What SHOULD Dems do?

[Anonymous]

“We almost lost our democracy that day!”

“Really? So the Buffalo Shaman guy was almost the dictator of America? Sounds like a close call!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Substance. People want substance from their leaders. The packaging doesn't matter. Continue to try to shove neo-liberalism and corporatism down the throats of the electorate and it does not matter if your candidate is a white woman, a gay man, a black man, or what have you. It DOES NOT MATTER. It's the lack of substance that people are rejecting.

People are struggling to afford a basic standard of living. The GOP offers no solutions, but they do offer an outlet for their fear and anger. The Democrats only shot at countering fear and anger is with real substantive solutions. Raise the freaking minimum wage. Pass parental leave laws. Gut the for-profit medical industry. Address corruption and money in politics ON BOTH SIDES. Make owning a home a realistic dream for young people again. Make retirement a realistic dream for young people again. Make raising a family economically possible without a 6-figure salary again. Make it so every dang job can't require a masters degree while paying us poverty wages.

Stop arguing about what the candidate should look like and start talking about what people NEED and the solutions we can offer them to win their support.

The problem is that Trump’s challenge to the swamp forced Dems into a corner where we are now very pro-establishment. Democrats now believe and assert that the for-profit medical industry is not corrupt, and that anyone questioning it should be censored. Democrats can’t address corruption in government, they believe and assert that there is no corruption on the Democratic side, or even much wasteful spending at all. Democrats believe and assert that Biden’s economy was very strong, and that the affordability crisis is exaggerated by Trump voters. We came to these positions organically—we wanted to oppose Trump everywhere and always. But our pro-establishment stance is killing us in this climate of anti-establishment voters wanting change

These are very extreme interpretations of democrat beliefs. I don’t think any democrat believes there’s zero government waste, but they also do believe that the government isn’t a complete waste of resources and we should fund cancer, HIV, and epidemiological research, we shouldn’t delete whole departments because we think they aren’t 100% efficient, we shouldn’t fire thousands of Americans from their jobs either. Dems are some of the most critical of the healthcare industry around, but they also do believe in vaccines and medicine

They believe in MANDATES. Mandates without necessary proof of need, just based on mass hysteria and corporate opportunism and government control. Sorry, this won't help win votes outside of minority of those who are still living stuck in 2021.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. The Democrats need to support young Black male politicians like the impressive and courageous Rep. Wheeler below, and not support the straight-out-of-DCUM clown at the end of the clip lecturing the Black man about Jim Crow laws.

But I bet the Party hierarchy is going to viciously target Rep. Wheeler and promote the pompous idiot at the end. Thus the Party will continue to hemorrhage voters.

I’d like my uterus to be a private space, but the GOP keeps insisting I let fetuses with male genitalia live there. And their male DNA is contaminating my blood (true story, Google it).

If you asked a female what bothered her most -I’ll bet she tells you she cares more about the violation to her own body than whoever is peeing in the still next door.

If you’re going to stand up for us, try asking us what we want.

[Anonymous]

Whatever this is, do the opposite.

[Anonymous]

There were people in that crowd who were there to murder members of Congress

And, at mango Mussolini’s command, they were looking to do the same to the sitting vice president

You can think the above statements are over the top, but these are indisputable facts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Substance. People want substance from their leaders. The packaging doesn't matter. Continue to try to shove neo-liberalism and corporatism down the throats of the electorate and it does not matter if your candidate is a white woman, a gay man, a black man, or what have you. It DOES NOT MATTER. It's the lack of substance that people are rejecting.

People are struggling to afford a basic standard of living. The GOP offers no solutions, but they do offer an outlet for their fear and anger. The Democrats only shot at countering fear and anger is with real substantive solutions. Raise the freaking minimum wage. Pass parental leave laws. Gut the for-profit medical industry. Address corruption and money in politics ON BOTH SIDES. Make owning a home a realistic dream for young people again. Make retirement a realistic dream for young people again. Make raising a family economically possible without a 6-figure salary again. Make it so every dang job can't require a masters degree while paying us poverty wages.

Stop arguing about what the candidate should look like and start talking about what people NEED and the solutions we can offer them to win their support.

The problem is that Trump’s challenge to the swamp forced Dems into a corner where we are now very pro-establishment. Democrats now believe and assert that the for-profit medical industry is not corrupt, and that anyone questioning it should be censored. Democrats can’t address corruption in government, they believe and assert that there is no corruption on the Democratic side, or even much wasteful spending at all. Democrats believe and assert that Biden’s economy was very strong, and that the affordability crisis is exaggerated by Trump voters. We came to these positions organically—we wanted to oppose Trump everywhere and always. But our pro-establishment stance is killing us in this climate of anti-establishment voters wanting change

These are very extreme interpretations of democrat beliefs. I don’t think any democrat believes there’s zero government waste, but they also do believe that the government isn’t a complete waste of resources and we should fund cancer, HIV, and epidemiological research, we shouldn’t delete whole departments because we think they aren’t 100% efficient, we shouldn’t fire thousands of Americans from their jobs either. Dems are some of the most critical of the healthcare industry around, but they also do believe in vaccines and medicine

They believe in MANDATES. Mandates without necessary proof of need, just based on mass hysteria and corporate opportunism and government control. Sorry, this won't help win votes outside of minority of those who are still living stuck in 2021.

