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eg492's avatar

I like both McMorrow and Stevens. El-Sayed strikes me as basically another Bernie — somebody who delights in needling the other side by staking out positions that grab headlines and appeal to the leftiest of the lefty base, while McMorrow and Stevens both know how to talk to a wide range of people and actually, y'know, govern.

I'm a lot more worried about Mike Duggan's vanity campaign for governor siphoning enough votes from Jocelyn Benson that we end up with whatever bugfuck insane dipshit the Republicans nominate.

Sue Munda's avatar

I’m going with Al-Sayed. He hasn’t taken any AIPac $$, and isn’t pussy-footing around with healthcare, taxing the rich, being a true democratic leader. McMorrow (who will probably win), is more of the same, & took over $100,000 from AIPac.

Hank Napkin's avatar

"Michigander". You can goose me if that's correct!

SethTriggs's avatar

Ideally after folks get softened up in the primary, everyone will coalesce around the winner and remember to row in the same direction.

Keep a look out, folks, for any hot primary action in your area too. And remember there's the big prize for 2026...getting Congress to change hands so that there can be a *modicum* of a check on Maladministration 2.0!

So jump your voter suppression hoops NOW. Get your ID, whatever it takes to make sure you're an ACTIVE voter.

Mount up!

And Don't Give up The Ship!

Hank Napkin's avatar

My Driver's License renews this summer. I am already gathering documents -- approaching Epstein Files volume -- to convince them I'm the same person I was last time. I will, indeed, mount up and "forge" ahead!

Axomamma's avatar

Given that Israel has created a million new refugees in Lenanon, I'd have thought the EU would be more concerned given their "problem" with "boat people."

pstokk's avatar

Congress has nothing to do with "invoking" the 25th, or have I misunderstood? It's the cabinet and couchfucker. Then if Trump claims nunh-unh I am too a stable genius not a doddering three-diaper-a-day dementia ward escapee, Congress gets involved, 2/3 of both houses to make it stick.

Why do Democrats talk like this? 25th and impeachment, while not impossible, are so improbable that they have nothing to do with actual resistance to Republicans, fascism or Trump. They would be largely Republican actions in any case, where they only work if the Republican party radically changes course. For Democrats they are fantasies of the powerless. For that matter, so are the hopes pinned on taking the House, maybe the Senate this year. It's necessary, yes, helpful, yes, but changes little regarding power, which is what the fascists have and we don't. We get that power if we win the presidency and keep Congress 2028, and not until then. Then what we do if we get power is another question, but I'm trying to keep a little chink of optimism unblocked here so let's not go there.

First, before valiant hope and stubborn optimism, cold reality.

Oh and also, take another look at power we do have. Blue states and cities, consumers, the example of Minneapolis. Things still unspoken of, like setting up alternative companies and economic solutions of all kinds. Remember that one plausible scenario is that the fascists hang on to power Orban style for 25 years. What's the plan then? Yeah, maybe that should be our plan now.

helenasgarden's avatar

Thanks for the that cogent explanation. Much appreciated.

pstokk's avatar

It was a rant, sorry. But I did mean it. I should probably find a park bench I can stand on and vent when something like this bubbles up.

helenasgarden's avatar

LOL! Well, it was a fine rant! And helpful food for thought.

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Martin Shobe's avatar

They'd need Republican help to remove.

Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

Patrick Webb on Bluesky: BREAKING: Kamala Harris confirms that she is thinking about running for president in 2028.

Thoughts?

https://bsky.app/profile/patrickwbb.bsky.social/post/3mj5sb47bps2c

gene108's avatar

She’d turn 65 in 2029 and if re-elected 72, when she leaves office.

Age clearly matters regarding being president.

We need younger candidates.

Plus, I don’t think she brings anything new to the table compared with 2020 and 2024. She doesn’t represent change. 2028 is going to be about needing dramatic changes.

TheGreatAndPowerfulMormos!'s avatar

Where the progressives at?

Lefty Proud's avatar

I'm meh on her running again -- I voted for her, but I was not happy about her reaction to Gaza. But that is why we have primaries.

