There is no difference between Republicans and Establishment democrats.
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Their common ground is trying to stop the DSA and actual progressives making them look bad. It's an existential threat to their status quo of corruption.
Potential areas of common ground
Just sounds like Kushner is trying to buy up public land again
Why the hell is Kushner involved in american federal politics?
Because Trump can't do the blackmailing himself to get Jeffries inline.
Kushner can do whatever the fuck he wants too, he's not tied to any laws beside Saudia Arabia's because that's where he lives.
Anyone with residence outside the USA are not required to follow the law when visiting the USA? So disband ICE because foreigners can do no wrong?
Making leaps there. He's running the US while not a citizen or under the regulations of international diplomats or anything. He's just a middle eastern(now) guy that bought trumps daughter.
Did you read your own comment?
Yeah. What issue do you have? He's been in the middle east for no one knows how long, he's talking to democratic minority leaders, and is running us foreign policy. He's running the US from Saudi Arabia, he lives there and he's no one but a rich boy that made a deal to marry trumps daughter.
Money and corruption run strong in both cases. I'm not sure why they had to pretend like they met about other things.
You don't compromise with a fascist. You can only become compromised by a fascist.
You can only ~~become compromised by~~ show that you’ve been a fascist the whole time.
Birds of a feather
including possible areas of common ground
The ultimate one is a zionist supremacist genocidal radical religious establishment/Mossad rule over the US. How they can cooperate to diminish DSA, and block all progressive agendas.
Fuck Jeffries. We have the worst possible most incompetent dem leadership at the most critical time in American history. Jeffries is an absolute piece of shit and will go down in history as one of the major players in the destruction of the U.S. because of how fucking dumb he is.
They're not incompetent. They're doing exactly what they're paid to do. They are liars, frauds, and traitors, but they are paid to do so by the Epstein class.
by the Epstein class.
By corporations. Sure some of them are run by Epsteins clients, but the underlying problem is broader and structural, not moral.
Quite right, which is why I referred to a class, rather than to individuals.
The whole school of corruption needs highlighting. E.g. 2bn of crypto corruption has nothing to do with Epstein, but shouldn't be overlooked.
We're using "Eptein class" as a catch all synonym to the oligarch class or really the capitalist class. It avoids reactions to the word capitalist among normies who still consider themselves capitalists. People tend to "just get it." I think it's a good slogan for agitprop.
OK, as shorthand.
It's too stale, male and pale for all cases.
"The Epstein Class" intentionally incorporates those that were Epstein's clients and those who are merely wealthy enough to be, but may not have been. This is good for several reasons, including the tying of the moral to the structural (as symptom, not cause) and creating pressure and division within that class. It does not suggest a lack of structural failure.
It is correct to call them the Epstein class.
I'm not excluding these people, but by relating this to Epstein specifically you are excluding all the corporate corruption that is unrelated to abusing children.
All corporate corruption is related to abusing children.
Always was...
Disagree. Only some corporate corruption is.
Think a bit wider than sexual abuse.
Why did nobody primary him?
This is the fall of the Weimar Republic, part two.
I beg to differ. He is a whole sack of shit
Nobody wants Jefferies as speaker. So once again it's a bag of shit the only difference is it has a ribbon on it. America is fucked.
The fact that they are both loyal to Israel first and foremost?
A politician chosen for leadership based on fundraising ability finds more common ground with rich assholes across the aisle than with their own voters? Color me shocked.
Look, he’s not supporting Medicare for all or universal healthcare, but he’s willing to start conversations about planning conversations about concepts of a plan to improve healthcare for undefined people, what more do you people want
Translation: The think tanks haven't told me how to push back against what all my voters want yet.
I wouldn't call Matt Yglesias a tank or accuse him of having thoughts.
"Look, we both butter our bread at Epstein's table. Let's make a final decision to publicly support the Israeli genocidal state and only support the Saudi genocidal state on the down-low."
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Let me guess, their common ground were bank accounts...
Common criminal goals?
Jefferies sucks.
And it’ll be used against Dems if there are any bumps in the road. It’s a carrot before the midterms, and T has a grip on the stick.
If you have common ground with a Nazi you're a Nazi.
This is absolutely what democratic voters want
Jefferies want low Dem turnout to slightly increase his odds of pushing out Martin after midterms so they can get a neoliberal morning the presidential primary again. Even if that means two more years of Republicans having House and Senate.
He's gonna keep doing stupid shit, I've been calling it for months and it's nowhere near as bad as it can get yet.
If Dems take the House on a wave of progressives, there's no way he gets Speaker now that the DNC can't us the VF as a club to get him the votes.
For him personally his career is over if all the progressives who won their primaries win their generals. He's afraid he's gonna get Paul Ryan'd.
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Nice to know they're planning on how to enact fascism in the best way possible.
Disgusting fascist fellating fuckfaces. Do we need any more proof that Jeffries and the "moderates" need to be ejected from our political process? Not just the Democratic Party, the whole damn process.
No, thank you. I don’t trust either. Jeffries, you’re too centered,pal. Fuck off.
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