Tell me why you feel this way. I've had a similar trajectory with my feelings about these guys (I just threw in Jon Stewart because I think he's smart and would get lots of votes). I'm curious as to what negatively impacted your feelings about them.
I wish I had a Democratic rep to yell at. Instead I have Darin LaHood, whose voicemail inbox has been full for 3 years and doesn't even autoreply to emails unless your net worth is above $10M.
They don’t even answer any of their phone lines in Colorado, let alone think they need to listen to people who wish to run as non traditional candidates. Just platitude filled emails and fake smiles.
In fact, that's one of the silver linings in this moment. Having, at once, (1) a bonafide nat'l political crisis; (2) a DemParty hamstrung by being so (a) institutionalist, (b) septegenarian, (c) self-defeatingly obsessed w/seniority; & (3) a leadership vacuum will
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...allow those who are better at commanding attn, framing issues & conveying genuine passion (e.g., AOC, Maxwell Frost, Jamie Raskin) to emerge as the dominant voices -- & they're the ones who *do* understd that failure to address those ethical shenanigans has cost Ds credibility w/everyday voters.
I suppose this is axiomatic, but communication & persuasion are key to electoral success. Of the 77.3M who voted for Trump, easily 20-25M don't particularly care for Trump & were reacting to changes in their financial circumstances, not appreciating several things about that change which militated
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...*agst* voting for him. The idea is to educate & inform those voters -- which, in today's media (attn) environment, means being able to reach people (most of whom, remember, tune politics out*) & get them to hear truth.
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* and will continue to if it's so the same dreadful, stilted messengers
I wish you all good luck with that. I don't anticipate being around, as a destitute trans woman, to try that. We've been working that angle from the left of y'all for decades, and billionaire donors with control of mass media and the money to fund massive campaigns have constantly won.
What do you think should be done? He's using executive orders, so congress has little they can do other than lawsuits (and doubly so for the minority party). There have been lawsuits about everything he's done. What more do you think they can do?
these mfs have had this playbook written up for years if not decades waiting for the right opening. i wish our side had even half their level of cunning and commitment (except for good things)
Agree, Void.
Democrat and Republican politicians, two sides of same coin.
No politician, of either party, gives a damn about the people.
It's the 99% (poor & working class folks) against 1% elitists.
And it's time for a Revolution.
#USOligarchy #AmericanOligarchy
#ClassStruggle #WethePeople 👍✊
The flurry of EOs makes one thing clear to me: Biden wasnt as powerless do things & make change as he made himself out to be. He just refused to, because he didn't want to.
Then again he told a room full of megawealthy donors in 2019 that "nothing would fundementally change", and nothing did
Eh. he hasn’t “gotten done” much of anything. he’s put a lot of shit of questionable legality into EO’s. If we’re doing a “break the government” speed run, then maybe it’s impressive? but like… any dipshit can break something
You're part of the reason why we have Trump, because all your too-cool-for-school lefty clique did was insult Kamala Harris & create fake bothsideing incidents
Lotta people who assured us that norms would protect us from the worst elements of Trump 2 are shocked to see the Democratic Party retreat to norms and do nothing.
I move we replace the democratic donkey with an anthropomorphic copy of Robert's Rules of Order like the Eddie Van Halen hamburger from Savage Steve Holland's forgotten masterpiece 'One Crazy Summer'
"Enraged Dem electeds are all over this app, Dem AGs are suing & have already temporarily stopped the birthright EO, & at a certain point you have to realize the minority party cannot simply DO SOMETHING, especially at the speed of posting. So this stuff here is just toxic"
I imagine that a lot of how you feel about the way video games have gone is exactly how I feel about how Democratic politics has gone, often down to the same cultural and financial forces
Good people who put a lot of thought & care into their work being destroyed & pushed out because they didn't bend to the short-sighted winds of the day, favoring twitch-reflex shallowness over anything long-term fulfilling or sustainable, leading to broad collapse & an ethos of value-free scrambling
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He isn't.
Colbert too, but Colbert is even worse.
Colbert though, Colbert is just a full network sellout.
We go to sleep
I guess I'll settle for yelling at Dick Durbin.
In fact, that's one of the silver linings in this moment. Having, at once, (1) a bonafide nat'l political crisis; (2) a DemParty hamstrung by being so (a) institutionalist, (b) septegenarian, (c) self-defeatingly obsessed w/seniority; & (3) a leadership vacuum will
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* and will continue to if it's so the same dreadful, stilted messengers
Democrat and Republican politicians, two sides of same coin.
No politician, of either party, gives a damn about the people.
It's the 99% (poor & working class folks) against 1% elitists.
And it's time for a Revolution.
#USOligarchy #AmericanOligarchy
#ClassStruggle #WethePeople 👍✊
Then again he told a room full of megawealthy donors in 2019 that "nothing would fundementally change", and nothing did
You're part of the reason why we have Trump, because all your too-cool-for-school lefty clique did was insult Kamala Harris & create fake bothsideing incidents
I get that’s too hard for the Blue MAGA cultists to comprehend though
I know Robert's rules of order because of my time as a local union president.
https://bsky.app/profile/coconnor8.bsky.social/post/3lgqptlwh5k2c
"Dems being a rule book to a knife fight"
AOC is out here posting like she's the last person left in the building pushing back and she might be right
THAT'S NOT HOW THEY WORK.
"Enraged Dem electeds are all over this app, Dem AGs are suing & have already temporarily stopped the birthright EO, & at a certain point you have to realize the minority party cannot simply DO SOMETHING, especially at the speed of posting. So this stuff here is just toxic"
Well except the insider trading