#9 Yeah, bad Joe Biden, who hired a gutless conservative as attorney general.

Trump is such an improvement, having hired Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr, Pam Bondi, and now (temporarily) his personal attorney, Blanche DuBois.

Amirite?

#11 Coriolanus posits, "I would hate to think USAG Merrick Garland didn't release the Epstein files from 21 Jan 2021 to 19 Jan 2025...."

Of course, there was no call from Democrats for any such release.

The "Epstein Files" mania was a MAGA/QANON phenomenon.

Democrats in general, and the Biden administration, in particular, never once campaigned for/against the Epstein files.

Again, that was a MAGA/QANON phenomenon.

Care to list any sustained voices from the left/Democratic Party, calling for the release of the Epstein files from 21 Jan 2021 to 19 Jan 2025?

Why do you insist on playing Cassiodorus, proudly proclaiming that any Democratic Party loss as a clear repudiation of "AIPAC/AIPAC-Democratic official/Israel," while completely ignoring the multitude of inputs to the American political environment, any number of which would cause Democratic party victories and Republican Party losses.

Want to bolster your position? Present evidence that "AIPAC/AIPAC-Democratic official/Israel" was the absolute determining factor in Kamala Harris' loss. Or that it even contributed more than just some votes in some areas of Michigan.

But move the needle in every single swing state in the direction of Trump because of AIPAC/AIPAC-Democratic official/Israel? That's a unicorn.

#12 Speaks says, in part: "but biden and garland were the only ones who could have stopped them (and took and oath to defend the country from them) yet refused to do so."

Understand.

What you're saying is that Democrats suck, so clearly Trump is better.

What you're saying is that only Democrats need be pilloried because they "took and oath to defend the country from them) yet refused to do so.").

So clearly Trump and his team are better because they took and oath to defend the country from them) yet refused to do so." ... but they're Republicans, so they get a break... right? .

What you're saying, loud and clear, is that it doesn't matter who you vote for, Democrats or Republicans.

What you're saying, loud and clear, that it is better if Republicans (and Trump) have all the power because Democrats aren't perfect.

Is that about is, Speaks?

#15 Speaks says, "I'm saying we need to pick better democrats and accept that these moderates are simply doormats for fascism."

Disagree.

I want candidates with a "D" after their name, because in a two-party country, you're either in the majority or you're in the minority.

I prefer that Democrats gain (and retain) the majority.

A moderate Democrat in the US House, as an overall vote for a majority, produces Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) as Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability ... and not James Comer (R-KY).

A moderate Democrat in the US Senate, as an overall vote for a majority, produces Senator Christopher ----- (D-DE) as Chair of the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee ... and not Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

Or does your pursuit for Democratic Party perfection come at the expense of the House and Senate majority for Democrats ...

... and keep Republicans firmly in charge?

#15 Speaks says, "I'm saying we need to pick better democrats and accept that these moderates are simply doormats for fascism."

I am not going to stomp around here and demand that every single Democratic candidate - from the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, white with foam - be a clone of Hizzoner Zohran Mamdani. (BRAVO!).

In NYC the Democratic Party candidate won.

In Miami, the Democratic Party candidate won.

And on and on...

But they're NOT Mamdani clones, regardless of what others might claim.

No.

They were Democrats, members of the Democratic Party, who won.

They campaigned as they needed to campaign for their voters ...

...AND THOSE DEMOCRATS WON ! ! !

BRAVO.

Eye on the prize, my friends.

Eye on the prize.

#20 Thank you, Lamp.

Should Democratic candidates across the Great Country mimic his campaign style of talking with constituents?

Yes, absolutely.

#23 Speaks says, "Democrats gained the majority in 2020. What did they do with it? Nothing. Anything they accomplished was erased by their failure to prosecute the fascist traitors."

So, in the reality of the binary political country we live in, the absence of what you wanted to see from Democrats in 2020 means that all Democrats are worthless and therefore the USA must continue to elect Republicans.

Is that what you want, permanent GOP political dominance in the USA?

The Republican Party (and the conservative movement in general) has been operating in unison off of the plan put forth in the Powell Memorandum for 56 years.

And because Democrats aren't perfect, especially 6 years ago, they must be dammed, along with the rest of us.

"Electing moderate dems has condemned us all. Therefore, all hail the permanent Republican majority!" - Posted by SpeakSoftly

#23 Speaks says, "Democrats gained the majority in 2020. What did they do with it? Nothing."

Republicans don't need fancy political consultants to help get their candidates elected; disgruntled "left-of-centers" will do the work for us, making sure everyone forgets all about things like this:

Speaks states, "...it is kicking the DNC tools to the curb and calling out their failures."

Okay.

There are over 400 official members of the Democratic National Committee. Generally speaking, they are people from all 50 states (and all the territories). In addition, there are thousands of Americans who work with and volunteer for the Democratic Party. at the (very) local level (voting precincts), county/parish level, state-level, regional level, and national. This group also includes elected Democratic officials, from Mayor Mamdani in the Big Apple to your very own precinct committeeperson in your neighborhood.

Again, generally speaking, they are people from all walks of life who share a commitment to the Democratic Party.

Please list which ones are "DNC tools" and which ones are not, so we know where to call out the failures.

Meanwhile, the DNC has been doing pretty good, as of late ...

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats - the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

-> Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

-> Eileen Higgins elected as first Democratic mayor of Miami in three decades

#33 " The 3 Nov 2024 death toll of 43,061 murdered Palestinians in Gaza had nothing to do with Democrats losing, right?"

Hardly.

#33 The $300,000,000.00 in anti-Harris, "She's for they/them" ads during NFL/NCAA football games in the month of October 2024 in all 7 swing states had nothing to do with Republicans winning, right?

#37 Names, Speaks.

You water it down with " ... anyone who participated in the coup ... and a lot of dems too" and " ... any dem who wants to cling to norms and traditions ... "

Who are those Democrats, Speaks?

And I assume you prefer Republicans in the place of those Democrats, right?