Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.
But the dems won’t do shit
Kamala wants to run again.
Newsom sees himself as a frontrunner.
Mamdami isn’t recognized by Dems and they can’t figure out why he won.
The Democrats continued to drop their balls when they folded after the gov strike.
Yeah we’re looking at another shit year. They’ll just fund ICE less now.
Clinton/Harris 2028
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You got me on that one. For a brief second till I saw the snark tag. Well played.
Yeah, I hope Clinton/Harris was snark.
Someone needs to get Jeffries out of there before he finds new ways to score own goals.
Yeah, when the Midterms are over, it will be time to get rid of Jeffries and Schmuck Schumer. If the Dems take one or both Houses, then it’s time to go to war, and these dipshits aren’t in the game. They let the four years of the Biden administration go by without firing a shot, and that can’t happen again.
No kidding, if the next Dem administration is just a repeat of the Biden administration, instead of a full-blown crushing and purging of MAGA, and MAGA ends up back in power, I’m leaving. Not kidding. I don’t see the point of staying here, caring, fighting, protesting, writing, etc., if the people we appoint to fight for us simply refuse to do it.
I’ll just retire to an island or beach somewhere, and watch America burn down from a distance. My family is already talking about it, and comparing options.
Woah, expecting representation in exchange for your vote? Sorry buddy, this purity test is unreasonable. Dont you know that governing is hard? Of course you dont because youre not in the big club.
Now suck on nanci Pelosi’s toes with the biggest grin you can muster or else you will be labeled a Russian bot by our finest record correctors.
I’ll believe nothing until I see it. I’ll be voting Democrat.
Also be on the lookout for Republicans in sheep’s clothes running for local elections. You can easily tell them apart but I won’t say how. Just read the pamphlet or if they fucked up and you didn’t get one go to the website and read about the candidates. For local I’ve been picking people by their background. For example for superintendent for the school district pick a teacher. For fire fighters pick a firefighter. For other things I’ve picked engineers and science background candidates. We gotta get rid of the retarded politicians and the carrier politicians that just waste our tax money on defense and military stuff.
Great. Then they can do fuck all.
And they’ll bust it with their tried and tested method for failure: trying to court the right by moving right and abandoning leftist causes.
abandoning leftist causes
Actively opposing leftist causes
Dems put more effort into opposing Mamdani than they did into prosecuting Trump over J6 💀
I’ve got money that says Dems wont reclaim more than one house in 2026 due to their own milquetoast incompetance. Let alone a winning sweep in 2028
Narrator: But they won’t.
As any lingering hope drained out of his body, he smiled and masturbated himself one last time to the idea that he was right to never dare to hope in the first place.
They have this chance, yes. I hope they’re able to capitalize on it. But, I know Schumer and the geriatric democrats have an uncanny way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Surely the Dems wont blow this on some terrible tactical decision around optimizing corporate and foreign government bribes, ignoring what their constituents want, and reflexively beating up their left flank.
Hmmm, I wonder if Trump will use executive orders to circumvent congress completely, and the Supremes will back him up per Bezos instructions?
Nah, that’s crazy, I’m just paranoid.
p.s. Senate will continue ignoring actual law and insist on following Senate rules (not law; can be changed at any time with simple majority vote) per cloture to avoid the “filibuster”; this blatantly unconstitutional “rule” was magically created to prevent another New Deal
Executive orders cannot legally contradict the existing laws. Trump uses them to pretend he rules by decree, but most of the time, everyone just shrugs their shoulders and says “yeah, whatever, Cheetoh-pedo.” And when EOs have gone to court, they’ve been declared null and void.
Also, filibusters have been uses as long as the Republic has existed, and the modern cloture rule dates back to around the end of WW1, so it was not put in to prevent the New Deal.
Correction, the current “filibuster” rule (not law) is no longer a filibuster, they just “call” it a filibuster, but don’t actually perform it. So, it’s not even a filibuster as it was known for many decades, but an out-in-the-open parlor trick.
Cloture rules (not law) were changed after the ND, in 1975, look it up. Your statement that “the modern cloture rule dates back to the end of WW1” is blatantly false, per the senate. I think that they know their own rules pretty well.
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture.htm
They follow the cloture rule when they really don’t want to pass something, which is most of the time. See the first minimum wage vote under Biden for example, oops, we need 60 votes! Coincidentally, the New Deal would not have passed, as they only had 59 votes.
If they want to pass a law for real, they then retract their rule (not law), and then they only need a simple majority. They have done this many times, around 200 last time I checked.
If Biden and friends had wanted to actually raise minimum wage, they would have made an exception to their senate cloture rules (not law), and they would have only needed a simple majority to pass it (they could have done this with Harris being the deciding vote).
They did not.
They need to give us something to fight for first. The system is not currently supporting and nourishing it’s children. Why on earth would we trust people to help that can’t even fully recognise a genocide? How do we trust them to give us healthcare? It’s an insult to the intelligence of the American people.
Ahhh yes. Why fight against evil if all my boxes aren’t ticked. Enjoy 100 years of fascism.
It’s not about ticking boxes though. It’s recognizing that just sitting on your hands and doing nothing for people other than saying “well at least we aren’t the Republicans!” and not fighting tooth and nail for important things (like the PRO Act, voting reform, minimum wage increases, etc) just means people are gonna walk away and try voting for the other team next cycle because at least they’re promising something.
Fascism has never been overthrown by limp oppoisition parties suddenly finding a spine. It’s either war, revolution or (in a few odd cases) a coup, such as the one carried out by Spain’s otherwise useless and corrupt king when Franco bit the dust.
I’m all for revolution.
Just because I go out of my way to vote, doesn’t mean I expect others to when the results are against them either way. Bullying people won’t get you any further to what is needed. Aim it at the politicians, they more than deserve it. If you give people something to show up for, anti corruption and anti genocide, they’ll show up, just like they did for Mandami.
The donors will never allow the democratic party to change. That’s why its all on the voters to change what they are asking for to what the donors desire.
agreed, the new wedge issues havent dropped yet.
Who knows what they will tell us to think about for this round, so excited.
I am waiting to see what will be the excuse of dem votes to not vote one more time.
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Do all the comments in this thread sound like Russian propaganda too? Or are there perhaps valid criticisms of the Democrat party?
There are way too many people who think any criticism is desire to make the dems better is nothing but outside influence.
Especially when pointing out the flaws or failures
Still at this you weirdo stalker?
