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Summary

U.S. Senators Gallego and Kelly warned Arizona constituents about Republican plans to slash Medicaid funding.

At a Scottsdale town hall, they urged voters to pressure GOP lawmakers, emphasizing that 600,000 Arizonans could lose healthcare if proposed cuts pass.

House Republicans recently passed a budget resolution directing $880 billion in cuts from programs including Medicaid.

The senators advocated for grassroots activism to "grind them down," despite audience concerns about Democratic strategies being too passive against Republican tactics.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Today, Democratic lawmakers announced their new Grand Strategy ^TM^ to fight the MAGAs that have taken over America: it's the fantastic new GIVE THEM EVERYTHING THEY EVER WANTED AND A PONY TOO! Plan! The maga's will be so tired from all the winning, they'll get all tuckered out and forget to destroy the ~~country~~ planet!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

"Our strategy is to play possum for two years and hope that Trump fucks up and the electoral process isn't irretrievably corrupted by then."

Don't rely on the Democrats. Organize and get out in the streets.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Democrats better realize the White House is occupied by a foreign power right now

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Unless the highly paid, conservative, neo-libetal consultants they hired that lost them multiple elections tell them to realize this, Democratic leadership won't.

[–] WoodScientist 48 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There are two parties in the US:

  1. Nazis.
  2. A nominal opposition party that is lead by Nazi collaborators.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)
  1. A nominal opposition party that is lead by Nazi collaborators.

Vichy America, here we come.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop on this Vichy thing. What's the reference?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

The French government under the nazis in WWII was the Vichy government, who collaborated with the nazi German government.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 17 hours ago

I wonder if they are designing new tiny signs?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The senators advocated for grassroots activism to “grind them down,” despite audience concerns about Democratic strategies being too passive against Republican tactics.

"You do it. We have a book tour to go on."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

"If you're successful, we'll claim the credit! And if not, well then, nothing to do with us....."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago

Unless more democratic leaders actually try to build grassroots, stuff like this is not very helpful. Because few have any clue how to do that, structures to rely on, support, or plans.

Unless any democratic leader offers a plan to make the red and purple states follow international guidelines for voting. All of this is just hot air.

So, doubly damned. And that not even getting into issues that would be very important were this a normal democracy. These issues don’t count now, which is the only reason efforts like this are not triply damned.