The alternative is sadly a Republican, which is even worse.

Harm reduction is when a liberal kills you politely.

now trans people are stuck waiting through 4 years of transphobic hate

The difference I’ve seen between cis-activists and trans-activists is that Trans people are done waiting.

I see more direct action in an LGBTQ aligned street corner than a No Kings parade.

Trans people will keep being trans. They’ll keep helping each other transition. Fuck the law. Fuck the cops. And fuck any liberal fascist politician who tries to stop them.

The Cruelty Is The Point

Kyrsten Sinema took a similar tact. Came out of the Arizona state senate making all the traditional progressive mouth-noises. Then immediately pivoted to Silicon Valley shill and corporate flake, the moment her 50th Senate Vote could be leveraged for profit.

I don’t think it’s a flaw in the individuals nearly so much as a flaw in the Senate as an organization. The institution was created by and for Plantation Owners, as a bullwark against large popular governments in industrialized free states. It’s consistently served a narrow selection of rural mega-land owners and big state financial elites. Blanche Lincoln played the game and cashed herself out. But you don’t get mad at the wheelbarrow for winning a game of Monopoly. It’s a rigged game that rewards greed and backstabbing.

Americans will reward you for raping kids and kill you for defending them

Everyone knows the collapse of the AI bubble is imminent

Paul Krugman was predicting the Housing Crash as early as 2004 in his NYT column.

Everyone knows except the people who are investing billions of dollars into AI and their press.

The theory of the modern tech industry is that you can simply outrun your problems. Meta/Facebook has done this repeatedly, leaping over multi-billion-dollar failure after failure based entirely on the inertia of their core product growth combined with low interest rates and a bullish long term economic outlook.

Even in the worst-case scenario, we have such an enormous array of tools to manipulate markets - as demonstrated in 2008 and 2014 and 2020 - that investors are reluctant to sell with a massive federal bailout always on the horizon. And we’re far from the worst-case scenario. '26 Q2 was a historic earnings season. We are in the middle of the biggest bull market in history.

There kinda-sorta is. But Trump’s allies in Silicon Valley have done a rigorous job of rooting them out. DOGE was as much about purging the security services and middle-management bureaucrats of disloyal members as it was about shifting money over to Trump’s personal interests.

And the rapid consolidation of national media under a handful of Trump loyalists - Larry Ellison chief among them - has served to squelch one of the historically useful tools of career bureaucrats feuding with a sitting President. No more Washington Post or CBS to leak info to. They’re all owned and operated by Trumpies.

However I would also note that even 6 months ago, Establishment Dems would not approve a message of going after Epstein affiliates.

Which just proves they’re cowardly and opportunistic. Hardly evidence of sincerity.

I view the Democratic Party like a disobedient dog in need of training.

I’ll spot you the metaphor, but I’ve been bitten by this dog far too many times to believe a few treats and a clicker are going to change it.

The fact that Democrats have to even consider the population’s opinion is a progressive shift in strategy

It’s a shift in messaging… kinda. With the Hillarycrats largely on the sidelines this election, you’re stepping on fewer toes when you run ads like this. But compare it to the upsets in states like New York, Michigan, and Ohio. Nobody watching these ads who wasn’t already going to vote Dem will care. The issues aren’t at the top of anyone’s mind. We aren’t even seeing Dems put this as “Epstein’s War In Iran”, because the bulk of the Dem Party agrees with Trump on bombing Iran.

Just like with Obama criticizing Bush or Biden criticizing Trump, the issue isn’t the policy but the execution. Trump’s just doing a bad job of mass arrests and corporate bailouts and foreign invasions and market manipulations. Democrats (outside of the narrow band of progressives who have been upsetting party-favored campaigns) are running on “we’ll do Trumpism better” in the same way that the Obamacrats ran on “we’ll do Reaganism better”.

The Dem leadership is trying to stay in power by appealing to their left flank.

Democrats can retake the Senate without winning Michigan, Schumer suggests

El-Sayed’s progressive positioning and recent polling showing him narrowly trailing the Republican nominee, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), have raised concerns among Democrats that El-Sayed could lose what many in the party consider to be a must-win state. Some Democratic donors, particularly in the Jewish community, are also now backing Rogers after El-Sayed won the primary.

