If these petitions do anything
They don’t…
It makes people feel like they did something and makes them unlikely to do something that works. It’s basic psychology
number of proven signatures allows immigrants, non-Americans and youth below voting age
Just because you cant vote, doesn’t mean you’re representatives don’t represent you…
Do you think elementary kids writing letters to politicians can vote?
Man, that would have been hilarious, and likely killed off the UFC.
That guy’s a giant piece of shit
in the wake of a sweeping electoral victory he engineered and funded
Schumer did Jack shit
But oligarch owned media is gonna keep giving neoliberals credit.
The blue wave was because we kicked neoliberals out of the DNC, we need to kick them out of congressional leadership next
I really thought they might try it in state capitols, and I still think that was the plan.
But they expected it to be a lot closer. Even trump voters find this giant blue wave believable, because they talk to other trump voters.
The thing it works 1000x better with an El-Sayed or Mamdani, because they’re actually cool.
trump openly complains about how everyone around him are losers, and those are the people he picks to spend all his time with.
Throw someone with even average charisma in that room, trump loves them. Jeffries/Schumer fucking suck, trump won’t want to deal with them. He can’t get enough of Mamdani, and El-Sayed will be the same.
trump legitimately wants to be loved, he’s just a shitty person who doesn’t know how to get it and like a toddler he’d rather have hate than nothing. Any attention is better than none
Those petitions do nothing, if you have Dem reps keep contacting them, when you’re doing it get your local friends and neighbors to contact them as well.
Even if you got a shitty neoliberal politician, they’re going to be afraid of challengers from the left, and eager to hitch their wagons to progressives.
Hell, you can only sign a petition once, you can email/call/fax/whatever your elected representatives as often as you want.
The best part of it is, it would still have a real name like “Obamacare” is officially “Affordable Care Act”.
Absolutely zero reason to ever use “trumpcare” once it passed
Longer…
The memo – called, simply enough, “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News” – is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing [Roger] Ailes’ work for both the Nixon and George H.W. Bush administrations that we obtained from the Nixon and Bush presidential libraries. Through his firms REA Productions and Ailes Communications, Inc., Ailes served as paid consultant to both presidents in the 1970s and 1990s, offering detailed and shrewd advice ranging from what ties to wear to how to keep the pressure up on Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf War.
The memo explains why television was the way to go:
Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2011/memo-from-1970-a-plan-for-putting-the-gop-on-tv-news/
Ailes started Fox News because Nixon had to resign after Watergate. They figured if they could create their own news and talk about whatever they wanted, their voters would think what they were told to think.
Then in the 90s the oligarchs bought the only other options, and one of the first things the Clintons and Biden did was take a chainsaw to telecommunication regulations…
Don’t fucking give credit to Bannon like he has a masterful insight. This was obvious and in plain sight, the literal memo saying they were gonna do it entered into Nixon’s presidential library, and even more updates from HW’s
It’s the main reason Trump will likely never have one and is paranoid about flushing memos down toilets.
The big reason it’s going so poorly is the plan was for someone like Jeb to be in office. trump just inserted himself into an existing plan like a cuckoo egg.
All super fucking obvious
He’s going to keep saying obvious and attention grabbing lies like this.
Because quietly he’s going to do horrible shit he doesn’t want anyone to notice.
Do you think AIPAC funding a Super PAC that runs campaign ads against candidates who criticize Israel increases antisemitism in the United States?
Uh…
It’s weird to act like AIPAC is the start of it, or that they don’t control the super PAC they raise donations for. Israel funds AIPAC to solicit donations for it’s Super PAC, UDP.
Until 2021, AIPAC did not raise funds for political candidates itself; its members raised money for candidates through political action committees unaffiliated with AIPAC and by other means.[which?][6] In late 2021, AIPAC formed its own political action committee, AIPAC PAC, and announced plans for a super PAC, the United Democracy Project, which can spend money on candidates’ behalf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC
The Israeli government is AIPAC and AIPAC is UDP.
It’s effectively the same single entity.
Quick edit:
Also, it’s a J street poll, and there’s some red flags in there too, stuff like asking what year respondents were born in, then the options are ages.
But if you don’t know what J Street is, they’re Zionist lobbyists, literally, I don’t mean that in the way the word gets thrown around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street
If AIPAC is MAGA, J Street are neoliberals, same destination, just different speeds to get to there.
