This is a correct take, but we won’t get it. So my new rhetorical hotness is “nationalize the petrol corps and use the proceeds to fund green research/infrastructure.” Gotta shift that Overton Window somehow (see: “abolish SCOTUS” giving room to “pack SCOTUS” and “rewrite the dated, shitty constitution" giving room to…

Pingree has a better shot at winning Collins’ seat than Rice, my consternations about putting up an apologist for Yanqui Sam aside. No one likes a carpetbagger.

How about literally anyone less connected to running the American Empire, pls+thx

Voting literally isn’t gonna be enough. You want change? Start talking Senate abolition and get used to illegal direct action. Only one thing has ever created the space for forward movement, and that’s direct action. Almost like “direct action gets the goods” or something.

“that’s what progressivism is all about, screwing over women, LGBT+ and BAME people, and pretty much everyone not themselves”

You’re very, very stupid. Or a troll. Your shitty candidate lost the general, so maybe smarten up and face Left next time, stupid troll.

Seriously, just do some fuckin’ research (fine: Google “quorum call”) and then wonder why you haven’t heard word one about the Dems making overtures to Murkowski and literally forcing the Sgt. at Arms to drag them in for a vote. Wonder why Dem lawmakers aren’t militating the people protesting outside, telling them to…

Every dumb, smug schmuck in here saying some variation of “BUT WHAT COULD THEY DO” is both 1) a perfect summation of why the Democrats are truly fucked and 2) lacking in imagination in the same way the (ostensible) left party is, a lack of imagination that will doom the very people they claim to protect. You people…

Murkowski will vote no, Collins yes, everyone else—including Ben’s Ass and Jeff Fuck—will vote along party lines, and Manchin will send this drunken rapist to the Supreme Court. If I’m wrong, I’ll eat my right foot.

Also, fwiw, the goblins are 100% antisemitic tropes given material form. Weird, for someone railing against Jeremy Corbyn for “antisemitism” (read: “acknowledging Palestinian humanity+Israel’s outsized role in escalating the conflict of recent”), but that’s none of my business.

Seeing that this tripe is the top comment, just popping in to say two things:
1) More PUMAs jumped ship to McCain in ‘08 than “Bernie or Busters” jumped ship to anywhere (Greens, GOP, and Libertarians together) in ‘16 (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-were-those-clinton-mccain-crossover-voters/, https://www.npr.org/2017…

Avenatti is genuinely confounding to me. Like, he’s obviously a huckster, but he also seems to deliver. (This is not, under any circumstances, an endorsement of his personality or tactics.)

This story made me incredibly happy.

So, this is some real Yellow King shit, which leads me to the following flip summation: "nominating the Pizzagate judge to own the libs."

Just chiming in to say CSH rules and also has made me cry in weird public places.

Disagree, but I have a feeling we’re gonna get to test your thesis. So I sincerely hope you’re wrong. Fwiw, I remember the same line being tossed out about Obama, and, inarguably, there’s a deeper historical stigma against black people than jewish people in the USA.

Hey, me too. Tbh, that long-ass reply was mostly for the benefit of the person I was initially replying to, if they’re still lurking these comments. Just really chewing on that old “scratch a liberal, find a fascist” meme lately, and I wanna make it clear to centrists that, once the Left* takes over the Dems (it’s now …

I mean, whether centrists like it or not, Sanders stands a good chance at the nomination. I kept my HRC critiques in-house and from the Left (i.e. “she likes fracking” not “globalist election riggers+they killed Seth Rich”) once it was clear that she was going to be the nominee, but I have no faith that centrists will…

Yup, I’m glad we agree on that matter. Now, please stop sowing discord before a primary by attacking one candidate without proposing another in comparison. We can’t guarantee that other centrists are as rational as you and public criticism of a politician works like a criticality accident. And if the history of…

So, no one, then. By all means, speak for a candidate you like, but do consider the value of dragging ones you don’t, if you don’t mind. Unless a more electable challenger appears, y’all might get stuck with Sanders, and I don’t want a PUMA situation (yes, PUMAs are still the benchmark for jumping ship if we look at…

I know this reads as a joke, but its proximity to reality makes it very unfunny, imo.