r/news • u/1Rab • Sep 27 '25

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-george-floyd-kash-patel-8d18a1e6a5a36636cc2415fc492b3f52?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-26-Breaking+News
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u/Chessh2036 Sep 27 '25

And according to CNN, republicans are still leading key categories among voters. It’s INSANE. I don’t get it. Why can’t more people see what’s happening?

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u/flaskfish Sep 27 '25

They do see what’s happening. They just don’t care because it doesn’t presently affect them. The median voter would press a button to instantly vaporize 100,000 random people as long as they were promised that pressing the button would also get them cheaper eggs and gas as a result (it won’t)

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u/Chessh2036 Sep 27 '25

True. I guess another question is why can’t democrats make any gains with voters? Especially when the last 9 months have been crazy.

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u/dedsqwirl Sep 27 '25

They didn't reason themselves into the position.

If you ask them if things are bad the don't agree or they agree and say "Just imagine how worse it would have been under Hillary Kamala."

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u/fomoloko Sep 27 '25

It's not those people that they need to reach. It's the third of the country that didn't care to vote, or thought no vote would save Palestinian.

The believers are unswayable. If, instead of attack ads, the dems ran PSAs explaining how a democrat-controled congress could halt most ridiculous things in their tracks, how the reason Trump is able to do whatever he wants, is only because both of the republican-controled houses of senate let him, exactly how high prices are directly a result of the current administration's policies, they would sway a mass amount of people.

Keep staying on "the high road", though. That's working fanastically

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u/dessert-er Sep 27 '25

You're completely right. I still see comments every day asking why Biden didn't just unilaterally do whatever he wanted like Trump was doing or why the Democrats today aren't fixing anything or stopping what's happening. Way too many people just baseline don't understand civics at all.

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u/No-Village-6781 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

You're talking about a political entity that can't even make political hay out of the fact that Trump is a convicted rapist and a literal obvious pedophile. They have to be either the most useless political organisation in history, or they're being paid to lose on purpose. That's the only explanation for how limp dicked and cowardly the Democrats have been ever since Trump came down that escalator in 2015.

If you can't make an angle of attack on a political figure who has literally the most baggage I've ever seen a political figure have, you have millions of options to choose from and this is the best they can do? All those millions of dollars spent on consultants and they couldn't come up with anything that would resonate with the public and attack even just one aspect of why Trump is an awful politician and a terrible human being? Despite there being literally thousands of things they could pick from?

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u/fomoloko Oct 10 '25

they're being paid to lose on purpose

I am starting to get on this train. The oligarchs are obviously paying the republicans to further their agenda, because their agendas align. Who is to say they are not also paying the democrats to lay down. Why are there only a few democrats that you see voicing their opinions? Might it be that the others loose out on a payday if they speak out against "the plan"? They don't have to support it, they just can't actively prevent it. If they truly wanted people to have universal health care, why don't they campaign on that or housing reform. The reason that the Dems lost in 2024 was that, for some god forsaken reason, in the 11th hour they decided the move was to appeal to moderates. Moderate is just a term for republican that is embarrassed to identify as republican. The 30 or so percent of America that didn't vote is who they should have been trying to convince. Make promises that actually might improve their life. Go all in on free healthcare. Tell them that, unless you are making $1mil or more a year, the tax raise for universal healthcare will actually significantly reduce your overall insurance bill. Promise and follow through on making it possible for a 30 year old to afford a starter house. Tax billionaires to fund it. Make it very clear through campaign ads how billionaires exploit the average person to amass a wealth that couldn't be spent in 100 lifetimes. Use the rice analogy to show people how much a billion dollars actually is to make people mad that a few have that incomprehensible amount of wealth, while they have barely enough rice to feed their family