Jeffries needs to go as much as Pelosi and Schumer, he was their pick to carry their torch when they inevitably died in office.

Don’t let him distance himself and pretend he’d do anything differently.

The reason they’re still in office is for 30 years the DNC has put protecting incumbents above all else, including beating republicans.

The DNC power structure is pretty much the opposite of a democracy, but we just got our furtherest left chair in over 30 years, and his performance as a state party leader shows his biggest concern is beating Republicans, and he’s accomplished that to great success by just not putting the party in-between voters and the progressive candidates they want to vote for.

It’s an incredibly low bar, but one Ken Martin easily clears.

Don’t hate the (literally a month old) new blood for the failings of the old.

I’d be so happy if other countries put a 1,000% tarrif on all Teslas.

Maybe a 10,000% tarrif on people dumb enough to pay for twitter premium.

Just fuck all his companies up

Did the EU tarrif American alcohol or does trump think Canada is is in Europe?

Quick edit:

EU out a 50% tarrif on US whiskey yesterday, it’s still unknown if Trump thinks Canada is in Europe tho

It’s worth watching the video…

After he gets in you can still kind of hear what they’re saying.

trump has to ask what the two pedals do…

Elmo asked him if he wanted to drive, and Trump had to ask a handler if they wanted him to drive and they said he could. Elmo tried to reassure him that it was “just like a golf cart” but trump panicked and got out pretty quickly.

He was desperate for someone to tell him not to, but everyone was fine with it.

Then he made some quip about Biden not even being able to get in it, and us much as I dislike Biden, at least a couple of years ago he was still capable of driving:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-floors-electric-ford-truck-test-drive-pushes/story?id=77764009

It’s probably been 50 years since trump drove anything besides a golf cart.

Just wanted to point out that if you had scrolled down you can see where I’m getting steadily downvoted for defending Ken Martin and telling people I have faith in the new DNC leadership and we should judge him on his (very impressive) political body of work and not a single answer to a question he was asked during the chair campaign…

Like, it’s just wild to have people call me an “anti dem” trying to fracture the party and others accusing me of being a billionaire bootlicker for defending the DNC in the same thread.

And I checked the timestamps, those comments were there hours before you made this comment.

Not trying to get in a debate or anything, was just too crazy not to comment on.

I remember when Elon Musk was a “good billionaire” friend

That’s like saying you remember when Santa was real…

You don’t, you remember when you thought Santa was real.

I’m not saying leave milk and cookies out, I’m saying if you’re parent want to get you an extra gift, don’t throw it away because the tag says “from Santa”.

Because I understand how the world works? That concessions are made in back room deals and that the money doesn’t change hands until the buyer feels confident they are getting what they want? We know how this goes.

Went.

We knew how it went.

Martin is saying that is no longer the case, but he’s not turning down checks.

I would forego all billionaire donations to ensure the party wasn’t being controlled by back room interests, you know the deals made to get the contribution? They aren’t adhering to campaign finance limits they are drowning out normal Americans with their outside influence.

That’s all reasons to keep outside money out of the primary which I am 100% on board with.

Like, it all comes down to your opinion is that if someone takes the check they have to owe a favor. The people writing the check almost certainly expect it…

But it’s not like they can sue and say their donation was a bribe and they didn’t get what they want.

You realize that right?

A “back room deal” even if exists isn’t legally binding, that’s where the term comes from.

Candidates take donations from average voters and then don’t try to do what the donors wanted, why not do it with billionaires?

It’s the strings that are the issue…

I’ve seen a couple people repeating the “good billionaires” bit, but not a single on that links a source when referring to it…

“There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money,” Ken Martin, a leading candidate for Chair of the Democratic Party, said at a forum on Sunday. “But we’re not taking money from those bad billionaires.”

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/billionaires-tech-oligarchy-biden-trump

But I encourage people to Google it themselves, if only to see 99.9% of the results are from rightwing bullshit like Daily Caller.

Like, how do you think Martin should have responded?

We won’t take any donations from someone with more than $999,999,999.99 in wealth.

If we run a candidate who’s values authentically align with what Dem voters want, why turn down donations?

If the platform isn’t changing because of a donation, why not take the donation in the general?

I think you might have the same misunderstanding as Jacobin:

Ken Martin wants us to believe that there is some definite cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress, but the tech-industrial complex is showing us exactly why this isn’t the case.

He didn’t say that they could be relied on.

He said he’d take their fucking money.

Why do you think that’s an unpragmatic strategy?

Most Americans have heard the idiom:

Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

So if we’re questioning the motivations of social media accounts…

What is your opinion on ones that try to suppress people from learning about why trump was elected president not once, but twice?

Israel was never on the right side, but that didn’t stop Biden from flushing our country down the toilet for the sake of their genocide against Palestinians…