I’m not trying to dunk on this person or anyone in particular, but I want to be clear about how I think about this: Yes, I expect more of Democrats than Republicans, because I expect more of politicians who promise to defend what I stand for than I do of politicians who promise to destroy it.
Anywho , I’m glad these skeets used the correct words Republicans and Democrats. And not Bluesky only words MAGA MAGA MAGA Dems Dems Dems All damn day .
If only Dems could magically create 6 more votes. Is that asking too much? Shall we pile on them for that?
Didn’t read the article, eh?
can you read?
Can you think?
Can you count?
"The attack was the shark's fault so let's go find it and tell it to not do that anymore."
It's great that you're blaming our defense for giving up 6 touchdowns to a 1-13 team. Instead of crediting the other team’s offense, or the feckless fans who didn’t cheer hard enough.
apart from that though, blaming voters is always a political dead-end
Who lost the elections in 2016 and 2024? In a contest between two opponents, the quality of the performance of the side that didn’t win can have just as much causation, or perhaps even more, as the winner’s.
Word.
I expect firefighters.
It’s always easier to tear things down than to build them up. That’s what modern day Republicans are doing. The easy thing.
Republicans are executing on their agenda effectively - autocracy is their goal & they’re willing to take total power at any cost. Democrats profess to have have different goals, but I now doubt their sincerity bc they don’t fight to achieve them. Corp Dems run the party & we must primary them all.
Hear, hear. Very well said.
You don’t even need to expect more from them. You can expect the same. The seat was open. When republicans have empty seats they appoint judges to them. We can expect literally the same from our side.
This honestly reminds me of when you try to talk to men about things like the mental load etc. and instead of listening, they point to incels and whine “why aren’t you talking about them, the real villains”. Like, the existence of people worse than them, makes them immune from wrongdoing.
Exactly. Republicans are who they say they are. Democrats are the traitors and backstabbers.
Ohhhh, so suddenly you don't care about appointing more defense attorneys to the federal bench. Hypocrite.
Kash Patel
Seems like there is more than enough blame to go around
always weird to me that this people want to hold some random asshole in like lancaster PA morally responsible for their votes but don't want to hold elected representatives responsible for their votes. like: it's literally their job!
They didn’t vote for him though?
I'm talking about their lack of support for Adele Mangi bsky.app/profile/jayw...
Lack of support? We’re talking about Joe Manchin and Schumer made a deal to confirm seven other judges? It’s a shitty trade off but it’s a trade off
the downstream effect of this was that one of the judges confirmed was my home courtroom judge, who i got along well with, getting replaced by a judge j do not get along well with, so imo it was an extremely shitty tradeoff
Hell if I know but seems like if they stopped making shitty trade offs with fuckin Nazis maybe the voters you're worried about would be more interested in voting for them
And you think that why
Like do you think PA would have swung for Kamala if they stood up for Mangi
I think PA would have swung for Kamala if she stood for...something, anything
The governor and senators disagree with you. Sorry to say but PA voters got what they wanted
They could've gotten what they wanted if something they wanted was on offer. It wasn't, so they stayed home instead. Surely there's something to learn from this
Mostly the historical record of people not turning out to vote for milquetoast candidates who stand for nothing. See: the last ten years
Elected officials don’t “deserve” their seats! If they’re not willing to do the bare fucking minimum, they should either resign or be primaried. I don’t get the folks caping for Democratic officials who seem uninterested in doing their job. Yes, it’s hard! It’s also a thing they all campaigned for!
Like .... Fetterman? Or insurrectionist Scott Perry? I'm sorry that votes have consequences.
Also it’s wild that these people who will go to the mat for Democrats, conceptually, don’t get pissed when “Dems” impeded the Biden Admin’s agenda! Woke judges were one of the best parts of the agenda!! We can be righteously pissed that anyone who calls themselves a dem and obstructed it.
Are you talking about Rashida Tlaib or Ocasio Cortez, who voted against the Infrastructure Act? Or Bernie Sanders, who voted against Biden's USPS Board of Governors nominees? Or Tulsi Gabbard?
The reason the Infrastructure Act was voted on was because the bigger bill - the one that would have covered SO much more - wasn’t supported by all dems. Some say the IA as a bad compromise (I know I did and still do) - we were promised that they would vote on the rest “later” - still waiting
'We were promised ' Please. Stop. I didn't think I was 'promised' anything but Infrastructure, because roads and bridges are good.
Check your history
Yes.
Thank you. Succinct and helpful.
I expect more from the human survivor characters in zombie movies than the zombies.
How can you blame democrats when they're just little guys and it's their birthday? They're just little birthday boys!
You're 💯 trying to dunk on me, you have been doing this sort of shitting on Dems for as long as you've been a columnist. Even if I agreed with you about Mastro, Rosen & Manchin, I would be very over your endless deflections. Voters are 💯 responsible for Trump and the Senate that confirmed Bove.
The voters owe democratic politicians nothing. Not their votes nor their money nor their time. If voters didn’t show up to vote on election day, that is the fault of the party and politicians alone. Maybe democrats can stop shitting on their own base and do something that gets people to care.
*ahem* bsky.app/profile/dunh...
This is really good!
