There are three things a candidate in the 21st century needs in order to win over the voters

Enthusiasm

Expertise

Authenticity

This is why Trump was so popular. The dipshits saw that he was enthusiastic, bought into the lie he was an expert at business and confused audacity with authenticity. It wasn’t until he materially made their lives worse while also bragging about making the lives of the Epstein class better that they wised up.

It’s going to be really tough for her to find ways to get attention now that she’s irrelevant and radioactive.

Saying nothing would be a good start.

You know who else’s policies aligned with the DSA? Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Also Martin Luther King Jr.

You know, you’re right. I’m thinking it’s not a policy chasm.

It is a political chasm and that is almost entirely for selfish reasons(like self enrichment) by the establishment.

God, not Booker. He attacked Hasan Piker without even knowing who he was… because a staffer told him to do it.

He’s just a starfucking showboat.

The rest are great and I think Van Hollen should run for president.

Unfortunately, the main measure for getting into leadership is how much money you can raise.

The first thing I did this morning was send a note to Chuck telling him to step aside because of his personal pick of the traitor Haley Stevens and then taking credit for everyone else’s work.

And then I wrote my congressman telling him to not support Jeffries as speaker. My rep is super lefty in an uncontested seat. It’s safe for him to fight for us because he doesn’t need corporate money.

No shit. I’m writing my rep and demanding they find someone else. That secret meeting he had with Kushner tells me that he probably put his dick somewhere it didn’t belong and they’ve got evidence on him. Hakeem will sell us out, if he hasn’t already.

Find someone else!

“It was just one of our bad decisions, not the collection of them”

Medicare for all would be a huge boost for the economy. I’d be able to retire which would result in three new jobs to replace my one job and selling my house and moving, which would free up some housing for a young family. There are millions of people like me.

Also it would allow people to job shop(or start a business). More competition for workers, thus raising wages.

And we’d be able to say, “We’ve joined the civilized world!”.

Keep weaving!

Edit: a word

If Katrina Van Den Heuvel had a bot army, is that where they’d live?

What’s tragic is that, yet again, the US has helped the Iranian hardliners maintain and strengthen their grip on power.

And no to ICE thugs, concentration camps, ethnic cleansing and rampant corruption. But yeah, gas too.

I don’t think it’s a political grand canyon, that’s an illusion pushed by the political consultant class. Establishment dems think you need corporate money to win, DSA candidates proved that’s not true.

The establishment dems need to be reminded that the DSA wants a return to, and strenghthening of, the New Deal. And we need to identify and remove all the democrats who have loyalty to AIPAC. Not funding Florida because AIPAC didn’t want Angie Nixon to win should be a career ender for Chuck Schumer, especially now that he’s trying to take credit for this wave.

And all this handwringing about the DSA has to stop. The DSA just wants a return to, and strengthening of, the New Deal. We had a democratic socialist president before and his policies were so popular that the country re-elected him three times!

I used to be one of those people. But this election cycle really opened my eyes, specifically the targeted attacks of progressive and DSA candidates(and Hasan Piker) from the establishment. They made it blatantly obvious that they are beholden to AIPAC and other moneyed interests.

Hell, during Haley Stevens press conference with Mike Rogers there was a known Israeli agent running the presser. The agent even physically went after a heckler who was yelling “traitor!” to Haley Stevens.

And while Texas flipped, Florida got tepid support at best from the establishment dems and quite often Angie Nixon was defamed by so-called moderate dems. In fact, the Senate Democrats pushed hard for wins in Mississippi while letting the bigger prize, Florida go fallow. Spending money in Florida was a two for one because there was a Governor’s race as well as a Senate race. Imagine flipping Florida AND Texas!

You are correct that the Trump administration showed that it is possible to move fast when you want to. Granted, it is easier to destroy than it is to create, so the Republicans have an advantage of looking like getting stuff done when they are in “let’s destroy all the good stuff” mode, but we can still move quickly but we have to drop the Obama nice routine of trying to placate people who are still going to vote against your bill even after you give them all they want. Don’t worry about working with Republicans. You have the power, dictate the terms FFS!

Try this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hvkv_I8QDE

This is where I learned of it, but I’ve also hooked up unsloth desktop to the same obsidian knowledgebase. This way the long term memory persists across my LLM client tools. Right now I have it keep track of me and my preferences, my wife and her preferences, home lab architecture and documentation and technical project information for me and my wife.

Now the DSA and progressives need to push the Democratic party into focusing on corruption and ethics in government. I’d say that pretty much all of our current problems have the same root cause – corruption. You can fix all the other problems, but if you don’t deal with corruption those problems will pop back up faster and harder.

Insist on an anti corruption agenda.