So I guess your excuse if AOC or whatever female candidate the DNC happen to trot out next loses to the next guy, be that JD Vance, some other MAGA nutjob, or even Trump taking a shot at a third term, is that she isn’t charismatic or authentic, is that right?

No, no, it couldn’t possibly be because America has a misogyny problem. I mean, never mind the fact that black men earned the right to vote before any woman did, that’s not relevant at all. History never repeats itself. I’m sure those basement dwelling neckbeards and macho-man wanna-bes will TOTALLY sign on to canvas for AOC. I’m sure her being a woman will not be a factor at all, people will be so enamored with her great policy that they will forget about it entirely!

How many black candidates lost to white candidates in a post-primary presidential race?

That’s right, zero.

How many female candidates have lost to male candidates in a post-primary presidential race?

Two, or in other words, all of them.

You can make an argument to say that there was racist gatekeeping back when Obama was running, and that was absolutely true, but we never actually had a situation where a political party fronted a black man and lost. We actually do have data that shows that America rejected a female presidential candidate twice. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that America simply isn’t socially developed enough to be capable of looking past the misogyny and we should take that into consideration if our goal is to win.

Thanks. My guy ain’t on there, luckily. But geez, there’s a shocking number of CA representatives who voted Aye.

I hate this political party so much. Not as much as the Republican party, but enough to make me want to quit following politics because it seems like nothing will ever meaningfully change.

Is there a list of names? Because if any of my reps show up on this list, I will never vote for them again.

I don’t want these fucking dinosaurs running the goddamn party anymore. I want some progressives with teeth who have the backbone to fight the fascists head on. I don’t care how petty or how low they have to get, I want to see them at least try.

If the labor that is necessary for feeding people can’t exist without undocumented workers, then perhaps the system itself is fundamentally broken if there is no easy path to citizenship.

You cannot have it both ways, Trump. Either it’s easy to come here and get papered up and nobody gets deported (and he loses his ultimate scapegoat), or it’s just as hard as it is now and we deport everyone working the fields and starve.

It’s far too late to put up a fight now, establishment dems. We needed that 6 months ago.

I always find it amusing that Republicans are so stupid they can listen to Trump simultaneously say that immigrants are taking all the good paying jobs but they are also lazy welfare parasites…

I’m tired of going high when they go low.

If the new standard is for Republicans to cast doubt on the legitimacy of every election, except for the ones they win, then we should, at the very least, be scrutinizing every single aspect of the election. Refuse to concede, demand recounts, hand tally the electronic ballots, search up and down and under every rock for evidence that the other side is guilty of some foul play.

Because if they had done that in the first place, they might have uncovered shit like this before it was too late to stop the wrong candidate from getting inaugurated. If they had bothered to put up a fight instead of maintaining decorum that the Republicans never bother to show, maybe they would have discovered what many of us already suspected - that Elon Musk somehow tampered with the voting machines to swing the election in Donald Trump’s favor in key swing states. They practically admitted as much on stage, and nobody batted an eye at it.

I don’t expect to ever live to see another fair election for the rest of my life.

Please be dying, please be dying, please be dying.

Please let Joe Biden outlive this sack of shit.

I’m waiting for the beginning of July for the end of the tariff pause. Dow Jones will probably shed a few thousand points before Trump reacts by pausing them again or repealing them since he always chickens out. \

If Trump is going to wreck the fucking economy with his idiocy I might as well take a shot at profiting from it like all of the grifters in his administration.

Why did it take circuit courts almost 2 months to get out a ruling that the tariffs are illegal and that the President had no authority to implement them without Congressional approval, but it only took the appellate court 24 hours to reverse that decision?

So now I guess we wait until July for the bloodbath to resume again, since Trump won’t take this blessing in disguise when it’s handed to him on a silver platter.

If you ever read the education or skill requirements on a job listing and think you aren’t qualified for the role, just remember that Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, twice. There’s no such thing as unqualified.

The only thing I agree with on Trump here is that he’s correctly pointing out that WalMart made billions in profits last year. Yes, WalMart supported this monster in the first place thinking it would work out for them in the long run, so it’s a leopards eating faces scenario for sure, and I wouldn’t be sad if WalMart lost profits this year because of Trump’s stupidity. It’s just too bad that regular people are going to suffer because WalMart killed the small businesses that used to support towns that they wormed their way into.

We aren’t even done adjusting to inflation pricing, and here we are not getting slapped with a Trump Tax on top of it. Madness.

Trump blew up the economy only to pause or walk back every single one of his stupid tariffs that were supposed to “make everybody rich” and bring manufacturing back to America. Could have seen that one coming from a mile away.

And we’ll never know the terms of the new trade deals he negotiates, only that they are great and better than before and that we should be thanking him on our hands and knees. As if anybody actually gives a single fuck about whether or not the U.S. runs a trade deficit.

Mark my words, these tariffs are never going to go fully into effect for any significant amount of time. One day into their implementation and it was clear how damaging and destructive they were, so they got paused to halt the chaos. Trump now needs a way to pull back on the reins and rescind the tariffs while still looking like he is emerging victorious. I expect more “breakthrough trade deals” in the coming weeks. In spite of this, however, the damage to the trust in American stability and economic certainty will probably never recover from the absolutely idiotic implementation of these tariffs for the sake of gaining negotiation power when a phone call could have had the same effect.

They are professional victims, even when they have control over all three branches of government.

At this point, if you voted for Trump and you regret it, keep that shit to yourself. I would rather not know.

Trump didn’t pay them, the American public did with the tariff revenue. He has absolutely no qualms spending other people’s money on stupid shit, especially if it makes him look good in their eyes. He would never directly pay for anybody’s relief.

Why would he do that?

It’s not why, but when. He already did this during his first term, the first time he started a trade war with China (which he lost).

He didn’t bail out the farmers because he actually cares about them, but because there was an election in 2020 that he was trying to win and needed their support.

Remains to be seen if he will bother to help them again this time. He’s talking about a 3rd term and other frightening shit, but his second term has been moving so fast that I’d like to think he doesn’t care about what the public thinks anymore, he just wants to extract as much value of of the position as possible.

Trump and Jinping are playing a game of chicken and Trump has already slammed on the brakes while Jinping still has 1000m of track left in front of him.

If I were them, I wouldn’t make a deal either - Trump had to be reminded by all the big box giants just how much he needs cheap Chinese goods to keep the shelves stocked. They have all the power and hold a shit ton of US national debt so they can wait out a trade war indefinitely while Trump will use any tariff profits to bail out farmers and other industries impacted by them not being able to sell to China at a 140% markup or whatever they set their nonsensical made-up tariff rates at.

Oh yeah, decades at a minimum. How long has it been since Reagan was president? We’re still dealing with the fallout from his administration all these years later. Granted, Reagan was just a bad president that could project the confidence of a competent one so he got a lot of leeway from the political establishment and I don’t think Trump enjoys the same amount of trust from our institutions, but he’s cranking the dial up to 11 in terms of trying to get away with shit that will change the country possibly forever and in an objectively bad way.

And the left will forever be trying to play catch-up as we waste consecutive terms undoing the harm done rather than pushing a progressive agenda.