If he had only made turtle boy sign off on those $2000 checks back at the end of Oct, his ass would have likely won. But he was too busy running to his echo-chamber rallies and getting high off of people screaming his name. Never took into account that there might be countless voters sick of his shit and having voted… Read more
Listen, just because you’re too lazy to google the progressive laws that Democrats have passed over the past 40 years doesn’t negate that they have passed many major bills intended to help average Americas. A lot of what Democrats have gained over that time has taking place in boring mandatory spending bills that… Read more
Yeah, people need to fight...the problem is moderates & center left do make up the majority of the base and then there are more “soft” progressives who still disagree with the squad on some issues. So telling them to shut up and take it...isn’t exactly going to endear them to the 10% who are squad level progressive.… Read more
yeah i’m tired of this trend of holier-then-thou leftists dunking on Obama(looking at you NoName) when they are hopelessly out of their depth compared to him.
It’s another lecture on “How To Politics” from someone who won a ridiculously safe blue district, that’s all.
I actually agree with most of what he says, although he could have worded the Obama thing better because it does come off as him trying to dunk on him (he’s basically just saying Obama is one part of the Democratic party and it’s a big tent and he thinks other parts will grow the party more). Read more
Yet another not-even-one-term Representative with more expertise than a 2-term President. Read more
“DEFUND THE POLICE” and then taking the next couple minutes or so to explain what they actually mean, it’s their time. But a lot of people aren’t listening by then. Read more
It astonishes me how badly us lefties are at this type of stuff. As has been pointed out by folks far more clever than I, this is something that the righties are super good at; they find an easy to remember and repeat slogan and they FUCKING HAMMER IT until their base hears it in their dreams. Read more
Obama is right. Read more
He’s not wrong, though. “Defund the Police,” snappy as it might be, is a vast oversimplification of what that plan often entails (depending on who you ask)—redistributing funds to services that the police shouldn’t be involved with to begin with, like welfare checks and mental illness interventions. Yes, explaining… Read more
After reading the article I was going to post something similar, but you said it much better than I could. So damn tired of the false equivalency.
10% of their federal funding is way too small to be a forceful reason for local law enforcement to adopt all these changes. That’s “let’s cinch our belts and make ends meet so we can continue to brutalize black people”-level persuasion. We need “damn we would have to fire 50% of our officers if we don’t satisfy these… Read more
Salmon also die at the end from sheer exhaustion. Between his blackness and his Republicanism, something's gonna give.
And a fuckton of them die in the attempt. Pretty shitty comparison.