I mean, the supposed shooter was legitimately further to the right of Kirk…

I’m just pointing out that a lot of inexplicable shit happened immediately after he died.

Is it most likely he was shot by a rifle? Absolutely.

But we don’t actually know that’s what happened.

He died a year ago this week, shot to death while speaking at Utah Valley University.

There’s been zero investigation…

And stuff like immediately repaving the concrete before law enforcement looked at it as a crime scene, is weird enough we shouldn’t just assume he was shot.

Like, they could have treated it as a normal investigation and people would be able to trust it. But after the shit they immediately pulled, there’s always going to be a shred of doubt that his microphone had a bomb or something else.

Dude was breaking from Trump on Israel, obviously America’s and Israel’s current governments arent above assassinating a streamer.

but I also would prefer the democrats put forward more progressive candidates

Buddy…

Every comment you make, shows you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

The party shouldn’t pick any candidate, the fact that they were was the problem.

Why the fuck don’t you ask questions instead of a constant string of wrong information?

Do you think any of the shit you e been saying is actually true or how any of this works?

Then you don’t understand how bad the party was under neoliberalism from 1991-2025, and you just assume that was actually trying or that the party went in a different direction with the 2025 chair election.

Like, if you ignore everything, obviously it’s not going to make sense.

If you pay attention to what happened and what is happening, you wouldn’t spend your free time shitting on the best and only chance to save the country…

Unless you were a trump supporter or neoliberal despite to depress dem turnout to stop progressives

Between fixing those issues and repairing all the damage Trump (and his acomplices) have done, the USA has decades of work to do.

If you think that, you need to look back on how fast FDR fixed shit, and how the only thing that stopped him from doing more, is people not following up by flushing incumbents holding back progress.

Back then the average person didn’t have the same outreach. Social media means people can actually organize and hear how things are going. That’s why oligarchs keep gobbling up social media and flooding it with bots.

They’re fucking scared.

Because Republicans have both majorities and the presidency…

Our system sucks, but it used to be functional, and can be again.

Obviously one of the first things to do once it’s functional, is improve the system and put in protections to stop this from happening again.

Like, everyone complains about the electoral college, but we could just get rid of it and make the presidency a straight popular vote. But the real problem, is a president was never meant to have this much power in the first place. They’re supposed to be an essentially powerless ambassador.

No real power, just the person we said can speak on our behalf in situations where there’s just a single seat at a table for America

Congress can basically make “non wars” into wars for benefits.

OEF and OIF cover post 9/11 up to like 2010 in most of the middle east.

It could be fixed right now, but trump and the Republicans won’t.

But the real solution has always been giving everyone the benefits disabled vets get

The left operates better from the ground up anyway.

Yeah…

The voting members of the DNC agree, that’s why they pivoted from neoliberalism to a chair who favors bottom up power structures…

Like, I don’t understand how the response to finding out the DNC has been doing what you wanted for over a year, is:

Seems like the DNC is basically a dead organization walking and the DSA and other upstarts are going full grass roots.

Like, they’re not competing.

The DSC exists within the DNC…

There’s a lot you seem to not understand, and no matter you reply “DNC bad”.

Are you mad at what th DNC did 2020-2024? Good, so was the DNC voting members, that’s why they didnt double down on Bidens pick (Jamie Harrison), they booted him and turned left.

If you paid even the slightest bit of attention you’d have known all this shit a year ago, but why bother making these comments?

Why not just actually pay attention instead of blindly and beligerntly shitting on the DNC?

The biggest flaw (out of many) is assuming everyone that voted for him, still support him.

But specifically you seem to think his polling in a single district Kamala won is the same as the whole country…

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a moderate Republican who is retiring rather than running for reelection, said Trump is bringing down the GOP’s chances of holding his district, which includes the city of Omaha and its suburbs. Political forecasters expect Democrats to flip the seat in November.

"Some of the policies and some of the statements aren’t helpful,” Bacon told HuffPost, referring in particular to the president’s tariffs on imported goods, which can put upward pressure on prices. “You get to see it in polling in my district; he’s in the mid-30s, which just makes it hard on Republicans.”

While former Vice President Kamala Harris won Bacon’s district in 2024, Trump is becoming a problem for Republicans across the map.

Like, that’s a pretty fundamental mistake there buddy

and it sounds like more people approve of him today.

I don’t know where you’re hearing that, but it’s bullshit

If they wanted to close ranks and force these poison pills to heel they would do it.

They literally can’t…

Neoliberals since 2016 used the “victory fund” to steal from state parties and hoard it, then doled it out when people they did something they wanted.

If someone did something the neoliberals didn’t like, theyd pressure the state party to disown that politician, and if they didn’t they’d cut off funds to the whole state.

