Right. As it was, the entire party almost imploded following their commitment to overturning Roe. They learned their lesson that can only dangle solutions to the fears of their base, maybe address a symptom here and there, but never provide true solutions to the root problems.
Well yeah.
It’s also the reason he told Republican in Congress to tank the strongest Border Security bill in decades in 2024 after Republicans realized, “Oh crap, Democrats are actually going to vote Yes on it!”
I’ve racked my brain with this and coming from a family who changed over years from Republican to Democrat, let me suggest some things:
In terms of the high level grifters and psychopaths, yes, undermining the strongman image with things like mockery, humiliation, embarrassment can be very effective not only at getting under the skin of tyrants but making others realize the clowns they are.
Shaming doesn’t work with psychopaths because they don’t feel guilt.
In terms of interacting with average Joe Trump supporters (the grifted), I do think it’s worth planting seeds even if you’ll never witness the seed grow yourself. One such seed is attempting to redirect their anger to the rich stealing their hard earned paycheck. Any chance to spin the conversation to trust fund children who never worked like Musk and Trump hijacking our democracy should be driven into the conversation. They’re the real culprits for the pressures they feel.
I was very active in the political scene then. It couldn’t have been more obvious that msnbc, npr, and the broader DNC was setting up Hillary for a coronation.
She was already pushed aside in 2008 and it wasn’t going to happen again. Hence why they cut back immensely on the number of DNC sanctioned debates.
2020 was a different beast in some ways. Democrats are not agile. They do not adapt to the moment. They play on seniority, and boy did they really play on seniority this time.
Biden held a grudge against Obama because he told Biden to hold off and give Hillary her turn. So here we go again with the coronation.
Combine the fact that Warren and Sanders split the progressive coalition while Michael Bloomberg joined the race to derail progressive candidates by spending $1 billion of his own money (unprecedented), and the rest is history.
I ultimately did vote for Hillary and Biden but the game being played couldn’t have been more obvious.
What I wouldn’t give for if only 1 in 5 voted for the nazi party in America.
Hell yeah, thanks dude. Will be watching this over the next couple days.
Bummer, I can’t watch that from here in the US. I’ve been slacking on getting a VPN…
Been wanting to watch the later seasons of The Rise of Nazis, too.
That’s related to Survok Theater, right? Between Dugin and him, the Russian propaganda tactics being used read like an open book. We see the game being played but what are some possible solutions? Must we hope people learn their lesson in the collapse to come?
47% are extremely susceptible to disinformation echo chambers.
The rich have eroded academic institutions and flooded the airwaves, muddying the waters of reality that only those with time and strong critical-thinking skills can parse.
Put another way: if I was a psychopathic piece of shit I’d know that a dumb electorate is easier to grift and control. So I’d make sure they stay confused, ignorant, and apathetic.
This guy has been touring America promoting Christian Nationalism since Trump pardoned him at the end of his first term. Watch the PBS Frontline doc, “Michael Flynn’s Holy War”
He’s a complete piece of shit and traitor.
Come on, guys, we all know Israel is already our 51st state if not seat of power.
The number one priority from here until next midterms should be forcing Democrats like this or the 10 who censured Al Green. Primary them all with progressive populists.
I’m sure we’re still in a constitutional crisis but I’ll take that over blind capitulation. The wider this chasm expands, the better.
Keep driving that wedge.
Amen. The answer to right-wing populism dependent on dividing the working class is a leftist populist message uniting the working class by pointing the finger at the rich who are the true root of all their problems.
In 2018 at the Helsinki summit, Trump said he trusted Putin’s word then, too, over the unprecedented joint consensus of every US intelligence agency and Pentagon.
Bush Jr. also said something similar on Putin.
Dumbshits. Kompromat.
This is an excuse and nothing more to consolidate power, remove oversight, and sabotage the American intelligence apparatus on behalf of Russia.
Any kids or spouse present?
With how reckless this was I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a Boogaloo stunt to frame leftists either. They were caught doing that with George Floyd protesters after all.
Honestly. Until the ZyklonB starts pumping in, there’s totally nothing to worry about!
That’s certainly one way of looking at it.
I prefer to see Kluew’s act as not so self-containing; that is, it’s an investment for running for office in the future and substantively changing the laws from the top down. I’d have much preferred Luigi enter politics with that handsome mug of his and fight the good fight alongside the likes of Sanders, AOC, Maxwell Frost, Crockett, et. al. For that is treating the root problem as opposed to merely the symptoms.
Some people are saying he’s the secret child of the master of flip flopping, whose moral beliefs are as solid as water, and the biggest sniveling weasel in all of D.C., Lindsey Graham.