For fucks sake. We didn’t lose because of the price of eggs. We lost because Republicans SAID it was the price of eggs. Now they’re dismantling government, stripping rights, starting trade wars and Dems are saying “look at the eggs!” Leaders lead! Stop chasing their bullshit! Focus and fight back!
Agreed. Remember the 12 hour Tiktok scam? Yeah, I didn't think so. Nobody talks about all the data Meta collects. Nobody said to ban them. Musk now has all my data, including my medical data I believe, and the pushback is minimal at best.
I am in.
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Exactly. The lies won.
One of the Senators in my state where both are Democrats is up for reelection next year. He has started a low key fundraising effort almost apologizing for asking. The guy is scared to death to speak up about what is happening. What is wrong with these people.
Did they vote to confirm Trump's nominees? Quite a few did. They all have no backbone.
Thank you for this.
Is it "for fucks sake" or "for fuck's sake". I want it to sound professional.
Lile magicians, they are very good at misdirection. The Musk salute is a good example. People pay less attention to ICE. There are ICE impersonators now.
Schumer is tragically weak. He bloody needs to go.
May I add....the MSM also parroted that the price of eggs is the election day issue
Democrats In Washington are spineless and wilted. Fred…We are fucked.
They are spineless because we are spineless. We want them to fight but where is our fight? We are sitting on our asses watching our government be overthrown and all we do is rage post. It’s yelling into the void.
Hundred percent. Take Schumer for example. That man has been in the bubble way way way too long.
Yep
I think Schumer is doing his best, we need to support him!IMO
I don't agree. He's been around so long and says the most anodyne remarks to the destruction that was ensuing with Trump winning. He's living in the Previous World, not the one we're in. However, I take your point and will give him another chance. Let's see! Fingers crossed.
Democratic Members are abiding the laws and rules of the constitution, Republicans aren’t law abiding!
Republican’s have sucker punched us! 🤬🤬
They sure have!! You can't get sucker punched if your guard is up. Trusting them is the first mistake.
And we lost out country because Biden trusted the system that is entirely rigged against us. Take Gerrymandering for example, GOP uses that to where a Dem has no chance of winning a district. Why did Dems not do the same thing? It's legal. We don't fight creatively, even within the law.
MAGA’s complete lack of critical thinking cheer on this madness. Congressional R’s are gutless and blindly follow knowing the implications SCOTUS stands ready to enable every chance they get Anyone surprised where we are at?
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"For fucks sake" The traitor "won" the same way all his criminal charges were dropped, can we get this straight. Immunity didn't mean violate the constitution as an official act!! He had immunity and knew it when he said he could shoot someone and everyone focused on supporters instead.
The dems are to blame if we don't change the dnc it's over
The people sitting at the top of the democratic party are useless. They might as well be republicans.
They've always been punks This isn't a new thing. The #democrats have been selling us weak tea for decades. Their best defense is to hide their heads in the sand
And you're falling for the GOP's goal of dividing us. Or else you guys are MAGA plants, to sow this.
Fight back in any way you can. Raise your voices about the harm Donald's causing not just domestically but also internationally. Talk about the ripple effects that will impact millions of Americans. youtu.be/d9eMiNJYxO4
The post is about Dems doing nothing but talking and you’re suggesting more talking. What is it going to take for people to get off their asses and protest? We’re asking leaders to show some fight and we’ve shown NONE.
Multiple things need to be worked on at once. We can each take actions on our own but the Dems need help in building their new direction
Does anyone know the address where elon has taken over the federal payments system. That is the perfect place for a protest IMO.
No this is another post demanding Democrats talk about something, not a different thing; then you are demonstrating that when they do people whine and tell them to stop talking.
I think at least getting on air and slamming the total absurdity and danger, speaking on a level that EVERYONE can understand, every chance they get is important, too. I guarantee I have friends on FB who have no idea Elon has access to all their info and to the payment systems.
Nothing says we can't demonstrate resistance through our individual actions. Gandhi didn't wait to be led, nor Martin Luther King, Jr. We can do this.
Exactly?!! Where is the outrage?
I agree voters need to do more but our elected officials should set the example. Dems for the most part doing nothing to oppose Trump leads to absolutely no inspiration for voters to do anything.
And us showing no fight doesn’t inspire our leaders. We need to own our apathy; after J6, we should have taken to the streets every damn day until he was arrested.
When’s the first US national day of protest?
There is a national day of protest planned on Wed at every state capitol. However I don’t expect high turnouts at capitol buildings. Indivisible call tonight may have more
I don’t either because it was poorly planned.
When is the last time we saw any campaign ads for Schumer, Pelosi or Schiff? I haven't seen any at all. That tells me they are being selected not elected. That is a problem. The Dems have been disenfranchising its own base for a very long time
You are right! I have been asking the same question. The streets should be filled at every Capital in the US, especially, Washington DC! In the 60's anti-war protests were daily! Protest at R congress/senate offices!
Use a second nationwide simultaneous primary if necessary to determine a replacement candidate, ex Pete or Elizabeth would have been wonderful. Put demos- back into the process and allow everyone a simultaneous vote.
What method are we using? Law? They own the Supreme Court. Congress? Trump doesnt believe in congress. He's a CEO. People just DO what he says. There are no elections in corporations, no "shared power" between labor and management. He could care less if he tramples the entire system.
Then the system has to fight back....not happening at the moment....
