Let that be a lesson.
Moderate? Marty Dolan is a full-blown conservative. Why do we keep pretending like being a Democrat means you can’t be a conservative? The DNCs entire top brass is conservative. It’s a conservative party by objective international standards.
Because the Overton window in the United States has many people viewing fascists as friends and anyone further left than center right as “extreme left wing socialist communist Nazi terrorists”.
I hate it when ignorant people conflate Nazis and communists. I have argued with so many dumb people who think that the Nazis were a Socialist party, when the exact opposite is true. These people probably think that the DPRK is democratic, too.
It’d be like thinking the Democrats and Republicans are arguing about whether America should he a direct or representative democracy.
Well if’n it weren’t properly a democracy how comes that 'ere Kim fella put it in the name, huh?
Good. Anyone described as a “moderate” in the US is actually a conservative at best. Anyone described as a “conservative” is actually a fascist at best.
I hate this divisive bullshit. Democracies require pluralities. You need to be a big tent party to govern.
Reality check: Repubs are trying to elect an insurrectionist promising to be a dictator. I’m sorry facts are divisive, I don’t like the situation either.
Sorry. how does AOC defeating democratic moderate in a primary impact a republican getting elected. I don’t think moderate D’s or voting R on the presidential ballot. A moderate Democrat is still voting democrat.
The most divisive people in politics don’t want that big tent to be a governable coalition. If you appeal to big tent politics they start trying to incite violence including political subjugation of the same opponents that you’re trying to appeal to. You’ll see them around.
It seems many described as “left” in the USSA are conservatives too.
What does “moderate” mean, owned by some corp?
Yeah:
“We need to freeze the border and send that message to the world to stop the death and casualties along the way,” says Dolan. “The Republicans are right on this issue. But that doesn’t make me a Republican. No party is right on every issue.”
On his campaign website, Dolan who has served as managing director at banks including Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, puts the city’s current plight thus: “Bail reform a disaster, the National Guard in the subway, toothpaste locked up in drugstores but criminals running free.
“Bail reform a disaster, the National Guard in the subway, toothpaste locked up in drugstores but criminals running free.
Umm doesn’t the State have a bigger hand in that instead of the Federal government?
It’s hilarious to me that 40 years ago this person would have been solidly Republican. Now he’s a “moderate Democrat”. This term now means “conservative that doesn’t like Trump saying the quiet part out loud”
A lot of money has been pouring into propagandizing liberals in big progressive cities about crime specifically. Trying to promote a crime hysteria. And then part 2 of that plan is to recall the progressive politicians and elect in Republicans who will claim to fix everything.
It’s had only modest success in actually electing Republicans so far but I get the sense it’s a long game. People have absolutely bought into the “crime is at an all time high” lies.
Holy red flags, Batman!
Personal loans. Ouch.
Hopefully it’s a painful enough lesson he never comes near politics again.
He’s swimming in the bank pools, he’ll be fine.
The loans are just so he can write that off.
In the rest of the world. A 66 year old investment banker would be considered right wing
I hope people stop believing the bullshit that’s trying to get progressives to not vote or to vote for 3rd parties. Progressives absolutely can win democrat tickets, and that’s exactly why there’s so much propaganda trying to convince people otherwise. Progressives have a lot of political power right now, and the whole system can swing left if people don’t just give up. Progressives giving up is the only play the right has.
Progressives should absolutely vote in primaries and lower contests. They should also make it very clear there are limits to their graciousness when our president supports blatant war crimes and genocide.
Graciousness? I don’t think that’s the right word…you don’t vote for someone because you’re being gracious, you vote for someone because you think they’ll deliver what you want - on in this case perhaps, the closest person who actually stands a hope in he’ll of getting elected.
Oh no. It’s graciousness to vote for the guy you lost to and who went out of his way to break campaign promises on unions, climate change, and immigration. Another term is good loser.
