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Suzanne Dallimore's avatar

Every candidate. D or R, should face electoral challenges.D3ms must earn out protest too. Nobody's entitled.

This us a Change election.

Diane J's avatar

Edwin and Eza are repeating(even the pearl clutching" comment)what I posted last week so it's good to know others feel the same as I do

Kathleen Morgan Hughes's avatar

This is my first time on here. I have seen you once before. I am happy to be here. What made me sign up to Lincoln Square was Susan Demas superior article this morning, entitled Democrats Just Failed Their Character Biggest Test. We will win the Primaries and I think its supierior and amazing what you have created these 10 yrs in our party .I think the biggest problem that will happen Day 1 after Midterms as we will all demand strength and not weakness and that they get immediately to work exercising what they are there to do - the Rule of Law. They must immediately biring trials and arrest every single one of these criminals. Yet simultaneoulsly the day after Midterms you are going to see a humongous divide and anger in the fractions of these Dems who have not been the Democrats since 2016. The lifelong Independent who I call Mr. Independent Dem4A Day Mr. Indepenent again 3:01am Nov 8 2016 is and never was a Democrat. His greed to take over both his party and our Democrats for personal gain is the issue. The issue is the Original Democrats are not imposters or phony. To have accepted the infiltration when this Democratic party is simply the Independent 3rd Party in disquise is the issue. Manipulation, deceit and traitorous is the issue that will never go away as our Identity was sabotaged. I have needed a 4th Party for 10 yrs and i said that long before Elon Musk. Integrity 1st. Honor Dignity and Respect we grew up with and believed our Capitol was based on from the centuries of soldiers who gave their lives for those seats they created the ones sitting there to represent. Bernie has been riding on Hillary's coattails since and Schumer and Pelosi let him using him for this short wave until 2018 and then dumped him. In the meanwhile they crapped on the majority of the popular vote we Hillary supporters. If it had stopped there it would have been in the past but this build has been a phony failed objective for Bernies own narcissssm trying to leach on and take credit and manipulate any one he can. Bernie prided himself on being a life long Independent. These Democrats have not been Democrats since 2016. They are an unreliable, untruthful greedy blind party. That is what i think will erupt after we get the Midterms because most of us have already disafffected along with the Republicands which brought me to Substack and to find Rick Wilson and see Stuart Stevens for the 1st time. I never forgot his great substack when he said the Democrats should create another Party and call it the American Partty and embrace the Repbulicans into it. As we all see it and I agreed 100%. Thes are the issuse that will be there the minute we finish this insanity and it cannot continue on being ignored. Bernie is NOT a Democrat and does not represent this party he represents is ego. He will use anyone and eveyone and turn on anyont to get it. I watched him the day after the Convention in 2016 on CNN when Jake Tapper or someone anchor told him The one inthe Oval now offered him to go to his side and I saw him heard him say yes. He did ths same switch on Pelosi the day after the Elelction last November. Until it is addressed that we all See what the deal it and until the hypocrisy in our own party is addressed I don't see many of happy with or uniting with the whatever this party that stole the orginal one any time soon. We are all here for our country.I think what will happen is some other 4th party will one day be formed. The Original Real Democrats Identity is Integrity, Truth, Guts, and Loyalty. Honor Dignity and Respect. I wanted to leave the Democratic Party offtne but Bernie has his original party too. So I have just been on an island without a Party or name but remain for our Country. My character has remained intact. As never once was I used. I know my Democratic Identity. I just stay disaffected waiting for it to come back. So that is something after midterms and this insanity is put to bed that all will turn around to face. We were the Party that were supposed to be the White Hats. We must be good to each other first and address our own hypocrisy before deal with Maga about their own and before we continue on. And No we won't step aside to dishonsesty and false identities. Character is the strength to be truth. To stand back up and to protect and regain what all this cost to other groups in the interim other issues such as the growing normalcy of misogyny this cost. Greed never gets away scott free I hear there are more conservative males in highschool in these generations. Well this all can be fixed. We get the hell up and put these fake Dems ni their place and grown them up becaue we have our own power the majority of the vote. Teh cost to issues like this can all be fixed. Once all realize no one is going to simply ignore bypass this and let whomeever presumes they benefitted from this take over continue. I do believe that uproar will eventually be resolved but i know from this article I am not the only one who knows this. Many of us pissed at our Party are not going to come back right away we are here for Democracy. Its the future elections and midterms you have to worry about because when all is calm and this gets ignored you wont' have our votes then. Susan's article was a dream to read and I signed up to Lincoln Square and am here. I am ready to listen read and learn whats going on with all with Lincoln Square. I speak my mind but and interested to see and listen to what is happening in this brand new area I have come to. I love your rationale and approach as you are correct once two people from opposite sides once they meet they can communicate and resolve. I am very happy to learn all of you have done and created this decade. I have a lot of catching up to do and am looking forward to it.

