If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
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This is why Democrats need to stop trying to move right to appeal to moderate Republicans. They'll get fed up and come our way eventually if they're ever going to.
aug 31, 2025, 12:33 am • 6 0 • view
If you told me 13 years later we would actually be far *worse* off in ALL of the things Will mentions. But still #1 in Defense spending! I agree on Yosemite, it is beautiful. and a few things in his soliloquy.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjM...
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 am • 3 0 • view
Neocons started out as Trotskyists and it appears some are reverting back as they age. I don’t know what to make of it.
aug 30, 2025, 5:23 pm • 44 1 • view
Time is a flat circle
aug 30, 2025, 7:10 pm • 6 0 • view
They accepted that liberal democracy was as good as society was going to get but kept the revolutionary attitudes of their Trotskyist days, just now directed outwards towards non-liberal democracies. That made them hawks aligned with the right. But now Trump threatens liberal democracy at home...
aug 30, 2025, 7:40 pm • 25 0 • view
They made such a big deal about removing Saddam, it must’ve been one hell of a mindtrip to then see their party elevate an American Saddam to the WH, right down to the same taste in tacky gold furniture.
aug 30, 2025, 8:13 pm • 36 2 • view
NGL it isn't great
aug 31, 2025, 4:45 am • 4 0 • view
Day 2: Kill all maga, and Day 3 we escalate
aug 30, 2025, 10:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Bill fuckin Krisol is talking more sense than people in the party!
aug 31, 2025, 5:17 am • 1 0 • view
Wild.
aug 30, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Quoting Jim Hightower FFS.
aug 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 18 0 • view
I went from being a guy the Koch Brothers sent to grad school to being a guy who doodles guillotines in the margins of his work memos.
aug 31, 2025, 3:44 am • 4 0 • view
TBF, They were not part of the would-be fascists, but the Capitalists, and have been surprised they were not all one big happy fleet, under that banner.
aug 31, 2025, 3:14 am • 8 0 • view
+1
aug 31, 2025, 3:24 am • 2 0 • view
Day 2 - Rebalance the Supreme Court because everything you do first and after may not stand.
aug 30, 2025, 8:40 pm • 52 6 • view
Trump (or Vance if he dies) will really love that as they get to pick every single new justice. The last thing we want to do now is expand the court.
aug 31, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
This idea might work as a bandaid. Would only need 50 votes to reconfirm them all as SCOTUS Justices bsky.app/profile/ques...
aug 31, 2025, 12:31 am • 11 0 • view
@schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social reading this
aug 31, 2025, 7:43 am • 0 0 • view
today I learned that although former presidents get secret service for life, former VPs don't.
aug 31, 2025, 12:41 am • 3 0 • view
It came up before with Dick Cheney (Obama extended his protection) but the story got a lot less play. There were also at least three rounds of media chatter about former presidents losing protection - when Nixon gave his up, when Congress took away lifetime coverage, and when Obama restored it.
aug 31, 2025, 3:37 am • 3 0 • view
Most people can’t even name/id the VP while in office, why would taxpayers continue to foot the bill to cover unneeded overpriced security by an already overstretched Secret Service. After SS ends former protectees can hire private security. For many, Secret Service is more about vanity image-boost
aug 31, 2025, 3:20 am • 3 0 • view
"there is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos" is an absolute banger and belongs on either a battle jacket or a very punk cross stitch sampler
aug 30, 2025, 9:26 pm • 215 19 • view
Coined by the great Jim Hightower
aug 30, 2025, 9:54 pm • 53 2 • view
My brain immediately goes "you could make a hilarious bedspread out of that". Imagine a dark grey blanket with yellow lines and a flattened armadillo. The armadillo's middle is flat to the blanket but the two ends are lightly stuffed plushies.
