party can legally just ignore primary votes and name anyone for any spot in the general.

        If push comes to shove, I really can’t say for sure that they’ll all hand the keys over if it’s a wave. I think there’s a decent chance the close ranks, and if any state party doesn’t, the DNC cuts them off. Like, for the last decade they been standing on a pile of dynamite threatening to drop it if we don’t do what they say.

        Especially with age related cognitive decline, I think they’ll drop the match honestly believe they’re doing what’s best.

        Which is exactly why they need to go.

        • @btaf45
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          The party can legally just ignore primary votes and name anyone for any spot in the general.

          In the same way that the US government can just ignore its own Constitution without violating any international laws.