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Spineless cowards. There are amateur stand up comedians living in their cars and working for beer money who handle hecklers better than these professional public speakers with lifetime Healthcare.
Meanwhile we have people like AOC volunteering to do town halls in Republican districts, just so Republican voters can actually talk to a member of congress.
What a pathetic state of affairs.
Meanwhile we have people like AOC volunteering to do town halls in Republican districts, just so Republican voters can actually talk to a member of congress.
I love this as it's such a power move.
It really is. Her and a few others need to form a coalition and take over the party. Give Pelosi and Schumer the boot and pivot hard to the Left for the working class.
It may already be happening, she polls better than anyone else in her party
Yeah I've been hoping for it for a while now, but it's crazy how much power people like Pelosi have over the party as a whole. Maybe with the absolute madness of the second Trump administration, that'll weaken as people realize how useless the Democratic Old Guard is.
lol and watch them vote for these cowards over and over again. 🤦🏽♀️
Let's see if the Americans actually have teeth to bare. My guess is no.
Satisfied keyboard warriors everywhere agree.
You love to see it.
tax the rich! tax the rich!
Tax everyone, balance the budget.
Tax or trebuchet. I'm okay with either.
"Tax or trebuchet, I'm ok with either way"
It says the same thing but has good meter and rhymes. Great for chanting.
This chant brought to you by the people who voted explicitly to tax the poor in order to give money to the rich. Just two brain cells in the entire goddamn party.
How do people not realize that they are the poor people that rich people hate
They see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
How do you know it was republicans chanting?
Fair point, but I suppose that's the majority of the population in Columbus Nebraska
I do tend to be suspicious about that these days ….. I live in a very blue area but over the last get years we’ve had town halls disrupted by chants to stop protecting our kids from diseases. From people out of our town, including out of state
Nebraska is actually more blue than you might think. Also, it’s pretty assured that Democrats are showing up to town halls and making their voices heard. They’re EVERYONE’S rep no matter their party affiliation.
The next funding dinner should help them forget about all of that
The thing is even more ridiculous because the Republicans warned him not to have the town hall and have told their members to only have online town halls or "moderated" chats. So they can keep any dissenting voices out and project an image of everyone loving what they are doing.
Now they are just relegated to calling things like this "democratic operatives" trying to disrupt civil Republican discourse. This isn't gonna work as well as they think because people know who is hurting them since the Republicans own all the branches right now.
It's as if the more a population is restricted, the harder it will resist. It's taking a while for the american people to be roused, but I have hope that it gathers speed and power, not unlike a boulder hurdling down a hill towards a village.
They owned all the branches during trump's first term too. Republican voters won't learn, they're too stupid to understand
He was still getting his feet wet in that term and he only had them all for half his term. And they at least pretended to give a shit about the less wealthy constituents, that tax break they gave to "everybody" expired for the middle and lower class after a year or two but was there for the wealthy well into Biden's term.
This time they're not even pretending to care. They're relying completely on their propaganda to convince their idiotic fans that tariffs are going to be a tax on other countries and their bills will go lower as a result of it. Meanwhile they're going to gut Medicaid and other social services in order to give money to the wealthiest people in the country.
So in answer to your comment, they will hopefully notice this time because they're going to be hurting as a direct result of what Trump is doing as opposed to something he could deflect as being "because liberals".
They also had all branches during W's term when he crashed the economy and started two never ending wars.
The Republican voter is dumber than a bag of rocks. Hell, even a bag of rocks would learn faster than a Republican voter.
GOP voters actually advocating for something that would be good for them? I feel like I woke up in a different timeline.
Oh honey... They'll just vote Republican anyway. Maybe if the Democratic party disbanded and a new party with a new name came out of it... otherwise, they will never vote D.
It seems like when given the choice to lose all Medicare and social security or to tax billionaires a little bit, they are finally understanding the right decision ....
It's just too bad like always, it doesn't seem to bother them until it directly affects them.
They advocate for all kinds of reasonable things, but they never actually vote for them.
And this is the curse of the two party system in action. In reality, we have more in common with one another than we think, save for those solely driven by bigotry and fear(and there’s a lot of those)