Its the same stupid mindset he had during the covid pandemic.

If you don't measure covid levels, they can't go up.

i hope someone is keeping a list

"#trump took a shit over here, trump took a shit over there"

and then all this time and effort cleaning up the damage, just as you say

that's all #MAGA is:

vandalism because they can't cope with reality

yup

and we need to keep track of all the #racist alterations to govt sites erasing contributions made to the #USA by #PoC

because "#DEI"

because "#woke"

really?

plain simple historical fact is some sort of manipulation you have to fight, you #MAGA morons?

they're the manipulators. reality hurts their feelings

#history hurts their precious precious #bigotry and #racism, so they have to erase history

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5223544-trump-executive-order-revises-american-history/

Stalin cancelled a whole census (it reported a Soviet population decrease after the famines of the 1920s and the 1930s).
I don't recall if he sent the top people responsible for the census to prison.

@benroyce

@CStamp @gedvondur

I suggest McSweeneys, which has been maintaining a rolling list of the abuses, excuses, inhumanities and overall shittiness of the Trump administration, the most recently posted (for June) being here.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/june-2025-atrocities-273-313

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: June 2025: Atrocities 273-313

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

^{McSweeney's Internet Tendency}

@CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

True and I say this all the time

But the Dems need to reach more people by moving further left and getting downright nasty with #MAGA

This is a knife fight and the #Democrats act like it's a lounge party while triangulating and pushing ideological positions maximally designed to piss off the left and somehow appeal to braindead MAGA ghouls captured by Faux News who will never vote #Democrat

It's a really stupid out of touch strategy

@CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur The D-party seems to be wide open to a left flank attack, the mirror image of how Trump took over the R-party.

Why hasn't anyone seriously tried? Bernie looked like he might have, but he didn't?

My fear is the spineless out-of-touch octogenarians in the #Democrats go "ok, we'll move a little left" and expect massive applause for their milquetoast bullshit

The left will stay unimpressed and Faux News will use such a move to go "SEE? THEY'RE COMMUNISTS! WHARGARBBL" and nothing changes

The only move to play is a full hard move left

They won't do it

So it will be imposed on them

Take over the #Democrats

The only way forward

The Democrats need to forget about the US house and senate in 26 and focus as much as possible on down-ballot races at the state, county, and city levels. As long as Chump is president, taking the US house and senate is wasted effort.

Once Democrats hold a majority of state offices, then, and only then will they be able to take the US house, senate, and presidency back and actually wield them effectively.

@CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

@CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur Agreed right up until those last two lines.

If you win their primary, they will put their resources against you as an independent. Despite all their "vote blue no matter who" rhetoric, we've seen this many times.

If you take the party at a state level they will gut the place, move to the next town over, and build a NEW state democrat party. We've seen this too.

If you took them over nationally, they'd become the fresh new party with a multi-billion dollar budget while you get stuck with the baggage of all of their past mistakes.

The only thing you'll ever be able to "take over" is the name alone, and the name ain't worth shit. We do not win by pretending to be them.

LULA

❝ President Lula’s defiance pays off as Trump blinks on Brazil tariffs
https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/brazil-president-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva-trump-tariffs-19646368.htm

❝ Brazil's Lula says Trump tariffs 'unacceptable blackmail'
https://www.dw.com/en/brazils-lula-says-trump-tariffs-unacceptable-blackmail/a-73318638

❝ The Life and Career of Lula
Worker, prisoner, president: what the Left can learn from Lula's rise from humble childhood to becoming one of the world's most popular politicians.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-life-and-career-of-lula

@mastodonmigration @benroyce @CStamp @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

The Life and Career of Lula

^{Peter Taylor (Current Affairs Inc)}

How do you defeat #MAGA and #Trump?

You face them dead on and full-throated nuke bomb their #bigotry and #ignorance

#Democrats: "well firm words are scary and what about the MAGA person we might win over by being as weak as possible?"

