You see it in Mamdani, too. Instead of proposing technocratic tweaks he just goes up there and says "Cost of living is a huge problem, we're gonna address it with municipally subsidized grocery stores and childcare & pay for it by taxing vacant properties" and it turns out everyone likes that!
And even if the back end was just texhnocratic tweaks, lying aboutnit being a big new change would benefit the candidate in theory. But they want to keep pushing policies too long for most voters to absorb.
The fact that Jared Kushner derives nearly all his income from the Saudi government while he purports to be negotiating issues of acute interest to the Saudi government allegedly on behalf of the US is simply swept under the rug by US mainstream media.
Trump on Saudi Arabia: "I think they're doing great. I spoke to him yesterday. They're fighting. They're helping us. The ones that aren't helping are NATO. We don't need them. We will never need them, actually."
Which is very annoying!!! Just lie about doing something good for a change instead ifnlying about you have a 4 part plan to implement a public option.
But their donors would lose their minds if their promised something their voters wanted in plain language.
This is a real, enduring problem for Dems; Trump is a bad actor but he's very much slotted into the 'I'm gonna fix the thing that Fox keeps telling you is a problem with the exact policy approaches Fox keeps pushing" and unfortunately there's an audience for that on the right.
Trump, even just lying, saying "gonna stop illegal immigrantion" is more effective than the dem shit of listing policies that do the same thing in a more long winded annoying way that makes people stop listening a few words in.
If the campaign wasn't run like absolute ass both of those could have been very gettable!
Ask the average voter about harris' policies and you'll get a blank back. Partially from the campaign barely selling them at all, but also doing so inefficiently when they bothered.
Seems more than a little foolish to write off people who had voted Democrat in the past who sat out one (1) election. Also, Booker fucking sucks, so no, no one should show up for someone like Booker.
Millions that turned out for biden in 2020 didn't in 2024, it's pretty clear your message is very effective in losing elections.
Then shut up about politics, your whinging can only lose votes.
Imagine if this guy showed up at your front door and said, “I’m here to collect all of your personal information and while I’m doing that I’m going to clear up some misconceptions about the Nazis.”
It was gonna kill me if I couldn't find the other.
It was Herbie Goes Bananas.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Same except I would take at least one person with me otherwise I just assume I will be found dead in the hallway by someone with a great scream.
When you consider the mysterious deaths of BLM activists over the years, not to mention a century of surveilling Black movement leaders, this is quite something
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
the penne opticon
Mayor Mamdani's new tax impacts 13,000 homes owned by the top 1.%, and will generate an additional $500M minimum in tax revenue for working New Yorkers.
Watching blue collar MAGAs panic over "higher taxes" is amusing. This Will HELP them. Here are the details:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/zohran-mam...
going method and injecting himself with 100 different viruses like a resident evil villain
The economy is bad and has been for decades. You don't have to listen to online vibeconomists pretending it's good. They don't matter and most are lying for attention/money. Just do what you can for your friends and community and disregard what financially comfortable internet pundits say about it.
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
I'm not kidding btw, Conservative liberal academics pushing "Actually FDRs New Deal made the great depression last longer than it would have" is essentially a recession indicator.
Lmao I hate it but it speaks their language.
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
who could have seen this coming
"I didn't fight to get the 7 words on tv so you could treat someone's identity like a cookie you hand out for good behavior" is that cringe enough for them.
The whole image of Mandela as this icon of nonviolence and moderation is such obvious rose-tinted glasses. His apparent moderation was really only because of the increasing radicalisation of the anti-apartheid movement while he was in prison, which made him a more appealing partner by comparison.
For one thing, Schumer is proudly a reactionary on this issue and won't ever change and will be retired or kicked out by 2029 regardless. For another, Coons has repeatedly lied and claimed he would finally be willing to vote against aid to Israel but never does so. and he's slated to lead SFRC.
