One thing that really distorts the discourse is the belief that any politician could become wildly popular by embracing a Full Left Economic Agenda, which then positions people to believe that every politician is intentionally limiting their own power in order to keep progressives in check

I wonder who could possibly be buying up petabytes of storage. Data centres worth of components. I wonder what that's about.

Fuck gaming and frankly gamers, you'll have to sit on last year's machine folks, we're going to be facing a serious crisis in ability to service basic hospital infrastructure.

It's absolutely obscene how many leftists argued that libs would be the fastest to rehabilitate Trump yet we're in the middle of Trump 2.0 and they're making the case for how Trump 1.0 wasn't all that bad

It's Burrito Taxi Discourse all over again, but over gaming computers suddenly becoming more expensive.

THE EVIL CORPOS MADE BURRITO TAXIS AND COMPUTER CHIPS TOO EXPENSIVE, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE LIKE ASMONGOLD NOW???!!!

Stable liberal social democracy is good for business, more and more people are saying it.

The professional managerial class will usurp the boss class to deliver workplace fairness and a reasonable rate of return to the shareholder, many people are gaining consciousness

remember Yet Another Trump Former Bodyguard setting troop withdrawal dates/numbers for afghanistan by rummaging thru a whitehouse file cabinet to get the Vibe of the memo he'd eventually draft do you remember child separation or muslim ban like how can you forget so much i could go on for hours

remember when he publicly ordered a hit on antifascist and police obliged him or when he had his former bodyguard try to coup Venezuela or the time he ordered a different former bodyguard to try and assassinate the us ambassador to ukraine as part of a convoluted plot to frame hunter biden

do you remember Covid Is Only Killing Black People And Thats Good for ~6 months or Ivermectin and bleach remember your grandparents dying alone without funeral or jeff sessions cutting checks to megachurches over irs fake targeting scandal, remember when he asked the military to kneecap protesters

do you remember almost nuclear war with n korea, what about actual war in the tune of 2k+ drone strikes and hundreds of thousands of dead yemeni. or him vetoing congress cutting off arms. the gag rule or trying to tax scholarships and tuition waivers or his daily reminder that he is in fact a rapist

eternally doomed to be the only person in the world who remembers trumps first term

Exactly! I can't with these purity voters. bsky.app/profile/midd...

Also, I think a lot of political commentators know all of this, deep down. It's just easiest now to say "Well, the primary is in two years, so what's the harm in keeping mum?" It's conflict avoidance - easier to go along to get along. But the harm is real and profound.

Everyone left of center is working overtime to maneuver themselves into the personally advantageous position of always criticizing Dems, never defending them. But if we all do that we're going to have a heck of a time ever digging out of this hole. Someone has to bite the bullet and be honest.

I don't think that Dems should be above criticism; in fact I have criticized them quite harshly, in national press, in the last month. But I do think that one thing needs to be FIRMLY established as completely nonnegotiable: in 2028, we're voting for the Democrat, not MAGA. Zero compromise on this.

We know this in part because WE JUST WENT THROUGH IT. People spent years attacking Biden with complete reckless abandon, and excusing it by saying "We'll of course rally everyone back in 2024." It didn't happen! The miserable reputation you had created dragged us into oblivion.

The reason that it's important to establish now that WE MUST ELECT THE DEMOCRAT IN 2028 is that you won't be able to get people back in the fold if you spend three years attacking Dems as a feckless party that's possibly no better than Trump. The damage we suffer now will hurt us in the future.

Fetterman/Platner

this site is in the throes of a multi-day meltdown litigating whether Gavin Newsom is a secret Nazi (he's not, he's very obviously not, you lunatics) when we could be litigating whether these two are secret Nazis (that's ridiculous, there's nothing secret about it)

within 48 hours of hasan saying that, the democratic governor of *kansas* a place where there probably would be electoral benefit to being a ghoul and hurting trans people veto'd a bathroom bill Last month dems in the house minority stripped every anti trans rider from the budget

When you say "vote blue no matter who" these guys always say "oh ho ho, but what if it was Lina Khan, would you vote blue THEN?" And the answer is "yes"? Very obviously? Was "vote blue no matter who" unclear?

