So?
So?
AND ….. he was ACTUALLY cognitively impaired.
“ the president ought to know better” Why would you think this president would know better? As General Kelly, his former chief of staff said , “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about”
What if the problem is the voters and not the Democrats? 70% of voters who followed news voted for Harris while 54% of those who followed no news voted for Trump . Stop blaming Democrats for the reckless behavior of the voters .
Saw this on Mediaite: Democrats Face ‘Existential Threat’ By Ignoring New Media, Progressive YouTuber David Pakman Says My problem: people who listen to him are likely to vote for Democrats. People who are unlikely to vote for Democrats listen to Rogan. 1/
I see it everywhere. Where is the “I didn’t vote because I didn’t know enough about Kamala Harris, outrage”???
I believe that the greatest sin of all Americans, voters, media or politicians has been to not have nipped this, “ that’s just Trump being Trump” in the bud, without countering with, ”THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OR FOR ANY WORLD LEADER!!!”
I think what bothers me the most, is that 25% think that’s great. 25% think it’s just empty political rhetoric 25% have no idea he posted that And 25% know that it’s 100% unacceptable for anyone in a position of power. 1/
Yeah, but so is Trump, and 45-50 % of Americans don’t care.
Some voters supported some voters oppose it! Stop whining!!!! This is why I can’t stand, listening to the liberal pundit class anymore.
I don’t even know what you’re talking about.
But was her brow furrowed?
I don’t know if this is what you’re talking about, but is it this? www.nbcnews.com/video/sen-co...
Thanks.
Where is this story?
If people on social media limit who they allow to reply to them, then perhaps their post should be limited to only those who may reply?
I’m trying to actually say this to Parker Malloy who I always liked but…. I have just decided to block anyone who limits those who can respond to their posts. You craft a reply, you check your dates or spellings only to be told , “YOU’RE not allowed to speak to me!” Forget it, then.
I think what most do is take their cue from what their constituents need to hear at the time. What works with AOC‘s constituents may hurt Jared Golden.
What supporters are they alienating? Would it be better for them to just do what Republicans do and say we hate all the same people you hate and we’ll to hurt them? That seems to work.
This is Saddam Hussein stuff.
You have to have a majority. Perhaps tell it to the Dems who didn’t vote and allowed him to slither back into begin with.
It’s like blaming the fire department for the arsonist. If the Democratic brand is toxic, then I think the countries probably been gone for years.
How is the “DNC” getting their clock cleaned? Between the Republicans, the media consultants, who are just worried about CYA and the voters ..,.I’m so sick of blaming the only people who are the least responsible. It’s like blaming the fire department for the arsonist
That’s what Trump always said: Trump delivers fiery post-indictment speech: 'They're coming after you' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
I would love to know what the editorial boards and the editors and chief, and the owners of these newspapers have to say, knowing that this is the way most journalists feel.
I I a 36-year-old daughter who is an attorney and works for title 1X in a large university. There are several older women in their 50s and 60s who work there who just tells some of these younger kids “Oh I can’t keep track of all these pronouns.” Nobody cares. It’s a right it’s a Maga strawman.
Apparently, it’s as reliable as saying that your boss promised to give you a $1 million raise every year, but it’s not actually in a contract that the boss signed. NPR: In 2022, China promised Trump a better deal for America; ($200B) It didn't actually deliver. Like Foxcon.
Funny that, those of us who question, don't know (that's why we ask questions), and those who DO know, either don't see or just don't answer our questions. It MAY have something to with "expected to invest"... that's nothing firm or meaningfull.
What do you think L2 data ( The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows.) It seems to go against EVERYTHING we see everywhere else. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
Everyone hear THIS hogwash? Chuck Todd Says Biden’s Presidency Looked So ‘Weak and Ineffective’ He Drove People Back Into Trump’s Arms”
What a crack team!
Mark Halperin Predicts Trump Is Arresting Putin at Summit 😂😂😂😂😂
Actually, I think it IS all those things. That’s why we get such a diverse group of candidates. But what do we think the GOP offers but, “We hate trans and immigrants and Biden had to cope with the inflation predicted in 2020?”
Did “Clinton the Democrats betray the working class”, or was it media and an electorate who wanted to pull the ladder up after they climbed it. who didn’t want to have to pay union dues and who thought that Dems were focusing on minorities from the working class & them getting their piece of thepie?
