Day 1 of the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting saw party chair Ken Martin detail how the party is pushing back on Trump administration policies and trying to win back voters.
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The problem is no one thinks they are bringing pencils to a knife fight, especially when no one is willing to call out those who do.
aug 26, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view
They should start by endorsing Mamdani.
aug 26, 2025, 7:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Clown in Chief
aug 26, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok Ken. If you mean everything, we expect to see, starting tomorrow: Dems on the offense like Newsom. Dems running races like Mamdani. Dems getting in the faces of Rs and driving them nuts. Dems setting the narrative, not responding to the R narrative.
aug 26, 2025, 7:26 pm • 1 0 • view
start with cleaning your own house! any dem that voted to confirm any of this shit show needs to be primaried and replaced. no more fucking around. take off the gloves and fight
aug 26, 2025, 7:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Good
aug 26, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Ken, come join the Democratic Socialists of America 🌹. Sure, it's taken you 8 months to see the DNC has been spineless on Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, Trump's Billionaire Bribe Bill, and his relentless dehumanization of immigrants. But the DSA is here to liberate you from the donor class.
aug 26, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
There are only a few Dems with spines, the rest are cowards and should resign now!
aug 26, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
LOLOLOL
aug 26, 2025, 7:16 pm • 2 0 • view
The grandest irony is that the Dems still think it's a knife fight... The right is the party of the 2A for a reason.
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 2 0 • view
It's not a knife fight, it's a gun fight. And yes, democrats suck at messaging and fighting back.
aug 26, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Must of been a really short meeting.
aug 26, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Does involve not pushing out/silencing guys We, The People want to hear from? Hogg, Walz, the squad would do wonders for the party if the dnc would stop fighting their own.
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 10 0 • view
Put Hogg, Walz, Pritzker, Crockett, Whitmer, Moore on a steering committee and get the ship straightened out!
aug 26, 2025, 7:27 pm • 8 0 • view
Exactly, but they're doing the opposite and it'll be our fault when they lose again.
aug 26, 2025, 8:31 pm • 3 0 • view
I don't think Hogg, Walz and the squad are the right people for the moment. We really need the smartest people on this.
aug 26, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
This is a joke, right? Thats what we've been doing - marginalizing them and all prog voices in favor of neoliberalism, again and again. Remind me, what was Einstein's definition of stupidity?
aug 26, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Einstein never said the definition of #stupidity (or insanity) was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. See the link below. We need the smartest people, whether they are progressive or not. quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/s...
aug 26, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree, we need smart people. That's why I named who I named.
aug 26, 2025, 7:45 pm • 1 0 • view
What has Tim Walz done to distinguish himself as smart? Has he had any big ideas? Does he have any technical expertise?
aug 26, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
He was killing it calling the fascists weird until the all knowing consultants made him bland and lost the election yet again. Almost like losing was their actual job.
aug 26, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
It wasn't consultants who made Walz bland.
aug 26, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Weird was working and the DNC fucked it up. That's just what happened.
aug 26, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Presented in Minneapolis where they just stripped a candidate of his nomination for being too left. This party is hopeless.
aug 26, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Isn't this the same guy who had David Hogg kicked out of leadership for actively supporting candidates who would stand up against fascism? (i.e. for actually doing something instead of just saying something?) Im glad that he seems to be able to call a fascist a fascist, but for fuck's sake.
aug 26, 2025, 7:17 pm • 22 0 • view
Yup! This point right here 👆
aug 26, 2025, 7:33 pm • 3 0 • view
I don't see Democrats pushing back on anything. Where's the action? All I've seen are a few Dems willing to call out the obvious authoritarianism and illegal acts committed by trump and his party while the majority of Dems vote against impeachment. Dems had 4 years to do something with Biden.
aug 26, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Words, words, words. It’s all they ever have.
aug 26, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Ken Martin needs to go away.
aug 27, 2025, 12:13 am • 1 0 • view
So maybe talk to us, the long-time, harried, frustrated Democratic Party supporters/voters!
aug 26, 2025, 7:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Be like John Wick. He killed 3 people with a fukn pencil!
aug 27, 2025, 8:52 am • 0 0 • view
Hey Chairman Martin. Please remove the pencils from Schumer and Jeffries.
aug 26, 2025, 7:24 pm • 2 0 • view
I bet some strongly worded letters are gonna come out of this summit!
aug 26, 2025, 8:51 pm • 1 0 • view
And how are they doing this?🤔
aug 26, 2025, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Want to win back voters? Ask Schumer and Jeffries to resign their leadership positions and let fighters equipped for the times we live in to lead Senate and House. Because I'm not giving a dime or a minute of my time to the DNC until that happens.
