You do not feel the consequences of good policy in your bones.
I am certain this bit here is where we may just have to disagree my friend. It has been so long since we have had bones-deep good policy we have forgotten what that might feel like.
Regardless, this is a lesson the DNC must learn, not you or i. All the 10 page excuses are meaningless if you first arenāt elected to push em, and thatās where they are right now
Yeah this ādems bad at messagingā line of excuses is really tired to me. If things are going good in your life you donāt need to be told by someone that it is, you just know it in your bones.
Conversely all the āmessagingā in the world wonāt convince us things are going fine when our daily life experience is the opposite.
Dems arenāt bad at messaging because they are bad at getting the word out, itās that decades of messaging without follow-through with measurable, noticeable increase in quality of our daily lives means we donāt believe the message anymore
If youāre someoneās boss and all they ever do when they fuck up is blame others for their failures and when you bring em in your office they hand you a 10 page document explaining all the work they tried to do, pedantically explaining how youāre and idiot that ājust doesnāt see all the work theyāve looked into.ā ?? Youād fuckin fire em right?
Voters have shifted right because theyāre hurting
I donāt believe this is the case.
The Democratic Party took many steps rightward in Harrisā campaign (border security, death penalty, cheney).
Trump barely increased his vote count from 2020, like mayyybe 40k more votes?
15 million Dem voters from 2020 didnāt vote at all this time rather more people voting R.
Leftist voices within the DNC spoke urgently and stridently about the DNCs need to listen to its left base more or face backlash.
You got it backwards, the DNC misread the people and shifted to the right of its own base
Opinion: Authors that proclaim voters āneed to be more educatedā should maybe be forced to buy a book on how politics workā¦ have always worked, since the beginning of time.
Then: as they quite clearly donāt know how to use a book properly they should shove that book as far up their asses as it can go.
The only way forward for the people of America is to leave both corrupted corporate parties behind.
I believe thescene where they get their palms read was also cut from the theatrical release
Lol i bet in 4 years weāll be begginā for a moderate Dem like Cheney
God iāll never forget where i was when he dropped out. I had phone banked and donated and I was watching his concession speech justā¦wrecked maaan, wrecked at how the DNC et al had ratfucked him and how tilted the game wasā¦ and while Iām saltin my booze with tears someone in the group asks him āWhat do we do now?ā and he says something like
āVote Dem, vote in your primariesā
and my heart fell in that shitty whiskey with the rest. Maaaan, i never knew i still had faith to lose until that moment.
Get to know your neighbors. Organizing doesnāt have to mean politically, and community is the only strength we have.
Iām dead serious. Get to know your neighbors. At home. At work? (lolsafely) Do less work, more talking to your co-workers about work. About whatever. But yaknow, get to know them. And probably find out you agree about a lot of the stuff thatās not on tv.
Organizing isnāt some nebulous concept, politics isnāt for lawyers. Organizing (and politicking) 's justā¦ talking to people. People who like you n me who canāt āinfluence politicsā and donāt know how to start. But we do know what we need.
People power is right there with us every day, politics is everyday life. So get to know your neighbors
Yoyo look, this guyās fucking nostradamus up in here, right? Itās gonna happen just like this.
Iām thinking newsome is the āperfectā candidate for 28.
Whoever it is, I bet you, just like me canāt wait to be told how stupid i am and actually great they are by credulous online political minds who call parroting the pundits talking points word-for-word fucking theory
Iāve heard in the theatrical version he goes back and ends his friendship right? In the version i saw
He goes back in to the womb using a sonogram and wraps the umbilical cord around his neck killing himself so he instead never meets her
I really liked that movie. Last Ā¼ was a tough watch, i get why it wasnāt popular. But i loved the movie too
I saw a version with a different ending (cuz piracy) than that what was widely released in theaters and i really liked it. Have you seen both? Do you know what Iām talking about?
If the DNC chair had an opinion worth considering then they already would have resigned in the disgrace and shame everyone else feels for them
The dream sequences alone with the egg and the screaming say youre probably righ
š¶expeee-eeee-eeellled!!ā¦ From the garden of Edenš¶
Youāll get it
Fuck Iām crying just thinking about it
Oh my God you guys you need to watch The Naked Man
Iām telling you itās fucking hilarious. I swear. Look:
Estranged pharmacistās son who is a savant at chiropractor by day/underground pro-wrestler by night goes on a murderous rampage to avenge his fatherās murder at the hands of a quadriplegic pharmacutical ceo and his elvis impersonator bodyguard.
He uses his knowledge of wrestling and the human skeleton to commit devastating chiropractic attacks on his enemies.
Heās chased by a detective whoās a genius but also clinically depressed andā¦You must watch this movie. Iām not crazy! Itās amazing!
Please!
My experience says it probably doesnāt matter however you choose to tell them but do tell them, as soon as you can. Theyāll want input on your decisions you know. Theyāll probably want you to fight this. Theyāll probably ask a lot of you. Theyāll demand you āwaste away enduring treatmentā But do tell them anyway, for them.
Thatās what this is about, yeah? Just bite the bullet and do it, today. Get it out there. Then listen to them when they speak. Maybe youāll change your mind. Maybe youāll decide to fight. Maybe you will not. But donāt you keep it a secret, thatās against the rules. You made a deal with your family, donāt break it because youāre afraid of losing a fight you could win.
I dunno if itās always the case but it can have long lasting effects on them if you donāt give them their chance to say goodbye. My wife (40) still has trouble with the shock and loss from 8 years old when her gramma kept her cancer from her family until the very end.
So ill shut up now, feel weird already talking so confidently bout something so personal to someoneā¦So log off, buck up, and tell them. You know theyāre gonna bug the shit out of you, but who knows, maybe theyāll convince you. Maybe during this trouble you all will find a deeper love together than you knew you could feel.
Obviously some Internet asswipe like me canāt be trusted with something so important. Donāt be afraid of their love, go tell em, right now. <3
Sorry, two things:
crying and name-calling non-liberal leftists has the same effect after the election as before. Laughter and dismissal.
Trump got the same number of votes as 2020. The leftists had minimal impact. Liberals that showed up in 2020 stayed home.
Liberals. Liberals sat this one out bud, and no amount of (hilarious and cathartic) online spittle-flecked anger will make that less true.
Get your head out of your ass, look around yourself and clean up your wreck of a political party.
We have work to do and it wonāt start until you figure out this? Aint it.
Organize, bitches.
Yeah if the DNC really gave as much credence to the vote power of racism and misogyny as they do when complaining about election losses, then why would they deliberately step on that landmine by selecting kamala only 8 years after HRC? Itās not like we think idealistic dreamers run the DNC right? Thatās silly.
Why did Dems lose the Senate? Keep the house? Cuz its more than just Harris hereā¦ What weāre seeing is voter repudiation of the last 4 years.
It is. All the ādoom and gloomā rings hollow on satisfied ears. There must be a real problems people see daily. False reasons for those very real problems are where right wing propaganda does its work