#superdelegates

[hotgarbagejuice]

The DNC and their superdelegates are partly to blame for the rapidly-worsening dystopia the USA has become. Bernie Sanders should have won the primary and been the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016. He was the choice of the people. That was his nomination, not Hilary's. Talk about a rigged election.

[nfinitefreetime]

One more tiny Biden detail

I don’t have a ton I want to talk about tonight, but I did discover a piece of information earlier today that’s relevant to yesterday’s post and the Biden conversation in general. It occurred to me that we haven’t heard any talk about superdelegates during this primary. Now, on one hand, I wouldn’t expect to hear much about them, on account of there’s only one credible candidate and he’s the…

[dykeseinfeld]

here’s how gideon/cytherea can go canon in alecto the ninth-

[thebreakfastgenie]

Is it just me, or have liberals largely drained their poison of Bernie Sanders? I remember back in 2016’s aftermath you couldn’t throw a stone without hitting a dozen people saying he single-handedly got Trump elected. (Brainstatic even blamed him for personally ruining the Dems with young people)

I think we've just kind of moved on. There's still some anger at him, some for 2016 and some for 2020 and some for things he's done since then, but it's been years and we have bigger fish to fry. We can't re-litigate 2016 forever. I think some of the anger was exaggerated or misdirected because it was a very emotional time, so it's natural that this was recede over time. Some of it was also, in my opinion, kind of a tit-for-tat thing because people were so angry at Hillary Clinton and her supporters. I'd call that part not entirely reasonable, but very understandable. It is worth remembering, though, that most of it was based in very real grievances.

Bernie insisting on remaining in the primary after he'd been mathematically eliminated did contribute to the party being divided and by that point we could see how serious a threat Trump was going to be. A lot of the arguments people use against the Democratic Party "from the left" now, or just arguments the progressive wing uses against "establishment Democrats" originated with Bernie's rhetoric, even though in many cases he didn't use them quite as egregiously, he got the game of telephone started. Some of that I think he couldn't have reasonably seen coming, but some of it he could have. His complaints about superdelegates did give a lot of people an inaccurate understanding of the primary process in a way that eroded trust and created a false belief in corruption. That one I think he did knowingly to help him in the primary and I think it was wrong and had bad consequences. He introduced a whole new demographic into politics and specifically Democratic politics and I think he was very short-sighted about how he did it.

A lot of the worst stuff came from Bernie's supporters (really a vocal minority of them), not from Bernie directly, but he encouraged some of it to varying degrees. "Bernie or bust" was a real problem. I don't think there were many people who actually voted for Bernie and then declined to vote for Hillary Clinton, and I think of the ones who did, most of them would have simply not voted in the primary at all if Bernie hadn't run and would not have voted for Clinton anyway. However, the Bernie or bust rhetoric and the constant negativity about Hillary did hurt her campaign. And I think liberals were/are understandably angry regardless of material effect on the outcome, because that rhetoric shows a clear disregard for the threat Trump and Republicans hold. Partisan Democrats (and anecdotally I think a lot of liberals gained a stronger partisan identity particularly from 2016-21 in the process of organizing against Trump) are offended by Bernie being a Democrat when it benefits him and an Independent the rest of the time. Honestly that bothered me too, more so with his 2020 campaign than his 2016 one because he left the party in between, but it only bugs me slightly on principle, some people feel a lot more strongly.

There are liberals who dislike Bernie Sanders for other reasons besides Democratic Party infighting, too. The sexism issue is very real, though I have seen it exaggerated and used in bad faith. I remember when he called Planned Parenthood "the establishment" because they endorsed Hillary.

The other reason you're seeing less liberal anger at Bernie now is that he's just less relevant. Bernie and his followers, including progressive Democrats who were elected in the wake of his 2016 campaign, had a decent amount of influence from 2017 to 2024. It might not seem that way because leftist posters ignore or outright deny it, but it happened. The Biden/Harris administration got a lot of policy from the progressive wing, and they were just a bigger part of the national culture and conversation. The era of every corporate office adopting DEI and campuses doing land acknowledgments. 2024 put a pretty abrupt end to all that. The national mood has shifted to the right and the narrative about it coming out of both traditional and social media makes the shift out to be even stronger and more widespread than it actually is. Bernie's brand of leftish populism is no longer getting much attention or consideration, and won't for a while. I think a lot of liberals are also assuming the Democratic Party will pivot to the center, not necessarily because they want it to, but because historically that's what happens after this type of loss. Think Bill Clinton in 1992.

