*Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a high-profile progressive, said he believes "the most effective pushback to Trump's unconstitutional actions is to model a reverence for the Constitution and the rule of law."
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I think it’s fair to call the democrats the Conservative Party. The republicans are regressives, certainly. But the people plead for systemic change, and the democrats are just trying to conserve the same failed order that got us to this point.
The other Nazi party.
Zero Sugar Nazis
I see them as basically leaning super hard into white man's burden type racism and imperialism except they've replaced it with american and western capitalist burden so it's less obviously racist and they can feel even more smug and superior to the rest of humanity
The theoretical roots of the US political divide goes back to: "We should kill all the natives because they're racially inferior" vs "As a progressive, the natives are only culturally inferior, and if we destroy their culture and force them to adopt ours at gunpoint, we can make them civilized." Underneath it all, that's who they each are.
Are you telling me a bunch of old rich people are fantastically out of touch with the common citizen?
Why, I shan't believe it! 
Pretty much this. The democrats are true conservatives that maintain the status quo with incremental change while republicans are reactionaries who want to regress to a nostalgic period from their childhood
the constitution says slavery is allowed, you just have to have a judge sign off on it first
I wipe my ass with the magic parchment
The Republicans think the constitution was written by god himself and Democrats think they can combat that with American Civil Religion.
I always think of that painting whenever someone brings up Juche Necrotracy.
As long as they pray to the Founding Fathers enough, Trump will lose the Mandate of Washington and will be rendered powerless.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a high-profile progressive
The guy who was trying to recruit a nazi to the DNC a couple weeks ago?
Oh? Did I miss this or forget?
He was at the forefront of liberals that were trying to bring Elon into the liberal establishment in the immediate wake of Elon's catfight with Trump
Scratch a lib...
Amazing
First of all, this shit isn't unconstitutional. That's up to the Supreme court and they seem fine with it. Second, we have the premiere bourgeois constitution. That thing isn't doing shit for me. The bill of rights we're all supposed to love is just a list of things the state can't do on your behalf.
Every time I hear democrats speak, I am reminded of the Android speech to Gohan from TAS
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What a fucking loser
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"What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and ... a lot of times that's coming from economically very secure white people," said an eighth House Democrat.
"Not only would that be a gift to Donald Trump, not only would it make the job of Republicans in Congress easier if we were all mired in legal troubles ... [we are] a group that is disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ people — people who do not fare very well in prison."
ALL THE PEOPLE CURRENTLY GETTING ARRESTED TRYING TO DO YOUR JOB FOR YOU COULD TELL YOU AS MUCH, DIPSHIT
a demand that we... allow ourselves to be victims of violence
Yes. It's me folks. I'm the one that's demanding this. The rest of the quote confirms why I will continue demanding it.
It's like if a firefighter complained like "they want me to run in to a burning building? Pfft as if!"
“Not only would that be a gift to the fire, not only would it make the fire’s job easier if we were all mired in emergency response… [we are] a group that is disproportionately harmed by fire.”
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Also most of them are rich and politically connected, which matters more than literally anything else for how you fare in prison.
Yeah, Senators famously face more injustice than everyone else. They can't afford legal defense, and the media doesn't care when they're arrested.
"Nobody told us that this great power that we voluntarily obtained came with responsibilities!" 
Mr Fetterman is that you?
I just want to be on the beach why do they need me to press a stupid button on the stupid little desk 
Lmao the fucking endgame boss of liberal idpol is a black senator implying there's a racism ick factor when rich white people complain about them
You can only demand that your elected representatives take a stand for something when you're poor enough to be ignored.
So you've spent your political career trying to fix the known problems in American prisons, right?
Interesting how doing anything is a "gift to Donald Trump" but not stopping him isn't?
Lmao and here comes the idpol shield they love using so much. Too bad they shown none of that for Zohran or any marginalized person to their left.
"Leadership? I just wanted a cushy job that makes me feel important and connects me with rich, powerful people. What about that do you poors not understand?"
Hate it when people keep trying to politicize my job of house minority leader
I hate this so much
It's so accurate and I hate this so much
These people don't want to do anything; they're not trying to make anything better; we're electing people to sit there and slow the descent into catastrophe and they're sitting atop us while the waves are at shoulder level and they're hardly even trying to slow the descent into catastrophe
"just saying the right things isn't working anymore.. the people just keep wanting more than that, and we're all out of ideas"
Rather, they've moved to "attempting to smear people who say the right things as dangerous radicals"
What the fuck
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is this formatting. This is barely readable
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who organizes thoughts like this?
It’s the god awful axios house style—helpful to hide AI content and assuming your readers can’t read or handle content that takes more than 15 seconds.
assuming your readers can’t read or handle content that takes more than 15 seconds.
oof american literacy rates
Twitter-brain formatting
- Why it matters
- Zoom out
- What we're hearing
- Between the lines
- What they're saying
- Zoom in
- The bottom line
What, this looks like a logical and organized thought process by someone who definitely knows how to write a memo.
Everytime I see one of their articles I think the top is just a summary only to remember that's just the entire thing
AI
Every single Gen X I know is so demoralized right now, my own parents who were once apolitical are singing a much different tune now -- something that was just a dream for me. This shit is real. Our environment is changing.
My Gen x parents are being directly effected by a lot of this policy. They used to be non voters and my dad was kind of libertarian/conservative when I was a kid.
They seem a little more engaged these days and I'm hoping to hear them say something that would make me proud some day
Let the fires of revolution burn bright
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