This has honestly been a rather stupid trend I've seen, with many criticizing dems more for "not doing enough" to stop trump... more than they're criticizing trump.
A lot of them seem to be former Bernie supporters... just saying 😅
Neoliberal NewDemocats got us here to begin with. Progressives are catching up with 100 to 109 in the house. They are both Democrats, but one puts their allegiance to big business above the people. Those are also the ones not doing enough compared to the progressives. Not stupid - just reality.
I'm not a former Bernie supporter and I've been accused (only once and by a sensitive unknown Bsky)...yet, I'll say if we fail to look at how this happened, we will fail. It's called accountability. This does not mean our position is "wrong". It means we need to learn how to reverse this correctly.
Looking back is one thing, but when the argument is just "if we'd only elected Sanders none of this would've ever happened," I find that more than a little silly-- and why I single them outfox being particularly obnoxious.
I criticize the Milquetoast Party & have for years. They refuse to use the Fascist Dictatorship Party playbook against them, going as "business as usual". It hasn't been for decades. They seem unable to adapt. If they did, maybe the Convicted Felon/Sexual Assaulter wouldn't be re-infesting the WH.
yes, political theatre a decade late will accomplish much, let's criticize progressives of our own party instead of the fascists and let's keep our superpac happy so we can lose to fascists..excellent strategy since 2015, then blame the progressives for your out of touch hypocrisy
outrageous 4 the people 2 expect healthcare as in every other developed nation, Green New Deal, end 2 trillions MIC/genocide! outrageous! corp Dems serve their donors in direct opp 2 populace and planet, health ins ind, MIC, oil, Wall st, women like myself smeared as Bernie bros bs!
Yea, they need to do more than "criticize." They need to ask themselves, "what would the Republicans be doing in our position?" and DO THAT. I guarantee you it's not "have your minority leader go on camera, shrug and meekly ask, 'What can we do?'"
I disagree. It's a good visual for people to SEE elected government officials being locked out of government buildings. It's visual and it helps. It's good to see their faces out there.
I agree with you. We need to see what's being done, the visual is important. However, I wish the Democratic leaders would come out more against what's happening. It feels like they are sitting on their hands. However is not their fault the Republicans have control of everything in our destroying it.
the lawsuits are good. who’s enforcing the rulings? who is making sure execs are following the law? they are blatantly disregarding all illegalities of their actions and the democrats are going “whoops 🤷🏻♂️ nothing else we can do.” come on man
Holds on nominees are more a procedural hurdle at best, & as minority they've no power to enforce requests to the executive, set hearings, or do proper oversight.
playing by the rules is no longer an option. the republicans do not care about the law, so the democrats going “this is illegal” isn’t going to help. they know it’s illegal. no one is stopping them. i cannot say on a public platform what they *should* do
This! And it would also be great if an informal coalition of GOP ex-pat strategists would make a point of sharing what they do, with the peoooe who can choose to do it. There are a lot of them.
They did that mostly by demonizing half the population as insidious traitors, keeping everyone perpetually angry & affraid, lying about near everything, & promising people whatever dumb shit they wanted to hear.
Idk that's a model to follow unless you're a sociopath.
Exactly, they are not people you want to emulate. I don’t know what the solution is for Dems’ to improve their messaging, but acting like MAGA is not it.
It’s a little tough getting the message out when the opposition owns most of our media. Faux News won’t give us 24/7 free advertising (propaganda.) We have a responsibility to learn the truth on our own if necessary.
@schumer.senate.gov It boggles the mind & rends the heart - your abject refusal to act in the face of this
Once we survive Trump & Musk - there will be NO cowards - NO Nancy Pelosi - queen of the pretend action - nor you Schumer - a new movement with candidates of strength & courage who will ACT
and losing every time. And still attacking possible voters. Because that's how to beat the MAGA Nazis...attack Democratic Socialists and progressives. Sigh. Reality is Blue MAGA is as stupid as Red MAGA.
It’s all cult of personality. It’s gross, regardless of the object of worship.
These are the same people saying “identity politics” (read civil rights) lost them the election and throwing every marginalized group they can to the wolves.
I respectfully disagree. Hakeem Jeffries's presser was beyond embarrassing. "What leverage do we have?" YOU'RE THE MINORITY LEADER, YOU SPINELESS COWARD.
When in fact, YOU are doing exactly what MAGA does - uncritical blind faith to your leaders.
Spouting about the obvious shit that is this Oligarch take over does nothing but make you feel righteous and you punch left to assuage your guilt.
