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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Biden’s primary problem was that he could not comprehend where the criticism was coming from and would re-frame it in such a way as to absolve responsibility.

    Because he has the mind of an 80 year old…

    Everyone around him was either taking advantage of him or complicit in what was happening.

    We can’t keep pretending the normal biological effects of aging aren’t real. And because the way it affects, we’re usually the last ones to notice it’s happening.

    Other people have to be able to make the call. It doesn’t matter if it’s polite, sometimes grandpa doesn’t get to keep the car keys.






  • Because the other billionaires who own the media really really really want to avoid progressives accomplishing anything.

    So now that neoliberals are out of control of the DNC, the media isn’t going to have many good things to say about the DNC.

    I’d say that’s obviously, but holy shit some days I feel like I’m explaining it to the same 12 people who just can’t fucking grasp that billionaire owned media favors billionaires.

    Like, could you imagine someone falling for that dumb shit and getting mad at anyone other than the fucking Nazi in your gif and the media system defending fascism







  • Buddy…

    This is like if in June 2021 you stared blaming Biden for the shit trump did when he was president…

    The DNC is essentially ~400 people that get together to vote for a chair every four years. And if a Dem was elected president they just all vote for who the president suggests. (Note: Obama never nominated one)

    So the people who rigged 2016 could have been replaced, and Donna Brazile’s brief time gave us valuable insights into how fucked things were.

    But the voting members went neoliberals again, there wasn’t a good option running.

    2020 Biden won, and picked the same type of chair who handed him the primary.

    2024 we didn’t get a primary, and New Hampshire’s delegates were stolen, something I can never forgive as a Democrat.

    But in February the voting members (who have slowly been getting replaced, literally not all the same people) choose a state chair who took a purple state, ran fair primaries for a decade, and turned it into a progressive stronghold.

    “The DNC” is not a monolith, it’s not some great institute of life long beurocrats.

    Change is possible.

    I’ve spent literally 30 years bitching about the DNC (and yes, I still held my nose and voted D in generals once I was 18). I understand how it works.

    The chair runs the show and is final call on literally everything.

    So expect the DNC to be run exactly like the last decade of the Minnesota party was.

    Blaming current DNC for the faults of the last is as dumb as blaming 2021 Biden for what 2016-2020 trump did…

    Just because they’re both at the head of the same office.

    Quick edit:

    Also, Martin just ran out two of those problematic superdelegates who had been fucking shit up. Not only that, they had been high ranking members of the committee that has been running the sh primaries.

    Shit is getting better.

    Just don’t expect Martin to throw the trash on the front yard and dont expect billionaire owned media to put anything this new DNC does in a good light. If a progressive wins in 2028 we’d see an fdr style movement again.

    The billionaires don’t want that. And they don’t mind lying.

    And sorry this is a wall of text, but it’s important people understand how optimistic we should be right now.


  • This DNC won’t help any specific candidate in a primary, but they won’t work against a specific candidate either.

    That’s all progressives and specifically AOC need, a fair primary.

    We’re on a huge inflection point, if we let some shirt bird neoliberals like Cuomo or Newsom win the primary, then they get to name the next DNC chair if they win the election

    And we’ll be right back where we were in 2020.

    We can not afford to roll the dice on neoliberalism again, and AOC has the best shot right now. But a lot can change before the primary starts.