I mean, money they’re spending in a primary is money they aren’t spending in a general, but there’s definitely way too much money in politics overall

She also talks about wanting to mass castrate pedophiles and attacked the San Antonio Current for basically just reprinting what she said, and the amount of money that got thrown at her primary campaign out of nowhere by an organization that set things up so they won’t have to report their donors until after the election is really strange at best, so I really think she’s a bit crazy and her campaign is going to implode no matter what at this point,

But what a fucking fumble from the Dems. With a little bit of support from the party maybe we could’ve toned down her weirdest shit and run a good campaign here, but no, we’re just going to hand a house seat to the Republicans I guess.

I don’t see her saying anything about wanting to persecute Jews. I see her saying that she wants to imprison American Zionists, but like half of those are evangelical Christians.

I definitely don’t like how she’s now blaming a local journalist for her getting death threats when that reporter just reprinted what she said, and who knows who is behind her with American campaign finance laws being what they are, so I would be very surprised if her campaign doesn’t collapse in the general,

But the fact that the Democratic party couldn’t work with this lady and teach her a little bit of messaging discipline before things got to this point is a mistake that’s now going to haunt us all summer. She has some questionable judgment but seems like somebody who could have been worked with, but now instead we’re just going to give a House seat to the GOP because of a moderate purity test.

Speaking to Emerge, Harris raised the idea of Supreme Court reform “including the notion of expanding the court.”

That’s coming out swinging? Maybe if she releases a signed public statement saying she supports court expansion and if she thinks an un-filibuster-able bill would be an appropriate way to do so regardless of what the Senate Parliamentarian says I’d believe it, but this seems so vague it’s meaningless.

How he addressed it was by cutting enhanced unemployment insurance and dropping plans for stimulus checks. edit - while also pursuing an infrastructure bill that pumped a ton of money into businesses

Not to mention, the affordability crisis were facing is… a consistent systemic issue with both.

No kidding, and yet here we are arguing underneath an article pretending the Democratic party doesn’t have this policy problem

McDonald’s employees never get the reward in this world

was probably more tied to inflation than anything else

“It wasn’t the boat sinking that made all those people drown, it was the water rising.” - captain shortly before mutiny

We had a real chance to start building an economy that works for most people by building on top of the emergency anti-poverty measures COVID forced governments to put in place, but as soon as a Dem moved into the white house again Republicans all suddenly remembered they hate that stuff and Dems figured they’d get applauded for being “responsible” or some bullshit by doing exactly what they wanted (because that worked out so well for us when Obama did austerity, or when Clinton cut welfare, or etc.)

Except household hunger measures started to improve in 2021 (arc) but then they reversed course and got worse every other year Biden was in office, in large part because he terminated enhanced UI and killed stimulus checks and a bunch of other pandemic aid that never should have ended. Americans didn’t suffer under Biden because of COVID, it was intentional policy choices his administration made because they wanted to say things were “back to normal”.

Donald Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.

Meanwhile, in reality (arc)

the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its Household Food Security in the United States report, assessing that 13.7 percent of U.S. households were food insecure in 2024, marking the highest prevalence of U.S. food insecurity in nearly a decade.

Biden’s “perhaps not firing on all cylinders” economy was crap for poor people. “But whatabout the Republicans” will get you 2-4 years in office to leave your constituency twisting in the wind while you tell them things are actually good, and then your campaigns will collapse just like Harris did and Republicans will win by default yet again.

If you really want to break that cycle, we need better policies and we need to communicate the fact that we understand that Biden’s economy was crap. Arguing with the voters that it was actually pretty good is just a ticket out of office.

Insane and outrageous attempted corruption, but if there isn’t at least a lawsuit filed about this by the end of the day bringing this whole thing right back to the judicial scrutiny they’re trying to worm out of I will be amazed

Not that I have much more faith in federal courts than I do in the executive branch at this point, but hopefully the optics of this are too toxic for even them

Seriously, them and all their rich friends can go give fancy speeches about nothing and raise money for museums or animal shelters for retired dressage horses or some other rich weirdo thing and that actually would be doing public service in a more real way than they ever have before

Also, how about he considers what’s best for the country? Like, what, I’m supposed to care if a bunch of Republican leaders end up unemployed? Worse things happen to better people all the time in the world they have built.

Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The underlying cause is a Republican party that abandoned political decency decades ago when they welcomed Dixecrats into their parties in the 1960s as a way of shoehorning unpopular anti-tax and deregulatory politics into a democratic political system that had rejected those things. It was a problem when John McCain was complaining about making MLK day a holiday, it was a problem when George HW ran the Willie Horton ad, it was a problem when Newt Gingrich was saying racist crap about welfare queens, it was a problem when George W Bush blamed 9/11 on Iraq because they were brown, and on and on.

George Conway was a happy member of that party for most of his life and is only now recognizing the problems with what he built in the most superficial of ways. Ultimately he just represents a previous step on a path that was always inevitably going to end up here. The answer isn’t trying to go back, it’s about getting on a whole new path.

Masie is an idiot and an asshole who hasn’t been at all effective in stopping Trump because at the end of the day in spite of his empty complaining about Trump he’s still a crazy ass John Bircher who would rather have a fascist dictator than a moderate non-Republican president of any kind

reasonable Republican

The more people pretend this fiction is real the worse the country gets

It’s legislation written by a Republican, it’s going to be full of loopholes and also somehow send a bunch of taxpayer money to one of his buddies

Yeah, unfortunately that probably is how it’s going to go, but it will still be a good thing to see people who are alerting the public to religious bigotry in our government are well compensated

The way that it’s so impossible to tell what’s organically popular and what’s just a hype campaign is honestly so maddening, it’s not as blatant as what they do with political campaigns but it is still an attack on democratic pluralism in a really significant way imo

e; ‘pluralism’? where tf did you even remember that from - searches -

Pluralism thus tries to encourage members of society to accommodate their differences by avoiding extremism (adhering solely to one value, or at the very least refusing to recognize others as legitimate) and engaging in good faith dialogue.

I mean, sure, but just not with genocidal people, right?

One of the more famous arguments for institutional pluralism came from [noted slavery advocate and slave owner] James Madison in The Federalist paper number 10

Maaaann, I hate politics

In a Wednesday appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, Fetterman [attempted to] cut into Democratic attacks on Trump’s remarks that he is not focused on the financial situations of Americans while negotiating with the Iranian government, arguing Trump’s comments were “clipped.”

Fuck the Hill for making me add that, moving on,

“He said something that got clipped … saying, ‘I’m not thinking about American people financially,’ but what he really was saying — he did say — is, ‘I’m really thinking that we can’t ever let Iran building a bomb,’” Fetterman told Hannity.

A) He really did say “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.” He did not ever say “I’m really thinking that we can’t etc.” or any other more polished statement you wished he did say. B) If you’re really so concerned about putting Trump’s comments into full context, Trump said Iran’s ability to build a bomb was already “totally obliterated” last year. But you’re not, you’re not even cherry picking stuff, you’re just straight making shit up to make Trump look good because you’re a scumbag like that.