Governor Pritzker called out the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it’s being done in the fake guise of fighting crime, and I hope Martha Raddatz knows he was calling out her soulless authoritarianism. She’s a ghoul.
You want an AOC ticket judging by your bio. I guarantee you Will Stancil does not. She qualifies as the left to him based on her economic policies.
I don’t think you know what a strawman is. That’s not a one. That’s evidence of what Dem economic policy contributed to. Their choice to deregulate led to extreme wealth inequality. It’s directly related. There’s a policy option to regulate Wall Street & corporations. Centrists don’t support it.
What are you talking about? What strawmen? Name them.
Actual economic data is a strawman? Hey, run on that then. Tell 90% of the country they’re doing fine with wages like the Dems did in 2016. Or stop catering to corporations and Wall Street and actually serve voters instead of corporate donors. Simple choice.
And that’s why Dems lose the independent vote. They dismiss the economic reality of 90% of the country. They literally dismiss the data as trite. Good luck with that.
What cult is that? Are these graphs falsehoods? Was Clinton announcing “The era of big government is over” in the 90s a falsehood? Dems deregulated the New Deal and helped transfer wealth to the top 1%. They prefer that status quo. And so do you. Nobody has to agree with your preference.
My group think? Lolz. I’m not in a party cult like you.
Voters by party affiliation: Independents 43%, Republicans 28%, Democrats 28%
Neither party is correcting the extreme wealth inequality & stagnant wage issues. There is a reason for that: they both cater to corporations & capital. While Repubs are obviously evil on social issues, Independents, the largest voting bloc, are desperately looking for a party to fix the economy.
You’re referring to swing voters who care about wages. They didn’t move to Trump because the Dems delivered for them. Quite the opposite. As you can see in this graph, Dems have not corrected the problem. They won’t as long as they cater to Wall Street and corporations.
Harris lost. Moderate Republicans didn’t turn out for Harris, Clinton, Obama, Kerry, or Gore. Again, there is a simple solution. The Democratic Party could actually represent the people in the Dem coalition they abandoned from the 90s onward.
If Dem Leadership would address extreme wealth inequality and stagnant wages impacting 90% of the country, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Instead, they choose to cater to corporations and their right wing economics.
There’s a simple solution for that. Dem leadership should honor the coalition with left leaning members instead of catering to “moderate Republicans”. They can’t expect people to vote for a party that ignores them. Leadership chose to abandon aspects of the New Deal and social democracy.
I think you confuse advocating for not voting for centrists in particular with “advocate against voting for Democrats” in general. Mamdani is a Democrat, and the left supports him. Most people on the left support FDR’s new bill of rights.
The bottom 50% owns only 3% of the wealth. The top 5% owns over 65%. Look it up. Combine that with the graph below. Does this look good to you? Look at the wages for the bottom 90%.
It’s the propaganda arm of corporate America and corporations are fine with fascism.
Clinton deregulated. “The era of big government is over”. The voting record on the Telecommunications Act shows Democrats overwhelmingly voting for it.
Centrists never seem to provide a definition of what the “left” is. Is it the ideals in FDR’s new bill of rights? Is it Stalinism? Are these the same thing to them? Or is it anybody who criticizes their takes?
Yep
The market is high on its own supply.
Nate apparently believes the characteristics of fascism are normal and more appealing than the characteristics of progressivism.
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
Could you be persuaded to repost it without the quote skeet?
For some reason video downloaders don’t recognize this post as having a video. Maybe because it’s a quote post.
Visual features should not work in moving cars.
Malignant narcissist. Possible psychopath.
Your life
Wait until they find out about 508 compliance.
She’s despicable. She is defending authoritarianism.
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
Remember things like this when supposedly serious people suggest the best way to organize society is around someone like this making decisions for you.
It has to change. It sucks more each year that it doesn’t.
lol
UT is always overrated.
A proposal to censor info about lawmakers is being sold as a safety bill. But it won’t protect them from anything but investigative reporting. Contact your senator to tell them to scrap the bill and protect their safety — and everyone else’s — without sacrificing transparency and accountability.
How do you test relief valves to know when they need replacing?
They will insist the polls are wrong to go along with the fraudulent elections they’re planning. It’s their end game for denying reality for over a decade.
These fascists are outnumbered. By a lot.
Not reposting for this reason. And they should drop using the editorial text. It is self explanatory.
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Looking for mountains in all the eyes now.
This is awesome!
Yeah, this is a stupid diversion. People need to get their priorities straight. “Two children were murdered BUT THIS ONE WAS INTERVIEWED”. They literally make these kids practice being shot at, but this interview is too much? Give me a f*cking break.
Had to block that troll bot. Highly suspect when fascism abounds.
It’s an anti-primary bot. I personally like having choices.
I think the appropriate question is why Democrats won’t help one of the most popular politicians in the country pass popular progressive policies. And why bots are made to attack anyone who fights back against this horrible regime.
Sock puppet or bot. Normal people don’t talk like this.
Which one in this graph is she catering to? 🤔
I’m done with anyone who still identifies as Republican. There is no reason to afford them the benefit of the doubt at this point. They know exactly what they’re doing and what it means. I wouldn’t trust them as friends or business partners. They have absolutely no integrity.
What is it called when one side is allowed to protest while inflicting violence on people while the other side has violence inflicted upon them for protesting peacefully?
