A lot of this is very citation needed, but my takeaway from all of this is that these people realized that someone is going to want to primary their asses, and this is their argument that they shouldn't be primaried. We don't have to listen. - ThreadSky

courtneymilan.com • 1 day ago

A lot of this is very citation needed, but my takeaway from all of this is that these people realized that someone is going to want to primary their asses, and this is their argument that they shouldn't be primaried.

We don't have to listen.

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lauowolf.bsky.social•6 hours ago

We just need to take names
This is who *needs* to be primaried

courtneymilan.com•1 day ago

Assuming that our elections are still free and fair, Democrats are going to have the EASIEST FUCKING ARGUMENT in 2026, and literally all you have to do to lock your place in is to stand up to Trump consistently and not play stupid games.

courtneymilan.com•1 day ago

All that being said, if you want to stop sending me ninety thousand fundraising emails, please feel free.

wndlb.bsky.social•1 day ago

They want to move away from (your) dominance, I guess more in favor of K Street.
Explicitly.

courtneymilan.com•1 day ago

Anyway, I do hope that anyone who chooses to play these craven games gets kneecapped in the primaries.

tmoney2007.bsky.social•1 day ago

Speaking of "knee capped" I'd love to have video of a Dem candidate at a gun show...

courtneymilan.com•1 day ago

We don't really know who participated; anyone who thinks like this is going to show their hand.

courtneymilan.com•1 day ago

Hey, just to be clear: I know this is not all Democrats, and even that it is not MOST Democrats, but enough Democrats listen to this shit that we need to call it shit often and regularly.

odetteroulette.bsky.social•6 hours ago

It's not any democrats because this whole article is using a group of people who are NOT democrats to discuss what they think democrats should do.

Please I beg of you, since you have a larger following, stop using GOP propaganda like Politico.

jonmarcantel.bsky.social•1 day ago

I really want to know who these people are so I can walk up to them with a policy book and ask them to point out on the visual aid where the bad progressive ideas touched them inappropriately.

aurelius.quest•1 day ago

I wouldn't even be mad if they were recruiting people with this stuff to run in red districts like mine. But it can't be the party line.

kenburnside.bsky.social•1 day ago

I've been told that this is Third Way 'agitprop'. That this isn't Democrats talking to Democrats, this is Democrats being briefed on strategies by consultants who want the Democrats to be Republican-lite, pretty please, and could you find another Bill Clinton, preferably without the sex baggage?

adorasidhe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Easy way to find out. Primary anyone who won't support trans rights actively and vocally.

mystrangebones.com•1 day ago

Neither major party should survive this catastrophe.

jerryn13.bsky.social•1 day ago

The retreat was sponsored by Third Way, so I think we can make some educated guesses.

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•1 day ago

"move away from the dominance of small dollar donors" is an absolutely *wild* thing to say when the entire country is staking out the businesses of the largest dollar donor on the other side.

these folks hate winning.

lkrigel.bsky.social•1 day ago

"the dominance of small dollar donors" = campaign cash that crowd isn't skimming a cut from. Of course they want to move away from it.

courtneymilan.com•1 day ago

Seriously. I'm not really looking to replace Elon Musk with Mark Cuban.

eellk.bsky.social•11 hours ago

So what's the deal for rich people working for multi billion $ companies get to buy US citizenship?
So many things wrong with that, beginning with Cuban thinking it's a great idea.
Billionaire grifting still a grift

pixelfish.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s the business mentality of minnows and whales. (Actual terms you’ll hear when cultivating online businesses that track who spends with them.)

What you want is a healthy ecosystem AND for whales to not take over the messaging bc they have more resources than the whales/billionaires.

toughtink.bsky.social•1 day ago

and totally opposite of the “get out of elite circles and into local communities” bullet point??? do they hear themselves?

courtneymilan.com•1 day ago

"No purity tests"
"Drive out left-wing staffers"

mostlybree.kitrocha.com•1 day ago

almost never, I'm pretty sure. LOL

emptyjetseatbribes.bsky.social•1 day ago

yeah like ten a day is bad

jonpennington.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, all those fundraising emails accomplish is hiring the same class of Democratic consultant clowns who make us stand for nothing while still losing elections.

leenakassak.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes

davidmichaelpick.net•1 day ago

As a non US citizen, I think you're arguing that the Democratic Party should stop trying to win the next election and start trying to do the right thing now. And trust the electorate to recognise that when the next election comes.

Don't worry about losing votes, try to win them.

courtneymilan.com•1 day ago

No, I'm arguing that these fools don't know a damned thing about elections.

4023drew.bsky.social•1 day ago

As a U.S. citizen I think you don't know what actually wins elections, and just taking democrats at their word when they say "NO NO YOU CAN'T PRIMARY ME YOU NEED ME TO WIN ELECTIONS" seems foolish given how often "centrists" don't win elections.

freedahkaylow.bsky.social•1 day ago

As long as Elon's teenagers don't hack into the election machines. Something needs to leak so we can shine a light on exactly how Trump won in 2024.

tkingfisher.com•1 day ago

I’m wondering how many of them there are. I can’t find the numbers on the size, but you know how it usually is with the media—500 GOP are outliers, one leftist college student is Dem policy.

courtneymilan.com•1 day ago

Exactly.