From famous leftist drag queen Lady Bunny:
Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/barney-frank-hospice-democrats-00897112
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/barney-frank-hospice-democrats-00897112
From famous leftist drag queen Lady Bunny:
18 Comments
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 111d
If an 86 year old didn't think progressives were going too far, it would just mean current progressives weren't going far enough or we'd made zero progress over decades...
And because we're extra fucked, sometimes both happens at once now.
But like, this is fucking normal, at that age you just hate any type of change and just want it to be like how you remember your childhood.
The issue is we're letting geriatrics control policy, this guy should have retired 20 years ago before the normal effects of aging had set in.
SaltySalamander@fedia.io · 2 pts · 110d
He did retire 13 years ago...
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 111d
Progress doesn’t happen by itself. Progress happens one gravestone at a time.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 111d
This! We need more pragmatic progressives in congress! The corporate elites need to kick the bucket and get voted out
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 111d
The reason why the DNC wants to keep the geriatrics in charge is because their mind is indoctrinated to 1980s America where only blind support of capitalists and Israel is accepted.
This is why they only promote people with shameless doublespeak so that they can throw a 3 minute word salad at any question with substance.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 111d
That and all the legal (and illegal) bribes they're getting from their owner donors.
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 111d
There’s no such thing as illegal bribes anymore. Democrats won’t prosecute Republicans because they’re just controlled opposition.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 111d
Crimes without consequences are still crimes, so yeah, illegal bribes are as rampant as they've been since before Roosevelt did his trust busting thing.
Btw, the fascists might be much MORE corrupt (no "might" about it tbh, they DEFINITELY are), that doesn't mean that the Dem leadership aren't corrupt as fuck too. They are.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 111d
Me: hey did you hear Barney Frank might die soon?
97% of Americans: Who?
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 111d
I learned who he was when some republican called him “Barney f-slur” and tried to play it off as a misspeaking of his name.
oakey66@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 111d
Alienmonkey@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 111d
Drumph saying your titties is out is, I believe a new one? Might be his most coherent opinion on record.
SoloCritical@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 111d
The fact it’s coherent means it’s ai
yesman@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 111d
He got his social justice, time to pull up that ladder.
chosensilence@pawb.social · 11 pts · 111d
take your last breath already
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 111d
Guess what side Politico is on?
AlbynRailroad@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 111d
Barney is and will forever be stuck in a two party mindset....and that's what this mindset gives you - political brainworms.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 110d
It seems incredibly petty at first glance, but tbh if it was my last day on earth I would probably spend at least a bit of it trying to remind people what an unbelievable piece of shit the Clinton administration was
Then again, I have probably been tormented into complete insanity by the last two decades of American political news, so maybe that's not saying much
LuckyDevil@piefed.social · 1 pts · 111d
chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 111d