"Dems are saying 'look at the eggs!'” For very much the most part it's making fun of the idiots in the GOP who were pretending that it had to do with the price of eggs.
except Dems can't read the room, everyone knows egg prices are high, their so slow witted....egg prices are so Jan. 21, 2025....
Plus MAGA is being told that higher egg prices now = patriotism.
Yes! This!!
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Every Democratic senator needs to ask themselves What would mitch McConnell do? AND THEN DO THAT. If it's not illegal or unconstitutional, just unprecedented, JUST DO IT FFS.
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I agree. I don’t want to hear another person talking about “the price of eggs” or “pay at the pump”. That seems to be missing most of the bigger picture.
South Korean lawmakers scaled walls to keep democracy US dems : chicken wings are going to be more expensive come superbowl What are our republican friends across the aisle going to do about that?
Well said!
You’re the 1st person, I’ve seen, speak this truth. Will Dems EVER quit shooting themselves in the foot???
Please tell me this is all just a rope-a-dope.
Their narrative from 2021-2023 about Bideneconomics/inflation worked because it was felt at the grocery store. The GOP tapped into it and the Dems sucked at creating their own rage-inducing narratives and putting the blame on Trump’s first term then tying it to a Trump Tax increase (tariffs).
We lost because zero banking executives went to jail during the Obama Administration. We lost because Biden bailed out Silicon Valley Bank and allowed private equity to buy single family homes with 0% loans from the Fed. All this while the average American struggled.
Absolutely! Thank you for saying it. Feel like I’m taking crazy pills watching Dems during the election and now during the Coup 2.0!
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well said.
We’re totally screwed aren’t we Fred? Many of us have been screaming from the rooftops about the danger since 2016. If we do not have Dems leading the resistance inside the house (literally & figuratively), where does that leave us? I fear 2025 in so many ways.
Republicans won because a lot of men hate gay people, women, the trans community that makes up the smallest of minorities, and they especially hate Mexicans
We lost because they found a way to cheat. Period. I agree with Jon Pavlovitz. “You will never convince me that he won every swing state.”
Red and blue only serve the oligarchy! The rich bourgeois are there, donors! Money is in politics! They don't work for the workers! Workers of the world unite!
It's like when a gang of shoplifters starts a diversion in a store so they can clean it out.
For a century, Democrats have worked to build and broaden democracy. Biden did a terrific piece of this work. Republicans did the nothing but limit and weaken our democracy and open the door to thieves and thugs. But let’s blame Democrats for this hot mess.
That's not true. While the dismantling of the government is on the Republicans and their voters, the Democrats are failing in their response to it. They are talking about bipartisanship and acting like it is business as usual. They need to get over that and step up for us.
I’m fine blaming them for a lackluster/missing-in-action response here. I’m not fine blaming them for running a far more competent campaign than their opponent. He ran on blatant racism & bigotry. The American people chose this. They cheered for the racist bigotry. Egg prices, my ass.
I'm not blaming them for the campaign they ran. It was an outstanding campaign. I do believe what people, including me, are upset about is being MIA. The lack of leadership. At this point, they have lost all ability to read the room and they post about egg prices. It is unbelievable.
Spot. On.
Agreed! The Dems have only mastered how to point fingers and complain.
Exactly right. Dems need to be on the offense instead of defense. Make a plan!!!
To borrow a line from #TheWestWing, "The price of eggs is *their* game. Any move we make on it, we lose; any move *they* make, they win."
But also, the eggs are really, really expensive. I can be mad about so many things at once my dude.
That’s what we CANADIANS are doing!! Woohoo! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
89,000,000 didn’t give a shit enough to vote.
We must get some military tacticians at DNC soon and/or some NFL offense coordinators. The Rs have been defining the battlefield for years and the DNC ends up playing wack-a-mole on noncritical issues.
Bam- nailed it!
And unfortunately there are too many DUMB AMERICANS that agree about the price of eggs. STUPID ENOUGH to believe lies from Republicans. It’s time for Democrats to take advantage their stupidity. Say something stupid that will fire them up. If that’s what it takes to fight and win, then let’s do it.
Dems seem to always be a day behind & never able to get in front of a single issue or a lie. It’s so depressing and I imagine hurts them with donations too.
It's like they're complicit. I think it's because many of them are. There is still a difference between the parties. Dems don't desire to actively crush the lower classes, they just don't want to help us either. That seems to be the main difference.
I fear theres some truth to this.
Dems are all protecting their own little baskets of eggs. They’re weak and complicit. The American experiment has failed.
Especially because they changed the narrative, and now it's patriotic to pay more for groceries.
Note that it is the rich guys telling you it is patriotic to spend more money on groceries because they know it won't affect them. These Republicans are always telling us poor people that it is okay for us to suffer. Even Trump is telling us we must suffer for the tariffs.
Yes. They are not keeping up. Are they under their couches drinking? Or don't give a f?
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. And Amanda Scales.
What are their phone numbers and addresses?
F*ck up their Monday
Any clever ideas, since federal prosecution will have to wait?
Your only option is to buy a gun and fucking go to Washington. There is no bureaucratic process that can stop what is happening. The only thing that will stop this is violence it is escalated way past the point of pleasantries.
Arrest Musk for treasonous
The people that would arrest him authorized the treason
Give these kids shit. They deserve it. They are fell into Musk’s illegal trap which will backfire on their young careers and livelihoods. They’re doing it for the money and the excitement. Get on their cases, wherever they may be in social media. Stop this nonsense asap!
