This isn’t nationals. There’s too many races here (every House seat and 33 Senate seats) for them to fight every progressive candidate. That’s why you occasionally see them give up and endorse a few progressives here and there.

Also, most of their work is done in the primaries. They tend to just accept the D candidate once that is done and over with. That’s what happened with Mamdmi. Mostly because that’s honestly more important than the real election, and also because they kind of have to to keep the ruse up.

We’ve seen quite a few time that Musk has ended up spoiling votes. Because he did quite a good job tanking his own rep with the DOGE BS last yeast.

Money can’t trump voters when voters are paying attention.

We still seem to have a lot of “both sides are the same” mentality here, as if there aren’t shades of evil out there.

People who still think that after the past 19 months are either complicit with the destruction, severely uninformed (or lacking real perspective), or are letting perfect be the enemy of good. We can critisize (and we should) the DNC while also realizinig their vote is the quicket way to stop the further slide into fascism. If we can find a progressive or DSA or whatnot, even better. But not all races will have those.

Maybe 50+ years of horrible living will fix it in the long run.

Just ask North Korea, EZ.

That means the propaganda is working.

1. They are pretty bad. The scarier thing is how partisan the approval is. It’s been something like 80% approval among republicans and that may have only very recently slipped into the 70’s
2. Yes, the last time it happened. 2018 happened (when he still had adults in the room to limit his crazier plans), the House was taken back, and he was impeached the first time over tariffs. Not convicted by Senate of course, but it at least sent a message

If we can slip both house and senate this time, the worst case will hopefully be to obstruct all his BS for 2 more years and leave him a lame duck. If we assume Novemeber goes smoothly (it won’t, but how bad it gets will depend on so many factors).

A miserable pile of secrets?

I don’t really care what you call us, we need to fight fascism in the immediate future. Ideally we can reform the establishment dems along the way, but that’s going to be a longer term goal.

Oh okay. So this is just yet another Garland fumble.

I’m sure Kash will get right to investigating this after releasing the Epstein files.

But yes, I get it. We’d be hearing about this for the next 2.5 years if this was Biden.

Say it with me now: “The cruelty is the point”

Or I guess, “was” in this case.

The falsehood was that the election was lost because a large number of people decided “both sides are the same.” That is a comforting lie.

I never said that. I’m talking about people still trying to set the fence 20 months after the results of the election. 2024 has come and gone and there’s not much use deliberating over why or how she lost. Because I think what’s happening in 2025 onward will affect elections much more than re-living 2024. Trying to argue “Kamala said that” as if she’s wrong because she lost doesn’t help your argument (especially when many of her predictions came true anyway).

So yeah, if you’re in 2026 still arguing “both sides are the same”, you picked your side.

Some people just have different ethical systems than you do.

This isn’t ethical, this is simple fact checking. You’re reading way too deeply into a comment that was simply doing fact checking, and not even making a political judgment call.

It appears you prefer feeling morally superior over actually winning elections

This isn’t political, this is simple fact checking. You’re reading way too deeply into a comment that was simply doing fact checking. Let’s go back over the chain and see what I said:

1. Everything Kamala said turned out to be true (yes, I’m exaggerating. But the big predictions are turning out true)
2. I’m tired of being gaslit by people who want to pretend they are enlightened centrists (this is a subjective call, but not tied to any particular political party. this can apply to Trump, Bush, Kamala, or Epstein)
3. Be much better if people could be the bigger person, admit “yeah this was worse than I ever expected” (a call to action to centrists or right wing people who have soured on Trump[). This is a bit more political because it’s targeted at Trump’s policies, but ultimately is trying to make those with voter regret honest. If you have no regrets and think Trump is doing a good job, you would never say “this is worse than I expected”)

That’s all I’m saying. I also literally said “I’m not here to gloat, I want problems fixed”, so thanks for ignoring that.

Slander implies falsehood. I’ve said nothing false. I’m tired of being gaslit by people who want to pretend they are enlightened centrists just because they are now feeling the consequences of their actions but still can’t bring themselves to say “the other side was right”.

Be much better if people could be the bigger person, admit “yeah this was worse than I ever expected” and learn from their mistakes. I don’t want to gloat or celebrate or anything, I just want to fix the damn broken windows. It’s honestly more annoying to have people say “there’s no difference between a broken/fixed window” than it is people who say “what? the window isn’t broken”

He never said he’d stop. He did say he’d take a step back… He did for a month and now he’s back on it like ketamine.

Everything Kamala said turned out to be true. If people have seen 2 years of this and still think “both sides are the same”, they clearly already picked their side.

And yes, transphobic DNC candidates losing makes the party less transphobic in the long run.

My fellow, there’s a nonzero chance we engage in civil war in the next 2 years. What the heck do you mean “long run”?

Take it from one marginalized community to another; your issues will not be won in a campaign trail. It will be fought for through years, decades of demonstration to a point that the public outcry can’t be ignored. If there’s one thing about the establishment, it’s their policies shift with the sand. Trans support increases from the public and establishment dems will eventually get the message.

Why did we reduce our 3rd places to loud rowdy bars or religious institutions? We couldn’t get a slightly louder version of a library to hang out in, with some electronics to connect to?

Really makes me miss my university library. It had 5 floors and the first 2 floors werre more social collaborative ones. Even had a Cafe. People who wanted to deeply focus go to the 4th/5th floor where it’s dead quiet.

It’s literally bread and circuses. Meanwhile capitalism has decided to take away bread and jack up the price of circuses and they are surprised the people are turning on it. Thoughts and prayers don’t fill stomachs: actions do.

This was never a serious case to begin with. The cruelty and the process was the point, not any hope this Olympian would see serious time.