the "good" rich aren't gonna save us and i say that as someone who usually votes dem and would more than likely vote for JBP over JD Vance (or any republican) in '28. i just wouldn't be so stupid as to expect much from him after.
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the "good" rich aren't gonna save us and i say that as someone who usually votes dem and would more than likely vote for JBP over JD Vance (or any republican) in '28. i just wouldn't be so stupid as to expect much from him after.
the solution i drifted over to is just to unfollow ppl who post too many twitter screenshots
like, it's amazing to me he'd go with that instead of a state healthcare plan of some sort. what is wrong with these fucking people?
people like that are INCREDIBLY limited thinkers - bandaids for everything, never long-term solutions.
he ended cash bail but he's still out there doing that "COPS COPS COPS AND MORE COPS!" nonsense. the medical debt thing is a gift that makes HIM look good, not a solution. people's financial well-being shouldn't be contingent on a rich guy doing something for them. it should be a matter of policy.
he's a limited thinker like every other middle-of-the-road dem - this guy will never talk about something as ambitious as a "marshall plan" for america's poor - when he runs for president, it'll be the same old "more cops/refund the police" bullshit that wins dems few votes + accomplishes nothing.
does "suozzi" rhyme with "nazi"? it should.
i did it, but have to concede it's not all that funny.
thinking about the stand-up comic/bird meme where the initial joke would be "strongly worded letters", he's heckled, then he sweatily looks at his follow-up cards which all say "strongly worded letters".
in other words: this question shoulda been asked of these jerkoffs A LONG TIME AGO.
the democratic party started making "this mistake" some 30 years ago - after losing 3 POTUS elections in a row they abandoned the few principles they had and embraced clinton and triangulation strategy - numerous studies have shown that this only aids far right extremist parties, so here we are.
in case you were curious, yes: The Atlantic still sucks wet farts out of elephants assholes.
reminder: at this point, any democrat still using the term "bipartisanship" unironically is a scumbag who will never do anything of value for you or anyone other than republicans - and i'm not even mentioning the likelihood that one or two dems (cuellar? golden? suozzi?) join republicans on this.
his mouth's open and he's making noises, so this tracks
it's less about how credulous some sectors of this site might be and more about how jaw-droppingly fucking pathetic the democratic party has been for the last several months. "former military" usually means bad news, so no matter what platner says, i'm not getting TOO hyped for him. we'll see.
someone pointed out to me that he blocks very few people (they checked on clearsky) which means he wants the bullying and pile-ons to continue so he can use them to let everyone know how terrible "the far left" is - which sucks, but it sure doesn't surprise me.
i try not to get optimistic about, well, anything lately but i desperately want to see a historic number of upsets in the '26 primaries.
if liberals believed in ANYTHING, they'd eventually spot the contradiction noted here and act accordingly - most of them have no firm beliefs - they're followers, not leaders.
@derclimber75.bsky.social dem party astro turf or might just be really fucking dumb and have low standards - who knows?
i don't think they plan to do anything - who among them is talking about defunding ICE or reversing course on immigration in response to the unpopularity of what miller's been doing? they're not promising to rebuild everything DOGE gutted - honestly think the plan is... NOTHING.
@primaryschool.bsky.social worth a follow and his newsletter is always fascinating too
hope you're right. hope the '26 primaries are a fucking bloodbath for these cowardly worthless scumbags.
dunno whether anyone's ever noticed, but if a dem gets $$ from AIPAC, there is zero fucking chance that dem will say anything remotely close to statements 1 and 3. the best hakeem (rec'd millions from AIPAC) jeffries can do is his wack new catchphrase "you deserve better".
those are 5 of the most awful people ever on a tv show - dunno if that was the intent, but i find their uniform shittiness hilarious - also like that it is one of the only semi-recent sitcoms without A-B and C plots - you get one storyline and that's it - you don't like it, change the channel.
"it tastes like that feeling when you realize you're in the wrong line at the DMV" is pretty fucking brilliant.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
as everyone who's been paying attention knows, AIPAC dems will not under any circumstances fight republicans. you can probably scroll through craig's accounts here and on twitter to find her talking up bipartisanship with republican lunatics fairly recently. a gutless waste of space.
Help hep I am but an uwu smol bean 75k follower account and today is my first day on the internet. Someone I berated told me to "shut up" so please delete the web site
the republicans are obviously nuts and people would like genuine opposition, not "my friends across the aisle..." and "country over party" bullshit. the democrats are killing themselves with that nonsense.
everyone knows Stephen Miller and the Project 2025 folks are doing the heavy lifting in Trump 2.0.
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+ offering "lite/sane" versions of republican policies just creates a permission structure for people to keep voting for republican extremists.
