Neoliberals would love it…

There’s a reason they view progressives as a bigger threat; if they lose to progressives their only chance of retaining power is moderating the Republican party and switching back.

They can’t fucking do that, I don’t know if anyone can in less than a generation. trump blew their last shot at that, and if they try to create a third party, it just hands a progressive ran Dem party everything.

Their only chance is depressing Dem turnout 2028 and hoping they can get a corrupt chair in to run a rigged 2032 primary, during which Republicans would keep control.

Trump also says he wants to help people…

If someone (correctly) pointed out he’s just grifting, would you label that an “ad hom” and say that we have to take him at 100% sincerity?

Because that wouldn’t make any logical sense. When someone shows you who they are repeatedly, no one else is going to be able to pull your head out of the sand.

Just please don’t get manipulated into not voting in the Dem primaries, there’s literally no reason not to it doesn’t obligated you to vote in the general, but it stops neoliberals and actually helps progressives.

The watchdog group Campaign for Accountability filed a complaint with the State Bar of California on Wednesday over her claims that she is a lawyer.

It’ll probably just be a fine, but falsely representing yourself as a lawyer/attorney in California has the potential for a prison sentence

Surviving within the system doesn’t mean you believe in or support said system

Cool, but that’s not what the article said…

Socialism used to be something we Americans picked up in our freshman dorm room and dropped right around the time HR walked us through the concept of a 401(k) match

Like…

I quoted the literal words from the article, explained my issue with them…

And your response to that was essentially:

But what if it wasn’t what they said, what if they said the opposite?

He seems like the best of us.

Like I said…

The policy is what people want, it’s why they’re popular.

They only seem like they’re unusually charismatic on top of that, because we’re used to neoliberals and Republicans who can’t just do the easy popular stuff, because they’re bankrolled to stop it.

Not trying to take anything away from him, he put the work in.

But the only reason people think he’s exceptional is they’re used to neoliberals being pushed thru biased primaries

Which is literally the best defense against political assaninations and what Bernie’s been screaming from the rooftop for generations: That it’s easy to stop a person but no one can stop a nationwide movement

If any politician is essential to the movement, than we’re fucking up and need to fix it before it’s exploited. Same reason term limits are a good thing even if it makes some household progressive names leave the stage. Numbers are vastly on our side. The vast majority of people (when their basic needs are met) are decent people and would make great political representatives.

That’s why the oligarchs arent satisfied having more, they want the rest of us under the mental effects of resource scarcity because that prevents us from uniting against them and taking our shit back. But all it takes to beat that, is people feeling like they have access to enough resources that they can afford to care about others. Very few people keep choosing money, and most of them are just due to the fear of being with the masses. If the masses are fine, there goes the stick that keeps them class traitors.

Socialism used to be something we Americans picked up in our freshman dorm room and dropped right around the time HR walked us through the concept of a 401(k) match

I hate when people project their own failings onto everyone else to feel better about themselves…

Loads of people can personally accumulate wealth well past entry level.office work and not sell out their class.

Also pretty underhanded to call utility monopolies socialism when it’s a capitalist monopoly. If basic services operate for profit, it doesn’t matter if the city or a corp gets the profits. It shouldn’t be free, but public utilities just should never turn a profit.

He’s a great politician and he’s most like going to win…

But I can’t wait until people stop acting like the reasons progressives are popular is it’s all a one off and because of the candidate.

It’s not.

The policy is what people want, it’s why they’re popular.

They only seem like they’re unusually charismatic on top of that, because we’re used to neoliberals and Republicans who can’t just do the easy popular stuff, because they’re bankrolled to stop it.

If Talarico had never entered polticis, there’d still be a shit ton of Texans who could run campaigns just as effective as Talarico did.

That’s how democracy is supposed to work, when politicians actually represent the people, who the representative is doesn’t really matter.

People are just so used to political corruption and rigged primarie, it’s going to be a while before they understand that doesn’t have to be the default.

Be careful with the whole “enemy of my enemy” thing, billionaire owned media not liking him is a good sign, but it should never be the only thing to look at.

The big thing is he basically doesn’t have to do anything and he understands that…

We don’t want a DNC that tries to guide the party, that’s been the problem for decades.

We need a DNC whose only two concerns are:

1. Get a Dem into the oval

2. Get majorities in the House and Senate

It’s that fucking easy to make progress. And we could have been here ~18 years earlier if Obama had just appointed a progressive DNC chair in 09.

Stop acting like Jefferies controls anything…

He got elected because Jamie Harrison’s DNC was willing to bankrupt any state party with reps who didn’t fall in line.

Not only do neoliberals not control the DNC or Victory Fund, Martin drained that shit and gave it back to state parties, which is why we’re “suddenly” flipping a shit ton of seats, we’re actually trying to win majorities so anDem president can get shit down.

The neoliberal goal was always obstructing progress and siding with Republicans for the wealthy.

But the only way neoliberalism gains any ground again, is if idiots stop voting D because of billionaire propaganda

Centrists tend to be more supportive of Israel than progressives; more aligned with the police and other law enforcement agencies; less antagonistic toward the wealthy and big corporations; more skeptical of big new government programs. Leaning into those positions, which are largely unpopular with the party base, of course doesn’t help win Democratic primaries or intraparty debates these days. So centrist pundits, politicians, and operatives advocate for their faction largely by claiming that it’s the only bloc of the party that understands how to win elections. (Even though center-left Democrats lose elections all the time—and critical ones at that, such as in 2016 and 2024.)