I'm going to add a little personal context about my opinion of Bernie Sanders because he's a very polarizing figure and I think I'm able to be a bit dispassionate about him in a way that's unusual online.

I was aware of Bernie Sanders before 2016 despite not living in Vermont. I have my issues with some of what he's done, but I still have an overall positive view of him for the most part. I supported him for a while in 2016 and stopped supporting him because I was dissatisfied with his campaign; I felt he was repeating the same talking points in every speech and he did nothing to convince he had a plan to actually accomplish any of his policy goals, most of which I supported. I already liked Hillary too (I adored her as a child before she even ran for president and rooted for her in the 2008 primary when I was 12) and throughout the campaign she came across to me as more prepared to do the job of president. In 2020, I voted for Joe Biden in the primary because by the Ohio primary Biden and Sanders were the only candidates left and I did not want to vote for Sanders. My priority in 2020 was beating Trump and I based my primary vote on that. I was angry at Bernie for running again under the circumstances, but I was angry at a lot of unserious candidates in 2020, it wasn't personal to him. My ultimate conclusion about Bernie Sanders is that I think he's a perfectly fine senator and I would feel fine voting for him if I lived in Vermont, but I do not believe he would be a good president. At this point, he's done some things, including recently, I dislike, but I don't hate the guy. I don't get mad at people who do, though, we all have our personal grudges. Mainly I'm unhappy that he ran for re-election this year when his state has a Republican governor. I think that was irresponsible.

I've definitely observed variation in how socially acceptable it is to speak negatively or positively about Bernie Sanders in liberal circles. Some of that is different periods of time, but some of it is just which liberals are in the room. The intense anger exists but it's never been universal among liberals. I think at various times people choose to stay quiet because arguing about Bernie Sanders won't accomplish anything so there's no reason to make people mad. I don't think it's a dangerous "you're not allowed to raise a dissenting opinion" thing, just people choosing their battles in social situations.

And, you know, maybe other liberals had the same experience I had of talking to normie Bernie supporters and remembering that most people who supported Sanders just liked him and happily voted for Hillary Clinton in the general and this whole feud mostly exists among people who are hyperengaged in politics. Very offline Bernie supporters are all over the place in New England and talking to them really helps me get a sense of perspective. There's more overlap between 2016 primary Sanders voters and resist libs than you would think if you spend all your time in online left-lib slap fights!

[tanadrin]

What you said about political parties is what I've long thought (i.e. Trump proved why superdelegates and other ways of putting your thumb on the scales is a good thing, actually) and I think a big reason I'm kind of just exhausted with the foibles of US politics after this and want to move somewhere else is that, for all their other issues, it seems like a lot of other liberal democracies have some of the biggest flaws of American democracy figured out better at least

that's the fun thing about american politics, even if you move somewhere else you can't escape its consequences!

[theshehulkproject]

Quickly, before we all forget for another four years

Here’s how the Democratic primary system works in the United States, mostly:

The Democratic primary system looks a lot like the Electoral College system, but there are some differences. Each state gets a number of delegates, based largely on the proportion of Democrats in that state. People get chances to vote (or caucus) during their primary race, including in places that don’t have electors in the Electoral College (e.g. Guam and Puerto Rico). Then those votes are tallied up and distributed to the appropriate number of delegates (I think some states are winner-take-all and some states are proportional).

Crucially, people have voted for delegates to vote for their candidate at the convention, and not the candidate themselves. Party rules were set up in a time before easy mass communication over distances, so you literally had to send a guy! Usually, this is a distinction without a difference, but not this year! This year it was great to have people making a decision and not statistics that couldn’t change after a candidate dropped out.

Secondarily, there are superdelegates or automatic delegates (who are basically Democrats who are elected officials or formerly elected officials), who may also cast a vote as a delegate at the convention. This came up during the ‘08 election when Clinton and Obama were neck-and-neck even after Super Tuesday. This year, superdelegates  they only get to cast a vote if there’s no definitive winner after the first ballot (a rule change since 2020). 

So! Ultimately you have a bunch of people who get together at the convention to decide the candidate, informed by the primary votes from their state. In most years, it’s pretty straightforward and we have a frontrunner by Super Tuesday, and everyone knows who the candidate will be. That makes for a pretty uncontested convention. But that’s not always the case! In 1968, for instance, Bobby Kennedy was maybe the front runner, but he was assassinated two months before the convention, leading to a super dramatic convention. 

