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22 minutes agoThat’s what they would have said about Obama in 2004 if anyone knew his name back then…
AOC could, should, and hopefully will run
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Nope, McTurtle got rich along the way. But his lifelong goal has been packing the courts.
He is literally salivating like he just walked into a salad bar at the 42 vacancies Biden is about to hand over.
Pelosi doesn’t give a shit about the Dem platform or helping people. She wants America to stay in the early 90s, that used to be enough to be considered somewhat progressive.
But the early 90s were 30 years ago. Imagine calling someone in the early 90s progressive because they wanted America to go back to pre civil rights movement.
That’s the same time frame.
The right move was forming a serious left third party decades ago. We’d have a right, center, and left party and nothing would get done without some compromise between the wings, likely leading to a more fluid party structure.
We’d never see this shit where a handful of republican extremists sabotage everything no matter who has the majority.
we’re surrounded by unique evil in so many directions
No, we’re not.
It’s one issue: unregulated capitalism.
And I know there are technically regulations, but they’re written by lobbyists and not even read by politicians anymore.
What’s worse is the deregulation of campaign finance law. In a similar fashion it would be illegal for me to donate $3,000 to Kamala directly.
But Elon Musk gave $275,000,000 to trump and that’s cool because it was thru a PAC.
Similarly I could have donated the max to Kamala, and then used the “victory fund” to use the max donation to each of the 50 state parties, but instead of going to them, it would first go to the DNC and that’s a literal black hole of accounting because it’s a private organization.
We don’t know how 2020 or 2024 went, but in 2016 this was the result of the victory fund:
Right around the time of the convention, the leaked emails revealed Hillary’s campaign was grabbing money from the state parties for its own purposes, leaving the states with very little to support down-ballot races. A Politico story published on May 2, 2016, described the big fund-raising vehicle she had launched through the states the summer before, quoting a vow she had made to rebuild “the party from the ground up … when our state parties are strong, we win. That’s what will happen.”
Yet the states kept less than half of 1 percent of the $82 million they had amassed from the extravagant fund-raisers Hillary’s campaign was holding, just as Gary had described to me when he and I talked in August. When the Politico story described this arrangement as “essentially … money laundering” for the Clinton campaign, Hillary’s people were outraged at being accused of doing something shady. Bernie’s people were angry for their own reasons, saying this was part of a calculated strategy to throw the nomination to Hillary.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
With Jaimie Harrison resigning, I hope someone with the integrity to open the books up gets DNC chair.
A shit ton of people didn’t vote because they believe both parties are corrupt. The best way to get their votes is to root out the corruption we already know has been there since 2015.
As for the killer, John Fetterman had the choicest words: He’s “going to die in prison,” the peerless Pennsylvania senator told HuffPost. “Congratulations if you want to celebrate that.”
Daily reminder that just because someone has a D by their name doesn’t mean they’re on the right side. Even if they wear hoodies.
“Blue no matter who” just winds up with corrupt assholes who will take bribes from anyone and actively work against the wishes of their constituents. You can’t claim to be better/smarter than republican voters and vote like that.
Their mere existence is used as a reason to not bring progressive legislation up for a vote even when the party has the numbers. Which depresses turnout nationwide.
Not that it makes it better, but a lot of those 1500 had already served their sentence, they bundled record expungement with the number to make it seem bigger.
Fuck everything about Pelosi and her bullshit insider trading.
She’s not there to help Americans, she’s there to maximize her and her husbands investments.
“Blue no matter who” winds up like ghouls like this running the party, because they’ll never give up personal.power, and corrupt enough to sell out for campaign donations.
We have to have more standard than the letter by a name.
The victor of a cutthroat primary for mayor in 2021, New York City’s Eric Adams rushed to embrace national political stardom.
So cuthroat he took 10 million in bribes…
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-york-city-mayor-eric-adams-charged-accepting/story?id=114182253
14·7 hours agoIt’s for if there’s a “neighborhood watch” which is almost never a thing.
You’re watching a show that’s 30 years old making fun of Americans, most of the stuff Hank does we thought was stupid back then
I’d love to see it by last election’s turnout percentage.
Vermont went 64% D, let them go first.
Wyoming got 26%, so they go last.
Some state wants to go first? Tell em to work on their turnout in the general.
It seems common sense, and in a close race it trickles down to battleground states after the main voting blocks, while maintaining their voter engagement.
Plus while I don’t think primaries campaigns hurt generals like the DNC keeps saying, this let’s the Dem on Dem ads be ran in places that are voting blue no matter who.
I mean. It’s good and all.
But “most metal girl alliance ever”?
That’s selling women short, groups of women have done a lot of metal shit both figuratively and literally.
Set the bar where it deserves to be, normalize this type of stuff as basic human decency.
It’s been Brewster’s Millions since 2016, and at this point the only thing crazier than the party trying it a fourth time is us letting the same people keep calling the shots.
They pick their candidate long before the primary, and before 10 states vote they declare a winner and say it’s over. If a Republican wins, it’s just not a big deal to them.
Because in four years they’ll get even more money to make sure a progressive can’t make it to the general
Still missing the entire point:
Democrats are missing something that is arguably a prerequisite for ideological messaging to have any effect whatsoever: a media apparatus that can get these messages in front of swing voters.
We only need a propagand machine to trick people.
The whole country just united over a dude killing a CEO. We’d unite over actual progressive policy too.
