Todd Burnzalez

Chuds think a movie that doesn’t end with “and they lived happily ever after” is ambiguous

I just don’t get it. Even from a mainstream Israeli perspective, corruption is still a really bad thing for a prime minister to do.

Trump now at the moment in life where he can’t smile. He can only pull his upper lip away to bear his teeth.

Terminally online coworker sees this. Talks over the watercooler with apolitical coworker. Both voted for Trump because of costs. Both furious that they’re actually deporting veterans.

Yeah, it filters down.

Someone do it with Jim Ross narrating.

“Bah Gawd, KING!”

Screw you guys, I’m going home

Thank you angry English land barons from the 13th century 🙏

Even more depressing, as great and crushing as that book is, that Solzhenitsyn himself wasn’t very pro-western or liberal in any sense. He just hated communists for what they did to him. He ended up being a huge misanthrope.

Damn. Let’s see if holding fire this long works.

This is absolutely fair. But the question, I don’t think, is whether Dems are speaking up. It’s… are they good at making a scene? And you need that to get attention. And Dems are , like, REALLY bad at that.

There is also a deeper moral question about ends justifying means. Yes, it’s certainly true that seeking asylum, something protected by international law is effectively illegal now and punishable with disappearance into an ICE gulag. That will certainly put a damper on things. But it’s a disgrace

She’s great except for the fact that she supports war in Venezuela and murder of her citizens in Caribbean.

Someone should write a Solzhenitsyn-style book about this guy’s life over the past 5 years. Some people really do get the short end of the stick. Some, the really short end

It’s literally an argument that some people are better than others based on national origin. You can claim that citizens of a certain nation have a priority claim to a place they inhabit, sure, but in practice at this current moment, they’re calling Somalis trash and assaulting Mexican landscapers

This is correct. Nothing more foreign than the idea that men are *not* created equal.

The current one and the previous one I mean

We can learn a lot about politics from the previous two popes, sir

These people don’t care if we win because Trump in power actually helps them. It reinforces their nihilistic belief that no good thing is possible. And it helps them social-signal how edgy they are. They need to be cut out and irradiated like the cancer that they are.

Maybe this time, if we vote for a *real progressive*®️, we’ll finally win. Lol.

Where Kamala campaigned, losses were almost nil, while TRUMP gained with Biden voters everywhere. This is math and not controversial. Even Trump himself didn’t expect the surge in minority (mostly male) support we got compared to 4 years before.

I did read it. And it’s wrong. There’s was an across the board drop in support for Kamala compared to Biden in 2020, *but not in the Midwest*. This is the key point that study gets wrong. The vast majority of support decay came from California and the East Coast (especially New Jersey and New York).

What strategy is that?

You mean like ones that just handed the Miami mayors’ race to the Dems? Or the collapse in Latino trump support in the last 8 months? Yeah, they totally don’t exist.

No it wouldn’t since that mythical voter that had a hard time voting for Harris despite her not being progressive enough doesn’t actually exist

Also, I never mentioned anything about “bleeding members”

The problem is that those voters don’t exist. Most progressives already either vote Democrat or don’t vote at all for anyone.

No need to “translate” something I wrote in plain English simply because you disagree with it. Especially if the translation is wrong.

I’d love to live in a universe where it really is true that a “true progressive” will finally get all those silent Dem voters off their butts and defeat Trumpism.

Well, is there?

There is zero evidence that the base stayed home. In fact, there is even greater evidence that previous dem voters from 2012, 2016, and 2020 chose to vote for Trump. And the answer clearly isn’t “because he’s more progressive.”

This is the key point. The romantic notion if someone was the real deal and truly connected with the working class by being a real progressive…. Sounds like a tempting answer. The problem is that it doesn’t explain why that same voter would vote for Trump instead.