barneypiccolo

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I have seen articles saying that a Zohran win would force the Democratic Party to face change, and acknowledge the rising progressive movement. Let's see if they accept the changes, or they fight against it. I suspect they'll fight, but if other elections start moving left, they'll be forced to change.

The next big test will be the mid-term primaries. Hopefully, this win will encourage progressives to run, and hopefully they'll win enough primary races to become a serious threat, especially against Establishment Dems.

And I hope one of them is AOC primarying Chuck Schumer. That spineless, whining bitch has got to go. He holds a lot of the blame for the rise of MAGA.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Get a bidet, and it makes it easier to put a day or two between showers.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

They aren't looking for reasons to help people, just reasons to deport, no matter how thin.

I have friends who are naturalized citizens, often for decades, and all say they aren't worried, but I am. These people don't even respect Birthright Citizenship, which guaranteed in the Constitution, they certainly aren't going to respect naturalized citizens. I've heard reports that they are combing through everyone's files, looking for any discrepancy, and if they find ANYTHING, they'll lose their citizenship or green card.

Bottom line: If you are from somewhere else, they want you out.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Today, ICE also publicly beat up and detained a guy with three sons who are Marines.

I hope these stories circulate through the active duty guys, and they think about it when Hegseth orders them to fire on American protesters.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

As did America, before the Homeland Security Act.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

They can hire my consulting company, which includes all the others that were in my department (except Aaron in accounts payable, you know why Aaron). Everybody's pay would triple.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

There's no magic wand required, the Biden administration just had to do their job, and enforce the 14th Amendment/ Section 3. But they didn't, and here we are.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It will be heavily boycotted. It will be MAGA-approved athletes getting their asses kicked by the Russians and the Chinese.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 35 points 1 month ago (8 children)

We did just fine without them for centuries.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Good suggestions. They actually like to get me little guitar stuff, or music books, I just have to steer it to them, so I put it all into an Amazon list. This year, I'm going to direct them to Stillwater, and give Amazon less business.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why send him to a prison at all? I get that they may have grounds to send him anywhere except El Salvador, but why does it have to be a prison? From what I know, he wasn't detained for any crime, other than being undocumented. So send him to a country that will receive him, and release him. It doesn't have to be some terrible prison Hell.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A Progressive 3rd party only strengthens the MAGA Nazis. Preserve the structure, and just take over the party, the way the MAGAs took over the Republican party

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