Mandates to have babies? Mandates to cut trans children and adults off their healthcare?

Oh no, you meant the mandate to suck it up and get a shot so you don’t turn into a disease grenade.

Selfish babies. Wimps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The Democrats need to support young Black male politicians like the impressive and courageous Rep. Wheeler below, and not support the straight-out-of-DCUM clown at the end of the clip lecturing the Black man about Jim Crow laws.

But I bet the Party hierarchy is going to viciously target Rep. Wheeler and promote the pompous idiot at the end. Thus the Party will continue to hemorrhage voters.

I’d like my uterus to be a private space, but the GOP keeps insisting I let fetuses with male genitalia live there. And their male DNA is contaminating my blood (true story, Google it).

If you asked a female what bothered her most -I’ll bet she tells you she cares more about the violation to her own body than whoever is peeing in the still next door.

If you’re going to stand up for us, try asking us what we want.

We don’t insist they live there, you let them inside by spreading your legs wide open. It’s like letting the chicken coop open and not expecting the fox. Certainly you understand this by your age?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The Democrats need to support young Black male politicians like the impressive and courageous Rep. Wheeler below, and not support the straight-out-of-DCUM clown at the end of the clip lecturing the Black man about Jim Crow laws.

But I bet the Party hierarchy is going to viciously target Rep. Wheeler and promote the pompous idiot at the end. Thus the Party will continue to hemorrhage voters.

I’d like my uterus to be a private space, but the GOP keeps insisting I let fetuses with male genitalia live there. And their male DNA is contaminating my blood (true story, Google it).

If you asked a female what bothered her most -I’ll bet she tells you she cares more about the violation to her own body than whoever is peeing in the still next door.

If you’re going to stand up for us, try asking us what we want.

We don’t insist they live there, you let them inside by spreading your legs wide open. It’s like letting the chicken coop open and not expecting the fox. Certainly you understand this by your age?

There it is. Anyone who is pregnant is a cheap sl$t. Couldn’t possibly be the victim of abuse/rape.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jon Stewart is ridiculing Dem leadership.
People want to dump Schumer for caving.
What would be an attack plan that makes sense?
I almost wish we had a parliamentary system right now, a dozen parties and coalitions forming and reforming.

Start by saying we will focus on US workers first , not corporations , not millionaires.

- mandate e-verify
- increase taxes on people making over 300,000
- repeal h1b
- eliminate opt
- fund to protect the southern border
- eliminate tariffs on friends. Increase them on enemies
- we will restore our commitments to Europe and Australia and east Asia


No help for hamas
No free sex change operations
No help for student loans
No reduction in salt tax for rich coastal elites
Get rid of pelosi and Schumer and completely replace DNC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever this is, do the opposite.

Can you prove it was arson and not just another one of Musk’s shoddily built, death trap cars catching fire again? No, you cannot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever this is, do the opposite.

I won’t click over to X to try to see whatever this comment is.

The video with the music is pretty pitiful, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The Democrats need to support young Black male politicians like the impressive and courageous Rep. Wheeler below, and not support the straight-out-of-DCUM clown at the end of the clip lecturing the Black man about Jim Crow laws.

But I bet the Party hierarchy is going to viciously target Rep. Wheeler and promote the pompous idiot at the end. Thus the Party will continue to hemorrhage voters.

I’d like my uterus to be a private space, but the GOP keeps insisting I let fetuses with male genitalia live there. And their male DNA is contaminating my blood (true story, Google it).

If you asked a female what bothered her most -I’ll bet she tells you she cares more about the violation to her own body than whoever is peeing in the still next door.

If you’re going to stand up for us, try asking us what we want.

We don’t insist they live there, you let them inside by spreading your legs wide open. It’s like letting the chicken coop open and not expecting the fox. Certainly you understand this by your age?

There it is. Anyone who is pregnant is a cheap sl$t. Couldn’t possibly be the victim of abuse/rape.

Oh so you charge for it too? That’s interesting. What price do you consider cheap?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Substance. People want substance from their leaders. The packaging doesn't matter. Continue to try to shove neo-liberalism and corporatism down the throats of the electorate and it does not matter if your candidate is a white woman, a gay man, a black man, or what have you. It DOES NOT MATTER. It's the lack of substance that people are rejecting.

People are struggling to afford a basic standard of living. The GOP offers no solutions, but they do offer an outlet for their fear and anger. The Democrats only shot at countering fear and anger is with real substantive solutions. Raise the freaking minimum wage. Pass parental leave laws. Gut the for-profit medical industry. Address corruption and money in politics ON BOTH SIDES. Make owning a home a realistic dream for young people again. Make retirement a realistic dream for young people again. Make raising a family economically possible without a 6-figure salary again. Make it so every dang job can't require a masters degree while paying us poverty wages.

