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Bernie Sanders blasts Trump for federal loans and grants freeze: ‘He is not a king’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Republicans, everyone who voted for him and everyone who decided to not vote or to vote for third parties all decided that he should be king.
Absolutely. There are also Dems in Congress/Senate that have been voting yea to his bills. It's disgusting.
"Yeah, every single Republican hates us and are openly corrupt, but like 2 Dems (usually caucusing Independents) are also bad."
Im confused, are we supposed to pretend that there aren’t also democrats that are voting for Trump initiatives? Because trying to remove accountability for that seems idiotic.
Drawing attention to the outliers that vote against party lines is something that is often done by concern trolls to argue both sides are the same and sow apathy for democrats. This is most noticeable around election time.
You may not be trying to do that but your comment resembles what they would say. Usually blaming all democrats for the actions of a few going against the party.
The Democrats (there's five or six of them) that are voting for Trumps insane bills need to be named and shamed. It doesn't have have anything to do with "both sides".
So name those Democrats instead of painting the whole party with the same brush as the Republicans
I never said all of them. You're way over reacting. The ones that are voting for the bills are easily found on the gov site that documents bills.
The comment you replied to literally says five or six of them.
Here's me naming and shaming them:
https://lemm.ee/post/53639210
Notice it's not the entire party like you dumbly assume for some reason.
I can see how your first comment would be construed as if there was a way more significant number of them. While you don't call out a number or say most/all/whatever, its so general that it could be read as implying many of them. A quick edit could clear that up for others.
Im not understanding what you're trying to say. There are five or so Democrats voting for Trumps antics. And yes, all the Republicans vote down the line, that's what they do.
100% this. He's going to operate as a king, and remove anyone in his way that disagrees. He will take every concession afforded to him by the spineless Republican party and some spineless Dems also.
Many people that voted for Bernie in 2016 voted for Trump in 2024. Many people eople who voted for Trump in 2024 also voted for AOC down ballot.
The Democratic party has basically made every single mistake they could possibly make in the last 8 years. To lost to fuckin Trump not once but twice is fuckin embarrassing.
Let's see if they learn anything by 2028. I doubt they will but here's to hoping.
I'm hoping the voters will learn again by 2028 if there are any left.
Yeah the Neolibs would rather burn the country down than lose power.
We need a new leftist party that isn't the Democrats.
The leftists were the ones who back Trump to own the libs.
Hopefully they realize their mistake for the next election.
Nice Strawman,
Now let's see Paul Allen's
Trump is full of McDonald’s not straw.
I'm pretty sure that people who didn't vote or voted for other candidates didn't decide he should be king, kind of by definition.
To quote rush
Nah they saw the choices and didn't care to participate in any meaningful way so they can't just wash their hands of the choice they made.
"If you don't want to eat your vegetables, then you can go to bed without dinner. Which do you want, vegetables or bed?"
"I WANT ICE CREAM!"
"That's it! GO TO YOUR ROOM!"
"I DIDN'T VOTE FOR THIS!"
This is the perfect analogy
Little did he know, there was a mini fridge at the room stocked with ice cream
And also an ICE squad, for extra care
I mean, Harris got more votes than Biden did in the majority of the swing states. It's okay to lay the blame squarely on the people who, you know, actually chose Trump.
And I did, along with the other people who are to blame.