I’m still waiting to see who these ‘radical left democrats’ are… cuz I’m more left and radical than ANYONE that’s elected currently. I don’t understand how that doesn’t just get old…
You’re not radical or left enough to have gone all the way around to being extremely right… it’s like a circle…
Edit: people obviously didn’t get the joke 🤷♂️
Horseshoe theory is bullshit.
The original spectrum is based on seating arrangements of the French ruling body after the revolution. Maybe that’s not a good model to begin with.
No it’s not. The political spectrum is two-dimensional not one dimensional. You’ve got radical left and radical right on one axis and then you’ve got authorian and libertarian on the other axis. Their can be, and has been, authoritarian left wing leaders. Trump is right and up. They’ve gone left and up, they haven’t gone in a circle.
It was a joke
They believe anyone who isn’t them is a radical leftist.
Yep, and that’s why Trump declared (specifically) antifa as a terrorist organization. Anyone that he wants to say is antifa, is now antifa.
Basically.
They could never really be a terrorist organisation, they spend most of their time arguing with each other.
First of all infiltrating these groups and causing infighting is the oldest trick in the book. So if this isn’t your full-time job, then familiarize yourself and stop giving free labor to fascists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
Second of all, who? Who are you talking about? Antifa is not an organization, not a group, there are no members. It’s like labeling Swifties as a terrorist organization, do you understand? It is not an organization, it is a blanket term for a subset of people who like Taylor Swift. Antifa is just a blanket term for anyone who opposes fascism. So yeah, they could never really be a terrorist organization, because first they’d have to become an organization.
No matter how far to the right democrats shift, republicans will always call them radicals.
It’s called Propaganda.
That’s hilarious. They weren’t even demanding anything substantial, like the abolition of ICE or the removal of National Guard troops for cities. They staked their claim on budgetary issues related to healthcare… and Trump couldn’t even stomach that.
Because he’s a brainless goblin that thinks that in any situation there has to be a winner and a loser, and he has to be the winner or he would be the loser. So if he doesn’t think he can win a situation he will refuse to engage in it, because he has the emotional maturity of a 4-year-old
Dude, be real.
A 4 year old acts better then this.
Schumer is going to give him such a tweeting 😡
I bet he’ll even follow it up with a strongly worded letter with at least 3 very strong points addressed to whomever will pay attention to him.
Only if the Baileys think that’s the right thing to do.
Oh, the idiots who wouldn’t even endorse Mamdani? Yeah, good job shitheads, go against the will of your own voters to try to stay on better terms with the worst people, who won’t even work with you.
Anyone who doesn’t kiss his ring is “radical left”
Isn’t he aiming for government shutdown since the beginning? After all he wants to be Orange Shitler.
Shutdown might help Trump to push his project 2025 agenda with no judges working and the justice halted.
I know that was Schumer’s excuse last time, but I’m not sure that really adds up. The federal courts can still fund themselves for a few weeks after a shutdown. Also, the lower courts are slowing Trump down, but the Supreme Court is consistently ruling in his favor. If anything, he should want the courts to be running as quickly as possible so he can keep appealing and getting the Supreme Court to overturn all the restrictions the lower courts are placing on him.
Plus, while ICE is being designated an essential agency and ICE agents are expected to fulfill their full duties during a shutdown, they do it without pay (and get back-pay when the shutdown ends). That’s not a big deal for a week, but if you stretch a shutdown out for a month, that starts to hurt. I’d like to see how loyal Trump’s dogs are when they’re not getting fed.
Schumer said after the fact, or his underlings leaked, that he knew public perception last time would have favored the Republicans even more as a result, as they successfully blamed the shutdown on Dems. But now he no longer sees this equation that way.
I’m not a big fan of his right now but I like to at least hope that level of strategy is actually happening
Schumer said after the fact, or his underlings leaked, that he knew public perception last time would have favored the Republicans even more as a result, as they successfully blamed the shutdown on Dems.
I’m not buying this narrative. After a solid year of democrats insisting that biden was pressuring netanyahu behind the scenes when absolutely nothing of the sort was actually happening, I place no faith at all in any assertion of what’s going on behind the scenes. This is a post facto justification of actions schumer took because he wanted to. If I were to give him the benefit of the doubt here and accept the “public perception wouldn’t be with us” narrative, the best I can say is that he’s a spineless amoral windsock who is utterly incapable of leadership.
But now he no longer sees this equation that way.
He’ll find some new excuse to cave. It may take time. He might actually go through with it this time, but it won’t last more than a week and there will be zero concessions for ending the shutdown.
Strong leadership can shape public perception, so if that’s true, it’s just a further indictment of his inability to lead. I have to assume that Schumer thought Trump wouldn’t be able to get enough House Republicans behind his bill, and had no plan for how the Senate would respond if he did. It’s the only possible explanation for why he would let every House Democrat take the position that the shutdown would be preferable to the bill, then make them all look like idiots a few days later. I don’t think there’s any strategy happening here.
Because all those precious checks and balances work right?
No pay for ICE et. Al.
The judges are helping him push P2025…
Inb4 anti-trump Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger gets called a “Radical Leftist”
Ok.
…and what if the Democrats try to shut it down, but Trump and Scotus figure out a way to not have a shut down without democrat involvement.
…there, that would be Trump in power permanently.
Trump and Scotus figure out a way to not have a shut down without democrat involvement.
When all rules are optional, that part isn’t really an “if”
Why would he? They’ll fold. Both of the are custard spined.
They’ll just roll over like they always do, what’s new?
