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“This election is a choice between a candidate with a blue collar and one with a silver spoon,” Adams said. “A choice between dirty fingernails and manicured nails.”

An ex-cop with international corruption charges...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/nyregion/eric-adams-charges.html

Who got the federal charges dropped by sucking up to a literal fascist...

Yeah, Eric...

I don't think you need to worry about doubting your fucking hands are dirty

On the plus said him and JoJo's crazy violent uncle are going to basically hand Mamdaninthe general by splitting the asshole vote. The only danger is if one of them pulls an RFK and drops lastinute to endorse the other.

But I'm still confident Mamdani would be a that

He gave people something to vote for...

It was a stupid hateful thing, but it was a thing his base wanted.

Biden/Kamala didn't, at every opportunity they'd talk about their similarities to trump on things like Palestine, the border, healthcare, fracking, pretty much any question they asked they'd say they mostly agree with trump, but have slight differences.

That was trying to get people to vote against trump due to a slight difference, still voting against trump because the difference made trump worse.

So yeah...

That's the largest reason trump is president again.

Give people something to vote for and people will vote.

Gotta build it before people show up, even Kevin Costner knew that 35 years ago

https://youtu.be/t1T72wuj0o8?t=15

The other day I tried to find out if we've ever lapped a budget before.

CRs have become the norm, and get later and later.

But I think 2025 might be the first fiscal year America doesn't have a budget, we've only got 4 more months before the next budget is due lmao

People keep writing words on posters like fascist can't help but read something they see...

Their brains aren't even recognizing it's text.

But pictures of their leaders edited to exacerbate their worst physical features?

That hits them where it hurts.

After the agents looked through his phone, he said he was denied entry to the United States and was sent back to Norway.

People keep acting like this is new, it's been like this since 9/11...

If they "suspect" someone, they don't want to just let them walk away if they're right.

So if you don't comply, they assume the worse and detain you and throw some trumped up charges about obstructing. But they don't even have to do that, they literally can (and likely have) ship you straight to Gitmo for life. Hell, cops even make these kinds of threats to US citizens during traffic stops. Law enforcement has been able to just make wild threats to get people to comply for like, forever

Silver lining at least, people are finally realizing this is an insane process and hopefully it's one of the things we get to fix.

Because we sure as shit can't just spend four years discussing if we need to limit all these govermental powers that have been racking up again. If we get the chance to fix shit we have to actually fix it.

with that appearance, that demeanor, that expression, that posture…

Obviously I think Schumer is a piece of shit, but what are you talking about?

Fuck Chuck.

He's like one of those "protest police" that just shot a guy for legally carrying a rifle, and in the process murdered a bystander.

In their heads they're are heroes and the only ones smart enough to decide how every one else should act. In reality we'd all be better off if they just stay at home and watched CNN.

We're the minority party in a country ran by fascists...

We can't afford to have someone as cowardly as him leading the Senate.

The best way to have a Dem win the general, is a healthy primary.

If it's not then the only way shitty Dems get out of office, is giving the seat to a Republican.

The myth that primaries hurt in the general is a lie spread by neoliberals. It's bad for them because if you compare a neoliberl to literally anyone that's not a Republican, they look like a turd sandwich.

Absolutely disgusting to see the Pelosi quote tacked on at the end though...

We can't let the very people who opposed progress latch their wagons to it when progress happens in spite of them.

Why do you think I'm talking about the DCCC?

Why are you being up Jefferies?

I'm explicitly talking about the DNC, so is the article...

Even on your first reply, you explicitly said "DNC"

You're mad a superdelegate that pledged to Hillary in 08 after Obama won the primary is leaving the DNC?

To you, that makes the Dem party more like the Republican party?

Can you clarify why that is, it just doesn't make sense to me...

It's like everyone forgot billionaire owned media fucking lies...

If a billionaire tells you the DNC is fucking up, it's worth a closer look. Because the goal of billionaires is almost always opposite to the goals of the Dem voting base.

The Guardian might be "on the left" but that's using the same metric that would put Coumo "on the left".

You're talking about the "victory fund" Hillary started....

They're doing the opposite now, where they're giving all the money they hoarded back to state parties.

And that can be used for state level campaigns in the general. But they're not going to giving money straight to individual state level campaigns anymore.

The response to decades of neoliberals fuckery isn't to do the same fuckery back against them. It's going back to how shit used to work, and that's more than enough to get the neoliberals out of office.

Quick edit:

To be clear, I agree that old strategy was counterproductive.

It's just that we've already fixed it.

People just don't know because MSM wants the average voter disengaged from the Dem party in hopes it depresses dem primary turnout enough a neoliberals can squeak thru.

Please don't fall for it, we'd be wasting our best chance since before Jimmy Carter to get the party back on track

The DNC is the National party...

What do you think they'd be doing about Congress members?

Huh?

Two neoliberals superdelegate, at least one pledged for Hillary in 08 after Obama won the primary...

Both on the committee that didn't follow DNC rules for the vice chair...

Same committee that's been rigging primaries for neoliberals....

I get why the MSM is trying to lie about this and acting like it's a bad thing, but I don't know why so many people are falling for it

The voting members of the DNC elected this chair because they're over neoliberalism.

And neoliberals have never really been fighters, so now lots of them are leaving the DNC.

Like... This is a good thing.

Someone else told me the same thing earlier on a different comment...

And I just gotta disagree.

I've been criticizing Israel's monetary relationship with American politicians for about 20 years now. Before Facebook was invented even.

Never been "cancelled".

I didn't want to explain it because I was being lazy. You can 100% talk about why it's an issue, especially here. If you find yourself being "cancelled" then you may want to take a step back and re-evaluate what you are saying and looking into the validity of it.

I mean, right now we're on one of the major communities on our instance, openly discussing it...

No one is being "cancelled"

Have you considered that my comment might have been intended to be the entire lyrics to 80s Belgium techno anthem Pump up the Jams?

Sometimes we have to take words at face value.

They’re all complicit

What?

79 voted for it, if you don't think that's fucking huge, you don't understand how bad it's been

Shit is improving, quickly even.

But like ~20% of the House openly and publicly going against Israel? Thats significant and the trend looks set to continue.

And I shouldn't have to say this...

But ~80% is less than 100%, so no, it's not "all".