2 weeks after Schumer and Jefferies got leadership, Ken Martin got the DNC and key to the “victory fund”. He stopped the program and dumped all that money back to state parties already.

It’s not just that Schumer and Jefferies no longer have access to that power, that power is gone.

But they don’t. The whole party needs a hostile takeover.

The voting members of the DNC already took the keys away from neoliberals 19 months ago…

We have a non biased DNC and are actively reading the rewards, if you think now is the time for any sort of takeover of the DNC, you e fallen for neoliberal propaganda.

If you want to move the party even more left, get active in the primary. When a Dem becomes president they name the chair. We need to make sure that’s someone like AOC and not someone like Newsom

Republicans care about the opinions of drug addict single mothers now?

When his mother erased Donald Bowman from his and her lives, the adoption process also erased the name James Donald Bowman from the public record. The only birth certificate for Vance on file at Ohio’s vital statistics office reads James David Hamel, according to information provided by the state, cited by the Associated Press.

He would spend more than two decades as James David “J.D.” Hamel, and served in Iraq as a US Marine – Corporal James D Hamel. But the situation gnawed at him, particularly after his mother and adoptive father divorced.

“I shared a name with no one I really cared about (which bothered me already), and with Bob gone, explaining why my name was J.D. Hamel would require a few additional awkward moments,” he wrote in Hillbilly Elegy.

"Yeah, my legal father’s last name is Hamel. You haven’t met him because I don’t see him. No, I don’t know why I don’t see him. Of all the things that I hated about my childhood, nothing compared to the revolving door of father figures.”

He decided to change his name again, to Vance — the last name of his beloved “Mamaw.” Vance’s mother suffered with substance abuse and addiction, and was allegedly abusive to her children, leading to him being taken in and brought up by James and Bonnie Vance.

Vance paid tribute to his grandmother, a union Democrat, during his acceptance speech after being elected to the US Senate in 2022.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-name-b2622281.html

Lil JD is still just looking for a Daddy that won’t run off in a couple years, I really won’t be surprised if he tries to change his name to trump for 2028

I mean, don’t vote for them…

But not voting for anyone else with a D by their name because of these asshats, is just going to let these asshats take over the party.

Most Americans don’t get to vote in any election that has any of them on a ballot.

The article still misses the entire point…

It focuses on what kind of candidate the party should push. When what’s been working is the party staying out of it, and just letting the voters pick the candidate they want in fair primaries.

I mean…

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

They’ve got the 8th highest amount of billionaires world wide of any city.

Per capita I think Jackson Hole Wyoming is the highest, due to multiple homes and cheap state tax. So everyone makes their luxury cabin out their their main residence.

But San Francisco kind of makes as the last place neoliberalsmwouldnhold onto.

And the thing is, if that’s as left as they can go, that shouldn’t be a problem. Because 99.99999% of the rest of the country isn’t obscenely wealthy and legitimately six months away from being a billionaire most of their career if they get lucky on an IPO.

They can get on the bus, they just shouldn’t be anywhere near the steering wheel.

The San Francisco Democratic Party voted 17–4 to oppose Proposition 40—with five members abstaining, five members absent, and one member with no endorsement. Nancy Pelosi chose not to endorse the measure. This comes just weeks after the California Democratic Party endorsed the measure in August after a contentious vote that succeeded above the 60% threshold.

People are shocked San Fran still has neoliberals?

That’s actually pretty good results for this tiny slice of America.

Especially since the state party is behind it, who cares what San Fran says?

Why it’s different this time, is the DNC is going to keep supporting progressives instead of sabatoging them

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin also made clear the party will stand with Nixon.

“As an accomplished state representative and union organizer, Angie Nixon has dedicated herself to fighting for working families,” he said. “Floridians have chosen a proven leader with the experience and vision to lower costs, expand access to healthcare, make childcare and housing more affordable, fight for workers, protect public education, and deliver results for families across the Sunshine State. The DNC is ready to help elect Angie and work together to flip this seat, win the Senate majority, and deliver for all Floridians.”

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/815310-angie-nixon-snags-democratic-nomination-heads-to-general-election-against-ashley-moody/

It’s all progressives ever needed, a party that actually wants to win elections.

It won’t pass the Senate and is an insanely stupid thing to do before midterms…

Jefferies is just trying to rehab his image.

Don’t trust him

That argument is so stupid, but the fact that only 4 house members signed it is a good sign.

That’s like 2% of Dem House reps.

The only thing that makes socialism or even communism corrupt, is if corrupt people are running it.

Neoliberals and Republicans say it will definitely be corrupted, because they lack the empathy to understand not everyone is corrupt like they are. They rationalize their own corruption by saying anyone will do it.