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Ex-MAGA Rep. Joe Walsh announced Tuesday that he is joining the Democratic Party

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Ex-MAGA Rep makes the ultimate (and shocking) anti-Trump move

This former GOP lawmaker just made the ultimate move to combat Donald Trump’s agenda.

Former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh announced Tuesday that he is joining the Democratic Party—a shocking move for a self-described “freedom-loving conservative” and staunch supporter of the Tea Party movement. Walsh was an initial supporter of Trump, but broke with him over disagreements with his policy during the first term.

“Three words I never thought I’d ever utter: I’m a Democrat,” Walsh wrote in his blog post. “This former Republican Congressman, former Republican candidate for President, this former TEA Party champion is formally joining the Democratic Party.”

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This...pretty much describes the Democratic Party in general: mostly full of people who, by the standards 20 years ago, would've had an R by their names.
Both parties are a cancer at this point.
- Absolutely correct. Both sides are sold out ... but MAGA doesn't even bother to keep it a secret because their cult followers are so stupid they just have to say "fake news".
- Oh, apolitical, eh, very nice. An’ how’d you get that, eh? By exploitin’ the practical realities of competent governance — by ‘angin’ on to outdated ego-driven dogma which perpetuates the economic an’ social differences in our society! If there’s ever going to be any progress . . .
  
  Dennis, there's some lovely filth down 'ere
- I really think they (the Rs) are doing this on purpose to fundamentally change the other party and force it to move. It’s part of a plan to destroy their opposition by diluting it so badly that it implodes and they have no real opposition.
- Nope. 20 years ago all Republicans were voting for tax cuts for the rich just like today and 20 years ago even fewer Dems were voting against tax cuts for the rich than today. Dems stopped moving to the right about 25 years ago and since then have been moving left, although way too slowly.
- So democrats are republicans with a sense of shame?
  Yeah I can see that
  
  Some Democrats. The "leadership" doesn't.
  
  Where's the shame?
  
  So democrats are republicans with a sense of shame?
  Nope. There is a very easy objective way to tell Republicans and Democrats apart. Republicans are politicians who vote for huge tax cuts for billionaires and Dems are politicians who vote against it.

The Dems are now far right enough that republicans who are “republican lite” can join.
- Repubs are so far right, anyone who isn't a fascist is leaving.
  
  Just the one though
  
  My god, how far we have fallen to describe the Tea Party politicians as "isn't a fascist."
- https://thehill.com/policy/finance/137156-obama-says-hed-be-seen-as-moderate-republican-in-1980s/
- They are only both right wing if you have a euro-centric perspective. Many if not most nations are still debating liberalism vs authoritarianism rather than capitalism vs anticapitalism.
- It's so much easier to move a window if both sides are cooperating.

In tonight's headlines, man with red front door paints it blue. Contents behind front door remain unchanged. More at 6.
- Except he'll likely vote along party lines most of the time too. That's the point of changing party affiliation; to indicate how you'll be voting in the future.
  Edit: forgot, former rep. Yeah, it doesn't matter really, but it didn't matter before either. It may help sway some of his followers, but he didn't have enough of those to be elected so probably not a huge deal.

Any time a politician switches parties my first instinct is their district flipped, and it's just opportunism. It's not always true, but you could make a lot of money betting on it.
- Joe Walsh hasn’t been in Congress since 2013. Tammy Duckworth took the seat after he served one term. This is simply a conservative who doesn’t like what AnCap fascism looks like IRL.
  
  Sure. Let me just go check something....
  "Joe Walsh represented Illinois's 8th Congressional District from 2011 to 2013. The district currently leans Democratic (Cook PVI: D+5) and is represented by Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi, who has announced a 2026 U.S. Senate bid."
  I'm gonna wait until 2026 before I let him off the hook.

He's can feel free to join whatever party he wants.
Democrats would be wise, which they clearly are fucking not, to ignore this asshole.
- They will welcome any who oppose the GOP’s fascism.
  
  Idk what yo tell you, but Democrats leaning harder to the right is clearly not a winning strategy for them.
- Have a feeling by tomorrow he'll be backhanding the Dem party left and right.
  "If Trump can drive me into this bunch of pussies, he must really suck" etc just to make his point.
  Then in 2 months he can switch back.

