If Obama had seated a progressive or even nonbiased chair then it would have been Bernie 2016/2020, and a very good chance we stretched it to another progressive in 2024.

Obama did a lot of things wrong, but just leaving Hillary’s people in charge of the DNC snowballed into trump and everything else that’s been fucked up the last decade.

And there was zero besides spite. He thought without him the DNC would die, but he never tried to replace it with anything. He was just mad they were biased on the primary and didn’t help him in the general.

It was the first sign that everything else was bullshit. That he valued his ego more than doing his job.

Yeah, had that part in to begin with but figured it was already too long for people to read all of it.

I’m not gonna watch the interview because I have more issues with Schulz than just what Kendrick was talking about.

But this wasn’t just twisting Bernie’s words like normal, there’s a mountain of difference between “I agree” and “I’m not going to argue that”.

Like, if trump got life imprisonment for killing Santa, I’m not gonna argue with it, but that’s not the same as agreeing he did it.

Andrew Schulz

You might not know the name. But I bet you recognize what Kendrick said about him:

Don’t let no white comedian talk about no Black woman, that’s law

I know propaganda work for them, and fuck whoever that’s close to them

But Bernie’s always went to where all the earballs are, he’s just trying to get the message out.

And I think it’s important to point out by “party” Bernie is talking about elected politicians in leadership positions, not the DNC.

Sanders echoed his woes, venting that even after losing the 2024 election, his colleagues still “won’t listen” to him about how to appeal to voters.

Also:

Singh interjected with another question: “But could we not also say, if there hasn’t been a fair primary for the Democrats since 2008, are they not also a threat to democracy?”

“Fair enough,” Sanders answered. “I’m not gonna argue with that.”

First off, the headline wasn’t Bernie’s words, he was just moving on from something a rightwing podcaster had said.

2008 wasn’t a fair primary, Obama just won in spite of it. The DNC being biased against him not only in the primary but the general is why Obama didn’t appoint a DNC chair, so the neoliberals maintained their death grip on the DNC till just a few months ago.

But Obama refusing to nominate a chair was probably his biggest mistake, one we’re still paying for.

Like waiting 6 months for them to panic over low sales and put on 50% sale?

Maybe, or maybe I’ll wait for the ultimate edition with all dlc to hit $40

I’ll agree to give it another 3 months and see where we are

I mean…

The only way anything will change before midterms is if a handful of Republicans break from trump and flip the House or Senate.

That’s why AOC and Bernie are touring red districts and telling them to contact their Republican reps.

It’s very unlikely to work, but makes beating them in midterms more likely since the Republicans aren’t helping their voters now.

So 3 more months?

Not trying to crush your hopes but it needs a longer timeline.

Personally I’m cautiously optimistic, but the midterm primaries is where we’ll really know what Martin’s DNC is like. But every sign so far has been a good one.

So what are Bernie and AOC doing besides screaming fight Trump exactly?

Going to red and purple districts and explaining how Republicans are fucking them over, and what progressives can do to fix it if they’re elected in enough numbers.

We are almost a year in and they still present no plan.

It’s been less than 4 months since Trump took office…

They are the people who are supposed to present the plan. And they have no plan.

They can not do anything without the numbers, which is why they’re talking to constituents in districts most likely to flip and telling them to pressure their Republican representatives I to breaking against trump. Literally the only way we can do anything till midterms.

Like, y’all want something done today that will fix things today…

That’s a drastic misunderstanding of how our political system works, and it shows that no one can articulate what they want done.

Like toddlers screaming for ice cream, you can’t explain to them that you’re currently on the way to get ice cream and the screaming ain’t gonna make it happen faster.

I mean, reality is impossible…

Which is confounding because obviously something exists.

I stopped worrying about it when I was a little kid, we’ll never figure it out. Which is kind of the big message in the Tao, what’s important is minimizing strife and maximizing comfort.

A progressive dnc

It’s not a progressive DNC, even tho it is the most progressive chair in 50+ years

It’s a nonbiased DNC, and that’s all progressive politicians have ever needed: a fair fight.

We’re past waiting for the DNC to realize their role and take up the mantle to save America, they were given that opportunity and chose over and over to instead be the party that delivered us into collapse.

You’re thinking of the DNC as a single entity and not ~500 voting members…

Most of which had been there for a very long time and are now slowly dying off or less often retiring and giving their seat/vote up.

The true hope is within your community with the people who will actually show up and fight for you

Those are the type of people they’ve been getting replaced with, it’s been a long process and has taken decades of a grass roots movement to accomplish.

I’ve been waiting for this since I was a kid and watched the DNC close ranks to protect Bill Clinton for lying under oath.

