We laugh at Trump selling idiots gold shoes but this is the exact same thing - ThreadSky

coachfinstock.bsky.social • 88 days ago

We laugh at Trump selling idiots gold shoes but this is the exact same thing

The document is a battle plan to identify and cultivate elected officials, a PAC run by Lis Smith, a new think tank, a new media organ populated with old faves, and some state-level organs modeled on a thing in Texas, where Dems have consistently lost support since 2018.

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peoriabummer.bsky.social•88 days ago

Same thing with more steps.

theultrasecret.bsky.social•88 days ago

Lis Smith: “What’s our plan for woke?”

Matty Y, not looking up from phone: “What do you think of this, ‘border cross(ings) will make dems jump jump’?”

nakiajpnw.bsky.social•88 days ago

Imma laugh at them both.

pwallinga.bsky.social•88 days ago

We already have a moderate faction within the Democratic Party. It's called the Democratic Party.

peoriabummer.bsky.social•88 days ago

Moderate factions all the way down.

pwallinga.bsky.social•88 days ago

Somebody needs to start a party that's just called "Fuck Those Guys," where it's a foundation of progressive values but a thick, thick veneer of "fuck those rich twats in power. Who? You know the ones. How? By making it easier for the little guy! Yeah! Child poverty tax cr-- I mean FUCK THOSE GUYS!"

pwallinga.bsky.social•88 days ago

The official FTG answer to "yeah, fuck [marginalized group]" is "hey, that's my neighbors, they're good people, [specific humanizing example], why are you talking about my neighbors like that? They do something to you? Or are you one of Those Guys?"

noahjnelson.com•88 days ago

They lost me at “organize a leadership committee.”

mountainmusings.bsky.social•88 days ago

Centrists helping centrists do absolutely nothing.

greenander.bsky.social•88 days ago

This obsession with turning Texas blue is infuriating. You can’t even turn out your own base reliably but sure, roll out Dick Cheney and campaign in red states.

timothystamm101.bsky.social•87 days ago

If we could do it that might make the Republicans sober up or destroy themselves because they'd have no path to the presidency, but it's a pipe dream if you're not doing it by pushing the New Deal and the Great Society and more progressive politics. People grounded in that politics were the last...

timothystamm101.bsky.social•87 days ago

...democrats from Texas that could win. Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, and Anne Richard's the last of whom ran on education and cleaning up the state government.

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