Well sounds like the Democratic leadership to aggressively court disgruntled voters and listening and addressing their concerns is off to a great start with this.

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      No, proven fact. Proven again and again and again.

      What is preventing you from knowing what your eyes can see?

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        The Washington Generals were controlled opposition for the Harlem Globetrotters. They never actually tried to win.

        Democrats do try to win and succeed about half the time. What my eyes see is that Republicans don’t want Democrats around to stop them from enacting more fascist policies. Democrats so far are one of the only major obstacles to that end.

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          If that obstacle is a speed bump that just lies there while it’s rolled over then sure.

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              Well they could have held up funding the entire budget, easily. They had that power and they pissed it away for nothing. They could also constantly bring up impeachment votes for trump and his appointees to get the republicans on camera backing unpopular actions up. When they fail to do that they fail to pin accountability on the republicans that would hurt them during reelection time. These are trivially easy things to do.

              Why do you keep running interference for failure Chonky? You seem to have a vested interest here. Ah I see. perusing your previous coments, I see pro AIPAC stuff. Got it.

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      Even if they aren’t controlled opposition and just completely incompetent, worthless, hypocritical assholes, their actions results in the same so F these guys.

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      I dunno, even if they aren’t, they are so ineffective that they kinda are doing that anyway

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        When you’ve got one side that mostly follows the rules and one side that mostly cheats, the side that cheats will usually win.

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          Most of the Dems aren’t really trying to follow rules or not tho. They’re just kinda sitting there watching it all happen.

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            Realistically what do they have the power to do that they aren’t doing? Republicans have control of the House, Senate, Judiciary and 27 state governorships.

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              No facts or historical perspective here, only “both sides same” on .world

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      If you don’t have at least one of the phrases “controlled opposition” or “manufactured consent” in your comment, you’re not really a good bootlicker for left-wing authoritarians.

      In b4 “All authoritarians are right-wing” and “No True Communist” objections.