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SpankMe

(3,764 posts)
14. "Waaah! But, what can Dems do? They are not in power. Waaah!"
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:36 PM
Oct 2025

I ask in this forum - where are the Dems? Why aren't they responding to Republican overreach?

I often get the bullshit response that how can the Dems do anything? They're in the minority. Total surrender and defeatism.

Well, Newsom is doing exactly the thing that Dems should be doing. Exercising what power HE has to push back on Republican assholery.

I'd go even further. I'd deny students from other states admission to any California funded college or university if that state's curriculum included any Prager U bullshit or had amended their standards to address to any of Trump's "improper ideology" such as sanitized accounts of slavery, "American exceptionalism", Christian dominance and any other re-purposed Nazi bullshit that party is all about.

I just wish other Dem governors would start playing hardball like this.

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Excellent flamingdem Oct 2025 #1
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He's got my vote flamingdem Oct 2025 #9
Fabulous!!! Kathy? How about it, girlfriend?? Scrivener7 Oct 2025 #2
Fighting fire with fire! SunSeeker Oct 2025 #3
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Right on to my birth state - yay!!! n/t iluvtennis Oct 2025 #8
Fuck yeah! KPN Oct 2025 #10
Yeah, I'm in agreement. Buddyzbuddy Oct 2025 #11
Good, thank you....... Butterflylady Oct 2025 #12
USC is private not a State University maxsolomon Oct 2025 #13
So is Harvard. However, every university has a category called Contracts & Grants... Hekate Oct 2025 #15
USC Private, not State University howardmappel Oct 2025 #16
"Waaah! But, what can Dems do? They are not in power. Waaah!" SpankMe Oct 2025 #14
Responding to thought of the other Dem governors doing this... FemDemERA Oct 2025 #17
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