It’s good to take a step back every once and a while, and remember that at one time we reported approval ratings…
There’s a psychological effect coming into play here.
We need to go back to:
38% approve of trump
It hits 100% different
Not as much as it is for Hassan, which is why he keeps inventing the problem.
He doesn’t care about the party, he doesn’t care about voters, he doesn’t care about his viewers either as long as they keep watching.
All he cares about is his views and profits.
And people keep falling for it.
If he actually gave a shit, he’d at least use his fame and fundraiser network (viewers) to help progressive win primaries, then the DNC can start their job of getting Dems thru the general.
He has the easiest route to make a difference of almost anyone else right now, but he’s not using it for anything except to get more famous.
I think he stumped for one primary candidate, but all he talked about during that period was how Dems wouldn’t like it and no one should listen to the party they should just listen to him
“The Democratic establishment is completely disconnected from where Democratic voters are,” Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, told The Independent over text message. “People are hungry for change — the institutions that got us to this point cannot be the ones to get us out of it.”
No idea if the website updated or OP edited to take the name out.
We need outside the party organizations like this to help out in primaries, they deserve the credit and traffic.
What’s absolutely crazy, no one got shot…
Like, a cop (who presumably had a gun) just tackled that guy (while he presumably still had the shotgun)
In what fucking world does that happen anywhere?
Let alone immediately after shots were fired, but especially a few doors away from the president.
Everything is crazy these days, so I’m not saying it’s too crazy to all be authentic.
But if it is authentic, Douglas Adams is a prophet.
I had seen the bit where a cop dog hit on him and the trainer pulled him away…
It’s at about 4:00
I didn’t know it was literally right before he pulled out the gun, or that he charged directly at a shit ton of cops pointing a shotgun at them
Like, it’s real real fucking hard to think anyone legitimately would pick that spot and think they could just run by all of them.
And as far as I know, no one was shot?
None of this shit makes sense, did he just stop as soon he got off frame, put the shotgun down, and take off his shirt?
The fucking primary hasn’t happened yet…
His opponent suspended her campaign, he will make it to the general…
But Jesus Fucking Christ, we’ve been fighting since before Jimmy Carter to get a DNC that will leave downballot primaries alone and run fair presidential ones.
The current DNC won’t say shit about any candidate till after they win a primary.
Which is something Jon Stewart of all people should understand is a good thing. And I feel like neither him or Graham was as harsh on the podcast as the article makes it out to be.
“Congress” as in two House representatives…
Democratic Representative Josh Gottheimer and Republican Mike Lawler on Wednesday introduced a resolution to target “the rise of antisemitic, hate-filled rhetoric disseminated by prominent online personalities, including Hasan Piker and Candace Owens, and calling on social media platforms and public leaders to take stronger action against hate.”
The Republican is obviously gonna be a piece shit, and the Dem is a textbook neoliberal:
Gottheimer was a speechwriter for Bill Clinton and served as an adviser to the presidential campaigns of Wesley Clark, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton. He has also worked for Burson Cohn & Wolfe, the Federal Communications Commission, Ford Motor Company, and Microsoft.
Gottheimer’s net worth was between $16.9 and $75.3 million in 2023, and he and his wife Marla Tusk, who is general counsel at the political consulting firm Tusk strategies, reported $897,617 in joint income.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Gottheimer
It seems counter productive to point the finger at “congress” and not the two House reps who are trying to grab headlines.
Unless you want to make this Twitch streamer seem overly important…
If an 86 year old didn’t think progressives were going too far, it would just mean current progressives weren’t going far enough or we’d made zero progress over decades…
And because we’re extra fucked, sometimes both happens at once now.
But like, this is fucking normal, at that age you just hate any type of change and just want it to be like how you remember your childhood.
The issue is we’re letting geriatrics control policy, this guy should have retired 20 years ago before the normal effects of aging had set in.
Jeffries has zero say what happens in the next congress. Just like Schumer
They’ve been lame ducks all but two weeks of this session, and they’re not above saying dumb shit like this to try and get progressives to tune out of the primaries.
They’re doing triage for the neoliberal faction
If you don’t like them, vote in your Dem primary for the most progressive options.
Toddler denied racecar bed, shits pants at kindergarten and insist this proves racecar beds are necessary
“It can’t be a confluence of random events,” Buckley said. “It is clearly by design. It’s clearly been a long-term plan.”
He said in his Hot Dog costume while discussing who drove the Hot Dog car into a store…
Be ause DC doesn’t have representation…
They’re not “giving land” they’re stealing representation from the people who live there, so Republicans can maintain the seats
KASH PATEL: The results speak for the themselves. If the fake news mafia isn’t hitting you personally w/baseless information, then you’re not doing your job.
The only people who might be able to learn a lesson from this, is the Hasan piker fanboys who use that same logic.
Lots of other people fall for it, and are beyond help, but there’s a logical chance most of his current fans can realize he’s grifting but that there are authentic people on the left to support
It started with an incident that occurred on April 10 when the FBI chief panicked after he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He behaved frantically and began calling aides to announce that he had been fired by the White House.
Two people familiar with the matter described to The Atlantic that his behaviour was a “freak out.”
The reports also alleged that a SWAT team had to once ask for breaching gear after Patel was uncontactable behind a locked door.
That’s not alcoholism, he’s coked to the fucking gills…
It’s really common these days with heavy drinkers, because it lets you drink longer. Eventually you crash and nothing can wake you up unless someone shoves a bump up your nose.
Then you’re up and running for a couple more days doing crazy shit.
The staying awake for days is why meth heads are so crazy, but you can do the same on coke if you have a key to the evidence locker…
Shits gonna keep getting crazier too.
Back in the day, certain slaves were “house slaves” who were still treated like shit and beat. But were “allowed” to do work in the plantation house instead of the fields.
They were often more racist then the slave owners. The only way they could build themselves up was by tearing their brothers and sisters down.
The worst the slave owner consider them, the better the ones in the house seemed by default.
While Thomas should be aware of all that as a “legal scholar” who would have had to study shit like this for years…
The mentality isn’t relegated to just slavery.
Pick any random minority, and you can find a member who does similar.
So he probably wouldn’t mind if slavery came back, because in his head he’d still be one of the “valuable exceptions” and has done the mental gymnastics to think he’d even hold onto his position.
Understanding how they think is important to stop them.
I mean…
I took a Weschler and a college class on testing methods taught by the head of my university’s psych department…
How much do you know about quantying intelligence?
Did you read a blog post?
That’s saying we don’t force a single test on the entire planet’s population…
Which we wouldn’t do for anything.
It doesn’t make IQ tests worthless, and the only way someone could make that leap to think they are, is if they don’t know anything about testing
No, I’m sorry but none of that is uncontrollable
Why would it not?
And if those idiots realized they were in the minority, they might feel shame…
They’re dumb enough to see 62%, “trump” and that the number is higher and everything seems great.
They see a shrinking number that’s how many agree with them…
Even they start to rethink their position, if nothing else out of cowardice.
We need to play to the audience, and in this context theyre all fucking idiots.