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Elissa Slotkin can fuck off.
Detailing her plan, Slotkin – a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency…
Oh, she can really fuck off.
Edit:
“I can’t do what she does because we live in a purple state, and I’m a pragmatist,” she concluded.
This is code for not rocking the boat.
So abandon economic justice and civil rights.
Is there anything left?
The color blue, instead of red.
The democrats were never left.
Let's get back to our controlled opposition roots.
Thats the ratcheting effect
I would encourage everyone to watch the video of her speech. The title of this post is incredibly misleading. And takes points out of context.
Lol wow..
Elissa Slotkin IS the oligarchy. She is the Hot Dog Princess. Her grandpa owned BallPark Franks—subsidiary of the Tyson Foods megacorp. Every time someone eats a hot dog, Elissa gets more passive income than most folks earn from a year’s labor.
She sucks, I voted for Harper in the primaries but the Dems are full of neo-libs like her. It's hard to see that party go more liberal even with Sander's and AOC's help
They actively work against Sanders and AOC. Both are the enemy to the average corporate-whore Dem.
"Not resonating with voters"
Bernie and AOC's "Fighting Oligarchy" campaign is pulling in more people to their rallies than attended Obama's in 08.
Don't peddle that horseshit you Liberal traitor.
We don't need more "pro-israel centrists"
The reason Dem turnout in generals is depressed, is our choices are CIA war criminals like Slotking or a republican.
She is the problem, not the 99.9% who don't want an oligarchy
Here's who her donors are, if that's of interest to anybody
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/elissa-slotkin/summary?cid=N00041357
No, she can fuck off.
The oligarchy is killing us, and spinning language won’t change that. Meanwhile, ‘woke’ just means ‘social empathy’, which is ironically the solution to many of the problems the oligarchy is causing (and they’re not shy about this – Musk recently said empathy is bad).
We need more ‘woke’, not less. And being butthurt that the fascists are using ‘woke’ as a slur against us is childish and easy to ignore if you’re not too simple to get it.
Fuck this. I’m woke and proud of it. We all should be.
Maybe the democrats need to ditch pro-oligarchy anti-woke members 🤷♂️
Way to advertise what side she's really on.
The oligarchy pays me to pretend to fight for you! Wait. Cut that part.
So many people will say "this is a gross oversimplification, they do lots of progressive things" while ignoring the world around them.
The fact we had to invent a political term for them is enough to tell me that we need to abandon this fascist supporting party.
Her name is: Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
Just so you don't accidentally vote for her.
I can’t do what [AOC] does because we live in a purple state, and I’m a pragmatist
"It's pragmatic for me to avoid making my Republican donors upset." What an idiot.
Willfully or blindly ignorant, but the result is the same.
Man I figured this was paraphrased because I can't trust a headline nowadays even if it used quotes but nope. Used those exact terms in that way. Says to retake flag energy. Fuck that nationalist shit. Definately need to redefine patriotism around the constitution and civil rights but sure as shit not around the flag. The flag is a symbol of the ideals that should be respected not a thing itself to respect.
She’s sorta right. ‘Oligarchy’ is a big college word that Joe Bumblefuck doesn’t understand.
Aristocrats is a good word, but again: “duh?”
Therefore Dems just need to start harping about “rich fucking parasites”
Yep, this is a branding issue.
Oligarchy => "rich fucking parasites"
Woke = equality (equity too, but stick with equality for sake of simplicity)
And this is why we need more decent folk around the country like AOC to run for any and all offices.
The unfalsifiable orthodoxy. Moving to the far-right and appealing to moderate Republicans win elections. If a Democrat wins, it proves that this works, if a Democrat loses, they just hadn't moved far-right enough.