Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023
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Some of the quote tweets here are stating the obvious but yeah, of course the main plan was for Biden win the election, which was looking pretty unlikely by late 2023
Giving Harris 100 days to put a campaign together clearly didn't have a 100% chance of success SO WHAT WAS THE CONTINGENCY PLAN
Before Biden dropped out I remember how I'd ask on Reddit what the Dems plan was and the response I would get almost unanimously was, "shut up, people will just have to vote for him over Trump or else..."
The joke was, we all get the emails from the dnc when Republicans succeed, which promise our donations are going to go towards formulating a plan to react to the bad thing at some future juncture.
Sorry, I have terrible adhd and am actually terrible at explaining my humor
The city ntingency plan was what it always is for them… run to the right and when that doesn’t work blame their failure to stand for anything or wage effective campaigns on the left
Which is wildly insane because July was when the media was all over Pr*ject 2025, and ya think they might have known by then that Biden was not going to win.
This is a very good point actually, and it’s maddening to see that liberals are instead focusing on shit like *still* trying to attack and guilt leftists who voted 3rd party (most of which I’m willing to bet lived in blue, Kamala guaranteed states)
I live in FL & what a lot of people forget is that P 2025 was already being implemented in red states w/not a peep out of Dems. That should have been a clue on their response on a federal level.
Even if they started planning in November it would be better than what they are doing now. How’d they not spend 2.5 months getting ready? I’ll never understand
Theyve always been like this. The democrats are a big tent for losers who can't hack it in the GOP. They don't have any cohesion or leadership beyond class interests that align them with capitalism and fascism.
Part of TFG getting elected was a total failure to amplify or even notice the achievements of the last administration. Only criticisms. Surprise, low turnout! Now we blame those we left without leverage? Press GOP members—that’s where there’s vulnerability. Hold those responsible to account.
Heard Kwame Raoul (IL AG) today mention planning for months with other state AGs about what to do if project 2025 was implemented. It made me that much more furious at Durbin and everyone else who had no plan.
from a distance i get the sense national democrats didn't really think thru what it meant when the republicans chose to let covid kill their own voters
it seems like the big inertia of the fundraising work encourages holding onto assumptions (about 'third rails' etc) much longer than useful or safe
If anything, they thought that HRC should have been crowned in 2016, got scared and offended by Sanders giving her a challenge and failed to accept that her majesty Clinton the second didn't happen.
Somewhere a half mile below DC, the best and brightest 87-year-old centrists are sequestered in a secure DNC compound working on their own 900+ page plan for 2028.
So far it's just a copy-paste of everything in Project 2025 about trans people and then hundreds of pages of the word "Hillary".
Join the party & be the change.
I’m not saying you don’t do a lot to effect change, but in this instance you’re criticizing a party that you’re not actively trying to shift.
It’s not sexy work, but it beats spitting into the wind.
Attend meetings, run for something.
Start here: https://www.lacdp.org/members
It would help if the party had not made perfectly clear that one had to support the genocide in Gaza before you were allowed in the door. Which is something that I, and many like me, cannot stomach. https://youtu.be/rkxLYHPQUzk
@k8em0.bsky.social are you okay with that? Because I need to know.
Great! But to change the party you have to be in it. Run for something, or if you can’t run for whatever reason, join the local party organization’s endorsement committee to help promote an entire slate of candidates who share more of your values & would have a better contingency plan for all this.
@k8em0.bsky.social last time a progressive won a position in a state Democratic party in Nevada, the entire staff quit rather than work with a progressive. Meanwhile in DC the Dems are gleefully helping fascists attack migrants, leftists, students...
Well, the point these people are making and I think it’s valid on some levels is that the Democratic party is fucked as is the whole two party system. So to say join and be the change means that the system is even changeable and not rotten to its core
The democratic party's primary purpose is to stifle any hope of a better world, by co-opting any energy people have to work for change and channeling it into useless neoliberal bullshit. Volunteering for the party ought to be avoided like poison oak.
No, not being endowed with social, political or fiduciary capital makes it quite a bit more difficult for me—a useless tranny with a suitcase of mental illness and no money to pay the rent—to change the world.
As it says, it's not really *a* citizen that changes the world, it's *many* of them.