#BlueMAGA #Genocide
Me as well. I stuck it out after Bezos hired Murdoch’s Brit but Bezos decision to stop the endorsement, cartoon-gate and sev’l of the journalists I actually stayed for moving on made the decision easy. we canceled a few months ago.
Naw, probably just cause they don't DO anything. Except fundraise, and take massive amounts of money from industries with diametrically opposed wants as the constituents they're supposed to be representing
Probably just that. Normal corruption stuff. The kind that is acceptable, says dem leadership
Washington Post is trash, no doubt, but the core concept of criticizing the dems is solid.
They're the ones lying to us and saying they represent our interests. Trump and the reps have been out in the open with their cruelty and class warfare for decades at this point.
They presented as dead centrist. I think we got as advertised all around including the pretty predictable failures, especially Biden.
They may well deserve criticism but right now it seems besides the point.
I wish it were beside the point, but its really not.
Their corruption and inaction is a massive part of why we're here. Garland failed to pursue charges, now trumps back in office. If Garland had done his duty, we wouldn't be here.
And dem leadership is doing exactly nothing about it.
Pretty much. The only "liberals" allowed at WaPo now are reactionary centrists. They feint express a facade of social liberalism, sympathize with the right, and constantly punch left. Don't be fooled by them.
No one in his own party likes Vance, but if he were to take over for Trump (not going to happen--Elon will see to that), they would still back him unquestioning. They hate "half" of the country that much.
Democrats have always felt it's better for people to be inside the tent pissing out. Republicans don't have a tent. They stand outside the Democrats tent and piss on it.
Poor guy cant hold his ground, eating his owners ass is the only thing paying his bills. I still hate a weak minded person like that. Your job takes away your freedom right of speech, you are a slave. Period! No freedom to write anything but dicksucking ass-eating getyourassfucked by trump...
I cancelled months ago. Thing is these big accounts on Bluesky and X haven’t canceled theirs. It’s all about the number of followers, clicks, exposure. They are part of the problem.
Still weighing this. I’m waiting at least till the conclusion of Anne Lamott’s 12-week series on aging ( we just got week 9); but also waiting to see if any other writers I enjoy (Ruth Marcus, EJ Dionne, Dana Milbank, Eugene Robinson) follow Jen Rubin out the door.
BECAUSE ...
you're an idiot
you have zero morals and ethics
you suck ass
you were dropped a lot as a baby
you act without thinking
you have been kidnapped & someone is pretending 2b u
you are a douchebag
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The chickenshit motherfucker has me shadow banned from replying to his posts, but yeah. Because they betrayed us, their voters, by refusing to do anything about election fraud, and when we get done fixing this ourselves we're going to try them for treason.
The Democrats believed that sending Israel hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to commit genocide by slaughtering and starving Palestinians was important, while making sure that Trump could never come near the White House again was not. The Dems betrayed the people and are traitors, too.
Democrats thoroughly ignored their constituents. They believed they would win because they were not Trump. They are arrogant and just as self-interested as Republicans, they just are better at pretending they care. If they cared, they would have shut everything down the minute Musk got involved.
There are a lot of entitled abuse-enabling men even within the Democratic Party. Their first allegiance is to the benefits that get from this entitlement.
So does the Media.. they mentioned Hunter Biden’s pardon more than they did Trumps pardon of a pedophile and the insurrectionist murderers. Plus he hired one of them!! That should’ve made headlines for weeks. Nope.
Yes it does they use the democrats morals to basically beat them down by saying see they can't even live up to their standards while Republicans have slowly made it where their platform it hey look what this group of people are doing that's terrible while Republicans are taking rights and money
The leaders of the Democratic party successfully stopped both of Bernie's anti-oligarchical runs and I wish they put that much effort into stopping the actual oligarchs.
You're a oligarchs apologist all that donald trump and elon musk are doing is stopping investigations into themselves and getting revenge on people that they deem enemies
“Because Dems don’t have their own brainwashed New Apostolic Reformation cults with TV & radio channels pumping propaganda into homes 24/7/365” is more like it.
Blaming the scapegoat is easier than exposing the abusers.
The New Apostolic Reformation sounds like the name of the Christi-Facist city state located right next to the Techno-Facist city state these idiots plan to build on the husk of United States.
I'd say because you are nothing more than a lick spittle. A man with no spine, morals, empathy or social conscience. You represent all that is wrong with the msm in this day and age. Basically, gutless.
Greta Gerwig inserted Nietzsche's existential perspectivism deeply into "Barbie." Even Ken's clumsy attempts to court Barbie were a metaphor for your clumsy attempts at Truth herself. Are you Kenough?
We started homeschooling after equity gutted my son's gifted programs as vehicles of white supremacy. Only 13, he is making straight As in college. His teachers keep saying he is the best student in his classes.