aug 30, 2025, 10:05 pm • 34 0 • view
If I had enough polarfleece and wanted to spend the rest of my life cleaning fluff out of my sewing machine, I would make this
aug 30, 2025, 10:23 pm • 17 0 • view
I’ll fund the kickstarter
aug 30, 2025, 10:39 pm • 4 0 • view
Unfortunately I'm in the UK, so we'd be hit by tariffs unless the tangerine tyrant pops his clogs and you get someone sensible in charge to reverse them. The only workaround I can think of is once I've developed a pattern, selling it as a digital download in the US
aug 30, 2025, 10:43 pm • 17 0 • view
That way you could support your local sewists and have it made domestically
aug 30, 2025, 10:43 pm • 12 0 • view
Need a global DB for this shit. Like now. I been thinking for years about what a federated cooperative inside-out employment agency might look like.
aug 31, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view
Could probably build it off of ActivityPub... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activit...
aug 31, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
Once for a Halloween party, I took a loaf of French bread and made a 'road kill sandwich'. Shaped meatloaf into an animal body with a flat middle where it got 'ran over'. Squirted on ketchup.
aug 31, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view
🤯 What?
aug 30, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
It's funny that in 2012 every Republican presidential candidate from far-right to moderate assailed Romney for what he did at Bain to carve up businesses for profit at the expense of workers but when Trump literally does the same thing to America they cheer him on
aug 30, 2025, 5:26 pm • 84 2 • view
Trump won. They like that
aug 30, 2025, 7:40 pm • 25 0 • view
I mean spilling out your moves in the public just gets us closer to us not having elections.
aug 31, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Literally anything about American politics in 2025 that 2012 you would have believed?
aug 31, 2025, 12:54 am • 4 0 • view
Stevens saw the sickness spread through the GOP up close. He gets it, unlike Dems.
aug 31, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social let’s roll.
aug 31, 2025, 3:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Nor I.
aug 31, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
Not a Romney fan but he was never totally stupid. You can work with people who aren’t stupid. There’s room to maneuver
aug 30, 2025, 7:43 pm • 23 0 • view
he's also a mormon which means he's easily indoctrinable
aug 30, 2025, 9:54 pm • 2 0 • view
I mean, he’s not wrong. It’d be nice to see the Dems lace up and come out swinging.
aug 30, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
If you told that to Mr Stevens in 2012, he wouldn't have believed it either.
aug 30, 2025, 11:01 pm • 10 0 • view
His book "It Was All A Lie" is actually worth a read on how he got here; it's a lot more introspective than I thought it would be.
aug 31, 2025, 9:39 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Finally, someone mentions nationalizing starlink. It's in our national interests way more than Intel. Yes, chips are important, but the CHIPS Act was helping, so there was no need to nationalize. Starlink is important on the battlefield and important for our allies. It should be under US control.
aug 31, 2025, 3:30 am • 13 0 • view
To be clear, I'm not saying we should nationalize it, but with starlinks national security importance for both the US and our allies to the US, plus Musk's erratic behavior, why has no one mentioned it now that Trump took ownership of Intel? I'd argue starlink has more strategic importance.
aug 31, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
most of the people i knew growing up or in my 30s who were national security conservatives are more or less on the communist spectrum now. sometimes you have to see capitalism off the rails to realize "actually, no; this doesn't work at all"
aug 30, 2025, 6:50 pm • 29 3 • view
It’s his mea culpa era - seriously he finally came to accept the “southern strategy” politics of the GOP and how it is dangerous for the stability of our country. Much like Lee Atwater. www.thenation.com/article/arch...
aug 30, 2025, 6:19 pm • 5 0 • view
After decades of saying that the GOP should view the Democrats like this, this is interesting bc only now does he see that the GOP ideology was always leading here.
aug 30, 2025, 9:45 pm • 3 0 • view
29, sorry to ask, but this is 2025 this is a real post ? cause if so . . wow
aug 30, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
If Trump and Romney were members of the same political party, he wouldn’t be.
aug 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Romney believed in mostly wrong things but at least he actually believed in something.
aug 30, 2025, 10:18 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 10:23 pm • 5 0 • view
I didn’t say he wasn’t a politician. Nor a good person. Nor right. But he did have some convictions he held to.
aug 30, 2025, 10:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Do Americans actually believe that Trump will allow midterm elections? Or any elections that aren't so corrupted that they're meaningless? Wow!
aug 31, 2025, 8:34 am • 6 0 • view
It's a country of 340 million people and Trump does not control all of it despite your fatalism. Wow!