Remember how Obama left his successor a drone strike program, Guantanamo still open, ICE still at full force, and several elderly SCOTUS justices? I mean, Hillary was going to win…
Their plan is to scream and whine a lot, and raise enough money from doing this to live lavishly, same as always. And, if they ever regain power, to do precisely nothing with it other than corrupt insider trading. The Democrats are a Potemkin party. If they ever win, it's entirely by accident.
I'm afraid the contingency plan was to ask for MORE contributions and outrage. Personally, I'm done for awhile with lost causes. My money is going judiciously to ACLU and organizations who will use the courts to challenge what can be challenged.
“Keep our powder dry for when the REAL fight is on us” — just like in 2002 and 2004 and 2006 and 2010 and…. MEANWHILE LET US KEEP DOING THE COMITY, GENTLE SIRS
you're assuming the DP leadership cares all thar much about winning elections. as long as they win enough to keep the big donor tap flowing, they don't care. the rich fucks in DNC leadership can afford to weather this storm, they'll be fine, they can uproot to their second homes in blue states
Even if they won, that’s just kicking the can down the road four years while more pieces are put in play. Counter-planning was (IS) necessary irrespective of how the election shook out.
Omg I have been saying this. Like why did we bury our heads in the sand while handing off an impossible task to Kamala? Why did they fail her so spectacularly? And then to never address the actual things that are affecting our economy at the moment and just be like, THE MARKETS HIGH
If this is about me, I am autistic and may state the obvious sometimes, but when I said it I very much did not mean that it was a correct thing for Dems to do.
Just wanted to clarify in case my comment came off kinda frustrating. I’m with you. I woulda much preferred all that money we needlessly donated could’ve gone to THIS
Honestly the fact that wealthy donors saw her spike in popularity from saying "these guys are weird" and took her aside to get her to stop campaigning because it was too rude is the perfect encapsulation of the adage that Democrats don't want to win and that's continuing into Trump 2.
people voted against the democrat's plan and the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint won. what is weird is how so many of the people celebrating the dem's loss still believe they should be saved by those same dems. the optimal plan involved people voting democrat and people fought against it.
this political science professional did not expect that. the incentives in our system do not reward creative thinkers. Remember Hillary vs Bernie fiasco....
Christ on a bike! How many evil, soulless, sociopathic, narcissistic, suck-up m’fers are there out there? Eric Adams and Bob Menedez in addition to the broligarchy? Cape up….we need the our own billionaire blue Avengers. Where the fuck are you?
No. Every republican is responsible for this-all of it. No picking & choosing which issue/outrage they can distance themself from. Every one of them owns all of it. It’s been clear since the Access Hollywood tape who he is, and everyone who didn’t denounce him then signed on for this with no qualms.
They are quickly suing to stop any illegal methods. They are ready to go to vote down any nominee that has a chance of getting 4 defections. They tore RFK Jr to shreds today. How about you spread clips like that instead of complaining that Dems are doing nothing? Because that's certainly not helping
I’m not surprised. The right wing has worked on this for 60+ years, starting in the states, moving on to the courts, now finishing w/the federal govt. Many of us saw what was happening & screamed for Dem leaders to respond effectively. Instead, they shoved their heads up their asses! 🤬
I think they really believed that common sense would prevail, and vote them into power.
But, for some reason, people thought a third-party vote was viable.
And worst of all, many people did not cast a vote at all.
That’s what gets me… the whole election I kept thinking “What the dems are doing is what we were taught not to do in PolSci 101. But surely the managers for the presidential campaign know what they’re doing better than me, who got a B in PolSci a decade ago”. And uh…
Gary Johnson or whomever it was running on the Libertarian ticket ate a lot of those third party votes, so it hurt Trump just about as much as it hurt Harris.
The only thing they can attack right now are the cabinet picks and we are several seats short of that. The EO activity must be opposed in the court room by parties with standing. The CA fire aid, debt ceiling, and budget will be the battle they fight.
Yes, where are the people who said they would be prepared to deal with Project 2025. Did Democratic congressional staff members read it and share concerns or ideas. They’ve known who would be in charge since November…
The plan was to maintain power, but America flunked the easiest political test ever and gave it back to Team J6.
I hear complaints like this alot, but asking dems to unilaterally stop bad things after we collectively voted in a way that strips them of that specific power is magical thinking.
America voted Trump out in 20, and the Democratic Party slow walked any consequences for J6 because they wanted Trump to just go away. He didn’t. Voters took from that that J6 must not have been that serious since he faced no consequences for three and a half years.
