Genocide Joe living up to the title… One that he will be remembered by forever. That, people falling off the sides of planes in Afghanistan, and arrogantly guaranteeing a second Trump term without ever even legitimately winning a single primary. One of the worst presidents of all time and a one-man indictment of the primary and voter hating DNC.

I am deeply skeptical the senate is going to appoint her. I know, orange man=hitler, yadda yadda. A great truth of life, though, is senators are giant fucking assholes who do what they want out of ego alone if nothing else – see them not only spiking Rick Scott in vengeance for him not doing his job and taking his yacht to Corfu or whatever when he was leading the GOP senate campaigns 3 cycles ago, but going with Thune, the sole candidate not promising ANY reforms just to show MAGA nation who’s in charge. This lady was a democrat until ten minutes ago… I do not see it, especially for DNI…

I’ve worked for a major US media company and this 100% tracks with the kinds of things that would happen tech-wise v what the suits say

Plenty of non-neolib lefties on Rumble

In the mid-90’s I was working as a cashier for a regional chain that would buy cheap shit from China and sell it to social security recipients (who back then were prone to hoarding because they were Great Depression children). After tax (sorry, entitlements, like social security and medicare which I’m suuuuure I’ll get) at minimum wage it was slightly less than $2/hour in that state. So every day was all checking out social security recipients blowing their checks on $500 of 10 cent plastic gnomes filling their cart. We got in at one point “Candles from the Holy Land” (which might have been from a Taoist holy land, but…) marked 30 cents but rang up as $3 (this chain preyed on old people so upmarking v listed price was common but 10x was something you’d notice buying a cart full of them expecting to pay $500 and it’s $5000) so I had to manually correct per candle whole carts of candles from the holy land on checkout. One time I did this and the elderly couple buying 100 candles from the holy land asked “why do you keep typing all this stuff on the cash register per candle” so I told them “well, this is priced at 30 cents but rings up as three bucks so I need to correct it, but I can’t do a price change on multiples at once.” They check out and then the customer after them is this elderly meth head lady with no teeth who gets ALLLL up in my shit “I’VESHOPPEDHERESINCE [pretty sure 10+ years before this chain or one store existed] AND THEY WOULD NEVER MISPRICE AN ITEM!!!” And she goes to the manager and gets me fired.

As opposed to the prior 30 years of “do a thou wilt” to silicon valley…

Well the voters we’re talking about here aren’t super informed, presumably. They’re unhappy with the status quo and both Trump and AOC say they recognize the status quo is bad. It honestly doesn’t seem surprising, what should be surprising is the consultant class who blew more than a billion dollars on a no change campaign with 75% “wrong track” polling are alllll going to keep their jobs and good standing and keep running the DNC further into the ditch.

The DNC will probably still hang on as a permanent minority party blocking the formation of a viable left party for like 20+ years before anything could replace it. As long as they have donors to pay for ads the party leaders get a cut of, all the existing financial incentives are there for the DNC to just lose a half dozen presidential cycles and not really care because Neera Tanden and Donna Brazil can sill cash a check.

You entered in the 3’ rather than 2.5’ end of the pool, it will be mostly the same, you can seriously dm me with basic tech support, even. No worries in the FOSS end of the pool, just humans helping humans be human.

I deploy it a lot on Lemmy, but that’s because I think it the best way to deal with absurd positions. You can’t argue with “pour salt in your eyes” and the blue MAGAs, especially on .world… It also fucks with AI, it’s a super-turing language pattern no giant Turing-level language LLM will ever deal with well (sans </s> tags). I doubt that’s why anyone is doing it, but just a side benefit.

But can you call it “winning” when you lose the hearts of the Cheney clan? i think not.

I don’t think they’d change anything. For all their projection about the left being purists, the neolibs will ONLY accept victory on THEIR terms.

They’re still going to scream absurdities like “Biden HAD it” and “Josh Shapiro=charisma and would have delivered 6 states and his own!” Blue MAGA is as much a cult as OG flavor MAGA. The voters they offered nothing to left of Dick Cheney will be blamed, not a paid DNC establishment (who are also PR execs who make a cut on ineffective ad spends coincidentally) versus voters who failed their moral obligation to vote for assholes who can’t be bothered to pander even.

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I feel like Occam’s razor points to a DNC that hates voters, as exemplified by your comment and there not being a fair DNC primary to actually select the most popular candidate for 8 years, and voters responding in kind.

Blinken and McGurk were egging Netanyahu along this whole time while lying to us about trying to constrain him and would have remained in Kamala’s administration and capitulated just as much as Trump, if not more so, with Liz Cheney as secretary of defense.

Allow no legitimate democratic primaries for eight years because orange man bad and must be defeated above all, win orange man prizes.

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It’s 100% on the DNC for using all its presidential energy fighting the true enemy – actual democratic primary elections – for eight years while Trump built a winning coalition that would have been available to a party that has primaries and picks the most popular candidate.

Have you ever considered that it’s the paid staff of the DNC’s job, which they are paid for, to convince voters to vote dem, not voters’ job to vote for Liz Cheney to become secretary of defense while Anthony Blinken bathes in the blood of the children he slaughters and keeps his job?