Sitting Senators are desperate to make the existing system look like it can work, because the reality of it not working is why progressives made it to the general.

And if progressives gain seats here, they’re more likely to win primaries against incumbent neoliberals later.

Yep, and during the primaries I kept saying vote in the primaries…

After the general, I’ll be telling people to get involved and start looking for who they’ll support in the next primary.

Like, if there’s still a primary out, absolutely vote in it.

Just vote in every election no matter what. It’s clearly a use it or lose it thing these days.

I mean, we already know plastic is fucking us…

50 years ago plastic would have been the answer, but none of us would have guessed that.

My point was, statistically there are things right now we think of neutrally or even positively that future generations will say was a major contributer to something really fucked up that might not even be manifesting yet.

Lead and being raised in a time of plenty…

Lead effects people at even tiny levels, a baby born today will experience the same thing boomers are, just to a much lesser extent. Because lead never really goes away, it just gets buried in the dirt or absorbed into plants/animals/humans.

As we age and naturally lose critical thinking (60ish, but varies) to compensate we fall back on patterns from when we were teenagers to early 20s. Evolutionarly speaking, stuff was supposed to be mostly the same and it wasn’t a problem.

But now it is, because not just technology but society and civil rights have changed drastically.

Lead effects critical thinking the same way, and the brain compensates the same way

So people who were running around when leaded gas was a thing, didn’t just get it early, they’re getting it harder now.

In their heads they’re all 20 and in prime health, they think they’ll live for ever and everything will workout, and they never see the consequences coming when it doesn’t.

That’s why they don’t retire, not just politicians, a lot of them just worked till they died even if they didn’t have to. Every single one was breathing leaded gas exhaust as a kid, and the older they get, the stronger the symptoms get.

In 60 years, they’ll say the same about something else we all use. Not just the obvious like plastic, something we genuinely think is awesome right now.

They say the same shit about anyone.

It’s why moderation doesn’t work, they said all this same shit about Obama/Clinton/Biden/Harris as they do about Mamdani/El-Sayed.

People need to just vote in the general, but we’re still pretty far out and the “Don’t vote D it’s a waste!!!” Propaganda is already ramping up.

I’m really worried people are going to fall for it

The DNC leadership is famously out of touch

That is outdated information.

You want to say Jamie Harrison who fixed the primary for Biden then forced Harris down our throats was out of touch?

I agree 100% and was saying that his entire term as chair.

The chair that was seated in February 2025, wants more candidates like Mamdani and El-Sayed and he believes they’re are the future of the party…

Do you think that position is out of touch with the American electorate?

The DNC leadership changes every four years…

The current DNC chair has been saying this the entire time, and no one listened to him. Instead, people kept claiming without any evidence that the chair hid it despite him supporting pro-Palistine candidates like El-Sayed and Mamdani more than literally any prior chair.

It would appear that you are the one that is out touch with what’s actually happening…

And the outdated information about the party months before an important general election could cause actual damage, helping not just trump but also the neoliberals.

So I gotta ask:

Why do you care enough to comment like that, but not enough to actually find out what’s happening with the party?

But he did not submit the findings to the DNC for inclusion in the report.

Really fucking glad they investigated that…

It was obviously bullshit cuz Martin had the reciepts via an emailed copy.

The guy who wrote it tried to claim the section was included in a single hard copy draft which was literally impossible to prove or not because who hangs on to giant hardcopies forever?

Now all we need, is for voters to realize a bunch of people coming out of the woodwork to kneecap the Dem party months before a general election don’t have the best interest of the party in mind…

And since we’ve got a bunch of progressives this time, it seems very very weird for people to pick now as the time to dissuade people from voting D.

I held my nose for Clinton/Biden/Harris, now that we got some actual progressives suddenly everyone wants to say now voting blue is optional.

Shits like the “we buy gold” commercials. If they’re telling you to sell gold, it’s the worst time to sell gold. If they’re telling you to buy it, it’s the worst time.

The same thing is true when oligarch owned media says vote blue no matter who.

If a bunch of billionaires want to tell me it’s ok not to vote D this time, that’s the biggest sign I need to vote D

Fucking bullshit…

The prior DNC fucked up the vice chair election Hogg won.

The new DNC chair, said the ethical thing to do, was to re-run the vice elections, this time according to the rules.

Hogg would have 100% won that, but he declined to run in the election despite being virtually guaranteed to win

Hogg’s problem should be with Jamie Harrison for fucking up the first one that Hogg won.