I think that frankly we could be a bit less trigger-happy with some of the pile-ons - we do not need to, e.g., spend weeks litigating Will Stancil’s view of the state of the economy but I also think that a lot of more centrist types come here looking for a fight, get one, and go “see? I was right!”
"THE WHINING IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE LOCKER!"
weird conspiracy stuff instead of vote suppression - if i was a conspiracy-minded guy, i'd say this stuff's a psyop to make dems/libs look as crazy as trump supporters. BUT even without vote suppression, trump still probably wins the popular vote in '24 - in the end, harris ran a bad campaign.
there was A LOT of vote suppression - something that's been getting worse every year since SCOTUS hobbled the VRA - honestly surprised that liberals don't want to talk about it more - it's essentially done right out in the open and on the record, but bluecrew/resistance types would much rather talk
great thread
this actually makes a lot of sense.
OTOH, if he thinks trans bigots and zionist extremists getting swarmed with angry replies is a negative, then fuck him.
i'm willing to grant that some anti-stancil pile-ons are wayyyy over the top (he's a harmless lib, not a nazi) - but i gotta say the left here doing their best to drown out zionist extremists and trans bigots strikes me as good - folks peddling ugly opinions should have a hard time of it - fuck 'em.
she got off easy - when that decision came down i honestly thought the u.s. was headed for more BLM level protests for an extended period
the guy is online enough to just block anyone he doesn't like - do that for a week or two and BINGO! he could also just be less of a dick, but i guess that's off the table.
we're probably gonna see A LOT of this empty bullshit in next year's primaries - i only hope there's a fair amount of decent human beings running who [1] make clear how awful over half the democratic party coalition is on this issue [2] win those primaries.
people like you should be blocked or ignored
unless you can post comments without an account, i'd advise against visiting and giving them any hits on this. they're trolling many of their own readers, apparently because they've discovered recently there is literally NOTHING that will make liberals mad enough to drop their NYT subscriptions.
originated at heritage foundation and the purpose was "make sure u.s. never gets real universal healthcare" (seems to be working!) - obama/dems thought a program that had roots in a conservative thinktank might get some republican buy-in (i don't waste time arguing w/libs abt this - it's pointless)
i gotta work tomorrow, so "lou grant" and "tales from the darkside" and i'll likely fall asleep in the middle of the latter.
republicans prevented a couple million (maybe more) people from voting last year and that's vastly more interesting/problematic than whatever this is + sometimes i honestly wonder if folks like you aren't actually working w/republicans to make ppl forget vote suppression.
The problem is that white people are terrified of Black and brown people.
he made his rep on OBAMA? because i remember most polls in b.o.'s favor anyway - naysayers (raises hand) were people who figured polls might be subject to what is known as "the bradley effect" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley...
Hey, I’m going to wrap my arms around you a little too tight when I say this: To think that the rise of fascism is only happening in the US of even primarily happening in the US is American-centrism. Even if you’re not American. There is a global rise in power being taken from the people. (1/2)
i liked it more than you but would still agree that howerton is the best thing about it.
the democratic party's not flipping red voters, so find yourself another path forward. those people are not "gettable". any election strategy factoring them in is stupid and won't work. period, end of story.
The US sends messages everyday that it is unfriendly, unstable, and ultimately, unsafe. There are troops on the streets in some places! No regional ad campaign is any match for the chaos coming from the White House
the insane list prices for those fucking things contributed much to the spread and success of video rental stores. been a movie nut all my life but i bought very few to own until the arrival of reasonably priced dvds.
"the soft bigotry of low expectations" strikes again!
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
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2016 is a difficult election to use as an example for anything because, much as ppl hate to admit it (and as lousy a candidate/shitty human being as she was), clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million. 2016 shows one thing: america has a weird-ass electoral system.
great thread
people like this really need to consider how bill clinton's and barack obama's actions and choices led us to where we are - they're probably not capable of doing it though, so it's best to either ignore, mute or (if you really find them sickening - raises hand) block them.
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gotta love how this looks: "welp, if you were thinking an ivy league education means something, think again!" www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
At some point states have to consider what the point of federal taxes is if all they use it for is to send troops to wander around your cities getting swamp ass and playing on their phones
i don't completely agree w/greg palast on this but i do wish you folks paid more attention to race-based vote suppression - why you'd rather argue w/leftists (many of whom actually did vote for harris) than address the ongoing shame of jim crow elections in 21st century america is beyond me.
schumer's imaginary constituents always struck me as an obvious contrivance he uses to avoid taking responsibility for unpopular actions.
not if you're going back as far as LBJ (or even Nixon FFS) - I'll pay Biden a compliment and say that on some things he was indeed better than Clinton or Obama, but both those guys were scumbags whose constant begging for Republican approval did more damage than good, so it's a low fucking bar.
