peppermint.jack

have a hard time having faith in Indivisible because they'll post graphics like this—an accurate attack on the republican budget!—then turn around and support schumer even as the majority leader gives his support to trump's budget

this whole conversation about newsom is happening in the context of trans people being browbeaten for saying that they won't support a candidate who marginalizes them

it seems pretty dismissive to write that off as "crazy stuff"

we're in primary election season, this is our chance as voters to support the politicians whose views are most aligned with our own

when the general election rolls around maybe then we'll have vote for the compromise nominee but right now is the time to vote for the candidates we like best

electing democrats is necessary but not sufficient

that's right, once chuck schumer has a majority it's gonna fix everything

the defining trait of the democratic party is a quarter century of failures

they failed to hold anyone accountable for the lies that lead to the iraq war

they failed to hold the banks accountable for wrecking the economy

they failed to punish the insurrectionists who tried to steal the election

the democratic party saw millions of voters in the streets in 2020 but instead of trying to harness that energy they tried to diffuse it as rapidly as possible

now it's happening again

the dem establishment is more concerned with quashing disruption than reforming our broken political system

the idea that clinton's stance on the iraq war is just my personal gripe instead of maybe the most electorally consequential stance of her political career is a bold take

GOP pol in primaries: "my voters love guns so for my holiday family portrait my tween daughters will be posing with uzis while i will be holding a rail gun"

dem pol in primaries: "my voters love not being abducted by stormtroopers so i will campaign on the platform of 'we must have stormtroopers'"

during primary season the republican party works very hard to appeal to the conservatives who vote in primaries

during primary season the democratic party works very hard to avoid being seen as caving in to the liberals who vote in primaries

the two biggest political issues of the decade starting in ~2003 were the iraq war and the great recession

people casting their votes in 2016 were absolutely still thinking about those issues

once a voter feels alienated by a politician it's very, very hard for that pol to regain their vote!

clinton lost by an ~80k vote margin across MI/PA/WI, in an alternate timeline where she wasn't spending the years following the great recession taking million dollar paydays from the big banks that a large chunk of the public still felt aggrieved towards is one where she wins

clinton absolutely lost the '16 election by alienating a small but critical portion of left of center voters with her stance on the iraq war & by covertly taking millions of dollars from wall street banks

hey remember when schumer & jeffries were easing off of some their legislative demands in exchange for the white house forcing noem to resign?

huh

i wonder what ever happened to that

though if newsom had married kimberly guilfoyle & then cheated on her while she was dying of cancer i'm not sure if i would hold that against him

anyone who was paying any attention at all to politics in the 2000s should recognize that gavin newsom is just a sleazier, more privileged version of john edwards

my impression is that his wife genuinely despises the sort of politician he's become

if that is indeed the case i wonder how much longer their marriage can last

you can identify the dems who would have failed presidencies—ie., would fail to hold our current fascists accountable—by observing how they treat the most marginalized groups

any dem who isn't defending trans people, palestinians, etc., is a dem who won't pursue punishing the fascists

a newsom presidency would, at best, be biden redux: some modestly good policies for a few yrs combined with a complete abdication of the necessary work of stomping out the fascist movement, thereby paving the way for them to sweep back into power more dangerous than ever

gavin newsom pals around with far right reactionaries, do you really think if he wields the levers of government he's going to try to put his podcast pal steve bannon in prison?

i think the implicit divide between the "you must enthusiastically support newsom if he's the nominee" types vs us who view him with intense skepticism is the gap between believing trump & fascism will be defeated simply by putting a dem back in the white house vs seeing a need for Reconstruction 2

Woke 2 is gonna go so hard

Woke 2 is gonna put Lina Khan back in charge of the FTC but this time we're giving her an air wing

congratulations on raising another Train Nerd, the club will be happy to accept his membership when he's ready to apply

if your keyboard doesn't include a number pad and a dedicated volume control buttons you should just climb back into the trees your primitive ancestors descended from

an 80% keyboard? a 75% keyboard? a 60% keyboard??

what are you gonna do next, kill god??

bring back full-sized keyboards

fun to think about how conservatives were so mad about nixon that they spent five decades transforming the presidency into an unaccountable godhood

but these same people would also think nixon was a soft soyboy cuck—he established the EPA! he established diplomatic relations with china!

Everyone involved in this is going to spend years in prison before a one-way trip to Hell

Sen. Chris Coons Hounded Dems to Drop Witnesses Because ‘People Want to Get Home for Valentine’s Day’

happy Valentine's Day to everyone who celebrates, particularly the senior senator from Delaware