The midterms will go well for Dems but not for the reasons they think. They will take the wrong message from their success, WHICH will really just be Trump fatigue.

#73 | Posted by BellRinger

There are a few quotes in the article that apply to multiple Dem rags to riches to rags cycles:

The report also stated that a "persistent inability or unwillingness to listen to all voters has provided the other major party with opportunities for advancement at the expense of Democratic growth, evolution, and ability to find common ground with seemingly disparate groups of voters from coast to coast, and the heartland Democrats tend to ignore."

Most important IMO:

The report also criticizes Democrats for relying too heavily on Republicans to "nominate deeply flawed candidates," adding that "regaining trust and confidence in the party" and giving voters an "affirmative reason to support Democrats" will "take a comprehensive strategy and considerable effort over multiple cycles."

If the second can be heeded and short term gains not squandered with immediate gratification and too hard an immediate turn left at the expense of bread and butter issues, there's a chance.

I'm just not too confident it will happen.

~50m north of Albany,

50 meters or miles? LOL

If miles, that's a beautiful area. I went to university in the Albany area and my ex-in-laws live in the Glens Falls area, so I was up there all the time. Lake George is probably one of my top 3 favorite places (not the tourist trap town itself at the south end of the lake, but the more secluded, quiet areas around the lake outside of it). Sort of accidentally stumbled on Lake Champlain South Bay one time while out for a random drive. Gorgeous place.

My wife and I have kicked around the idea of moving back to NY to be near my parents and extended family but always come to the conclusion that we'd hate it. Between the general politics of NY not agreeing with us and the local MAGA politics of my parent's area, we realize we'd struggle to be happy there. Couple that with the fact that much of upstate NY is an economic desert (the Alabama of the north east), it was an easy nope.

idk about accomplished, but she introduced major legislation and got it passed.

Which bill?

Give the actual archive designation, not the colloquial name.

She lost because she's a she...

No. Just no.

The DNC should have just held this report. It doesn't seem to have made a damned bit of difference anyway.

I know I usually am

#53 | Posted by truthhurts

Except you've spent an entire thread being a breathless reactionary turd getting it wrong.

Again, stuff like civil wars, global depressions and world wars are usually pretty good at resetting a populations' moral compass.

The regressive movement has been going on for centuries, they have won.

They have defeated liberalism.

Either start a revolution or accept your fate

#49 | Posted by truthhurts

So kick it off or STFU.

The problem is that Americans were not raised right, were not raised with critical thinking skills, were not raised with ethics

#32 | Posted by truthhurts

I'm guessing your spittle spraying tantrum is blinding you to the irony of this statement, eh?

Specifically, why did the American people CHOOSE him?

#17 | Posted by truthhurts

They didn't.

Of course not.

Nothing did other than Harris being a woman of color.

Americans are just racist misogynists and chose and orange man over a black woman.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack

Oh please.

If you want to know why the midterms aren't going to be the blue wave people thing they're going to be, look in the mirror.

Then again, you think AOC is "accomplished," so sure, champ, you're clearly got incredibly discernment and judgement...

We are not stopping Piggy from doing this

America is evil and bad things should happen to evil people.

#14 | Posted by truthhurts

So stop him. Go ahead.

Inaction means your evil. Are you evil?

Go touch some grass and disconnect. It's a holiday weekend, unplug for as long as you can.

It is about an electorate who couldn't look at Piggy and realize that he should never be allowed to gain the presidency, let alone for a second time.

A country that stupid, that hateful DESERVES the collapse of our nation that is coming.

You asked for it, you get it.

The dildo of truth rarely comes with lube.

#9 | Posted by truthhurts

Take a breath.

The electorate didn't choose him. He won because the same cultist idiots who voted for him in the past voted again.

But he didn't even receive a majority of votes actually cast, let alone support of the majority of eligible voters.

MAGA and the idiot progressives who took their ball and went home deserve this. Not everyone else. Use that anger to try and fix things.

The subject is motor oil, not the services you pay for at your annual trip to the bathhouse gaslighter.

#2 | Posted by visitor_

Funny how these degenerates always seem to go straight to gay sex.

No, I didn't.

I declined to go down your irrelevant tangent because you just can't pass up the opportunity to social justice warrior a thread to death.

And here's the canned arguments with the proper buzzwords that Snoofy will argue regardless of what is said to him.

Go for it, champ. Have fun.

The thin rationalization for another "law enforcement action" with our military invading a sovereign nation.

You're assigning sanity and prudent decision making to 75% of this country?
Surely not......

#15 | Posted by eberly

I'm assigning a lack of acceptance and support of sexual predation of children and women to 75% of the country. Probably more like 72% since there is that pedo percentage that's not part of the GOP.

It's a culture that's always been part of America

Yes, but the quote was a "new American culture."

Get it?

A small bit of justice. Unfortunately, those responsible for the political use of the IRS during the Biden and Obama administrations will never be punished.

#7 | Posted by visitor_

GFY s*&^bag.

They won't. They'll continue with their heads in the sand and pretend it's just politics as usual, waiting for the next relatively trivial thing to feign outrage about.

#4 | Posted by sentinel

Harris would be worse.

-pedoringer

No, we're not.

The bottom 25% revealing their true colors isn't a "new American culture."

The remainder are paying attention and seeing who is who.

Hey MAGA dumbf*&^s, have you had enough yet?

Still think Harris would have been worse?

F*&^ing idiots.

Whenever I see one of those ridiculous piles of s*&^, I always assume the driver is a giant douchebag.

Stories like this don't help.

There's driving it into a lake, sliding off a road with a little bit of slush/snow on it (and getting towed out of the ditch by a Ford IIRC), shooting the car thinking it's actually bullet proof...

What did I miss?

I hope that our Republic survives, and I hope that a thorough investigation of all of these s*&^bags reveals what exactly this administration is using to control them.

Because I think we'll find two general flavors - the boring will be those who simply sold their soul for cheap thinking they would get some power and wealth, but the far more interesting will be those who are being blackmailed.

It's really that simple, how the hell did this turn into a felony arrest? SMH.

Because politics have become so central to far too many people's identities and they act without thinking when they think their tribe has been wronged.

The entire response to Kirk's killing was a disturbing microcosm of just how far down a dark road we are.

From the celebrations of his death to the response to those celebrations (doxxing websites set up to unmask anyone and everyone who posted negative things about Kirk during the aftermath) to the "memorial" complete with pyrotechnics and merch. LOL I saw a few white dudes in their 40s and 50s walking around wearing hoodies that said "We Are Charlie Kirk" on the front of it. Can you honestly tell me they were big followers of Kirk and that they had any familiarity with him before he was shot?