Notice how these women ask if you are coming with them. She was always conspiring with the priests and other forces of decadence. The quote below was the inspiration for Barbieland. 🤣🤣
🚨AI is turning healthcare into Wall Street’s Next Crisis-The Black-Scholes model📊, once used to hedge financial risk, now polices treatment. 🤖 When healthcare is treated like a volatile stock, patients become commodities, and doctors become targets. ⚖️ https://doctorsofcourage.org/trading-lives-ai-predictive-analytics/
Maybe you should actually read that article. It really isn't a pro-Trump article. He's saying you can only criticize a snake for being a snake so much; but he expects better from Democrats. Only a handful of Dems have really fought back. He's not wrong here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/17/democrats-trump-opposition/
I agree.. the Dems waited to long.. and should have insisted on a recount! But now not having one branch of government there’s not much they can do.. but constituents are.. republican and Democrat..( not MAGA)and hopefully these laws suits will help! Dems didn’t think he could get away with this..
I disagree about the constituents. I've talked to Republicans and MAGAs. There is a stark difference. Not to piss people off, but think of MAGA to Republican like ISIS to Muslim. They may fall under the same umbrella, but they are not the same.
This is why I say the political parties are broken. Too many people strictly vote their party and they instinctively disregard anything from the other party. Taking your information from any sole source makes you pray to their reality. I think we're seeing a lot of that right now.
Moi, citoyen Français,ne pensais à aucun moment que, malgré Donald Trump serait réélu 😱 Jamais de ma vie je n'aurais pensé que vous, les Etats Unis, basculeriez un jour et puis ... Il me revient en tête le film "Civil War"sorti l'an dernier. J'ai l'impression depuis de vivre un mauvais film 😑
I've lived a lot of places; west coast, the South, Northwest. I've spent a substantial amount of time in nearly all regions of the country. Kinda hard to blame a single state for me :D
Everyone falls short sometimes. We've seen this coming for years and known project 2025 would be in motion if Trump won. This was their time to make a real difference and they forgot to get off the bench. Too many of Trump's henchmen have been confirmed with little resistance. that is the tragedy.
That's not to take away from the ones who have been leading the charge. There are some who are doing all they can, but too many have been too quiet. Their morals are only a problem because they don't seem to value them right now.
What we need are votes. Talk is cheap at this point without the votes. We have to get ready for the midterms but, tragically, that will be too late for the current cabinet.
Yes. That is the tragedy. But this is a democracy and Dems are the minority in both the Senate and House, slim though it be. It's simply not the Dems fault if they can't pick off a coward or two from the other side. Cowards are going to be cowards.
He expects miracles and maybe he should look in the mirror since he helped cause this situation. As for only being able to criticize a snake so many times, the snakes are wrapped around the orange’s finger. We have to unravel them. They HAVE to be criticized, harshly and often. No voters, no job.
His point was that too many of those Dems who have criticized him over the years seemed quiet when it came to handing agencies over to his loyalists and/or voted in their favor. No one expects miracles, only that our representatives do what we elected them to do. Helping Trump isn't that.
Alternative explanation: the Democrats are more likely to listen and respond to good-faith criticism. The Republicans, meanwhile, are a lost cause. They're well and truly in "2 + 2 = 5" territory now…
They are trying to make people think it was Democrats fault that idiots voted for Trump? A new low. It couldn't have been the algorithms all shutting down democrats message and promoting right wing propaganda and lies.
Looking at the poll numbers, it's not that Trump got more votes than he did 4 years ago, it's that Harris got less than Dems did in previous elections.
That's because Trump literally stole the votes and flipped them to him. Specifically, the people who voted only for Pres. They couldn't just add votes. It would have been obvious. So they stole the votes from Harris in blue cities while distracting poll workers with bomb threats via starlink.
How do I know. It's obvious if you look at the seven swing states, president only votes. Normally for as long as we've been tracking voting data, president only votes is equal to 1 % or less of the vote. This never changes. During the 2024 election, and only in the 7 swing states, they all
had 5 to 11 percent for Trump. If you flipped the overage back to Harris, the numbers not only make sense because bits now 1 percent or less, but she also wins. Trump and Musk cheated. He's told us, Musk told us and his kid even told us.
Some of Pro Palestine people were screaming that it was democrats’ faults that the felon got elected. I didn’t read WaPo opinion and I don’t know his opinion. Is he the same kind of idiot?
Harris could have helped herself, by taking a better stance on Palestine https://zeteo.com/p/poll-harris-democrats-gaza-ceasefire-arms-embargo
Polls show she could have won swing states, just by saying she would stop sending weapons to Israel. But instead, she preferred to throw the election? Why would she do that?