“A path to winning back the Senate clearly goes through Michigan, but we have a whole bunch of different paths,” Schumer told the Post.

That does not sound like a party leadership tacking towards its progressive flank. Just the opposite.

You won’t need to hand over your guns. You’ll just put them on the blockchain.

Are they sitting on a treasure trove of corporate secrets? Or is it just a thousand executives writing “Claude, synergize expediency to increase value for shareholders. Maximize usefulness. Implement Six Cigma methodologies to unlock a more agile work cycle. Generate a billion dollars in new cashflow. Make no mistakes.”

Voters on both sides of the aisle want pedos to be prosecuted

They want their rivals to be prosecuted. And they like to accuse their rivals of something heinous enough to shout down any supporter as a supporter of the heinous thing. But when you have a bipartisan sleezebag like Epstein, the web of supporters and affiliates between parties gets too tangled. You can’t go after Jamie Diamon or Elon Musk without goring your own ox. So you campaign as “anti-pedophile” or make a big show of saying “Lock Them Up!” with no real intention of going after anyone once you’re in office.

While it’s true that there are other levers that the Dems could be pulling, I’m just happy they are pulling a popular lever at all.

Dems burned through their credibility after Obama and Biden. Only the heaviest kool-aid drinkers seriously believe Mueller Time is an election away. FFS, you only need to hear Schumer and Jefferies talk to be utterly disabused of the notion that anyone in the Trump Admin is ever getting prosecuted for anything. These fuckwits won’t even entertain a 10th SCOTUS judge. They’re toothless and everyone knows it.

The political consultants the Dem leadership listens to must be feeling the pressure from the Progressive wing

Epsteinism isn’t a progressive force. It’s ambient internet blather.

Both sides arguments make people sound extremely stupid

What did the Biden Administration do to prosecute the Epstein client list?

What do you think the Pete Buttigieg administration is going to do in 2029? What do you think he’s going to do about the Silicon Valley sponsored rape gangs popping up all over the country? Aella the new Epstein and nobody fucking cares.

It’s because of the proven nazis and rampant pedophilia

Obama worked hand-in-glove with Elon Musk to funnel tens of billions of dollars of grants, tax credits, and government contracts into shareholder pockets. Biden handed TikTok to Larry Ellison’s failson. Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill are continuing to do enormous amounts of business with Palantir and Flock. Gavin Newsom vetoed a California bill to protect local doctors from extradition for abortion-related crimes in other states.

The Nazis and the Pedophiles aren’t confined to a single party. They are part of a wealthy upper class, dedicated to exploiting the labor of their neighbors and to extracting natural resources at everyone else’s expense.

Andrew Cuomo and John Fetterman are not your fucking friends just because they have (D) party affiliations. Henry Cuellar and Bob Menendez are not working towards your better interests.

They should really be running those nonstop to win all the elections.

I think Democrats embracing Epstein-ism are going over about as well as Republicans hysterical over transgender players in the WNBA. This isn’t a GOTV tactic, it’s a fundraising gambit. “Look, I’m totally owning the other guys! Send me more money so you can keep seeing these ads!”

Half the Epstein client list is running the Trump government right now.

And the other half is vacationing with the Clintons on Martha’s Vineyard.

That’s got nothing to do with the price of diesel, though. It’s got nothing to do with rent or childcare or AI data centers spiking your electricity bill or the latest recall of tainted grocery stock.

Ask the real questions but on TV and all the Facebook ads you can buy.

Or just run an ad of your candidate drawn South Park style, farting on Donald Trump’s head.

Just don’t talk about Palestine. Don’t talk about ICE. Don’t talk about how the City of Corpus Christi is in a permanent water shortage crisis.

Millionaires aren’t really contributing

The multimillionaire used car dealer, the retired middle manager, and the seventh generation family money failson make up the backbone of the party going back to the Hoover Era.

Plenty will say whatever is popular, then donate to candidates who do the exact opposite.

A billion here. A billion there. Pretty soon, you’re talking about a lot of money.

The dirty truth is that it’s far cheaper to bribe officials not to tax you then it is to pay taxes.

It’s California. He won’t lose while Gavin Newsom and his friends are in power.

How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy

Losing to Trump was the punchline

His final words were

I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton

🧠

Or from your own piss.

But that’s not what’s at issue.