Start with three big challenges. First, a lot of those who voted for Democrats are expecting action to improve their economic conditions: Run on affordability, you better improve affordability. Second, and related, with Democrats holding a sizable piece of power in Washington, the failures of policy driven by the reckless Trump and his administration could be blamed on them—and it is a sure thing that hundreds of millions will be spent by Trump allies to try to pin the problems on the Democrats. Americans already think Washington isn’t working; if it looks like Democrats are a part of the problem and not of the solution, that could have brutal consequences in 2028.

Third, it is clear that the Democratic Party base wants toughness and serious pushback against the corruption, misconduct, and mayhem that are the core of Trump’s presidency. Witness the negative reaction to the private meeting between House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, looking for areas of possible common ground after January 3. Rank-and-file Democrats want pushback, not compromise. Of course, compromise will be necessary to meet the first challenge of improving people’s economic circumstances. But if it is not led by Democrats using every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.

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Don’t be a neoliberal…

It’s literally that easy, and considering the voting members of the DNC pivoted 20 months ago, there’s no reason to assume incoming dem leadership will be the same shitty neoliberals as this current Congress.

Republicans are motivated by fear, and lack the empathy to realize other people think differently.

It’s why with 5 minutes of training you can determine political party affiliation with like 80% accuracy in a count that has lower that 80% voter turnout.

It’s not a permanent difference, even well into your 60s it can change.

But that’s why Trump thinks this would gain votes in Cali, they assume if Dems are afraid they’ll vote R. Which did kind of happen after 9/11. But a hypothetical isn’t going to be the same.

I’m sure you feel better ahitting on them, and there’s virtually none here that will ever see it, so I know it was just posted to get pats on the back…

But that’s some Hillary level anti-productive shit to be posting a month before the midterms.

Like, I’m not saying you’re intentionally spreading propaganda to help trump…

I’m saying America as a society needs to start using even a teeny bit of critical thinking before just resharing an image they found on social media.

At least wait till after the election to act “snarky” if that’s just how you live your life, right now is the absolute worst time for that stupid shit.

So just take a break for the next month, ok?

It’s a very small askbto beat fascism, just don’t act like Hillary right before elections.

Did you mean to post an article or just the tiny gif?

The DNC has been doing it since they kicked the neoliberals out…

Jeffries is just trying to make it look like he had anything to do with it.

And he is absolutely not going to get House majority leader, the reason he got minority leader is that election was weeks before the DNC chair, and sitting congress members had to operate under the assumption neoliberals would retain it, if they did they would have bankrupted any state whose reps didn’t vote Jeffries/Schumer.

The “victory fund” is gone, the money returned to the states. The neoliberals lost what they used to control the party, so Jeffries ain’t becoming Majority leader

He’s running

“On my side of the aisle, if a bunch of goobers run, and I think they’re goobers and one of the goobers might win, and I think I could do a better job, I would consider running,” he said. “But right now, I’m running for re-election.”

They all just want to join late so they can say “I don’t want to run, but you don’t have a good option”.

There’s just gonna be 20 of them saying it at once. There’s too many different groups, the party won’t coalesce around one person after trump

This is just Schumer trying to pretend he’s still important…

States run their own election, any involvement by the fed is a problem that the states have to deal with themselves.

A capable Senate leader would be effectively unionizing Blue states so one like Cali and NY are ready to subsidize the poorer/smaller blue states when trump does a last minute pre-election blitz against them.

Which is most likely what the DNC is doing right now, they’re just not going to tell billionaire owned rightwing media what the defensive strategy is ahead of time.

I’m just not seeing the goodwill to society from the current billionaires

You didn’t see it from Carnegie either…

Why the fuck can you not understand this?

They were laying the groundwork so their descendants can say “wealthy businessmen know better than anyone else”.

Look at our fucking president, he is the direct and natural consequence of people not understanding what you can’t. The difference is most of them didn’t have someone desperately trying to help them realize the most basic part of that

But at this point, I’m throwing in the towel on you.

I hope someone can explain this to you later, if not then hopefully you’ll at least stop repeating the same billionaire propaganda people have been falling for this time.

Like, you can manage that, right?

If you won’t learn how to help us, at least stop fucking helping the billionairez.

Can you do that for the 99.99999% of humans on the planet?

Thing is, I really don’t care if it’s just PR, so long as that PR involves taking good actions

But you fucking should, that’s the entire point I’m making

If we just fucking taxed them, then the wealth would go back into circulation. If we let them pick where to donate, it just makes idiots think letting billionaires be in charge of billions of dollars might not fuck us all.

It always will Even if takes a generation or two, eventually they’ll decide that they really should be in charge because they have the most money. The only way to stop it is to stop letting people accumulate that much, and we do that thru taxation.

Where are the Carnegie types to build public infrastructure? Y’know, improve the lives of the rest of society that gave them enough power to amass such wealth.

Jesus fucking christ…

They did that stuff so they’d have an excuse to lobby for tax changes

None of that shit was for the good of society, it was to trick idiots into voting for tax cuts for the wealthy.

As soon as they got the tax cuts, the wealthy stopped doing those projects.

Because the sole reason was PR

How the fuck are so many people seeing the broad strokes and not only missing the finer details, but missing who painted the fucking picture.

