I would say about as big as LBJ finding out like a month before the 1968 election (which put Nixon in power) that candidate Nixon had been illegally coordinating with his friend Henry Kissinger at the State Department to undermine peace talks that could have ended the Vietnam War and decided to just sweep that little bit of treason under the rug rather than deal with the headache of arresting the GOP’s candidate for president right before an election
The Republicans are in power and actively tearing down the structures of our democracy because the Democratic party allows them to. The Republican party can only be dealt with through a more effective Democratic party. Any conversation about what the Republicans have done and stopping them from doing more absolutely must reckon with how we are going to fix the Democratic party first or it is going to inevitably be a complete waste of time and effort that puts us in an even worse place than where we are at now (see; 2024, 2016, etc.).
And the only way they will ever be dealt with is if we remove the useless shitbag Democratic party members who refuse to hold them accountable from office
Don’t get mad at the bank robbers for robbing a bank, get mad at the do-nothing sheriff who only ever wants to talk about how we all need to vote to rebuild the bank
Even bigger than the last Democratic administration failing to send anyone to prison for the Iraq war, illegal torture programs, illegal assassination programs, or the 2008 financial crisis
If we ever want to get this country to stop being a shithole the Democratic party is the one that needs to be fixed
Yeah, bigotry is basically an autoimmune disorder of the body politic
Incubate Debate
That rolls off the tongue like a tool box falling down a staircase and, like, I don’t want to be thinking about the word “incubate” in the context of this story at all, ew ew ew
I mean, who do I vote for if I want the country to learn from history and hold all of our war criminals and torturers and traitors accountable? Obama didn’t hold anyone in Bush’s administration accountable like he should have, Biden appointed Garland to make sure Republicans would be protected (and, like, he’d been mister forget and forgive going all the way back to Strom Thurmond), etc. This country desperately needs to reckon with its history, but there are no influential voices in either party really interested in doing that.
e; Yeah, just had to double check but both Hillary and Joe voted for war with Iraq in 2002. If we learned anything from history scumbags like that couldn’t get a volunteer position with their local United Way, let alone be presidential nominees.
Eh, it’s a lot of “If you stupid hippies keep complaining about Palestinians being mass murdered and taxpayer money being thrown at for profit companies then we’ll let MAGA beat the everloving shit out of you and everyone you care about for a few years and see if you’re more agreeable,” a little “Holy fuck that is depraved and we need to kick you out of our party somehow,” and a lot of “Yeah, look, that is depraved, but we currently don’t have the votes to do anything about them, and organizing those votes would be a lot of time and effort, so please just shut up… but, uh, don’t forget to vote!”
Yeah, also they probably spent a ton of time trying to figure out which FBI agents they could trust to cover up their dirt for them. Also, just generally speaking, I’m pretty sure Kash Patel is even stupider than he looks.
Yeah, this should go without saying but I think there’s a 100% chance that anyone who says anything that could be construed as a threat in those threads will definitely be getting a visit from law enforcement
“Doing a human sacrifice every so often is good for the poll numbers, but let’s hurry it up and not spend too much money on that prison thing, it’s not like it really matters who we kill.” - pro-death politicians (basically)
“In our conversations with stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem, we are aligned on what’s important, and that’s learning from the past and winning the future,”
And you’re showing that commitment to learning from the past by refusing to have a conversation about it.
“Here’s our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”
Being dishonest and refusing to engage with your voters does not help you win.
I don’t know, Trump isn’t very big on pardoning people /s
Yeah yeah, I’m sure all those super smart fascists have all sorts of great things to teach us (/s), but as long as you’re so hopped up on learning shit how about you read something for once in this misbegotten thread and recognize the fact that Patton got removed from his post for being so antisemitic, so, no, he wasn’t just a man of his times or whatever the excuse is
Fascists are not smart, period. If they were smart they wouldn’t be fascists. If they occasionally luck into effective behaviors and strategies, fine learn from those, but calling fascists themselves smart or strong or good or any crap like that is a harmful and misinformed thing to do because it builds their bullshit mystique and makes them more influential, and it is just not true under any circumstances. Their regimes always implode eventually and leave whatever society that was unlucky enough to have them in a worse place than before fascists came on the scene.
I am probably more pissed off by this exchange than you deserve, but like, damn, there’s a dril tweet for this
Dr. Kenneth Haller, a pediatrician based in St. Louis, called HHS’ actions “anti-science” during a press briefing held by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, on Tuesday. He said efforts to restrict access to such care still allow the treatments for children with other conditions that affect hormone production, for example.
That is a verifiable fact, NBC. He didn’t just say they still allow those treatments for cis children, he pointed out the fact that they do and used that as evidence for his statement that their policies have no science behind them.
Of course, when Trump issues an executive order declaring the moon is made of cheese and you’ll be all like “Moon is now made of cheese” for a headline and wait until halfway through your article to quote a scientist.
HHS also announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration will issue warning letters to 12 manufacturers and retailers of breast binders for minors for the purposes of treating gender dysphoria, which is the distress that results from a misalignment between a person’s gender identity and birth sex, alleging that the manufacturers are participating in illegal marketing, the department official said.
What’s next, going after the parents of any assigned masculine at birth kid whose hair grows too long for their tastes? Just incredibly dumb and creepy authoritarian nonsense invading families’ lives for no reason whatsoever.
Yeah, this is probably exactly as far as their thinking goes at this point, but given how he gutted nuclear safety regulations a few months ago (arc) I think there’s a reasonable chance we could get our own Chernobyl out of this mess
Also, probably goes without saying, but for fucks sake is this nakedly corrupt, dude is basically changing the rules of Roulette mid-game and then putting all his chips down on 23 because he just has a good feeling about that one suddenly
Huh, fair enough I guess, I thought she was still going after Trump and just trying to take his place as the QAnon set’s champion, but I guess that what I get for assuming a known liar would be consistent in her positions for more than a couple of weeks
So MTG is saying the president did a great job and that she wouldn’t change any of his policies if she was elected president?
Y’know what, fair enough, I phrased that poorly
Get absolutely apoplectic at both, but recognize the fact that until we fix the Dems there’s no way we’ll be able to neutralize the Republicans