Stopped clocks, and all that…

Hear fucking hear.

What a wild interaction this was…

This may come as a crazy shock to you, but, hear me out… You can just say stuff sometimes, for fun, without being super serious.

Not everything has to be a thesis, it’s also okay to just shoot the shit.

You could say exactly the same thing about anyone who believe this rumor.

I don’t think this rumor is true, but the idea of Trump hearing it and getting pissed amuses me so much that I hope it spreads like COVID.

It’s entirely possible these aren’t real players, but are actually some kind of automated testing scripts or service monitors that someone forgot (or just never cared) to turn off before getting sacked, running on a forgotten QA box somewhere deep in the bowels of Sony.

It would be funny if his awkward loyalty purge was the thing that ending up kicking off that “deep state coup” he’s been raving about for all these years. Self-fulfilling prophecy would be a fitting end for that human cheese burger.

that Harris, who took Biden’s positions wholesale

Except for the instances where she moved further to the right, like on capital gains tax.

Sadly, yeah… D:

To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld:

You don’t run for president with the voters you want, you run for president with the voters you have.

Stupid or not, these are the voters we have, and Democrats need to learn how to reach at least some of them if they ever want to win another election.

Hear fucking hear.

That’s true, but Trump’s team is already lobbying the incoming majority leader to call an intentional recess so he can ram through all the appointments he wants without any Senate oversight.

Whether or not that happens remains to be seen, but I wouldn’t bet money on the new majority leader standing up to Trump on day one, right after he was elected with a significant mandate and handed full control of the legislative branch to Republicans. More likely, Thune will fold to whatever Trump demands until the the political winds begin to shift and Republicans need to start playing defense for the midterms. At that point we might start to see the Senate push back on Trump’s agenda if his approval ratings have gotten are low enough and the Dems have gotten their act together enough to run some decent congressional campaigns.

Some Senate Republicans are signaling that they won’t vote for him, and it wouldn’t surprise me all that much if 4 Rs defect to block his confirmation.

Of course, Trump can and will still force him through as a recess appointment (fitting, giving Gaetz’ track record on consent) which will secure him as AG at least until the midterms when the balance of power in the Senate will inevitably shift again.

I saw one the other day painted neon yellow. Believe it or not, it actually seemed like an improvement.

His handling of the train derailment in Ohio was also pretty terrible, and didn’t paint a very good picture of his crisis management skills.

You’re right, it doesn’t. But if we can transform the party into one that’s focused on running younger and more progressive candidates, then the DNC at large will start to look less like a crusty party of “good old boys” and more like an actual grassroots movement of “outsiders”. That’s what I’d like to see for the future of the DNC and I think AOC would be a good face for that movement.

In before “But… but… Bernie…”

I really don’t see anyone saying this…?

Yeah, a lot of people (myself included) feel like he was robbed of the nomination, but I haven’t really seen anyone on the left advocating he run again. The great tragedy of Sanders is that we rejected him at the perfect time for his message (and at a time when the country needed him most), and now it’s too late.

Of course that doesn’t mean he should be ignored, it just seems like most progressives understand ee need a younger candidate with Sanders’ ideals to shape the future of the party, not Sanders himself.

If Trump has taught us anything, it’s that Americans have a growing appetite for “unconventional” candidates. A 40-year-old waitress from the Bronx is about as far from conventional as Trump (albeit in the opposite direction), but the more time she spends chasing Senate seats and climbing the political ladder, the more dulled that “political outsider” edge gets.

I think she should take a shot at 2028 — or at the very least, run for DNC chair next year. Someone like her directing political strategy would help younger and more progressive Democrats gain ground in local and congressional elections which could finally help shift the party back out of its corporate-sponsored neo-liberal rut and towards actual progressivism.

I’m genuinely not sure if there is a set of policies the left can offer which will adequately appeal to their entire base.

“Eat the rich” might do it.