But back to 2024. If, say, the leading candidate declares they are withdrawing from the race, the delegates (who were technically the people who got chosen during the primary) get to make a decision about where their votes go. 

It’s important to note that these rules are not laws and are instead based on party policy. Political parties are not technically public or governmental entities (though I wouldn’t go so far as to call them “private” entities either, instead they are a tumblr classic, that secret third thing). 

I find this stuff super interesting. I think it really does a disservice to our country that we don’t teach more than a cursory course of civics in high school, and I worry that people end up feeling weird and disenfranchised if they don’t understand it (when really, it’s not that hard to become a delegate in most states—you could be one of the *most* enfranchised party people by 2028 if you wanted). Let me know if you still have questions!

[theseventeensteps]

there's this really pervasive idea in politics that "the right wing is united, the left are always dividing themselves over small differences, and that's why the right always wins."

and this could not be more incorrect, and misunderstanding the dynamic here has actually been pretty devastating to the last 10 years of american left political activism.

see, the right wing does not just "all get along", or choose to ally with each other over smaller political considerations. they never have. The different factions of the right wing are always jockeying for power within their own space, and for many years, "small-government financial responsibility in business suits" was the dominant thing. You remember John McCain, Mitt Romney, those guys? They were the face of the party, their 'reasonable, professional' conservatism ruled the roost.

And initially, they did NOT like it when Trump came to town. A lot of people on this site now may be too young to remember, but a lot of high-ranking Republicans were publicly laughing at Trump and mocking him during the 2016 primary. But then, of course, we know the story -- him and his faux-populism won over tons of people, and remade the entire Republican party basically overnight.

How did that happen? Well, because right-wing insurgency does not wait at the doorstep, begging for the establishment's permission. Trump broke the door down. He said this is my fucking party now, we're doing things my way.

And he's not the only person to have done this. Keep in mind, Trump is not the 'mastermind' behind attacks on trans rights. That political wave actually has its roots in the Christian right (which Trump has never been truly in the ranks of) and their fury at losing the gay marriage battle in 2015, and needing to pick a new issue to agitate their base around. Then, again, they didn't wait for Trump's permission. They went and broke down the door of their own party, and rather than allow these upstarts to make him look stupid, Trump jumps in on it.

The right is as 'divided' as the left. they do not, actually, 'choose to unite.' what they do is refuse to ask for the establishment's permission, and that is what -- for my whole life!! -- progressives and socialists have been unwilling to do.

Do you think, if Trump had been in Bernie's position in 2016, of having a primary he won fair and square be ripped away by rigged superdelegates, he would have just walked the fuck away? No the fuck he would not!

For years, the biggest socialist organization in the country, the Democratic Socialists of America, have run for (and won!) elections all over the country under the Democratic heading, in local office and federal, and all they have gotten from that party is fucking disrespect. And those DSA electeds' response, unilaterally, is to try to "make it work" with the party to "get something done." And look -- the same damn faces control the Democratic Party as did ten years ago, and they are no more willing to listen to the left politics that the new political world demands either.

Republicans do not "get along." Insurgent factions of the right wing, spurred on by the popularity they get by speaking to whatever people feel like they need at the time, hold their fucking party by the neck.

The insurgent factions of the left wait at the door of the Democratic Party establishment, hoping the establishment will 'see reason' and open it for them and give them the keys. They never will.

that is why we've been losing.

[evil-kijimha]

I voted for you

nominating you as a superdelegate. You are now worth the sum of 20 thousand people. I am winning this election any means necessary

[azspot]

We got in this mess because the Democratic machine decided that Hillary Clinton was going to be the nominee no matter what, despite the fact that she was always clearly a uniquely risky candidate whose obvious vulnerabilities would be exploited, and they were. They pushed aside Joe Biden, a reasonably popular vice president in a very winnable election, to kneel before the Clinton-Obama center-right dynasty, risking the entire country on Hillary’s colossal sense of entitlement. Then they used all of the party apparatus, like the absurd and hideously anti-democratic “superdelegate” system, to ensure that the party’s choice was the nominee. But because Hillary Clinton is one of the least popular figures in the history of American political polling, she deservedly lost, after running a campaign built on celebrity glamour in a country that was slowly decaying from years of deindustrialization and winner-take-all capitalism. This very year, we’re seeing the terrible outcome of the Democratic machine deciding that there would be no primary process for the 2024 election, moving all the levers to ensure that the party’s choice was the only choice. Turns out he’s incapable of campaigning. Whoops! Biden’s infirmity is precisely the kind of problem that can be revealed in a primary process, but the party elites didn’t want one, and the party elites decide. Now they’re doing it again, doubling down on total control by the party, handing the nomination to the wildly unpopular Kamala Harris despite the fact that she has earned zero votes for the role. It’s incredible.

