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  1. Went? Lol Been
  2. Yep. Obama came out of nowhere.
  3. It's hard to win when the other side always has the trump card. R's- "We are going to raise your taxes and give HUGE tax breaks to billionaires!" The unwashed masses- R's- "and don't wanna get rid of those dirty Meskins?" The unwashed- We don't have anything like that on our side where we would sell our soul in order for it to get done. Hard to beat that.
  4. Don't feel bad. Every culture is particularly fond of that ole ladder function. We will make it through this thing together. 19% + 14% is a whole lotta people.
  5. I get what you are saying but I think the disconnect is that what he is saying is that the GOP is using already well known people to broadcast their message. People like Rogan and Andrew Schulz are pulling in huge numbers. We have a ton of left podcasters but none of them of the notoriety of them since they were celebrities before the podcasts. Despite the optics Dems have to do the same because without a recognizable name you just don't drive the numbers you need to.
  6. Let that be a lesson to you. You should've taken a cue from the black community and kept it under the 15% threshold like we have. Now you fucked around and drew the Eye of Sauron and now all of Mordor is after you.
  7. This is exactly what I am talking about. I am not saying "don't go into their spaces" when I say Fuck Them Kids. What I AM saying is don't craft strategy you think would appeal to them. This is what Clinton did and it turned off loyal lefties, got the party blamed for the housing collapse in 08, and lost his wife the 16 election. Stand on business and force people to align with you. That's what the Republicans did.
  8. The kids in this video were never going to be on our side. You can hear in what they are saying that they are just regurgitating their parents' talking points. Meanwhile there are millions of young ethnic adults that DON'T vote because the government doesn't care about us that we ignore every single election cycle. Those are the young adults we should be going after. When I was a young adult in the 90's when Clinton was championing the 94 crime bill do you think that inspired me to vote? If you couple the apathetic kids with the already liberal leaning kids that is plenty enough to offset the ones in this video. The mistake the Dems make every cycle is to keep trying to win people back over to their side instead of taking care of their own constituents. Meanwhile the Republicans could give two shits about winning any leftists and just double down on their efforts and come away just fine. We need to quit fucking worrying about what white kids spawned by Republicans care about.
  9. You aren't winning these kids https://youtu.be/ePbMNq8m7Jw?si=b4X01fF1COalx2cX
  10. I agree and that is the reason I said that Dems are to blame for the way the American public views politics. In their view a Dem pres was the one who signed the Glass-Steagal reform and a Dem pres who bailed out and allowed Wall St to go free. People also see the bank accounts of these leaders grow exponentially while in office and they feel like they are no different than the Rs. If we could just get rid of that then we would encourage all the apathetic non-voters to get off the couch.
  11. You talking about the bailouts?
  12. I am all for dunking on the right so you will get no argument from me.
  13. Children DO rebel but a large segment of them come back to the ideological fold when they get to adulthood. That's exactly how racism, bigotry, and hatred stay alive my friend.
  14. Watching you guys go round and round about shit that won't make a fuck is quite entertaining. You aren't saving the sons of Trumpers. Full stop. Quit trying to. All that happens when Dems try and placate to centrists and moderate Republicans is you alienate part of your base. Most of the people sitting out elections are people who voted for change, got nothing, and now threw their hands up and said fuck it. You don't need to dangle a carrot over the fence, you just need proper motivation for the people on our side to get off the couch. Obama proved that.
  15. That's the thing that @BurntOrange&White and @linux don't seem to get. The Dems don't really campaign on far left issues already outside of the occasional mention about why do we care what people do in their bedrooms. The Republicans attach marginalized group issues to the Dems because they know it works. Nothing you can really do about that outside of denounce them altogether, and that isn't happening. This has been a winning strategy my entire life if anyone remembers the Willy Horton ads back in the day. So you really can't run from that because the right will always blast it with a megaphone.
  16. This is where I draw the line because that is exactly what Dems have been doing to us for decades. Ignore black folks so we don't give the right wing something wax poetic about. I hated that shit then and refuse to do that to another minority group.
  17. We keep blaming these small demographics. They aren't the real problem.
  18. I mean I get what you are saying but you are going overboard. Those little fucks don't even vote anyways. Bottom line if the only way to capture the majority you keep talking about is another rightward shift by the Dems then fuck it. We need to stand our ground these assholes are going to learn anyway. Fuck all that "meet me in the middle" shit.
  19. Trump's base was already established. He left a mess with the pandemic that corps took advantage of by jacking up prices under the guise of supply chain issues, making matters worse. His last day in office he gave Venezuelans TPS status and told Rs not to support a border bill so he could run on those issues when he came back. Markets were high under Biden but the laymen isn't concerned about the market. Groceries and rent were still inflated. Uneducated people believed that tariffs were going to lower costs. Racists believed he was going to kick 15 million brown folks out of the country. People here are locked in and understand how policy works. The unwashed masses weren't listening when economists were saying we were heading to inflation at the end of 2020. All they know is when they noticed the cost of goods went up Joe Biden was president and Fox News did a good job of laying it at their feet. So between the racists and the woefully uneducated there was no Dem candidate that was going to convince them not to vote for that asshole. As far as they were concerned the Dems WERE the problem.
  20. There was NO candidate that was going to beat Trump. Period.
  21. This is what we are experiencing as well. These young folks aren't just hateful towards trans folks, they run the gamut. My daughter long since declared our home a safe space for queer folks so we hear a lot of experiences. My daughter's high school, always tops in the area, dropped ratings over recent years because they cannot keep kids from marginalized groups from being bullied out of the district. So much so that a school that prided itself on exclusivity, for the first time, opened its enrollment to kids outside the district. Not to pick on Linux because I know his heart is in the right place, but he needs to follow the money so to speak. The Republicans are attacking education because they know that education creates empathy. They want to radicalize these young folks against marginalized groups because they know it helps them going forward. It has shit to do with what Trans folks are doing, because right wingers are doing it to everyone. This is a coordinated effort of leaders in the right wing to keep themselves in power. They saw the writing on the wall. Brown people are increasing in numbers, and young people, through education, were becoming more tolerant. Black people haven't increased their percentage since the 60's. Let's back burner them for the time being and go after Hispanics and Gays, who are growing(for LGBTQ I mean out in the open membership numbers). So they create a belief that Trans folks are pedos, Hispanics are rapists, murderers, gangbangers, and Black folks are unqualified for leadership because DEI. My daughter's school is a microcosm of what's going on in the country.
  22. Uncomfortable white folks is the scariest thing ever. That's when people start dying,
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