Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

This is as close to factual reporting as we're likely to see for a minute. This isn't satire; it's sociopolitical commentary.
- Always has been
- Don't shit on journalists. If the media is your enemy then you're no better than MAGA.
  
  I have no issue with journalists, but you're not going to find them on an entertainment channel. The Washington Post was rubber stamping war profiteering before Bozos bought them.
  The majority of outlets are owned by an ever concentrating number of billionaires. Blind trust is the last thing you want to give them.
  
  The actual Journalists have mostly been fired from most mainstream media in the US.
  It's now mostly Propagandists and Click-bait Enhancing Specialists.
  You can blame Liberals as much as the MAGA crowd for moving newspapers away from Journalism and into Propaganda.

“Did it work? I think we’re in the clear for now, but that was a close one. They could have talked to us, for crying out loud, or worse—demanded that we do something."
Egg-fucking-zactly

People should be realizing it's all been bullshit. They don't care about us.
It's all the same game, left, right, business, drug dealing, street life and mainstream life... It's all the same game, getting "mine" and fucking all other lives over until you do.
They are never going to help you and if they say they will it's not genuine.
Except Bernie.
- A huge percentage of the problem is what people think is left.
  https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
  Hilary was right of Trump, just less authoritarian. The whole caravan spectacle was basically fallout of her time as secretary of state under Obama.
  Liberalism coopted equality from socialism. Rainbow capitalism will underpay and shrinkflate all the poors equally in the name of the shareholders.
  Conservatism coopted a man being entitled to the sweat of his brow. Profit is what's left over after reinvesting in the business and wages. Every cut corner of quality and penny of retirement savings denied is more riches for the ruling class. Workers eagerly defend their bosses entitlement to the sweat of their brow.
  Media plays the masses that deserve both against itself.
  
  You should check out some Adam Curtis Documentary.
  The century of self; It's about frueds cousin understanding psychology and starting the type of marketing we see today and how it's gained traction in politics and government.
  The Trap; I haven't finished it. But it seems on point. its been awhile but I believe this one is more about geopolitics. Proxy wars and stuff like that. Manipulating other countries for our (us) profiting.
  Hyper normalization was good as well. i dont think it was the main plot or talking point but it mentions Trump's tactics in NYC in the 70s. Buying up the poor and selling to the rich.
  There's a channel on YouTube that has all them for free. I think it's official.
- People should, but you'll still see die-hard shitlibs in comments sections on .world defending the Democratic party, defending the Harris/Walz campaign, and blaming anyone to their left for their defeat. 45% of the Democratic party think the problem is that they haven't moved far right enough, and the concept of a third party is still met with constant derision.
  I honestly no longer think Americans will ever get out of this. I don't think most of them even want to. It seems like the average American doesn't want democracy.
  
  For real. It's dead.
  It's wild from my perspective. It's dead as fuck.
  The population really was indoctrinated to be passive servants of evil. Marketing... Capitalism...
  It's wild. Even hip-hop went dogshit. It used to be a culture about the people and it nows it's been raped by the same old bullshit. It's either left, right, or street which isn't any different then left or right anymore., it's just bitch men raping lives sucking all they can out of innocent people like the ceos or politicians. No one is living for humanity.
  It really is people who love humanity vs people that want to control humanity. And it's world wide. Nations and organizations or businesses can be disregarded in this war. It's far bigger than that. Even the dumb Nazi shit is just a blip on the map of the evil humanity is against. All these people get power from the same source... Their need of ego, power, influence, and money.
  USA already has suicide bombers but they blame it on isis, or other groups. I saw someone put it right, "America is a third world with guchi belt."
  Poor people and minorities already know what's up. Immortal technique had it right,
  "I laugh at America's fears
  Of a new world order controlin' the hemisphere,
  Because my people have been livin' that
  for the past 500 years."
  This war isn't new for many of us. It's everyday life.
  
  Lots of people have been brainwashed to not want democracy. They want a 2 team system because it gives them the good feelings of 'im better than the other guys" regardless of how factually true that is. And when there is an other guy that they explicitly aren't better than, like a third party candidate, its all kinds of rationalization as to why actually its better to choose the shittier option because otherwise you might get the feally shitty option. As opposed to just not choosing a shitty option.
- The Democrats and Republicans only purpose is to protect the capitalist class. The GOP is going too hard in the wrong direction will will hopefully upset the working class to invoke real change. Any day now......
- They literally
  cannot
  do
  anything
  because we voted them out of power, you colossal morons.
  
  They really just rolled over and died on the whole 14th amendment can't hold office if you did an insurrection thing, so far as I can tell.
  But yeah I mean people voting R or abstaining aren't helping.
  
