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It will only resonate with them once they get shipped to El Salvador. Until then... nothing but bullshit. Here's to hoping they get on President TruMusk's nerves sooner.
I do love when supposed progressives parrot conservative talking points.
Do they ever learn from any fuck up? No. Our next nominee is probably going to be Nancy Pelosi because we all know how much everyone loves her, and she's the perfect age to run.
Well, it is her turn.
Whoo! First boss-lady President!
As if we are ever going to have actual elections again.
None of you realize how bad this is going to get
I read quite well, and understood my history lessons. And I'm armed and practiced. Still, likely won't be enough, but I'll die with my boots on before ICE comes for my legal, and brown, alien wife.
And for all y'all bitching about life's minor inconveniences, wait for Depression 2.0. You'll find out quick what's truly important and what you can do without.
It's going to be Gavin Newsom and Rahm Emanuel. They will care about sucking Netanyahu's dick far more than any domestic policy goal. Depending on how badly Trump fucks up, it they might even win.
And then it’ll be “Vote blue no matter who!”
And “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”
And then “stupid progressives you make us lose all the time!”
And then we’re thrown into camps by JD Vance’s stormtroopers while elected democrats hold up signs.
Then maybe stay home and not vote harder?
I have voted in every primary and general election for the past 25 years.
Stop lying to me and telling me that’s the way to get shit done.
It's almost like we've been through this all before.
When the country is circling the drain it’s the same shit just faster and faster.
Nah, they will just run Harris again but lean even harder into trying to sway Republican voters since it worked out so well.
It'll be Newsome running on Prosperity Agenda and slightly more humane El-salvadorian black sites.
She’ll have to elbow out Diane Feinstein.
i'm currently watching them fail to learn in VA elections
Idk if it's necessarily fail more than happy to capitulate. Only way out of this will be Luigi style I'm afraid. I mean, I'm all for hoping David Hogg burns out the corrupt but it's unlikely he can do it alone.
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You would think this might have been a learning experience. Not for the Democratic establishment, whose members quickly scrambled to blame — what else? — the progressive left for their own failure, spent the months since thinking their comeback lay in posturing as socially conservative or trying to bankroll podcasters, and have been soothing themselves that they will win the 2026 midterms by default, even if they’re loathed by voters.
Schumer believing they already have a majority cinched going into 2026 is insane.
It's almost like their strategy for winning is "If republicans fuck up enough, they'll have to vote for us".
Or as George Washington put it:
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
70% of Americans would get 1/4 of their way through the sentence, give up, and assume the writer was an idiot who couldn't communicate.
That is the world we live in now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
In 2023, 28% of adults scored at or below Level 1, 29% at Level 2, and 44% at Level 3 or above.[1] Adults scoring in the lowest levels of literacy increased 9 percentage points between 2017 and 2023. In 2017, 19% of U.S. adults achieved a Level 1 or below in literacy while 48% achieved the highest levels.[2]
Anything below Level 3 is considered "partially illiterate" (see also § Definitions below).[3] Adults scoring below Level 1 can comprehend simple sentences and short paragraphs with minimal structure but will struggle with multi-step instructions or complex sentences, while those at Level 1 can locate explicitly cued information in short texts, lists, or simple digital pages with minimal distractions but will struggle with multi-page texts and complex prose.[4] In general, both groups struggle reading complex sentences, texts requiring multiple-step processing, and texts with distractions.[4]
Keep trying to tell y'all, we Americans are far dumber than you think. Rating intelligence by comparing your friends, family and lemmy posts is a self-selecting fail. You're not out there interacting with the very dumbest of our population, and no, retail work hardly counts.
This is not lost on our politicians and media. They're aiming for votes and eyeballs. If you want to obtain those things, you aim low and never mind the "intelligentsia", snobs that they are. 🙄
They don't have anything to learn, none of this is an accident they're just following orders from their billionaire owners
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