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  • Hasan Piker seems to me to be a generational talent

    No, he was the nepo nephew of The Young Turks founder…

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

    A media organization literally named after people who overthrew their government to commit a genocide…

    His uncle put him on air, then bankrolled him into the early days of twitch.

    He is not grassroots, he did not got popular because of talent or political opinions.

    He is an outrage machine and rather than complain about literal fascists running our country and supporting genocides worldwide, he uses his platform to make people not want to vote for the literal only option in our political system

    At best he’s a narcissist that just wants views, at worst he’s intentionally trying to prevent progress.

    Fucking think for yourself and stop repeating twitch streamers.



  • Hasan Piker fans really need to make everything about him…

    They want to label this as a traitous attack and normalize public (live streamed) executions for anyone they consider a traitor, which means against this administration.

    It is very important for serious reasons, and not because a twitch streaming nepo baby who go his start interning for his uncle podcast named after people who committed the Armenian genocide, happens to have the same last name.

    If you give a shit, stop watching streamers and actually learn about politics.


  • It’s not the pollsters…

    It’s people writing opinion pieces about polls.

    Like always tho, it’s important to remember a billionaire can pay for 100 polls and publish the 1 that agrees with them.

    Like, from the article the polls and question are already counting Republican responses more, and at least one of the pollsters is a "Republican pollster:

    “I think it’s telling that we’re hanging our hopes on ‘The polls are wrong,’” Republican pollster Brent Buchanan told Axios. “That’s not very strong.”

    And he flat out said “our only hope is this isn’t real”

    The only thing Republicans love more than being victims is being winners, if they think Dems are going to win state races, they’ll invent reasons not to vote. Otherwise they’d have to vote and lose, they’d rather not “play”.


  • Cook Political Report forecasts Democrats will gain nine to 19 seats in the House, which would give the party a narrow majority. In the Senate, Cook predicts a potential Democratic net gain of two to six seats. Democrats would need four seats to take control of the chamber.

    The current DNC chair is gonna run a fair presidential primary in less than two years…

    No matter what happens the neoliberals will say midterms could have been better and Martin needs to resign. Because neoliberals have no chance in hell of winning a fair primary.

    And if we get a progressive in 2028 into the White House, they pick the next DNC chair in 2029.

    We’re on the cusp of some real FDR shit, but neoliberals (as always) will do anything including helping Republicans to stop it.










  • 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.

    TLDR:

    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.



  • 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.



  • 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