So Just Literally No Democratic Process From the Democrats

[newtypezaku]

Or as they call it in America, Superdelegate Simulator

[bllsbailey]

Critics slam Randi Weingarten’s bizarre No Kings ‘meltdown,’ activism in wake of abrupt DNC departure

Conservatives and critics on social media slammed American Federation of Teachers (AFT) chief Randi Weingarten for her animated "No Kings Day" speech targeting President Donald Trump in the wake of her abrupt departure from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). 

"Randi Weingarten is once again on stage bouncing around, flailing her arms, and screeching like a lunatic. Another ad for homeschooling!" popular conservative X account Libs of TikTok posted Sunday, accompanied by footage of Weingarten at a "No Kings Day" protest in Philadelphia on Saturday. 

Footage of Weingarten's speech has since spread across social media as reports circulated Sunday evening into Monday morning that the teachers union chief declined the DNC's offer for her to stay on as an at-large member. 

Fellow union official Lee Saunders of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees also denied the DNC's offer to stay on, Fox News Digital reported Monday. The pair's exit follows former Vice Chair David Hogg's exit from the DNC earlier in June after choosing not to run for re-election. 

Randi Weingarten is departing the DNC, telling Chair Ken Martin she is "out of step with the leadership." (AP/Reuters)

"I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging, and I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more and more of our communities," Weingarten wrote in a letter dated June 5 to DNC Chair Ken Martin explaining her departure. 

Conservatives and other critics slammed Weingarten and her leadership over AFT, while also resurrecting footage from Saturday of Weingarten's speech slamming Trump while jumping up and down in an animated manner. 

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, is exiting the DNC after 23 years. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)

Some on social media called footage of her Saturday speech a "meltdown," while others rehashed how Weingarten pushed to shutter schools during the pandemic. 

"DEMOCRATS: The Democrat Party just lost the support of the nation's second largest Teachers Union led by Randi Weingarten. The DNC board member and superdelegate resigned from the party the day after she led the nationwide 'No King's protest. The Democrats are in complete disarray as they can't decide who to support much less what they stand for..." X account Amuse posted, accompanied by a clip of Weingarten's speech. 

"Randi Weingarten has RESIGNED from the DNC after 23 years of wrecking American education. This is the same woman who kept your kids masked, locked classrooms, and turned schools into activist training camps. The damage she caused won’t be forgotten but her exit is the first sign the rot is being scraped out. One radical down... a whole party to go," another conservative X account posted. 

Anti-ICE rioters and police face-off in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Demonstrations across the country are being held today under that banner of "No Kings." (Jamie Vera/Fox News)

"Randi Weingarten's resignation from the DNC post- ‘No Kings’ protest meltdown reflects deepening divisions within the Democratic Party," another conservative X account posted. 

"This was Randi Weingarten yesterday at the ‘No Kings’ protest. She just retired. The trash is taking itself out," another conservative commentator said in reaction to the video. 

Demonstrators take part in the "No Kings" protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025 in Portland, Oregon. (Jenny Kane/The Associated Press )

Members of the U.S. Army cross the Arlington Memorial Bridge to start the parade down Constitution Avenue marking the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army, June 14, 2025 in Washington. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

The "No Kings Day" protests were held on the same day as Trump's military parade in Washington, D.C., celebrating the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary, which also fell on the president's birthday and Flag Day. An estimated 1,500 "No Kings Day" protests unfolded across the nation, including in Los Angeles, which has been rocked by violent anti-Trump and anti-ICE riots since June 6, when federal law enforcement officials converged on the city to conduct immigration raids. 

Protests in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, spiraled into violence Saturday. Four law enforcement officers were injured during a riot in Portland, while law enforcement in Los Angeles were forced to deploy tear gas, flash-bangs and a dispersal order, with the LAPD citing "people in the crowd (were) throwing rocks, bricks, bottles and other objects" at officers. 

Fox News Digital reached out to the AFT for additional comment from the union and Weingarten regarding the DNC departure and negative conservative reactions but did not immediately receive a reply. 

Fox News Digital's Deirdre Heavey and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. 