They are all Nazis just like him and they deserve to die like Nazis and just like him. They don't deserve any trials they don't deserve any kindness they don't deserve any respect. They deserve a whole 6 ft under and an unmarked grave just like the rest of the Nazis in 1944.
We need Luigi
Yes!
Dems have zero sustained, uniform messaging or outrage.
Yes I’m so tired of hearing about eggs instead of real issues.
2/2 🧵 Those four folks need to be the mouthpiece. The rest of Dems need to either STFU and support OR if they can communicate at all… parrot them on every outlet, old and new. Take their lead. This needs to be about a class war. Plain and simple. CC #ChuckSchumer @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
I’m convinced they don’t know how. There’s no grand plan. Dems are completely over their skis. They need to sit down and listen to the people who can make traction: @aoc.bsky.social #Pete @jasmineforus.bsky.social and yes even @sanders.senate.gov 1/2 🧵
All of this
What he said
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I believe the Dems lost bc Elon controlled the levers. Now he has access to the control room of everything, very sad for America
We are witnessing the execution by elon of an incremental, bloodless coup. Djt and much of Congress have their eyes wide shut and can neither see what's taking place or wrap their heads around it.
I agree but I do not believe DJT or congress have their eyes closed on any of this, sadly!
Exactly. We lost because otherwise centrist and sensible folks stayed home and didn’t vote as our messaging has sucked for a VERY long time. I do enjoy all the egg talk now as it gives me plenty of opportunities to tell other Democrats you can’t care about the planet and buy eggs…period.
They won because they literally hate everything America stands for and they are willing to do whatever it takes to destroy it for their own personal gain. When they scream about the price of eggs and DEI it’s just the fire alarm they pull to distract everyone while they hit the vault.
And they'll then demand all the other nations should support them when it all starts going tits up and the likes of Putin and his cohorts are tightening the screws.
For fucks sake. NO ONE VOTED FOR TRUMP BECAUSE OF THE GODDAMN PRICE OF EGGS. That was *always* merely a socially acceptable excuse. Show me someone claiming they voted for Trump because of the price of eggs and I’ll show you a racist bigot trying to pretend they’re not a racist bigot.
They voted to hurt and subjugate women, black, brown, & trans people They voted for a mass deportation of non-white, non-republicans They voted for mass concentration camps The racist bigotry was deafening. They don’t get to claim this had anything what-so-fucking-ever about the price of eggs
The ‘nice’ guys need to learn to phrase their successes and the opposition’s failures in terms that impress all those poorly educated people, who voted against them because they believed the lies they were told. Showmanship! Doomsplain every move Trump has made, how he’s making America little.
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The Dems have to prioritize. I don’t know if they can. It’ll mean that some causes have to pause. Much of the GOP’s position is built on a culture war foundation - take that away from them and what do they have left? It will take tough, unpopular decisions. I don’t think the Dems can do it.
True Dem leaders are the true egg heads.
Can you be in charge of Dems please? Now?
EXACTLY. A dozen large organic eggs at my store was $4.49 on 11/11/24. The price had been stable at that level for months by me. I think that was a fair price. I documented it because I was furious the GOP kept harping on egg prices and Dems of course just let them do it.
It's like Democratic leadership is stuck in quicksand, their imaginations gone, energy sapped, where is everyone???
We lost because people are racist and hate women. They even admit it!
"... people are racist and hate women" AND possess low IQs, are generally ignorant, and are unable to judge right from wrong.
No empathy
I don't buy this. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016; she just got fucked over by an outdated electoral system. Not to mention Obama handily won the popular vote twice. I think it really boils down to people just didn't want to see another 4 years of Biden's policies.
I don’t understand what is so hard about getting rid of Pelosi getting rid of Schumer getting rid of Nadler and start bringing the young people upfront. Those old folks do not want to do anything anymore they are as bad as the maggots get rid of those OLD fucksticks once and for all,NOW,we are done!
Ageist much? How about this for an absurd generalization: "Young people are too enamored with gaming and spending time looking for "likes" to lead any positive change."?
Nah, it’s been my experience the older people get, the less they want to fight. They don’t want to rock the boat and lose there money/stature/place in life. They figure it is what bit is and they’re closer to the end so why make their lives harder.
Boom!
No the Dems lost because they were sending billions to Israel while the country was underwater. They lost because they told the left to fuck off while they shook hands with Liz Chaney and decided that they wanted to campaign on harsher border laws while throwing trans ppl under the bus
This isn’t true. I don’t think people realize how much money the US really has. Supporting Israel is also an investment and not a bread basket.
Amen!!!!
Oh crap! This wasn’t supposed to happen. Where’s Sleepy Joe when we need someone to blame?
Fight back how? They don't care about our protests. They don't care about our art installations, our poetry slams, or our social media posts. Unless you're willing to pick up a weapon, we lose.
That's, sadly, where we might be at. The Democrats think a stern verbal retort is the answer. It's not #Peacefulprotest is a term used to brainwash the masses. It's ineffective for the people... VERY effective for the assholes in power
#goguerilla
Let's not underestimate the deep seated rascism that resides in the hearts and minds of millions of Americans. You can't even confront the sins of your past in a meaningful way. America has been at war for 93% of the time they've been a nation. Honest reflection will help!
For starters, it's not been a fair fight. MSM decided to give bullsh!t equal weight to reason, science, and facts. Anyone paying attention knew MAGA's game plan. Instead of reporting on it, they reported on polling and the price of eggs. It's only gotten worse now. 1/2
So, speaking truth to power will get us nowhere. We need to stop the navel gazing and infighting and settle on a strategy to communicate effectively and fight back before it's too late. 2/2
Media with their eyes wide shut.
