the sequence of events from “we need to engage the youth! we need our own joe rogan!” to mamdani’s rise to “we need to crush mamdani and distance ourselves from him” is really something
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It's almost like all they really care about is fundraising
jun 29, 2025, 6:50 pm • 4 0 • view
One hope is that we can vote them out. But I don’t think our country will last until the next election cycle.
jun 29, 2025, 4:51 pm • 2 0 • view
"we meant we wanted bill clinton 2, not someone who believes in things and makes rich people nervous"
jun 29, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a real catch-22 for them: the old money and the young people are opposed to one another and they need both to maintain their status quo
jun 29, 2025, 4:58 pm • 6 0 • view
Guess they'll probably try to frame it as a negative by saying you can't expect that kind of youth vote outside a major city.
jun 29, 2025, 6:21 pm • 2 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/plea... so anyway
jun 29, 2025, 9:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Kids liked Bernie - kibosh Kids voted for mamdani…total freak out
jun 29, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
They say it like this as wishful way of expressing what they really want, which sounds really bad out loud. They want to be able to shape opinion and whip votes without pesky details like moral consistency, facts and evidence, or policy that is beneficial to the voters they want to reach.
jun 29, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
yeah this about settles it. this party is actively malicious and needs to be destroyed before we can even think about resisting republicans electorally
jun 29, 2025, 4:51 pm • 4 1 • view
Give me $20 million dollars in consulting fees so I can just point at Mamdani and say “be like him” and I’ll be more helpful than whatever bullshit they actually crank out.
jun 29, 2025, 5:14 pm • 11 0 • view
Further proof that the democratic establishment is not better than republicans and I suspect many of them will be talking heads on OAN/Fox News in the next few years, talking about how they don’t recognize the Democratic Party as if it’s a bad thing.
jun 29, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean I shouldn’t be that shocked that “our own Joe Rogan” was explicit about his race
jun 29, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Saw your name. Visited your page. Great content, but false advertising -- there was, in fact, no Waluigi yaoi. Que lastima, muy triste.
jun 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 2 0 • view
David Hogg being unceremoniously booted from the DNC is in the mix here too lol
jun 29, 2025, 4:57 pm • 14 0 • view
"We need to engage the youth. No, wait, not like that!"
jun 29, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
And they're saying it openly too, which may be useful in the long run. A lot of normies questioning things when they see dem leadership kneecap their own guy
jun 29, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Evolve or perish, Democrats.
jun 29, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
They wanted a pied piper to lead the youth into loving reasonable centrism. Problem with the youth is that they aren't at all keen on reasonable centrism that promises them next to nothing and can't even deliver that.
jun 29, 2025, 4:46 pm • 49 1 • view
Hell it's delivered them nothing but pain, in their eyes. E.g., if you're 24 you don't know a world pre-ACA. So all you've seen is your healthcare system degrade.
jun 29, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
“Centrist pied piper” is exactly what they mean by “Joe Rogan of the left”
jun 29, 2025, 5:28 pm • 16 1 • view
It’s the same energy as a toddler saying “I WANT THIS”, you delivering it to them, and them saying “BUT YOU DID IT THR WONG WAY”
jun 29, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
But the focus groups and the consultants said things they wanted to hear and that's not fair!!
jun 29, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I love the idea that they’re gonna find a podcaster who will get young people radicalized into supporting low interest economic opportunity loans for the IDF or whatever they stand for these days, good luck with that shit
jun 29, 2025, 4:54 pm • 6 0 • view
The unsaid part is always they want it on their terms (no actual change, definitely no brown people)
jun 29, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
What's unreal is that the thing they're responding to is not even actual enthusiasm amongst young men for a politician. It's just out of touch old farts throwing enough money at YouTube that outdated misogyny is the only thing boys know how to imagine
jun 29, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Mamdani is the genuine real deal like young men (and women, and everyone else) getting genuinely excited for someone but then I guess the target is actively to force everyone to like a thing we all hate and to reject genuine enthusiasm
jun 29, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck the Democrats.
jun 29, 2025, 4:46 pm • 8 0 • view
They meant someone White. It's as simple as that.
jun 29, 2025, 4:45 pm • 8 0 • view