aug 31, 2025, 11:27 am • 6 1 • view
Yeah elections are managed by state and local governments, so it would be very difficult to simply cancel them. Whether the Republicans will accept the results is a different question.
aug 31, 2025, 11:31 am • 4 0 • view
I'm more worried about government agent intimidation in blue-leaning polling places than canceled elections - or, as you say, people in power not accepting the results. US elections will definitely continue to be flawed and only partially competitive.
aug 31, 2025, 11:36 am • 2 0 • view
No shortage of things to be worried about, that’s for sure!
aug 31, 2025, 3:25 pm • 2 0 • view
The actual centrist position is antifascist.
aug 31, 2025, 4:26 am • 23 1 • view
This is pure fantasy. Schumer and Senate Dems are *still* voting for Trump cabinet picks.
aug 30, 2025, 5:02 pm • 413 8 • view
there may be some turnover in the next year and change
aug 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 127 0 • view
Democrats left Schumer and Pelosi in charge after Trump won the first time. They ain’t changing shit.
aug 31, 2025, 10:47 pm • 2 0 • view
There could also be Manchins of the left who can make demands of leadership
aug 31, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Be the change lol (don't vote for sympathizers)
aug 30, 2025, 7:44 pm • 5 0 • view
Schumer's term doesn't naturally end until 2029. I'm praying for something unnatural to happen to his term without it being a monkey paw situation
aug 30, 2025, 11:06 pm • 8 0 • view
He could be removed from leadership any time.
aug 31, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
what would be wrong if the cause was natural
aug 31, 2025, 5:54 am • 2 0 • view
Because the natural end to his term is in 2029, and we need a better fighter/Senate Minority leader to fight off Trump than this oafish ineffectual fool. You may be thinking of a natural end to something other than his term.
aug 31, 2025, 9:52 am • 2 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 7:17 pm • 86 0 • view
Correct and Schumer is lying about it here on BlueSky too.
sep 1, 2025, 4:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Dems like schumer have absolutely shit the bed with their dumbfounding response to a very real authoritarian takeover of their country happening on their watch. I don't understand. Are they in denial about what's going on or something? Have they forgotten what their job is?
aug 30, 2025, 5:42 pm • 64 5 • view
Unsurprisingly, he's polling terribly. You would hope the guy has the sense and decency to read the room and put his party and country first by not running for reelection. But also that would be out of character for a complacent and entitled politician like Schumer. I guess we'll see...
aug 30, 2025, 5:42 pm • 33 1 • view
The evils of Vote Blue No Matter Who. Schumer doesn't think someone will be able to run against him. If he gets primaried he thinks the DNC will destroy any challenger. In the general nobody in New York will vote for a Republican. He is accountable to nobody and acts like it. That's caused by VBNMW
aug 30, 2025, 6:43 pm • 36 6 • view
Politicians should be scared of their constituents. Schumer should be scared of enough Dems not showing up (or voting third-party) that he loses his seat. He's not scared, because the VBNMW "movement" has said a Republican can run with a (D) next to their name and you are OBLIGATED to vote for them
aug 30, 2025, 6:45 pm • 18 2 • view
Chuck is only scared of the Baileys, his imaginary constituents
aug 30, 2025, 7:17 pm • 9 0 • view
I think you've got it wrong. When establishment Dems lose, their response lately has been to blame the left/protest voters/activist groups. They become more spiteful, not more open to, progressivism. Harris's loss provoked many into calling for Dems to excise pro-trans and pro-Palestine people.
aug 30, 2025, 9:52 pm • 5 0 • view
Voting for any and every Democrat doesn't make them more progressive or competent fighters on its own, sure. But refusal to vote for Democrats has been shown to move their establishment *to the right* and make everything *worse*.
aug 30, 2025, 9:55 pm • 5 1 • view
I think we're saying the same thing. He's spiteful BECAUSE he knows the DNC will defend him and because he isn't scared of losing his seat. He's mad at people being "annoying" by attempting to hold him accountable, and he is accountable to nobody. Hence he punches left to try to shut them up
aug 30, 2025, 9:54 pm • 3 0 • view
But if he were to lose, establishment Dems who remain in positions of power wouldn't move to back a progressive replacement next election cycle. They would blame the left again, refusing to learn the lesson you want them to learn, repeat cycle into an infinite death spiral for democracy.