Stop arguing about what the candidate should look like and start talking about what people NEED and the solutions we can offer them to win their support.

The problem is that Trump’s challenge to the swamp forced Dems into a corner where we are now very pro-establishment. Democrats now believe and assert that the for-profit medical industry is not corrupt, and that anyone questioning it should be censored. Democrats can’t address corruption in government, they believe and assert that there is no corruption on the Democratic side, or even much wasteful spending at all. Democrats believe and assert that Biden’s economy was very strong, and that the affordability crisis is exaggerated by Trump voters. We came to these positions organically—we wanted to oppose Trump everywhere and always. But our pro-establishment stance is killing us in this climate of anti-establishment voters wanting change

These are very extreme interpretations of democrat beliefs. I don’t think any democrat believes there’s zero government waste, but they also do believe that the government isn’t a complete waste of resources and we should fund cancer, HIV, and epidemiological research, we shouldn’t delete whole departments because we think they aren’t 100% efficient, we shouldn’t fire thousands of Americans from their jobs either. Dems are some of the most critical of the healthcare industry around, but they also do believe in vaccines and medicine

This is just a convoluted way of admitting I’m right. These are very pro-establishment beliefs in the eyes of average voters, even if they feel wise and nuanced to you.

NP How is that "pro-establishment"? Serious question.

It’s pro-establishment to fight against audits and cost-cutting in government (while grudgingly admitting that okay maybe there is some waste) and it’s pro-establishment to promote for-profit corporate pharmaceutical products and insist that people should “believe” captured regulators (while grudgingly admitting that okay maybe the bloated health care industry is kind of corrupt). Defenders of corrupt systems don’t get to pat themselves on the back as reformers just because they admit the corruption as a side note).

NP...

Let's be clear on some things.

OIG, GAO, OMB, Congress, and other oversight agencies audited, rooted out corruption, and cut costs for years and nobody fought against it. Nobody defended corrupt systems.

DOGE is anti-establishment in that it isn't actually auditing anything or doing real cost cutting, it is just burning things to the ground. They are not finding corruption, they are fabricating bullshit reasons to destroy needed agencies and services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you feel the need to lecture people about “belief” in for-profit corporate pharmaceutical products and the need to “trust” captured regulators if you know the industry is corrupt? Seems like a strange use of time and energy for “reformers.” Why would you feel the need to freak out and “resist” and “fight” audits and cost-cutting and layoffs if you agree there’s waste and you know we’re borrowing an extra $2 trillion a year to fund the waste?

Like I said, Democrats have become fierce defenders of the Establishment.

The party isn’t even anti-war anymore. You sound like spoken for the military industrial complex. Slava Ukraini!

You do know that the Instagram influencers who sell “alternatives” like snake oil and juices are profiting off disease too, right? Considering they don’t have to pay for R&D, clinical studies, advanced education, or pretty much anything else beyond basic ingredients for their unproven concoctions, it’s almost pure profit. Estimated in hundreds of billions of dollars per year.

Your attention is profit to them too, even if you don’t buy.

“Natural” can be a rip off too.

The more you know…

Yes, I know. This doesn’t make the Dems any less pro-establishment.

And individual supplement peddlers are pikers compared to Pfizer, THE most important corporate funder in politics AND news. Pfizer AND Moderna EACh set the record for single biggest grossing largest year one revenue of ANY corporate product ever launched. Bigger than color tv, bigger than Toyota Camry, Fedex, iphone, etc. Pfizer had an awful lot of help from Uncle Sam and the news media they sponsor. And they continue to get help from people like you, arguing that some youtube influencer with a vitamin is “just as bad.”

You’re welcome to your opinion. I’m sure you’re right about many things. But what I’m right about is that a lot of upper middle class Dems shill for establishment donors like this, and swing voters in search of reform aren’t that impressed. If you really want voters to trust pharma corporations more (a strange goal, but okay), you should ban their ads on tv news. That’s a reform. Complaining about supplements is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jon Stewart is ridiculing Dem leadership.
People want to dump Schumer for caving.
What would be an attack plan that makes sense?
I almost wish we had a parliamentary system right now, a dozen parties and coalitions forming and reforming.

Start by saying we will focus on US workers first , not corporations , not millionaires.

- mandate e-verify
- increase taxes on people making over 300,000
- repeal h1b
- eliminate opt
- fund to protect the southern border
- eliminate tariffs on friends. Increase them on enemies
- we will restore our commitments to Europe and Australia and east Asia


No help for hamas
No free sex change operations
No help for student loans
No reduction in salt tax for rich coastal elites
Get rid of pelosi and Schumer and completely replace DNC

No. Restore the SALT deduction and cut funds to red states. It’s about time we stop subsidizing their lavish lifestyles.