Centrist Simon Steele

Does this fall under the @Ran rule of "no doomers/doomers can get the fuck out" on this board? I mean, people like him might see Project 2025 as silly and not worth worrying about as it won't directly affect his privileged lifestyle. A lot of people are going to be hurt and Project 2025 is terrifying. Some people around here are so uninformed, they can't even express the smallest bit of sympathy for those around them. Ran--there were Nazis and Nazi enablers. You're the equivalent of one of those two, and I can't support someone with zero ethics or morals. Ban me. Man up and do it. But I'm saying this: you're a gross person.

I agree that perhaps it's more subconscious because it's tough to say it's not sexism because sexism is so broad. Anti-abortion is sexist and anti-woman. The attacks on trans people are rooted in old-school sexism and gaslighting. A woman of color running and being attacked for laughing wrong and for being "unintelligent" are inherently sexist. I think the deep seated hatred of online disinformation groups has become endemic to American politics. So long as those grifters remain popular and highly watched, these things can't change. I'm talking the likes of young zoomer streamers who I haven't kept up with in terms of names all the way to the Jordan Petersons and Ben Shapiros. A countermovement in this space of e-dis-info is long overdue. Groups who could've been good at that, like Chapo (due to numbers of people listening in their top days) definitely doubled down into a half-assed nihilism that correctly see the problem with the big parties in this country, but they don't offer true solutions except anger and disengagement.

That's the point--you took facts--people are suffering according to every metric--then you were like, "But no, they're not." What facts are there to refute in your statements? You're using anecdotal evidence to refute facts. I see. I haven't been posting here a lot lately, but I seem to now remember that's easy to do.

Just the...Vox-style gaslighting here is insane.

I didn't write that? You put what someone wrote into a reply to me?

Her campaign started off well, but she didn't run a good campaign. I'd hoped the short amount of time she had would stop her from acting like every other dem who has lost lately--that she wouldn't have time to listen to Biden's people and shift to the center and court the right wing voters. That was a stupid strategy in 2020, and while I'm sure Biden and the Dem leadership believe that was what won them 2020, that just isn't the case. They had record DEM turnout in 2020. Dems suck. Trump literally mimed blowing a microphone a couple of days ago, threatens his enemies through abuse of power, says he's never leaving--and Dems still found a way to lose.

Or, is it as I was saying here for the last several months, the Democrats are in trouble because those states they flipped with Biden were due to mail in ballots--which those states promptly stopped allowing after COVID? Also, lurn to spall.

The Pod Save guys at least are acknowledging the truth: people are suffering and upset. The economy IS NOT GOOD for most of us. ...now, why people thought Trump would be better? I can't do those mental gymnastics.

People are very dismissive of the hard times others are going through right now. The "economy being good" is a joke at this point. It doesn't mean anything.

This has been true for a long time. It's long past time for the centrist, neoliberal politics of the party elite like Pelosi (and the era of Clinton) to be abandoned. Democrats have allowed themselves to become a center right party, and the Republicans keep running further to the right.

JD Vance might be worse. Mike Johnson certainly would be awful too.

One per town? That's being generous depending on how blue your area is in a red state.

This is awesome. While this doesn't hurt Bezos in the pocketbook much, I have to think it's a blow to his soft little ego.

I'm just so confused as to why it seems so many people say things like, "What's she running on?" When you look at the two candidates, she is literally running on things and the other is not.

The Pod Save guys, who definitely have insider knowledge, have talked extensively about the sudden shift in her campaign after her Trump debate. They've interviewed people on this who have shared what the Biden campaign staff have been pushing her to do. An example: The shift away from "negativity" (the Republicans are "weird") as she is reaching for the center right voters. That's very different than what she started with. It's a Biden strategy she's now accepted.