He was good. No question. But focused on trying to win votes in rural/middle America and they hated him, made a disastrous pick for AG, and was too old and feeble to get out and sell his successes (which existed!).
Oh and a ghastly foreign policy in the Middle East.
Unfortunately, they always seem to be behind the 8 ball. Like they're shocked that this things are actually happening..
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I think their plan was to hope the old pro-Israel guy won, and then when he started talking about Scranton in the debate and staring into space, that shifted to hoping everyone would recognize how competent the lawyer woman was and she would win.
Pretty sure that was their entire plan.
Ha! You think that's surprising? Our government called a whole referendum on whether we should leave the world's largest trading bloc and NIETHER side had a plan for the eventuality of a yes vote.
I still have faith in the party I've been a part of for 43 years. It's fine to be critical, but after a while it sounds like Democrats beat up on each other more than they do trumpets. Which seems unproductive.
Sorry but there is no effective plan to combat hate, racism, misogyny or revenge. Jesus, the Christ could’ve run against Felon #47 and the majority of white people would’ve voted for him. Have the hard conversations with the white people who chose hate over competence.
I kinda thought that Biden would have sat down with all of his advisors to game out the likely scenarios of a Trump win & what they could do in advance to mitigate any possible damage.
Same goes for leaders of the agencies now being decapitated. They had all that info they could’ve released—which appears to be the first thing they’re destroying, along with anyone who knows what’s in it.
Same. I’m not sure it’s a good thing when a lowly ICU nurse seems to have a better grasp on the onslaught of evil to come out of that document than the Dems elected to Congress.
Carter saw the direction this country was headed through the eyes of a statesman. He did his best to share what he saw and was rebuffed. Considering where we are now in terms of resource depletion, environmental degradation, and climate change it would seem his vision was pretty accurate.
They are outlining their strategy in order to really nail those thoughts and, AND those prayers coming our way with the fundraiser email, i still haven't gotten oddly enough.
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"In the slides, which were obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Booker offered his colleagues guidance on how often to post on each platform. Instagram: once or twice a day. Facebook: once a day. LinkedIn: three to five times a week. X: two to five times a day. TikTok: one to four times a day."
And for which they already had a 4 year map from the first time around. This is gross negligence or collusion and collaboration. They need to pick one.
At this point, it seems like maybe they're just as disingenuous as the GOP. No plan, norms, and bipartisanship nonsense are killing us. If he's a threat, act like it.
none of them believe that. they're wealthy career politicians who will uphold decorum above all else even when things are at the point you're describing. i'm just surprised people like chad and yourself still don't understand this. they are not going to wake up they have no reason to
Wealth really warps how people understand risk in tremendous ways. It’s a health hazard, and we shouldn’t let it people get too rich for that reason alone.
Which is to say, they DO have a reason to wake up, they will NOT be protected by what’s coming, but they’re suffocating in the carbon monoxide of US exceptionalism and wealth-warped poor risk analysis, and they will smother in their sleep.
There is a correlation between their largely POC, Queer female and trans voters and the middle finger we've been getting since Biden's candidacy. "You should be grateful even for this" vibes from the whole party, up and down, even in Blue states. We aren't "real" constituents to them.
That sure would’ve been nice, wouldn’t it? If there is one, it sure isn’t being well advertised to the 70+ million of us that did not vote for the monster currently in the White House.
Oh I suspect they were absolutely CERTAIN that the election would solve the problem for them, keeping them from having to actually make choices and do stuff.
I had some discussions with folks before the elections. My impression: I was the only one who read it. Reminded me of my time at a catholic boarding school where I (then 11) felt like I was the only one who actually had read the complete book. School policies and Jesus were not exactly aligned.
They had a plan. Point to the blueprint and use it to try to persuade the {checks notes} 48.3% of the electorate listening to them that it would be a very, very bad thing.
Turned out the 30% of the electorate who thought it was actually good & those listening to something else added up to 49.8%.
Now, that's enough time to also have a Plan B, "just in case" a close election went the other way ... which regularly happens in close elections ... but I guess it would have harshed the buzz of those pushing a positive vibe.
This X 1,000,000
I’ve seen people talking about how Trump supporters rally and party and I think liberals need to think about ways to meet up and be together. Globally would be great. Were the majority, we should exploit that.
