@JohnCornyn No, it’s people like you who demoralize the base because you refuse to even try to fight for us. You’re fine with the status quo because you benefit from it. You learned too late that the status quo is where this country goes to die, & we refuse to let it go down without a fight.
After Reagan mopped the floor with Mondale in the 1984 Election, the Democrat Party needed to rebrand, and several Democrats formed what was known as the DLC (Democrat Leadership Council).
The DLC believed the Democrat Party went too far left and, in order to survive, needed to come back to the center to avoid alienating too many moderate voters.
Contrast that with what is happening now. After Trump swept all seven swing states and won the Popular Vote in 2024, instead of forming another version of the "DLC" the dems were hijacked by the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America).
Rather than coming back to the center, they have gone even FURTHER left, engaging in a full on embrace of Socialism and Communism.
The DLC saved the Democrat Party in the 80s... The DSA might destroy it in 2026.
Remember in November.
Everyone must vote. Nobody stays home.
Reject communism.
@ScottPresler What a jackwagon. Not cool to do this to Scott. @LeaderJohnThune your thugs are as pathetic as you are. Looks like you’re very, very afraid of losing your seat (and afraid of having to actually do work while you still hold it)…
The Left and Islam, these two ideologies should be at war, one claims to fight for feminism, LGBTQ rights, secularism, and equality, while the other is rooted in medieval theocracy, submission, and absolute control.
Yet, they’ve formed a perfect symbiotic relationship, using each other for power, influence, and the destruction of Western civilization from within.
For the left, Islam is a weapon.
It is the ultimate tool to dismantle Western values, weaken national identity, and push their own radical agenda.
They don’t care about Islam itself, they exploit it, knowing that the ideology carries a powerful victim narrative that they can weaponize against their political enemies.
The left thrives on oppression narratives.
Islam, with its deep-rooted sense of historical grievance, fits perfectly into the intersectional hierarchy of the “oppressed.”
The left despises Christianity because it upholds traditional morality. But they need a battering ram to dismantle it.
Islam, with its aggressive opposition to Christianity, becomes a convenient ally.
The left knows that Western-educated, patriotic voters won’t buy into their radical agenda.
So they import millions of people from Islamic countries who are more likely to vote for big government, hate Western traditions, and demand “tolerance” while refusing to assimilate.
The more chaos, the better, because a broken society is easier to control.
The left thrives on censorship.
What better way to shut down debate than by labeling any criticism of Islam as “hate speech”?
The left uses Islam as a shield, calling any factual discussion about jihad, sharia, or terrorism “racist.”
But Islam is not a passive tool, it is using the left just as much, if not more.
While the left believes it is controlling Islam, Islam is infiltrating and manipulating the left to expand its dominance.
Islamic jihadists understand that they don’t need a military conquest to take over the West, they just need to infiltrate.
With leftist backing, they gain positions in politics, media, academia, and law enforcement, where they can quietly reshape policy in their favor.
The left’s obsession with open borders and unrestricted immigration is Islam’s golden ticket.
Once a Muslim population reaches a critical mass, it doesn’t assimilate, it dominates.
London, Paris, and Sweden’s no-go zones are the results of Islam using democracy to establish enclaves where sharia law reigns supreme.
Islamic jihadists have learned to disguise their theocratic ambitions under the language of human rights.
They attach themselves to LGBTQ movements, feminist causes, and racial justice protests, even though Islam itself stands against everything these groups claim to support.
It’s a calculated move, gain leftist support, then turn against them when power is secured.
The left believes it can control Islam.
But history shows that every time Islam allies with a non-Islamic force, it ultimately turns against its so-called allies.
The communists in Iran learned this the hard way when they helped overthrow the Shah in 1979, only to be executed en masse by the same Islamic jihadists they had supported.
The same fate awaits the left.
Radical feminists think they’re empowering women, until they’re forced into hijabs.
LGBTQ activists think they’re fighting for equality, until they’re thrown off rooftops.
Socialists think they’re creating utopia, until they find themselves living under the Caliphate.
Islam is not here to be anyone’s pawn. It is here to conquer. And the left, in its blind hatred of the West, is paving the way for its own destruction.
These dudes right here are doing real hero shit on @lookner ‘s stream.
- Pancaked building.
- Extensive cracking in the remaining slabs.
- People and equipment running and moving around in proximity to the rubble.
- Risk for strong aftershocks almost certain.
And here’s where they earn true hero status.
- they’re doing this with no shoring to be found anywhere which given the scope/scale of the damage there is no way they’d have enough to go around anyway.
Without shoring to support the rubble giving you some layer of protection… These guys are rescuing people hoping to god above that the concrete above you doesn’t shift or break. Bc if it does, your done before you know your done.
Despite all the legit extreme risks, they are showing what the epitome of selflessness looks like. Kudos fellas.
This is one of the best illustrations of what socialism (in any form) does to the poor. It promises a ladder of programs & benefits but can’t lift people out of poverty. No country on earth has made the poor better off under socialist governments.
Islam isn’t an ally, it’s a conqueror.
The left, in its arrogance, thinks it’s just recruiting another group for its anti-Western crusade.
But Islam has no loyalty to progressive values.
The same radicals the left uses today will turn on them the moment they gain real power.
The left fights against the system that gave it freedom, while Islam fights to replace that system with submission.
When the dust settles, they won’t be partners, they’ll be enemies.
The left will be the first ones crushed under the very ideology they helped empower.
@LeaderJohnThune@TaxCuts Continuing to pretend we don’t exist and blocking the SAVE America Act…you are beyond tone deaf and I look forward to you losing your primary when your seat comes up, just like your buddies Cornyn and Cassidy.
This is the framing of a collectivist. The honest framing is the opposite: never in human history has so much wealth been produced and held by so many. The poorest American today commands comforts no king could buy a century ago. That is the achievement Sanders calls a crisis.
And notice the word he smuggles in beside wealth: "power." There is no power over men in a fortune. The men he names cannot tax you, jail you, or force you to do anything. Their only power is to offer you a product and try to persuade you to buy it. You are free to say no.
Real power over other men is the power to compel, and that lives in exactly one place: the government office Sanders has occupied for decades. He is describing the producer's freedom and calling it tyranny, while holding the one weapon that is actual force.
The inequality he hates is not wealth seized but wealth created. He resents that some men make more because they produce more. That is not the issue of our time. It is the oldest envy, walking around in an angry senator's suit.