Miss Grundy's avatar

Oh, honey, I have six t-shirts with your image and name, but no, please don't run again. As long as America is a racist and misogynist country, you will not have a chance in hell to become president. I just cannot take the heartbreak anymore.

Pete Buttigieg has a better chance of winning the nomination than you do. Stay home in Cali, continue with your PAC, and enjoy speaking on voting rights and getting the vote out for Democratic candidates.

Elviouslyqueer's avatar

I'd vote for her again in a heartbeat. And I feel like the Democrats owe her apology for the way she was treated up to and after the election.

Axomamma's avatar

And double apologies to Walz after HE was blamed in part for her loss. Tim Fucking Kaine was, IMO, a mistake by the Clinton campaign but I don't remember anyone pointing out that he was a deadweight in that election.

Miss Grundy's avatar

George Clooney needs a good butt-kicking, just sayin'.

Up Here in the Clouds's avatar

Motherfucker ran off to become French and live in a nice big estate in the French countryside, and was popping up in my headlines scolding Americans for something.

Sorry, didn't read it. Not giving his name the clicks.

Axomamma's avatar

He's permantly on my shit list, along with Jon Fucking Stewart.

Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

Me: I think people should be way more concerned with stopping Trump from running for an illegal third term than stopping Kamala Harris from running again.

But what the fuck do I know?

https://bsky.app/profile/thesauruswrecks.bsky.social/post/3mj5zkidmss2r

Lefty Proud's avatar

Let her run, that is what primaries are for.

Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

If fucking blows my mind that you can’t get the left to get their elbows up whenever Trump hints at running in 2028.

But if someone says Harris might run again in 2028 the left gets animated as fuck and says, “absolutely not!”

There’s something deeply deeply broken and wrong with that.

gene108's avatar
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The question is how will a third Trump term be legally justified? The wording of the 22nd amendment is very clear on a two term limit.

Folks like Putin and Orban changed their constitutions so they could remain in power forever.

Edit: Republicans don’t have the votes to repeal the 22nd amendment even if they wanted to.

Up Here in the Clouds's avatar

There's always the Supreme Court....

paperlesstiger's avatar

True, but Trump is just a symptom of how far to the right America has drifted. The left has to be ruthlessly calculating to even survive.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Purity ponies and paid Democratic consultants.

House0fTheBlueLights's avatar

Michigan sounds like a lot of great choices, frankly. Now can someone do something about the fucking Mainers (esp. apparently young Mainers) who won't give up on their Nazi-curious candidate, who is going to be a fucking millstone around every Dem in the country?

Prostate of Dorian Gray's avatar

This Nazi tattoo I got in Eastern Europe but I didn't know was a Nazi tattoo.

Pauly2coffees's avatar

Maine gonna Maine.

Chemical's avatar

I get strong Fetterman vibes out of that guy

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

He uses all the right words.

Lumpy Tapioca's avatar

every day is hump day now

PeteWa's avatar

Murcs Law as it currently stands:

2014: a democratic president wears a tan suit - media meltdown lasting months rife with bad faith commentary

2024: a democratic president performs poorly at a debate one night - months of media meltdowns and hysteria and calls for resignation

2026: a corrupt, demented republican convicted felon president and probable pedophile posts a snuff film with racist intent - media crickets

Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

Also, Michelle Obama wears a sleeveless dress and tells kids to eat healthy. Media freaks the fuck out.

Dr Jill Biden wears patterned lace stockings (incorrectly referred to as fishnets). Media freaks the fuck out.

Melania did softcore porn and was besties with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Holds a bizarre presser saying Nuh uh. Media: Hmm…that was peculiar. Anyway, moving on. No further questions.

paperlesstiger's avatar

I imagine there is literal panic in the newsrooms about how to handle that.

GH Swell's avatar

“keep doing what we always do?”

*yawns, stretches, looks at letters over bathroom mirror (I-O-K-I-Y-A-R)*

“yeaah that. Maybe I can get a 15 minute nap in the ADA stall.”

Chemical's avatar
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Don't forget he also threatened to commit atrocities on par with WWII, AND threatened the Pope, all in the same week.

Smoke O'Possum's avatar

And posted a snuff film.

Lefty Proud's avatar

How did I miss that?

