Depending on how you reckon some ambiguous cases, SCOTUS has applied the 'principle' somewhere in the ballpark of 17 to 20 times since Purcell itself twenty years ago. Of those, 15 to 17 (again depending on how you count a few deadlock cases w/ no majority) were wins for Republicans over Dems. 85%+

My dad was rattling off all the stuff dems could do if they took power. I said "can or will" and that difference is the whole ball of wax

this is such a profoundly terrible miscalculation by a democrat. i'm fucking losing my mind

If a trillion dollars a year isn't enough we can't afford our military We need to stop war mongering abcnews.com/Politics/arm...

i think the most telling media episode for democrats is that when the narrative turned on them re israel the response wasn't to use the platforms to create a counternarrative. instead the democratic president signed legislation to kill tiktok. thats the dem donor/party mindset. and its dumb.

the thing with losing to these guys over and over is that along with all of it, they just suck so bad. we should be trouncing these fuckers.

Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.

I’m shocked shocked U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Let this radicalize you

Man, there are some crazy “labor vs. capital” charts, lately. @ianbremmer.com

i simply do not think the dem party as currently constituted is capable of doing the things that need to be done with a hypothetical 2029 trifecta. and i really do not think their primary voters fully understand that and ready to kick the bums out, either

The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…

we the public shouldnt have to be constantly explaining to the democratic party what its job is

manchin and sinema were just the rotating villains. the real problem is dem leaders like schumer, pelosi, jeffries who cling to the rules and tradition instead of doing what the people keep voting for democrats to do. but folks like the below run interference for them.

look at this messaging failure. its like they can't see the reality in front of their eyes. trump is the leader of the gop. everything he does has their blessing and support. but the dem message is still, after all this, "we can work with republicans." meanwhile republicans are calling to end us.

Risk aversion gets you promoted. Constantly pressing elected officials to roll the dice will get you sidelined or fired.

I'm more concerned that 12% think the last person to lose to trump is a viable candidate.

its going to be VERY hard to prosecute ice. the right-wing media machine will be in full force calling it a war on cops. your local police departments will refuse to cooperate and probably impede. it will be difficult, it has to be done, why should i believe you have the stomach for it?

they put out that video warning the military to not break laws, trump opens a bull shit investigation into kelly and they capitulated…they havent kept saying it, they havent threatened investigations, they just stopped doing it

they dont have the stomach to do what has to be done…we all assume theyll prosecute ice or investigate the caribbean boat murders but why do we assume that? they’re not saying theyll do it, they currently refuse to use the legal levers of power at their disposal for the easy stuff

I don't want them to suspend the gas tax. I want them to end the Iran war tax

no you dipshits college is killing college. Getting a degree costs way too fucking much and the odds your field gets eliminated upon graduation look way too high rn

what's crazy is i was told that republicans couldn't steal an election and here they are clearly stealing one a full ~6 months before midterms

Literally anything other than increasing taxes on the wealthy.

The No income tax policy is the ultimate expression of the Democratic party. They're offering nothing so why should you pay

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Purcell Principle, never heard of her

Man, when I learned about the details of the Iran-Contra scandal (lamentably late in life) I *could not fucking believe it*.

I got hella radicalized on this researching the YWA Iran-Contra episode. A worse-than-watergate scandal that no one disputed on the merits, it just never got framed as a scandal so the public assumed it was a nothingburger.

Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on.

weak as shit party digs its own grave

Democrats must wage a war against the forces of reaction. We must destroy the oligarchs and industries that prop them up and persecute their movement's functionaries and leaders.

that is indeed what we should do

My only problem is this doesn't go far enough

A plan for the future. CC every elected democrat

Sherman 2.0 let's do it

Please do this

This sounds amazing

liberals can only see market solutions for market problems, unfortunately developers are super nice and they really want to build a lot of low income housing, it's just that those evil regulations are stopping them

"but the rules say biden couldnt fire dejoy" so... figure out a way. pretend like its as important as kissing mitch mcconnell's ass or whining about the left.

there are still people to this day who defend biden not getting rid of louis dejoy. a lot of bullshit about how "he couldn't" do it. somehow all these genius legal minds on the dem side couldnt figure out a path but trumpers can do whatever. insane.

The average cost of having a baby is as much as a used car Who has 15 thousand just lying around? www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

Really tired of stories calling things a blow to Democrats when they are actually a blow to democracy

Me, man pandamonium hasn't posted in forever they must have quit Pandamonium: Here's a 7 hour video

we dont have time for this stupid bull shit, they can all get fucked forever no one needs them or their 7300 subscribers go fuck yourselves!

marjorie taylor green can get fucked for all eternity, what is wrong with people

Adding this to the thread: Two gubernatorial candidates running against Klobuchar. bsky.app/profile/ambe...

It’s genuinely alarming how bad Klobuchar is. Every pundit who has promoted her as like, the next big thing, should be drug tested.

Klobuchar giving an assist to the Minnesota Republican Party. Useless. The moderates are useless.

After what Minnesota went through they deserve better than this garbage. Literally any random person who was chasing around ICE would be better