  Wrong. They can obstruct congress. Call for quorums and demand full roll calls in the Senate. The might even get the chance to filibuster a bill or two. They can use every precious second of time on the floor to drag the Republicans to a grinding halt. You know, all that stuff the Republicans did during Obama's presidency. At the very least they could come up with an idea that's not, 'Trump is fascist, don't vote for fascists' cause that's obviously not working. There's still a lot the Democrats can do and saying they can't because they're not the majority shows your colossal lack of civic engagement and education. Democrats could pressure federal judges to put injunctions on Trump's executive orders that go directly against the Constitution.
  The Democrats had a year and a half to prepare for this contingency and they were so convinced that they couldn't possibly lose that they literally didn't think a plan for if they lost was necessary. Now they're saying we're powerless and it's not their fault. Yeah it's not the Democrats fault Trump is back in power, but it's their problem. They just won't do anything because their elite donors don't want them to.

Top Democrat politicians tried nothing to stop a Trump win on the Presidential Election and were all out of ideas.
Democrats naturally Lost to Trump
Top Democrat politicians sent their minions and useful idiots around to blame people who didn't vote for them because they tried nothing to appeal to them (as part of the grand strategy of trying nothing to stop a Trump win).
Top Democrat politicians carried on doing nothing to stop Trump <- We are here

If the Schumer fits…
- You. I like you.
  
  I like you too.

Leaders is a strong word. A bunch of dudes mollycoddled by their privilege and standing. Kill your idols. I love the Onion.
- *mollycoddle

lmao the onion is killing it these days

Voters' vision is based on movement.

Considering there actually is a very determined scramble on multiple fronts to stall out trump this insistence from the onion is really starting to feel like defeatist propaganda
- The fact that stalling is necessary instead of having taken any preventative actions is more upsetting.

It's cute how people want the dems to put on their cape and save them.
They offered a crime fighter instead of a felon. They offered someone who can identify with four separate disparaged groups and who held 2-3 college degrees. They offered America's mom and dad.
People couldn't come out and vote. America doesn't want them.
Those who voted at all chose an elitist 34-time felon who victimized women, who tried quid-pro-quo for aid relief, incited insurrection and then pardoned people collectively guilty of terrorism and felony murder, stole and hid secret documents, and engaged in keystone conspiracy to avoid prosecution and return of those docs -- and some are still missing. You voted a lock into two branches of government when they already controlled the third. Like, just, how dumb are you?
Please ask yourself what you're entitled to at this point, and maybe change your fucking tone. Start with "sorry" and end with "how can we help"?
Release the downvotes. Begin projecting. Just stop the fucking bleating.
- They offered a genocidist, who campaigned with the Cheneys. Maybe next time, the Democrats could offer a candidate that the people actually want.
  
  I liked Kamala Harris. But getting the Cheneys on her side made me wonder if we were the baddies.
  
  What the people wanted:
  an elitist 34-time felon who victimized women, who tried quid-pro-quo for aid relief, incited insurrection and then pardoned people collectively guilty of terrorism and felony murder, stole and hid secret documents, and engaged in keystone conspiracy to avoid prosecution and return of those docs
  Better than that genocidist bitch!
  "You can have an American cheese sandwich with mayo or eat literal shit and elect a fascist. What doncha want?"
  ^This asshole: I wasn't given a solid choice!
- What I want Dems to do right now is identify and call out the unprecedented actions of Republicans.
  I want them to loudly say "we will not sign any budget bill that doesn't address Elon".
  What I want them to do is introduce bills to protect the federal government.
  Just because the party isn't in power, doesn't mean they are powerless. The Republican majority is paper thin. Now is the time to exploit that and to make the case to Americans "this isn't normal".
  Instead they are being silent, which is the exact wrong move. Did Republicans ever STFU as a minority about CRT, DEI, woke, or hunter's laptop? No. Dems need to take a page out of that playbook.
  They and you are acting like it was a landslide lose. It was not. Now is not the time for a pity party and a vacation.
- TBF, I'd prefer a random felon over a random DA. Also, the people did elect many Democrat representatives, who are not doing their jobs in the eyes of most of the people who have elected them. And the answer to "how can we help,” is always donating to them to do so little, even when they were in power.
- They'll do anything but accept blame for the situation we're in.
  Democrats aren't great but lazy non voters are worse. Or those who choose to feel smug voting for third parties who don't stand a chance instead of accepting that things can't be perfect but can be better with a very imperfect choice.
  
  I'm curious how this translates into a strategy to win elections. I want Democrats to be realistic. Running as "better than Trump" lost 2016 and 2024. If Democrats don't show strong leadership, then we're all lost.
  
  Democrats are far from great, in fact they are pretty evil. I don't see how voting for a party that gets more evil every election is going to make anything better.
  I think it's pretty fair to blame the democratic leadership for being evil, and running a terrible candidate, who ran on a terrible platform, rather than blaming the voters who loudly told them what to change to earn more votes.

Americans who told democrats to fuck off, and refused to vote for them, now want those same democrats to save them. 🤦‍♂️
- That's kind of their job though. A lot of people DID vote for them, and they're not doing anything to protect our democratic institutions.
- That's what they get paid for after all
- So, why do those Dems expect people to vote for them, if they are going to ignore the will of the voters, anyways?