I vote for democrats because i have a preference for democratic policies on issues that i care about. There are lots of people who don’t vote because that isn’t true for them. No amount of “shut up and eat your broccoli” will change that.
Telling people they can have all cake, no broccoli doesn't work either, because it's not true. Not voting gives Republicans more power. They don't do the purity moves. They didn't in 2010 or 2016 or 2024. That's why Trump was able to pass two huge tax cuts and appoint 3 Supreme Court justices.
I mean, Claire McCaskill and Sherrod Brown actually fought for consumers, and voters did. not. Care. Missouri couldn't have chosen a more soulless ghoul than Josh Hawley.
Why do these candidates fail to attract votes in your formulation?
Ie, why do democrats lose votes to [null]? Why is that not at least part of the question?
Because the policies that they support that are popular, they don’t deliver on, and the ones they do deliver on are unpopular. And they’re going to win, if they do in 2 years, because that is also true for Trump right now.
If voters don’t care about what you are doing maybe you should do what they care about.
Just an example: Biden forgave billions in loan debt and got us out of Afghanistan and non voters lied! And said he didn't do those things! Or that he had powers he didn't have! www.nasfaa.org/news-item/35...
I mean, sure. And again, that's how we wind up with a Senate full of Cruz, Moreno, Sheehy, Thune, Hawley, Cornyn, Grassley, Ernst, Him Justice, Shelly Capito. How's that working out?
Yes, and this is true in so many areas-not just as to this particular horrific judge. The behavior here was shameful
It is possible to praise what Dems do right AND criticize what they fail to do, or choose to do against the will of the People they were elected to represent. These are not mutually exclusive. The People do not serve Party. Electeds SWEAR AN OATH to serve the People. No one made them run.
In a time of crisis, "Under the old destroyed system, in times of peace, I would have been an effective legislator." doesn't save lives. Step up or step off. Also, If you think we're hard on Dems, maybe have a look at what we have to say about the KKK party. bsky.app/profile/alex...
Lastly, I don't 100% agree with EVERYTHING @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, @aoc.bsky.social, and @sanders.senate.gov do and say, but they have PROVEN that they understand the general assignment of representing the will of the People and FIGHTING for us. If Dems want a future, they should take note.
Yes. I get angry when Republicans promote fascism, but I also expect Republicans to promote fascism. When Democrats, who claim to oppose fascism, in fact decide to promote it, that makes me extra angry. How is this complicated.
Part of this is people who assumes Republicans were Normal Until Trump rather than actually understanding decades of work to undermine democracy
This.
You flamed me for pointing out that zero Democrats voted for Bove. Congratulations, I guess for 'not dunking ' .
You are pretending that republicans are the sole actors in this situation and that decisions democrats made last year have nothing to do with what is happening now. Why you’re choosing to be deliberately obtuse is baffling.
Do you think there's only one seat, or that any Democrats voted for Bove? Or that certain sets of 'Democrats' ever recognize when Democrats 'do something'?
You are bringing up non-sequiturs to avoid acknowledging the fact that democrats left a seat open that is now being filled by a fascist who doesn’t believe in the law.
I'm not pretending anything. Voting matters.
Did people vote for democrats to leave a court seat open when they had the chance to fill it?
Guess what? Winning in 2024 would have solved the problem.
The election before 2024 is what led to the majority that democrats had to fill the court seat that they chose to leave vacant. Did that previous election not matter?
I'm betting even Jay Willis knows that.
2024 and 2016 mattered. Please don't pretend that this one seat matters to people who sat home or voted Trump in 2016 and 2024. That's delusional.
You’re once again ignoring the actual situation to bring up things that have nothing to do with the topic. You are indistinguishable from a Trump supporter.
Willis 's post blamed Democrats for Emil Bove's appointment. Neither voting nor 100% Dems voting against Bove nor people sitting out the 2016/2024:are immaterial because you decree it so
It's not complicated. It's childishly emotional.
Exactly, people need to stop expecting that criminals and traitors are going to stop themselves.
Dems are afraid of their own shadow.
If an arsonist is burning your house down and the fire department sits idly by across the street, which one are you going to be yelling at? People expect Republicans to do Republican shit.
Exactly. The arsonist enjoys burning down your house, it's what he wants and lives for. So expecting him to stop or reverse course is insane. Sure, the arsonist is liable, but the duty to stop him and prevent the fire from spreading clearly lies with others.
So you think there wouldn't have been any other judgeship to put Bove in
there probably would have been. But you're not supposed to give your enemies free layups. A different judgeships means Bove might have been under criminal contempt investigation by the time he was nominated.
A good layup was voting against an insurrectionist who said immigrants were eating pets.
i do expect much more of democrats but it is sounding like here that you are saying "fascists gonna fascist" much like "boys will be boys" taking away all agency and accountabiliity from republicans for being complete and absolute fascist pieces of shit.
They. Ran. For. Office. They said they would represent us but they didn’t. Of course we should blame those Dems who fail to do what they are elected to do, time and again.
It's also basic politics that you should expect the people you vote for to enact policies and views you support. Losing a judge seat to a maga fascist because Dems are islamophobic is worth ALLLLLLL the criticism and then some
