Johnson and Pritzker need to mobilize every Chicago cop and Illinois trooper they can spare to run constant patrols of every national guard deployment. Don’t confront them, just be there to prevent the manufactured incident that Trump so desperately needs to justify the subsequent “crackdown”.

I may let him.

Newton had massive social adjustment issues and deep religious convictions. I’m not so sure he would react well to the modern world.

Oh look, the Democrats just unendorsed the progressive Democratic candidate for mayor in Minneapolis based on some procedural technicality. It’s almost like there is a pattern.

That’s why they don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore. When someone pulls the same shit over and over again and always has an excuse, the excuses stop working.

Just to refresh memories, back in 2020 Democratic primary voters decided that picking a candidate exclusively on their perceived ability to fight Trump was more important than one who would be the best President. That didn’t end up working so well in the long run.

If the Democrats don’t elect a transformative President that will twist arms in Congress and put the people ahead of the oligarchs, then get used to the idea of President Vance in 2032.

The DNC doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt. No endorsement and no support from Democratic leaders is active opposition to his run. They burned up all their second chances years ago. Anyone paying attention knows who they are.

Cuomo is running against the Democratic nominee, not the DNC. I haven’t seen the DNC has step up to back Mamdani, and it’s pretty clear that DNC leadership backs Cuomo.

Shitty corporate candidates lose elections. Quit running them or get used to losing dumbass.

The most successful method the wealthy have used to subvert social movements is infiltration. When a drone swarm can do that, then drone swarms will be what I worry about.

The polling suggested the opposite, that they would have lost more entrenched voters than they gained.

And yet, the Democratic voters seem to have turned on a dime in the last couple of months. Funny how that works. Support for Israel among Democratic voters has gone terminal. All they needed was permission.

That’s not how it works. When the Democratic party takes a position, a lot Democratic loyalists tend to just sign on. It’s an exception when the politicians start following the voters on issues. A whole lot of voters were livid with the party for supporting Israel, while a whole lot more were sleepwalking in lockstep with the party line. Had the party soured on Israel, they could have had both groups.

If only Democrats would actually fight like they believe in something more important than “the process”.

America’s tradition of democracy is dead, and it was always kind of a joke anyways. If the Democrats want to revive democracy then let them start with their own fucked up primary process. They have complete control over that, and it’s even worse than the electoral collage fuckery.

People into those are a bit too busy to be searching it online.

I mean, it’s hardly that unique a trait that it makes sense to invoke him specifically. People hate enemy soldiers, but not with the kind of hate they reserve for traitors.

“to the core” was an important emphasis.

No, it’s not a direct line in the way you put it. With two corrupt parties cynicism grows, and fascism soon after. It’s as predictable as death. Sooner or later that’s where you end up with a population that feels trapped.

If you want a direct causal relationship, then I guess we should go into the Democratic consultant complex where nepotism thrives and utter failure gets rewarded with more and more responsibility. The consultants and culture that lost to Trump the first time around were still there to lose a second time. Power and advancement in the Democratic party are about who you know, not winning elections. If nepotism gives way to anything, it’s raising money to spend on more useless consultants.

How about this. Obama let Wall Street completely off the hook for causing the 2008 mortgage crisis, then let them in the room for setting up his healthcare plan that financialized healthcare like never before, then collected over a million dollars in speaking fees from financial companies within weeks of leaving office. That do it for you?

Wanna talk about AIPAC, Israel, and genocide for Biden? Nah, I don’t think you do. How about foreign donations to the Clinton foundation? Should we talk about Pelosi (among others) and inside trading? And then there is Joe Manchin, but it hardly seems fair to bring him up.

Democratic corruption is ultimately why we have Trump for president again.

Apparently a lot of people think the party that backs independent Andrew Cuomo over Democrat Zohran Mamdani isn’t corrupt to the core. Astounding.

How so?

Republicans are definitely more corrupt, but Democrats are better at hiding it. In a way that makes them feel more corrupt. In a lot of ways, I prefer a straight up enemy to one that pretends to be a friend.