Rich people have no allegiance to party, just who can get me what I want.

I hear you man and unfortunately 3rd parties will never be viable with these kinds of Democrats around who won’t support ranked choice or another system of voting.

If you have a couple of thousand like minded individuals, I’d say do a coordinated priest vote with a specific message of your refusing to vote for people who can’t stand up to the GOP even for your 1st amendment rights like those in the Dearborn Abandon movement did.

Otherwise you’d just have to decide if it’s worth it to you to hold your nose and slow walk the decent into fascism or go acceleration and live with the consequences of a quicker decent while continuing to fight for better candidates via progressives in the primaries. No real good options otherwise.

That’s where you’d have to have a coordinated protest vote to be able to focus the message of why you’re doing the protest vote, otherwise it’s an exercise in futility and just the Republican won.

As much as I disagree with the Michigan Abandon voters at the time, still do to a degree mostly due to the whining afterwards, that focused, poignant, abstained really had a outside impact even when overall it did nothing to the overall state election. I think it’s something that really did push progressives forward in this latest primary and why that 30 million feel flat.

I’ll keep looking forward to the next batch of primaries and how progressives and the DSA move forward.

And you’re the useful idiot that Republican-lite love. Vote blue no matter who, never think about changing the status quo, never hold them accountable for their actions. Just keep on swimming. They love their moderate do nothing useful idiots.

And abstaining from voting as a form of protest is a time honored tradition. But sure go ahead and provide proof that Republicans are pushing abstaining from voting. They’re pushing propaganda about the security of voting to enact laws curtailing the right to vote, plenty of evidence for that. Honestly, you sound like conspiracy theory Republican with your bought and paid message speil, going to blame it on George Soros next?

As far as you state abstaining/protest voting does nothing, I believe it does depending on how it’s done. We’ve certainly seen how it has changed politics with Ross Perot and how it lead to MAGA. We’ve seen how it affected things recently with Dearborn abandon voters and how their stance has accelerated saying fuck AIPAC.

No thanks to your moderate paradise of slow walking fascism, I’ll consider acceleration and live with the consequences sooner rather than later.

The truly moronic response is the dumbass Republican-lite members who continue to vote the same repeat fascist enabling assholes in the Democratic primary, forcing the rest of us to choose between two fucking fascist every god damn November.

No thanks, tired of your Republican-lite bullshit than keeps slow walking us right into fascism. I’d much rather see a good coordinated protest vote like those Abandon voters in Michigan.

Sigh…

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/06/are-businesses-absorbing-the-tariffs-or-passing-them-on-to-their-customers/

And did you have a point on the cases of companies that didn’t? The answer to that is blatantly obvious and not that deep.

Yeah, he’s shit but I mean, Texas. Not saying he gets a pass but, Texas.

And as I replied to your other post, yeah I read the number wrong and that’s definitely on me for doing so but here’s the clerks office page that provided the results of the for passage on this HR.

The vote happened man, the progress bar is behind, it’s going to the Senate and you moderates enabled it to happen. Remember that on November when you vote to protect democracy.

Yep, your right, I read the number wrong. The page is behind, the clerks page logged the votes today on the resolution. That’s definitely my bad.

I posted the roll call of votes. They voted, it passed. The progress bar is behind.

ETA: Oh hey look, the admin woke up this morning after work and updated the progress bar that apparently is the only way to determine that the vote that passeed, passed.

And thanks for helping giving us that bullshit choice by voting for fascists enablers in the primaries. Thanks but I’ll vote for the Democrats who didn’t vote for diet fascism and continue to vote for actual Democrats and progressives in the next primary.

Assuming these chuckle fucks don’t vote to get rid of elections in there effort to be bipartisan by literally voting for fascism.

Top notch job opposing fascism by LITERALLY voting for fascism.

With those actions, you’ll surely ensure that fascism won’t take hold.

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026295

Ah, I see you choose to be obtuse and dense as a fruit cake.

You mean the people who refused to get up and leave and then voted for fascism are just as culpable? Yes.

You mean a leadership that will do fuck all to punish these Republican-lite assholes for literally voting for Nazi policies are just as culpable. Yes.

The other members who left the table and voted no on this issue. No. For now.

There it is! The desperate bullshit of the Republican-lite. It’s better to slowly get to the fascist state than quickly getting to the fascist state. It’s not about the voting for fascism, it’s about the journey. And look, there’s that whole weak-ass whataboutism I’ve come to know and love, the buttery males of the moderate democrat that MLK warned us about.

We’re not talking about the inconsequential bullshit, performative condemning socialism and who gives two fucks about Republicans, who are fascist, didn’t condemn fascism. Scorpions were scorping, oh noes! We’re talking about 33 god damn horrible Republican-lite assholes that literally voted for letting the government stifling free speech they don’t like, a hall mark of a fascist regime.

Absolutely pathetic.

And when does the whole “still better than nothing” stop being a viable option when you’re still marching toward fascism with no meaningful resistance from the supposed opposition?

Honestly it’s past time to stop voting for these Republican-lite, fascist enablers.

Brings to mind that saying about sitting for dinner with 9 Nazis right?

I have to agree.

I remember saying this way back when DLSS and FSR were first released and though I was excited at the fact my old card would last just that little bit longer with a hit to visuals that this would end up being a vendor locked, crutch that will be detrimental to gaming in the long run.

That long run didn’t take very long to get here and even worse than I thought it would have ever been.

Not surprising considering most companies have no plans to refund the consumer for the tariff costs they passed on because there’s no regulation forcing them to do so.

So the other day I asked what the Republican-lite supporters excuse for Democrats once again saving Republicans and then also voting to condemn socialism and now this.

So what’s the excuse du jour for supporting fascism? Literally voting to punish speech here, what’s the excuse?