I know its been the plan since the 70s, the reason the dems domt have a counter steategy is theyve been busy running interference for the last 50 years to make sure it happens
Yeah the republicans have been building narratives for decades and the democrats can't even stick to universal healthcare for more than 2 election cycles because they don't give a shit
The democratic party isn’t just some poor guy being unfairly saddled with all the responsibility. It is an organization that exists for a purpose, and right now that purpose must be to obstruct this administration by any means necessary. If they are unwilling to do that, they are useless.
One person blocked 400+ critical military promotions for 10 months. The idea that the minority is powerless is a myth promoted by members primarily concerned with their ability to maintain the privilege of insider trading.
They got tagged with Rude by Aaron (caught with his pants down at work) so they have the ~~scarlet~~ Rude letter until Aaron removes it. Same as TERFs that get the "intolerance" label and bitch about it. It's just how Blue Sky's label moderation works, it's account wide. 😮💨🤦♂️
If the Democrats can't do anything, as you truly believe, then you defending them would be just as pointless as others blaming them, because they'll give the GOP carte blanche and roll over, right?
Or are there things they absolutely can do, but you believe their inaction should be given leeway?
There seems to be a not-too-small consensus that it is the Dems prerogative to now let the country go up in flames b/c they lost. How they plan on surviving said flames remains to be seen.
I don’t know man. Maybe I’m just a stupid commie, but it doesn’t really make sense to be spending all of our time fighting about who some people should have voted for instead of organizing and adjusting our message to oppose this fascist organization.
The problem is the concept of a plan. The thinking is what makes it fail. Americans (they have proved it, over and over again) don’t give a shit. They’re dumb, and tired, and don’t want to talk about shit much. Lean into that. Just tell everybody the nazis want to give you cancer. Then say it again.
The entire Democratic party is about doing what the olds in charge tell you to do. They're not interested in anything the common member had to say. Glad I quit that loser party of fascist enablers. We need a real opposition not these idiots and cowards.
These are professional politicians that we elected and provide with a salary and paid staff to make these plans. That is their fucking job and they're simply not doing it.
Bro. this is so disengenuous. Like us joining our local party would have changed their policies. We did use our voices, we told them what we wanted many, many times
feels like a really weird move to take shots at the dude that's like straight up been hunted by fascists for the work he's done that organizes and volunteers for mutual aid like is your goal here getting fed jacketed or something
You actually can’t join the Democratic Party. It’s not an actual party or we’d have voted for the nominee or we could have voted Biden out. Given that you lack even this basic knowledge of US politics, maybe stop questioning those of us who do.
the person you're replying to just spends all day responding to people along the lines of "you need to FIGHT" and "did you vote", of course they believe that any random citizen(Not them of course) could have stopped this if they wanted to.
A liberal loser with a lot of numbers in his handle asked what I’ve done, and I enumerated all the actions I took over the last 15 months, and he blocked me when I asked him what *he* had done lol these people are dog shit
Anyone CAN join. And if they want to succeed, they have to follow the pro-corporate bullshit that is the Democrat party line.
But if actual progressives show any sign of gaining a foothold, the establishment fucking obliterates them, because they value the status quo more than winning elections.
Why are ya’ll always like “just run for office if you wanna complain,” when folks offer valid criticism at the ineptitude of our current political leaders?
We have seen repeated proof that the Democratic Party will move Heaven and Earth to block any movement leftwards while they act helpless to stop Republicans
I love when these guys tell me that my vote will change things when I live in Buffalo and literally watched the Democrats team up with the Republicans to defeat a progressive mayoral candidate that won the primary
The Dem Party isn’t some open, democratic institution where anyone can just “join” and shape policy. It’s a deeply entrenched power structure controlled by corporate donors, party elites, and establishment gatekeepers. You can register as a Democrat, sure, but that doesn’t mean you joined anything.
Hey, you are just outright wrong. US parties don't work like political parties anywhere else in the world work. There is no membership, you don't pay dues. You can declare when you register to vote that you are party affiliated, but that has no influence on the party itself, just on primary voting.
Going to meetings did NOT help us disabled folks. We WARNED them that pushing the status quo will not win them the election. We offered an entire platform based in equity, sustainability, and justice. They rejected it.
They refused to let a Palestinian-American speak at the Democratic convention.
