sure, bomb threats accounted for a vote deficit of over 2 million - what the fuck is wrong with people?

regular reminder that a sane country would tell the guy who got 3 million FEWER votes than his opponent in 2016 to go home. hillary clinton was a lousy candidate but she soundly beat trump in the popular vote - voters who participated in the 2016 were not buying what trump was selling that year.

biden initially made concessions to the left - public option, higher minimum wage, BBB, etc. - but he gave up on them pretty quickly + when BBB was passed as IRA, it was apparently structured to benefit red states - sure, republicans will always be worse but ppl don't like being betrayed either.

it is wild - whites across the political spectrum are consistent when it comes to ignoring certain things - the massive purge in federal employment (which disproportionately affects blacks) is another subject outside their radar - of course, lefties have plenty of time for other marginalized groups,

who gives a shit? this in no way makes what he and his administration are doing any less destructive and awful. tell it to the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who've lost jobs. or the (literal!) millions who are likely to die from USAID being slashed. tell it to the people who are being

once i pay it’s mine and you’re not my mom

looks like Joel RL Phelps is back too! not a thing i thought we'd see - hope they come to NY

those dudes behind him are not buying this shit at all

Milei begging for a bailout after his libertarian nonsense is just a larger scale version of how the US works. Our federal system has functional states subsidizing these idiotic experiments in conservatism, while giving those voters far more weight than those from a populous state

Media cannot honestly report facts if it is trying to cater to the political Right and appeal to the right-wing base. Because the Right has been so deeply propagandized that its worldview is fundamentally detached from reality. This has been my PSA.

the least visited tourist attraction in america for 15 years running

the position of democratic party politicians is that essentially everyone other than democratic party politicians is responsible for doing politics

My experience with 2024 taught me that if you got an election where if someone wins its the end of your country, your country is already in some unbelievably deep shit.

kimmel's been on trump's ass forever. gonna be interesting to see if he tones it down.

That is not what people find inspiring about John Lewis, you knob. Go preach love-n-light to the right wing, see where it gets you. Or try being the target of hate for years, decades, centuries--and then tell others who've been spared that "hate is easy." Too many out here posting while concussed.

Phew, this thread by Illinois Democratic Congressman Sean Casten. Reagan got *white* Democrats to vote for him, and it's because racism is the issue that white people agree on more than anything else.

Imagine being a fully grown adult, let alone an elected member of Congress, and thinking the lesson of the Civil Rights movement is change is achieved by being nicer to those who spit on you. Now imagine being foolish enough not to just think this but to write it down and send it out to the world.

my "wall of guys" theory stands undefeated. between any powerful white man and actual legal consequences there will be dozens upon dozens of assorted guys. those that aren't outright corrupt are institutionalists queasy at the thought of consequences for an elite. a few drag their feet and it's over

@pietst.bsky.social this is another of those weird anti-trans/anti-left accounts posing as the exact opposite

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1650

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1656

where's matt damon? i figured he'd be calling for a general strike by now

"your breath is kickin like van damme!"

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

BEFORE/AFTER. fixed it in real time. enough w the fucking parades. im in no mood for a fake jesus pose

it's better to think of the useless centrist 'expand the tent but only rightwards' media people & politicians as blockers paid to occupy space that could otherwise be utilized productively by a serious person. their opinions are pre-approved by their donors and will never change

those people are obstacles to overcome and that describes ppl like you too - they're never voting for democrats because they see the party as representing all the minority groups they hate. start a new party if you want to keep going with this crap.

They're playing the long game, Gabe! Give Republicans everything they want for 40 years then bam! Health care subsidies for families of 4+ with a household income of less than $50,000 per year. Checkmate, TACO!

Something that really pissed me off about Washington is no one actually seemed to care about values. There was always a lot of talk about values but they were abandoned the second they came into contact with power.

seems fair

the osmosis theory of politics, as practiced by the democratic party

as an outsider I truly don't understand how anyone can blame voters when Dem's behavior itself creates antipathy

holy shit this is so fucking funny cc @angryblacklady.bsky.social

lumping "purity" in with "smallness" and "fear" = continuing to support mass murder/apartheid committed by a certain government + gleefully throwing minority groups under the bus in hope getting a few more white votes. "small and scared" describes your kind perfectly.

i will tolerate people disagreeing with me about what albums people should listen to, what food to eat, and what the meaning of Eraserhead is. I will not tolerate people calling for my death for simply existing without causing harm to others. I don’t think anyone should have to.

Look at my activists dog I’m going to die in a labor camp

klein takes money from folks like peter thiel and marc andreessen - they (along with 3rd way/new dem funders and especially AIPAC) are working to stop the democratic party from embracing left policy and may be part of why dems are practically rolling over and playing dead for republicans lately.

i do think it's worth mentioning that obama's the jerkoff who discovered homan and thought enough of the guy to give him a medal before leaving office.

Sure, but this is America so I know how this turns out: in 2028, Democrats win in a landslide, getting majorities in both houses of Congress and the presidency. In the name of "bipartisanship" they decide to sweep everything the Trump administration did under the rug and say "it's in the past."

love this account for these wonderful threads and god how i love this movie - sheer perfection from one of cinema's all-time greats, martin scorsese

prediction: a couple of dems might bring it up but not one will promise to prosecute this scumbag for this or anything else he's been doing recently either www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

there isn't enough perfume and disinfectant in the world to deodorize that cesspool but folks like this are certainly trying.

Just a reminder that a staggering number of Black women have also lost their jobs due to capitulation to this administration. That deserves more outrage.

This guy just walked around the Charlie Kirk vigil in Boston, yelling Kirk quotes through a bullhorn

There's "all is lost" nihilism, which is a lie, and then there's "we're making the same mistakes that led us here" frustration. All is not lost. But I swear to God, all some people are fighting for is to go back to the same system that led us here with the same useless opposition party.

Doomerism is when you don't give your faith in the systems and institutions that gave Trump the power he has now to stop him, apparently.

I understand this point, but I don't think dismissing our feelings is helpful either. There are many of us who have been trying to fight/support the Dems for an entire DECADE now.. and its led to nothing but disappointment and heartbreak. There's no right way to feel about what's going on.

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms