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11·22 days agoI don’t follow Russian propaganda and I’m not a tankie. And I know for a fact that the DNC did Bernie dirty. And that’s why I don’t trust the DNC. That’s not a problem caused by Bernie, that’s a problem caused by the DNC being a shady organization.
And blaming Bernie for Hillary’s loss in 2016 is just idiotic because Bernie had nothing to do with Hillary losing the general in 2016, that was all on her. She’s the one who failed to get the votes. There may have been vocal Bernie bros who were talking about how they didn’t want to vote for her but most of the people who voted for Bernie in the primaries voted for her in the general. That’s because people who voted in the primary are politically engaged. The problem is that Hillary failed to get those who are not politically engaged on board with voting for her. And the people like you who blame Bernie for her loss are part of the problem not part of the solution. You make excuses for her and you make excuses for Kamala Harris and you make excuses for people like Chuck Schumer and Nancy pelosi who have basically ceded the entire Congress to the Republicans in exchange for keeping the meager power that they currently hold. Because that’s all they care about.
Hillary might have had a lot of advertisement money to play with but we also know that outside influences were promoting Bernie on social media to create a spoiler effect.
What spoiler effect? He was running for the Democratic nomination, not as a third party candidate. And with a very small number of vocal exceptions, everyone who voted for Bernie in the primaries voted for Hillary in the general. It was her absolute failure to get independents in multiple flyover states that lost her the election. And a huge part of that is her attempt to appeal to republicans. A strategy that also failed spectacularly for Harris in 2024.
Hillary Clinton started with over 500 delegates before even 1 ballot was cast in a primary. And it was widely reported by every news outlet as if she had won some kind of campaign. They failed to mention that those were super delegates, meaning powerful individuals within the party who could cast their own full delegate vote for a candidate. Then she secretly took control of the party’s finances and then her friend, who was the DNC chair, arranged for every debate between her and Bernie to be on Sundays late at night when people wouldn’t be inclined to watch. They pressured the news outlets to downplay Bernie’s victories and over report on Hillary’s. Yes, she won the primary by many delegates, but the effort to lock the nomination up for her was a mafia style fix that undermined the entire democratic process.
And in 2020, when Bernie was gaining a great deal of momentum against Sleepy Joe, they used the pandemic to cancel all the remaining primaries and declare him the winner. The DNC doesn’t have my support and won’t for the foreseeable future. They’ve made this bed with Trump and we’re the ones who are going to have to lie in it. We need a different party. Not the fucking “Green” party either. Cause fuck those neoliberal assholes.
Food is one of the few things we export more to China than we import.
Oh we should absolutely be fighting but not with guns. We should be fighting with the law and protests. We should be confronting these fuckers at every junction. But the moment we pick up a gun or a rock or some other violent means we just give them the excuse to escalate the fascism.
Unfortunately, this is a exactly what Trump wants. He wants riots and chaos so he can declare martial law and gain even more power and possibly delay or even cancel elections. All of this is calculated.
I’m sorry where are you getting this information from? Everything I’ve read about him says he’s progressive and looking for progressive candidates. He’s a very staunch gun control advocate (I think you’d be shocked at how many corporate Democrats are not). Which is understandable because he was a survivor of a school gun massacre.
If you look at Alexandria Ocacia Cortez’s primary, when the DNC realized what was happening they tried desperately to undo her primary win. Going so far as to endorse the incumbent Democrat who stayed on the ballot due to a technicality.
These people are not trustworthy at all.
Another example would be Biden’s primary win in 2020. The DNC used the pandemic as an excuse to end the primary process early and just declare Biden the winner. And even before that they were heavily pushing Biden on everyone and doing their best to lock Bernie out of just about every poll they conducted, pretending like had no chance even though he was pulling numbers that were equalling, and even surpassing in places, Biden at the time.
“Let me be clear, this is not about shielding incumbents or boosting challengers,” Martin said.
Liar liar pants on fire. These people are so steeped in their own bullshit that they can’t even recognize how full of crap they truly are. I’d be willing to bet if this guy could reverse AOC’s win in the primary in her district in New York he would do so.
Yeah, none of that shit was planned. His little “Now’s a great time to buy!” message was just his way of making sure the market didn’t continue to spiral downward due to his incompetence with the tariffs. Trump is simply full of bluster and pomp but there’s no actual intelligence behind any of it. He’s a used car salesman trying to sell his broken down policies to the people who voted for him. He’s also trying to sell himself to those billionaires. Hoping for a golden parachute when this gig finally expires.
The guidance also includes exclusions for other electronic devices and components, including semiconductors, solar cells, flat panel TV displays, flash drives, and memory cards.
So what does that leave? Oh right, food. It’s not like that’s gotten super expensive at all lately.
It’s the belief that you can spend your extra money because you’re not going to go broke next week due to the stability of “the economy”.
I’m personally saving every single penny and not buying a single thing beyond what I absolutely unequivocally need.
Note: It’s also entirely possible I may take my extra dough out of my bank and buy gold like one of the crazies on TV because confidence in the dollar is… slipping.
Not to mention the mass sell-off of debt bonds that is going to bankrupt our country.
I have just simply stopped spending. I buy absolute essentials and that’s it.
The next time my Republican Trump loving father asks for a loan to cover his overdraft I’m sending this article instead.
Maybe if we ran an actual fucking liberal for a change.
Biden actually ran as a liberal and didn’t try to court the Republicans. Even though he’s got a long-term track record of voting for all the things Republicans love. Not to mention he ran basically a Reagan era White House. All the while being called the most liberal president we’ve ever had. Meanwhile Harris ran as a super conservative neoliberal. She embraced the war criminal Dick Cheney and refused to go on record as opposing the war on Gaza. Clinton steamrolled the entire Democratic party to take to nomination by force and then walked around pretending to be nice all the while spitting out conservative talking points.
The entire Democratic party is a fucking joke. And until progressives decide to shed the Democratic party and run as progressive independents instead we’re going to continue to have this shit show.
Is it because they were women? Are you sure it wasn’t because they were borderline Republicans? Both Clinton and Harris are two of the most conservative democratic candidates to run in the last 30 years.
I don’t want Waltz anywhere near the presidency.
I would definitely vote for AOC any day of the week though.
This is why the DNC will fight to keep him exactly where he is. Just watch. In 3 years they will be funding his campaign against anyone who dares to challenge him in the primary.