aug 30, 2025, 9:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Lose the general*, I should clarify. I 100% support a progressive primary challenger against him. But I don't think letting a Republican win one of NY's Senate seats would move the Dems in a positive direction.
aug 30, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re soft, not built for this.
aug 31, 2025, 4:44 am • 2 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/jlra...
aug 30, 2025, 9:14 pm • 16 2 • view
To be clear I agree that Schumer should be doing much more, and the fact that any Dems voted for any of Trump's cabinet nominees is at best deeply disappointing, but he's not doing nothing, either
aug 30, 2025, 9:48 pm • 9 0 • view
An article by the R senate majority whip vs looking at the data yourself. Time between appointment and confirmation has been going up for decades. You can also look at which dems actually voted for which noms. bsky.app/profile/thew...
aug 30, 2025, 10:22 pm • 13 2 • view
Yep. Democrats exist to fight the left not the fascists. 2027 will finally prove that.
aug 31, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
After “This is pure fantasy.” I thought you were going to write: “IF Democrates take the house.”
aug 31, 2025, 6:59 am • 1 0 • view
The last cabinet confirmation was March 11th. Mike Walz is up for a vote for UN Ambassador soon.
sep 1, 2025, 5:00 am • 0 0 • view
Schumer's voting record on appointments is almost all no's except for like 2.
aug 31, 2025, 12:39 am • 8 0 • view
Why are there even 2? And one of those two was goddamn Marco Rubio
aug 31, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't confuse people with facts.
aug 31, 2025, 2:29 am • 2 0 • view
He can’t or won’t control his caucus. There is always somebody voting for Trump. Worse than useless leadership. Voters do not want this endless capitulation. He covered for Manchin and Sinema too.
aug 31, 2025, 2:48 am • 8 0 • view
I love a good radicalized moderate, they make for the best revolutionaries.
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 am • 3 0 • view
I'm seeing it with my own eyes and I still don't believe it.
aug 31, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
The thing is. That guy's a conservative. He has an ideology. A bad ideology, but most ideologies overlap on some good ideas. The people in charge of the Democratic party have no ideology. They don't even have a liberal ideology, they have no beliefs at all. They beg CNN to tell them what to believe.
aug 30, 2025, 6:36 pm • 262 9 • view
The people in charge of the Dem party are living too comfortably and their complacence prevents them from being disruptors. Time to get rid of all these outmoded geriatric f*cks like Schumer & Pelosi so the party can move forward. Term and age limits are needed.
aug 31, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
In the words of Walter Sobchak: say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos!
aug 31, 2025, 8:41 am • 2 0 • view
Yup. Which is why so few of them come across as genuine. They’re literally reciting from a script, not stating their actual beliefs, and people can see right through it.
aug 31, 2025, 12:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. Campaign consultants have coached Democratic Party politicians to do the "vote for me, I'm not as bad as they are" thing, and way too many have just taken the advice. Time for the party to stop going for the lowest common denominator.
aug 30, 2025, 7:09 pm • 91 5 • view
There is a saying about a broken clock and to be fair Trump's regime is a different kind of bad.
aug 31, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
Wouldn't it be weirdly ironic if these ideas come from more conservatives until Chuck Schumer's imaginary Long Island family starts telling him do abolish ICE.
aug 30, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly. Their ideology is craving power. Fetterman & Torres are their avatars. A few have scruples. Most don’t. And they’ve served corporations & oligarchs to degree base became disgusted, handing gov to Trump/GQP. Gaza carnage & Biden claque fraud on public define them: no bottom—moral sewer rats.
aug 31, 2025, 11:06 am • 1 0 • view
The democrat ideology is self interest and maintaining the status quo, regardless of who suffers.
aug 30, 2025, 11:48 pm • 10 0 • view
How can you tell if someone is secretly simping for the right? It's easy - they won't call the party by its proper name. They ALWAYS use the Rush Limbaugh-spread insult, with the last syllable sounding like 'rat'.