Vote Blue no Matter Who means I'll vote for any Dem from Marx to Manchin

if the left-wing paranoia machine can make a fictional Gavin Newsom, it can make a fictional version of anyone who's likely to win the primary. Hell, there are people on the left already gearing themselves up to hate AOC as the nominee

People who think Gavin Newsom is 99% Hitler are unlikely to be placated by someone who is 97% Gavin Newsom. They exist in a realm of digital fantasy, unburdened by factual reality, and we need to stop pretending the solution is to chase their absurd hallucinations in circles forever.

if you're calling Gavin Newsom 99% Hitler I think it's fair to say you don't know what Hitler is

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

Way bigger advert for Talarico than having him on would have been

Vote for whoever you want in the primary. That is what primaries are for. But the 2028 general election will be a binary choice of: 1. Four more years of MAGA under Vance, Rubio, DeSantis, Cruz, etc. or 2. Democratic rule under whichever candidate survives the primary. There is no #3.

This site will never admit that the left is way over its skis here, because you cannot be Cool On Bluesky and ever offer an iota of criticism of the left. But the normies who make up the vast majority of Dem voters will have absolutely zero patience for this nonsense. It will not end how you think.

A very poor way of reacting to an emergency is to take the other people under threat hostage, and insist that everyone do what YOU want, or you won't help fix the problem. This is rightfully understood as callous, destructive, anti-social behavior. Don't encourage the left to engage in it.

We are in an emergency situation. (We actually have been for a while, but parts of the left have treated that claim with ridicule. Now the emergency has fully manifested.) The Constitution is being destroyed, lawless thugs are in the streets, things like vaccine research are being shuttered.

Doing special pleading for the left - "Oh, it's a tactical maneuver" or "Oh, the Democrats should have to win their voters" - this is ridiculous. The country is on fire, don't give air cover to the people refusing to help put it out until they're treated like very special little boys and girls.

This will probably not persuade you, but it will persuade many more people who do not want to be a well-known public idiot like you.

Some of the most powerful forces in politics are shame, mockery, ostracization. If you are not MAGA and you're considering sitting coming elections out because Dems didn't meet your exact demands, you should experience these things. You should be publicly derided as the dolt you are.

I'm sorry, but this is obfuscation. The reality is simple. Trump and his adherents are fascist white supremacists aiming to destroy every good thing in America. If you look at a choice between them and a Democrat - any Democrat - and go "eh, not left enough, I'll pass" you are a child and a fool.

They still haven’t come to terms with the fact that this is why they lost in 2016 AND 2020. Biden was the only Democrat in 2020 who ran unabashedly on loving Barack Obama. Shockingly, Democrats agree!

Yeah, advocate for who you want the candidate to be, persuade people, and then also realize that whoever comes out of the process is better on every single issue than any Republican who comes out of their process. That’s the whole point.

“Why is this guy who spends all day every day trying to chase Trump’s goons out of his city so obsessed with getting everyone to commit to voting against Trump? So strange, so puzzling”

Taps the sign: No place controlled by Dems has retrenched this issue.

I had a conversation with someone today who insisted that if Vance or Newsom won, either way they would be dead or fleeing to Europe and like holy shit Newsom is an amoral slimebucket but this is just not reflecting reality at all Newsom will be constrained by a very pro-LGBTQ D party. Vance won't

This is delusional to a degree that’s disturbing. The liberals and progressives on this site and elsewhere who are feeding these sorts of delusions, for the sake of earning clout and retweets, need to have a really hard think about the impact of the disinformation they’re spreading.

Do you... know what Republicans are doing to trans people? What?

"SHOULD I VOTE FOR THE PEOPLE SHOOTING MY NEIGHBORS OR THE PEOPLE WHO MAY SUCK AT SOME THINGS BUT WOULD NEVER DO THIS" it's a real hard choice. if you're an amoeba.

If I could press a button right now and replace Donald Trump with the world’s most moderate, feckless, useless, Blue Dog Democrat, I’d press it so hard it would register on seismographs.

That’s right. That’s correct. Because I have an above-room-temperature IQ and understand that when forced to choose between MAGA and ANYONE ELSE, I should vote for the second option no matter how much I personally detest them.

I may have personal preferences on what type of candidate wins the nod in 28, but in the general I will literally walk through hell to support whoever is the Dem nominee. Anyone from Marx to Manchin will have my full support because the goal is to make the GOP does not win period

there is literally no sane counterargument to this and the people trying to pretend otherwise are wreckers, grifters, clout chasers, or lunatics

vote blue no matter who (laudatory, entirely correct)