feels like part of this is because it's much easier for elected democrats to do some gym videos than to learn how to talk to people who aren't rich in a way that doesn't come off as an alien completely new to earth, a condescending dickhead who loathes seeing regular people in public, or both
Imagine an entire party made up of washed out youth pastors
Then they'll cry and moan about how this didn't work and that means they should just double down forever.
I feel that this is particularly stupid, because you sure as hell never saw Trump exercising
Colin Spacetwinks is STILL whining about something that happened in 2009.
i appreciate dukakis for at least not hanging around and telling everybody why his lost election was everybody else's fault
This is from 20 fucking years ago.
The fuck do they think appeal to fitness is gonna do DJT is the least physically fit mofo on the planet, that's not the lesson to take away lol Fuckin fitness dick in their mouth
tbh I don't think anyone would have thought Bowman was being particularly fake if he'd included gym stuff in his campaign (then again I don't recall him doing it)
Colin Allred ran an excellent campaign. He gave numerous interviews where his progressive values & articulate command of the issues were on full display. But Texas, a purple state, has been controlled by evil GOP pols for a couple of decades. They suppress voting. Only 27% of TX voted GOP in 2024.
hillary clinton freezing like a deer in headlights at seeing a normal apartment dot jpg
i've become convinced more over the years that the pattern of dems trying to copy obama's speech cadence isn't just trying to glom onto his past popularity in general but because they're desperate for some kind of template they can use that allows them to cheatsheet talking to regular people
it feels like it's part of this very libshit outlook too that HOW you say something is more important than WHAT it is and that there's some magical combo of words & phrases you can put ANY idea into to auto-win the debate
doesn't help that they're obviously fucking terrible at both parts though lmao
an entire party made up of the most insufferably annoying and incompetent model UN members
Narcissists have NO SELF so no CREATIVITY—aping others is all they can do
a group of electeds largely made up of class presidents for schools you could never afford to even look at does make for a certain pattern of behavior and speech
The downright silly bit is they seem to want it to stay that way, they just want to be able to speak to The Poors in a way that garners more votes than spite
something else about the 'manosphere' appeal attempt: it's another reminder who dems really consider their 'important' voters to get. they resent the people who actually make up their base. trying to pander to conservatives with a 24 hour gym membership VS. what dems did to ACORN. y'feel me?
i've been on this for a long while now, and IMO what a lot of dem seniority/leadership wants nationally is what they've been able to pull off locally: be able to win only with the voters they LIKE having, who won't ask them for anything they weren't already gonna do bsky.app/profile/eero...
san francisco is The picture of this. the city has been developed and engineered in a way that the vast majority of people who can afford to live there are the kind of people who are perfectly happy with what the dems are doing and will continue to do. HOA types who like gay marriage.
most San Francisco city workers cannot actually afford to live in SF. think about that. the people who actually make the city run... are not people that reps in San Francisco have to listen to at all. their complaints are irrelevant when it comes to getting votes. electeds like this arrangement!
through gerrymandering, housing prices, and use of police getting rid of groups they consider 'undesirable', most notably the homeless, it is possible and unfortunately has been achieved by some dems that their localities contain mostly just people who have no complaints about their reps choices.
the problem dems run into is that this is not at all possible nationally, and it can't be achieved in EVERY locality. this doesn't stop them from trying, however. NYC really feels like dem elites constantly pissed they haven't been able to get the San Francisco result despite everything.
i don't think they want to lose, but they sure don't want to win in a way that involves having to even pretend to listen to much of their actual base. its been the M.O. since the new dems. casting off the 'special interest groups' that ask them to do shit at all has been priority number 1.
