I mean…
This has been in the news before, also his other daughter that lobbies for Facebook.
This isn’t a unique thing, neoliberals held the reigns for 30 years and they set their kids up in lots of cushy positions especially at tech companies
Neoliberals and tech bros have been in bed together since they agreed to claim the dotcom boom was somehow caused by tax cuts after it started
Ok…
So complain about Fortune magazine…
Or at least click the link to see which part of the headline AOC actually said before blaming her for the entire headline.
Like, it’s just such a weird line to care enough to read the headline and write a comment…
But not take the two seconds to see what her actual quote says.
“Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We’re grown adults with mortgages and kids,” she said. “And we—that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, sidelined, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us on everything from the economy to climate. And we’re taking the reins.”
What about that is “generational warfare” that upset you so much?
Do you disagree with the reality of what she’s saying?
Or do you acknowledge it’s true, and are just upset someone said it? Because saying it is what wins elections.
I think the big difference between boomers and gen X/Millennial isn’t so much “aging gracefully” it’s “aging realistically”.
Like, there wasn’t as much pressure to “grow up” most of us saw all this shit coming and just knew we didn’t have the numbers, but still kept trying.
So we avoided midlife crisis (mostly) and just maintained the same personality and interests the whole time.
So now, were still relatively the same mentally, so acknowledging that our bodies are obviously not the same as 20 years ago isn’t something to freak out about and but a Corvette.
Like, getting old sucks, but it’s better than the alternative…
It’s a generational issue…
For the entirety of America’s recent decline, Boomers have been the largest voting demographic.
They were the ones active in primaries dragging both parties parties right and fucking up almost every aspect of American society.
No one is saying the problem is every single person in that demographic.
But it is 100% that demographics fault. Because they’re the ones that spent a literal lifetime voting for it.
The problem isn’t just the boomer politicians, it’s all the boomer voters who see voting for anyone younger than themselves as a personal insult.
They’re openly age discriminating against anyone younger than them, but anytime you get generations attempt to discuss it, boomers crawl out of the fucking woodwork saying “this” is why they can’t do the thing we were just saying you can’t do
That’s some big “all lives generations matter” energy you got there…
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee endorsed Cooke, which angered some local Democrats who saw it as interfering in a primary.
It 100% is interfering in a primary…
And the reason neoliberals have to use the DCCC and DSCC to interfer in primaries now, is because they no longer control the DNC and can’t use that to rig down ballot primaries anymore.
Neither organization has any power, they’re just making a lot of noise so people blame “the party” because the only chance a neoliberal has to be become president, is a corrupt DNC. And they don’t have that, so they need a DNC leadership changeover under any pretext.
The DNC hasn’t endorsed anyone, this one isn’t going to endorse anyone in any primary, but I’m looking forward to them endorsing Hong the second she wins
I don’t know what your point is.
But my take away is Stephen Semler doesn’t know how to label an X axis clearly.
The obvious choice is every four years for presidential administrations, with a midpoint for Senate changes.
With labels not just for year, but presidents name and Congress majorities.
If people are going to use apss/sites to generate graphs at least put two fucking seconds of thought it
Like that Y axis?!
The only reason Im not positive Semler is a troll, is he didnt put a $, but the “B” alone is bad.
Maybe whoever made that app/site just didn’t know what they were doing
Anyone dumb enough to be swayed by this, is already voting R in every election…
However, it was funny to hear that everyone who’s “remixed” the original ad has lost, including Hillary.
Just highlights how out of touch the people prompting these are, how many people will even get the original LBJ reference? And of the ones who do, how many Texas Republicans would have favorable memories of an LBJ campaign video?
I mean…
His dad was an adult when he met his mom (who was a child) and they met because he walked up and flashed his dick to her and her (also underaged) friends…
Like, the son was raised by at least one pedophile, and the other was at least ok with pedophila…
Obama fucked a lot of shit up…
But one thing he was willing to do, was tell Israel no.
It pissed Biden off so much, he publicly denounced Obama over it, because even till the day he left office from his first day as a Senator, Joe Biden always said: “The only way to negotiate with Israel, is give them everything they want”
That was his legitimate belief, so when Obama didn’t say “yes”, Biden shit talked him.
Even after he became president, Biden insisted you have to always say “yes” no matter what Israel asks:
Biden recounted in private that when he was vice president in 2014 and Israel mounted a military assault on Gaza, Obama and his staff rejected his belief, held for decades, that the best way to approach the Israelis is to hug them close but not criticize them, the people familiar with his comments said.
Instead, they said Biden has noted, Obama publicly admonished Israel’s actions and voiced concern for Palestinian civilian deaths early into the 2014 conflict. As a result, Biden has argued, Obama squandered any ability to influence the Israeli government as it invaded Gaza, said the people familiar with his comments.
The president’s private comparisons with his former boss subsided as outrage over rising civilian deaths in Gaza eclipsed the early praise for his approach, according to three of the people familiar with his comments. More than 14,000 Palestinians have been killed so far, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Department.
It’s a very low bar, so while I am might have been the “best” in modern history, doesn’t mean he was perfect or even better than El-Sayed or other new names.
