i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.
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Elissa Slotkin told Tim Alberta why her response to Trump's joint address did not touch on a laundry list of priorities from various advocacy groups.
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Dems like Slotkin, and the consultant class in general, just continuously react to that playbook. No vision.
. . . For the MAJORITY not in MI, however . . .
(Is pollyanna the color of the clouds in your sky?)
The fallacy in your argument is your ASSUMPTION that critics of the Democrat Party are fellow travelers. As often as not, MANY of us are independents (Greens, Socialists, or others) who would vote Democrat if given a reason to do so.
… Now, about that tent? …
It also wasn’t attention-grabbing enough to go even a little viral. It just pissed off engaged parts of the base.
Slotkin was too afraid to even connect trump's name to anything bad!
And it doesn't help how the news is reporting on what's going on. They're failing
Like most in the Democrat Party, relatively unevolved and not potent for THIS moment. (But maybe, as suggested, she reflects her district/state?)
A word or phrase that just shuts down discussion
Right wingers are quite good at this.
Am I overthinking this??
What will it take to finally put down the Zombie DLC? Good grief
would I like a latte of what? Gimme a coffee.
The Democratic party base is divided, and the media is largely useless, so Democrats can't decide on messaging.
I bet nearly half of Americans not only believe that decades-old chestnut but have also even told it themselves.
"We relieved 8 complaints and ad you know 1 complaint equal one BILLION people!"
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now
They won't act unless they're more afraid of us than they are of Donald Trump
It's been 60+ years of hearing "reasons" why they're choosing the Republican party in national elections ever since it became illegal to stop Black people from voting.
They just choose the opposite of what Black people vote for in every national election for the last 60+ years.
Maybe they're a west coast thing. 🤷♂️
Intersectionality griping, however, is a 2016 holdover.
Trump is president because Biden screwed up. If inflation had peaked at 4% Joe would still be in the WH.
Is this yet another case of “Blame the medics for the traffic accident”?
As someone who lives in Michigan. Slotkin needs to grow a spine.
Also, fuck Ronald Regan. May his grave be forever soaked piss.
Alligator plague in New York City.
You can fill a dictionary with these absurd beliefs.
I don’t have a US example, but in Australia it looks mostly like this, with the respective first nation aboriginal people the land is on interchanged depending on the location.
But her messaging has always been like this. This is most Michigan democrats. They've been this way since Reagan.
the only ones tone deaf are the dems leading the party.
Or maybe that was Occupied Seattle.
I honestly want to know. Because any liberal voter (or non voter) I’ve ever talked to or know thinks they are too far right and hates how weak they’ve handled this fascist takeover. So who are they talking to that says different than that?? I want to know.
And D) is better than R). No disagreements there. But it’s like being fed small amounts of PFAS in my water rather than just drinking a bottle full of bleach.
Like Trump, but Lite.
Everybody needs to fight the stupid narrative instead
You know - most people don't use it that way.
Here's my take: those folks singled out to look ridiculous on LibsofTikTok? I saw plenty of that -- it wasn't rare in progressive circles at all. I guess it depends on if you find them ridiculous or not.
Democrats shouldn't just respond to the Fox caricature of liberal politics as if it were reality... and crap like this does exactly that.
I’m sick of the whining.
I’d vote for a f*cking blue head of cabbage to avoid this ketamine and ketchup destruction.
No candidate will ever be enough for BLUE MAGAs who continue to discourage apathy voters from showing up.
The left has morals and we stick with them. “Blue no matter who” didn’t work. Ignoring progressives hasn’t worked (Hillary lost being center too. Biden only won due to Trump being awful and voters having the memory of goldfish.)
I’m sure in 2030 the dems will lose again and blame the progressives again too. It’s their calling card. Cannot admit fault of their own. Makes them nearly as bad as MAGA.
Meanwhile, the template needed is right in front of them: @sanders.senate.gov & progressives.
The antithesis of Trump is Bernie Sanders populism.
All Americans are hard working. When the fuck does it pay off Ms. Slotkin? That's what your message should be: delivering legislation/programs benefiting working class folks at all levels
Get in the life boat first, THEN worry about what the moral action is.
There is example after example of corporations and Dems leveraging the culture wars to not be held accountable on class issues
Trans activism is a good example of this.
Transwomen (transphobes love focusing on transwomen) are always asked about sports and bathrooms, because if they're busy talking about that, they're busy NOT talking about changes they want to see.
I hope you don't sneer at it. It means something here, even if you don't get it.
Ok, carry on.
https://bsky.app/profile/politico.com/post/3ljplvo3ohc2c
Bernie: *launches nationwide tour of rallies in Iowa, Nebraska, and other red states and districts that swung toward Trump in 2024*
Democrats: no not like that!! we don't want a movement we want a Cuomo!
I'm trans. I'm around these movements, these people, and the whole 'pronoun policing' isn't a thing.
As two-faced as you could believe.
For reasons that likely have to do with naked self-interest, they have decided the key to regaining power is doing very little to stop Trump, and hoping that the public will solely blame the Republicans for the mess that he causes.
Whether general elections are free and fair enough for that to matter in 2026 is a separate question.
The most childish stance we can take
Please let’s avoid as much destruction as we possibly can.
We can’t wait a year
No way 4 years
Even the rubble will be toxic
Crockett should be running the shit and everyone else should follow her lead or get tf out.
https://youtube.com/shorts/gLmL5BVe1nA?si=Au7wJexzu6WPlSi7
conjecture on “land acknowledgement” and “pronouns”
Because Slotkin has definitely slapped at “identity politics” that needs to in her words: “go the way of the dodo”
Its a bad mix against a unified group on the other side.
(i know this bc i have done pronoun trainings for them!)
"without exception"
Dems certified an insurrectionist.
"The American People voted for him to shake things up"
no, he was elected to reduce prices, end wars & all on day one.
THE PRESS ARE THE FECKLESS ONES.
We live in a country of idiots
Why would anyone want Temu MAGA?
Our parties are sooooo broken. 😭
Temu MAGA is spot on.
Then again, we still have native people living here, so it makes more sense than Virginia. 🤷♂️
Since smart people don’t care about them and stupid people really really hate them, and we need a decent number of stupid people to vote for us, I’m find with conspicuously dropping them.
Here is one article:
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/10/1127837659/native-land-map-ancestral-tribal-lands-worldwide
We can only try to the best we can with what we know. BUT willful ignorance is not OK, so most of us have a lot of work to do.
Today is a beginning. Let me know what you find out.
https://bsky.app/profile/realworldrj.bsky.social/post/3ljdhgthaus2j
2. Make Nancy Pelosi somehow disappear
You might want to "do Number 2" first. Pelosi made a sport out of destroying insurgent Dems who dared to primary wishy-washy "Democratic" incumbents. Ask #AOC about that.
Entirely forgettable, I'm afraid.
If people have their feelings hurt over respecting pronouns and seeing land acknowledgements, they should be encouraged to seek therapy, not coddled.
They may be the ultimate in utterly empty performative righteousness, but they don't hurt anyone, no.
Of all the stupid-ass things to get your panties in a bunch over, this one is in the top five all-time.
Yes, my fellow whites, OTHER PEOPLE lived here before we did. Deal with it, you fucking snowflakes.
But I’m sorry, if learning new things is so hard for them, then they shouldn’t be in public policy 🤷🏻♀️
Most D politicians don’t even try.
Why not defend people's right to say these things instead of denying it actually happens?