LEFTISTS: “Democrats didn’t meet all our demands, so they didn’t earn our votes.”
Republicans win, control the levers of power, and implement bad public policy.
LEFTISTS: “Why aren’t Democrats stopping this?”
Wash, rinse, repeat.
I’m just going to say it: I don’t give a damn what the founders intended. They’ve all been dead for 200 years. This is no longer their country. It’s ours. And their intentions weren’t infallible. They intended to keep slavery and reward slave states with the 3/5ths compromise.
It has been interesting to me to see all the insistent “Biden shouldn’t run again” and “We need a primary challenge” chatter is all over my Twitter feed—right at the moment when my president, Joe Biden, has had the greatest first-term midterm of any Democrat in 60 years.
What we all have to understand is that Republicans fundamentally believe the 1960s destroyed their country. They believe that the Civil Rights movement, gay rights, the Sexual Revolution and the antiwar movement wrecked America. It is vital to understand this, because … (1/)
So he was going to choose Burgum, which as we said would have made a lot of sense, but the sons called him "stupid" and wouldn't shut up until they got Vance.
I’m not wild about Fetterman and would have voted for Lamb had I lived there.
But Fetterman won, and Democrats need this seat. It’s their best chance to keep the Senate. If you’re talking about not voting for him, please take a day to cool down and then remember what’s at stake.
So I’ve been looking for details about Biden’s deal on the debt ceiling and I’m frankly astonished. The guy keeps getting more than I ever expected was actually possible. I don’t know how he does it.
Folks, there are a couple things going on right now that you just need to ignore and stop worrying about:
1) Polling is completely, 100% fucked. If you believe Trump is winning by 13% in Nevada and leading in New Jersey, step away from Twitter and get help.
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Arab and Muslim voters are supposedly going to vote for the guy who instituted a Muslim ban.
Supposedly, many Latino voters are going to vote for the guy who demonizes Latinos as criminals.
We KNOW a majority of white women are going to vote for the guy who ended Roe. (1/)
I’ve been alive for more than 50 years. In all my life, I have never seen such a concerted, unified and unending effort by the mass media to pressure an incumbent president into forgoing a reelection bid.
Fox News calls Nebraska-02 for Biden. It is now very simple:
If Biden wins Wisconsin, Nevada and either Michigan or Georgia, he wins the election, regardless of Pennsylvania or North Carolina.
@MattWalshBlog
When people refer to you without using your first or last name, or maybe an expletive in your case, what do they use?
That’s right, smart guy. They use a pronoun.
This person is the vice president of the United States, chosen because she checked certain political boxes, and chosen by a man himself chosen because party leaders were afraid Bernie Sanders would run away with the party's nomination.
If Stacey Abrams is not offered the job of DNC chair, I am going to be in a foul frame of mind. The work she has done in Georgia has been spectacular. If she could do for the national Democratic Party what she's done in Georgia, it could be a total game-changer.
Excuse me,
@BernieSanders
, but where do you get off telling the Democratic Party what it must do? The last time I checked, you didn’t have any standing to tell the Democratic Party a goddamn thing.
Walz: "I'm surrounded by states who are spending their time figuring out how to ban Charlotte's Web in their schools while we're banishing hunger from ours with free breakfast and lunch."
A significant majority of blue-collar white men are going to vote for the guy who’s going to crush labor.
This all confirms my observation that Black voters are the only group of voters in this country in which 9 out of 10 have sense enough not to piss in their own soup. (2/)
If you don’t understand why they want to do away with public assistance, it’s because they want to force women to get married and stay married because they are trapped and lack options. They think this is healthier than broken families. (They’re wrong, of course.)
Democrats now have two choices:
1) Accept that Republicans have a judicial veto over any law Democrats enact for the next generation.
2) Expand the Supreme Court.
There are no other options. Are we going to surrender, or fight?
When you understand what they believe, it is easy to understand what they’re trying to do, and all of these things that keep shocking us actually make sense and become predictable. They’re trying to repeal the 1960s and everything that’s happened societally since then.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the last few weeks. I’ve been critical of Democrats who say they won’t vote for Bernie if he’s the nominee.
But the more I think about it, the more I’m coming to the conclusion that I don’t think I could vote for that bastard either.
If you don’t understand why they want to ban abortion AND curtail birth control, it’s because they think sexual freedom has destroyed the family and the nation’s entire way of life. They want to take away that freedom by making it so risky that unmarried people will abstain.
@notcapnamerica
All that stupid “welfare queen” shit with new packaging. If I had a dollar for every time I heard that garbage growing up, I could retire.
Nobody is letting non-citizens vote in national elections, Nikki. Nobody’s putting litterboxes in schools, either. No city in America is imposing sharia law. Nobody is letting people marry their dog. But that doesn’t stop you people from making up all of these outlandish lies.
@asymmetricinfo
People used to say the same thing about abortion. Maybe it’s better to be concerned now rather than waiting until it actually happens, when it’s too late.
Please stop trying to pooh pooh people’s legitimate fears.
1) Get behind Harris NOW.