Every rich guy seems to think "I must be a genius to have become so rich" and so their take on every issue must be the right one. No need to listen to anyone else.
They're not anti-Capitalist They're not anti-Imperialist They're not anti-Private Healthcare They're not anti-Private Education They're not anti-Genocide In what way are liberals of the left exactly?
his initial term as Arkansas gov. went: wanted to do good stuff (a public school initiative of some kind i think), raised taxes a bit to do 'em, promptly got voted out (state has 2 yr terms for governor) and re-invented himself as the generally worthless scumbag most of us hate today.
The bad faith actors will dishonestly draw a through line connecting trans people to mass shootings but will skip right to over the fact that many of these mass shooters are racists, antisemites and misogynists because they harbor some of the same sentiments as the shooters.
*and let's face it: republicans do everything imaginable (ie: race-based vote suppression) to get an edge on election day.
trump has only won the popular vote once and to a pretty hapless candidate at that - hillary and biden beat him by (appr) 3 and 8 million - despite his supporters devotion, trump is a formidable candidate because he happens to live in a country where land outvotes people.*
ps - i blocked that guy - he's a fucking jerk and while i don't flat-out wish ill on those ppl, they should be looked at as obstacles to surmount, not anyone we can ever win over.
helping voters who hate them and it is bizarre - the person you're arguing with really needs to read 'dying of whiteness' by jon metzl or the mcghee book - the zero-sum whites he has so much sympathy for are happy to shoot themselves in the foot if they think it = a gut shot for some person of color
completely agree but sadly, democrats won't do even this - wild to consider how biden and dems apparently went out of their way to make sure benefits of the supposedly bipartisan (very few repubs voted for it) infrastructure bill and the IRA went to red states - dems are positively obsessed with
i guess our next big "holy fuck" moment will be when trump and republicans step in and forbid school closures, which i'm sure is right around the corner
yeah, the arrival of jesse singal and jd vance sucked a lot of the hater air out of the room so to speak but cuban's still #5
only a matter of time before they prosecute that guy
"that's what she said!"
"i used to be 4th most blocked person here!" dude has no idea how offensive his useless status-quo bullshit is to the average person or that "good billionaire" is a fucking oxymoron
trump/republicans = worst ppl on earth. keep this in mind next time 10-20 dem senators vote w/republicans on a gop bill or trump appointee and ask yourself why the bare minimum - just not voting with people who hate and wish physical harm on them - is more than the democratic party is capable of.
swap out a few names and this applies to u.s. politics
supposed to be one of the good billionaires but there's no such thing - "healthcare you can afford" lol - it's a fucking obscenity - if this guy was worth half his weight in shit he'd be the loudest voice out here advocating for universal government backed healthcare - just. fucking. useless.
still undefeated plot summary
oh, it's a senator who keeps voting for trump appointees despite the administration's rather obvious racism reminding us to honor the work of MLK - are we being trolled here or did a staffer who just doesn't give a shit write this? whatevs.
feels like there's ppl online doing the same "you folks alone are responsible for republicans winning" routine in response to lefties posting about [1] palestine/gaza [2] newsom/buttigieg, so some of this is astro-turf IMO. but also: yes, some libs would prefer an open anti-trans bigot candidate.
Even his clarification was incorrect. Like all centrists, he's not worth trying to talk to.
suggesting that her judgment can be dismissed because a person she describes as "stupid" hired her.
Sure seems like a mood is in the air this week
@jaynemyvr.bsky.social here's a goofball (newsom fan, of course) who put me on a list of blocked * accounts but didn't actually block me! fighting fascism by (checks notes) blocking mildly progressive reply guys like me is hard work i guess *they used the poop emoji - i love that lil guy!
@seitzbg.salty.house another goofy list-making lib (god, these ppl have SO MUCH free time on their hands!) if you want to pre-emptively block
if anyone's rattled it's the WSJ op-ed gang who are behaving as though they'll spontaneously combust 1 minute after the mayoral election's called for mamdani
Seeing if adding mom and pop to something makes it more sympathetic or positive and it's not working Mom and Pop police department Mom and Pop ice detention facility Mom and Pop colonoscopy clinic
others (or at least he could once) and it's entirely convincing - whatever acting skill is required to not be repulsive, newsom doesn't have it.
reminds me of glenn howerton on "it's always sunny in philadelphia" - howerton does such a great job on that show of playing an utterly empty guy and when i look into newsom's eyes i see... NOTHING. granted, this isn't a perfect indicator - obama's an awful person but he can simulate concern for
pretty much all civility discourse can be boiled down to “i want to say bigoted shit, and i don’t want to be called a bigot in response. if i use graphs or charts or express it through abstract policies, i should be allowed this.” like there’s almost nothing else to it
(meme where a character is really sweating a choice and it's "be an asshole" or "don't be an asshole")