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Hell, a general strike in just one industry would have devastating effects. What if airlines went on strike for a day? Telecom? A national nurses strike? Waste management? Maybe we rotate, one industry per day.

People get a little bit annoyed when whiny edge lords try to get good people killed.

Except these are not the first no kings protests and the last ones were relatively peaceful. (Given their size)

The march isn’t for those institutions. It’s for the institutions that want to stand up to Trump but don’t know if the people have their back. For instance, the judges that are currently keeping the Texas National Guard off the streets of Chicago.

Did I say I plan to vote for a Republican?

I did vote for Obama, through I was a Limbaugh fan in the Bill Clinton era. <shudder> Maybe I’ve just had more time to get sick of it than you.

The bigger point is this. We are still three years out from the election and you have limited time for advocacy. Why on earth do you think the best use of your time is to sell lefties on inadequate Democratic representation that might not even get the nomination?

This is the time to either fight Trump, or fight for stronger Democrats in the next election. If Newsom (or Pritzker) gets the nomination then do what you must, but why argue it now? First of all, it just makes the cocktail liberals more smug and less likely to look for someone better, and it makes leftists more frustrated and more likely to defect in the general. This is the gap when the left is supposed to be “allowed” to challenge the establishment. Why make them feel even more rejected by the party? You think you’re helping?

Also, to be clear, Newsom would be the worst scenario with diversified guards. If you want a four year pause, nominate Pritzker. If you want to take the country back, don’t settle for the first personality MSNBC jiggles in front of your face three years out from the election.

I remember all the uninformed Democratic normie voters creaming themselves over Andrew Cuomo’s Covid press conferences where he beat up Trump’s response constantly. I kept hearing he could be the one for 2020 until he disgraced himself. Now He’s allied with Trump and Trump’s Donors, and we can’t even get Schumer and Jeffries to support his Democratic opponent. And you think these people fight for you?

Cuomo is Trump in a different package. More than for any other name being thrown around for 2028, so is Newsom. He’s a chameleon and a political opportunist. The only thing he hates about Trump is that he wants Trump’s chair.

Are you honestly telling me that you expect Newsom would roll back more than some cosmetic fringes of Trump’s immigration policy? Biden sure didn’t. You think Newsom is going to roll back Palentir and the surveillance state? Not a chance in hell.

Has 40 years of supporting corrupt Democrats saved us from the camps? It sure doesn’t look like it to me. Camps are proceeding right on schedule. That’s the whole point. At best the camps get put on hold for four years. At worst, they get diversity quotas for the guards.

Newsom would be Trump if he lived in Texas. If he is the Democratic nominee in 2028 then I personally am giving up on politics. I’ve been fighting for a better Democratic party for 40 years, and after all that they are worse than the Republicans were when I started. No, fuck that. Newsom would be the last straw for me. If he gets the nomination, there is no saving the country anyways.

If someone isn’t capable of making the easy call to be against genocide, then they absolutely can’t be trusted to be defenders of democracy.

We gotta quit pretending it’s about this one issue or that one issue. Over and over again we see that there are politicians committed to fighting for what’s right, and there are politicians who aren’t. That’s it. That’s the line. The politicians that sell out to AIPAC are selling out to big tech, to Wall Street, to the military industrial complex, etc.

unless the authoritarians work together to fully censor the internet

I’m sure Barron Trump will fight to keep expression free in his new role at TikTok.

How can there be funding benefits of there is no funding? They kinda gave up their leverage

“that’s part of America dear”

They have a guaranteed audience from Moscow. Right wing media can’t fail to find an audience.

2A freaks, Jan 6ers and white nationalist militia members are the ones Trump recruited to wear the masks.

Two thirds of registered voters didn’t vote for Harris yet some people only want to criticize a tiny sliver who were (de)motivated by a damn genocide. That says an awful lot about your priorities. I’m almost starting to wonder if this isn’t an AIPAC thing.

Democrats have been soft-censoring left leaning social media as well.

The point is that a whole lot of groups make a dent, and many make much bigger dents. Know who else made a dent? The people who were fucking complicit in a genocide. If your problem isn’t with them, then I don’t give a fuck what you think about anything.