aug 30, 2025, 11:56 pm • 8 0 • view
okay so like is your suggestion here that only right-wing sympathizers loathe the democrats enough to insult them because, uh fucking lmao?
aug 31, 2025, 7:58 am • 1 0 • view
Leftists have better insults than the fascist idiots.
sep 1, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
This kind of whinging just makes everyone hate you more
aug 31, 2025, 12:23 am • 3 0 • view
That may be so, but they're still correct
aug 31, 2025, 3:27 am • 2 0 • view
No, they are not correct. They are an American dullard and a conservative. Those sorts of people are never right.
aug 31, 2025, 4:49 am • 2 0 • view
Wait...now I'm confused. Who were you saying is doing the whining above?
aug 31, 2025, 4:51 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, you are confused. The entire world, except dumb fuck Trumpland, sees liberals (yes liberalism as you understand it) as right wing and has done so for the last 300 years.
aug 31, 2025, 4:55 am • 3 0 • view
Oh, so I WASN'T confused and you WERE defending james using "democrat party" instead of the correct "democratic party" - just like the other shitty people who do that. So, yeah, I was right when i said traveller was correct. Thanks for clearing that up.
aug 31, 2025, 4:59 am • 2 0 • view
Don't waste time with people arguing about spelling or semantics like that.
sep 1, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you complaining about semantics and autocorrect errors here?
sep 1, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
That ideology is called liberalism
aug 31, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
We need an opposition party to stop what's happening. If the current Democratic beltway leadership and the DNC need to be kicked to the curb to get one, so be it, if you ask me.
aug 30, 2025, 11:21 pm • 4 0 • view
That armadillo line is great
aug 31, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m still waiting for Mitt Romney to say it
aug 31, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Protect the most vulnerable of community’s @blacktranstexas.bsky.social Has been hospitalized from a physical attack from transphobic hate. They need a wheel chair after leaving hospital.
aug 31, 2025, 1:06 pm • 2 0 • view
I wouldn’t have believed anyone either. Not about this
aug 31, 2025, 5:13 am • 1 0 • view
It's interesting to see that the Never Trump folks are among the most "kill the bastards" of the "elites" of the current Dem coalition.
aug 30, 2025, 9:50 pm • 41 0 • view
They can read a room and aren't going to be the ones taking the heat when Democrats get back into power and don't do shit. It's easy to understand if you start from the premise that these never Trumpers are the same cynical self interested pricks they've been their whole lives.
aug 31, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
Probably because they've been the closest to said bastards relative to the rest of the coalition
aug 30, 2025, 11:37 pm • 18 0 • view
No, they just no longer have jobs to lose.
aug 31, 2025, 2:16 am • 7 0 • view
Ok these are nice symbolic actions, but the bills will all be vetoed
aug 31, 2025, 3:05 am • 1 1 • view
But Stuart Stevens quoting Jim Hightower is def wild
aug 31, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
Stripping the savages of qualified immunity puts self-defense and justified homicide back on the table. It is not symbolic. As to your concern about legal niceties being an impenetrable roadblock, these are lawless times.
aug 31, 2025, 3:18 am • 5 1 • view
Oooooh these are lawless times No shit, sherlock
aug 31, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Its 100% symbolic because it will BE VETOED It will not be enacted into law Trump is the president and they will not have the votes to override his veto Like, this is 4th grade civics stuff
aug 31, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Kinda seems as if they think the #alleged left is worse than a basket of deplorables. I mean... [taps sign] @governor.ca.gov + @housedemocrats.bsky.social be like
aug 30, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 1 • view
Dissident movement?! These jokers can’t even act like an opposition party. #Democrats
aug 30, 2025, 9:54 pm • 5 0 • view
I mean Romney sure ain't gonna do it.
aug 30, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes! Do as he says or we’re lost. 🙏
aug 31, 2025, 3:32 am • 0 0 • view
This guy knows more about what's going on than most establishment democrats
aug 31, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
The Party of the Strongly Worded Letter? Fat chance.
