What’s the collective wealth of Congress and Trump’s administration? Should be enough to cover 300 bil

The waste fraud and abuse are coming from inside the house.

I’m describing is mostly focused on the federal level and specifically the old guard

Totally agree and understand.

Mamdani is extremely effective against Republicans in general since he is actually trying

Agree but I think “rationalizing” this is missing why its effective.

whole ralley thing, my bias against rallies, parades, and ceremonies cannot be overstated. It’s a blind spot that I am very aware of

Same. I’ve worked as an organizer for decades and can’t stand these things. I’m very much so from the anarchist/ direct action tradition and have always and will always just prefer taking actions to address the issues we identify. If people are hungry, feed them; if people are unhoused, house them: you do not need to ask for permission.

However, I guess I don’t see the connection between visibility politics and your broader thesis. I mean its not like Schumer is avoiding visibility politics (which I think is you’re suggesting to be the reason why Mamdani has been effective?). Schumer is doing a form of visibility politics, but one which entirely misses the issue. What is winning or moving the ball down the field is resistance politics, which you seem to be advocating against at a national level, because your argument is that the Schumer’s of the world aren’t competent at it, so they shouldnt try.

Also let’s be honest here theres a good chance if they did do something beyond a couple statements against this shit they’d probably find some way to piss everyone off, probably by rolling out Chuck Schumer to say some stupid insane shit.

I mean, what you are describing to me is an insane level of capitulation, to the point I read it as consent. If this is going to be what the Democratic party represents, they don’t deserve voters and no one should vote for them. The strategy you are outlining is a blind alley strategy, in that there is no way back from it other then to reverse course entirely. Its deeply cynical, ineffective, and acts against Democrats ability to build back power long term. We can’t ignore the fact that both a) you are right in the sense that rolling over and showing their bellies is the strategy that Democrats have taken, and that b) this has been an utter and complete disaster and has only served to entrench and empower fascism.

And we see that this strategy has also been deeeply unpopular with voters. We only need to look as far as Mamdani and the DNC primaries to see everything about how mainstream Democrats have conducted themselves is very unpopular with their base. Democrats like Schumer are the least popular they’ve ever been, and if this:

now we are in a situation where we are waiting for the Reaper to do his good work.

Is the degree of political strategy you can come up in this moment, you probably shouldnt be in the work of politics.

This is the strategy Democrats took and the result was a complete and total inability to resist Trump at any turn and the total destruction of the Administrative state.

Honestly this seems more like uninformed capitulative hand wringing, the exact kind which has resulted in Democrats being somehow less popular than Trump.

The question I’ve had and can’t seem to fucking figure out, is where the fuck are the Democrats in all this?

Like why the fuck haven’t they been organizing counter events to ALL of this shit since the beginning, but especially now? Why wasn’t there a counter rally to that dumb shit this weekend? Why isn’t there a counter event for July 4th?

And I don’t mean the progressive caucus or squad++, I mean like capitol D democrats.

3-Dementia Chess

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[thing I want to say here but which I don’t want to be on the internet permanently] style impeachment.

You cant win elections appealing to “both sides”.

I’ve been thinking this basically the whole time with the second administration. It’s the most conspiracy oriented I’ve ever been, but I genuinely think there is a non zero chance that the entire goal of this administration has been to crash the dollar and world economy to force the globe into a position where digital currencies take over nation state derived currency as the foundation of global markets. I’d say I’m 5-10% confident this is the case, which is very high.

That their goal is to destabilize not just the world, but the very concept of nation-states to be replaced with a corporate/privately owned concept of a nation state or state level actor.

I know there are specific conspiratorial threads on this concept but I e intentionally avoided looking into those. I think there is ample evidence at the surface only to have this kind of suspicion.

I just imagine an AIPAC class action lawsuit about carpel tunnel

Well its at least going to be interesting…

How long before AIPAC gives up and picks a different battle?

Remember when Bob Menendez hid their ill-begotten gold bars from Egypt in their jacket embroidered with the name “Bob Menendez”…

The mierdas touch

People who call the shots usually don’t have to go around telling people that they call the shots.

The simply do the thing.

If you want a smooth-groined candidate with no observable past, you’ll only ever get people have been manicuring themselves for subterfuge their entire lives.

Don’t you dare. Mr Freeze was peak Arnie and I’ll fight anyone who claims otherwise.

It’s bullshit that Congress got to see his hog but we didn’t 😡