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Cold Wars and Continuity in Historical Endgame Politik

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Around 2015-2018 Greece embarked on an ambitious plan to attract more tourist.  The debt ridden state was among the worst performing economies in Southern Europe. It was soundly being punished by the EU for its financial failures. Today, however, it is flanked by the likes of Italy, France, Spain and Portugal as well as other wilting economies in the European West.  With a current debt to GDP ratio of about 150+/- percent according to Trading Economics, it is difficult to imagine Greece was once the epicenter of the European world and the globe.

However,  a quick look at its national vitsl statistics soundly confirms that Greece, which has been the model of the Western European world, is the prototype and final endgame of empire.  What is more important than its state of continuing disrepair,  is that its protege nations are dismantling without an open enemy.  This means no one, single state has yet determined to overthrow the alliance.

Recently, Greece has inked a deal with Egypt to forge a major undersea power cable as the Eurozone whithers without Russian energy.  In fact, the EU Commission has advanced the cause to abandon all Russian energy by 2027, according to an RT News report.  This proclaimation was met with no small rancor by Hungary and Slovakia who stand to see major economic contractions under the diktat.  Now, Germany won't be the only deindustrializing economy in the Eurozone, as Deutschland's 2025 growth projections have been slashed to zero according to Reuters News Agency.

But the Eurozone is not the only Western modelled confederacy that has determined to smash its own fortunes.  There are flashing indicators beyond the Atlantic that reveal leadership systems, policy and populations are in flux.  These markers leave us with disturbing questions about the reach and motivations of the deep state. Namely, how long would the US deep state have pretended that an octegenarian in obvious cognitive decline was making decisions?  Will citizens realize that industry has already discarded their labor and production as expensive and inefficient? Has the New World realized that much of what remains is smoke and mirrors, grifters and graft and stuttering lettered men who must explain away the obvious. Americans never asked however, instead, they assumed they could flush out the ambiguity at the ballot.  An clever mistake in a electoral system with superdelegates.

Vladamir Putin is on record acknowledging that American presidents enter office with grandious campaign ambitions only to be met with men in suits supplying an agenda for the next four years.  Unfortunate for America, it may likely be an agenda that has been tanking the state for the past 40+ years. It is difficult to imagine the current American president was unaware of the program after a first term, but the romantic hope of a heroic last-minute, power move--of any kind-remains.  Alas.

However, more interest should be taken to Greece and its matriculation from World power to debt haven. While it has improved its fortunes from a 170% debt to GDP ratio in 2009, it has yet to recover adequately as the world system shifts.   This publication noted in earlier analysis that southern European states were the proverbial canary in the cave. That prediction has become a reality today, as debt, sociopolitical ambiguity, deindustrialization and decay has exploded out of control across the Eurozone.

Unfortunately, the deep state of the EU has embarked on a suicide mission with its unwitting and unwilling populations in tow.  Rather than rethink mandates in the earliest stages, these Greek-Civilizational states have doubled down on policies that have brought them to the precipice of paradise lost.  Self-congratulatory and punitive, many Western-styled states are following the grand decline of one of histories most expansive empires.

Perhaps it is just as well, as theory might serve to prove that states styled after the Greek Empire must of necessity end in the same manner.  Perhaps there is a fundamental flaw in the design, cognition and ethics that leads to the same outcomes.  That concept is not without merit, as the crash of the Roman Empire follows a similar course as its Greek predecessor in both sociocultural and economic contexts.  We are left to wonder if the future is Eurasian, with Russia leading Europe from the ashes of its self-inflicted decline.

And while theory abounds, reality is without the niceties of polite historical recall.  Pakistan's recent May 2025 revelations on Western-backed terror networks on Australia's Sky News along with US lawmaker's allusions to USAID funded terror groups help to present a compelling picture of a civilization battling for preimmenince by any means necessary.  There are no sacred cows of humanity here, nor by treaty or alliance--only raw, savage survival.

The revelations give credence to regional complaints long ignored, giving force and legitimacy to states both big and small to act decisively to protect themselves by any means, in so savage a contingency with the framers of the retiring World Order.  While Iran has been threatened and strong-armed to relinquish its nuclear program, the West has been busy upgrading their own. In early May 2025, Stars and Stripes News reported that the US is currently retrofitting their thermonuclear arms program for late 2025 release. 

