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  • Biden spent decades telling anyone that would listen that he believed the only way to deal with Israel was to give them everything they asked for…

    When I ama didn’t do that, he spoke out as VP against his own president.

    Kamala not only refused to respond in kind, she went out of her way to explicitly say if elected she’d be the same as Biden.

    This is one of a very few areas where it would have happened regardless of who was president.

    And that’s a huge problem we can’t ignore.






  • I think you’re confused still…

    Did you think this was a super important rare thing that is never done and a huge deal?

    Or…

    Are you aware (win or lose) a report like this is always done?

    Edit:

    And since you care enough about votes to bring it up, I downvoted you for “glazing”. And completely deriding the conversation.

    What about this are you actually upset about?

    You said “I’m not upset”…

    But I think it’s because you don’t understand the words you’re seeing…



  • Buddy…

    What do you want?

    On Thursday, Martin apologized.

    “When I was elected DNC chair, I commissioned an after action review of the 2024 election that I wanted to be honest and transparent, and with actionable and specific takeaways for the future of the Democratic Party,” Martin said. “When I received the report late last year, it wasn’t ready for primetime — not even close — and because no source material was provided, it would have meant starting over.”

    Martin went on: “I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on the report that was produced. After last November’s massive Democratic wins, I didn’t want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. For that, I sincerely apologize.”

    “For full transparency,” Martin continued, “I am releasing the report as we received it, in its entirety, unedited and unabridged. It does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards, but I am doing this because people need to be able to trust the Democratic Party and trust our word.”

    Hours later, Martin told DNC members on a call that Paul Rivera, the report author, no longer “is with or advises the DNC in any capacity,” according to a source on the call.

    “I apologize. Being a leader at any level means you own every single mistake — those of your creation and frankly those not of your creation,” Martin said. “This was a major mistake. I own it, and now it’s time for us to move forward at the DNC, and I hope that you’ll move forward with me.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/dnc-releases-2024-autopsy-chair-apologizing-creating-even-bigger-distr-rcna345963

    What are you actually upset about here?




  • The entire point of Cali’s primary system is to prevent progressives from getting thru by scaring everyone to settle for “electable” to block Republicans…

    That being said, I honestly don’t know who is the best bet over there, just that Steyer (and any other billionaire) will absolutely never ever under any conditions be on the side of anyone except the oligarchs.

    Because if they were, they wouldn’t be billionaires it’s the easiest fucking thing in the world to not be a billionaire. But every day they decide to allow thousand of easily preventable deaths for so little money it honestly wouldn’t show up as a rounding error for them.

    Anyone who isn’t a complete and total piece of shit would have hemorrhaged money immediately, the fact that anyone has had control over a billion dollars for more than 24 hours mean they are a completely irredeemable person.

    Anything they do, is solely a PR move and viewed as a cost of bonus if not an outright grift.


  • Dudes net worth is 2.4 billion…

    The San Francisco resident has spent over $320 million in federal elections since 2010?plus another $340 million on his own presidential campaign in 2020.

    https://www.forbes.com/profile/thomas-steyer/

    He just realized it’s better to cut out the middle man these days and run yourself than buy a politician.

    If he was even a halfway decent human being he’d have given away about 2 billion dollars by now and still had more money than he could spend in his lifetime.

    The only reason someone this selfish would run for government is to personally enrich themselves and amass power. If he wanted to really help people he’d just spend all his time giving his money away.


  • It also implies that the DNC has little interest in understanding why they lost

    Th voting members knew why they lost immediately, that’s why they elected Marin instead of another neoliberal…

    What part of the leadership do you believe has changed?

    The chair is a dictator and can do whatever they want with zero accountability…

    So when the chair changes, it’s like a new president, they can set their “admin” however they want.

    2 years ago they elected Ken Martin, who spent a decade running Minnesota and turned it from purple to one of the most progressive politicians of any state.

    It’s honestly not hard to look into him, but unless you understand the basics of the DNC (what I’ve said here is enough) it doesn’t seem like a huge change.

    But people have fought 30 years (arguably 50) trying to get us to where we are now.

    It’s not done, but billionaires want us to give up and check out already


  • Are people still pretending they don’t understand it was written by a single freelancer?

    That the people now running the DNC, didn’t run it during 2024?

    Because I legitimately don’t understand how anyone who only knew those two facts, would still be blaming the people running the DNC since 2025 for what this report says was done wrong in 2024…

    So it seems like the safe assumption, is people don’t understand at least one of those two things. Most likely both.

    Especially when they repeat “Democrats won’t learn their lesson” literally half a term deep into the DNCs pivot away from neoliberalism. To think they haven’t learned the lesson yet, just means that person hasn’t paid attention since Biden lost the election.


  • I know people who are popping tons of peptide shit, and it’s ‘fine’ because “it’s all amino acids”.

    “Peptide” is just such a general term, like insulin is a fucking peptide, lots of things are peptides

    A lot of what people are taking, are legit roids, even if they are also peptides.

    The problem is, people take these unregulated supplements and then “feel amazing”. Their energy and focus levels increase. But they don’t think about the side effects.

    Yep, crack makes you feel amazing too, feeling amazing is honestly usually a bad thing.

    no snake oil supplements

    Bro…

    The dangerous part about this shit is it’s not snake oil. Snake oil was largely inert, they might be cocaine or morphine in it, but it was in everything back then.

    People are taking serious drugs that do serious things, with no medical professionals involved, their just ordering this shit off the Internet on their own



  • Biden and the neoliberals had four years, and they did what anyone with a brain predicted.

    Which included Biden naming a DNC chair in 2021 that would rig the 2024 primary, which also happened.

    But because Republicans won the 2024 election, DNC voting members got to pick their own chair in 2025.

    Blaming the current chair for what happened 2021 thru 2024 with the party makes as much sense as blaming Obama in 09 for what GW did 04-08…

    I’m not trying to be a dick, it’s just very hard to explain such a basic concept in a way that doesn’t come off condescendingly.


  • Democrats: Investigate Trump, do nothing else

    If you told me you are a bagel last week, I’d be an absolute idiot to think that was all you’ve eaten in a week

    Yet you seem to think if you hear about 100s of people doing 1 thing, it means that is all all of those people are doing…

    Some people are really only capable of one single task at a time, the problem is those people don’t understand how unique they are, and they assume everyone else is the same.

    Shit man, I’m preparing for dozens of things constantly, and I’m acutely aware of 10x the things I can’t do shit to prepare for. But I’m still cognizant they’re probable situations I may have to deal with.


  • The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

    To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

    To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

    ― Douglas Adams

    The exception that proves the rule is people who begrudgingly accept the responsibility out of the greater good.


  • She’s never shown interest in running for President

    Honestly the best trait of a future president…

    We don’t want someone that wants to be president. We need someone who reluctantly steps up because they have the best shoot.

    Like the Jeff Winger paintball speech.

    She’s the country’s best shot, so regardless of if she wants to be president she needs to run in 2028.

    Strategically it would just be stupid to say shes going to now. Which is why billionaire owned media is desperate for her to say she is. Once she says she’s running, she’s the defacto general candidate.

    The ideal path is a congressional leadership position in January, and then moving to 2028 presidential. And that could very well already be her plan. She just can’t/shouldn’t say it yet.