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

Dumbest fucking political system ever.

What an ignorant thing to say…

Not even historically even, like, just present day has worse shit…

Because a new Congress is every 2 years and majorities matter a lot…

Like, what do you think the gain is from kicking him out of the party?

And who do you think should be in control of vetting politicians for the party?

I understand your frustrations, but you haven’t thought this thru

One person who isn’t due to visit soon is former Vice President Kamala Harris. She hasn’t been to South Carolina since April, when she participated in a party fundraiser alongside a tour for her book recounting the whirlwind 2024 presidential campaign.

But Harris’ deep relations in the state mean she doesn’t need to come as early or as often as others, who are still gaining name recognition.

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I mean… The reason they’re doing this is to help their own election in 2 years, but you’re not supposed to say that out loud.

So when people ask Kamala why she didn’t go to SC to help, well, she’s actually dumb enough to say “I didn’t need the help in SC” completely missing the point that actually wanting and trying to help the midterm candidates is better than helping yourself.

Fuck all these selfish neoliberals, we can’t afford to keep wasting time on them, we need people who’s main priority is helping people, not who’s only priority is getting elected.

Tldr:

“Let’s revisit after the midterms, and let’s see what happens – you know – if I happen to be 51,” said Fetterman, who was elected to the US Senate in 2022. “I don’t know.”

If he has to put an R by his name to block Dems, he’ll do it.

But the grift money for being the most conservative Dem is a shit ton more than being a random Republican.

So he’s not going to do it unless there’s a reason, and that would likely come with a lump sum bribe.

He’s advertising that he’d be for sale to all the billionaires who want trump to be unaccountable

After saying all the bullshit was “just jokes” when targeted against other people:

The couple called a lawyer and the police for help fighting the harassment, and Amy filed for, and was granted, a “protection against stalking” order against one person who she said had perpetrated the most “insane lies.” But the hate only seemed to grow. Accounts shared a blurry video of a woman having sex, saying it was Amy, while others flooded the comment sections of their wedding photos and LinkedIn profiles with rape threats and artificially generated porn.

Lemmy wants to think it’s informed…

But I noticed a lot of people just repeat the same things that have been true for 30 years, which would have been fine if the faction who were the problem that entire time hadn’t lost control of the party after the last presidential.

People aren’t really informed here, they mostly just repeat whatever they heard someone say. Which explains why they blindly follow streamers/influencers.

They just want the dopamine hit of tribalism without actually trying to fix anything

Neoliberals want him to matter just as much…

They want to sticl problematic streamers like Piker to every progressive so that instead of talking about progressive policy, they can just make candidates defend a fucking twitch streamer using the candidate for views.

That’s why the republicans, neoliberals, and billionaire owned media won’t shut the fuck up about this douche.

You’re confusing neoliberals with Democrats, something that only helps neoliberals and Republicans and hurts literally everyone else…

Every single headline about him could be about a progressive candidate.

That’s why neoliberals and Republicans live him. He takes up valuable real estate in people’s minds so they’re not talking about progressive candidate.

It’s hard to tell who’s doing it intentionally and who has twitch brainrot.

What’s another two months?

Trump was in North Carolina to stump for Whatley and other Republicans in the state, which is still recovering from the aftereffects of Hurricane Helene two years ago. Democrats haven’t won a Senate seat in the state since 2008, but Democrat Roy Cooper is ahead in all of the state’s major polls, making Trump’s presence in North Carolina almost a requirement for the state GOP

This was already happening…

I forget which vote, but he voted the opposite of how he was supposed to and a bunch of aids had to jump in.

They just yelled at him to vote the other way, didn’t even attempt to explain what was happening.

There’s an army of staffers running our government thru geriatric puppets.

Then you’re almost definitely talking about neoliberals, who have controlled the party in a year and a half

It is time to show up proudly as Jews, as New Yorkers, and as Zionists.”

The KKK proudly showed up as Christians, Southerners, and violent racists…

A couple things like religion and location don’t cancel out the whole “kill people for being different” thing

You think thing would be the same if Republicans didn’t control every aspect of the federal government?

There’s gonna be a lot of neoliberals telling progressives to give up on the party, because the neoliberals only hope of taking the party back is depressing Dem turnout.

And they’re willing to do that

It’s about to get a lot worse now that the Houthis have Bab al-Mandab Strait too.

And it’s not just them, all the Iranian backed militias have been cross training for the last decade.

I’ve been thinking for a while it’s going to get really really bad right before midterms. Iran knows if Dems get control they’ll reign trump in. They’ll 100% manipulate gas prices to influence the election, especially since Trump burnt thru reserves already