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 am • 0 0 • view
💯
aug 30, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow.
aug 31, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
A Democrat would never think the way he does, and that’s why they lose.
aug 31, 2025, 12:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Isn't that the thing about Republicans? They want and understand how to take power. I think progressives want to be good and correct. We don't value ruthlessness. Stuart Steven's is willing to be ruthless.
aug 31, 2025, 3:01 am • 2 0 • view
He’s not wrong.
aug 31, 2025, 7:29 am • 0 0 • view
This timeline is fucking wild.
aug 31, 2025, 6:16 am • 2 0 • view
It's odd seeing how quickly the GOP sort of collapsed into this Trumpist cult. Or maybe it was just there under the surface, I'm not the expert here. But it is strange seeing such prominent GOP people from last decade swing round. Anyway, Stuart Stevens is right. The Democrats must be aggressive.
aug 31, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Shame that Democrats have a financial incentive to not learn anything from this
aug 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 29 0 • view
The lesson we need to teach Dems is that if they side with their finances and monied interests over their base, they'll wind up penniless and disgraced. I'll do my part to harass them out of office so they stop taking up all the space/oxygen needed to save the nation and the people.
aug 30, 2025, 11:09 pm • 13 2 • view
Too many Dems are "let's agree on murdering the armadillos."
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 am • 7 0 • view
Romney has been the last decent Republican for a long time.
aug 31, 2025, 3:44 am • 1 0 • view
John McCain was up there as well.
aug 31, 2025, 4:51 am • 0 0 • view
Tell Trump that since he’s raking in the cash with his memecoin and other cons, he can pay for his own executive branch bullshit
aug 30, 2025, 5:19 pm • 11 0 • view
tell him he's actually losing money by being president and would be more profitable if he quit
aug 30, 2025, 9:53 pm • 10 0 • view
He is skimming off the top of every transaction made in the name of American ppl.
aug 31, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
Day 1 - Remove Hakeem Jeffries
aug 30, 2025, 6:32 pm • 5 0 • view
Kinda moot, since Jefferies ain't going to be Speaker, House minority leader, or in Congress past 2026 if Mamdani wins NYC mayor.
aug 30, 2025, 7:21 pm • 4 0 • view
Jeffries is cooked regardless. Mamdani won his district. The DSA infrastructure is there for it and he’s going to be even less popular than Cuomo in 2026. A Ham Sandwich (D) could win a primary vs Jeffries (or Schumer or maybe even Gillebrand).
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 am • 2 0 • view
@democrats.org: but what about the parliamentarian????
aug 30, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
The President would have to sign off on most or all of this. The Supreme Court would be brought in for some of it.
aug 30, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
This guy after seeing his friends at The Lincoln Project move up into a different tax bracket by running a grift on gullible liberals.
aug 31, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
Stuart Stevens is late to the side of angels but now that he’s here, I agree with him
aug 31, 2025, 12:05 am • 17 0 • view
I don't believe he is an angel. But I *do* believe his interests temporarily align with... ours? Basically the one thing we have in common is: we don't want people as dumb as Trump and his cronies running things.
aug 31, 2025, 3:36 am • 7 0 • view
My rule is, we welcome guys like Stevens to the fight but they don't get to be in charge of anything.
aug 31, 2025, 5:24 am • 10 0 • view
>dissident movement >give more money to Elon Musk 🤨
sep 1, 2025, 8:10 am • 0 0 • view
That should be signed by all dems the moment they win their primaries/elections.
aug 30, 2025, 10:49 pm • 5 0 • view
Tbqh, BEFORE they enter a primary. No time now for milquetoast Dems.
aug 30, 2025, 11:07 pm • 6 0 • view
I still don't.
aug 31, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
Tangentially ... ... the gallows humor in the fact that some Republicans blame Romney's loss, or more specifically, how Democrats treated Romney in 2012, for why they vote and act like selfish, hateful, intentionally destructive fascists today 🤔😬😒
aug 31, 2025, 11:09 am • 1 0 • view
Nobody would have foreseen. Remember when Romney's comments doomed his campaign? Remember how innocent we all were back then?
aug 31, 2025, 6:41 am • 3 0 • view
Binders full of women. I like to fire people. They were certainly gaffes, but you are completely right. Compared to anything Trump and his henchpeople say on a daily basis..