It takes 51 and some senators won’t vote to remove the filibuster. As I say, you can’t break their kneecaps Not even FDR or LBJ could do that and they had much larger majorities and a population that was suffering much more than anybody is today
What is awful about their policy? is the republican policy better? It’s so why aren’t you a republican?
I was part of an extremely enthusiastic and exciting voter base in 2024. I don’t know about you. But usually when you talk about enthusiasm, you mean it means people don’t vote
"They DID not have the votes" AND... Neither FDR nor LBJ could break the filibuster when they had 67/69 votes.
If you want it to be more... get the votes. PERIOD. If you want more work in healthcare, you vote for the party who fights for more healthcare. You don't withhold your vote so the party who will cut your healthcare wins, You shouldn't have to be excited.
I was told by several Dems that we lost because of; -pronouns. -immigration. It's much easier for the right to "drive voter enthusiasm"; We will cut your taxes, ask nothing of you as a citizen and hate the same people you hate.
They DID not have the votes. Did you want them to break Manchin's and Sinema's kneecaps?
Progressives are crushing it in races, where the majority of the constituency is progressive and in the elections where disengaged voters don’t show up
Basically 97% of Dems do that while they are opposed by (an often lose to) 3% Dems and 100% of Republicans Tell me something; when a healthcare bill with a public option passed in House, (70% approval ) what happened in the Senate?
They REALLY don’t see this as REALLY pathetic??
Think you’re talking about your wishful thinking and I’m talking about how to actually get the votes and get things through in Congress
It comes from having watched for years and understanding how government works and how the sausage gets made, and seeing how easily people can be manipulated.
….they still could get enough Democrats for cloture, on their landmark legislation and required ~ 15% of Reps to vote with them. I don’t believe that would be possible today. 2/
By the way, when I brought up FDR and LBJ the point was that even though they had much greater majorities in Congress and more people were suffering…. 1/
It seems that instead of blaming the arsonist, and the party who defunded the fire Depart, you want to blame the only people who fought to fund the FD. 2/
But pray tell, which Republican policies were 49.8% of the voters excited about and how did they so quickly come to say “That’s not what I voted for?” 1/
Obama’s policies were popular(until 30% were told there would be death panels. Biden: loan forgiveness was popular as was investment in manufacturing. 2/
Yes. That’s why Harris won engaged voters by over 5 pts while Trump won those who don’t follow politics. That’s also why Dems win special elections…. The disengaged don’t vote in those elections. Nobody “pretends” voters don’t care about policies. But numbers show that’s not how that 1-10% vote.
And voters are more dumbed down now, than they were in the past 35 years.
That the majority of voters don't care about policies, nor do they take the time to engage in them. As HL Mencken said in 1920;
We should organize to inundate them with claims of pro-Trump bias.
Those days have been over since the Civil Rights Act. (They started the decline with Brown v Board. FDR could not break a filibuster for SS with 67% Dems in Congress without Rep votes. Same with LBJ and Medicare. That wouldn’t happen now.
Apparently that is because people who don’t pay attention, don’t vote in special elections?
I blame the public.
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Did Trump pay the carjacker?
Voters don’t engage in policy, nor do many understand who supports what policy and what is involved in implementing them.
What progressive policies have I refused to vote for? Frankly, I think you’re the grandstanding “progressive” who actually drives the country to the right by preening about your purity rather than getting your hands dirty and actually being willing to govern.
Again, give me just ONE progressive policy you want and tell me how you’re gonna get people like Joe Manchin and the most conservative Democrats to vote for it in the face of a Republican filibuster.
Give me one progressive policy you want and tell me how you’re gonna get Joe people like and the most conservative Democrats to vote for it in the face of a Republican filibuster.
No, I’m framing this like someone who has paid attention to how we implement progressive policies in this country. You’re framing this like someone who just has to say the right words and everyone will magically have a pony and free healthcare .
Funny when you say things like “Refusing to change course” you act like primary Joe Manson in West Virginia would result in a West Virginia AOC instead of a republican, who would probably vote to end contraception.
So what you are saying is that that the American people support mass deportations of brown people bullying of trans kids book banning and tax cuts for the wealthy over the surgeon manufacturing from Biden the Pact Act, student loan reduction, and lower RX prices?
I think you would rather just whine about your purity, then roll your sleeves up and actually try to govern.
It doesn’t matter. Get the votes. You don’t have the votes from the electorate You don’t have the votes to do anything you claim you want do
Tell me one progressive policy you could get through Congress that Democrats would block.