Don’t forget when Biden won and the neoliberals got to pick the last DNC chair, they went with Jamie Harrison who’s only political campaign was record breaking fundraising and losing to Lindsey Graham.

They don’t give a shit about electability, their only concern is fundraisers so they can grift off it and be bribed by oligarchs.

And it went horribly in 2024.

That’s the entire reason the ~400 voting members of the DNC pivoted away in 2025 when they got to vote for a chair.

And the real reason the neoliberals are moving goalposts, is they want to say Dems underperform even in a progressive blue wave. Their only chance of taking back the party, is installing a DNC chair who will fix the next primary

The only way they can do that, is if Ken Martin resigns. Other than that he’s the DNC chair till 2029 no matter what, and that means a fair primary and a progressive presidential candidate in the general.

All we needed was fair primaries, and we’ll get that unless people keep falling for oligarch propaganda

I’ve been telling people, this is to normalize public execution for “treason” the main demographic trump cared about was a soldier firing on other soldiers.

A big strong man standing there is a propaganda message.

But trumps never consider injured soldiers as soldiers, he “only likes winners”.

So dude being in a wheelchair wouldnt send the message the fascists want to send; that it doesn’t matter how tough you are they’ll get you.

It’s always just been about the optics of it, and using it to normalize political violence. That’s why he never faced a terrorism charge, they want the label to be “traitor” because that’s anyone not for the current administration.

Terrorists need to take action or at least plan actual attacks. They want to be able to go after anyone who doesn’t say they’re stunning and brave.

It absolutely is not…

Like, it sucks and people should absolutely not visit. But there’s a shit ton of countries that are worse.

People measure dangerousness not “scariest” but I’d be surprised if there’s a lot of difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index#Global_Peace_Index_ranking

Russia would be way scarier than America, but so would most of the ~30 countries more dangerous

We get it, you hate Hasan. Very brave.

Anyone else ever notice how Piker and trump supporters sound alike after 3 replies?

Like, even your “his popular” excuse, substitute the names and I’d bet most people couldn’t tell which person was being defended…

It’s crazy so many people can’t see the same fucking grift.

Like, you legitimately can’t look at your last replies and see the similarities?

Hasan Piker seems to me to be a generational talent

No, he was the nepo nephew of The Young Turks founder…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

A media organization literally named after people who overthrew their government to commit a genocide…

His uncle put him on air, then bankrolled him into the early days of twitch.

He is not grassroots, he did not got popular because of talent or political opinions.

He is an outrage machine and rather than complain about literal fascists running our country and supporting genocides worldwide, he uses his platform to make people not want to vote for the literal only option in our political system

At best he’s a narcissist that just wants views, at worst he’s intentionally trying to prevent progress.

Fucking think for yourself and stop repeating twitch streamers.

He was active duty military that opened fire on other active duty military on a military base…

Not that the last name is common with a fucking streamer

Hasan Piker fans really need to make everything about him…

They want to label this as a traitous attack and normalize public (live streamed) executions for anyone they consider a traitor, which means against this administration.

It is very important for serious reasons, and not because a twitch streaming nepo baby who go his start interning for his uncle podcast named after people who committed the Armenian genocide, happens to have the same last name.

If you give a shit, stop watching streamers and actually learn about politics.

It’s not the pollsters…

It’s people writing opinion pieces about polls.

Like always tho, it’s important to remember a billionaire can pay for 100 polls and publish the 1 that agrees with them.

Like, from the article the polls and question are already counting Republican responses more, and at least one of the pollsters is a "Republican pollster:

“I think it’s telling that we’re hanging our hopes on ‘The polls are wrong,’” Republican pollster Brent Buchanan told Axios. “That’s not very strong.”

And he flat out said “our only hope is this isn’t real”

The only thing Republicans love more than being victims is being winners, if they think Dems are going to win state races, they’ll invent reasons not to vote. Otherwise they’d have to vote and lose, they’d rather not “play”.

Cook Political Report forecasts Democrats will gain nine to 19 seats in the House, which would give the party a narrow majority. In the Senate, Cook predicts a potential Democratic net gain of two to six seats. Democrats would need four seats to take control of the chamber.

The current DNC chair is gonna run a fair presidential primary in less than two years…

No matter what happens the neoliberals will say midterms could have been better and Martin needs to resign. Because neoliberals have no chance in hell of winning a fair primary.

And if we get a progressive in 2028 into the White House, they pick the next DNC chair in 2029.

We’re on the cusp of some real FDR shit, but neoliberals (as always) will do anything including helping Republicans to stop it.

So we can sue Dana white if they kill someone trying to choke them out?

His company trains them, an incoming rational administration can hold him liable for what I’m sure is gonna be bullshit.

The other (non pelosi endorsed) Dem in that general has called what Israel is doing a flat out genocide despite himself being Jewish…

Edit:

Scott Weiner

https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/scott-wiener-jewish-caucus-gaza-israel-resigns/