Can someone tell me if it’s “for fucks sake,” or “for fuck’s sake?” I fear I may have been making grammatical errors with this one.
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Or not helping them, you mean. Bte, it was never really about egg, gas, or grocery prices.
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Dude Dems are saying look at the eggs because that was the bare fucking minimum and they lost it lmao
That hypothesis means that the Democratic leadership is capable of doing something other than imitating "Captain Obvious" without actually doing anything
It’s either stupidity or complicity. My vote is complicit after looking at their top donors…
Until voters become interested in actual facts, Dem messaging is irrelevant. They have no power in DC. Voters made this choice. A large part of our population is cheering-on this bat-shitty mess like it’s a college football game. Doesn’t matter why. Until they change, we’re all stuck on this ride.
Well, according to everyone, the voters claimed they didn't like the way the economy was going and that things were unaffordable. And now that Trump is making everything more expensive, suddenly that is not a problem anymore for some reason. All of you are very confused.
@fpwellman.bsky.social too late. The truth is in our faces. Dem ‘leaders’ are too ignorant or fearful to actually do anything. We are on our own. After this, I will leave the party- if Im still in this country (doubtful). Meanwhile we need to protest fight or succumb like lambs to slaughter
And maga supporters are saying: We will gladly suffer for you, our almighty orange leader, if you say it will help. I’m not even joking!
Thanks for saying the right thing. I hope others like you keep reminding us of that until it gets in to thought process. 90-95% time we spend on those crazy talks without realizing that's what they want. That's how they control us
Fighting yesterday's war.
The Republican fantasy was just more popular
We lost because we have become a selfish, ignorant, hateful country. People who never studied civics, history, American Studies, etc. decided to come out and vote for a dictator who promised to destroy our country & they cheered. Watch Hitler and the Nazis on Netflix.
So often you hear pundits saying "this is not who we are!" Fact is, this is who we've become. And it makes me sad.
Absolutamente
Yeah but.... When you scramble them., they're so good
If each elected Democrat made an (short, short) instagram video with a super simple premise that Republicans are gutting our government… ALL OF THEM Think of the impact. Get used to communicating!!
They cheated. That is why this is happening. Our country has failed. The data stollen by the technologarchs finishes us off. We know trump/kushner made a packet on classified material and now they are back. They are having us in broad daylight and we can’t stop them.
Oh my God!! Thank you. This is exactly right.
White identity politics
We lost because they control the messaging and rather than get dirty in the trenches, we hid behind overpaid celebrities who did fuck all for us. This apricot agitator is going to tank the economy and we can’t do shit to stop it. That’s okay, he’ll blame DEI and Democrats
Very well said.
We should be blaming the bird flu and chickens for the price of eggs. The only answer is to remove every Republican from Congress.
It was a consolidated effort by the 1%. All of them raised prices and controlled the narrative to help Trump win.
I agree 100%! Tariffs' are the least of the worries at this time, the destruction of our government agencies, illegal abuse of power, everyone's data now on a mad-man's server?!? Unite, get a plan and attack! Where are the lawsuits, vote NO on all nominees, fight for our rights and the law!
I am DISGUSTED that Dem Senators that are voting to confirm ANYONE MAGA is presenting in the name of bi-partisanship. No, no, no. We MUST be the Oppisition
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Good point. But Schumer and others are talking about eggs because they can’t talk about the genocide that may have cost them the election. Kinda like what Lyndon did to Hubert with Vietnam, but without the cold war pretext.
The left excels at complaining, but words mean nothing if we just sit back and watch. We must stand up, make our voices heard, vote out this plague in Washington, and convince the right that their leaders are unhinged. Action—not just outrage—is the only way forward.
I agree, I’m tired of dems chasing the latest egg price. We need to focus on what is happening in from of our eyes, ignore the red shiny object.
“The price of eggs” was a cover story. Nobody really believed it. Not even the people who said it. But they knew that it sounded more respectable than racism and misogyny.
It's weird how people believe it after the fact. Have heard many mention it as being important to them... after November election.
It was never about the cost of eggs. Why must we focus on the cost of eggs when we need to consider the costs of dictatorship?
Dems are just saying eggs because idiot voters focused on it and we didn't even get that. The eggs represent the stupid risk the voters did
We need to remember it only as a metaphor and not fixate on it as worse crimes are committed.
No one is. Literally no one is ignoring the crimes. NO ONE. It's on the damn news. Y'all just making a mountain out of a molehill. You're even worse
Most elected democrats are ignoring it.
What are the Govt Dems doing, other than licking the boot? I'm sure you have the details to hand.
OP said WE as in the people, not the government.
You said "No one is. Literally no one is ignoring the crimes. NO ONE." And I asked you what the Govt Dems were doing. In the intervening 20 odd hours I've seen so the point is moot.
Why are you counting the hours for a thread 💀
Because, you doll faced dullard, time passes, and information comes to light. Have a great day.
I actually have a life so I don't even remember this
According to Chuck Schumer it's about the price of tomatoes now.
The focus on egg prices has been intense! They reached $5.95 in January 2025, a 61% increase since November 2024. For more insights on grocery prices, check out eggsmilkandbread.com #GroceryPrices #EggPrices
JFC, yes. Please
people cant afford basic shit you meidas touch goon. wtf is bidenomics? tens of billions go overseas while we starve amd go into medical debt?