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 20 1 • view
They're both absolutely worthless
aug 26, 2025, 9:10 pm • 1 0 • view
100%
aug 26, 2025, 8:10 pm • 3 0 • view
They should have brought a bazooka to the knife fight a decade ago.
aug 26, 2025, 7:24 pm • 3 0 • view
The Dems are WIMPS!!! Have been since JFK assassination… no guts, no fight, ZERO COURAGE…💩Politically Correct PUSSIES!🤮 Pussies, Wimps, Whiners and Losers make up the vast majority of the DFL, which is why I registered Independent out here, in HI! The DFL has been the Walking Dead for decades!🥺🫥🥱😴
aug 26, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Is the party pushing back? Feels more like a handful of fighters and the rest are useless or laying low.
aug 26, 2025, 7:22 pm • 8 0 • view
The Russians are trying to promote a civil war in the US. Do you wish to violently overthrow the US ? I do not.
aug 26, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Fully tired, angry at the status quo of Dem Party machines choosing who THEY will run. Already committed to progressive Dem candidates who are smart, feisty, plucky, fearless who stand up for We The People, with true American values for US all.
aug 27, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Newsome seems to have figured it out, let's get behind him. Also Democrat messaging is not the problem. We have no answer for Fox News becoming the de facto propaganda arm for Republicans
aug 26, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
So then as the chair what is the plan, because being tired hasn’t worked yet?
aug 26, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Too little too late. Can't trust Democrats to do the right thing now of all times.
aug 26, 2025, 7:14 pm • 10 0 • view
So who you gonna work with - the fascists?
aug 26, 2025, 7:16 pm • 4 0 • view
The fascists, or the fascist enablers?
aug 26, 2025, 7:18 pm • 6 0 • view
I blocked him
aug 26, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah that'll fix everything
aug 26, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
3rd parties at the state and local level for me. The Democratic Party is a complete lost cause at a national level.
aug 26, 2025, 7:23 pm • 2 0 • view
found the dunce
aug 26, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
You and I are on the same side. I lack faith in the Democrats to finally do the right thing.
aug 26, 2025, 7:21 pm • 2 0 • view
I disagree with you. There are many examples of courage among Democrats. You choose to focus on the negative.
aug 26, 2025, 7:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Perhaps you're right. I want to believe there's more positive than negative.
aug 26, 2025, 7:23 pm • 3 0 • view
How does this guy still have a job lmao
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 18 0 • view
*Says the pencil
aug 26, 2025, 7:15 pm • 10 0 • view
Perfect response. No notes. Commenting to boost.
aug 26, 2025, 8:37 pm • 0 0 • view
😂😂😂😂
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Plank1-get the Epstein files released. Plank 2-fullt testore the ACA, Social Security, National Parks, Public Broadcasting, and access to vaccines Plank 3-eat the rich. 50% tax on income over 10m/year and tax bonuses in excess of $1m as regular income. Tax $1b or more at 70%.
aug 26, 2025, 7:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Howdy, Ken: The saying is “bringing a plastic spork to a Repube knife fight.”
aug 26, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems, you aren't doing a good job of fighting the demented con man and his handler's actions and E. O's. You have to fight dirty from now on. Take a page from his playbook and act on it.
aug 26, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s about damn time! I want to see them pushing back on this unconstitutionality DAILY! BE SEEN-BE HEARD! Stay out of the weeds and focus on DEMOCRACY!
aug 26, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
The party needs to stop throwing trans women under the bus and stop licking the boots of cops and the IOF before I can trust them again.
aug 26, 2025, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
They don’t know what else to do.
aug 26, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Let me guess, more speeches and more stupid shit from Newsom.
aug 26, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
“Now we will bring Sharpies to write our sternly worded admonishments!”
aug 26, 2025, 7:24 pm • 2 0 • view
How?!?!?
aug 26, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
He sounds like the usual blah blah blah
aug 26, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
"We're being asked by our followers, we are asked by our supporters, we're asked by our donors, we're asked by our advocates, what are you doing?... And what we have to tell them is we're going to do everything." I am glad they finally have concrete plans 🙄
aug 27, 2025, 3:03 am • 1 0 • view
The national party has done little to nothing out of the ordinary to combat a fascist. Ken Martin is weak. People don’t want to hear Trump bad followed by empty platitudes that never come to fruition.
