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  • Yeah, but like, its gonna come with some assumptions that we agree on stuff, and even a simplified version goes back 20 years. So this will be long, but as simple as I can make it.

    2007 primary was mostly fair, there was a lot of finger on the scales and implied threats of ending careers for working with Obama. But the neoliberals didn’t take him serious enough to really fuck with it.

    That lead to Obama winning the primary, and the neoliberals from Bill’s days who running the DNC to shit themselves. Because if Obama won, he’d name a DNC chair and that was the party.

    So the DNC actively worked against Obama even in the general in 2007

    Obama, rightfully pissed off made a stupid decision and allowed the neoliberals to hang onto the DNC. However he ran everything thru his own PACs and organizations. Which did a few things:

    1. Bankrupt the DNC

    2. Leave state dem parties to fend for themselves.

    3. Leave the voting members of the DNC nowhere to turn, except double down on neoliberals and corpo. support.

    So by the time 2015 runs around, the party is still broke, however the prior chair just gaslights everyone else at the DNC and keeps telling them it’s fine.

    In order to fund the DNC enough for the primary, a deal is reached with the Clinton campaign, where they funded the DNC in exchange for final say on anything the DNC said or did, essentially Hillary Clinton cut a check to buy the DNC

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/

    But, instead of just cashing a check, Hillary also set up a system of “bundling” where you could (in one donation) write a check for the max to a candidate, max to the DNC, and max to all 50 state parties.

    “To make it easy” just one single check, you could give to Hillary.

    That money became the “Hillary Victory Fund”:

    https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-leak-clinton-team-deflected-state-cash-concerns-226191

    That money was then supposed to be broken down and distributed, which would have been very easy since they were maxing stuff out.

    But neoliberals gonna neoliberal, so:

    The victory fund has transferred $3.8 million to the state parties, but almost all of that cash ($3.3 million, or 88 percent) was quickly transferred to the DNC, usually within a day or two, by the Clinton staffer who controls the committee, POLITICO’s analysis of the FEC records found.

    By contrast, the victory fund has transferred $15.4 million to Clinton’s campaign and $5.7 million to the DNC, which will work closely with Clinton’s campaign if and when she becomes the party’s nominee.

    https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/clinton-fundraising-leaves-little-for-state-parties-222670

    So anyone that would have given to state parties because they maxed at the DNC or candidate, gave to the victory fund which the DNC and candidate appropriated and used as a single bag of money.

    This got passed to Biden, then to Kamala.

    The only way your state party could get some crumbs, was appeasing that group of neoliberals. Go against them, and they’d give you start nothing. They didn’t care if Republicans won, because the goal of neoliberalism is to never have enough power to do what voters want.

    Now that the goal is “as many seats as possible” and the money is going where it was always supposed to, we’re going to see massive swings like this election.

    So like I said, it’s long. But thats honestly as short as it could be and I had to leave a lot out


  • Because the DNC is emptying out the “victory fund” that neoliberals were stealing from state parties and hoarding to use to convince us to settle for neoliberals in the presidential…

    The only reason Republicans are competitive for House/Senate majorities is for decades neoliberals sandbagged the party, and if you didn’t play ball they bankrupted your entire state and let Republicans take it to punish you and set an example to get there states.

    That’s how Jeffries and Schumer got elected as majority leaders, going against them would hurt your constituents and the politicians. Whether you were ethical or not there wasn’t really a choice.

    That’s been over for a year now

    We’re literally a year deep in the largest reinvesture of funds from DNC to state parties, which has let them all run at campaign pevels.

    We keep “over performing” because for the first time in 30 years the goal is as many seats as possible instead of a very slim majority so nothing would get done.

    Which is why billionaire owned media keeps pretending this is “over performing” and not just what would normally happen if the oligarchs weren’t holding us back by shoving neoliberals down our throats.

    But this is gonna keep happening, because it’s a fundamental change to the party that caused it.


  • It is worth mentioning that a big reason we keep “over performing” is the current DNC took the giant dragon hoard “victory fund” and has been making it rain on state parties that money was stolen from.

    Money doesn’t win elections alone, but it’s allowing all the state Dem.parties to already be operating at campaign levels for the next four years instead of just a few months every other year.

    Not trying to distract from the candidates winning, just pointing out that the real reason is deeper than any single candidate and it a reasonable expectation for this trend to continue.

    The media won’t talk about it, because they’re fucking pissed they lost one of the only two options.







  • I accidentally went to a private Lee Brice concert once well over a decade ago.

    I had no idea who he was, but it was at one of those Coyote Ugly type bars a friend served/danced at so it was free and I knew going in I was literally the only guy there.

    Brice was wasted, didn’t use a mic and just sat at a table so all the women had to crowd around him to hear anything.

    It legitimately felt like a college party where some douche pulled out a guitar, but everyone was actually into it. Literally the worst “concert” I’ve ever been too, but still, the audience was me and like 50 very attractive women. So a pretty fun night at the bar except when he was trying to sing. Which he barely did.


  • It’s every expansive empire, but even biological life follows the square cube law.

    Once something gets so big, it can’t survive.

    For life it has to do with transporting oxygen throughout the body.

    For empires it’s being able to maintain and pacify the populace of conquered lands. If you expand too fast, you don’t have the populace on your side and have already moved troops forward. Then you end up with rebellion between your troops and your city. If your lucky it just causes a logistical nightmare when rebels stick to your own lands.

    If you’re unlucky they march in towards your capital forcing you to pull troops back and if your unconquered enemy capitalizes, your troops are eventually caught in the middle.

    But impatient rulers destroy empires.





  • What action are you expecting from him that he isn’t doing?

    Have the state police arrest ICE agents for the crimes they’re committing, and for obstruction of justice.

    Fucking Bovino was out running around, I know he’s hard to spot due to his size, but we could have snatched up that lil fascist leprechaun. Even if he beat the charges, “you can’t beat the ride” and this is one scenario the suspect actually deserves to get beat.

    Fuck it, beat his ass and charge him for resisting.

    We don’t have to like the system we have, but we’re fucking fighting fascists and they’re killing people on the streets.

    Use the tools we have, and the Governor controls the state police. Same for Frey and the City Police


  • Too many people still just look at the letter by a politician’s name

    Like, it really is commendable that he’s saying this early so others to plan to run. Streets ahead of Biden at least

    It’s just not enough, Minnesota needs help now, and Walz has shown and now admitted he wont do what’s actually necessary.

    So why the fuck is he running out the clock? If he wants to help, call a special election for his own seat and let the people of Minnesota get someone who will represent them.