I just watched Cody Johnson’s new podcast and he made a good point:
trump and “the left” kind of forgot about Epstein, but for a lot of MAGA that shit was the whole point.
Like, remember that guy who shot up a Chucky Cheese knockoff because they wouldn’t take him to a basement that literally didn’t exist?
This was the thing MAGA was built off of, and trump just fuckin forgot.
I think the left would benefit more from being open to socialists rather than coddling fascists
For a lot of red states, the exceptions have been FDR and 08 Obama…
Progressive campaigns wins votes. It just also pisses off billionaires so the candidate has to choose between gaining votes directly and money to spend on ads no one even sees anymore.
There’s this giant fucking myth of “crossover voters” but what few of them they are, are statistically insignificant.
What can make them significant, is giving them something to cross party lines for.
08 Obama we all thought he was really a progressive and even as a Black man with the middle name Hussien he got traditional Republican voters to vote D and flipped a shit ton of red states.
If trump pisses off maga voters, best case scenario they don’t vote for a couple elections.
At this point thinking trump can do anything to make them vote D is willing naivety.
Nah, they read everything about themselves, or have someone read it to them.
Then they go to the place where they literally control the narrative and respond.
FDR wanted social security to be this, and Medicare to be for everyone…
The “moderates” at the time kept telling him it had to be looked into more, and 80 years later Biden kept saying the same thing
It’s what they’ll always keep saying, it’s why we can’t keep wasting time electing them, we need people who actually want to fix shit.
No shit…
They have been since Jimmy Carter
And the Dem voting base’s fear that Jimmy was just the start of the party moving right, is obvious now that people genuinely believe he was “the last good one” instead of “the first shitty one”
That’s how much the Overton window moved in 50 years. Back in 1976 Carter proudly labeled himself a “centrist” even when the right at the time was Nixon right after Watergate. So I don’t want to hear any bullshit about how the right was better back then.
We need politicians with the balls to start nationalizing things like insurance and utilities…
Both parties picking profits over people isn’t working out
Medical documentation still isn’t required, and only the direct supervisor can make a decision…
So this can be met by a supervisor saying “you still need telework, right?” Once a year.
There may be pressure from higher ups to deny telework, but this is why we have a chain of command.
Just need middle management to plant their feet for employees
In case you’re wondering how anyone can think the climate is the big issue…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassamin_Ansari
In 2025, Ansari was among a minority of House Democrats to back legislation rebuking the International Criminal Court (ICC) over arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders. Ansari argued that the ICC’s actions were inappropriate, stating that “As a liberal democracy with an independent judiciary, Israel has the responsibility of investigating allegations of wrongdoing”.[47]
And
According to financial disclosures, Ansari’s father lent her between $250,000 and $500,000 for a condo payment.[49] Ansari’s financial disclosures from October 2023 showed that she owns two properties in downtown Phoenix and made between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2023 by renting one. Ansari also estimated in the disclosure that her assets were worth between $2.5 million and $8.3 million.[50]
She’s a millionaire landlord whose also pro-genocide…
The climate is pretty much the only aspect of the party platform voters and her agree on. She can’t talk about fixing any of the other big issues.
India is a huge country with lots of wealth inequality.
While there have been gains in the last decade, in some areas it’s still common to not have indoor toilets in every residence, that’s people dealing with poverty.
It’s not like they just don’t want bathrooms, they can’t afford them.
Cracking jokes at their expense is very bad form, but there’s an equal chance you were just ignorant and legitimately asking, so I’m leaving the comment up.
But in any area where “open defecation” is widespread in a community, it’s almost never because everyone prefers it. It’s what happens when the infrastructure for a biological need doesn’t exist. There’s literally no other option.
The Gen Z stare is typically described as a vacant, unresponsive gaze, often replacing traditional greetings or small talk in service roles. Millennials and older generations have taken to social media to share stories of being met with this stare by young workers, interpreting it as a sign of disengagement or a lack of soft skills. Gen Zers, in turn, argue that the stare is a reaction to awkward or nonsensical customer interactions, or simply a preference for authenticity over forced pleasantries.
This has been a thing since at least the 1980s…
Hard to find good old pictures these days cuz there’s so much ai slop, but:
https://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/13-38.jpg
The girl on the right exhaling smoke is 100% the same vibe and has been a response by teens to older people trying to engage them for literal generations now.
I’d bet money on everyone complaining about it t now, did it at least once to someone else when they were younger.
They’re just mad they’re just n the other side of it now.
