Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Jimmy Dore: You're Supposed To Be Nice To Me" video.

@coryddp7254 Dore promoted Trump (who ran on ACA repeal) as the better option than Clinton (who ran on lowering Medicare to 55), not caring if millions on Medicaid expansion and with preexisting conditions could lose their healthcare, not caring to get millions more on Medicare. He thought Republicans would join the left to stop the Trump agenda, rather than joining him in overt fascism. He thought Trump filling multiple scotus seats was as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan. During the 2020 primary he didn't back Bernie (M4A). During the general, he basically ran an attack ad campaign against Trump's only viable opponent, Biden (public option + lowering Medicare to 60), again not seeming to care if Trump won, not caring if millions lost their healthcare, not caring if Trump killed thousands more with incompetent covid response, and again not backing adding millions to Medicare. He didn't know how the speaker vote actually works. He promoted that 15 progressives should "withhold" their votes (he didn't say cast protest votes). 15 abstentions + 2 unfilled seats, would lower the threshold needed to win down to 210. If the 211 Republicans voted McCarthy, he'd win. He spouted strawman bullshit, as if AOC had campaigned on paralyzing the house, or even threatening to paralyze the house, when she didn't. He also promotes going third party. The Libertarian party is almost 50 without ever having won a seat in congress. Dore doesn't give a fuck about the reality that going third party won't get anyone healthcare, and could just split progressive voting enough to hand the Dem party totally back to corporate Dems and let Republicans rule for decades, destroying healthcare even more. He's an asshat, and doesn't actually give two shits about anyone else getting healthcare.
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@camelopardalis84 She went all covid isn't as bad as people make out, promoting herd immunity, promoting it'll be better when warm weather hits, etc. She has attracted a bunch of Trumpists, like Jimmy's constant Dem bashing has.
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@EnviousNV_ Not really. On top of him not knowing how the vote works. None of them thought of other options than Pelosi simply bending over. She could have just let them paralyze the house, and let the corporate media have a field day blaming progressives for no new covid relief, no new unemployment extensions, no new vaccine funding, etc., during a pandemic. She could have made a deal with Republicans, and give them something in exchange for enough of them abstaining or being absent to lower the threshold needed to win. A couple times in the past, the house also simply adopted a temporary plurality wins rule, to end the house being paralyzed. They have overestimated just how much leverage progressives actually have, based on only considering one possible outcome.
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