No because they are supposed to be the party of the people and lost horrifically and continue to do next to nothing in the face of corporate autocracy.
Being "anti-republican" cannot and should not win you brownie points.
Self-deprecation can be a form of masochism and thus may actually be just a form of self-pleasure. Nothing wrong with that from an adult journalist, just important to understand the mechanism.
I’m getting really sick of the GASLIGHTING! I was listening to Apple news podcast and the reporter was saying that Drümpfhürer has a 51% approval rating except most people don’t like Guantanamo bay. Everything else is Peachy Keen!🙄 Seriously!? I’m never listen to them again.
The problem is that they,the repubes, already couldn't give a crap about all the issues mentioned. So manifesting isn't going to do much about changing their minds.
It's about highlighting the shit so it matters locally. Republicans will literally never change, but they're not the issue, it's the 40% - 50% who either don't vote or vote in asinine ways that CAN change and be pushed to do something.
I agree. Dems should've fear mongered and promised the devastating deconstruction of our country. Clearly, that was the winning plan. Hindsight is 20/20. Even if you're on fire, and the country is on fire, and everything is on fire...
Sometimes I think this country can actually benefit from far left extremism. They wouldn't let the republicans live the comfortable life the way the democrats do.
You really don’t have to work for the mainstream media to criticize the Democrats. They are directly responsible for allowing Trump a second term. They did NOTHING to stop him! If Biden had just used HIS Presidential power after his election to arrest Trump and his cronies for sedition/insurrection
Decent America needs to Wake Up!
#SEXOFFENDER #CONVICT #Trump, his minions, and #MAGA, are Not going to read this!
All they want is this Dumb Headline-as another piece of Wrong Information to rally around!
America needs to use Social Media to Expose MAGA-and broadcast its own rallying points. 🇺🇸
I mean, I get that they can’t write articles everyday calling Trump an idiot and a baby back little bitch, but… at least a couple articles a month would help balance the scales a think…
I am livid about the DOGE sabotage in general and now, President's Day, the IRS access to records. It is time for this stuff to stop. I will NOT pay my taxes UNLESS and UNTIL Congress cuts this non-agency off! Inform people that DOGE has NO authority. Act. Now. This situation is unconscionable.
I wish more people would get on board with the not paying taxes plan. I feel like this would be more effective than marches or 1 day a month of not buying crap.
I criticize them more right now, too. They are doing nothing. Third parties would be wise to capitalize on this. It's too bad they are completely unserious.
Messaging could be better from some electeds, while others are doing well. I remain curious about the "practice" part, which usually falls back on fictional stories of what Mitch did, either before the nominee filibuster was scrapped, or involving legislation, of which there has been none so far.
Because he’s a small, worthless man who realizes he’ll never amount to anything with his own talent, so he sucks up to fascists in the hopes they might promote his work based only on his skill and ability to lick their boots?
I won't ever say there's nothing to criticize with the democrats, 'cause holy shit they got problems, but articles like THIS fuckin' trash are why we have the current crisis.
Exactly. I was having a discussion with some guy last week who was acting very kinda nose-in-the-air about how he was worried that AOC wasn't acting like quite the "firebrand" she was ten years ago, and how he hoped she wasn't drifting right like the others. I have no idea what he's talking about.
Granted, she is voting weirdly, but it's why we're in this mess as Kamala wasn't perfect enough as well as being a black woman. My mind is blown away by the young people who didn't vote because Palestinians
And even aside from the Gaza disaster, you had all these people who were like, "Wellllll, the dems just weren't interesting enough". Meanwhile literally the worst people on the entire planet saying the most insane shit daily apparently weren't worth voting against.
People voted for an abortions rights amendment, THEN voted for Republicans who EXPRESSLY STATED that they will undermine it. I truly don't understand voters in this country at all.
All while those non voters try to act morally superior, and acting like we don’t care about people. Meanwhile here in reality it wasn’t just one group of people, but many more who were going to be hurt by cons. Now a lot more people are getting and will get hurt because they didn’t want to vote.
So much for caring about people, or even doing the right thing. So much for caring about progress, when all we get is regression. It’s going to be hell to try to claw back any of this now. Especially because they are still so deep into the propaganda to think everyone should bow to their demands.
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A lot of them seem to be former Bernie supporters... just saying 😅
Though will say, many of their attempts to make political statements are cringe.
Just performative nonsense.
Not a rhetorical question.
Holds on nominees are more a procedural hurdle at best, & as minority they've no power to enforce requests to the executive, set hearings, or do proper oversight.