That's the same mother fucker I shut down on Reddit many years ago when he started popping off about how there is no reason for abortion in an AMA.
I simply replied to his idiotic statement:
Ectopic Pregnancy
1 in 40 chance
SOURCE
Sorry, I've since forgotten which article I cited in my original post. The word "SOURCE" was a link to an NIH article that I was citing. I can't find it now and the original post is lost to my deleting my Reddit account.
But it was enough to cause the jack ass to back pedal and make a public announcement that abortion was OK for ectopic pregnancies specifically.
It was also my highest rated comment on Reddit ever.
Fuck Joe Walsh. He's an asshole that should be no where near a public office of any kind.

further rot it from within

Here's basically all you need to know about him, to judge him as a person: He fell for Sacha Baron Cohen's bit "kinderguardians", which was about training toddlers with firearms.

No thanks, keep the traitors out.
- We must keep the bloodline pure.
  https://images.app.goo.gl/KCkFfzHYpAHjXjNg9

It's a plot to get re elected.
Nothing else.
Fuck politicians and their sleezy ethics.

So what he's saying is he's going to run as a Democrat then once he wins switch back to Republicunt. Got it. We've seen this before, you ain't original.
This should should be fucking illegal!!! You should be removed from office immediately and thrown in jail for that shit! But it won't happen because the Cons are fine with that

This is an invasion if MAGA ever made one

Correct because the political parties are not about values and morals they're just teams that can trade players. Thank you for taking your mask off and admitting that your whole organization is just another soulless for profit corpo with a marketing department. Now if you can just admit that Republican Inc. and Democrat Co. are actually the private equity firms buying up all the single family houses that would be great since it looks like it doesn't cost you to tell the truth ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ ) thxxxxxxxxxxxssssssssss

Fuck that guy.
Sure sure, join what ever party floats your boat, but just sit the fuck down.

Hey look at that. The Democrats just let in a new Joe Manchin.

It's tough to handle this fortune and fame
Everybody's so different, Joe hasn't changed

If a hardcore Conservative like this is willing to join the Democrats, it demonstrates two things: That the Republican Party has become the MAGA Party, and no longer exists, and the Democratic Party has moved so far right, that even conservatives prefer it to Nazis.
The real move is to leave BOTH parties, and declare as an Unaffiliated Independent, like Biden Press Secretary Karine Jeanne-Pierre just announced.
There are already more independents than either party, and NO candidate ever wins any election without winning the Indies. Independents are by far the most powerful political faction, they just don't have the money or the organization to throw their weight around, and that becomes their problem. They are defined by not being a party, but to use their inherent power, they have to behave like a party, and that essentially makes them a party, and thus, no longer independent.

From one party controlled by the oligarchs to another
- Yeh but these are the good ones.
  Wait

Again, words mean jack, I’ll believe it when I see his voting record.
- He left office in 2013. He ran for POTUS in 2020.
  
  So zero action on his part as of late.

So what are the odds the DNC runs him for 2028 we thinking?
- It didn't work last time, let's yet harder!

I don't get why anyone who was a member of the "tea party" would be in any way a fan of self-proclaimed "tariff man", but the rank and file idiots did see attacking their own government to install a dictator as being "1776"-like. So, I guess they're just fucking stupid and can be taken for a ride under the absolute thinnest of pretenses.

Better sit back and know thine place profligate, you are only so useful as a willing human shield.

anyone who has touched either party should never again be trusted. let them infight all day long. he is a wolf trying to switch teams. good thing the democrats are also right wing fascists.
- “Right-wing fascists” as opposed to what? Do you think progressive fascism or liberal fascism exists?
  
  i think “progressive” as a concept does not exist in either current US political party, in a manner that affects (effects?) meat-space reality. The reality is that both rep and dem parties are conservative in their own ways, the former is outward and forceful with it and the latter is hidden and corporate with it.
  they both are regressive to the working class.
  they both (in different ways) enable a fascist state to take hold, albeit at different rates of implementation.
  edit: to add re my “right wing” remark - both parties in the US are right wing. Neither is “the left” even if dems seem to be “to the left” - they are both right of center.

And if we ever have a real seat at the table again, he will be the spoiler vote and betray us.

Well, it won't last, that's for sure.
Whether I mean Joe Walsh as a Democrat or the Democratic party is for time to tell.

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