NEW: Democrats are pumping out content of themselves, pumping iron: "People want to see vigor, they want to see action, that you’re prepared to do the job, doing more than sitting behind a podium regurgitating a litany of nonsensical acronyms" www.cnn.com/2025/07/26/p...
No they dont
When the cringe factor is so strong it breaks through generational barriers and registers as cringe to me, a Gen Xer
we live in a profoundly stupid country in The Dumb Times.
wake up babe, a new* way for dems to misinterpret the obvious just dropped
Same idiocy as ‘if we nominate war heroes republicans will definitely respect and vote for us’
This is actually the opposite of what I want to see
Buncha losers
“You know who had a really great campaigning gimmick? Paul Ryan.” “Who?”
starting to suspect democrats have a weird fetish for public embarrassment and losing elections
This is dumb
We're fucking doomed.
You can smell the loser stench
David, are you slow?
What in the actual fuck?
We just want healthcare not gym membership videos of the wealthy.
which acronyms do you mean
What
stop with these photos and go talk to voters!
I want to see them fucking do anything to protect us instead of jerking off online.
*standing behind a *lectern
Political consultants should be out of a job if they think this is our priority rn 🤦🏾♂️
Collin Allred lost by 8pts to F'ing Ted Cruz, and he thinks pumping iron I going to help him?
The next election is going to be an arm rassling contest
I'd rather see them reading a fucking book.
This is so embarrassing.
truly the most consultant-brained thing i've ever seen
I have never seen something so pitiful embraced by so many people with power at the worst possible time.
Really wondering what that "litany of nonsensical acronyms" is supposed to mean. Is it just me or is that coming off is lgbtq+ hate?
People want them to represent them and not do dumb stunts like this shit actually
Anything to avoid actually talking about policy
I do enjoy the photos Colin Allred texts us for his fundraisers, I will say that.
Yes! We DEMAND performative bullshit 24/7!
"See, we actually *can* take action, we just choose not to when it doesn't directly and solely benefit us" is probably not a great campaign message. Though, maybe more honest.
this isnt really taking action, it can be preparing for action, but theyre very clear its just for looks
I don't know what kicked off another round of discussion on this stupid story again, but once again I am pointing out that bro's ass is clean off the bench. Dude is cruising towards injury. Anyway talk to your constituents and be with your community, jesus.
no. i have no interest in this nonsense. none. zero.
TF is this supposed to do? It just shows Democrats with a lot of free time and the ability to hire personal trainers while society collapses.
“So we are sitting on a workout bench, regurgitating a litany of nonsensical acronyms. We are very intelligent.”
We want them to act to save democracy not just look tough.
Do they know that for all of his evil, ignorant insanity, and obvious PED use, at least when RFK posts his gym pics he's actually moving real weight... This is some pink dumbbell shit.
Pickme energy
These people really have to get a different marketing team because this is cringeworthy and frankly completely off the mark.
This isn't just stupid on their part; it's insulting. A mockery of America's desperate need for active leaders in the fight against GOP fascism.
this is “the aliens just landed on earth and assumed mice were the dominant life form”-level misunderstanding
THGTTG (Edited 2:42 PM via @skeetsapp.com)
Someone give these dorks swirlies
I love lifting weights but this is embarrassing and stupid
they're just following in the footsteps of the most successful electoral juggernaut of our era, donald trump, and how often he posts about working out and exercising.
No shit. The party is pathetic.
In my day we use to call wire earbuds "earbuds"
Exactly what I was thinking
“People want to see vigor-“ People want health insurance and affordable groceries.
More of @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @democrats.senate.gov doing nothing or, at least, nothing meaningful to oppose Trump and his minions and stop the slide into autocracy. . . The Democrats have, deservedly, become a joke.
“not actively dying in office” is an easy bar to clear
Why are you sitting in gyms when you could be out there calling Republicans weird? I didn't vote for you to get swole, I voted for you to stop this escalating fuckery. Unless you're going to drop those dumbbells on a Republican foot, quit this and go do something that HELPS.
GOP: We will use ICE and the military to pacify all urban areas that lean Democratic. Dems: Check out our workout photos.