It's great to be optimistic, but Democrats aren't listening to us. Us disabled folks have been trapped in poverty stuck with guidelines that haven't been updated since the 1980s, and Democrats leaders keep shelving any attempts to update those. We've had to engage in mutual aid to help us survive.
The Democrats keep speaking of "reaching across the aisle" as fascists take over the government. You can't reach people threatening to kill you. Going to meetings and pushing for most equitable, just, and sustainable policies has been at a dangerously slow pace that we don't have time for.
And in rural southern and midwestern areas the local county Democratic Party is often just a meeting place for ancestral dems who are 70+ years old who have been voting dem since LBJ and do nothing but talk with each other about their lives. What do you suggest for people to do in areas like that?
I challenge you to google “democratic party meetings near” and then pick a random city. Come back to me when you've found an open “party meeting.” You’ll find tons of fundraisers and town halls but you will struggle to find a single planning or coordination meeting open to the public.
Like we haven't seen how openly hostile the party is to the actual leftists who did recently join the party. They spend more time cutting off AOC at the knees than they do anything to oppose Trump.
Why would I bother joining a weak, counter-revolutionary, centrist "party" that would only leverage whatever clout they have, in order to marginalize and censure me anyway?
Back in 2008 Geraldine Ferraro made clear the DNC's position on actual leftists.
What would it say? We warned you this would happen, now it’s happening, there is nothing we can do to change it now, which is why we warned you when you might have voted differently and it would have mattered.
I hired experts and pay them with my tax dollars, give them free healthcare, and let them insider trade to figure this out
I guess they could do what you suggest and simply play defense with no ideas of their own to inspire people, but id think we pay them enough to do more than that
I mean, they kept telling us to wake up because it was going to happen. Did they not believe it themselves? If they did, how could they not have been working on a worst case scenario plan, cause damn that would be quite handy to have right now.
Democrats are a minority in both chambers of Congress. So they're powerless there. However Democratic AGs have already been suing the administration over the birthright citizenship EO and the funding freeze EO. Do you actually have a specific idea of what more they should be doing?
If you thought the dems would be ready, I'm sorry. They are probably now getting around to being ready to release a plan to combat Newt Gingrich's Contract for America. These guys are NOTORIOUSLY bad at this. I bet some of the younger dems could whip something up though...or have something ready.
Stopping legislation is not the same as stopping appointments. Republicans only need a majority in the Senate for those, and they have it. But for legislation, they need Democrats to cross over, at least in the Senate.
Plan seems, unsurprisingly, to hide behind women, Black women and women of color in particular, while the tidal wave of shit hits the fan and pushes us all over the glass cliff
considering how many campaigned around how dangerous it is, it’s honestly gross negligence seeing the initial & largely only reactions be “uwu smol beans.”
Dems know how to govern but suck at politics. They need to learn to do both and stop playing by the rules that no longer matter. If you want that change, then join up. Find a local Dem to volunteer for. In a red state, work remote. Influence the change you want rather than yelling into the void
they're very good at politics when it comes to mobilizing vast political, diplomatic and military resources so their fascist allies can slaughter infants and toddlers by the tens of thousands.
they're very bad at politics when it comes to ever opposing their fascist allies.
I think they overestimated the intelligence of the American public, not hard to do. The R's on the other hand tried to underestimate it and still probably overestimated it.
The idea of voting for a convicted felon/sexual abuser, who also is a known child rapist blows their minds. Sadly too many did
Same here,the only faction of the Democratic party showing any type of resistance is the DEMOCRATIC WOMEN PATRIOTS. Get your act together before the transformation of Democracy to Authoritarian rule is entrenched in any form. History will not be kind to any of you who did nothing while others died.
I am stunned, absolutely stunned, about this too. I told everyone that Harris was a respected prosecutor and a Black woman. She was *always* prepared, six ways from Sunday. She had a plan for all of it. There must be more that we don’t know regarding her.
But the rest of the Democratic Party?? WTH? Not one of them is doing a thing. None. Not Obama, not the Clintons, the whole first three rows at Carter’s funeral! Either there is something so big that none of us can know it (and I don’t believe that for a second) or they’ve deserted us all.
I don’t mean like that, but I feel they should be out there doing whatever they can to mobilize people, make noise, anything. But I’ve heard nothing from them.
Did you really? They had 4 years to stave this off then 2 months to harden systems since the election, and they did none of it. Dems have proved over and over they just…won’t step up.