Oh my fucking God! WORD!!!!! Rank and file Democrats are losing our shit out here and all we’re getting is social media posts with Susan Collins-level concern.
Trump...Very old, tired and angry. He's spending his few remaining years alive burning everything good and progressive into the ground. He wants the American experiment ended. Trump is a soulless ghoul that feeds off the sufferings he inflicts upon humanity. One word... Monster.
No exaggeration to suggest this is a fight for the soul of America. Right now we’re run by a clueless, heartless dolt who doesn’t give a damn about helping anyone but himself. All who voted for him are suckers. #FAFO
The Republicans disavowed Project 2025 during the election and now they're implementing it. Democrats should be holding massive rallies like they did during the election to call this betrayal out. Use any Harris/Walz campaign contributions remaining to fund this or seek new donations.
Hmmm, I would have thought Dem leadership would have had a detailed contingency plan for the return of these fascist fuckers. But they don't appear to be mobilized. Still working on the details? 🙄 WTF?
They better step up soon or we'll primary them right out of office.
Dems need to demand a CONGRESSIONAL HEARING Right Now regarding the lack of legitimacy of DOGE and their illegal shenanigans.
Our response to what ever they claim they stand for is to laugh and say “you don’t really care about that. You only care about money and control.”
You are sooooo fucking right. Stop with the GD eggs!!! And btw I went to Kroger yesterday and bought 18 eggs for $3.50. I braced myself before going in but also knew I’d have “receipts” to bitch about it. They were affordable. What am I missing?
I just went to Costco and TJs; neither had eggs at any price. If Dems are pointing out the price eggs, it’s to point out that it was always GOP bullshit.
Amen to that. Schumer stands there and reads some text like he's reading a phone book. Can the Dems find any bodily parts that will help them fight, and I do mean fight. Sorry, Michelle, this is no time to stay high. Go low and hard - what would George Washington do if he was fighting for freedom?
Exactly, yesterday I paid 3.99 for 18 eggs and gas was 2.95. It's a diversion. Grow up, listen to multiple sources and then THINK for yourself.
With the new DNC chair just declaring the Dem oligarchs good republican oligarchs bad, there is no chance of that happening at all.
Exactly right! The silence needs to stop. Pete, Gavin, AOC, JB Pritzker - we need more of you and more like you out in front every day.
Trump explicitly said he would do exactly what he is doing and a majority of Americans voted for “a dictator on day one”. Americans have been supporting fascism since before 1941 and after 1945. Hell, America didn’t even declare war on Germany after Pearl Harbour. You lot love fascists.
It wasn't a majority of America. It was a slight majority of the voting public. STOP spreading that bullshit narrative.
My narrative is “Americans love fascism” and there’s plenty of historical evidence to support this. From Chile to Indonesia, from South Africa to Gaza. Successive American governments, red and blue, have propped up dictators and apartheid regimes since forever.
Your narrative is wrong.
Until you accept that Americans have embraced and supported fascism around the world and now embrace and support it at home, you have no chance of defeating it. Repeating the mantra “We’re not really like that,” will get you nowhere.
Like 51% of the VOTING public accept it. So, you are dead wrong.
Repeating “we’re not really like that,” will not defeat fascism
We lost because a significant number of Americans are racists and misogynists. And also Musk’s Starlink being a part of the vote tallying process. Racists used the egg excuse. It was never about eggs.
This just far and away isn’t true. Some of them are, particularly those now in power. Dems lost the election because they couldn’t decide on a good candidate in time and their messaging was awful. Americans far and away didn’t like the Biden administration but Dem messaging acted like it was great.
The GOP ran a campaign of fear. Immigrants taking your jobs. Kids getting sex change operations at school. Immigrants eating pets. Fox News/CNN blaring propaganda 24/7. I live in TX. The SBC prohibits women from leading men. That’s 16 million Americans. It’s veiled misogyny.
They didn't like the Biden Administration why?
No one actually knows. Even people on the left fell for the right wing narrative that Biden's administration was awful and he didn't do anything good. And now, because of everyone's collective stupidity, you now have someone who is actually bad,and won't do anything for us.
Conditioning. Fox News telling them for the last 20 years that Democrats want to take all their money and spend on people too lazy to work. Oh and Democrats are atheists, want to destroy families and give all the jobs to undocumented immigrants. So instead they chose anarchy.
Price increases namely. To be clear, I think both democrats and republicans cower to big business but at least democrats are for a social safety net. I think right wing media was able to very successfully put it into the heads of Americans that if they put republicans in charge prices would fall.
Do people forget that prices DO rise over 8 years? Are we collective dumb as fuck?
Yes and yes. If the pandemic taught me anything, it was how much I overestimated the intelligence of the average American.
Prices went up extremely quickly and it happened in four-five years not 8. Do you live under a rock? Prices always rise but they don’t rise that fast in only a few years. Cumulative inflation rate was like 20-25%. That isn’t normal.
Maybe I do, I don't buy much. Didn't we recover faster than any country?
Recovery in terms of jobs maybe but when you account for increase in inflation or rent prices it’s pretty understandable that Americans are outraged. Just saying unemployment is low doesn’t recognize the quality of those jobs.
Republicans ALWAYS destroy the economy, though, how do people not see this?
Agree!
Amen! Stop using MAGA framing for issues!
