Were we expecting billionaires to act any differently?
Or are we asserting billionaires run the Dem Party?
No, especially one who identifies as a republuQan but is trying to fund a Dem challenger out of the goodness of his civic-minded heart.
There is an AIPAC angle to Dem funding (ALL funding, to be clear) which is not great in this specific context.
“His sex predator opponent is a shit person” /=/ “The Party™ is fighting Mamdani with all its got!”
No, but if he’s going rogue, I’d prefer to hear some party heavy say it. It sounds like they convinced him to stick around as a spoiler. Whether they did or not. It’s an asshole move and reflects poorly on them.
Even Chuck Schumer, legitimate neoliberal supreme, has defended Mamdani on that account.
Glad to hear it. Chuck has his moments now and then. His defense did not make it into my feed fwiw, but that’s not too surprising.
It’s been consistently stalled by Dems and its cuts, particularly to Medicaid, a genuinely unpopular cut that plays well with a broad swathe of the electorate, highlighted by Dem mainstays; not really sure what more is reasonably expected at this point and juncture.
Well this is it’s own post, but something that would make the highlight reels would be Pelosi saying she fucked up shoehorning Connolly in there, more DNC household names on the road with Bernie & AOC (Why is Warren not in there, as an example, she’s got anti-oligarchy chops). Setting off a smoke bomb in the conference room, throwing a pie at Perjury Traitor Greed, tying Mike Johnson’s shoes together, paid advertisements, a WARPED Tour with free t-shirt swag; shit it feels like they’re content to get quoted in the NYT and tour the Sunday morning circuit and that’s it for the PR.
No one’s confused that the Democrats are shit at messaging; the few times they broke out (remember the first two weeks of Kamala’s campaign?) they get shushed by fogeys and idiot consultants.
It’s months past time to start doing outrageous fucking shit. As it is, this is the press they’re generating.
What they need to do is:
1.) recognize it
2.) address it
3.) cause a fumble on the republiQan offense
4.) run it back for six
5.) repeat
No, especially one who identifies as a republuQan but is trying to fund a Dem challenger out of the goodness of his civic-minded heart.
There is an AIPAC angle to Dem funding (ALL funding, to be clear) which is not great in this specific context.
No, but if he’s going rogue, I’d prefer to hear some party heavy say it. It sounds like they convinced him to stick around as a spoiler. Whether they did or not. It’s an asshole move and reflects poorly on them.
Glad to hear it. Chuck has his moments now and then. His defense did not make it into my feed fwiw, but that’s not too surprising.
Well this is it’s own post, but something that would make the highlight reels would be Pelosi saying she fucked up shoehorning Connolly in there, more DNC household names on the road with Bernie & AOC (Why is Warren not in there, as an example, she’s got anti-oligarchy chops). Setting off a smoke bomb in the conference room, throwing a pie at Perjury Traitor Greed, tying Mike Johnson’s shoes together, paid advertisements, a WARPED Tour with free t-shirt swag; shit it feels like they’re content to get quoted in the NYT and tour the Sunday morning circuit and that’s it for the PR.
No one’s confused that the Democrats are shit at messaging; the few times they broke out (remember the first two weeks of Kamala’s campaign?) they get shushed by fogeys and idiot consultants.
It’s months past time to start doing outrageous fucking shit. As it is, this is the press they’re generating.
What they need to do is:
1.) recognize it
2.) address it
3.) cause a fumble on the republiQan offense
4.) run it back for six
5.) repeat