I'm not surprised before, but they better have a 2000-page plan to reverse everything Trump did and prevent it from ever happening again, something like the "26-28-30 Plan" for winning back and holding power in the next three elections.
Their plan is to post things on social media that we already know and tell us that they’re working on a plan or that “god is on the throne”… whatever that’s supposed to mean.
Well they don't know how to stop "governing". The base has to communicate that we will be willing to go through complete closure of government rather than whatever this is.
And they let Trump steamroll the narrative surrounding it. Traditional old-school Dems have made it their mission to simply try to get voters to not take Donald Trump seriously. That’s been the messaging since 2015. And it’s not working nor has it ever.
The Dems are way too much of "public servant" to gunk up the works to point of government closure. They cannot be the party of civil disobedience as they are today.
When the western world allowed the barbaric destruction of Gaza, I knew whatever was left of liberal democracy was finished. I can’t be shocked anymore.
I feel only anger mixed with grief. This group seems to have a plan. https://democracyforward.org/partners/
Its never the politicians who have The Plan - they are just public-facing. Mostly fundraising.
We* need a think tank body that schemes as much as the Federalists/Heritage do. That takes deep funding.
I guess allowing "Free Palestine" ppl to break windows and harass ppl and in parallel warning the public that the Dems don't rly have a vision but YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THEM OTHERWISE ORANGE MAN didn't have the expected effect huh,
You dont think that chest thumping performative outrage while simultaneously cooperating behind-the-scenes is an effective strategy for stopping literal Nazis?
That's a pretty bad plan when the presidency was so close, the Senate map was nearly impossible to win and the house tends to go against an incumbent president
Effectively countering fascism requires a level of real action and activist policy that the Democrats:
a) lack the political backbone to carry out, and;
b) would not be allowed to engage in by their corporate masters
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Giving Harris 100 days to put a campaign together clearly didn't have a 100% chance of success SO WHAT WAS THE CONTINGENCY PLAN
Sorry, I have terrible adhd and am actually terrible at explaining my humor
Appreciate your reporting
I'm genuinely curious. Not exactly getting "5-dimensional political chess" vibes from the caucus right now
it seems like the big inertia of the fundraising work encourages holding onto assumptions (about 'third rails' etc) much longer than useful or safe
Honestly, i think that the DNC hasn't been able to plan, deal, learn, and adjust for defeat.
So far it's just a copy-paste of everything in Project 2025 about trans people and then hundreds of pages of the word "Hillary".
I’m not saying you don’t do a lot to effect change, but in this instance you’re criticizing a party that you’re not actively trying to shift.
It’s not sexy work, but it beats spitting into the wind.
Attend meetings, run for something.
Start here:
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@k8em0.bsky.social are you okay with that? Because I need to know.
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We’re both activists & we’ve both created companies out of thin air.
We have a good chance of changing the world because we already have.
We can all do it if we try.
As it says, it's not really *a* citizen that changes the world, it's *many* of them.
And thus the Dems breathed a sigh of relief and said it’ll all be fine.
Ensuring that America continued to help Israel commit genocide was super super important. Took a lot of focus.
Things like stopping fascism had to go on the back burner.
Besides, with Liz AND Dick Cheney on board they knew they had it in the bag.
Daily. Even after they lost.
Because they raised a Billion dollars, some of that could have been used to prepare a plan.
These fuckers were grifting and made millions to lose to DJT *TWICE*
Same people who said dems deserved to lose now demand that the dems save them.
They refuse to change what apprantly works.
how about they just vote down all of them
if this is a fascist regime, and it is, why not vote down ALL of them
do you understand how fuckin impotent you look typin that baby shit out
the #NAR #NeoapostolicReformation movement.
Over 2 - two - decades. But it did not catch on in the vast public sphere.
But people could still catch up with him:
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But, for some reason, people thought a third-party vote was viable.
And worst of all, many people did not cast a vote at all.
They exposed it. It was mentioned over and over and over.
The ones who voted for Trump never read it. Or if they did they liked it.
'Keep our heads down and hope we're not first against the wall.'
I hear complaints like this alot, but asking dems to unilaterally stop bad things after we collectively voted in a way that strips them of that specific power is magical thinking.
Sorry dude, they’re a failed political party. Collapsed democracies are full of them.
Oh and a ghastly foreign policy in the Middle East.