"People dont want empty platitudes, they want strength!" Are these people using chatGPT as their consultants or what? This is like a Monty Python skit or "Who's on first"
Yeah, seeing that they have time to exercise right now, when I don’t, really makes me feel like they are working as hard as they can in this moment.
Fucking idiots, every last godsdamn one of them. We don't want to see muscles; we want to see a fucking spine.
So hot take but this article is misrepresenting a movement. There's a strong push for liberal fitness buffs to be more vocal in fitness spaces, especially weight gyms, which have a strong white male supremacy bias to them culturally. The fact isnt "dems are doing buffness", thats piggybacked /1
At the end of the day gym bros exist in all forms, and its taken decades for the scene to begin to shift from its conservative roots post WWII. There IS a leftist shift in body building, sports, and the weight room. And the people who mean it arent cringe /2
Democrats fraily trying to credit themselves to the hard working sportsmen, women, and LGBTQ people pumping iron and punching Nazis when they cant policy dev for crap is the cringe of this. But the way this article is written is almost deliberately harmful to the actual grassroots efforts at gyms
Millennial cringe in political form, helluva time to be alive
*does empty gestures, but with weights attached* Nailed it!
Free promo for Zyn.
Or, and hear me out here, do the bare fucking minimum work of an opposition party
Unless they’re pumping to better be able to punch Nazis in the face, IDGAF
Pathetic fucking party lmao
the only way this is OK is if their next step is going to be punching the shit out of everyone in the Trump administration
Stupid bit Get to the real work or quit and be a gym rat
This is NOT what we asked for. No one asked for this. We asked them to grow a couple of pairs and stand up to R's. Not...whatever this is supposed to be. Good Lord, no wonder we're where we are... 🤦♀️
Is it just me or do other people think the consultants Democrats have been working with for decades are actually working for the opposition?
The McKinsey analysts definitely want Democrats to lose elections.
Nah, the democrats themselves work for the opposition
more like the democrats, the republicans, and their consultants are all working for the same guys
Hey, it's that thing again where we take a flimsy right-wing premise at face value, oblivious to the fact that the Right doesn't really believe in it in the first place.
Taking cues from Paul Ryan I see, good thinking, good thinking.
@democrats.org god you people are worthless
Litany of nonsensical acronyms? Better be specific, gymbro. What are you saying, exactly?
They're saying "fuck dem fags"
And more!
These fucking morons just don't get it, do they?
Jesus Christ this is deeply embarrassing. Thanks I hate it
Hmm but none of those young people are who the Democrats put forward for contested Senator elections. Everyone they have put forward is over the age of 70 None of those people working out
Is it cringey? Maybe a little. Is it worth it to save our way of life? MAYBE. Stop hating, jfc
You better look at the other comments if you think this is going to save us from anything.
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How will this help? /gen
Who knows? My theory of the case is that as the left reorganizes and recombobulates itself (a la maga w/o the cult), media strategies are adjusting in real time. Throw shit at the wall. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. But naysaying just because it's not personally appealing is frankly stupid.
They are trying to be appealing. And people are letting them know it’s not working. Which is, as one person here put it, like throwing shit at the wall—maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. This is how they learn which outcome it is.
I take your point, but I hardly think the average Bluesky poster is the person those ads are for, and in any case they don't make up more than a tiny fraction of the voting left and center.
My original point was simply that people need to chill. There's a cohort on the left within the extremely online (and without to an extent) that are loudly contrarian or doomers, and you can see it in the comments. You can't simultaneously want Dems to change and then yell at them when they try.
p. sure the ads are for the demo they've been unsuccessfully courting for decades: centrists, esp right-leaning centrists The people who say "Dems are too outspoken about the transes, it's alienating 'normal' people. Maybe Kamala could've won if she hadn't been pro tax dollars for prison trans ppl"
P.S. GenAI is an insulting cancer on art and creativity as well as the environment. ;)
Which is what I see a lot of in the comments. The pile-on effect is real, critical thinking is at a nadir right now.
Im beginning to think they arent actually malicious on purpose but actually just very very stupid, because this is... embarrassing doesnt feel close to strong enough a word
Didn't realize Gavin Newsom's wildly successful shitposting campaign involved resistance training.
So freaking stupid.
Jfc
needing to prove how strong and tough you are for votes is fascist
HEALTHCARE FOR FUCKS SAKE
This is clown shit