The economic policy you named was the effort of progressives who centrist Dem leadership do not support. Dem voters really need to understand the difference between progressives and centrists in their party.
Your fantasies are not funny. You sound ill.
Yes, centrism is a right wing mechanism. Has anyone ever heard a centrist recommend moving left on any policy at any point? I challenge someone to provide an example.
Saw his bio and as soon as I read “Ezra Klein” I knew why he framed this as a false dichotomy. These “pragmatists” have a habit of pretending the option they want is the only option other than the horrible one. It’s a device in literally everything they write.
National strike is the best option with focused boycotts.
It’s called a national strike with focused boycotts.
It’s going to take more than 4 years to reverse this, and the mildly progressive policies of Biden didn’t come close to doing it. aneconomicsense.org/2015/07/13/t...
Racist guns nuts and extreme wealth inequality with stagnant wages for 4 decades can exist at the same time.
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
CEOs are literally bringing him gifts of gold. As long as their taxes are low and the government continues to subsidize their risk, they’re fine with it.
I’ve been off it for two years and don’t even think about it until someone mentions it. I know it exists like I know 4-Chan exists with no desire to ever check it out or subject myself to it.
Corporate media is the propaganda arm of corporate America. Corporate America is fine with fascism.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
It’s the easiest explanation.
Has anyone considered the possibility that Dem consultants are simply Republicans?
i don't really have the emotional bandwidth to engage with this right now so i'm just going to say that we don't have to put up with this as a society. if the rules don't let us make it illegal, we can change the rules. this should not exist.
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
Tapper is horrible
You were just on MSNBC giving support for sending the military into US cities. I have no idea what you believe anymore or what you really stand for.
I thought he was supposed to be the anti-war president.
The law says that. Can you not look at the law and report on it accurately?
That’s a right wing think tank whose sole purpose is to move the party rightward even when the country has already succumbed to right wing fascism.
Crime is at a 60 year low. Nobody ever considered sending in the military at high crime peaks in the 90s. People have lost their frigging minds.
Why did Katy Tur @msnbc.com choose to have a panel of three who all support sending the military into American cities? No other viewpoint was considered.
@ninaturner.bsky.social I’m watching you on MSNBC supporting sending the military into American cities. I had no idea you were an authoritarian. I’ve lost all respect for you. Incredibly misguided.
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
The AP & Reuters write a letter to Israel demanding answers about the multiple strikes on a hospital that first killed journalists, then the rescue workers - live on tv. Netanyahu called it a “tragic mishap” www.ap.org/the-definiti...
I have a serious question. Does the principle of 2A apply? Shouldn’t people exercise the right to open carry so they aren’t brutalized by the cops like we’re seeing? 2A to protect 1A. Conservatives have done this and nobody bats an eye.
Am I to assume that he blocks everyone on X for the same type of benign comments? Then what is his actual point for staying there? Incredible.
Or whenever it was that he took over. I’ve lost track of that timeline because I literally don’t think about it, ever.
I left nearly two years ago and forgot it exists. I have no idea why anyone would stay there.
The screenshot you commented on is clearly referring to X, post Musk. I left shortly after Musk took over because there was a noticeable change in moderation, you know, because he has an affinity for literal Nazis, and it showed.
Yo don’t really have a point, though.
Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
He has convictions and values, unlike so many centrist Dems. He actually stands up for what’s right rather than using cowardly rhetoric that avoids standing for anything.
You started off with this “Well. You don’t know a single vulnerable person.” As if reinstating Glass-Steagall and anti-trust laws would inherently harm vulnerable people. 🙄
In fact, there was a version of an all inclusive New Deal offered in the late 80s and early 90s as part of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition. Clinton Democrats dismissed it because they couldn’t handle the idea of a post civil rights inclusive New Deal. Talk about racist.
The US is/was racist. Keynesian economics that the New Deal was based on is not inherently racist. Politicians did that. If you’re going to play that game, every single iteration of economics in the US is/was racist, up to and including the current one. An all inclusive New Deal is possible.
Maybe take your own advice and stop stirring up controversy. You’re whining about 25 year old grievances. Centrism is dead. Time to move on.
Centrists are beginning to suspect everyone is getting tired of their bullshit.
There’s one thing you can count on, nobody will ever listen to small minded naysayers like you who set bullshit limits on what can be done. That era is over.
The nonsense is you pretending that it requires the exact same conditions in time to set economic policy. We’re not dealing with laws of physics. If anything, Trump blew the Overton window wide open and proved the false dichotomies the parties set are bullshit status quo constructs.
It’s the self-interest model that supposedly results in the best outcomes for everyone.
It’s the latter. They don’t have any convictions. They are empty vessels the consultants fill with messaging.
“Too risky”. This is where centrists show their ass. Fascism: worth the risk to avoid a marginal tax increase. Robust public services every other wealthy nation enjoys: too risky. It’s corporations and wealthy who will be taxed. We did it for 40 years. It’s not risky.
It’s not on the approved menu. When candidates (who are not funded by the party) break through with the message, they are not endorsed by party leadership at the behest of corporate donors, and they are criticized by the media. Outsized private power actively works against it.
I know, but we need to keep the smell of fear out of the air. That starts with not being afraid of everything. Bulldoze ahead. We’re approaching a shitstorm.
