Shhhhhh!

I thought this was the Onion for a moment. Sigh

You know they are at historic lows of incompetence when they just keep recycling the same ghouls into different positions. I’m honestly shocked we still haven’t nuked the planet into ash by now.

El-Sayed needs black women to vote. Kamala is a poor substitute for Obama, but she’ll do folks.

If you only invite your friends to the party, you limit the number of new friends you can make. Sometimes you invite that annoying guy with the hot sister.

It’s literally all they got

That’s really the only line that can be drawn. We don’t draw the line for others. We do draw the line regarding what we tolerate from others. Then it is a question of what actions we can reasonably take when that line is crossed. For most of us, those actions are limited to strong words on the internet.

I will not hate others who refuse to hate others. I will think less of them. But it is the right and privilege of us all to bury our heads in the sand if we wish. This sentiment comes from the fact that there is cruelty and injustice every second of every day. None of us calls it out in totality because if we did, we wouldn’t have voices for laughing or quiet conversations… They would be too busy screaming.

I thought it was well known… At least to non-Republicans

He’s just kicking off the next grift.

The meme is not your enemy. You seem to be having a hard day. Many of us are. I hope it gets better.

This attitude is a cancer to progressive reform. Vote for the candidate with the better policies and you will have progressive reform in this country. “Electability” is literally the only argument liberals have at this point for picking centrists over left flank candidates. If that argument actually had validity: the left flank candidate wouldn’t have won the primary; and the “electable” candidates would have previously won. Is there one centrist dem a majority of people even like?

The liberals are trying to make an example out of Piker… To intimidate influencers, who typically rely on ads and support from the establishment to survive, from attacking the status quo. Piker doesn’t do ads, relying on his subscriber base to fund his career. So they can’t control his messaging with money, and are trying to do it by making him radioactive to the candidates he would support. The ultimate goal is to take away support provided by Piker for grassroots campaigns, so those candidates will have to toe the DNC line, or risk losing support from the establishment.

So regardless how you feel about Piker personally, or his views, it is clear he is trying to elevate progressive candidates so they don’t have to compromise themselves for liberal support. We should all be supporting those efforts if we truly want to amplify a progressive political wave.

I cringe remembering how i would use Rush Limbaugh talking points in the mid 90s. Grew up in redneck central. Realized how shitty my views were when i got around people different from me in college. There is hope for all of the world’s dumbasses.

As someone who lived in the 80s, it isn’t debatable. A gay person outside of highly liberal cities, had to hide being gay or they were at a severe disadvantage. That is now true in much fewer locations.

I’m in my late 40’s. 2 years ago, i had the same knee jerk attitude. Since then I’ve been scanning the current political climate, started watching MSM with a more critical eye, and have tried to consume opinions from independent media across the left wing spectrum (i.e pod save america vs. Hasan Piker). Gaza and Iran have changed things. As far as i can tell, a majority of democrats are on gaza’s side, hate the Iranian conflict and have become disillusioned with Israel. Yet, the party leaders, and their talking heads, appear to be to the right of the constituents on these issues. MSM treats the majority left wing opinions as radical, obviously pushing centrist/corporate/aipac talking points. This has devalued MSM opinion generally. Now, when Jake Tapper implies a brown politician that calls gaza a genocide is antisemitic, more and more people are just devaluing the MSM opinions generally. Look at national media talking points regarding the cureent wave of left flank candidates. Unelectable, unreasonable, unrealistic, antisemitic, etc… a majority of the left ain’t listening anymore.

Stop treating politics like it’s still 2008…it ain’t. Vote for the best policy, not for the one CNN tells you is better.

That attitude is why trump won in 2016 and 2024. Abdul and Zohran are what happens when people stop listening to the electability propaganda of the Centrists. That electability argument is the primary reason we are left with ineffective libs shoving money in their pockets. Ignoring Trump, would you rather have Bernie or Hillary at the head of your political party?

You are allowed to be happy my dude. Vote for the candidate that supports what you want, not the candidate that you think everyone else is going to vote for. You and everyone else subject to the corpofacist propaganda machine only thinks the second candidate is more electable because of the corporate propaganda. Vote for your own best interests And the better policies will follow.

This fact is now recognized by a majority of democratic voters, for the first time in my life.

If Obama endorsed Abdul… It’s over for the Republicans. The older black vote went to Stevens in the primary.

Perfection is the enemy of the good. I understand that. I am also empathetic to the choice of those who sit out elections when they feel ignored. I don’t agree with it, but i understand.