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  1. On 3/14/2025 at 4:02 PM, wildcat09 said:

    The nos all need to be primaried too. Unless you see them move to remove Schumer from leadership in the next few days, it's a safe bet that many of them are chickenshit and only voted no because there were enough yes votes to give them cover. Assuming they don't do that, none of them can be trusted because none of them can be honest with their own voters.

    Hey look, this is the case yet again.

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  2. 7 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Off-topic, but I didn't realize Axios was dumb/right.  A couple of the media bias sites have it rated as truthful with a middle bias.

    I don't read it real often, but what I have seen seems to fit that.

    Also, Jonathan Swan's (second?) Trump interview was one of the better examples of someone standing up to the bullshit.

    But, whatever.

    Axios is a seemingly-mainstream mouthpiece for Republican ratfuckers. If you have any media literacy, it’s not hard to tell that their political sources are almost all Republican operatives and they’re one of the GOP’s favorites for reporting “Dems in disarray” narratives.

  3. When I was a kid the neighbors had a son who would do literally anything for attention. He’d smear mud on his face and pretend it was shit, he’d throw rocks at you, etc. It took me awhile to understand, but he was mostly doing it because he wanted to be friends, but he’d learned from his parents that the only thing that got him any attention was bad behavior.

    He was 10. It’s hard to imagine what a miserable, friendless existence he’s likely living now. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, LCHorn said:

    I know everyone wants Schumer and Jeffries to be something they are not, but it’s pretty clear that the next version of the Democratic Party (I.e., the one that can win two elections in a row) is going to be fronted by different leadership.  
     

    I hate quoting him as much as I do, but @Bozo_Casanova has said (and this is going to be to his chagrin, but Ezra Klein just said this, too) that the candidate changes the party, not the other way around and I think that’s a better road map for what comes next than to continually be disappointed that Schumer isn’t a wartime consigliere.  
     

    @wildcat09I know you’re out on Platner, but he’s so much better as a template candidate than trying to run 72 year old Sherrod Brown again or 77 year old Janet Mills. 


    I don't think anyone here thinks Schumer and Jeffries are capable of changing their stripes. I very much wish Platner was what he had appeared to be, it's just clear to me that he isn't. You'll all get there soon enough. 

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  5. 5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

     

    Hey, someone figured out that maybe Dems shouldn't concede to the Republican framing of every issue! And dunked on a dishonest reporter! Maybe at least part of the party is capable of learning basic politics!

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  6. 2 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

    What he actually says is that once AI and robots take all jobs, humans won’t need to work and goods and services will be free. People would then presumably be free to pursue higher purposes than making money. Like in Star Trek.

    I’m just a little skeptical.  

    Surely Elon has never lied about his goals before.

  7. 7 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    The name was the best part. It was an instant hit and almost sunk Clinton in 2016, and a lot of otherwise apolitical working class people who wound up voting for Trump wanted it. 
    anyway- a large majorities of independents and Democrats want  everyone to have coverage, want their coverage to cost them less, and understand that the government will be involved.  That’s all most people hear when they hear the words Medicare for All. 
     

     Democrats, being morons, took that fact and decided to get wound around the axle about precisely what policy that meant annd fight amongst themselves  instead of focusing on outcomes during campaigns. That’s a recipe for lost support. 
     

    Incidentally that’s why I think Elizabeth Warren is so toxic - all her wonky, complicated “I’ve got a plan for that” specificity is the shit that kills democrats, not great brands like Medicare for All.

     

    What's funny is her plans were generally clearer and simpler and easier-sold than most other Dem candidates' plans generally are.  Compare her plans to 2020 Kamala's tax credit for opening a small business in a disadvantaged community or whatever that one was. It's just that Warren was the optimized version of that shit and it still didn't sell to anyone but nerdy libs. Maybe a billionaire businessman Dem could steal her plans and people would buy them better, but that'd be because of the billionaire businessman thing, not the detailed plans. 

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  8. 14 minutes ago, G650 said:

     

    I really want to know what fucking planet these people live on that they were shocked by any of this. I mean, I know it's true, I just can't conceive of how it's possible they have insulated themselves that completely. 

    Even the fucking poll dorks know this shit! 

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  9. 14 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I was in a meeting a few weeks ago with a group of Democrats between 25 and 35, a person who’s thinking about running for office, and a couple of longtime Democratic consultants. 
    The perspective candidate and the consultants were shocked that the  young Democrats said that cost-of-living was their biggest issue and healthcare was their second biggest issue. They were also shocked that the group was unanimous that the Democratic party had allowed housing and healthcare costs to destroy their prospects of attaining the American dream. 
     

    This thread is a beating because this party is feckless, toothless, spineless, out of touch and has institutionalized losing. The national party has followed the example of the Texas Democratic Party, and is achieving the same results.

    Anyone involved in Democratic politics who is shocked that young people are worried about the cost of living should be thrown into a fucking volcano. That's not some obscure ideological issue that the kids these days are fixated on. 

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