16 Democrats Just Voted to Confirm Another Trump Appointee
16 Democrats Just Voted to Confirm Another Trump Appointee
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Cory Booker—New Jersey
Chris Coons—Delaware
Tammy Duckworth—Illinois
John Fetterman—Pennsylvania
Ruben Gallego—Arizona
Maggie Hassan—New Hampshire
Tim Kaine—Virginia
Andy Kim—New Jersey
Angus King—Maine (independent who caucuses with Democrats)
Amy Klobuchar—Minnesota
Gary Peters—Michigan
Jack Reed—Rhode Island
Jacky Rosen—Nevada
Jeanne Shaheen—New Hampshire
Elissa Slotkin—Michigan
Mark Warner—Virginia
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mods have been deleting my comments that remind people that Biden and the Democrats gleefully committed genocide and lost the election for their refusal to even suggest they'll stop it.
When will people wake up and realize the Democrats are not on our side, not the lesser evil? They exist to give us an illusion that someone is fighting on our behalf, they exist to pacify us, they exist to allow capitalism to turn us into wage-slaves.
They'll take a knee with us, they'll give record breaking speeches, they'll march with us in the peaceful phases, they'll be on the front line even. They'll hold rallies and raise incredible amounts to "flight fascism", and then they'll step in line and vote to keep the wheel turning RIGHT.
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mods have been deleting my comments that remind people that Biden and the Democrats gleefully committed genocide and lost the election for their refusal to even suggest they’ll stop it.
Why they are so threatened by AOC and Sanders, and the calls for the old guard to GTFO
I fully expect the DNC to launch a bigger underhanded attack against the both of them than the Republicans do.
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Democrats are not on our side, not the lesser evil?
So what are you going to do? Not vote?
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And just to be clear, you think The Grifter Party cares about you? Sorry, Green - the Green party.
Sometimes I get their name and their actions mixed up.
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Speakin' the truth! You have my upvote
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The last three months should have been a stark reminder to everyone that after a certain amount of time in their positions, politicians stop seeing non-politicians as real people and everything just becomes a game.
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The only reason Cory did his speech was to cover for Chuck Schumer declaring his job as a Senator is to serve Israel.
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I was thinking it
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It’s not like the guy they voted for is a rare qualified pick from the Trump camp.
It’s David Purdue, a failed pillow company CEO, as well as ceo for other textile companies. More recently he dabbled in politics as a Republican senator from Georgia, failed gubernatorial candidate, 2020 election denier, climate change denier, and generally an idiotic sycophant.
The textile experience gives him a small amount of plausibility as a choice, but everything else far outweighs that. Just another loser grifter in Trump’s orbit.-
God damn, how many more failed pillow company execs does he have left?
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I was wondering same!
Maybe it’s something to do with hotels...?
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The Democrats never actually opposed fascism, they just invoked it because they knew it was unpopular. The problem of the Democrats is that you can't constantly run on things you have no intention of following through on, without having voters stop believing you eventually.
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The Democrats never actually opposed fascism, they just invoked it because they knew it was unpopular.
Yep, and Lemmy totally fell for it. Then turned around and shunned the people who refused to fall for it.
Lemmy is getting what they deserve for blindly worshiping the Democratic Party.
Third-party is the way to be free from this nonsense!
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But if we vote/advocate third parties, or converse in conservative spaces or .ML, .Lemmygrad*, on Lemmy, we're trolls or shills. 🤮
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This is the time for third parties. I get why people were saying not to talk about them during the election but now is the time because it’s obvious that the Dems continue to not have a spine.
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It was obvious every election cycle since FDR too. It's past time for us to stop crossing oceans and moving mountains for those who won't jump a puddle or molehill for us. Politicians, I mean. I'll still cast my vote to help the "sane liberals", conservatives, and marxists who would let me starve in the streets or drop dead in the fields while harvesting their food, or in their bathroom I may be cleaning at the time.
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I get why people were saying not to talk about them during the election
But the Dems lost by such a large majority that even if every single third-party voter had voted for Harris, she would still have lost to Trump. So censoring us then wasn't any better than censoring us now.