How do you fight back? How do you compensate for the fact that 1/3 of Americans are so gullible? It's not like that 1/3 wants to be better educated about the issues. Honestly, how do we combat that?
We lost because this country is full of fucking racists and misogynist.
We are worried about war not the price of eggs
1000% this
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They’re using eggs as their messaging strategy….this is why we lost. They brought a cheese stick to the fight.
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I mean you did kinda lose because of the cost of eggs. People brought up standard of living issues and you ridiculed them. I know because I was one of those people. Don't shit on people and then get mad when they don't want to do what you want them to do.
It was never about the price of eggs or the economy in general. MAGA values simply align with those of the felon, rapist, and traitor.
I'm sitting here telling you the economy was absolutely a part of it. It's not the sole reason I chose to abstain but it wasn't nothing.
I am convinced that "the economy" was simply a cover for those who didn't want to just say that their values aligned with the felon, rapist, and traitor.
You also lost the election by a historical margin. It may be worth looking at people's concerns more seriously rather than deciding what they actually mean.
I believe US citizens are smart enough to know that a President only marginally impacts the economy. No, if one is willing to vote for a felon, rapist, and 6 January traitor then they are voting something more fundamental. They are voting their values.
I’m shitting on you because eggs were going down and had nothing to do with Biden. I’m also mocking you because you thought Trump would somehow fix it when he promised tariffs all along. You are the one who fell for Republican messaging.
You're talking to me like I voted for Trump when I absolutely did not.
I'm not American and I don't have any expertise on American politics but this strikes a cord. The level of opposition in all Western countries to right-wing parties who have gained power through misinformation and lies is woeful. Serious journalists and politicians need to wake up and fight back.
Agreed!
We didn’t lose. It was stolen. PERIOD.
I’m still trying to understand how the dem messaging was so completely muted or erased. It’s like it didn’t exist. But the con took hold. What is that?
Putin is very pleased.
I was at the store yesterday. Eggs are almost $11 for 18. It'll be a dollar per egg soon.
Eggs are cruel AF anyway. Just sayin. Factory farms are the real culprits in this bird flu. Everything else is MAGA’s fault tho. Just something to keep in mind as we are rebuilding from the rubble. No factory farms.
Egg farms are terrible. Even "free range" are putrid. I had turkeys for a bit, just for fun, they aren't hard to care for. I suppose I could get my own chickens, but I don't really use a lot of eggs.
My neighbors have some really beautiful pet chickens. Doesn’t seem to be any restrictions because we are in an urban/suburban neighborhood. 🐥
Wow they are so beautiful … in their own way. ❤️❤️❤️🦃
Heh, yeah, they're interesting creatures 🦃
So I had a couple of friends who used to call me “Debbie downer” when I was most active in the AR movement. That was because of things like this. Took this video myself myself just a random “farm” I encountered when I was out on a bike ride.
So crowded. That's terrible 😕 turkies need space.
We lost because magas single issue is spite. They’ll eat shit for breakfast just to make us smell it all day.
THIS is the part people don’t seem to be understanding! These are people who vote against their own interests every single election!
At least looks like they'll have to do a lot of shit eating for the next 4 years. Not that it makes it much better.
MAGA are the people who microwave their fish in a crowded lunchroom.
No culture war! Class war ONLY
Polls said it was the price of eggs, the media said it was the price of eggs, the Republicans said it was the price of eggs. So yes, dems are chasing yesterday's problems because everybody told them they aren't doing anything about yesterday's problems.
When I "raise the alarm" with relatives/friends, they say I should be institutionalized. Nothing's happened to them yet, which means there's nothing to be concerned about. Welcome to the wonderful world of white comfort, privilege and its attendant willful ignorance.
What specifically should Democrats focus on now and how specifically should they fight back? I'm for articles of impeachment every week, despite the fact DJT will never get impeached. Incumbent Republicans are counting on there not being another election /1
(oops that was #2) or if there in election, it will be a sham one. Media is largely pro-DJT. Which means people are flooded with "none of what you see happening is happening/it's Democrats' fault/ it's all good for you just wait and see." Until white voters get their Medicaid, social security /3
and Medicare taken away, their childcare, their special ed services (hell public schools are on the chopping block) they are not going to care about any of it. Not even the grocery prices. So lawsuits. Which grind on for years. /end
Republican voters I personally know said it was eggs/Biden inflation and they didn't want trans kids to get gender-related healthcare until they were 18. If you're going to talk to voters, you have to get down to their level, right? /1
Dems (most not all) have been caught up in their own echo chamber for years and still haven’t learned a damn thing.
And if this comes down to blood, the Dems will fail the test.
They’ve already failed the test time and time again.
I feel the Dems were asleep as all of this started with Reagan and "trickle-down" economics. Yet in 1994 they were given a bigger warning when the Republicans gained full control of Congress. Then Newt basically said "fuck bipartisanship." A lot of wasted time.
Exactly. And while they were sleeping, playing pretty politics for optics, and banking on always having the “minority” vote, the radicals were organizing like terrorists patiently do for their agenda of burning it all down.
Going back to Reagan for a moment. Think about what you get away with. He fucked over Jimmy Carter by getting Iran to not release the hostages until after he won. And then Iran-Contra. He absolutely knew more about what was going on and should not have gotten away with it.
He also had Rupert Murdoch to push that agenda/narrative of blaming Carter and taking credit. Nothing has changed. Only that it’s gotten worse.
Right. Getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine too. But to the Dems it was too important to "go high when they go low" while trying to maintain the "norms" while the game was changed on them.