SLMontgo's avatar

Sunday, June 14, is FLAG DAY. I will celebrate FLAG DAY.

To hell with birthday parties for the mentally ill. Any excuse for attention.

Angie's avatar

Trumps party sounds like a damn nursing home gathering. Gross.

Diane J's avatar

Unfortunately, that's also a Democrat problem. We need younger, feisty people in office and Wasserman and the like need to retire.

P J Johnston's avatar

Actually the 4th of July is a celebration of the signing of the Constitution of the United State. Which was in Philadelphia (District of Columbia wasn't even around) Boston was also around. But the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence was a document that set credentials for "forming" a government. I know this. And that is why I don't quite understand why those in Washington DC feel that it's got to center around government in DC. "Good Trouble" is truly important! And yes we SHOULD be celebrating Pride Month and Juneteenth as well! I agree with Edwin the Dems need to get shit done not clutching pearls and asking why. It has to move in a much better direction. I do feel it's time for Chuck Schumer to retire. I do have to agree with Ezra that we as Democrats have to pick "qualified" people. I also do believe that money buys anything but people that are qualified do.

Tommye K Mayer's avatar

Let us not forget tha #LeaderJeffries has shepherded a record number of discharge petitions to a vote in the House. That is no small feat & I would argueFighting MAGA.

Diane J's avatar

Ewww. I'd rather celebrate the birthday of a screw worm than his, but I'll join yours for a bit and celebrate my anti-trump, Happy Birthday USA with my like-minded friends.

Nancy Ray's avatar

My daughter's birthday is also on the 14th. She can't wait 'til dRump is no longer, so she can reclaim her birthday!

Diane J's avatar

Hope she still has a wonderful birthday-I'll be celebrating hers with some anti-trump friends.

Protect the Vote's avatar

It’s The Nazi Republican Way

For decades the Nazi Republicans have been hell bent on eliminating the federal government "social safety net" that many less fortunate Americans rely on. This net includes Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security with their hardcore belief that the federal government is not a "cookie jar" for welfare queens and that all programs such as the Postal Service, Social Security should be privatized so that taxpayer $$ should be used to line the pockets of companies wanting a “piece of the action”. Indivisible’s Levin beautifully lays out the reason that the organization exists(https://bit.ly/4e7fwXd) and what alternative you can do instead Cheeto’s UFC crap.

Meanwhile spendthrift Nazi Cheeto has put us in a $2B/d war, awarded all his Nazi cronies no bid contracts far surpassing what they are worth, trying to pull $$ out of the treasury for his own needs, rob Americans with a tax called tariffs, bankrupting farmers with trade policies, forcing Americans with 401K plans to pay a now trillionaire millions of "compensation" for his DOGE government work, while canceling USAID which was saving lives in Africa and giving tax breaks for billionaires as he bankrupts the country. And the Nazi Republicans are trying to normalize all of this corruption. Nothing to see here. Oh, and BTW, rig the elections on the lie of fraudulent voting so that the Nazi Republicans can stay in office forever.

But this is the Nazi Republican way. The see the federal government is not to serve WE the People which is the government but to serve the rich and powerful, making them wealthier and dictators forever....selfish and for self aggrandizement. So in the end, it's what you believe is the role of government. I just prefer the former which our Constitution mandates.

Sher''s avatar

I will have no problem ignoring this trashes birthday.