Doesn't exist, you spineless turds

So we live in an #FPTP voting system

Are you familiar with #DuvergersLaw?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

We should have a better voting system, but we don't

So 3rd party just divides the left and guarantees more #MAGA wins

Therefore, taking over the #Democrats is the only path forward, acknowledging all of your concerns and many more you didn't write: they don't change the equation

And they are extremely weak now

Now is the time

Lula and the sindicalistas literally went to war against the enemy within: the USA-backed dictatorship that branded them as terrorists and threw him in jail several times.

Zelensky was already a celebrity when he went into politics. politics happened to Lula as a steelworker & union organizer during one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world.

sindicalismo brasileiro paved the way to fight USA backed fascism

@benroyce @mastodonmigration @CStamp @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

@grumble209 @admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

3rd party dooms the left to be divided and therefore decades of maga control

we are not a parliamentary democracy nor do we have ranked choice voting

so your approach is a hard fail

i acknowledge all of your criticisms with the idea of taking over the democratic party

it is still the only valid path

did you see mamdani in new york city?

if we listen to your cynicism, that was impossible

and yet it happened

@admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur You can't take over the RNC or the DNC from below. You can only control them from above - from the level of the donors. That's how Trump, and Elon, did it.

Right now, 90M eligible voters don't vote, and neither party gives a shit - if they wanted voters, they'd run on widely popular policies like Medicare for All, or Green New Deal. But they don't - because widely popular policies are unacceptable to the money people.

So good luck trying to sway the DNC into better policies. You will fail, but perhaps you will learn.

Eventually, you will take the Dune approach:
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing."

Fuck the DNC - fuck the lesser evil - burn it to the ground.

Then build a new populist party for social justice.

LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: take over the party so you can burn it to the ground. to build an antifa movement, start with obliterating all the fascists-lite hiding behind lies of centrism. it will be from dancing on their ashes that a real antifa movement will rise.

@benroyce @grumble209 @admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

@blogdiva @grumble209 @admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

LISTEN TO YOUR AUNTIFA

liza knows best

burning things to the ground is fun, and even more fun from within

Just shove the truth under the carpet, like the underperforming geopolitics, the nonfunctional tariffs, the impeachments done, the Epstein files… look its somebody else’s fault…

Truth has no relation to truth, only to his megalomaniac narcissistic ego.

What could possibly go wrong…

#uspol #trump

🐔 won by offering the voters nothing but racism. It is all he has, but it was all he needed.

How do we nuke the racism out of 77 million Trump voters?

@benroyce @blogdiva @mastodonmigration @CStamp @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

Well we have to take over govt to change the voting system. So we are married to the putrid Democrats until we can Trojan horse them then destroy them

@admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

This is because the leadership the few dictate who will receive party support and who will be blacklisted if they are defied.

This is the essence of right wing political structure.

@admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

But I want to point out how anti-left wing, which is to say equal decision-making power advocating, the two party system is.

That system two parties is anti-democratic in the sense that it does not let other people freely form political parties in order to advance their particular interests.

Party structure itself does not have to be democratic, and both political parties by the way are very right wing internally.

@andytiedye @blogdiva @mastodonmigration @CStamp @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

we don't

we ignore that third

We take the dem base third and we draw upon enough of the nonvoting third by something genuinely compelling and further left. not a teensy bit left, hardcore lurch left

@david42 @grumble209 @admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

And he's going to win the mayorship

Have you seen the polls?

@david42 @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur if they voted, exactly

If they didn't vote, they can go fuck themselves, they helped create this

@CStamp @david42 @grumble209 @admin @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

Well yeah but what I'm saying is #Mamdani is way ahead in the polls. I'm not nullifying your point, I'm saying it's looking really good

When people show up and #vote, good things happen

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook-pm/2025/07/29/zohran-dominates-in-new-poll-00481956

@grumble209 @admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

@benroyce wrote:

"...nor do we have ranked choice voting
...
did you see mamdani in new york city?
if we listen to your cynicism, that was impossible
and yet it happened"

For the bulk of the country that lacks RCV, Mamdani-style leftist candidates probably *are* impossible to elect.