With rightwing losses in both Israel and America, look for them to fill AIPACs role by 2028. If for no other reason than current toxic branding.
Sounds like Russian used trump to get the tankers out to the ocean, and are now going to sell it to other countries for more.
They might show up with mostly empty tanks and say what’s left is all we were ever going to get and that was the agreement.
Like splitting a soda with someone and they drink “their half” first and give you a sip of backwash
trumps out of power essentially, he’s of no use now and may not even be able to pay for the Dieselif it all ever showed up
I mean…
So far the only people to take a shot at him, have all voted for him at one point.
It’s kind of amazing they finally figured it out to be honest
Quick edit:
I mean it’s surprisingly they’re actually looking out for it now. I always expected them to let trump die one way or another after January 2027, just because after that it doesn’t count as one of JDs terms.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is all but certain to soon become the first Black speaker of the House in U.S. history, called the results “a stunning rebuke for MAGA extremism.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is likely to once again be master of the Senate, this time at the head of a much larger caucus than during the Biden years, declared that “the days of Trump’s supplicant Senate are over.”
This election is wasted if we let those two oligarch fluffers into leadership positions…
We got a shit ton of options that actually have charisma, political aptitude, and aligning policy with Dem voters…
We gain nothing by letting either one take the reigns, and their bullshit will almost certainly depress 2028 turnout
America has a habit of generating hope … and then crushingly disappointing everyone
You’re confusing neoliberals as an only other option to maga…
Anyone with a congressional Dem representative needs to contact their office and tell them they need to support a progressive for leadership.
We can’t afford the bullshit “looking into” that happened under Biden. We need a Speaker and Senate leader willing to put progressive legislation up for votes.
Schumer/Jefferies won’t do that
Subtitle:
Tuesday’s election results demolished the conventional wisdom that Democrats need to run cautious, corporate-friendly centrists to win in purple and red states.
The voting members of the DNC recognized that after the 2024 election…
That’s why they pivoted to Martin as chair, and why trying to win every race and supporting everyone that made it thru fair primaries paid off.
Like, Martin literally spent a decade running Minnesota, where over and over he saw the best way to turn a purple/red state blue, was progressive candidates.
It’s really getting old that people don’t realize the party is essentially the chair, and the only thing this chair wants more than charismatic progressives, is fair primaries.
If you have a Dem House rep, start calling tomorrow telling them we can’t afford to waste time on Jefferies as speaker.
We won’t get someone like AOC (I’d love it if we did) but bare minimum it needs to be someone on the same general page as Dem voters. And Jefferies doesn’t.
It’s not as cut and dry.
There are schools for the deaf and/or blind.
The real solution is separating church from education entirely.
Everyone gets public school, if you want to send them to an after hours system like CDC (what Catholics have) or something else in addition to normal school, then that shouldn’t be publicly funded in any way.
We had a Catholic k-8 feed into our highschool, and it’s not like the kids were dumb, but they had huge gaps in their knowledge. It’s literal religious indoctrination, and even if the kid grows up to leave that religious group, the values, rules and notes are still being forced into impressionable minds.
It’s always projection with the right, their worried that some day we’ll stop letting them get away with indoctrinating their own kids, and if that happens their religious extremism dies out in a generation or two.
Once that happens it’s I almost impossible to build back up, they need adults who grew up in that system to want to continue it.
But without the DNC backing them, this will keep happening.
We can’t do anything until the neoliberals are up for midterms, but we don’t have to do anything special
Every primary should be competitive, I don’t care if it’s AOC or Fettermen.
As long as every primary is competitive and non biased, progressives will keep winning.
It’s all down hill from here, but in a good way. Just keep up with momentum and turning voting into something we view as a constant battle. We’ll never “win” enough that we can stop caring. Every primary and every general need to be treated as important, even if your ballot is boring.
It always takes 3 replies for them to just resort to insults, it’s weirdly consistent.
So I usually give them 3 replies, just to see if it holds true. And its almost always exactly 3.
Lol…
The day they arrest the first journo trump will be impeached and convicted.
All those fucking sources are Republicans. And Dems only need like 5 Republican Senators to convict in the Senate. They’ll get rid of trump to save themselves from trump in a heartbeat
Maybe he’s doing it just to get JD on the big boy chair? That way he can try to start pivoting the party back to the middle before 2028.