2) The age issue—our biggest albatross—is not only dead now, but it now works to our advantage if we play that card and play it right. Now Trump is the old guy who isn’t all there. Exploit that.
3) Prosecutor vs. convicted criminal. Lean into it.
Even if Laurence Tribe didn’t fully realize what he was saying, it speaks to a mindset. When someone can blithely dismiss black women VP contenders as “cosmetic,” it’s more than just a misstatement. It’s a mindset.
Just because racism is unconscious doesn’t mean it isn’t racist.
If, God forbid, Trump wins this election and I see someone complaining about the rights they are losing, I’m going to ask them one question: “Did you vote for Biden?” And if they say no, I’m going to tell them to quit complaining because they got what they deserved.
The Democratic Party needs a divorce from the far left, and it needs to be soon. These people are a cancer on the party, the “progressive” equivalent of MAGA, and if we don’t forcefully, repeatedly and publicly tell them to kick rocks, they’ll drag us and the entire country down.
@melodiefryar
That’s part of it, but the main point is to get back to segregated schools where white kids have more resources. Another major point is that destroying the public schools also means breaking the teachers’ unions—one of the Democrats’ largest sources of funding and volunteers.
All you need to know about the U.S. media is this:
The NYT created a public editor position to listen to readers about what they were getting wrong.
When the public editor started writing about those mistakes or misjudgments, they fired her.
I don’t normally post about my personal life on here, but a lot of folks on here have become real friends over the years, and I thought some of you would like to share in my happiness. I proposed to my girlfriend shortly after midnight on New Year’s, and she is now my fiancée.
@elliotcwilliams
I’m sure you’re going to get a lot of advice, but ultimately, you have no responsibility to or for this person. It all comes down to whether it’s worth it to you personally to engage.
It’s working. The Republicans have successfully shifted the focus from Roy Moore to Bill Clinton. In part because a bunch of well-meaning idiots on our side gave them cover.
Why do so many people on the left fall into this kind of trap every damn time?
Can we have a discussion about how the far left is very likely being led by a group of Republican plants who are being bankrolled handsomely to sow dissension in the Democratic ranks?
@DmytroKuleba
Sir, my thoughts are with the Ukrainian people in their hour of peril, and I will urge my elected representatives here in the United States to support Ukraine in every practical way. Shche ne vmerla Ukraina.
So let me tell you why I’m really encouraged about Harris right now:
She understands—in a way Democrats have largely resisted understanding for the last three years—that voters judge the economy based on prices. And she is offering proposals that go right at that problem.
Now that this $250 million fiasco is over with, I think the California legislature should get moving on a recall reform bill. First, there should be a higher signature threshold; second, there should be a “loser pays” provision.
#CaliforniaRecallElection
Sorry. Under the Constitution, a Supreme Court justice doesn’t get to pick the next president. A president gets to pick the next Supreme Court justice.
It’s what I tried to tell leftists all along: Democrats aren’t just going to sit back and accept your blackmail. If you’re going to withhold your votes, we’ll have no choice but to go get them somewhere else. And guess what the only other option is, folks?
Leftists expecting Biden to take the side of the student protesters must be truly out of touch with how the public feels about this. There are broad swaths of Dem voters who want them mopped up and tossed out on their asses. It's not a popular movement.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
1) Joe Biden is not going to dump Kamala Harris, either now or in 2024.
2) The Democratic Party is not likely to run another all-white ticket ever again. It would be political malpractice.
3) Advocating for an all-white ticket is not a good look.
@davidmweissman
I don’t care when or how you got here. I’m just glad you did. Thank you for having the maturity and the humility to examine your own beliefs and change your mind.
@Dustin_McK
I once had a Republican state legislator from Maryland tell me at a dinner I attended that Rome fell because of socialism. A concept that, by the way, only came into being about a thousand years after Rome fell. So I’ll go with that: socialism!
Folks, please stop with the grousing and complaining that Warnock didn’t win by a big margin. It’s the south. White voters in the south are dead set against Democrats. No Democrat is going to win any southern state in a rout. Take the win and be happy about it.
2) Six months out from an election, people have a tendency to spout off. They’re pissed off about one thing or another, and they’re just talking out of their asses right now. “Screw Biden, I’m gonna vote for RFK!” In a few months, when things get serious, they’ll get real.
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Here’s what we all need to understand. Aside from wealthy people, nobody who votes Republican expects to directly benefit from it. What they want is for the country to go back to the 1950s, when all the people they didn’t like had to keep quiet and stay “in their place.”
Biden basically took the deal I said about a week ago that he ought to take. As I understand it, the deal leaves Social Security and Medicare alone. Big win!
The work requirements are bad public policy, but that’s the price voters forced us to pay when they elected a GOP House.
These people can believe whatever they want. I don’t care. What troubles me is the fact that
@ABC
finds it necessary to give them a platform. I don’t recall news organizations giving Hillary Clinton supporters airtime to air their views on accepting Trump’s win in 2016.
ABC's This Week continues to spotlight and platform Trump voters yet again who say things like "For me to believe that Joe Biden got 78 million votes ... I find that very hard to believe" and "it's never gonna be accepted."