Non-voters cost the election, not third-party voters. People need to fucking stand up and stop sucking the Democrat Party teets. They don't care about you any more than the Republican Party cares for you.
If everyone who is bitching about the Dem party threw their support behind a third party, then the Dems would finally realize that they need to change their ways.
Until then, Dems are just gonna keep losing.
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Yet I keep hearing from y'all (world users) "wahhhhh we need to blindly back the Democrats" and "When the dems elect someone significantly more right than Kamala like Shapiro or Fetterman we need to blindly vote for them".
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Absolutely agreed. And I'm not sure the better alternative to Reddit is a "federated" platform where the mods highest priority seems to delete comments that call the Democrats what they are: nice Nazis.
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Yep! Lemmy loves to complain about the Democratic party, but as soon as ya mention third-party, you're banned from everywhere for being a troll. Or Lemmy's other fav insults: Nazi and Fascist. They'll even say we're paid to talk about third parties.
At this point, Lemmy is getting what they deserve. They'll lost next presidential election to if they don't wake the fuck up. :)
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When have people (outside isolated trolls) accused 3rd-party advocates of being shills? If the "Tanky Triad" only supported an end to "first-past-the-post" voting, that would be one thing. But when I visit, I'm inundated with propaganda championing fascists who want to ignore reality and bend the population to their will. That's not liberalism, and it's certainly not Progressive Politics...
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When have people (outside isolated trolls) accused 3rd-party advocates of being shills?
Take a look at some older posts from before the election. It was a fucking witchhunt on third-party advocates. Every single one was accused of being a paid russian shill. Every. Single. One. lol
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https://beehaw.org/post/19739290 sorry, I originally thought your comment was itt. ^
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Alright at this point we should just clean house everyone in executive, Congress and Judiciary needs to go
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Imagine being a liberal right now lmfao You’re pissed at EVERYTHING and yelling at your allies while the people you’re telling them to vote for are supporting the very thing making you furious.
Fuckin’ awesome.
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Rhoeri is gonna rest their case so hard when they get here. Then we will all be sorry!
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Rhoeri will say "lmao" and end any and all criticisms with citations!
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Anybody really know politics in detail and can explain their motive?
Are they afraid of retaliation in some form? What's the rub?
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They are republicans in disguise..
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One day people are going to realize this is just theatre. It's a club with predetermined decisions, similar to WWE. None of them give a fuck about you.
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People realized it over a decade ago.
So what shall we do about it?
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Controlled opposition party strikes again!
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The Republicans are the Sword, and the Democrats are the Shield.
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I get it. I too want this entire administration to burn, but at the same time, Perdue was a sitting Senator. A co-worker. Almost normal compared to Bondi or RFK Jr.
And this isn't a cabinet member. It's not like Perdue is going to make any real progress with China on anything.
China isn't budging on shit.
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Democrats reject this guy, a worse candidate is put forward next. Seems like a stupid hill to die on. They're going to appoint somebody.
Edit: I didn't know he'd be confirmed anyway. If true, then I agree a Democratic rejection out of principle would have been a better statement.
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No, they're not. What happened to Obama's scotus pick proves you can gum up this process and prevent appointments. And you can do it without losing voters.
Democrats are choosing to aide the trump admin.
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Let me get this clearly: because if they fight back, maga will be even nastier, so Dems did the right thing to save us from a worse outcome?
Well fuck me, I've been at unfair to them. I owe them an apology.
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Sorry yall. It was Fetterman or Oz and we fucking ended up with both.
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Feckless.
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So who will you vote for the next "election?" Supreme Führer Trump and his league of cartoonish evil, or the spineless cowards who will do nothing to make things better?
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dems are as crooked as the rest. nancy does insider trade since decades and chuck schumer is just evil ignoring what israel does. or remember the black fig leaf obama? nobody has ever ordered more deadly airstrikes in countries you are not at war with. i think this entire "american dream" thing was just metaphoric for a modern form of slaves and kings. just think of it: who were those that left europe for the new world? sleezebags, greedy goldsearchers...just ppl who were bad anyways. and thats what their entire fake culture is built on.