Chemical's avatar

Pete mentioned that in his original comment

PeteWa's avatar

It’s been a real humdinger of a week.

VaselineHabits's avatar

It's honestly infuriating *WE* are supposed to pretend this is all fucking normal.

Keep going to work when psychos are burning down your country

Chemical's avatar

Oh, and he lost a war.

Ambiance Chaser's avatar

Look in the Epstein files . . .

JanuaryClaire's avatar

Good grief. Threats of genocide, threatening the Pope, and snuff films. All in one week.

NewLarry's avatar
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I just sent this to both of my (R) Senators:

"Why have you not publicly denounced Donald Trump? In the past 7 days he has sanctioned genocide, threatened the Pope, and published a snuff film! All in one week!

How can you be OK with that, unless you approve of genocide, you approve of threatening religious leaders, and you approve of snuff porn.

Your silence makes you complicit. You disgust me.

Either stand up to this miserable excuse for a president, or resign."

I doubt it'll do any good except to maybe lower my BP a little bit.

JanuaryClaire's avatar

Hey, a slightly lower BP going into the weekend sounds pretty good!

But it's genuinely disturbing how little the Rethuglicans have to say about insanity.

Chemical's avatar

Yeah but he didn't get a consensual blowjob from an intern, so *shrug*

Ambiance Chaser's avatar

Just stay on the yellow brick road . . .

Mighty Little Dog's avatar

Lets see (does some quick math with a pencil and counting paw toes) only 33 more months of trump left. Ha ha, I joke. That is a hellish eternity.

paperlesstiger's avatar

We gotta hobble him in the mid-terms or America is not gonna make it.

The Wanderer's avatar

2026 went into the shitter with 2025 three days in when The Homunculus sent the military in to Eichmann Venezuela's prez and first lady.

VaselineHabits's avatar

THAT didn't even get the scrutiny it deserved

EyeQueue's avatar

I. Just. Fucking. Can't.

helenasgarden's avatar

The Democrats are looking like the Trump regime:

𝐴 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝’𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑧𝑒𝑛 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑠.

𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 25𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟

𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳: 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳 & 𝘑𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 2025 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦.

https://bsky.app/profile/cripdyke.bsky.social/post/3mj5pp6r7a22f

gene108's avatar

No Dems voted for the OBBBA, as far as I am aware.

No Dems publicly supported DOGE, as far as I am aware.

No Dems came out in favor of Liberation Day, on April 2, 2025, when slapped tariffs on the rest of the world, including penguins.

I’m not sure how Schumer and Jeffries helped Trump wreck the economy. Trump did that on his own, without any help from Democrats.

I mean I get it. Schumer and Jeffries are spawned from Satan’s butthole, and Democrats can never do anything right, and will always fail at everything all the time.

I just don’t see how they helped Trump wreck the economy.

helenasgarden's avatar

Question: what should they be doing? Anything else?

gene108's avatar

There’s not a lot they can do, if they take control of Congress other than try to force investigations into Republican corruption, and be a brake on Trump’s unitary executive theory experiment.

helenasgarden's avatar

So voting in Dems is basically an exercise in futility?

Pauly2coffees's avatar

Wastes of space. Things are not going to go the way they think they will.

PeteWa's avatar

The 25th is a nonstarter.

It requires the Republican VP and the Republican cabinet to initiate proceedings.

WTF that has to do with Dems I have no idea.

gene108's avatar

It’s good to put the idea out, even if it’s a nonstarter. Trump being unfit to be president isn’t a controversial topic any longer, and needs to be in peoples’ minds.

Jeff, still got my guitar's avatar

Waste of time, seriously.

paperlesstiger's avatar

Dems could advocate for it, which could have some resonance with voters, although the cabinet would ignore it. By now most people know Trump is nuts.

Pauly2coffees's avatar

It would be people acknowledging the truth that he is a batshit crazy authoritarian. Normal people hate this shit being normalized and are rightfully furious about it.

helenasgarden's avatar

One would think. But nah, it's all about getting elected so they can do more of what they're doing now.

The Wanderer's avatar

About the 25A. Only the Cabinet, and a majority of them, can exercise the 25A and remove The Homunculus. They are all his creatures, loyal only to him.