What?
How would voting I be voting blue?
Why are people up voting that? It makes zero sense…
The DNC chair congratulated him almost immediately and called for the party to unite behind Mamdani:
“This is going to be a moment for the establishment, for a lot of the people who lined up behind Cuomo. It has to mean something to win the nomination,” she said.
"Democrats have spoken, they made a selection, and I would really, really hope that if he is facing headwinds from different directions, that the party would come together the same way I’ve seen the party come together over and over again when progressives need to say: ‘All right, let’s make sure that people turn out and vote for [someone] who wouldn’t have been our first choice.’”
So yes, Bernie and the DNC agree, it’s fucking weird.
If there is another PUMA movement, this time it won’t have the backing of the DNC
Edit:
The original quote is proceeded by this:
Rupert told NBC News that after years and years of progressive Democrats being told to unite around the nominee when the establishment’s choice wins a primary, she hopes the party will do the same now that the shoe is on the other foot. She was heartened to see Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin’s quick congratulations for Mamdani on Tuesday night.
Yet the article doesn’t seem to mention what Ken had said, just her reference to his congratulations to Mamdani.
It threw me off and I thought it was Martin’s quote following it
Resigning is the cowards way out…
It won’t take much goading for him to stay and fight a “heroe’s fight”. All these idiots really want is people to tell them they’re strong, at this point it would be unethical not to psychological manipulate them to fight each other
You…
You think the result of the NYC mayor’s Dem.orimaty is a shakeup in the DNC?
The reason so many people aren’t aware the DNC got better, is apparently they have no idea what the DNC is…
and frankly the number of politicians in the DNC you’d need to oust to dislodge the neoliberals
Like, you just fundamentally do t know how this works…
You’re conflating any elected politician at even city level, with the voting members of the DNC…
And like. You know the chair election was 5 months ago? Right?
You’re acting like it’s a hypothetical that something that has already happened might happen?
How the fuck did 21 people read you comment and no one tried to help you understand?
Jon Stewart is not impressed with the Democratic Party’s plan to craft a Project 2029, which he said will just be a “a rehash of all the consultant driven, careful nonsense” that caused them to lose the presidency to Donald Trump.
It’s not the party doing this…
It’s the neoliberals that were run out of the DNC creating their own club and hoping progressives fall for the bait and fight to be included in a place they have no power and will be ignored.
Don’t take the bait. Let them hold their own meaningless meetings about what the least they can do would be.
Stewart was pretty specific about who/what he was complaining about, but articles are missing the details and all of them seem desperate to turn people off from the new and I proved DNC now that neoliberals don’t control it.
Phillips appeared confident that Democratic voters across the country would recoil from candidates like Mamdani—despite recent rallies in red districts where progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who both endorsed Mamdani, have drawn crowds of thousands of people in recent months during Sanders’ Fighting Oligarchy Tour.
The DNC is also hitting red/purple areas again instead of just using them to funnel donations to the DNC:
The only reason Republicans have a chance at House and Senate majorities, is we’ve spent well over a decade avoiding any fight we didn’t know for sure we could win.
That’s now longer the case since the neoliberals got the boot from DNC leadership.
That’s why we’re going to keep seeing articles like this where formerly powerful neoliberals are going to keep saying the party is fucking up. They desperately want to turn people away from the primaries even if it gives Republicans the general.
“Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds,” Angela Paxton posted on X. “I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.
“I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working everything together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose,” she wrote.
God says no divorces…
Henry the 8th was the one that said divorces were cool with God, probably because it was starting to look bad how many wives he was executing
In an actual free market all the corporations would act like this, because shit like this is what people want out of a business they patronize.
You will recall that there was a bit of a fuss a month or so ago when an undoubtedly-harried GameStop employee stapled some customer receipts directly to Nintendo Switch 2 boxes—and through the boxes, and into the Switch 2 units themselves. It was all quickly resolved, without lawsuits or fistfights, and with the ugliness now behind it GameStop is looking to make some proverbial lemonade by auctioning off the Switch 2 killer for charity.
No lawsuits, no fight required by affected consumers
The company made it right and turned a bad situation into a PR move that helps a charity.
I really thought we’d see some kind of ethical capitalism out of the whole GameStop thing but it never really spread.
The absolute worst thing we can do is settle for a neoliberal.
Because if we do, and they win the general, they get to install cro ies in the DNC after the election.
We need AOC regardless of if she thinks she’s ready, sometimes you just gotta jump out of that plane.