• NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    This followed the creation of gerrymandered congressional maps by Florida Republicans that broke Wasserman Schultz’s current seat into five shards. She decided against running in the 22nd district, where she lives, and chose instead to compete in the deep blue 20th, which has been represented by Black Democrats for more than 30 years.

    So basically, she picked the most blue district presumably because of better future-election job security. And there’s something so poetic about the fact that she did what she thought was the safest long-term choice, while completely ignoring that that will probably set her up for failure in the short-term. Because the most blue district would demand the most blue candidate, which she is most certainly never going to be.

    The primary isn’t decided but I genuinely hope someone so eager to live by ineffectual democratic establishment thinking can also die by it.

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      22 days ago

      I blame her for a lot of the Bernie shafting in 2016, so in a way I blame her for Trump. Fair or not it’s how I feel when I see her stupid face.

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    Man, I don’t really follow Florida’s primaries and I’m pretty progressive… But dang I hope she loses and that loss is massive. Lady is an insult to progressive politics. Besides she’s made a massive pile off of stock trading, so getting her out is one more gone.

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    22 days ago

    Title is kinda like, “water is wet” but I do like that they’re starting to put famously dogshit establishment shills on the chopping block.

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    21 days ago

    Wow. She is still an insider? I guess that makes me lose a bit of faith that the democratic party vibrates cleanly. Ignore your dissonance with each other until after trump is unseated then you can quibble about “party philosophy” down the road a bit.

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      21 days ago

      If we do not shake the establishment to its core, nothing will actually change. How many times have Democrats held power and refused to act boldly?

      I’m done. I will continue to vote for fresh ideas and people who act with integrity and transparency.

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    20 days ago

    They are already planning to keep Schumer as Israel’s prime representative in the Senate, and Wasserman Schultz as their representative in the House.

    Let’s throw a monkey wrench into their plans, and get rid of both of them. Make Israel find new contacts, now that being associated with Israel is a Democratic career-killer.