Politics The Donkey in the room...the Democrats today

How can the Dems quit playing nice, and be the adults in the room?

 

Wally, how come grownups are mean ?

Well Beve, sometimes it seems like they're all mean but they've already done a bunch of dumb stuff and just want you to avoid that.

But how can I learn if I don't do some dumb stuff too ?

Your just supposed to listen to their stories and believe them.

Yeah, I spose Wally. But I still think if I do dumb stuff I learn a little better.

Ya know Beve, that's true, it's like saving money for a new baseball glove instead of dad just buying it for you.
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I'm not super worried about Biden. Mostly he seems coherent. Barring tragic health events I think he can hang on.
The opposition, I know is fully off the rails, disconnected to reality, with a mountain of evil intent and, with a cadre of idiots and opportunistic grifters and evil doers following him.
I also feel like the majority of the voting public is still preceptive enough to know this.
It often dosn't seem like it but it's always people making the most noise that gets air time.

Worry and hand wringing is reasonable considering we're in the biggest cult/mass delusion event we've seen in a long while. Nobody alive has actual experience with the last mass psychogenic psychosis disorder.

https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/9...ple lose,regardless of data proving otherwise.

Stress opens a door to poor judgement. There's a lot of real stress going on and a lot of false invented stressors being yelled about on the news channel with the most viewership.

Real stressors like loosing some practical use of mega dollar coastline realestate, more than usual catastrophic weather events across the states etc. may help focus turn from the invented ones which usually drive people together like a bucket brigade to a barn fire.

Stories about "that Mexican or, that LGBTQ at the food bank took some extra time to help me get formula for my baby/ find my family space at a shelter/ help me haul a truck of trash away from my hurricane destroyed house, maybe they ain't so bad."
Maybe Ted Cruze who took a flight out of the country actually dosn't care about me after all ??? Why did I vote for him ? Oh yeah he cooked bacon on the heat shield of an AR-15 haha, that was cool.
More stories like that could turn the tide a little here and there.
So maybe actual reality based tragedy without help from GOP leaders will change some minds.

But yeah, on paper and in the previous election it seems we should be ok.

If we see economic tragedy it'll be harder to turn minds because financial stuff is always a lot easier to muddy up reality over.

Stress leads to desperate solutions. Like that crazy JFK conspiracy guy who just died on a motocross track. He had some financial problems and looked to clickbate gold coins, which had links to banking system failures, then (probably) illuminati bullshit and bang ! You're on Alex Jones site and one click away from a Christian nationalist site reading about pizzagate and furniture being a placeholder in a catalog for human trafficking of babys. Pulling up anchor on reality and floating off to the the shit show.

The majority of voters I think will be more pragmatic. Most can't and won't leave their jobs and go all militia rioting.
Most have jobs and families and will put that first and as we move towards the next election. The increasing looniness of maga should tire people out. If you have a family your already invested in the normalcy of day to day living and not total upheaval of known functioning society with no solid picture of what the goal even looks like.

Taylor Swift and Barbie could help.

 

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The news media definitely magnifies the squeaky wheel by giving it too much coverage...because excitement sells.

OTOH I'm pretty sure there are plenty of dedicated magatards willing to take up arms. 06 JAN 2021 is a good example. I can see people trying to block the motorcade transporting NPD Trump to prison (if he ever actually goes to prison).

I seriously hope our government doesn't try to play nice with our domestic terrorists.

 

There's more than I had thought prior to t's admin but I don't think enough to really overthrow the country now. Some say j6 was a rehearsal but if that's true it was a rehearsal and preview for the Dems too. I think we will be more ready-ish going forward.

Obviously we have, probably an inevitable bundle of folks who spend their time "investigating" bullshit year round now. That will probably be a constant background noise as a normal thing like flat earthers.

I still have a hard time thinking they'll be a real upheaval like "national divorce" civil war.

Excitement sells like gas sells. We all want it so we can't totally blame the media anymore than oil companies if we keep buying gas powered cars.

 

The Repubs overplayed the Abortion Card when trying to appeal to the MAGA base.

Democrats won big on abortion rights Tuesday. Here's what the results say for the US going into 2024

 

I'm putting this here because it's about the Democratic party in general .

Nancy Pelosi was just on ABC this week (that's how they spell it). I have a great amount of respect for her, but the Democrat leaders need to ask her to stop doing live interviews. She said many very sensible things, but there were several times when she floated away into the clouds.

Don't use Pelosi as a face for the Democratic Party.

 

Don't assume anything, not even a narrow majority. "Fight like hell" for a majority, a comfortable majority.

 

Make America sane again ??
What is the most sane era in U.S. history ?

The Dem machine is spamming my txt and email. Not letting up there. Once last election and once so far this time I got some shaming language...have I turned republican ?
I wrote em back listing my donations, national and local down ballot donations in other states races and said if your gonna try and shame me cause I don't have cash this month then yall can fuck off !
I'll always vote D but don't ask money after flipping me shit like that.
I don't know anyone that donates anything at all. My D friends just vote. Anyone else I know isn't really R but just not paying any attention at all and may mention some R points but generally non political and probably not even voting.

Anyone pushing negative talking points on Joe...man I don't get it. The alternative is literally non representative 'government'

MAGA, according to Bannon is preping an army of sycophants to populate appointed positions across the board. All the crazys in prison for J6 stuff will get a pardon and form a neo SS police force like little Ronnie has going on...
We already have folks traveling out of state for Healthcare fearing cops asking them if they are going for an abortion. How fucked up is that ? How does that even work ? When did you start getting questioned by cops traveling state to state ? Is that real or not ?
I don't know...the reports this weekend about Joe, his papers and gafs just aren't a thing. Pointing at that is like pointing at a a guy with a lit match while your standing next to an erupting volcano showering you with molten gobs of rock. Ya know ?

Robert Hur can go fuck himself. He can't get to where he is without being smart enough to know this.
Just the pandemic not being a 'leadership moment' and loosing 800,000 people to deliberate misinformation is a mountain of reasons not to push orange jesus and his flock. But he still has a mountain range of other reasons his whole family is only qualified for orange jumpsuits.
Bleach drinking, vaping, enemas, tactical nukes in hurricanes...
Doesn't Hur remember any of this ?

 

Biden's legal team went to Justice Dept. over what they viewed as unnecessary digs at his memory

“So you have to wonder with those pressures impinging on the investigation from the outside knowing the attacks that Republicans have levied on the law enforcement process, did he decide we would have to ask that we reach the only legal conclusion possible and then toss in the rest of it to placate a certain political constituency?” Bauer asked.

 

Good lord, that extremely questionable investment fund truly is old news.

New info has surfaced?
Better late than never?
Done to smear Agent Orange 45? [Yes, that could be a factor]

 

The hard part of being a Democrat, especially at the national level, is you're basically beholden to the same wealthy oligarchs that completely own the Republicans. They only own you for maybe 90% of your soul, but basically all of your soul on things that might dismantle the economic orders that keeps them wealthy.

Pull the string on Jared's money and who knows where the trail ends?