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True Dough

(22,542 posts)
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:17 PM Mar 30

"The next president, if it comes from the Democratic Party, is going to be someone who wants to talk and heal."

Before revealing who that quote comes from, I'd like to know whether it strikes you as an accurate or inaccurate assessment.

Okay, now I'll let you know (if you didn't know already) that Bill Maher said it on his show on Friday night while interviewing Gavin Newsom.

I realize Maher is a polarizing figure and a lot of DUers resent him, but he make valid points at times, whether you love or hate him.


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CrispyQ

(39,390 posts)
2. Oh fuck Bill Maher.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:29 PM
Mar 30

Has he ever suggested they work with us? Has anyone? Not as far as I know. It's always on the dems to reach across the aisle. You don't work with fascists & that's that. As long as they work to roll back LGBTQ & reproductive rights & deny science they can fuck off.

Kid Berwyn

(19,777 posts)
4. Once maybe Justice could replace just-us.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:34 PM
Mar 30

That ship has sailed. But, I will work to bring it back to port, no matter how much it makes me feel like Sysiphus again.

alarimer

(17,072 posts)
5. Maybe some kind of "Truth and Reconciliation"
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:39 PM
Mar 30

But people actually have to tell the truth about what they did. I would hope that a few of Musk's code monkeys would tell the truth on pain of a long-term prison sentence.

But the people perpetrating this need to go to prison and we need to take steps that it doesn't happen again. Say, removing some presidential power. Maybe some agencies need to be separated from the Executive Branch (like Justice and Treasury).

But no "healing" without accountability.

tulipsandroses

(7,096 posts)
6. Amazing how some people are so eager for Democrats to " do the healing", ignore everything else
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:45 PM
Mar 30

Anyone that has been in a toxic relationship recognizes this pattern.
Let's make up - don't talk about the crappy things I did to you.

SWBTATTReg

(25,095 posts)
15. Your option sounds like the best option to me. I do want these thugs chased down, and thrown into jail for the
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:37 PM
Mar 30

numerous crimes against their fellow Americans, invasion of privacy, domestic widespread spying on the American people w/o cause, interfering w/ Americans' health care by dismantling health care for millions w/o cause or reason, such as yanking away Medicaid, rescinding previously granted grants and/or scholarships, gutting the future of tens of thousands of people all on a whim to stop fraud, w/ no real evidence.

And this time around, no more beating around the bush, throw them first in jail, and then let them work on their release from jail/home arrest, and not get away w/ anything like tRUMP did. Every one of these people should be up for insurrection, as a minimum. After all, they're the ones breaking the law, they're the ones falsely arresting people, and/or charging people w/ fake charges/trumped up charges. They're the ones stating that if any of us protest, we're subject to being arrested. Remember the one guy they grabbed, they claimed that he was already deported but in reality, he wasn't, they still had him and ignored the ruling of the Court.

Bettie

(18,109 posts)
9. No one EVER suggests that
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:57 PM
Mar 30

fucking Republicans "talk and heal" or "work across the aisle". NEVER.

They go scorched earth on everyone and we're supposed to roll over and be "nice" to them because....well, apparently, we're supposed to like getting shanked over and over and over.

andym

(5,926 posts)
10. The next President will talk, heal and have a strong vision for a better America: who can make e pluribus unum a reality
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:03 PM
Mar 30

E pluribus unum-- out of the many (people), one (nation)-- which requires diversity (pluribus) and inclusion to get to one nation (unum). The vision should be economic and cultural-- but uniting the country is a key.

tonkatoy8888

(59 posts)
12. Nope
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:14 PM
Mar 30

When the word healing is used in the context what a Democratic president must do after an election, it means only one thing. Democrats must enact the policies of the party they just defeated at the polls.

Done with that.

AZProgressive

(29,459 posts)
14. I want a Democratic President that would undo the damage the Trump administration caused
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:19 PM
Mar 30

Like how I wanted Obama to undo the damage that Bush caused.

Frasier Balzov

(4,201 posts)
16. Grabbing the wheel and veering left
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 03:09 PM
Mar 30

just perpetuates the problem of pissing off the other half the electorate.

That impulse to grab the wheel and veer recklessly off is what is causing Trump to lose support.

Rather than a mandate, it reveals an unspoken fear that you don't have much time to get radical changes done.

Something as big and important as the federal government needs to be steered with incremental course corrections.

Leaving the least offensive changes in place which were enacted by your opponent is a bitter pill to swallow.

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