I know “please everyone quit bitching on the internet” is like the least likely thing to actually happen but I figured I would try to talk about how awful we are all being about our preferred primary candidates right now.
Yes, all of us. Bernie Brothers. Even the Biden Bros. Maybe especially you three weirdos stanning Tulsi, whatever you’re about. What is the appeal?
I just log on every day and it’s “Biden is basically Trump” and “Bernie will never get anything done” and meanwhile the Republicans are over there debating how many people they can put on death-ships to offshore them so that the coronavirus numbers go down.
(Why are they even worried about that, honestly? We’ve been in a post-consequences-for-the-GOP world since approximately 1980 and 2016 made it clear that public opinion don’t matter for shit if Mitch ain’t moving. Stop acting like THIS ONE is gonna be THE THING that brings them down.
Nothing will bring them down but retaking the Senate so decisively that the five conservative Democrats who are always a pain in our asses don’t matter anymore, we get 75 Dems in there or nothing changes.)
We are spending all our time talking about how the Democratic Party is dumb and bad and rigged and conservative and can’t do anything right and I’m just … Can we please, while we are debating the best way to solve systemic racism and extreme income inequality, at least TRY to remember the GOP is fighting over who gets to hold the fire hoses and unleash the K-9s?
Maybe I just follow the wrong people but lately it’s just nonstop THIS IS WHY DEMOCRATS SUCK ASS every time crazy old Joey B. Shark eats his own kicks and I feel like REPUBLICANS HAVE GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO FASCISM BECAUSE THEY HAD TO LISTEN TO A BLACK MAN FOR 8 YEARS is getting lost here.
Can we direct some of the vitriol we’re pouring into our own coffees every morning into whatever human-based sludge McConnell has his leather slaves pump into him to keep him alive? Donate to Amy McGrath and THEN get on The Internet Dot Com to write a long post about how Kamala is a cop and Hillary should go away. Fucking Jesus, all I want to hear from now until the end of time is FUCK DONALD TRUMP, let this be our national anthem:
And I get that “Trump is bad” isn’t a platform or an argument except … kind of, it is? When nothing else gets through, when you can’t get coverage for anything that doesn’t have the T-word in it, when you pass hundreds of bills doing good things for America and YOUR OWN SUPPORTERS still bitch you out for not having a message or a plan and cable news idiots blame “gridlock in Congress,” you tell me how we should be spending our time.
I’m on record numerous times as saying I will vote for Bernie or Biden and likely in the IL primary Imma throw down for our first Jewish president because fuck health insurance, but if it’s Joe then it’s Joe because I don’t make these decisions by myself. If I did I’d be working at the President John F.President of You Kerry Presidential Center for Studying the Bizarre Hotness of Tall War Veterans or some shit.
We heard this shit with Kerry, too, so we all whined our way to another loss and then blamed him as if he personally suppressed votes in Ohio and then wiped his ass with the rule of law. We heard this shit with Hillary, as if she was responsible for not tickling your prostate just right when the future of America was on the line. When we have a nominee, I don’t want to fucking hear it anymore. I don’t want to hear it now. Pull your shit together, people. Joey Biden is going to have someone properly run the CDC. Bernard Sanders will take Stephen Miller out back and make him dig his own hole. Jesus, even Tulsi would protect reproductive rights.
Can we give our people a little credit, here?
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The issue I have is that the d’s are like a store that is always running “loss leaders” to attract customers who never buy anything else.
So it is with candidates such as munchkin, bullock, lipinski, cuellar and all so many others.
As long as d establishment would rather promote a thuglican, who only changed their registration, over a D in primary after primary and most of the time still lose ( i.e. spectre-penn, crist-fl etc) they lose legitimacy among d voters and lose more to political absences of voters because they do not see any candidate who speaks for them and the d party sacrificing them so as not to offend the deplorables by calling out their bigotry, ignorance, misogny and general sadism.
In doing so they allow the Overton window to continue an inexorable move to the right which further alienates those who are looking for some support.
The d party cannot continue to try to buy off their grassroots with crumbs while serving the 1% with steak dinners.
Example was Obama allowing the bush tax cuts to become permanent.
Or refusing to erase the hyde amendment or whatever happened to “card check” for the unions?
Not to mention giving away the ranch with disavowal of any public option before negotiations on ObamaCare even started.
Then when someone like say McGovern or Lamont or lipinski and cuellars challengers show up the party apparchek do everything they can to cut them off at the knees.
Wait until NY D’s try to redistrict AOC out by carving up her district, of which they have been reported on planning, even if it means giving a couple of seats to the thuglicans.
all for the temerity of challenging an ossified thuglican lite claiming to be a d.
YES!