Now’s Your Chance!

Everyone who knows what the Democrats need to do - get thee hence!

  • @[email protected]
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    58 hours ago

    People want change, people voted for change, as terrible of a change it is. That’s it, you don’t have to think further than that. Preserving the status quo at all costs is what got them in this situation…

  • @mlg
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    1312 hours ago

    Haha, I’ll see you all in 2028 after 4 years of no change and primary rigging again.

    • OptionalOP
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      310 hours ago

      So you’re in there, fighting for your changes?

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        310 hours ago

        Things remain as you like them, but now it’s mlg’s fault for not singlehandedly fixing it.

  • @Sanctus
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    5518 hours ago

    ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS BE PROGRESSIVE AND DONT FUCK WITH A PRIMARY

    • OptionalOP
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      -117 hours ago

      Like - DO GOOD WORK ?

      I dunno, it seems like it should be more . . y’know. Specific. The first part anyway. “Don’t fuck with a primary” is pretty self-explanatory, but there are things the DNC has to do to run a primary, so we should probably get specifics for that too.

        • OptionalOP
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          -417 hours ago

          Yeah. i’d bet they’d agree with you.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        212 hours ago

        The first part anyway. “Don’t fuck with a primary” is pretty self-explanatory, but there are things the DNC has to do to run a primary, so we should probably get specifics for that too.

        This assumes they’ll be running primaries at all.

  • @[email protected]
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    19 hours ago

    Here’s a hint:

    When Harris was out giving speeches heavy on economic populism, polls consistently showed her in the lead.

    When, at the behest of the donor class and their stooges in the DNC, she switched away from populism and to standard, vacuous neo-liberalism, that lead vanished, never to return.

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    There’s an important question though. Does the DNC actually want to win?

    I honestly don’t think they do. I think they’ve found a comfortable and profitable role as the controlled opposition, all of this hand-wringing is just for show, and what they’re in fact going to do is just install another bunch of neo-liberal establishment hacks and go right back to their standard tactics of condemning the republicans while making excuses for failing to actually do anything about them, and promising that if only we give them more money, they’ll surely stand up for us after the next election.

    I’d love for them to prove me wrong. I would’ve loved that anyway, but it’s especially significant now, because the US is circling the bowl, and the time for meaningfully promising anything is rapidly running out. This isn’t just a moment when the DNC needs to step up to reclaim some integrity - they need to step up to do their part to save the US from the destruction the Trumpists are hellbent on bringing.

    Will they?

    • @BarbecueCowboy
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      3219 hours ago

      I’m with you, they seem to really like being the underdogs and it seems to work out well for them from a fundraising perspective. It definitely feels like they’re angling to just barely lose.

      I hope they eventually prove me wrong too, but it does feel like when they do well enough to win it’s mostly an unfortunate accident in their eyes.

      • @SinningStromgald
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        1017 hours ago

        I too would LOVE to be proven wrong but it is seems unlikely.

    • OptionalOP
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      -117 hours ago

      Does the DNC actually want to win? I honestly don’t think they do.

      Yes. They do.

      It’s not a super-duper-double-twist-psyop-gotcha-infinity-plus-one “controlled opposition”. That’s just on tv. In real life, it turns out to be really hard to get people out to the polls on election day. And the champions of evil have been working that point down to the ground for decades.

      • @Donebrach
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        220 minutes ago

        Oh you sweet summer child.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        In real life, it turns out to be really hard to get people out to the polls on election day.

        When you’ve pissed away all your credibility, it is.

  • Not Chad McTruth
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    1716 hours ago

    the dnc should just pay trump to run as a dem in 2028

    • @Xanthobilly
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      27 hours ago

      This is genius had it been 2016, but now his price is in the 10s of billions.

  • @800XL
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    1216 hours ago

    Go on the fucking attack. Call out every Republican bullshit comment and flat out call them liars and embarass them in front of anyone they can.

    Follow it up with lobbing accusations of their on non-stop

  • @badbytes
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    614 hours ago

    Yes, but make sure they know their job. It is to select candidates, without a primary, and make sure those candidates hold fundraising events for the elite class and do nothing for the low and working class. 🤦‍♂️

  • @themaninblack
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    1818 hours ago

    IMO Hakeem Jeffries should also be replaced as minority leader / speaker. He’s about as exciting as a wet dish rag. Great that he’s on message but it’s so transparently measured and calculated. Exactly why Pelosi groomed him to take over, I’m guessing. Just an absolute milk sandwich of a man.

    • @Xanthobilly
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      17 hours ago

      I’ve always found the way he speaks confusing. Does he have a disability that I’m not aware of?

    • OptionalOP
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      317 hours ago

      Fair, but we’re talking about the DNC itself, not the House leadership. Anyone know anything about anyone on the “short list”?

  • Nougat
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    1819 hours ago

    I hear that overturned police cars can be “built” into effective barricades.

    • OptionalOP
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      617 hours ago

      So . . you’re for the DNC . . overturning police cars.

      Sure, why not. Someone write that down.

  • AmidFuror
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    Nobody else seems to have the take that when the Democrats ran a woman for President, they lost both times. When they ran men they won, going back to 2008.

    Maybe the country isn’t ready to elect a woman.

    • OBJECTION!
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      Funny how female Dem senators won in three of the swing states Kamala lost. Given the limited data, it’s hard to imagine how we could possibly have more evidence that you’re wrong.

      Your dataset is two, and they both ran with very similar strategies of moving right to try to appeal to moderate Republicans. Biden meanwhile had the enormous failure of Covid working to his advantage.

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      412 hours ago

      Maybe the country isn’t ready to elect a woman.

      Someone’s scared of AOC.

      • AmidFuror
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        131 minutes ago

        You’ll have to expound on your logic, because it isn’t clear.

    • @[email protected]
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      313 hours ago

      People are down voting but there was some element of that. People saying shit like “I just can’t see her behind the desk”. That’s either about her gender or her race. I don’t think it lost her the election though.

    • @grue
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      515 hours ago

      Stooping to any despicable thing, including sexism, in a desperate attempt to avoid admitting neoliberalism is a loser.

      • AmidFuror
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        014 hours ago

        First, the question itself is not sexist. If I ask if a black candidate didn’t get a job due to discrimination, the question is not racist.

        Second, it’s a legitimate question. You have a narrative that Clinton and Harris lost because they don’t support progressive causes. They could also have lost because many Democrats and fence-sitters have a hard time getting fired up to vote for a woman. Sorry if that doesn’t automatically mean you’ll get what you want next time.