But my problem is Hogg refused to run for the re-election, and it seems he never wanted to win in the first place. It seems like his plan was to lose and pivot to a super PAC which is what he said he was going to do when he denied to run, but I don’t even think he’s done that.

All he’s done is try to get people to disengage from the Dem party, and he started almost exactly as soon as neoliberals lost power.

I don’t know if he’s corrupt or just fucking stupid.

Edit:

So to be perfectly clear:

1. DNC voting members elected Hogg

2. Due to a technical error about woman/minority candidates, the DNC chair said it was ethical to run the election over instead of accept the results of a fraudulent election

3. Hogg refused to run, even though the same voting members who elected him were gonna vote again.

4. Hogg spends a year shit talking the very people that elected him to be a vice chair. And claims that a wave of progress that happened without him, somehow proves that that the party isn’t progressive even tho they’ve elected Hogg personally in 100% of positions he’s run for. And that means we shouldn’t trust the people who elected him and ushered in a wave of progress.

If anything, this proves the DNC made a mistake when they elected him the first time.

Dude should not be involved in a party if he doesn’t even understand how this works.

Especially since he didn’t get loud again till after primaries and right before the general.

The correct response would be a picture of trump, a picture of Vance pre-ozempic…

And asking why he isn’t giving those peptides to his daddy if obesity is so serious.

Not because insults are effective, but because it could piss trump off that JD is making fun of fat people. It puts JD on the backpedal, and would cause him a great amount of stress over if trump would be pissed.

While also highlighting that Vance couldn’t lose the weight on his own but also was vain enough that his weight matters, attacking his masculine ego over how he wasn’t able to do it on his own and still cares what others think.

Like…

These people are fucking idiots, it’s not hard to figure out what to respond with to fuck with them the most. All you need is cause some cognitive dissonance so they don’t have a path where they can stick to all the talking points.

If being fat is bad, what the fuck is trump doing? Or the majority of his voters even

AIPAC was literally created because their predecessor had to register as a foreign agent…

AIPACs first recipients of funds, were the people who sat on the very same committee. I want to think just months later, but it was at least the same people.

And that’s the story of how shit got so fucked up, and why AIPAC doesn’t have to register as a foreign agent.

They’d have most likely supported the Republican no matter who won the dem.primary…

Israel is a poison pill for Dems, even if they can get you past the primary, they still want a Republican Congress that lets trump do anything he wants.

Ironically Israel is about to do most of the heavy lifting on purging the Dem party of zionists, the vast majority will all lose to AIPAC funded Republicans in generals even if they win their primaries.

Then be ready…

Like, if you’re sure it’s gonna happen, there is no logical reason to not be ready.

“The establishment” is the DNC…

The current DNC wont endorse anyone in a primary, which is good because a huge problem with the past DNC, has been weighing in on primaries.

The chair endorsed El-Sayed almost immediately after the primary results, anything faster or slower, and yeah, that’s a problem.

But this wasn’t.

Pretending that a couple dinosaurs who will lose their own primaries is “the establishment” only turns people off from the party, making them less likely to vote in primaries, and making progressives less likely to win.

Yes, that is how linear time works…

But if you’ve ignored everything up to November, I’m not going to be surprised when you come up with a reason why those don’t count either.

Then they haven’t been watching any election since the end of 2024…

Only when they have that same bullshit defeatest attitude that you just showed us…

You can beat the case, but you can’t beat the ride

Has been an open secret for generations by now, I’m sure it was happening before the 1960s, but the phrase was around back then.

It’s not just going to fix itself, we have to fucking do it.

Biden wasted all the momentum for justice reform last time, we literally can’t afford to do that again.

We need to make sure progressives get thru primaries and to the general.

Unfortunately the progressive socialist movement most people have a boner for has a weak standing on the national stage.

The current DNC chair was the chair of Minnesota for a decade…

If he fights against progressives, hes completely inept at that but also the world’s best liar.

Like, dude has a very long track record leading parties. At the end of the day that consistently results in progressives getting elected.

That’s just facts

We really need to standardized battery sizes again…

I bought a flashlight the other day that came with a lithium ion rechargeable the size of 2 AA stuck together. If it ever dies or won’t hold a charge, I can just use two normal AA batteries.

It’s a really simple compromise to have a “state of the art” battery, yet not be tied to a weird size I won’t be able to find. In 30 years I should still be able to buy rechargeable AA batteries.