Do we stand any chance? And how fucking dare these fucking outlets continue to normalize this shit.

Pump and…

Its a victim complex, but you are also right about them standing for nothing.

It wasn’t always this way, but it comes down to them seeing the role of everyone as being sheepdogs for the DNC. Its impossible for them to understand how and why the DNC failed in 2024, and it severely affected them. They really broke down over the previous two years as their basic thesis for how politics works collapsed. The future has been hard on them, and its been a sad transformation. Its like watching someone develop schizophrenia, or watching an elderly relative develop dementia. Reality went one direction, and they’ve refused to go along.

Could you imagine the difference enlisting 10 million people to run a one day registration drive would make?

You wouldn’t even necessarily need to travel far. Groups of 10-15 door to door and 10 million people could basically knock practically every door in a day.

I’ll shout this from the rooftops indefinitely: American elections aren’t about preference, by and large, they are about turnout. There’s very little we individuals can do when the party selects (repeatedly) unpopular candidates. But increasing registration would materially impact turnout.

Have you met liberals?

At least he’s calling for himself to be replaced.

Iran: “hue hue hue”

ouch oof my bones

Microwaves are easier to manage

So anyways I left the door to the microwave open.

I really hate that in order to have even the slightest coherent,

Man I wish people actually were, or would at least regard the analysts whose claims and analysis predict future states of the world correctly more, highly than those whose claims make them feel good about their positionality in the world. There was no need for a second Trump term and we ended up in that position specifically because people in general, and a majority of commenters in this forum, are actually pretty bad at political analysis. Or at least, they weight the perspectives that make them feel good about who they are and what positions they perceive themselves to occupy in reality over those perspectives which, while potentially discomforting, do predict future states of reality.

I’m never quite sure what to make of stories like this.

MAGA is reforming without Trump. It’s largely about the need for narrative coherence. Trump’s cooked, and regardless of his political future, the dudes like 200 years old. He’s done.

As a movement, Trump is giving MAGA a chance to make a clean and coherent break from a ‘dear leader’ who wasn’t going to be useful in 2 years anyways.

Those who reject Trump will get to make this presentation. That they resisted him. Those that stick around Trump will get to say that he was a mad man, they were just trying to steer him to better decisions, and those that support Trump from a far will get to say it was just bad advisors around Trump. Everyone will have an excuse that allows them to present themselves as the good one among a pack of devils.

On the one hand, it’s admirable to take a stand, but on the other hand, the stand implies that Trump’s decisions before this were acceptably sound, but this one passed some threshold making it unacceptably unsound.

The dude supported ALL of Trump’s policies and political theater. The ship is sinking and this rat crafted a convincing lifejacket. Put a bet down 👇 on what office this reek will be pursuing in two years. How blovious and long winded will their speech at the RNC be?

Are you excited to hear them being quoted on Fox news? I wonder what the book title will be.

Even if it was bad luck on her part and both her team, and the House procedures were as correct and well followed as they could have been, it’s a good thing she isn’t the candidate right now, because that would be that.

Its a very problematic invasive: https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/invweed/WeedsHI/W_Lantana_camara.pdf

The do-a-flip meme would be more likely to succeed.

Let’s add to that giving people someone to vote for.

DNC strategy had been to run dogshit candidates because “hey who are you else are you going to vote for?”

The candidates that are winning now are further left and not water carriers. The base finally gets the problem it created by listening to blue maga/ ABWD as long as they did.

You can’t change change an electorate, at least not in the course of one election cycle. You want to change an electorate? Start speaking the truth and keep giving the same speech as nauseum just like uncle Bernie did. But in the course of a single election, run candidate that meet the electorate where they are at.

Keep apologizing for the failure of Democrats and see how many wins you rack up with that approach.

We call this one “Democrats can never fail, they can only be failed”