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(We are so fucked)
Pretty sure that was their entire plan.
"The cruelty is the point"
And
"The helplessness is on purpose"
So, I absolutely still have faith.💙🇺🇲❤️
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now their backup is videos of politicians making sandwiches
"Last week, Mr. Booker delivered a PowerPoint presentation to fellow Democrats about how to deliver their message online."
While the other candidate lies, crimes and constantly pivots from accountability.
Trump's shit is next level stinky.
He's already downed America in one big crash and Dems are trying to deploy oxygen masks.
Eject Trump NOW!
These fucking cowards can't even plan for what they'll do when the 80 year olds die off.
Turned out the 30% of the electorate who thought it was actually good & those listening to something else added up to 49.8%.
The fault, dear Brutus...
btw I'm not saying that I and my community don't have a plan. We can't afford not to. Just kinda marveling at the fecklessness
https://youtu.be/l5JqRCxO9fQ?si=u6EnGWeoudgKh61v
I’ve seen people talking about how Trump supporters rally and party and I think liberals need to think about ways to meet up and be together. Globally would be great. Were the majority, we should exploit that.
Their plan seemingly was "hope we get away with doing a genocide and seemingly nothing else in an election year, then pikachu face when we lose"
Somebody got a real thin skin
Or are there things they absolutely can do, but you believe their inaction should be given leeway?
They obviously thought winning would put a hard stop on the fascist plan that’s been in ongoing works since the early 1970s.
They clearly didn’t/don’t have any contingency plans.
That mindset is why Dems lost.
We beed to get rid of the dems like Pelosi and Schumer. Move the party toward AOC and Bernie. Get rid of the greedy dems
What were YOU doing
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2023/06/29/pulling-out-the-rug-what-happened-after-dsa-and-bernie-supporters-took-over-the-nevada-democratic-party/
Neither party listened, then.
#GeneralStrike gonna surprise you?
We TOLD them what we wanted, we responded to walz before they muzzled him. Takes like this are so quisling and milquetoast
Admit they fucked up. Admit it. Its easy.
Kinda weird you're starting shit with (apparently from your tl) ideological compatriots for no good reason.
What were you doing in the democratic party to help formulate the plan
For example:
https://m.facebook.com/IdahoLegislativeDistrict7Democrats/
what's that you have to be rich and in bed with even richer people and giant corporations and also a soulless ghoul
like okay but like do they have a secret menu maybe?
And we were right.
And they're still not changing course.
But if actual progressives show any sign of gaining a foothold, the establishment fucking obliterates them, because they value the status quo more than winning elections.
that's why bullshit posts like "why oh why don't the Dems have a plan" are such bullshit
Dude you can literally go to meetings!
They refused to let a Palestinian-American speak at the Democratic convention.
Being a member of the party confers no more rights or power than joining a fan club.
Back in 2008 Geraldine Ferraro made clear the DNC's position on actual leftists.
The Democrats exist to thwart progress.
Seems to work pretty good
I guess they could do what you suggest and simply play defense with no ideas of their own to inspire people, but id think we pay them enough to do more than that
Not sure how you expect them to do anything when they don't have power to stop it.
https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/stop-project-2025-task-force-launches-confidential-tip-line-for-trumps-secret-180-day-takeover-plan
https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/at-historic-hearing-huffman-highlights-dangers-of-trumps-project-2025
It's time to stop kidding ourselves. This is who the US is. Too many like it or simply do not care.
they're very bad at politics when it comes to ever opposing their fascist allies.
What were we thinking?! 😒
(I know she isn’t leading the Dem House caucus anymore, but she is still pulling strings to ditch Biden and sideline AOC)
The idea of voting for a convicted felon/sexual abuser, who also is a known child rapist blows their minds. Sadly too many did
They are not the answer.
A Plan B in case Harris did NOT win the Presidency seems pretty basic.
It was a bad plan.
I feel only anger mixed with grief. This group seems to have a plan. https://democracyforward.org/partners/
We* need a think tank body that schemes as much as the Federalists/Heritage do. That takes deep funding.
*Progressive, NOT 'Democrats'
(Not only) In the USA.
its actually to pay off the debit money owed to Beyonce for endorsing Kamala in 2024
🤣🤣🤣
a) lack the political backbone to carry out, and;
b) would not be allowed to engage in by their corporate masters
The Pelosis and Schumers of the world are fucking worthless.