But the point is there’s limits. There have to be limits or else you’re not a loser in a political contest, you’re a blind supporter they never need to actually listen to.
The only other option is trump. Are you trying to get people to vote for trump? If so, why?
Ah yes, Reddit, and a Biden specific sub. The very material of unbiased analysis.
Also. You’re responding to something pre-debate. There are very definitely other options now. Run a debate series with select candidates, open a comment period with the state parties, and culminate in an open convention.
I don’t disagree. But we’re living in interesting times.
I don’t like most of the people on the ticket I’ll be given in November, but you know what’s objectively worse? Actual fascism. Fascism always ends in genocide, and these white Christian nationalists aren’t even trying to hide it, going mask-off even before they have the power to back it up.
When fascists can be this bold and still keep their seats of power, that’s quite worrying.
As I saw someone say earlier, we’re in democracy triage.
I’d vote for Biden’s corpse before trump or not voting. We must wrest all power from the fascists before we can squabble about who’s more left.
We must be able to effectively fight it though. And blindly voting for the elite approved opposition ends in them holding the door open for fascists every time.
fuck moderates, we’re fighting for our goddamn lives and the life of American democracy. We got no room for both-siders.
An article about an election without any numbers. How tight was the race? How many people voted? We will never know. In fact, the whole article contains no information that wasn’t known beforehand. Probably written beforehand and just put online by a timer as the result was not surprising. News media is going downhill faster and faster.
Better source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/new-york-us-house-district-14-results
Landslide win for AOC. Maybe USA today just didn’t want us to know how absolutely not close the race was?
That’s exactly it.
The lies in MSM aren’t what they say, it’s what they don’t say.
The best place to see this is at Planet Fitness, or similar place with TVs constantly tuned to all the major outlets. Watch them all at once and observe what each isn’t saying.
This sounds like you were going to segue to today’s sponsor, Ground News.
I’d actually been wanting to check them out, but now that I have Nebula, nobody is plugging their affiliate links.
Radicalize the moderates !
“No MODERATE CHALLENGERS want to work anymore!!!”
Suck it AIPAC.
Will you people shut up about the DNC/Israel/“Them” rigging everything now?
You could argue that AIPAC is partly responsible for the mess we’re in, as well as other PACs. So, I don’t think that they will stop. Hell, one could hold that stance while voting for questionable politicians on their side. You just gotta make sure that the threat of being primaried remain.
This guy doesn’t know the difference between rigging and ratfucking, point and laugh at him.
I’d rather not give them even that level of attention.
Why? We get to tell the truth and apparently deeply bother you all at once. Seems like a win-win for everyone but you , and you don’t matter.
I don’t expect you to actually stop, I just expect to expose you as disingenuous partisans.
Feels like you’re pushing an agenda here that doesn’t really coincide with reality.
After what happened to Jamaal Bowman. Not a fucking chance.
Oh, did people pointing out the unfair latitude given to your favorite genocidal nation make you upset? Whoops.
Oh shit we got a new troll in da house
The ones laughing at Bowman’s loss? Yeah, I’m sure they’re crying so hard tonight
Now at a greater scale!
Good for her. Sucks that Jamaal Bowman lost though.
Yeah, having to listen to Steve Innskeep gleefully break the news of Bowman’s defeat on NPR this morning was not a great way to start the day.
And of course NPR frames it as confirmation that voters support genocide, not that AIPAC uses GOP money to sabotage the Democratic party. Their reporting is getting worse and worse by the day.
Listening to NPR is like consuming pure Liberal Zionist propaganda
They’re pretty bad on Israel, yeah. All Things Considered is particularly terrible.
Innskeep and Mary Louise Kelly get me pissed of more than anyone else. Or Ayesha Roscoe. They’re all terrible interviewers.
To be fair, frogs are pretty dope.
This is the wrong post, but my point stands.
It was the comment this post needed. Thank you
You’re welcome, I’m glad I could remind you of frogs on this day.