I love Michelle but hated that slogan. I was over here screaming “NO! When they go low we throw an uppercut!” The norms have absolutely changed. Playing fair & nice does not look democratic anymore. It just looks weak. ALL Dems should have stood together and not voted for ANY of Trumps nominees.
I have seen multiple "Dem voters" justify Dem Senators voting for Trump nominees "because they were getting approved anyway." I said by that logic a Democratic voter in Alabama should have voted for Trump because Trump was going to win that state. anyway.
Then they are missing it completely. Just like Kamala conceding so quickly and Biden with big smiles next to the tyrant that made his life hell. These aren’t messages of “we are the good guys”. They are messages of hypocrisy. Going against everything they said we should do, “fight for democracy.”
I try not to buy into the "rigged election" conspiracies but if there any doubt Kamala should have waited to concede. I didn't watch the inauguration but I did see Jeffries and Klobuchar smiling as the walked out of the Capitol rotunda afterward.
Reagan is largely responsible for the mess we have mow
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Absolutely. As a kid he was President you were told he was the greatest ever. But damn when you see behind the curtain he was pretty awful. Let alone having Alzheimer's late in his presidency.
They hid that for a long time btw.
Somehow we need to make sure SCOTUS and the Republican Party/MAGA Party get their comeuppance. These people do not know how government functions - GOP Congress, trump, vance & Musk. We need a powerful FACT platform to compete with FOX & other right wing lying media outlets. Street fighting time
Elon's full access to and download of sensitive information should be another priority.
The only pain they will recognize is economic pain. Stop buying goods and services you don’t absolutely need for a few months. No vacations,iPhones, cars, clothing, dining, etc.
I respectfully disagree. We lost because more people are racist than we thought. Eggs were cover. Cruelty. They voted for cruelty. Now that it may affect them, they regret their vote. They’re still racist. Where are our elected leaders? It feels like they’re just sending thoughts and prayers.
Never forget that Trump picked up the votes of all those right wing morons who wouldn't normally vote because no candidate was racist or misogynistic enough. Then Trump came on the scene and validated ALL their prejudices.
Youre silent on gaza while moralizing. Top 2 issues were inflation and war
I don’t know why you see my comment as “moralizing.” I disagreed with the OP and gave my opinion. I see that in your opinion Gaza and inflation were the top issues. We all have anecdotal evidence that informs our opinions. Now we have to deal with the fallout of our loss.
Don't forget misogyny, the amount of men who thought their dick would fall off if they voted for a woman was insane, the amount of women with internalized misogyny was also insane.
It’s not internalized it’s highly externalized
Those feigning concern about egg prices drive 4 ton pickups with 17mpg to go grocery shopping, want the Hummer of dishwashers and prefer to pay $50 out of pocket instead of $40 in taxes.
I think the biggest chunk of people who voted for him are traditional repiblicans/conservatives. Then the folks who are concerned about economy. Last small bit are the true white nationalists. It is the conservatives who vote on party lines that are his base. They seem to get a pass somehow
No he won because of the racists and homophobes. Remove them and his margins would have reversed
Exactly. The racists and the homophobes gave him that extra 1 -2% of the vote. Alternatively the Jill stein/palestine protest votes dropped the 1-2% dems could have got. Either way, vast majority of the voters didn't change their preference between 2020 and 2024.
Elections are won by the margins and the pro Palestinian people aren’t actually pro Palestinian because they are very SILENT about trump floating this idea of forcefully clearing out Gaza and moving them all to Egypt and Jordan. They jumped on a bandwagon fuelled by propaganda
I agree. They won the propaganda war. That's the truth.
No Republican has actually been good for the economy in over 40 years. It is an excuse.
Oh 💯. Dems have been cleaning up after them since Clinton
Racists don’t all identify as white nationalists. I contend that the Republican Party is the party of racists as an unspoken backdrop to their approval of the authoritarian approach to governance. I also agree that Republicans vote as if it is their religion but they are racists too. No pass given.
Ah. I see. I agree that a lot of traditional conservative policies are the drivers of systemic racism. From that point of view yes his base are racists.
These supposed "traditional" conservatives voted for a person that blew up the deficit - their vote had nothing to do with traditional conservatism & everything to do with bigotry. Former conservatives that walked away from the GOP due to the bigotry proves the opposite for the ones that stayed
I think it is a mistake to think that those who voted for Trump are nearly all racists and homophobes. They are getting what they wanted, a smaller government. I disagree with them that it is a good thing. But I don't think they are all bad people.
You sound like a Nazi apologist in the 1930s, Good luck with that.
Name calling isn't going to change a thing. What exactly is your point? That nearly all our neighbors are bad people or nazi adjacent? That's absurd, and more importantly counter productive.
And as a person whose family were Nazi resistance fighters and grew up with the stories, people that sounded like you in the early 1930s were the ones that turned in their neighbors a couple years later.
If it helps you fine tune your perspective, I am a brown first gen immigrant with much to lose if the worst were to pass. I donated, knocked on doors , wrote post cards, phone banked and did everything in my power to change the outcome. If you think the name calling helps you grieve, sp be it.
Again, you sound like a Nazi apologist. And the internet is forever. Your descendants will despise you.
Ah I see. You are into assuming things about people you don't know. Good luck to you. I hope you find peace, strength and joy.
You have been right if you believed this with regard to people who voted for him the first time around. But not this time. Those who voted for him this time are all people who don’t mind having others treated cruelly.