Idk that's a model to follow unless you're a sociopath.
As said above, what would the GOP do to get what they need - do that or some effective version of that
@schumer.senate.gov this is your fault - you & Pelosi who MUST be 100% out of it
Once we survive Trump & Musk - there will be NO cowards - NO Nancy Pelosi - queen of the pretend action - nor you Schumer - a new movement with candidates of strength & courage who will ACT
These are the same people saying “identity politics” (read civil rights) lost them the election and throwing every marginalized group they can to the wolves.
Esp since everything is passed through reconciliation these days.
That being said, yes. Terrible presser. You don't say that.
But it does highlight a salient problem on the left: people don't care if it's effective, just that it's theatrical.
Spouting about the obvious shit that is this Oligarch take over does nothing but make you feel righteous and you punch left to assuage your guilt.
#BlueMAGA #Genocide
https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
they assume a 40/40 split with 20 "in the middle" up for grabs
not only is this off-base, but it ignores the tens of millions of voters who are registered, but don't vote for president
A futura memoria,
il tuo nome e la tua faccia saranno nell'elenco dei responsabili.
Probably just that. Normal corruption stuff. The kind that is acceptable, says dem leadership
They're the ones lying to us and saying they represent our interests. Trump and the reps have been out in the open with their cruelty and class warfare for decades at this point.
They may well deserve criticism but right now it seems besides the point.
Their corruption and inaction is a massive part of why we're here. Garland failed to pursue charges, now trumps back in office. If Garland had done his duty, we wouldn't be here.
And dem leadership is doing exactly nothing about it.
Right Steve?
Just stop buying Bezos' offerings. If 20 million did this he'd crash like a farm of AWS servers.....
who is with me?
Srsly, tho, keep our Dems accountable and hearing our voice loud and clear. Don't get distracted, but remember to live!
you're an idiot
you have zero morals and ethics
you suck ass
you were dropped a lot as a baby
you act without thinking
you have been kidnapped & someone is pretending 2b u
you are a douchebag
?
All of the above!
And they continue to do so.
Because they don't care about the law.
Do you think the Republican Party will listen to criticism?
Fear is the motive there more than money.
But NEVER moreso than TFG!!!!
I’m not the only one who feels this way.
Blaming the scapegoat is easier than exposing the abusers.
Libertarian Right and Authoritarian Right made a deal. Authoritarian Left cheers it on bc they’re nihilists and need therapy. Not much help.
It’s all on us in the 🟩
Not just this post tbf, but so many others too.
This guy, probably.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/nietzsche/1886/beyond-good-evil/preface.htm
I even changed my gender to Captain Patriarchy, Master of Mansplaining. It allows me to become the very essence of problematic.
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/nietzsche-deleuze-marx-postmodernism-socialism
https://bsky.app/profile/koolaid80.bsky.social/post/3li3yuivzjs2q
https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickhess/2021/12/06/gifted-education-is-under-attack/
https://bsky.app/profile/katephyre.bsky.social/post/3lih7gi7wq22h
Check the link for related facts.
https://adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/women/facts
https://bsky.app/profile/joncooper-us.bsky.social/post/3lib3iescmw2g
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That is by far the most likely answer !
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/17/democrats-trump-opposition/
B: Damn you for making me need to watch that movie so I will know if you made a good point! 😂
This country is so lost.
There are always the suckups trying to sway the weak and stupid over to trumps side.
https://zeteo.com/p/poll-harris-democrats-gaza-ceasefire-arms-embargo
Polls show she could have won swing states, just by saying she would stop sending weapons to Israel. But instead, she preferred to throw the election? Why would she do that?
Being "anti-republican" cannot and should not win you brownie points.
I drove 3 hours each way for my state Capitol protest today.
On the radio all I heard were Dem critiques. Nothing about what these fascists have done, their defiance of statutes & the Constitution.
The people must rise up, NOW!
#NQNQ247
We are building. As we build it will accelerate. The people who are complacent just need to see that there are others out there to join with.
We build now positioning for the massive wave to come.
#NQNQ247
@standupforscience.bsky.social
This is very important. We are building a tsunami to culminate in a million+ in D.C. for intro of the articles of impeachment.
#NQNQ247
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#SEXOFFENDER #CONVICT #Trump, his minions, and #MAGA, are Not going to read this!
All they want is this Dumb Headline-as another piece of Wrong Information to rally around!
America needs to use Social Media to Expose MAGA-and broadcast its own rallying points. 🇺🇸
Plus having a job sounds more appealing just because
Supplying the Foolaid.
He has Cheeto dust on his neckline.
Whassup with that?
I love it
Psychopaths
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