If Bernie won in 2024 it'd be Trump 2028, then we'd be stuck with him until 2032.

He'll execute the Trump agenda and actually make it work! and fair! It's not fundamentally bad ideas to begin with, it's just the implementer!

He has policies that would benefit all Americans.

#192 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-25 03:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

The cornerstone of his economic agenda being tariffs to restore American manufacturing, while replacing NAFTA, PNTR, TPP, penalizing offshoring by cracking down on H-1B, and debt fueled manufacturing investments.

The irony is thick.

Bernie had no business as the 2024 candidate.

#188 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-25 02:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

Obvious from the primary results.

Oh yeah, ----.

The #1 issue was inflation. Dem messaging on inflation was terrible. It was a progression of narratives culminating with telling them how not bad it was compared to places they have no frame of reference with.

Why are Republicans about to get handled in the midterms? Not a blue wave, but overall major setbacks. Inflation.

Well, it may have been.

#148 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-25 02:13 AM | Reply | Flag:

Mentioned? Why. It's not a top 10 voting issue. It's #14, if you bundle it together with ME relations. Make it a single issue and you're down to just a subset of Democrats that always vote Democrat anyways.

It was civilians shooting at each other. Civilians can just roll into Belton's park areas with guns. It's not like their metal detectors.

Not a Voting Issue?

#139 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-05-24 01:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'll never plonk you, you're the funniest bot.

Dem party: "Here's everything we did wrong, in detail."
Effete: "Gaza gaza gaza gaza gaza, jews, gaza gaza gaza."

Definitely not a voting issue. We know it's not, because you think it is. Just list everything this account says is important, and invert it.

Students were protesting what then?

#138 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-05-24 12:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

In the last 2 semesters at UH, the pro Gaza protesters interrupted a ceremony. The pro Iranian intervention protests, made up of Persian students holding up signs of dead Iranian protesters, were bigger and better organized. The crazy religious bitch that shows up on campus and calls the female students whores draws way bigger crowds than all of them.

40 mentions of Israel.
2 mentions of the economy.

In this page.

There's no mention of Gaza in the autopsy because it's not a voting issue.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-05-22 08:46 AM | Reply

How many S-400 and S-300 did Iran lose, and what's the price tag on those?

3 of the F-15E shot down by one Kuwaiti princess.
5 KC-135 mission killed (but eventually fixable) on the tarmac, 2 to a midair.
Both MC-130J destroyed by US forces after landing in Iran and being unable to take off because the field was too soft and they got stuck.

I don't think we've seen airframe losses on this scale in 35 years.

Here's the TLDR et al.

The reason this site exists is also the reason why Dem messaging sucks and leads to election losses. Same messages.

@78
Your post took up more than a page. Thus I just close the tab.

#80 | Posted by et_al at 2026-05-22 09:19 AM | Reply

If you did you wouldn't be posting in the thread.

Also, its 2026, update your display.

Lets analyze all of these Retort headlines, in the context of Democrat Party problems.

Does this site attempt to fix any of it? Or is it a microcosm of systemic party problems? Lets explore further!

What can we identify, just looking at the current headlines on both the front and back page.

1) The Base Content Is Extremely "In-Group" Coded
2) The Curated Front Page Softens Tone " But Not Strategy
3) The Editorial System Is Optimized for Engagement, Not Persuasion
4) Missing Working-Class Emotional Identity
5) Hyper-Online Culture Leakage
6) The Front Page Accidentally Confirms the "No Positive Vision" Critique
7) The Curators Understand the Problem Better Than the Userbase
8) The Ecosystem Incentivizes Permanent Emergency

The backpage/frontpage split reveals three separate Democratic ecosystems operating simultaneously:

1. Grassroots emotional ecosystem
2. Institutional curation ecosystem

3. Missing ecosystem

The one the report argues Democrats need:

optimistic
working-class
identity-expanding
future-oriented
patriotic without embarrassment
masculine-inclusive
economically tangible
locally rooted
emotionally aspirational

The report essentially argues Democrats cannot rebuild durable majority support if ecosystem #1 continues to dominate the emotional center of Democratic political culture.

Democratic Party Problems Identified

* Loss of trust among working-class and rural voters. (there's more professors in the UAW than car assemblers nowadays.)
* Weak state-party infrastructure after years of underinvestment. (the consultant class drive really nice Mercedes though)
* Overreliance on national presidential campaigns.
* Poor messaging consistency. (blame shifting doesn't work for either party, it's weakness)
* Failure to connect with male voters and non-college voters. (they're watching Tony Hinchliffe tell Puerto Rico jokes and having a laugh)
* Excessive focus on urban/suburban coalitions. (the burbs only want to visit the urbs occasionally, not live like them)
* Weak engagement with irregular/new voters. (have we tried depression support groups? has to be candidates there)
* Heavy dependence on anti-Trump messaging instead of positive vision. (the constant apocalypse preaching isn't exactly positive. try some Talarico.)

That wasn't self-inflicted.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-22 06:11 AM | Reply | Flag:

That's a matter of perspective.

Tariffs, taxes on American consumers to try and force them to buy American..the Chinese producers have an entire world to sell their products in, many really don't need the US.

#11 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-05-21 06:41 AM | Reply | Flag:

"The Biden administration imposed a 100% tariff on all Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) under Section 301 of the Trade Act. Finalized in September 2024, these steep duties replaced an earlier 25% tariff and are intended to shield American automakers and auto workers from state-subsidized Chinese overcapacity."

As far as being the primary factor, effectively non-existent.

Stated differently, reducing overtime costs is OK even if more plane accidents occur.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-15 09:02 PM

While we're out here lighting lamps. Did we first investigate what % of crashes are caused by ATC shortages or high workloads compared to all other aircraft crash factors?

I'll save you some leg work. It's < 5% as a contributing factor.

It's pilot error and bad maintenance that kill you.

If they think it's 1.2, then it's 3.6.

Last I saw it was > 14 Predator-B lost.

I am not yet convinced of that.
In Iran, the US seems to have been quite behind in the deployment of drones.
Expending multi-million dollar anti-aircraft items to shoot down multi-thousand dollar Iranian drones.
#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-05-13 11:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Your posts are getting.. less intelligent over time. Drones are a catch all. A Predator-B with a 66' wingspan and a quad with a 9" rotor span are both drones.

We threw away Predators over Iran like they were candy to draw out the remaining S-300 and theater scale defense systems.

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