I don't think that aspect changed between 2016 and 2024. Sure a small fraction of the population got more comfortable with the cruelty. But I don't think it is the majority of his base. Not to mention all the Latinos who voted for him.
Exactly
The advantage the GOP has is a massive right wing echo chamber on Fox and others. The dems still see mainstream media as number one, even though most people cut the cord years ago. In addition, they abandoned hope of the midwest, Florida, and other southern states, so they don't put $ toward them.
You’re right. Dems need to hold rallies all over the US. Stop asking us daily to support far flung candidates. Ask us to support Dem rallies and get them covered by SOME media.
The answer to a right wing media echo chamber is not our own left wing media echo chamber. Dems need to get better with messaging and defend against scare tactics and propaganda, not create our own propaganda to further divide. Main stream media is the institution of journalistic integrity.
Dems need to campaign in EVERY state. When was the last time a dem went to WV, FL, AL or the like? These places vote rep because the dems wrote them off years ago by never showing up.
They never show up because it would be a total waste of time and resources.
I still can hardly believe the Hispanic vote for him. All they need is a Hispanic last name and they are doomed.
Misogyny and racism.
A former coworker posted that she voted for him because they wanted to live in a world that wouldn’t take away their guns and god. Fox News and the lot convinced these simple people that they’d lose these things. They didn’t even think about those they’d be stripping rights from. Selfishness rules
MY GOD YES We are lost. Musk has our money. Illegally. All they have to do next is continue to break the law by ignoring court orders.
Fuck the goddamn eggs...this mother fucker has the launch codes for 20 thousand nuclear missiles.....you want to worry about something? Worry about that.... he's one busted blood vessel in the brain away from going completely looney toons.... then BOOM!
He is ignoring avian flu which can also be detected as plain old influenza A but there are not the resources to test via sub-types.It's gone from birds, ducks, geese to cows now, to some humans.https://biosecurity.ginkgo.bio/h5n1-us-tracker biosecurity.ginkgo.bio/h5n1-us-trac...
There’s no longer a Democratic and Republican Party. It’s MAGA and the opposition, and the business as usual Democratic Party in Congress is not up for the task. It’s not their paradigm, to be fair. And the few strong voices need to stay put. We need our anti-MAGA, anti-Trump “Trump” on the outside.
meaning, it's us, we are the opposition? Congressional Dems are just gonna Dem...we use our voices and dollars...I know we're up for it
Definitely, but I think history shows we need an opposition leader with a loud, angry, and simple message directed to the 77 million Trump supporters of the existential threat to their money, meds, and homes. I don’t know who, but someone who has not already been demonized by the far right media,
Fred, all.. We've celebrated "the Consent of the Gov'd" (DoI) every July of our lives so that we all know how to present an Honorable "Well Reg'd" Defense of our "Free State" (2A) Outline our DoI to find They "Peaceably Assembled & Petitioned the gov for Redress" (1A) & Cite In when you are ready
Among so many replies, the point was.. if you're a leader? Lead If you're one of the few who recall that we are each, first! Free & Independent souls who Give our "Consent" (DoI) to be Gov'd to the Form of Govt that currently exists or the one that suits us best.. You Must Show others the Way
This. 👏👏👏👏
How stupid are they? I talked to a Republican acquaintance who is thrilled the libs will be suffering financially along with them. They would die to own the libs. Catch 22
Trump loves the ignorant
Same! I’ve been told numerous times that they don’t care what happens as long as it happens to us too and they take satisfaction in knowing they did this to us. A US male vet POV: “It’s like being able to rape someone& rub it in their face over& over again because no one cares or believes you.”
That’s the mindset of maga psychos. It’s sick. All of them are mentally ill.
… along but not the same … 👇
I will gladly live on wild carrots dug up under the powerlines in back of our house, if Canada and Mexico hold the line against Trump. As long as it takes, I'm sick of all the world bending to Trump's idiocy.
Excellent idea I've been calling for a boycott of big businesses and anything Musk, but this adds a layer that makes even more sense. Red🔴 State Boycott I fucking love it 😆🖕🔴
No more Kentucky bourbon for you. Let the Florida 🍊 rot on their trees or on the ground, and OJ on the shelves. Wait, is there anyone left picking them?
In the last quarter (!) over 20 Million chickens died or were killed because of bird flu. This is largely the population of Bejing. To put that in perspective.
Eggs are now $10 a dozen on Long Island.
No one actually cares about this for politics
NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
If bullshit is the only thing the idiots understand and care about, have to talk bullshit to them.
Democrats need to talk loudly about what they can DO FOR PEOPLE and stop bitching about the Republican idiots.
The echo chamber of far right media is infuriating. They lie to create anger and panic (border, the economy) and then point to the anger and panic as reasons for change. Why can’t more people see it???
Well said! The very same Dems clamoring over eggs, are the ones who cooed over Hillbilly Elegy. It's hard to beat stupid, with stupid.
Fred, why are all the breaking news stories coming from MSM that seconds ago were very pro-felon? Can we trust these stories from NYT, WP etc? or are they (successfully) throwing us into a panic? We know musk was verbally provided access to the payment system, but has he actually broken into it?
We didn't lose because of prices. We lost because Kamala's skin in brown and we are a racist country. Prove me wrong
Also a misogynistic country too. Thats why Hillary didn’t win in 2016.
And a woman. I don't think that it is a coincidence that the two women lost. This country is sexist as well.
100% spot on!
Preach!!!