aug 31, 2025, 10:06 am • 0 0 • view
I more mean the whole "poor people don't deserve fridges" kind of rhetoric.
aug 31, 2025, 10:17 am • 0 0 • view
Oh yes, there were plenty more.
aug 31, 2025, 10:18 am • 1 0 • view
Sarah Longwell and the other "moderates" at the Bulwark shoukd take note
aug 30, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are there not more vocal ex republicans? What happened to people like Jake Flake? They’re all cowering under their beds?
aug 31, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Nooooo... Honey, your party is the dissident movement. You really need to get your facts straight.
aug 31, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
I had totally forgotten it became a book Is that wrong? books.google.com/books/about/...
aug 31, 2025, 2:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Superb.
aug 31, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
the democrats have proved they don't have the spine for this. they spent 4 years pussy footing around and this is the result
aug 31, 2025, 11:35 am • 6 0 • view
I... did. Did we forget Nasa? Fuckin', nationalize spacex and not criminally prosecute spacex.
aug 30, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
i know this is political fan fiction, but i would still love to see it
aug 31, 2025, 2:55 am • 3 0 • view
The issue is that the manager knows way better what the Democrats have to do to protect the US (and frankly, the whole world) from Trumpism than the Democrat Oligarchy of Vichy.
aug 31, 2025, 9:31 am • 0 0 • view
Times change. People change. I bet if you'd told *him* this is something he'd say in the future that reaponae would've been nah, not me. Yet, here we are.
aug 31, 2025, 2:30 am • 5 0 • view
As an ex-New Yorker, if you had told me in 2012 that Donald Trump would be President, I would have laughed hysterically.
aug 31, 2025, 2:24 am • 21 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 1:06 am • 3 0 • view
Does "Nationalize Starlink" mean "take it away from Musk and give it to NASA"? Because anyone suggesting any less can get fucked right alongside Elon and his dime store Bond villain aspirations.
aug 31, 2025, 3:52 am • 2 0 • view
Second conservative that is way further left than any establishment Dems.
aug 31, 2025, 6:53 pm • 5 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 2:09 am • 9 0 • view
Democrats can’t even come up with a unified position on genocides
aug 31, 2025, 9:02 am • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately, if they do get there they'll probably only do a Please Don't Be So Mean Mr President bill - and then fail to pass it because "moderates" think it's a bit much.
aug 31, 2025, 7:49 am • 9 0 • view
If only, right? Prosecute ICE and every 3rd party involved. Get that govt money back, with penalties and interest. Do real corruption investigations and take anyone and everyone suspected into custody immediately.
aug 30, 2025, 11:48 pm • 15 0 • view
Good grief, I thought this guy was a *leftist* when I saw that post and that it was useless wishcasting. I mean, it still is, but coming from a REPUBLICAN it's way more impressive.
aug 31, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s wild, isn’t it?
aug 30, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The Overton Window has not just shifted but fallen out of the house entirely and rolled down a cliff to smash on the rocks below
aug 31, 2025, 2:46 pm • 6 0 • view
Wow. Good for him.
aug 31, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
if the dems get back in power they're probably going to give Elon another billion dollars
aug 31, 2025, 4:24 am • 1 0 • view
“There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos” is my new favorite line and battle cry.
aug 31, 2025, 12:18 am • 35 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 am • 2 0 • view
!!!
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 am • 2 0 • view
I like this guy
aug 31, 2025, 3:26 am • 2 0 • view
I don't like the guy. But I like his suggested strategy.
aug 31, 2025, 3:37 am • 6 0 • view
And quoting Jim Hightower, no less.
aug 31, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Is he available to run the DNC?
aug 31, 2025, 4:43 am • 9 0 • view
See also Bill Krisol and Joe Walsh.
aug 30, 2025, 10:42 pm • 13 0 • view
Walsh has still been on his fascist-lite shit but Kristol (I think?) is genuine
aug 31, 2025, 3:52 am • 5 0 • view
Agreed
aug 31, 2025, 4:11 am • 6 0 • view
Bill Kristol can burn. His PNAC led to a lot of deaths. I don't care if he's a Never-Trumper now.
aug 30, 2025, 11:58 pm • 2 0 • view
And that’s how you know that today’s Democrats have devolved so far, that they have now passed 2012 Republicans on their right. 🙄
aug 31, 2025, 5:36 am • 6 0 • view
Red State Democrats and NeverTrumpers are in the same state of mind.