Did you follow the vote on the filibuster? Do you know how government works at all? Why do you have to go back 26 years to a policy of a popular to and yet can not explain how any of the sausage you want made right now could be implemented?
Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema — remained opposed to changes. The final tally was 49-51. You need 51 votes for cloture (to end the 60 vote rule) That’s 98% of Dems voted to END the 60 vote rule, 2% of Dems and 100% of Reps voted to keep it. Gets the votes.
I hate to say it, but buy the Senate election of 2014 it was already too late for Roe v Wade. 2/
Whoever has control of the Senate writes the rules. If you don’t like the rules, make sure you put Democrats in the majority if you don’t like right wing activist judges, make sure you put Democrats in the majority 1/
You’re talking about wishful thinking and ideas, not policies that are actually going get through get a filibuster and get the votes in a divided Congress.
What policies for economic improvement have you presented which will likely get through Congress?
I believe in public schools, single payer, healthcare, free tuition,progressive taxes, climate change mediation, and reproductive freedom. We’re not gonna get any of that with the Republican Party and an electorate that is so ignorant about the two parties .
People in Weirton, West Virginia love their new battery plant. Every Republican voted against it yet they credit Republicans for it because their Republican reps sent them an email taking credit for it . 2/
Yes, that’s what they say and that’s not how they vote. Again, 70% supported a public option and then voted against it 1/
And even now if 80% of voters voted for AOC and Warren types, and they pass their legislation by 80% , a Republican Scotus could simply overturn it. People don’t make a connection between judges and political parties .
Yeah, that’s a nice excuse, but it doesn’t explain why people don’t vote for the very policy that helps them the most when it’s laid out in front of them. *hint; they don’t know what the policy is.
They keep voting for it because 1/3 of the electorate doesn’t understand it: 1/3 is happy with it and 1/3 is more worried about pronouns and brown people. And 10% don’t care.
In order to have Good messaging, you have to have a receptive audience that’s been gone for decades now. Things have to get extremely bad before people listen.
Some some do, some don’t. They’re only reacting to what their voters are telling them as opposed to what Republicans did to Liz Cheney, who was insufficiently servile too the Dear Leader
It is the voters fault. The fall for culture war issues while refusing to educate themselves about things that are important to them. The media is also important because to help educate voters is boring. It’s much easier to talk about pronouns.
True Why do people keep voting for it? Because they don’t think.
And voters aren’t doing any more to educate themselves. You can say the “Democratic Party brand”, but few voters have any idea what that means. There is a reason why 70% of those who followed the news voted for Biden or Harris and 54% of those who follow NO news at all voted for Trump.
Friends like who? My point is that the parties are very different. We used to have a chunk of the Republican Party, who would vote with Democrats…. that’s gone. The media has become, to quote Christian Amanpour neutral, “not truthful”… 1/
That’s true. You have to have the votes. FDR and LBJ had 69 and 68 Senators and STILL needed Republican votes for Social Security, Medicare, Civil and Voting Rights Acts... None of which would likely pass today.
FDR and LBJ had 69 and 68 Senators and STILL needed Republican votes for Social Security, Medicare, Civil and Voting Rights Acts... None of which would likely pass today. 2/
This is true on the other hand you have to have the votes. Democrats have not had the votes in Congress since LBJ. 1/
I think most Democrats are serious. I agree most Americans think it can’t happen here and that’s why they don’t respond to Democrats, who say it can can indeed happen here.
I agree 100%. People don’t realize how receptive low information voters are to a messages like: “ we will lower your taxes. Ask nothing of you as citizens and hate all the same people you hate..”
Voters have got to smarten up and stop listening to meaningless bumper, stickers and slogans and use a little critical thinking or they’re always always gonna get screwed by Republicans. 2/
I remember when moving to the left mean supporting the public option until the right told them they were going to be death panels and support went from 70% to 40%. 1/
…. and anything that the right guitar as big government they accept as taking from them to give to less worthy Americans. 2/
It was the voter’s fault that that’s exactly what they wanted. They bought into the right wing. “Democrats are bad for business and therefore bad for jobs and only there to give welfare to people who don’t want to work and you need business men to run the country” schtick… 1/
I agree 100% I’m tired of Democrats being responsible for the irresponsible behavior of voters .
How many of those people are actually willing to blame themselves for being so ineffective inviting evil?
I was sad when she gone. Never saw the fledglings