Never forget that Democrats lost an election and plunged this country into fascism to protect this.

They did exactly as they intended to do exactly when they were asked to do it because they fundamentally agree with and/or benefit from the capital class donors. So, you can cut off the head, but it will just regenerate. Our tactics must acknowledge and reflect the scale of what we're up against.

This whole notion that you can find someone with a "backbone" to replace leadership defies logic - the issue isn't that leadership is "weak" or "stupid"... the problem is much worse than that. Neoliberals are serving the interests of capital. You and I are not a part of their core constituency.

Why are so many people focusing on calls to remove Chuck Schumer? If you replace leadership, they'll just insert someone else with the same ideological disposition to do the same shit. You need a wholesale upheaval to replace all members of Congress with explicitly anti-neoliberal candidates.

A single arrest has thrown the battle for Israel's soul into sharp relief The arrest in Israel of Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, until recently the chief legal officer of the IDF, has caused shockwaves.

Can you even imagine a country using its entire political apparatus to condemn people who exposed rape and abuse rather than going after the rapists and abusers?

Oh wait... 🤔

To whatever extent you hate Democrats, it isn't even fucking close to enough. What the fuck have I been saying?

NEW PARTY NEW PARTY NEW PARTY

Trump seen here doing his best impression of partisan Democrats when it's their people supporting genocide and mass ICE detentions.

"If I just stand perfectly still, maybe the T-Rex electorate won't eat me and the problem will just magically go away on its own!"

So, if you're a secular Jewish voter who supported Mamdani... no you didn't, sorry bub!

One of the fun things the media has done with exit polling for the NYC mayoral election is subdivide by religious affiliation, which has the effect of lumping all non-religious folks (about 25% of the electorate) into the "None" category, a group that overwhelmingly supported Mamdani...

Liberals will downplay a mayor winning an election in the most populous city in the country with the highest turnout in 50 years on a socialist policy-driven campaign, and then turn around and tell you that some former mayor of a town of about 100k should be the next president of the United States.

See, the thing about Republicans giving tax breaks to billionaires and then leveraging the starvation of poor people to get Democrats to make concessions on health insurance coverage for poor people is that they should release the fucking Epstein files.

Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.

It's so weird watching her brain short-circuit in response to basic questions and light pushback. The Democratic Party really needs to elevate people who can respond to questions directly rather than melting into a puddle of non-sequitur identity politics soup whenever a journalist does their job.

I love when they call politicians "radical" like they're a Ninja Turtle. I'd vote for a radical Ninja Turtle - maybe not a teenaged one, but, you know, a responsible adult who wants to lower the cost of living for the working class. Totally tubular duuuude.

Kamala Harris saying she might run for President again is like me saying I might lose 30 lbs someday. Sure, pal. Good luck! 👌

People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.

Wow, and the mRNA tech wasn't even specifically tuned for that purpose. Remarkable. Good thing this admin cut $500 million in mRNA cancer research. 🙄

I am rooting for the Blue Jays, I guess, but I am disappointed that if they win, they will only have an opportunity to burn down like 2/3rds of the White House if invited.

Gavin Newsom’s veto on bill to ban Pfas hands industry a win, advocates fear Decision from governor, eyeing presidential bid, could echo across US as similar bans considered in states like New York

It's just interesting. I mean - it's interesting. Interesting!

Reason # ♾️ to never vote for Gavin Newsom.

Cuomo condemned over racist AI ad depicting ‘criminals for Zohran Mamdani’ Official X accounts posts and then deletes AI-generated attack ad that prompts widespread denunciation

This ad was significantly more racist than anything I have ever seen a Republican candidate put out.

...or unless this oppo research dump tanks his polling numbers, then I don't understand why leftists are doing the heavy lifting for libs in bringing this guy down rather than extending the rehabilitation-inclined GRACE we are supposed to espouse.

It's totally fine to be flabbergasted by the tattoo (I certainly was!), but unless a reporter uncovers some secret fascist sympathies contrary to everything else that has been revealed about his online history that reveals covert fascist INTENTIONALITY behind his tattoo...

The moral calculus here isn't difficult - a guy who was oblivious about a tattoo but pretty clearly on the left vs. establishment candidates who openly facilitate and fund a genocide? C'mon.

...but the much more highly likely scenario if attempting to do that would be fragmentation and dissolution of an electorate that has been enthusiastically going to bat for this guy, allowing Mills to win the primary.

Also, so much of successful politics is being able to generate inertia for your candidacy, which Platner has been able to do. If you could bottle that up and transfer it to another individual and convince him to drop out... sure, go for it...

Regarding the idea to replace him with a better option with less baggage in the primaries... sure, but how? There is quite a bit of prep work involved before entering a race, there are deadlines to hit, people to hire, maybe signatures to collect, etc.

...Michael Prysner comes to mind, and historically, Smedley Butler is another of one of the most underdiscussed but important former military figures in American history that spoke out against imperialist capitalist endeavors.

Regarding concerns over his military service/Blackwater contract, there is a long history of indoctrinated individuals who served/volunteered who later come to realize the horror of the imperialist machinery they were a part of, and then work diligently to dismantle that machinery from the left...

Online Nazis aren't exactly covert about their ideology, and why would he spend so much effort leaving a trail of evidence as a leftist, when the much easier path for fascists is just to be an open and proud Republican where he'd be welcomed with open arms?

...and WAY too overconfident that the average American is familiar with and has seen stuff like the Mitchell and Webb "Are we the baddies" sketch (and zoomed in to see the specific insignia on their hats).

Terminally online leftists are WAY too overconfident in the average American's ability to distinguish fascist iconography from generic skull and crossbones symbols you might see at a Hot Topic...

This conclusion seems entirely inappropriate when it seems entirely plausible that he just had no idea what his tattoo represented.