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[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 46 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They are putting absolutely no effort in their performance to pretend to be an opposition party.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's weird there isn't even a pretense of kabuki. I guess the dem machine hopes for Trump to cause pain and chaos so they can be seen as the only hope. But at this rate - I think even if prices soar and there are a "troubling" number of bird flu cases and deaths in the run up to the midterms - the dem base could be angry and/or demoralized. The elections could be a dem bloodbath.

Whatever their actual strategy is - they are playing a dangerous game

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I guess the dem machine hopes for Trump to cause pain and chaos

That is exactly their strategy, 100% literally

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And libs are eating it up.

they didn't get enough votes what do you expect them to do???

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

And libs are eating it up.

no they aren't, they're feeling very distraught and confused

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. Call trump a fascist
  2. Lose election to trump
  3. Turn over government willingly to trump the fascist
  4. Refuse to interdict trump the fascists government

Math says dems are fascists

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Liberals only know how to oppose the left, vote for the Enabling Act and lie.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago

That's because their real goal is to be stewards of the empire, so they don't want to threaten to fuck it up even temporarily.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not even adequate for a jobber (pro-wrestling term for person who always loses to prop up new talent)

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

jobber

Thanks. What a fantastic word.

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Pro-wrestling has a wealth of terminology to describe US politics!

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

Really makes you think

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

The main difference between the two is that US politics only has face-heel turns, never the other way around.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Deadend@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

The Dems don’t know how to sell a shut down until they get what they want as a good thing.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

the-democrat Should've empowered us to do nothing with a majority, now we're stuck doing nothing with a minority.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

Every time i see pictures of Chuck or Donald or even the flawed but important to me punished-bernie , I i'm remind these guys are all just leather skeletons. They all look so damn old. There is not a single cell of vitality in any of their photos.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What's the spin here? Trump attacks the institutions of American governance, so the Democrats doing this is actually saving the government (so it can keep destroying itself)?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

See SacredExcrement's comment + links in the comment - https://hexbear.net/comment/5910892

Summary: They want chaos and they want Americans to feel pain so they can win (big) in the mid-terms. That seems 100% insane to me but it also seems in (perfect) alignment with their unwillingness to even put up symbolic resistance.