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Lucky Luciano

(11,597 posts)
41. Gotta go Bernie style.
Sat Nov 9, 2024, 02:14 PM
Nov 2024

A lot of Bernie people switched to fuckface this time around. The ones I know are all definitely pro choice but care MUCH less about that than the price of eggs.

Inflation is extremely bad for the incumbent no matter the reason. Worldwide, the incumbents did terribly.

As a separate thing, the country is not ready for social justice. It is obvious that after the court allowed gay marriage, democrats felt that they could finally not have to sweep persecuted minorities under the rug going into elections. I remember gay members of DU back in 2008 or so complaining that the party was telling them to stifle themselves or risk losing the election. Hate to say it, but that strategy appears to be better if your metric is winning elections.

We can run women, but we probably have to STFU about being joyous at the prospect of the first [insert persecuted group here] to become X. That clearly is a loser. At this rate, we are looking at President Tulsi Gabbard being the first female president.

We can still fight the good fight, but outright wokeness is a loser.

Liberals also assumed Latinos care most about immigration. They don’t care. They care about the price of eggs. And for fuck’s sake, send the term Latinx to the dustbin. That term is from white people telling them how their culture should be.

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I agree 100%! Island Blue Nov 2024 #1
I think we just lost. Elessar Zappa Nov 2024 #2
The way to correct it is Bettie Nov 2024 #9
I'm so tired enigmania Nov 2024 #18
Me too Bettie Nov 2024 #21
I don't think anyone is suggesting we don't have women candidates or we become republican lite Buckeyeblue Nov 2024 #23
I am. We've been burned twice trying to elect a woman Meadowoak Nov 2024 #27
You are right. Infantile intimidation and jealousy carried more weight on voters' choice than any real policy, jaxexpat Nov 2024 #36
So ironic that Germany Marthe48 Nov 2024 #40
Oh, my, she was magnificent. Joinfortmill Nov 2024 #39
I disagree. EndlessWire Nov 2024 #50
Gotta go Bernie style. Lucky Luciano Nov 2024 #41
People said the same thing after Bush and after Obama and after Trump EdmondDantes_ Nov 2024 #53
Maybe in your universe GoreWon2000 Nov 2024 #56
Right on point. I was delusional thinking our country represented something that it doesn't. Pepsidog Nov 2024 #26
I think that something is wrong with the election as well. EndlessWire Nov 2024 #43
Like 2008 Cosmocat Nov 2024 #64
at the very least, they did a good job of suppressing our votes. mopinko Nov 2024 #3
I think voter suppression, the loss of ballots, and the threats... ananda Nov 2024 #19
Please Read this: Fiendish Thingy Nov 2024 #4
Something's not right Ananda62 Nov 2024 #5
I have worked election protection for years and I don't know where the weak spot is in our current... Botany Nov 2024 #8
The only weak spot I can think of is the Mail In Ballots didn't show up in the proportional increase like they did for uponit7771 Nov 2024 #49
It looks like "they" were into the data somehow either prior to the election (voter suppression?), Botany Nov 2024 #57
Yep, it was the number of new small donors to the DNC that I'm hanging on, that's usually a banked vote. Voter ... uponit7771 Nov 2024 #61
In 2020, everyone mailed in or dropped off their ballots due to Covid. Who is in charge of the mail japple Nov 2024 #65
Right !!! I'm not tryna start CT but Harris had record number of individual votes which are 90% a banked vote. uponit7771 Nov 2024 #69
This and record number of **NEW** small donors to the DNC, those small donors was 80% going to vote. uponit7771 Nov 2024 #48
The US government soon will be led by Putin's Puppet. Kid Berwyn Nov 2024 #6
He freaking told us... MiHale Nov 2024 #7
Right along with the Big Lie Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #16
Exaxtly cilla4progress Nov 2024 #25
No comparison Beck23 Nov 2024 #33
This. MontanaMama Nov 2024 #29
To answer your question, yes. Nothings yet totally baked in, but we're on that road. I'm terribly saddened to say. ashredux Nov 2024 #10
That's why they destroyed the learning channel Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #11
Honey BooBoo and The Apprentice. japple Nov 2024 #13
Don't forget "The Apprentice" which marketed Trump as a business genius when in fact he was a failure. Botany Nov 2024 #14
Remember when they banned Saving Private Ryan? live love laugh Nov 2024 #35
Totally agree. It smells as rotten as yesterday's fish. And it seemed to start smelling about japple Nov 2024 #12
fuck fuck fuck... Ysabel Nov 2024 #15
A hard choice needs to be made way up the ladder Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #17
I think that was the choice and always was. ananda Nov 2024 #20
Fascist always place loyal people on both sides Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #22
Michigan has a Dem gov, SOS, AG and legislature Kaleva Nov 2024 #47
Well, it wasn't just suppression, was it? ananda Nov 2024 #58
Hispanics went for Trump Kaleva Nov 2024 #60
I've already posted about what I think happened with Latinos. ananda Nov 2024 #62
It's probably more of a nationality thing Kaleva Nov 2024 #66
I appreciate the sound thinking here. cilla4progress Nov 2024 #24
It would be tough to make him a dictator at this point. ColinC Nov 2024 #28
So I live in NJ and took my wife and four adult kids to vote. Voting was always easy and fast. This election the line to Pepsidog Nov 2024 #30
Lots of Harris signs still out in Northern Virginia Beck23 Nov 2024 #34
+1, Did you do mail in ballot in 20? I've been screaming about voter suppression being effective for 4 years. This time uponit7771 Nov 2024 #52
We'll need to practice goose-stepping. bif Nov 2024 #31
Although Nazi Germany had a ban on handguns Aviation Pro Nov 2024 #32
Some here want to disarm us. Kaleva Nov 2024 #45
The majority are concentrated in the hands of 3% of America (link). Also, its not like Jewish people didn't have shotgun uponit7771 Nov 2024 #54
2016 numbers Aviation Pro Nov 2024 #59
I wonder if it's the American version of the fall of the Soviet Union. jeffreyi Nov 2024 #37
I agree with everything you said except the Garland part. I'm reserving judgment on what the Joinfortmill Nov 2024 #38
Some things I can't square Marthe48 Nov 2024 #42
Hitler was defeated in a landslide in the '32 presidential election Kaleva Nov 2024 #44
***HITLER ENTERED INTO OFFICE WITH LESS IMMUNITY THAN TRUMP*** uponit7771 Nov 2024 #46
yes, the us is kaput. nt yaesu Nov 2024 #51
We shall see. OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2024 #55
Yes Cosmocat Nov 2024 #63
I have ZERO DOUBT what side repukes would have been on during WWII Skittles Nov 2024 #67
2016 was 1933. Were in 1934 now. /nt artemisia1 Nov 2024 #68
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