I hope Kamala reads this and says, “OK now I’m double plus glad I went with Walz and not Buttigieg.”

How TF do you interpret the full quote in any other way?????????

He literally says “it’s a hard thing to think about”. Very strange how some people twist someone honestly recounting their self-loathing as a young gay person in a conservative environment into something negative.

As far as Democrats go they must reach out to men without selling out any of the base. If they have to sell people out they deserve to lose. You’ve seen a lot of wins recently. You also saw losses recently despite efforts. You ultimately have agency & it’s not a political party’s job to coddle you.

Andy Kim, Roy Cooper, Josh Stein, Mark Kelly, Alex Padilla, Joe Neguse, Hakeem Jeffries, Ras Baraka, Keith Ellison, Michael Regan, Pete Buttigieg? You have your own examples. You may not agree with every name I just said. You may think me not naming someone is glaring when I’m just spouting off.

If you NEED examples of positive role models that aren’t of toxic masculinity that MUST come from Democrats in or recently in government they, exist. They’re also not all perfect. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Wes Moore, Ruben Gallego, Cory Booker, Tim Walz, Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock, Robert Garcia…

If you want a bottom line answer, men have to suck less, especially white men. Democrats haven’t won white voters as a bloc since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There’s racism involved. There’s sexism. There’s misogynoir. You can’t overlook that just because it’s easier that way.

Because this needs to be spelled out every time it’s said, the base of the Democratic Party is Black voters, particularly Black women. Jewish voters are also very important to this. This isn’t ideological. These groups are not monolithic.

Kamala Harris held events in barbershops & restaurants. Supporters had zoom calls. She had an economic agenda for Black men specifically. There’s a Congressional Dad’s Caucus. There are examples of men improving themselves in media. There are volunteer organizations. Mentors exist. Teachers exist.

I hate romances where the MMC is older than the FMC.

Oh and if none of you asked him why committing genocide against Native Americans ranked #1 for him on list of historical wars he'd most want to have fought in, I'd say you didn't push hard enough about that either

incredibly funny side note that in the midst of all this one guy was actually exonerated via the horse’s mouth and it was this guy

Lasted through 2020 when suburban women voted against Trump but for Youngkin in Virginia in 2021.

I think the overt nature of the bigotry is particularly galling. Americans prefer their bigotry more couched in layers of gauzy feel good rhetoric.

Yeah this shit is NOT unique to the USA.

There couldn’t have been an easier choice between Harris & Trump in 2024 & while the 117th Congress was the most productive in years despite the slim Democratic majorities, the GOP went 4 weeks without an elected Speaker during the 118th & passed no meaningful legislation, yet kept their majority.

There hasn’t been an election in decades where the GOP candidate was better than their Democratic opponent & every Democratic admin has had to clean up their GOP predecessor’s mess only for the country to elect another Republican in what can be best described as a never-ending cycle of stupidity.

The last Democrat to win the majority of the white vote was LBJ in 1964. With a Democratic trifecta & a large moderate Republican faction in Congress, LBJ was able to get the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed, but in the 1966 midterms, Democrats lost 40 House seats, 3 Senate seats & 8 governorships.🧵

Bush inherited a surplus & turned it into a multi-trillion dollar deficit, started a war based on lies about WMDs & destroyed the economy. There’s not enough space to describe what happened in either of Trump’s presidencies but this never-ending cycle definitely matches the quote about insanity. 3️⃣/3️⃣

Clinton was the only president to balance the budget. Bush left office in a near depression & Obama fixed the economy & passed the ACA. With a slim House majority & a 50-50 Senate, Biden got more legislation passed through reconciliation & with bipartisan support than any Congress in years. 2️⃣/3️⃣

It's tough to understand how we got stuck in this cycle where every time a Democratic president does as much as they can with the trifecta they come into office with, the electorate breaks it up in the midterms, then elects a GOP president with a trifecta who dismantles their accomplishments. 🧵 1️⃣/3️⃣

The people who voted for him knew exactly who he was and pulled that lever anyway.

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Yet front page articles for Hillary emails. It will be a generous dosage of karma if he's going down because of...emails.

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “I vote with my party 91% of the time…But when they're protecting pedophiles…I'm sorry, I can't go along with that.”

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

But it was Biden who was too friendly to Israel 😑

Media standards: 1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention. 2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing. Way too many think that’s journalism.

Perhaps because the media execs are in the files, complicit, participating even?

I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?

The media likes Donald Trump, they like Republicans, and they want them to win. That’s why they helped him cover up decades of raping kids. No different than Marco Rubio or Mitch McConnell or Mike Johnson or any of the rest of the accessories.

silver lining of this shit is that trans women are incontrovertibly women based on how leftists treat them

It's either Democrats or Nazis. That's it. Those are your choices Decide what team you're on & if it's Democrats, start fucking act like it for a change.

The “useless Dem” trope is s form of voter suppression and Im done with seeing it in my feed.

He. Voted. No.

It makes perfect sense that he would do something that would make the House to come back and swear in the Democrat that would likely bring in enough votes to release the Epstein files if he was in them

I genuinely do not know if I think this deal is enough or timed well. I just also know the enhanced subsidies were screwed by the Republican budget, voted entirely for by Republicans via reconciliation, the qualified Black & Indian woman wanted to expand them, & you instead gave the GOP a trifecta.

Folks on BlueSky spend too much time bogged down in small details. What we need to be doing is working together: progressives, moderates, liberals, and however else folks on the left identify. We all need to be focused on pushing back against Trump and defeating fascism. Not on fighting each other.

Honestly, who cares at this point? This is the kind of stuff that I think is a waste of time. Mamdani voted for Harris in the general election. She expressed support for him in the general election for his candidacy. He was the Democratic nominee and is now the Mayor-elect. That's what matters.

Yep. I don’t like him, but I actually think he’s effective. Not too different from Chris Murphy in fact! And Scott Surovell of the Virginia state senate.

And I've never been a huge Schumer fan, but I also realize that my personal feelings about any elected official have nothing to do with their effectiveness.

I feel duty bound to add that I truly don’t care either way. I have never been a huge Schumer fan, although I just don’t know how any of this would have been different under anyone else. But, come on.🤣🤣

Schumer led Senate Democrats in fighting Trump over healthcare, period. If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.

But I mean *practically*. Everything seems to be defining leadership purely by result and assuming that every result is purely what leadership intended all along. I'm trying to figure out what any supposed replacement would be doing different aside from an amorphous "not suck" and "message better"

I’m glad someone said it.

The problem is that too many voters think they are non-electoral way to achieve electoral goals. Good luck with that.

Exactly goddamn right. In fact, Minority Leader Sanders likely would likely not have been able to prevent the 8 squishy Dem moderates from breaking for nearly as long as Schumer did.

Is that why Schumer voted no? To own the lefties?

Ro Khanna in the house is. He is owned by big tech though so 🤷🏽‍♀️

That puts the onus back in voters and that would be anathema. Murc’s Law and all.