Folks, the reason why young people ALWAYS turn out to vote in the lowest percentage of any eligible age group is not because politicians don’t inspire them. It’s because they’re young. They don’t get it. They haven’t grasped yet why it matters. They don’t have “skin in the game.”
The reason leftists annoy me is because they cause Democrats to lose and have no recognition whatsoever that they are a liability. They want what they want, but they aren’t willing to do the hard work necessary to get it. They don’t get that progress happens piecemeal. (1/)
What everyone needs to understand is that all these influencers yapping about not voting for Biden in 2024 are being directed, knowingly or not, by the Republican Party and its rich donors. They know the only way they can win is to split the vote. It’s a deliberate strategy.
Every election, polls show that voters start to “come home” in the last few weeks of a campaign. That’s because at some point, people stop blowing off steam and start thinking about what they’re doing. It isn’t that anything has really changed. It’s just “shit-or-get” time.
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Let’s face it—people like to talk a big game. “Damn right, we need a third party! I’m voting Libertarian!” No you’re not, Chad. You’re just posturing because you think being an iconoclast is edgy and cool, and it might get you laid by some college student who just read Ayn Rand.
Whoever Trump nominates for the Supreme Court will get anywhere from 54 to 57 votes.
The fate of the court was sealed on November 8, 2016.
Many of us tried to warn you: vote for Clinton or lose the Court for another generation, along with Roe and Obergefell.
Listen next time.
Don’t start telling me to have sympathy or empathy for unvaccinated people. Don’t tell me they’re misinformed. I don’t want to hear it. The information is widely available. If they’re ignorant, they’re willfully ignorant. I’m tired of treating these assholes with kid gloves.
At this point, I have completely lost all patience with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. Not only are they allowing Republicans to escape scrutiny for the January 6 insurrection, but they are also letting the GOP hold up the infrastructure package. Enough is enough.
Where do you get off talking about what kind of Democratic Party we want? You’re not even a member. Mind your own business, and while you’re at it, respect the will of the voters.
I've heard a lot from the punditry as to why Nina Turner lost her race in Ohio. Well, maybe it had something to do with drug companies, Wall Street and the fossil fuel industry spending millions trying to defeat her. Is that the kind of Democratic Party we want? I don't think so.
Why does Joy Reid keep peddling this storyline about Trump not leaving office if he loses?
If he loses, his term—and his authority—ends automatically at noon on January 20. His consent is not required.
1) Bill Clinton was wrong to fool around with an intern. It was not an abuse of power (both were consenting adults) but it was unprofessional.
2) Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong and has nothing to answer for.
3) This has been litigated endlessly for 20 years.
4) LET IT GO.
Liberals are more happy to partner with moderates and independents to defeat lunatics than to partner with lunatics to lose to conservatives.
Fixed it for you.
Democrats keep losing elections because liberals are more happy to partner with conservatives to defeat progressives than to partner with progressives to defeat conservatives.
The 2024 Democratic ticket is going to be Biden-Harris. I don’t care whether you have some other favorite you want to see in either position. It’s not happening. Stop being ridiculous.
We moderate Democrats have often chastised progressives for not uniting behind the primary winner, thereby allowing Republicans to win. When it comes to
#PASen
this November, let’s not be what we have spent six years (rightly) criticizing. Gulp hard and vote blue no matter who.
One of the themes I keep returning to here on Twitter is that Republican voters are not “brainwashed.” If we are ever going to understand how to defeat them, we first have to understand who they really are; that they have agency; and that they chose to believe what they believe.
@BlakeWriting
While we Democrats sit back and wait for our accomplishments to speak for themselves, Republicans are out there claiming credit for OUR accomplishments WHICH THEY VOTED AGAINST. And we’re not even pushing back on that!
@ask_aubry
This is the kind of guy who needs to be carefully watched for signs of being a shooter. People like this guy are exactly the type who would go shoot up their workplace or a street fair.
@brokenPrime
@MattWalshBlog
There have been many times I’ve thought he was just a jerk, but now I have to consider the possibility that he’s just dumb.
Buttigieg in South Carolina: “It’s time for a little more of a regional mix in the faces that our party puts forward in the highest level. We love our friends in the big cities, but it is time for us to confront the idea that” places will always be conservative
@seskoog
Not all. Some Trump voters just want the tax cuts. But yes, a very large bloc of Trump voters—undoubtedly the majority of them—believes these things wholeheartedly.
@JoJoFromJerz
The bottom line is that there are tens of millions of Americans who don’t care that they are electing clowns as long as the clowns will give them satisfaction by sticking it to the people they hate—even if just rhetorically.
What is this I’m seeing today about Biden being “personally pro-life?”
I’m trying really hard to be OK with Biden, because if nothing else, I like the fact that he is suffocating Bernie. But every time I feel like I’m getting there, Biden opens his mouth and says something dumb.
A lot of people really want to believe that their mom and dad or their beloved aunt or sister were just fine until Fox News brainwashed them. But Fox couldn’t have influenced them if they weren’t predisposed that way to begin with. Who watches Fox if they aren’t already “got”?