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 am • 3 0 • view
That actually looks like a good use of the first day.
aug 30, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump is still in the Epstein files
aug 31, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Please post everywhere Rep. Ro Khanna On September 3rd at 10:30am ET, Rep. Massie and I are hosting a press conference joined by survivors of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse — several of whom will be speaking out for the first time. The survivors deserve justice and the public deserves transparency.
aug 31, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm in a foul mood so let's me say this, all the leftists should fuck off to a remote island in the Indian ocean forever. They blasted people like Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol, and Stewart Stevens. Those horrible conservatives have bigger anti-facist, pro-democracy balls than any leftists I've seen.
aug 31, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
And don't let me started on the Dem leadership pvssies and the pathetic Obama coterie. They can fuck off even further to Antartica or something.
aug 31, 2025, 3:24 am • 1 0 • view
“‘Heart of Gold’ put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore, so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride, but I saw more interesting people…” ~Neil Young, 1977 @kennotsosmart.bsky.social
aug 31, 2025, 12:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Please, if only for the shits and giggles, let's not go by the advice of former Republicans again? 2026 is going to be like 'we got the 'eats cats, eats dogs' guy! Everyone do everything he says' then 'it must have been because of the progressives that we lost.'
aug 31, 2025, 7:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Counterpoint:We've been going high when they go low for decades. How well has that gone for us? When they go low, we need to put on some army boots and get a-stompin.
sep 1, 2025, 1:07 am • 2 0 • view
It’s kind of dumb, but the breaking of the norms I think has really broken these guys
aug 30, 2025, 7:40 pm • 11 0 • view
MOTIVATIONAL FAMOUS QUOTES: "Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what? Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians" Candidate Donald Trump youtu.be/gE7xoHJkgvE?...
aug 31, 2025, 12:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Some of these radical Never-Trumpers rn are like wandering ronin, masterless samurai looking for a honorable fight. And it is a bad time for the empire. The Shogun just stays inside his castle and never comes out. People say his brain is infected by devils. The Shogun says the people are not loyal.
aug 30, 2025, 7:18 pm • 233 14 • view
The radical Never Trumpers were thrown overboard by The Heritage Foundation because they weren’t cruel enough and dared to question the idiot-emperor-in-waiting the HF planned to install.
aug 31, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
ain't nobody showing up to the US with Black Ships tho
aug 30, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
i don't think i have seen such ivocative imagery to describe the never trump posters before. thank you
aug 30, 2025, 10:03 pm • 44 0 • view
lol I'm just ripping off the opening dialogue to "Shogun Assassin" (or the sample to the GZA's "Liquid Swords") www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Bl...
aug 30, 2025, 11:03 pm • 75 1 • view
Hell yes. Wutang forever. Excellent cut from an excellent album.
aug 31, 2025, 2:54 am • 16 0 • view
Someone said this In response to a (half) joke I made, and I think it captures the sentiment well. bsky.app/profile/andr...
aug 31, 2025, 4:46 am • 6 0 • view
If these "Never Trumpers" want to become the 47 Ronin, including the part at the end where they preserve their honor after avenging their Lord, I'm all for it. But I doubt that's where they're going.
aug 30, 2025, 11:56 pm • 4 1 • view
I did originally put in "an honorable death" but felt too on-the-nose
aug 31, 2025, 4:05 am • 1 0 • view
I am shocked to say, I agree with him. Too many people say when dems are in charge, they seem afraid to use their power. They need to stop worrying and ACT. Don't debate, and tell the "moderates" in the party to sit down, and buckle up. The country will be better for it
aug 30, 2025, 11:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Well if right wing Republicans want them to do it they might actually try
aug 31, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
He is proposing that Democrats act as an opposition party, something that is a no-brainer in a two-party system. As a Republican, Stevens knows that being opposition have little downside because whatever good or bad happens people usually credit it to the ruling party.
aug 30, 2025, 7:32 pm • 20 1 • view