I don't give odds on it ever happening, even if Trump nukes Los Angeles or invades the Vatican to make himself Pope.

VaselineHabits's avatar

So... we just get to wait for him to die? There's literally NOTHING anyone else can do?

One Presidential election and there's no recourse? We're just fucked fucked?

The Wanderer's avatar

Outside of impeachment, trial and removal? The Constitution has no other mechanisms for removing a President.

VaselineHabits's avatar

Just another reason we need to redo it. Especially when it's like we don't even have one anymore.

Tasner Hasenpfeffer's avatar

Until the Cabinet votes to invoke the 25 Amendment, Congress has nothing to do with it.

helenasgarden's avatar

I think the point in context is that there will be no attempt at all to hold Trump to account. Nothing will be tried. Nothing will be said. They are focussed on the elections like vulgar politicians, surfing on the broken backs of the populace.

Tasner Hasenpfeffer's avatar

I don't dispute any of that, but if you want to sound literate while talking about Congress removing the President, the word you want to use is "impeachment".

helenasgarden's avatar

Did you read the thread?

Thank You For Trying's avatar

"Don't play with dirty assholes and then be shocked when your own finger is covered in poo." - Confuscious

Free beach's avatar

We will stop him. But only after he destroys the country.

-chucky.

Ambiance Chaser's avatar

Regarding Donny's Arc d'Trump proposal, I suggest an 800-foot high, quarter mine in circumference gold toilet.

Might as well really capture the Harlan Crow Era . . .

Mighty Little Dog's avatar

The current design I find…how to say it? Redolent of Nuremberg, perhaps.

The Wanderer's avatar

Welthauptstadt Germania.

Mysterysurf's avatar

I saw the rendering on the Washington Post's website. Ginormous eagles mounted on top like a common Third Reich structure.

Free beach's avatar

I could have guessed. Just missing swasticka

VaselineHabits's avatar

The month isn't over yet!

Baconzgood's avatar

What is the Wonk film tomorrow? I have no channel or time.

Baconz hopes its "Weird" Al's UHF, "Screwed"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93ajMIISNXU&pp=ygUbU2NyZXdlZCBwZXQgcm9jayBmdWxsIHNjZW5l0gcJCdoKAYcqIYzv

tehbaddr's avatar

I put Weird Al in the same bin as Pee Wee, OK in small doses, never a feature film.

Prostate of Dorian Gray's avatar

I know opinions are subjective, but you're objectively wrong.

tehbaddr's avatar

OK you can put them in different bins for all I care! Sheesh!

Baconzgood's avatar

Big Top Pee-Wee LIBEL!!!!!

The Wanderer's avatar

The Iron Giant is on the schedule, according to the TABZ this morning.

Baconzgood's avatar

Actually..

Baconz NEVER saw it.

True story.

The Wanderer's avatar

Neither have I.

Mysterysurf's avatar

The Iron Giant, I think.

Cryny's avatar

... 3.1 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 1.8 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝑻𝒖𝒃𝒆 ...

This sorely needs to be put into perspective, because it seems like most media outlets have been making Piker out to be massively popular and influential on the Left while most people are like, "who?" The LastWeekTonight YouTube channel has 10.1 million subscribers. You haven't heard of him because he's not nearly as popular or influential as he's being made out to be.

Bradthe🤖's avatar

I had never heard the name until it was mentioned in tabs yesterday. But they say the followers are mostly young, which does not describe me, so 🤷‍♂️.

Cryny's avatar
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I guess to be fair, he is one of the very few guys catering to the young, male, gamer audience who is vocally on the Left. So he's notable for that. Which is likely the only reason he's gotten prominent politicians on his show. But he's not on the level of Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Ben Shaprio, or countless other conservative counterparts.

The Wanderer's avatar

Bots, most likely.

The Wanderer's avatar

Well, of course not you. Don't be silly.

Anarchy Pony's avatar

OT: I have gotten absolutely nothing done so far today, which is both relieving and deeply shameful at the same time, so sort of a two steps forward, three steps back sort of situation.

Thank You For Trying's avatar

It's Friday. That is a 100% airtight excuse for not getting anything done.

Anarchy Pony's avatar

Not when you're as far behind in life as I am.