Gates and even Musk seemed “ok” at one point, they were all pieces of shit their entire lives, they just stopped paying the PR costs

Nepo babies are taking every opportunity, and the cute name doesn’t change the reality of it.

When enough people realize it, it won’t matter how “cool” some of them are.

Generational wealth inequality destroys everything, and it’s going to keep getting worse. Not just because the vast majority gets fucked over, but because the people who get to run shit are chosen because how wealthy their daddy was.

The masses can keep shit functional for a while, but once that pattern starts you quickly run into the rich idiots at the top causing so much damage the rest can’t keep society moving.

The wealthy are always the ones directly to blame for violent social upheaval, because they were the only ones with the power to fix it without violence. Their iron grip on their parents stolen wealth means there’s no other option.

Just a matter of when.

I hate those stupid Facebook images

Even when it’s not shitty ai someone burnt a part of our planet for.

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Oh, that’s literally all your account does…

At least there’s block buttons.

A bunch of red states already did…

They’re cutting restrictions on red diesel and letting trucks run overloaded to make less trips.

The red diesel is the big one tho, we need that shit to harvest crops here in a little bit, allowing it on road is going to burn thru the reserves that already wasn’t big enough.

trump is gambling on trying to get UK or other “allies” to give us their reserves, but they need that shit themselves, because of the war trump started.

It’s going to get much worse before midterms too. Which is why using reserves now is so stupid. Probably 2-3 weeks before election Iran is going to really tighten the screws and make gas prices skyrocket. I really could see them shutting off the whole tap to influence midterms against trump.

Maybe even flat out saying “if republicans win this won’t stop”. And with the Houthis controlling one major straight, they can hold it for literal decades

It’s not just a politician thing…

It’s why billionaires always get weird, why CEOs are selfish assholes, why a small business owner usually ends up acting like a dictator, or even teachers punishing students for being right. Or why celebrities do horrible shit and act surprised people don’t like it and call everyone haters…

Even why chat bot addicts withdrawal to the chatbot and stop talking to real humans.

Like, aging does play a factor due to how an aging brain deals with confusion, but this is perfectly normal human behavior. If someone stops getting negative feedback, when they get anything other than praise it feels like insults, and the person starts avoiding anyone that might do anything other than unadulterated praise.

Hillary didn’t realize what she was doing and neither does trump. He might think what you said as a rationalition, but that’s all it it. Just like Hillary’s “I don’t need to campaign outside of Blue states” was something she almost certainly believed at the time.

But was clearly wrong.

Not getting any negative feedback will fuck up any human brain. When’s the last time you think trump took negative feedback without coming up with an excuse why the person who said it isn’t just a hater?

Nope.

It’s what I just explained it is.

Powerful people who spend their lives surrounded by “yes men” expect to be treated like that 24/7.

They’re not gonna take questions from voters of the opposite party and try to gain votes like progressives do. They’ll go to where everyone loves them and be adored but never gain a single vote.

Everyone going to a rally is already voting for that candidate.

It’s a complete waste of resources due to hubris, that’s it.

He’s gonna pull a Hillary for the same reason Hillary did it…

Friendly territory also suits Trump himself. “The rallies are like a sacred thing for President Trump, and they always have been,” the White House official said. “He would rather spend his last election cycle having big MAGA rallies — and you get those in Oklahoma and Texas and in Alabama and Florida.”

He doesn’t want to go and change people’s minds to gain votes, he wants an adoring crowd telling him he’s stunning and brave.

So he won’t just spend his time doing that, he’ll spend all his money doing that instead of it being used to campaign where they need the votes.

Since RNC money is basically trump, this helps Dems in every close race. If trump wasn’t doing these rallies, that money could be spent in battleground races

And black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people. So the number of single young white male ‘Brads’ abusing the welfare system is minuscule,” posted Matt Walsh.

Matt Walsh doesn’t know how numbers work…

Most people on welfare identify as white, so pick any random welfare recipient, and statistically they’re gonna be white.

I don’t know what them being single has to do with it, sounds like he just immediately started defending incels…

“Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits,” he said. “It’s one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5,000 to every adult. And we can do it and the Democrats can’t, because the Democrats don’t have any income, and they’re gonna drive us in[to] a depression. They won’t have any money.”

He’s flat out saying he considers the tarrif money “his” if a Republican government has access to it but a democratic government wouldn’t…

And obviously ignoring that the “profits” are from a tax on Americans buying shit

I know there’s dumber shit

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Dumbest fucking political system ever.

Besides Grassley, there are other near-90-year-old members, including Kentucky Rep. Hal Rogers at 88, Washington, D.C., Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton at 89, and others. Notably, 84-year-old Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, returned to Congress the week of Grassley’s 93rd birthday, after a hiatus from Congress that left Americans speculating about McConnell’s health and mental acuity.

The average age of senators in the current 119th Congress session is 63.9, while the average age of members of the House of Representatives is 57.9, according to data published by Congress. The median American age is 39.4 years old, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which uses median – not average, or mean – to prevent outliers affecting population demographic data.

Eight in 10 Americans support a maximum age limit for officials in Congress, according to a May 2026 NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. The support for age limits spans ideological lines, with 78% of Democrats, 83% of Republicans, and 79% of independents in favor, according to the poll.

We’ll never convince any of them to resign, we need to just stop voting for them in primaries…

Also, a six year term is waaaaaay to fucking long