Yeah, but this is one of the few scenarios I prefer Britta’s version…
https://venturebrothers.fandom.com/wiki/Congresswoman_Marsha_Backwood
Edit:
She was racist in the cartoon too, but I couldnt find a clip:
During election season in the episode Venture Libre, Marsha Backwood came to the Venture Compound with her assistant in tow. Dr. Venture and company had been called away to Puerto Bahia by General Manhowers to deal with the Venturestein problem, leaving only Dean Venture behind to get the door. As he was preparing to restore H.E.L.P.e.R. to his old body, Dean was irate and dressed in clothing reflecting a repairmen or gardener when he answered the door. Marsha introduced herself, resulting in a noncommittal “'Kay” (as in, “okay”) from Dean. Backwood mistook this answer for the Spanish word qué, meaning “what”, to which she responded by speaking louder and reintroduced herself in basic Spanish. After Dean told her in english that his father had been called by General Manhowers but otherwise brushed her off, Backwood demanded her assistant get Manhowers on the phone–and check if Dean was an illegal immigrant.
The summary doesn’t do it justice, but it’s one of the best bits in Venture, especially when she shows up at the end and gets blown up.
Marsha Blackburn
Venture Brothers handled her pretty well…
But it still weirds me out when I’m reminded she’s a real person.
I’ll never not hear:
Hi, I’m Marsha Blackburn
In that super annoying voice they used in the show. I don’t even know if she really sounds like that.
Favorite one so far was El-Sayed rattling off all the Republicans who made up “white names” to hide their ethnic backgrounds when asked about “identity politics”.
As much as Republicans are hung up on “legal names” there’s a shit ton of them that just made up white sounding names and their voters don’t recognize them by their legal names.
Rafael Cruz is the obvious one, but there’s a shit ton of others doing it too.
The main lesson of the Graham Platner fiasco isn’t that we should never run outsiders for office (the momentum he generated proves the exact opposite), but that they need proper vetting and roots in democratic membership organizations like DSA or a union.
Planter was vetted…
By the Maine state party, it went so far that “vetted” is a poor word choice, they picked him.
Then when he said things about Israel they didn’t think he would, they took their own pick out and replaced him with someone more conservative.
If the Maine state party wasn’t filled with idiots from Florida’s party who have shown they completely incompetent…
A cynic would say they picked Platner with the intent from day one to throw him under a bus after a primary so they can make a candidate.
But if that was actually their plan, they would have fucked it up somehow.
People need to understand now that we’re back to a bottom-up power structure, we really need to work on state parties
So do the citizens…
That’s why they brought a fucking guillotine.
Like, this is the result of all the shit they’re pulling with bribing politicians and having them arrest anyone who talks back at meetings.
People aren’t just going to lay down and take, at a certain point when the 0.01% keep violating the social contract, everyone else adapts to the new reality
It’s like a little kid who cheats at Monopoly and loves the game, nothing can make them stop cheating and they always insistnon playing.
You fix that by cheating back just as hard, ruin the kids game, and teach them that if everyone plays by the rules we all have fun.
If a few refuse the rules, everyone else refuses the game.
Sitting Senators are desperate to make the existing system look like it can work, because the reality of it not working is why progressives made it to the general.
And if progressives gain seats here, they’re more likely to win primaries against incumbent neoliberals later.
Yep, and during the primaries I kept saying vote in the primaries…
After the general, I’ll be telling people to get involved and start looking for who they’ll support in the next primary.
Like, if there’s still a primary out, absolutely vote in it.
Just vote in every election no matter what. It’s clearly a use it or lose it thing these days.
I mean, we already know plastic is fucking us…
50 years ago plastic would have been the answer, but none of us would have guessed that.
My point was, statistically there are things right now we think of neutrally or even positively that future generations will say was a major contributer to something really fucked up that might not even be manifesting yet.
Lead and being raised in a time of plenty…
Lead effects people at even tiny levels, a baby born today will experience the same thing boomers are, just to a much lesser extent. Because lead never really goes away, it just gets buried in the dirt or absorbed into plants/animals/humans.
As we age and naturally lose critical thinking (60ish, but varies) to compensate we fall back on patterns from when we were teenagers to early 20s. Evolutionarly speaking, stuff was supposed to be mostly the same and it wasn’t a problem.
But now it is, because not just technology but society and civil rights have changed drastically.
Lead effects critical thinking the same way, and the brain compensates the same way
So people who were running around when leaded gas was a thing, didn’t just get it early, they’re getting it harder now.
In their heads they’re all 20 and in prime health, they think they’ll live for ever and everything will workout, and they never see the consequences coming when it doesn’t.
That’s why they don’t retire, not just politicians, a lot of them just worked till they died even if they didn’t have to. Every single one was breathing leaded gas exhaust as a kid, and the older they get, the stronger the symptoms get.
In 60 years, they’ll say the same about something else we all use. Not just the obvious like plastic, something we genuinely think is awesome right now.
The “shifting attitudes”:
Repeating the same number twice doesn’t make a 1% change a big deal…
It’s not one of the top three issues for voters right now.
Just like a 45 year old who just got his foot cut off doesn’t have “get my prostate checked” as a current medical health priority
It doesn’t mean he’s not worried about cancer, doesn’t mean he doesn’t think he needs checked.
But right now there’s other more pressing concerns.