aug 26, 2025, 7:16 pm • 4 0 • view
HE'S tired of it?!?! Oh well happy day. Fashionably late, I see.
aug 26, 2025, 7:16 pm • 2 0 • view
So are Dem voters. For god's sake, grow a pair.
aug 26, 2025, 7:19 pm • 2 0 • view
One thing is to say and another to act. The Democratic Party must play fire with fire. Word for word, action for action. Not just wait and see or sit and just say this is wrong. The Republicans break the law. We must also break the law. They don't get punished. We shouldn't also.
aug 26, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
We’re tired of his bitching and do nothingness. Time for new leadership or dissolve the party.
aug 26, 2025, 8:04 pm • 3 0 • view
He needs to go
aug 26, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
We all are. Grow some balls stand up for yourselves. Been saying it for years.
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 3 0 • view
This guy would do well to drive a tractor up to Capitol Hill and dump manure on the steps. Sound nuts? Exactly. No one knows who the hell this guy is and that's his biggest problem.
aug 26, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Well he better figure out how to buy some of the regional and local media companies.
aug 26, 2025, 7:42 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 7:29 pm • 7 0 • view
I agree, but until I see action, it's just words.
aug 26, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Ignoring the overwhelming whims of your voting base on Gaza is a great way to win back voters Ken!
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump is ALL you said TeeHee
aug 26, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't see any real pushback other than Gavin
aug 26, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
MAGA: it's the Dems fault! Democrats: It's the other Dems fault!! And you're still wondering why younger voters don't look favorably at Dems? Clowns need to get their finger on the pulse.
aug 26, 2025, 7:27 pm • 2 0 • view
He looks tired.
aug 26, 2025, 7:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Just got a text message asking for money from James Carville. As long as mediocre white men are in charge of the DNC they will not receive a penny from me.
aug 27, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure. Just make sure that you incite supporters to be violent, because Felon 47 and his fascist-minded devotees are looking for any excuse to suspend next hears mid terms so Trump can't be impeached for cause and removed from office. If JD keeps criminally abetting the Felon, he has to go too.
aug 26, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats need to start acting more like Newsom and Pritzer and less like this guy and Chuck Schumer.
aug 26, 2025, 7:46 pm • 6 0 • view
And the transphobia
aug 27, 2025, 9:03 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m sure the playbook will include water pistols and spit balls to counteract the fascist trump army. Summer of love shit ain’t gonna work with this bunch.
aug 26, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This is the same “leader” (I use that term lightly) who Ok’ed $20million be wasted on consultants who will research why young white guys didn’t vote for VP Harris. Not meeting the moment is a HUGE understatement!!
aug 26, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I would never have guessed that the Democratic Party had a unifying policy strategy. It appears to be completely random in its actions and impotent in the face of Trump.
aug 26, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
DNC needs to drop their policy against opposing incumbents in a primary.. Their policy has entrenched aging representatives and alienated voters, young and old. Bring back David Hogg, and listen to him.
aug 26, 2025, 7:47 pm • 2 0 • view
@kenmartin.bsky.social Prove it Ken! Primary the pencil people!!!
aug 26, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
It would have been great if they had formed some sort of plan to safeguard us from Trump like 10 years ago. But here we are and Chuckles Schumer is JUST NOW figuring that out.
aug 26, 2025, 7:12 pm • 26 0 • view
Maybe the answer is a well thought out positive agenda that addresses the concerns of Americans instead of just "not Trump".
aug 26, 2025, 8:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Agreed, even though I do think for most sane people, "not Trump" is enough. The Dems could put a fresh, steaming pile of doggy poo as their candidate and I will vote for it at this point. I just don't understand how so many don't see his evil. What is wrong with Americans???
aug 26, 2025, 8:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Consider that for lots of other Americans, Trump is their "doggy poo" - not their first choice but better than what the Democrats are pushing. I think Democrats should focus on issues that are important to Americans - economy, crime, opportunity and education reform.
aug 26, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Kamala focused on those things in her campaign and Amerikkka didn’t care.“Not Trump” IS mostly enough to win IF Dems mastered messaging. IF they effectively connected OYT’s harmful policies to people’s lives, then they could win, but they don’t. They don’t play offense. They allow OYT to define them
aug 26, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Ole Yam Tits
aug 26, 2025, 9:15 pm • 2 0 • view
I'd prefer that Democrats come up with positive policies that help everyone. Making Trump seem bad isn't a good strategy by itself. It has to be an alternative instead of just NO. And name calling might feel good, but it doesn't win over undecided people or those who disagree with you.
