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baddestmamajama.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Oh so they’d like to lose forever

New: Last month, a group of moderate Democratic consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials & party leaders gathered in Loudoun County, Virginia, for a retreat where they plotted their party’s comeback.

We got their takeaways. t.co/bEwlg4jbtM

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tommooreiii.bsky.social•7 days ago

They learned NOTHING

mandoqueer.itch.io•7 days ago

good thing is they won't be able to make the far left stop making a disproportionate impact in messaging because the "far left" types are the only ones that do messaging

normwilner.bsky.social•7 days ago

Best way to keep the donations coming.

viridianth.bsky.social•7 days ago

• Re-up our commitment to asking for donations while also further ignoring them.

donmckennan.bsky.social•7 days ago

So it seems. (Something)-lite never sells while (Something)-real is still around.

clevernickname23.bsky.social•7 days ago

It’s what they’re used to doing.

cursed.monster•7 days ago

It’s Third Way, they specifically do want Democrats to lose.

nicsigni.bsky.social•7 days ago

I don’t understand the distinction between “small dollar voters” and “the electorate”

those are the same picture

nicsigni.bsky.social•7 days ago

*small dollar donors. lol, see? my brain knows they are the same.

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

Hey I’m happy they don’t want my money anymore, I’m sure they’ll stop texting any day.

kevholl.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yeah the logical gymnastics this sentence is doing: "move away from the dominance of small-dollar donors whose preferences may not align with the broader electorate"

cams365.bsky.social•7 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/cams365.bsky.social/post/3ljfzaqr6yk26

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

Amen.

reallydebs.bsky.social•7 days ago

Terrible ideas. Bombard every district including red ones w town halls, brag on D accomplishments that their constituents are benefiting from, expose the activities going on right now designed to crush them.

coyotefred.bsky.social•7 days ago

Left: "What if we were Right, but less?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

Look I liked Harris. But we just tried this. We platformed republicans at the democratic convention. Harris talked about her gun. She talked about important fracking is. She touted how murderous our military is. They muzzled Walz. It failed MISERABLY.

aizak.bsky.social•7 days ago

Not only did it fail miserably, it was a mid-campaign pivot, so we all got to watch it fail *in real time* *in direct contrast to what she was doing for the first month*

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yeah. The last night of the convention, I went “ohhhhhh no,” and it got worse every day after

adhdgobl.in•7 days ago

I never had a great deal of confidence in the Dem campaign, but the second the messaging went from the surprisingly effective "Republicans are weird and unsettling freaks" to the West Wing ass "I will appoint a Republican to my cabinet if elected," I knew they were completely and totally cooked.

davekornfield.bsky.social•7 days ago

You liked her despite her full throated support for genocide? Or do you feel the need to say that to avoid the Khive?

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

And I don’t know if she lost because the left hated those positions (and Palestine) or because even the moderate right hates women and especially women of color, but it doesn’t matter, it wholly and entirely failed in EVERY. SWING. STATE.

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

Imagine there are two armies on a plain, separated by a river. The army on the right builds a big fortress. The army on the left has decided it’s probably better to lay down in the river and see if anyone on the right wants to join them, while telling the lefties who their own fortress to get lost.

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

So what’s going to happen? The lefties who want the fortress are going to get the fuck out of there, decimating the size of the base, and the republicans are going to continue to shell the fuck out of the river-straddling dumbfucks who think they have the best idea.

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’m not a professional political strategist. But I’m also not an idiot. And when you’re building an army for an existential fight, you don’t say “ew, but not TRANS people, we’re leaving them behind, and not DISABLED people, they’re no fun, and not COLLEGE AGE PROTESTORS, they’re too noisy and mean”

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

Because pretty soon you’re actually saying “hey, we only want CIS, ABLE BODIED WHITE GUYS to be in charge, surely we can all agree that THEY’RE the normal ones” and then guess what, you’re now republicans.

topherceezy.bsky.social•7 days ago

My favorite cliche is growing less and less appropriate:
“The Democratic Party is the party of bad ideas. The Republican Party is the party of no ideas.”

johncastiglione.bsky.social•7 days ago

Biden had the instinct to ignore these clowns, but he didn’t actualize it and they led us to disaster in November.

davidm79.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why would they think small dollar donations wouldn't represent the broader electorate? Seriously?

kjbrowning.bsky.social•7 days ago

Once again, they are failing to prioritize the information environment. It doesn’t really matter what positions they take as long as there is a right-wing propaganda machine that is basically unchallenged. Most normie voters will only hear the spin.

theramblerouser.bsky.social•6 days ago

"Move away from small dollar donors who might not be in touch with the general electorate" like bruh, who do you think small dollar donors ARE?

aspwriter85.bsky.social•7 days ago

Jesus christ these fucking idiots.

xanboni.bsky.social•7 days ago

Seriously, how are they so bad at this.

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•7 days ago

I think that’s what they’re paid by their big donors for

xanboni.bsky.social•7 days ago

Dem consultants: don't make waves
Dem voters:

pentag0nal.bsky.social•7 days ago

The Democrats are gonna Republican-lite themselves all the way to the firing squad.

ogmcduck.bsky.social•7 days ago

They aren't interested in winning or losing. They are only interested in continuing to get paid for doing nothing.

sjworrier.bsky.social•7 days ago

This was a meeting of Third Way - republicans pretending to be centrist Dems in order to ratfuck our elections even further.

I hope we all ignore them.

nathanvn.bsky.social•7 days ago

DNC as a teen boy: It seems like girls want to date the quarterback, therefore, I'm going to impress them by trying out for punter.

ptomj.bsky.social•7 days ago

People are desperately crying out for a living wage, affordable living, a chance at buying a house, affordable healthcare, and to reduce income inequality, and the best these dipshits can come up with is "how about we go to a gun show and talk about God while waving the American flag?"

winterpancake.bsky.social•7 days ago

These guys forgot what an actual far left looks like, and i think it's time they're reminded

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