Democratic leadership is incapable of seeing where the ball is going to be and refuse to do anything to get the ball where they want it to be. They just hope that by some miracle, the ball will miraculously end up in the back of the net.
Yes, they could have and should have kept this going. There are other stories like Abrego Garcia's. There's the makeup artist. Where is he from? His senator and congressman should go to El Salvador. Abrego Garcia's congessperson should go down to El Salvador.
We are the singularly worst resistance movement in the history of resistance. Our leaders are ABSOLUTELY pathetic. They live in this fucking fantasy world where some election which may or may not happen and DEFINITELY will struggle with legitimacy, is going to save them.
when your leaders aren't resisting fascism and are capitulating instead, you have to start wondering if the Simpsons were right about both party leaders being replaced by tentacle aliens.
What exactly do you think is the thought process of a hypothetical person who disapproved of him on immigration on April 24th but approves less than three weeks later, with absolutely zero change in immigration policy? Seems more likely to me this is just empty polling noise.
I think it's pretty common for something to have started before it stops. Maybe it's the correlation of the timing of events with changes in polling that matters?
If so, then Dems going to El Salvador correlates with lower approval for Trump, and stopping correlates with better approval for Trump.
every time someone tries to wax nihilistic like 'and half the country approves of this!' they gotta remember that access to accurate information is a big part of that, and the nominal opposition is terminally unwilling to treat anything that's happening as unusual or alarming
Another frustrating facet of this - with the sudden drop in attention I’ve started encountering people who just assume we got it sorted and everyone unjustly sent to CECOT has been brought back 🤦♂️ Low information voters really need constant reminders, and Dems shouldn’t hesitate to provide them.
Last I checked they're still listening to UK Labour, which is actively ceding the UK immigration issue to the fascist Reform Party, on how to win elections.
Nope. This is thanks to Fox News & racist voters who are happy to see it happening. Having Dems going to El Salvador won’t make Trump look worse. Not when photos show the prisoner in new clothes sitting at a table with a Dem & staged margaritas.
Imagine for the sake of argument that the Democratic leadership was a controlled opposition, either willingly colluding with the GOP or being blackmailed or whatever, doesn't matter. What would they be doing differently?
...Fuck the polls, history will remember complacency in the face of certain evil. History will forget if a random sample of the electorate got slightly more racist when you declared your ethics out loud.
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It's fucking deadly!
If so, then Dems going to El Salvador correlates with lower approval for Trump, and stopping correlates with better approval for Trump.
A collab could really get some eyes on what’s going on.
WTF?
He's a walking disaster IF you're willing to shine the light.
context: Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat) is the Minority Leader of the US House of Representatives.