Members Suckrates Posted July 5 Members Posted July 5 1 hour ago, bucknaway said: 1a5a75018e1a98d8630adb0c2492cfbf.mp4 Ho-HUM, so says the right wing Propagandarists, who by the way LIE about EVERYTHING. LIARS in glass houses SHOULDN'T throw stones". STAGED EVENTS ? My dear, Trump has been pulling that stunt for DECADES ! Quote
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Members Suckrates Posted Tuesday at 07:53 PM Members Posted Tuesday at 07:53 PM I am a Lifelong Democrat, but honestly, I am starting to hate the party...... With all the Trump corruption and shenanigans going on that they claim they are "on top of"..... they are way too busy HATING on Mamdani, a Dem whose popularity is soaring, and The Establishment Dems dont know what to do with that as THEIR own popularity sinks..... Mamdani is out in the streets talking to people at their level, he's friendly and charismatic and CONNECTS, while mainstream Dems lately REPEL..... Dems, ditch the "robotic" Jeffries, and get someone more in the "Mamdani wheelhouse" if you have ANY hopes of winning anything come 2026 ? DEMS........ stevenkesslar 1 Quote
Members stevenkesslar Posted Tuesday at 08:55 PM Members Posted Tuesday at 08:55 PM 33 minutes ago, Suckrates said: Dems, ditch the "robotic" Jeffries, and get someone more in the "Mamdani wheelhouse" Good luck with that, Sis. I read some anecdote about how Jeffries had some meeting with rich Silicon Valley donors. He basically was inquiring about how we can kiss and make up. So he definitely does not speak for the Mamdani generation, in New York or anywhere. It's unfair. But I'll just say he speaks for the donor class. As does Schumer. Any idea that either of those guys were going to lead us to salvation was always a non-starter. We know that when Reagan was King Democrats spent 12 years figuring out, "Who's next?" It took an enterprising and slick Guv from Arkansas to begin to solve the problem. And he got his ass kicked as too liberal in 1994. But Reagan won in two landslides, pulled off the rare trick of handing power to HW for a third Reagan term, and did genuinely popular stuff. Trump won 49.8 % of the vote in a close election in which Democrats picked up one House seat. He just got a wildly unpopular bill barely passed that will piss off and hurt many of his own voters. So I think Democrats have way better prospects now. I did post that back in 2017, arguing that what Democrats needed was someone in the crowd to show up and lead. I think the same is true today. We know in 2020 we got Biden. It is all woulda coulda shoulda. To me, it was mainly the global inflation, stupid. But I think it could have worked if Biden really did have a strategy to be a transitional figure. it was definitely vain and a fatal error on Biden's part to think history had set him up as the perpetual Trump slayer, in a wheelchair. And maybe it was vain of Democrats in general to think it could work that way. Although, thanks to Biden, we never really got a choice. Like I said above, Reagan in effect pulled off anointing his successor in 1988. But even Clinton could not do it, in 2000 or 2016. One of the few things I genuinely admire about Trump is he did do this in the Republican Party. He showed up and led. It is a narrow and negative divide and conquer strategy that is based on the whims of a narcissistic and cruel guy. So I don't admire THAT. But Trump did something like Clinton did. Only worse. This will have to be fought out, no matter how long it takes. Clinton and his wise men are not democratic socialists. But I agree with Doug Sosnik, one of the Clinton era wise guys. He says whatever Democrats do will have to lean into this Bernie economic populism stuff. As you said, we are seeing that play out in NYC. Meanwhile, we have Ryan and Emma to be pretty, and entertain us. And Dancing With The Stars! Things could be worse. Quote
Members Pete1111 Posted Wednesday at 01:46 AM Members Posted Wednesday at 01:46 AM 6 hours ago, Suckrates said: I am a Lifelong Democrat, but honestly, I am starting to hate the party...... With all the Trump corruption and shenanigans going on that they claim they are "on top of"..... they are way too busy HATING on Mamdani, a Dem whose popularity is soaring, and The Establishment Dems dont know what to do with that as THEIR own popularity sinks..... Mamdani is out in the streets talking to people at their level, he's friendly and charismatic and CONNECTS, while mainstream Dems lately REPEL..... Dems, ditch the "robotic" Jeffries, and get someone more in the "Mamdani wheelhouse" if you have ANY hopes of winning anything come 2026 ? DEMS........ In similar fashion, a lot of libs hated on Buttigieg who kicked Biden's ass in Iowa and narrowly beat Sanders. Berniecrats, The Young Turks, and Lawrence O'Donnell shit on Pete any chance they could. Yeah I have to wonder if the Dems live with their heads up their ass. Fuck all if they can't have it their way. Let Trump win. Waaaaaah. Stacy Abrams led an initiative in Georgia that successfully registered enough voters to turn Georgia Blue for Biden and the Senate. Did the Dems throw Abrams a parade? Did they give her a role in the Biden administration? Did the try to repeat her success by implementing her model in other battleground states? No, they did not. Is it important to hold their feet to the fire and ask why? David Hogg tried to raise awareness that some Democrats are "asleep at the wheel" and need to go. That didn't last long. The status quo convinced Hogg to hit the road. The Latino vote was surprisingly strong for Trump. Are the Dems finding TikTok influencers fluent in Spanish that reach tens of millions of subscribers? Do they have any Latino strategy at all? Any social media strategy? The Dems may try to take the safe, centrist way out, but more and more they just seem uninspired and dull. Quote
