"The ‘moderates’ got *their* candidate in every single election in which the Republicans nominated Trump: 2016 Clinton, 2020 Biden, 2024 Harris… and they lost to Trump two out of three times. And now they’re going to blame *the left* for that? No f*cking way."
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Wapo Fareed Zakaria claims Ezra Klein puts Kamala to the left of Biden Clinton
So damn avoidable.
The moment the effects of bringing on Plouffe, Garin and so on became visible (Walz acting cautious and polite, Harris and Walz ceasing to expose/mock 45's craziness) it all stopped.
Piers has now gone full on with the most bonkers of conspiracy theories.
Check out his opening monologue in his show with Ana Kasparian. He outright claims Biden's admin tried to shoot trump.
Would love it if you could cover this.
It's 5m40seconds in.
https://youtu.be/MkEZXp0GJe8?si=NlpihSpfE0UU3buE
But for some reason, people still go on his show and give him an air of credibility.
And, unlike Obama imposing austerity on Main Street, spent a ton of dollars for public purpose
But to think Sanders’s policies are “radical” is just saying both FDR & MLK were unacceptably radical
My point was Biden was considered culturally moderate.
That’s very true
He did NOT need to let them off the hook for committing fraud
Nor did he need to impose austerity on Main Street.
Creating the largest wealth transfer in American history & the slowest recovery in American history
And created the fastest recovery in American history
Even faster than FDR
Abortion: legalize up to the 3rd trimester-last month depending who you ask. Legalize 100% in health and rape cases.
There. Leftist positions on all of those.
Including a Job Guarantee
As in The March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom
FDR was our centrist compromise between Communism & Fascism
2) Kamala Harris
3) their collective campaign management team
4) Whoever told them they were doing fine on Gaza
5) Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema
6) People saying the economy was “doing well”
…
11) Voters who stayed home
1. Get off your can and push for electoral reforms that are bound to raise turnout.
2. Play it safe, point the finger at nonvoters, and repeat the lame message "Vote for the sake of voting!"
Someone's killing the messenger...
Instead, people chose to dance to the tune of the YMCA and the macho-macho man😂😅😀
There's no question that this played no meaningful role in that election's outcome.
"calling Harris a moderate is ridiculous."
Correct; she's conservative.
So she was going ever rightward, you said it was ridiculous to describe this as moderating, so I pointed out the proper characterization: that she was becoming much more conservative. And then you objected.
And, of course, fled for your original assertion re:Sanders voters in 2016.
And turnout wasn't any higher among people who'd voted to nominate Hillary...
✅ The Stock Market
✅ Inflation
✅ The Border
✅ Infrastructure being built in your hometown
✅ Codifying of marriage equality
✅ Worker productivity
✅ Your mom's prescription costs
✅ The # of people with health insurance
✅ Wage gains
Spoiled children just like to bitch
Won’t change ish for me anyway. :)
Good luck!
I’ll be voting for small government, free trade, and efficiency.
White churches gave us trump. The religious right installed their guy who they think they own.
But we wouldn't have even got Trump the first time if Democrats didn't rig primaries.
https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/
Fuck those performative leftist! Performative leftist are glad that Harris lost. They don't want a highly successful black woman as president
I can see why black people are so done with the American Left.
A party that makes genocide possible and refuses to change course doesn't deserve votes.
There's very little separating people like you and Trump voters. You both are ready to sacrifice other peoples' lives.
Harris wanted a ceasefire. That's not going to happen.
Your anti blackness and sexism aligned more with MAGA.
Really you're willing to sacrifice the lives of women, minorities and the LGBTQA.
This is public knowledge. VPs can push and effect policies.
Biden-Harris admin wanted only a limited ceasefire and when Hamas accepted it and Israel refused, Biden-Harris claimed otherwise.
Just say you hate black people in power next time.
This is happening now, you are supporting it, and clearly care nothing for the victims, including the 21 000 children killed and missing under rubble.
Have fun screaming into the void. Have fun yelling at black people.
It will be mostly the same people who have been demonized for opposing the genocide.
Keep telling yourself that your 3rd party vote was a moral victory.
In the mean time, under trump, Palestine will no longer exist.
Biden, Harris and Trump all support ethnic cleansing and annexation.
Billionaires
That’s why Democrats always nominate a corporate Democrat who gets along with the Republican-oriented, corporate class.
AND
The far left were, is essence, operating as pro-trump activists.
Good example of why the US needs more than two parties.
I suspect most (maybe all recent) elections are determined simply by "Are people unhappy?". Who's at fault and what change is offered are distant considerations.
So disgusted when anyone trashes the Harris campaign. She was amazing. She did everything right! He had so many powerful ppl and media helping him look legit when he’s not. Giving him passes when he’s nuts.
Popular Vote 08-24
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'04 '08 '12 '16 '20 '24
Popular Vote Margin of Victory
2024 Donald Trump | | 1.60%🔴
2020 Joe Biden |||| |4.45%🔵
2016 Hillary Clinton | |2.00%🔵
2012 Barack Obama ||| |3.70%🔵
2008 Barack Obama ||||| |7.20%🔵
Nah, it's safer to blame the apathetic left...
"If you aren't with us, you're with the Bad Guys" is a mindset that may win wars, but it tends to lose elections...
The Democratic Party's job is to make them care!
There can be no compromise, no appeasement—they are losing strategies.
And now? There is no bargaining with a fascist. History has taught us that.
Lean left. All the way. Engage the unengaged. Tap the coming outrage.
Identify the enemy.
End the oligarchy.
