really do think one of the reasons libs are extra breaking over the pete and gavin trans comments is that many of them didn't know any palestinians, and they probably didn't know any immigrants, but they might actually know some trans people, and squaring the contradictions is wrecking them
They wanna rally behind a white guy because that feels like a safe pick for 2028 but strangely all those guys keep saying things that suck.
I mean walz is like on the better side of baseline and yet is out of consideration for some reason
it's not his Turn
Also he said “we made mistakes” suggesting democrats have some responsibility for losing this one. Direct to jail.
I always took that statement to mean a failure of the campaign, not the voters.
Yeah i mean democrats as in the party and campaign not the voters. Everyone else was blaming voters and tim was saying the campaign made mistakes
cardinal sin
i keep in my mind all the time that *howard dean* was considered too much of a rabble rouser for the party's liking and they replaced him with tim kaine as chairman to get fucking smoked in 2010 notably, dean's (and the 50 state strategy's) biggest hater within the party? rahm fucking emmanuel!
The funny thing is when Dean was chair Dems won bigger than they had in decades or since
same as obama skipping the line and winning big and the party being eternally pissed at him for it: winning big isn't what matters. what matters is if it's your turn and if you kiss the ring or not.
and walz actually had Rs panicking for a hot minute with the "weirdos" and "dipshits" narratives so naturally that had to be quashed posthaste
Emphasizing this because it is harmonic with the GOP midterm trans panic campaign flopping so hard. They were seen as weirdos for being so fixated on bathrooms and girls sports until they had two years to keep beating that drum unchallenged
i bet if we get pete to do a silly enough yell we can get him blackballed by the dnc
The yell came after the writing was on the wall, as evident by the “dated dean married kerry” stickers and pins in iowa. Difference is “we support a dude who sucks, strategically” causing a loss brought about a reckoning that allowed the party to win briefly
dean really sits in my mind because it's one thing for the party to not support somebody for president, but for them to not even let him do the nitty gritty strategy/bureaucracy stuff even after he did a GREAT JOB AT IT with a strategy that WON BIG? come on now
The astounding cognitive dissonance of the ones who yell at me ‘if you don’t vote for Newsom to detransition you, then you only have yourself to blame for being sent to a death camp’ Like… “detransition or die” is the fascist line. Did they not get their “They Live” sunglasses in the mail?
Less than a year ago they were saying it was our civic responsibility to ignore the Gaza genocide so we could prevent a domestic genocide against trans ppl. The decline is accelerating.