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Traitors to america
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All politics are performative. Blocking Trump's appointments would be a sign that they're willing to fight for democracy....but they aren't., so they don't.
This is just more evidence that every time Dems blamed not being able to enact their promises on Joe Manchin, there were always going to be just enough Democratic "defectors" that their donors didn't really have to worry.
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We have 2 parties, the dems (center right) and the republicans (fascist)
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I'm forming a new party called the "Guillotines for anyone with more money than me party"
We'll guillotine anyone with more money than me. That's my whole platform. I don't have a lot but I'm comfortable. If you also don't have a lot but you're comfortable boy do I have the party for you!
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Behold, a democrat:
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Cool, so now everybody gonna stop jerking off Booker for his useless filibuster? Or is he still getting a pass?
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It’s rich v. poor, y’all.
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I mean.. It is until it isn't. I wonder how many rich people were either tossed aside, or killed by Hitler.
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Welp, Duckworth just lost my vote.
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Hmmm, it's like they're all rich and know that in the end it'll be fine for them under a fascist regime?
I'm not an American, but I have to give the Trump supporters they are right about one thing: the Democrats do not seem interested in fixing their problems. Trump's just honest about it 🤷
It's utterly baffling.
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The Democrats fix the economic damage after every Republican administration. Reagan, W. Bush, Trump... going all the way back to Nixon and before.
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It’s time for the US to form a centrist party, instead of people having to choose between far right, right, and far left.
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Where is this "far left" you speak of?
Like where is any party saying to abolish private property, arrest the billionaires, and give the entire means of production to the working class?
Nancy Pelosi queen democrat literally said we live in a free market after making her 200 million playing stock market games.
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Every single democrat, Bernie and AOC included, just gave full-throated support to Biden as he presided over the greatest wealth transfer in history.
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What far left? You mean the “far left” that continues to support the surveillance state in the US or the “far left” that continues to support the total destruction of Gaza? I can keep going, those are only the first two that came to mind.
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The US only has a far-right party and a further right party. When has the Democrats ever advocated for anything at all left of center, other than Bernie's Medicare for All, which since most nations on earth have some government provided healthcare, is more centrist, than center-left.
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They will end up in camps anyway. At least they will deserve it.
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seems like they wouldve been able to confirm either way, even they went against, and they were probably bought off just before the votes. there were already well known DINOS in both house, its just them preserving thier gravy train from donors of both parties.
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Including Cory Booker... 🤷♂️ 🙄
Was everything he did recently just as performative as with MAGAts??
Way to put up roadblocks and speedbumps when it really counts Dems... Feckless Fucks. 🖕 🖕
No shit it was. He wants to run for president and he knows that stunt will make headlines but this will be buried in comments where the headline is “16 democrats vote for trump nominee” (aka exactly what is happening here)
Booker is classic neoliberal, no ethics or morals, guided by money and power. 10-15 years ago he was deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry because they are huge in NJ. Then his aspirations went higher and he realized that association was harmful, at that point he had connections that made him no longer reliant on their cash, so he shed them. It’s not growth, it’s a calculated move
I had hoped he was going for redemption. Feckless moron doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of being president
I wonder who he's going to pretend to date for his next run.
I recall that he was also in favor of charter schools, which made him non-viable for me years ago.
I hoped that maybe he had a real change of heart last month, but I guess that was just a publicity stunt.
Of course it was performative, it all is.
Of course it was. It was just a political stunt to pump up his street cred as a warrior, in advance of an eventual announcement for a presidential campaign.
Then he votes for the MAGA Nazis.
He's a collaborator.
Yes it was! And please look in folks' comment histories, the tankies were the first ones to call this out.
Keep that energy, know your enemies, all of them.
Never forget, next time they do a performance remember!
so blocking the appointment of the U.S. ambassador to China, in a vote they can't win looking at the numbers, helps the revolution how?
Because its not about winning, its about taking a stand.
You don't give NAZI TRAITORS a single vote of support for ANYTHING. They are Nazis, they are the most corrupt and treasonous administration in American history, and any support is collaboration, even a single vote.