Just like they did in 2016 when the “Left” gave me a 6-3 Supreme Court.
Either it’s a bipolar system or it’s not
Hint: it is
If the Russians were enabling a nation's war crimes in the same way that Washington's been enabling Israel, we'd be quick to hold Russia responsible...
Four years later there was another election and Bernie STILL couldn’t get more than 35% of the democrat vote.
What gave me the SCOTUS was a temper tantrum by “leftists” who didn’t vote or voted 3rd party. In 16 & 24
BTW, more Republicans voted Libertarian than Democrats voted Green...
You gave us Trump twice and you bitch and moan that “democrats”
It’s a bipolar world. You failed every left of center person in the nation
You know, turnout wasn't any higher among people who'd voted to nominate Hillary...
And, THAT'S why Bibi will annex the West Bank and the free Palestine crowd will have enabled it.
Not gonna argue that the "genocide Joe" crowd, largely made up of fake GOP and Russian accounts was wrong. We already saw they were
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-makes-2000-pound-bombs-available-israel-undoing-bidens-pause-2025-01-25/
Jill Stein: ~ 500,000 votes
RFKJr: ~ 500,00 votes
7 Right-wing networks spewing propaganda care of Russia, China, Iran
90,000 registered voters didn’t even vote. That’s more voters than both parties.
Credit where credit is due. 🙄🙄
Imagine being called genocidal for supporting a genocide, crazy times
But hey you got the Chaney endorsement
Maybe self scout a little instead of pointing 👉
Sit down!!!
Even Liz Warren was tired of his sh't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0YRqSGwCaI
Still losing!!!
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where people shout trump but at the same time Joe says the ICCs decision is outrageous. religion has nothing to do with this
Now that that's settled, what's your vision?
If you had the ability to recreate the system what would it look like specifically?
Second - the left gets blamed because the left stays home or votes third party. Your blamed because you back stab your coalition.
Secondly, I haven't noticed turnout being any higher among centrists than leftists...
We’re trying to make a party that reflects our idea of representative governance and society
Where in all of that is it reasonable to ask a leftist to vote for a Dem? Dems aren’t leftist and leftists aren’t Dems.
Second - you vote that way so we don’t get a fascist. Because the reality is, you gave up people’s rights to save your ideological purity. And that is disgusting.
Genocide is disgusting
Criminalizing homelessness is disgusting
Arguing for extending prison sentences because CA needed free firefighters while not making those same people able to become firefighters is disgusting
Ad nauseum
Nothing about my vote was based on ideological purity
The deportations are on you.
The loss of Ukraine and Gaza is on you.
US Femicide is on you.
The rise of fascism in the United States is on you.
We deported a record number this year
Biden funded the Genocide in Gaza
Femicide is happening now with how Dems refuse to fight Republican Governors. Already. Happening. Now.
Most of the fascist stuff happened under Dems including death of reporters
You’re lost in the “team” aspect of this, ignoring the horrors inside your own house as well as how complicit Dems have been in all this. Watch. Any opposition will be performative.
Roe? Glass Steagall? Seriously, watch.
That's why it's unreasonable to expect the left to put defeating the GOP ahead of everything else...
This was not because the nominee wasn’t left enough.
We do not need left wing Trump.
Just stop.
Remember how many candidates they won saying they would win by running left.
Remember how they took down their results page.
This is why they did that.
https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Justice_Democrats_PAC
Trump has not brought GOP towards the middle.
Any chance you can join Hamas and leave us alone? Maybe they'll let you rape and murder a woman as a sign-on bonus.
Thats rich people abusing the system. They’re the same that way.
So they blame us.
I hated her campaigning , still door knocked, volunteered, donated to progressive victory fund !!!!
Maybe TRY CAMPAIGNING WITH SOMEONEPPL ACTUALLY LIKE !!! INSTEAD OF LIZ CHENEY
https://youtu.be/X3hXeEiFcJM?si=uOh6pQOd_zHAkdLg
2. Kamala has been a California Progressive for years. She tried to move to the center over the last few months. It’s hard to make that transition believable though. She actually ran a pretty good campaign.
She represents all the people we really needed actually and she has that thing that breaks through to people's souls. If Gavin could pass the universal healthcare bill here in CA (it's popular) he'd be the guy
This just encourages a further move to the right to try and beat them on their ground but people actually want a real choice!
None of the more lefty people you could put up would win a primary. Help us move everything further left by getting us votes, then we can argue about how far left once we’ve trounced the fascists
Mantra for unity: “we’ll fight later”
Failure to learn now will guarantee future defeats...
Do not for one minute think that it has gone unnoticed that Dem men, PARTICULARLY LEFTIST “Dem” / “Progressive” Men have been right at the very heart of two of those losses
& Do not make the mistake of thinking that it will ever be forgotten
Women See You
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So, get this straight. You get NOTHING from the 31% of WW & 92% of BW who understood the assignment until you get yourself & your misogyny in f*cking check
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Both the far left & @thedemocrats better hear that loud & clear
You need us. But you f*cked us one too many times
None of you are better than the GOP RN
We all know tRump is going to fuck this country up, but he actually talked about inflation, overtime and immigration.
Thus reducing poverty and household reliance on bank loans
And creating the fastest recovery in American history after Trump caused a huge recession
We just didn't have a loudmouth yapping about it on major news networks.
We need people who can truly connect with Blue Collar voters, much like Bernie Sanders.
I think a lot of blue collar people felt cheated the way Bernie was pushed to the side.
Stop the “tax payer money” crap
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