I think the left would benefit more from being open to socialists rather than coddling fascists
For a lot of red states, the exceptions have been FDR and 08 Obama…
Progressive campaigns wins votes. It just also pisses off billionaires so the candidate has to choose between gaining votes directly and money to spend on ads no one even sees anymore.
There’s this giant fucking myth of “crossover voters” but what few of them they are, are statistically insignificant.
What can make them significant, is giving them something to cross party lines for.
08 Obama we all thought he was really a progressive and even as a Black man with the middle name Hussien he got traditional Republican voters to vote D and flipped a shit ton of red states.
If trump pisses off maga voters, best case scenario they don’t vote for a couple elections.
At this point thinking trump can do anything to make them vote D is willing naivety.
Jeffries got his spot because Nancy used the DNC as a mace to make Dems toe the neoliberal line…
They don’t have that anymore.
Jeffries and Schumer don’t have a chance at retaining their leadership roles
Nah, they read everything about themselves, or have someone read it to them.
Then they go to the place where they literally control the narrative and respond.
FDR wanted social security to be this, and Medicare to be for everyone…
The “moderates” at the time kept telling him it had to be looked into more, and 80 years later Biden kept saying the same thing
It’s what they’ll always keep saying, it’s why we can’t keep wasting time electing them, we need people who actually want to fix shit.
No shit…
They have been since Jimmy Carter
And the Dem voting base’s fear that Jimmy was just the start of the party moving right, is obvious now that people genuinely believe he was “the last good one” instead of “the first shitty one”
That’s how much the Overton window moved in 50 years. Back in 1976 Carter proudly labeled himself a “centrist” even when the right at the time was Nixon right after Watergate. So I don’t want to hear any bullshit about how the right was better back then.
We need politicians with the balls to start nationalizing things like insurance and utilities…
Both parties picking profits over people isn’t working out
Newsom is a piece of shit that needs to go.
His views don’t align with Dem voters nationally, and certainly not within Cali.
On this latest podcast, the meandering conversation started on America’s so-called “masculinity crisis”—a reference to real problems facing boys and men, such as higher rates of suicide and social isolation, or a nod to conservative pearl-clutching about the perceived “feminization” of American boys, depending on who you ask.
“Most of these kids, many of them [are] not even having any relations, sexual relations, with other women,” Newsom said.
The conversation went from lamenting how American youth don’t have enough sex, to hand-wringing about whether the LGBT rights movement may be pushing “sexuality” onto kids.
“Speaking of sexuality and divisiveness,” Ryan said, “One of the things in the last administration that really divided people was gender affirming care, LGBTQ [sic].” They incorrectly equated sexual orientation and gender identity, leading to a conversation about what Newsom called “the trans issue.”
“That’s now no longer about celebrating your rights. It’s about denying other people theirs,” Newsom said. “Marriage equality was about everyone’s right […] But your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing.”
The Democratic party just doesn’t fucking get it
“The party” is the DNC, and about 50 state parties.
And it’s better than it has been in over half a century.
But we still got some shitty neoliberals holding office, like the Rep this article is about, that we need to get rid of.
Medical documentation still isn’t required, and only the direct supervisor can make a decision…
So this can be met by a supervisor saying “you still need telework, right?” Once a year.
There may be pressure from higher ups to deny telework, but this is why we have a chain of command.
Just need middle management to plant their feet for employees
In case you’re wondering how anyone can think the climate is the big issue…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassamin_Ansari
In 2025, Ansari was among a minority of House Democrats to back legislation rebuking the International Criminal Court (ICC) over arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders. Ansari argued that the ICC’s actions were inappropriate, stating that “As a liberal democracy with an independent judiciary, Israel has the responsibility of investigating allegations of wrongdoing”.[47]
And
According to financial disclosures, Ansari’s father lent her between $250,000 and $500,000 for a condo payment.[49] Ansari’s financial disclosures from October 2023 showed that she owns two properties in downtown Phoenix and made between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2023 by renting one. Ansari also estimated in the disclosure that her assets were worth between $2.5 million and $8.3 million.[50]
She’s a millionaire landlord whose also pro-genocide…
The climate is pretty much the only aspect of the party platform voters and her agree on. She can’t talk about fixing any of the other big issues.
“This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis. ‘Nazi this and Nazi that.’ You know, I’m beginning to think they don’t like us. You know what? I’ve said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks, the way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it. So, from now on, it’s, ‘What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what’s hanging, my Nazi?’”
They really don’t understand anything they’re talking about…
But everyone else is already calling them Nazis, I don’t have a problem with them calling themselves Nazis.
Might make some of their voters realize they’re the baddies…
Any Dem governor not doing the same needs voted out
We dont have time for politicians who think we still have time to hold back.
The Gen Z stare is typically described as a vacant, unresponsive gaze, often replacing traditional greetings or small talk in service roles. Millennials and older generations have taken to social media to share stories of being met with this stare by young workers, interpreting it as a sign of disengagement or a lack of soft skills. Gen Zers, in turn, argue that the stare is a reaction to awkward or nonsensical customer interactions, or simply a preference for authenticity over forced pleasantries.
This has been a thing since at least the 1980s…
Hard to find good old pictures these days cuz there’s so much ai slop, but:
https://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/13-38.jpg
The girl on the right exhaling smoke is 100% the same vibe and has been a response by teens to older people trying to engage them for literal generations now.
I’d bet money on everyone complaining about it t now, did it at least once to someone else when they were younger.
They’re just mad they’re just n the other side of it now.
A direct link to social media would still be against the rules for this community…
If it’s essential…
Why are we letting a private corporation who only cares about increasing profit margin in the next quarter?
Shouldn’t that be a nationalized industry so we can plan what’s best for the country long term?
Why are we privatizing something so necessary?
You’re not supposed to follow logic to it’s rational end!!!
If we did that, capitalism wouldn’t still be happening!
It’s insane how many people keep posting screenshots of social media
So when two years ago, the steel mill successfully trialed a hydrogen gas-powered blast furnace, the first time the fuel had been deployed in this fashion anywhere in the Americas, she was delighted. It cost an estimated $1.6bn, and the Biden administration, through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), coughed up $500m to help cover the cost of installing the technology.
Dems giving billions of dollars to corporations hoping $20 trickles down is fucking stupid.
It never makes it to the people, so the people don’t feel like they’re being helped, and a Republican wins elections.
Dems need to help Americans directly, then the people will vote for them. If a corporation dies, so the fuck what? They’re trying to have as few employees as possible and to pay them as little as possible. It’s not a secret. That’s literally what capitalism means.
I just watched Cody Johnson’s new podcast and he made a good point:
trump and “the left” kind of forgot about Epstein, but for a lot of MAGA that shit was the whole point.
Like, remember that guy who shot up a Chucky Cheese knockoff because they wouldn’t take him to a basement that literally didn’t exist?
This was the thing MAGA was built off of, and trump just fuckin forgot.