One needs a different example to support the thesis that actual leftists can be electorally viable in the US.

the idea is we show the fuck up in the primaries and the general, and get RCV when we control the govt

it's a statement against the whiny weak cynicism "life's not fair, everything sucks, i'm not going to do anything, waah, wahh" which merely creates the situation the fucking losers are complaining about

you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

@CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur Even the people who voted against this hellscape are suffering in it.

That suffering is a collective punishment. Collective punishment is prohibited under the Geneva Convention. And yet it happens daily.

@david42 @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

And?

You have problems, you fix them

What is the point of resignation except weak spineless acceptance

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

✅️

Mamdani ran as a Democrat

These 3rd party clueless toxic idealist dreams need to fucking end

It's either ignorance of Duverger's Law or outright agent provocateur trolling to help MAGA win

Take over the Democrats

They're weak

And thanks for the attacks on Mamdani as a centrist already 🤣🤣🤣

You fucking trolls, so easy to spot, with the same fucking moronic games

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur Yeah you DEFINITELY don't start at the president, that's a guaranteed loss. But state level is a whole different story.

We gotta start with states like mine -- Rhode Island. There is no "spoiler effect", we're a one party state. It's only Democrats...Democrats who are cutting healthcare, cutting transit, cutting taxes on banks while raising them for the middle class, seizing low-income housing to build police complexes...the Democrats act like Republicans, and the Republicans don't exist. Plenty of room for another party to jump into the race.

And I've got personal friends who were elected as "progressive" Democrats in this state, who served one term before getting pushed out by the party, who can talk for hours about the corruption and underhanded tactics they use to subvert democracy and keep the wealthy donors in charge.

And yes, Zohran managed a win in NYC as a Dem...but that was in spite of the party, not because of it. His campaign wasn't managed by the Democratic party, it was run by the Democratic Socialists of America. And now that he won the primary, what happened? The party establishment, the "vote blue no matter who" crowd...suddenly they want us to vote independent. Suddenly they're lining up behind Cuomo. Meanwhile, Zohran's putting DNC staffers into his campaign and now he's walking back his messaging on Palestine, walking back his messaging about fixing the criminal gangs we call "law enforcement"...we need a party that can actually hold the candidate to their positions, that has a platform and values beyond just winning at all costs and courting wealthy donors.

Prior month revisions have been negative ever since Trump took office. All these negative revisions point to an eroding #economy. We are heading inevitably into a #recession caused by Trump’s foolish and destructive policies. July #employment figures will probably be revised down like prior months.

#jobsreport #BLS

Can you try living in reality

Please?

We need ranked choice

Push dem candidates that support it

Show up in the primaries

Then the general

Help Rhode Island become the next Maine

Or, go 3rd party, and all that will happen is that you're working hard for a republican to win in RI

That's what you're advocating for with your current rationale

Please realize that

and how did we get ranked choice voting at all in the places where it exists?

do you understand you're not describing reality, you're describing your own rationale for helplessness?

do you want more ranked choice voting in more parts of the country?

i think you do

but if anyone listens to you, we never will get it

because you're creating the problem you dislike with your cynicism

cynicism is acceptance

@CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

"Anyone who needs to be wooed by a politician instead of actively participating, deserves this."

My point is that many people don't deserve what is happening to them. Yes there is plenty of work to be done.

@david42 @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur

1/3 of the country is ignorant bigots: MAGA

1/3 of the country is stressed normal individuals: they show up and hold their noses and vote democrat

and 1/3 of the country does not give a fuck if we slide into fascism

they don't vote

if a small fraction of these indolent assholes showed the fuck up, we'd avoid a huge chunk of our problems

you can't fix MAGA

so we need to focus on the inanimate fucking objects who don't vote

@david42 @admin @CStamp @mastodonmigration @cynblogger @mwyman @gedvondur Show up in the primaries is a good start - that might send a message to the corporate Dems that the times they are a changin'.