aug 26, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
- Biden brought back manufacturing jobs - Rebuilt bridges and roads (in many red states) - Forgave student loans for many - Tried to raise minimum wage - Actually helped states ravaged by storms (regardless of Gov’s party) - Funded Ukraine - Etc.
aug 26, 2025, 9:48 pm • 2 0 • view
A big part of the issue, I think, is that Americans don’t realize the value in keeping the trains running on time. Govt isn’t always sexy but at least we didn’t/wouldn’t have massive firings in fed workforce under Dems. Ppl voted for OYT and now they’re unemployed and losing their farms.
aug 26, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Only about 1.3% of all workers make minimum wage. That's not a major concern for most American workers.
aug 26, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for preaching to us.
aug 26, 2025, 9:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Lol. My preferred is Orange Shitgoblin.
aug 26, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
That works too 😂
aug 26, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
They are one and the same thing Ken, my boy. The fact you don't get that is THE problem. Trump is burning down the house. People dont like him. Make us believe you/dems can stop him, and you will get votes.
aug 26, 2025, 7:16 pm • 5 0 • view
Biden won in 2020.
aug 26, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
He did....but really inspite of the Dems not because of them. Covid plus a summer of riots took down Trump. He was a bad president, but the Ds never really brought that home.
aug 26, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
People love positivity, like the succes of the Obama and Biden EV car tax rebates in skyrocketing the EV market.
aug 26, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
The best way they can win back voters is to actually do something instead of clutching their pearls and saying "oh me, oh my". Oh and getting behind popular candidates would help, too.
aug 26, 2025, 7:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Must have been a very quick meeting!
aug 26, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Here's how Democrats win: The New Deal created the greatest economic expansion in history.
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 1 0 • view
But most democrats like the status quo. For every Bernie, there's are five Bidens.
aug 26, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
That's because Bernie and his supporters are explicitly unwelcome in the party. Which is so obviously why they keep losing. It's insane to watch.
aug 26, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Bernie supported Biden because Biden adopted a lot of Bernie's and Dem Socs policies during Covid. How did you like our Covid UBI stimulus checks - I loved mine !
aug 26, 2025, 8:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, love your screenshot from Techridy solutions. The rich will surely make us all rich because AI lol.
aug 26, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Anyone can use Google Assistant - Gemini. DARPA funded John McCarthy's work when he invented AI.
aug 26, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I do appreciate the thinking big and demanding more, but I really don't think the Dems are going to do anything of the kind until we force them to. And if that does happen, I think AI will have very little to do with it. It's somewhere between a parrot and an extra set of trained eyes. A gimmick
aug 27, 2025, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 4:58 am • 0 0 • view
No, it gave you the average of what everyone on the Internet has said. It summarized its inputs. And when there's a gap in its data it just makes something up. It's summarizing the consensus of others' analyses, not creating its own.
aug 27, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
It doesn't disagree with me. It also can't strategize or analyze the complexities of human societies the way humans do. Also has no moral compass whatsoever and apparently helped a kid kill himself. It's a feedback machine and a yes man. Some people like that. I do not.
aug 27, 2025, 5:20 am • 0 0 • view
Of course it can do all of those things. It just did. In one second.
aug 27, 2025, 5:40 am • 0 0 • view
600 after a promise of 2k? That's great for you that you can be bought off so cheaply.
aug 26, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I got 3600 from Dem Congress. Pretty cool how they dropped the unemployment rate down to 4.1% doing that, huh ?
aug 26, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude, nobody is making the argument that Dems never do anything good or effective. The problem is that rents were double and groceries were up almost 40% and wages hadn't kept up. Biden told us he'd fixed that economy already and then Harris ran to his right. How do folks not understand that?
aug 26, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems passed had eviction moratorium and it worked. What happened to it ? In fact there was a housing boom.
aug 26, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, they made a much better Christmas display too, what's that got to do with anything? Rents are still double and folks were still expected to pay eventually even if not evicted. The moratorium ended and homelessness went up 18%. It's fine though, Joe fixed it already. Everything is fine. Ffs
aug 26, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Republican congress.
aug 28, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Biden ended Covid and ended the Covid recession with the stimulus packages.
aug 26, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view