I’m gonna give it more than 3 months before declaring it a failure.

It’s pretty crazy the overlap between super high level physics and the Tao.

“The Tao of Physics” is like 50 years old by now, but recent discoveries build even more bridges.

So like, I “believe” in it more than most other religions, but you can just watch The Big Lebowski and get most of the same life lessons.

Still read the Tao every year or two tho. It’s not long and it does help (at least me) center myself.

The Venn diagram of people defending him now and the people who hid how bad he was mentally since assuming office is basically just a blurry circle.

They’re not trying to take the high road, they’ll just say anything except admit they lied to the entire country for four years

If they wanted to take the high road, they’d have used article 25 when Biden was in office and let a fair primary happen in 2024.

Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching describes the Tao as the source and ideal of all existence: it is unseen, but not transcendent, immensely powerful yet supremely humble, being the root of all things. People have desires and free will (and thus are able to alter their own nature). Many act “unnaturally”, upsetting the natural balance of the Tao. The Tao Te Ching intends to lead students to a “return” to their natural state, in harmony with Tao.[44] Language and conventional wisdom are critically assessed. Taoism views them as inherently biased and artificial, widely using paradoxes to sharpen the point.[45]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching

You think Bernie and AOC captured the DNC?

Nope.

I think the movement they’re at the front of lead to replacement of DNC voters who just voted in a no biased chair, which is all progressives need to get to the general.

If you thought shit was sweet before trump

Never said that, and I frequently and explicitly say the opposite…

I think the important part was when he gave a half hearted apology in 2020, Hill said it wasn’t enough. And then he just still to this fucking day says it was enough and refuses to actually apologize.

Biden has always thought he was the smartest guy in the room, even back in law school when he was plagiarizing everything to barely pass.

That’s not a trait we want in a leader

I had my annual at the VA a while ago, they asked if I was stressed and I said yeah, but that was normal given the circumstances…

We’re nearing the point where this shit is the norm, and that’s incredibly dangerous for a society and the people living in it.

Crashing out is going to stop being the exception, hell, you could argue all the white 20 somethings that voted for trump are actively crashing out.

They don’t understand the problem, let alone capable of finding real solutions.

They just know shits fucked and that fucks with our risk assessment, that’s “crashing out”. Things no rational person would consider suddenly sounds like valid plans. Because prolonged stress shortens how far in the future we plan.

Hakeem Jeffries is a large part of the problem.

Like, in general he’s part of the problem, but specifically trump being in office; Jeffries was one of the ones hiding how bad Biden was and trying to shove him down America’s throats.

And he’s desperate for everyone to forget how much he fucked up:

“You interacted with President Biden during those days, those final days he was president of the United States. Did you see, did you sense there was a major deterioration?” Blitzer followed up.

“Well, in the conversations that I was able to have on behalf of the House Democratic Caucus in those final days, we simply expressed our perspective as to what would be best for the party at that given moment in time. President Biden subsequently made the decision that he was going to pass the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris. Of course, that was a decision that we supported strongly,” replied Jeffries.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/cnn-anchors-take-turns-asking-hakeem-jeffries-about-bidens-mental-decline-why-should-voters-trust-democrats/

Days before tell all books started dropping, he’s still pretending Biden was the right choice up to the second he dropped out.

Neoliberals will never admit their own failings.

No it’s not…

You said they should be doing more, but as specific as you can get is “resist”. Which they’re already doing.

If you can think of anything more than what they’re already doing, please, for the sake of our fucking country share it with the class.

Resist

How?

You want Bernie to plate up and grab an AK?

Like, I just don’t understand what more people want?

Not the result, but what they should be doing to fix things faster.

There’s this weird phenomenon where if an IQ difference is larger than 30 points, the person on the lower side becomes confused and belligerent, believing the other person is the problem because they keep pointing out flaws in what they’re saying.

It’s why the line for intellectual impairments is an IQ of 70. At 30 points difference communication is hindered.

Unfortunately I’ve taken an actual proctored Wechsler exam… This might feel new to you, especially if you’re a full standard deviation above 100.

Statistically speaking, there’s just not many times you’d run into someone more than 3 standard deviations above average. Like, lemmy world is the biggest instance, assuming an equal distribution the amount of people over 145 is single digits. You very well might never interact with someone two standard deviations above you again.

So don’t feel bad, I get this a lot.

This is the first time I’ve been accused of having a low IQ for pointing out spelling errors tho, usually it’s taking steps of logic for granted and the other person can’t fill in the gaps on their own.

languadge

Hard not to notice

I’m sorry political change feels slow to the tiktok generation, but at least you seem to understand now.

haralded by them

We can worry about spelling later.