Propaganda machines are a replacement to manufacturer interest, we can just run on a platform that’s already interesting to voters.
Like, this author is fucking Hung up on print newspapers for some reason, and wants the party to literally make a propaganda machine…
Democratic funders could set up new local papers in strategic counties, or buy up some of the remaining husks and staff them up. I would just put together a bog-standard paper with some liberal editorials, but one could make it tabloid-y or explicitly partisan to taste
It’s fucking insane. No one should be listening to this person for any reason.
Anyone that claims newspaper are important for elections really…
You want Jamie Harrison to investigate himself?
His only qualification was being able to raise an obscene amount of money from dubious sources and then losing the election.
He did what he was brought on board to do, why would he then snitch on himself?
The chair election is 2/2/25. Depending on who wins we have a chance at finding out, but there’s also a good chance they just cover it up.
The DNC is a private organization and has no obligation for transparency.
3·9 hours agoIt costs per mile/km to build pipe
Yeah but this is America…
Pipelines are so much cheaper than truck, even with massive leaks:
https://www.eenews.net/articles/inspector-weak-pipeline-rules-put-profit-over-safety/
And when it’s bad enough taxpayers bail them out:
The problem is they put profits over everything. I’m not sure where all this misunderstanding is coming from
How Democrats used their vast resources has come under particular scrutiny after Harris’ presidential campaign raised — and spent — a stunning $1.4 billion in 107 days. The pace rattled supporters, donors and even some on the campaign, who complained of lavish spending on celebrities and ongoing appeals for money even after Harris lost the election.
The only reason why we found out about 2015 shenanigans was neoliberals tucking tail after trump won so Donna Brazile had a chance to see the books.
This is a huge chance to pry the party out of neoliberal hands, because Jamie Harrison is acting like most of Biden’s picks and resigning before things get difficult.
But there is zero fucking chance $1,700,000,000 was raised and spent in 107 days and there wasn’t any grifting going on. The purpose of Kamala’s campaign wasn’t to win an election, it was to churn a bunch of money so people could take their slices.
We can’t afford to do it a fourth time in a row.
Winning the election needs to be the priority of the party.
And people will honestly say Dems abandoned the working class when they had people like Lina Khan working for them actively blocking monopolies and corporate takeovers.
What about if they point Biden appointed this guy to the committee and that’s why Trump doesn’t need Senate approval to make him chair?
Andrew Ferguson was initially nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a Republican commissioner on the bipartisan FTC, and his elevation to chair of the commission will not require Senate confirmation.
And it wasn’t just this one…
Biden appointed two Republicans to curtail Lisa Khan’s power to go after corporations…
He picked someone and was shocked when they didn’t do what he expected, which sadly seemed to happen with most of his picks. This one however was more progressive instead of more conservative, so she’s the ones he took action to limit their power.
I get on the surface it sounded good for Biden. But it’s not hard to find information these days about what really happened.
trump doesn’t need the Senate for this one, thanks to the overlap between Trump’s and Biden’s picks:
Andrew Ferguson was initially nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a Republican commissioner on the bipartisan FTC, and his elevation to chair of the commission will not require Senate confirmation.
That’s a “open access” journal specifically for the fossil fuel industry…
https://doaj.org/toc/2190-0566
For $2,190.00 they publish literally fucking anything.
So some industries (like fossil fuels) pay to have a bunch of studies published that all say what they’re doing is necessary and any environmental concerns are completely overblown.
Like…
This behavior isn’t new or rare. But it’s very easy to check.
which would necessitate oil and gas companies intentionally working in a way that isn’t about maximizing profit.
No. I’m saying because it’s slightly more profitable they pipe it all over, somehow you took the opposite message?
I assumed we didn’t need to talk about why pipelines are bad, did I overestimate?
Like…
Oil pipeline protests have been pretty big news for decades now, I thought everyone commenting on an article about gas pipelines was up to speed.
Quick edit:
Deja Vue…
We had another conversation a week ago where I went over the basics of why oil pipelines are bad, and nothing I explained seemed to have stuck. It was even about Canada/US pipelines too.
Someone else may be able to explain it differently, but I’m not gonna be able to help.
Eh.
Physics does some weird shit based on frame of reference. Until something goes faster than the speed of light, that’s the limit. If it goes back to nothing moving faster than light, it’s a limit again. But that time I’m between… Maybe?
Like, we’re talking about something that has a coinflips chance of being a wave or particle each time we look at it. And if no one’s watching, it’s somehow both. Similarly the speed of light might just be the equivalent of draw distance. And just like Rick glitched out that weird alien simulation, maybe we can glitch the actual universe so that by somethings frame of reference, it’s moving faster than light. Maybe light will just speed up and the current speed of light is really because of some random thing trucking along at that speed and maybe someday it changes?
Maybe because light is both a wave and a particle, it’s just setting its own standard for the wave speed by the particle speed.
It’s stupid to assume there’s more weird shit we haven’t noticed yet.
And that’s not even getting into the grey areas around FTL where you get between two points faster than light could, but you didn’t travel the same distance between points.
Like, once physics gets complicated, if you think you understand it, it just means you dont.
The smartest physicist currently alive almost constantly tells people about how much he doesn’t know, and that guy has pretty much all of human knowledge regarding math (not just physics) in his head.
He freaking came up with the ideas for MC Escher’s most famous drawing (the stairs and hand drawing hand) when he was a bored teenager.
If Roger Penrose says he doesn’t understand it none of us do.