Recent terror revelations, legitimize the concerns of any state. And states with capabilities to defend itself from raider nation capitalism or military conflict may be seen as a threat regardless of their willingness to comply   It must not be lost on the world that the only reason Moscows still stands is because of its massive, unambiguous nuclear arsenal that serves as a clear deterrent to raider nationd that have no problem destabilizing a state, launching proxies and terror campaigns for resources, geopolitical influence or graft.

The world finally comprehends that the tensions of the Cold War were not mutually contrived.  Rather they stemmed from the mechenizations of the general state of the empire. And while the USSR was compromised through intrigue and attack, the Cold War II order has imploded from within.

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Wisconsin Democratic Chair Ben Wikler has officially declared his candidacy for Democratic National Committee Chair, and he’s exactly the leader the party needs. Wikler has the vision and experience to make the Democratic Party the indisputable champion of working people once again.

The DNC chair is a pivotal role. This person will be at the helm of the Democratic Party as it heads into the critical 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election. The next chair will shape the party’s strategy to counter Trump’s authoritarian agenda and the GOP’s assault on democracy. Wikler knows how to fight back against Republican efforts to dismantle the country for the benefit of billionaires at the expense of working families.

As Wikler explains, his approach is grounded in the real-world success he’s had in Wisconsin, where he’s worked to restore democracy and end GOP dominance:

“Today, the country we love needs the Democratic Party to be stronger. To unite. To fight. And to win. In Wisconsin, we run a permanent campaign. We organize and communicate year-round, in every community -- and it works. We've ended GOP control and unrigged our state. What has made a difference here can make a difference everywhere.”

Under Wikler’s leadership, Wisconsin Democrats delivered huge victories. In 2024 alone, they flipped four congressional seats, retained a crucial Senate seat, broke the Republican supermajority in the state Senate, and gained 10 seats in the Assembly. Now, they’re poised to potentially take full control of the state government in 2026 by flipping both chambers and winning the governor’s race.

Wikler’s political journey is impressive. He started as a research assistant for Al Franken, who introduced him recently on his podcast as “the incredibly effective Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair.” Wikler went on to prominence at MoveOn, and has served as state chair since 2019. In that time, he’s raised nearly $200 million -- the most of any state chair.

For too long, the DNC has focused almost exclusively on fundraising, relying too heavily on billionaire and corporate donors while losing touch with working-class Americans. As a result, many voters have come to see both parties as little more than corporate shills. The Democrats’ drift away from their working class roots culminated in the 2016 election, when the DNC undercut Bernie Sanders to coronate Hillary Clinton with her so-called “superdelegates.”

Wikler understands the fundamental shift the party needs to make. As he puts it: “Democrats win when voters know that we’re the ones fighting for them against those who will seek to rip them off to add an extra billion dollars to their bank account.”

Tell the DNC to embrace change and fight for working families! Support Ben Wikler for DNC Chair and help the Democratic Party live up to its values.

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[johnkissofdeathconstantine-blog]

There's a reason the Democratic Party has superdelegates. For decades, a small, but vocal, minority of Democratic primary voters pushed forward more left leaning (as in left of center vs todays left of the GOP) candidates. Those near-Socialist candidates always lost. No. Really. Always. It got to the point the Dems couldn't win. Think today's Republicans realizing they can't win on policy and their base alone will never again win them an election. This was the Dems with their progressive, near Socialist, candidates.

So, yes. The DNC is "gun shy" of a "too" leftist candidate. It's baked into the party over decades. You'll never get a left of center progressive or a true Socialist out of the Dems. Be happy they're creeping over to the left. Use that to shift the Overton Window back to the left. Defeat the GOP's slide into fascism. Then we can work on making the Dems a progressive party.

I see posts going "Okay, I'll vote for Kamala, I GUESS IF I HAVE TO" and "omg if that's the best we can do I suppose I'll support it" and I'm like...

What do you people fucking WANT?

Let's run down how she's rated politically by some organizations that we vibe with, kay?

ACLU = 93% on civil liberties

AFL-CIO = 100% on trade unions

Human Rights Campaign = 100% on queer rights

League of Conservation Voters = 91% on environmentalism

NARAL = 100% on reproductive rights

NRA Fund = 7% on gun rights (we LIKE a low score on this one)

NEA = 100% on education

Planned Parenthoos = 100% on reproductive rights

In addition, GovTrack (which is a nonpartisan tracker) places her in the MOST politically left-leaning categories of Senators. So we've got a very liberal, woman of color who's spent her career trying to mitigate draconian tough-on-crime laws to benefit the accused and keep black people out of prison and decrease recidivism and that's somehow...just barely tolerable.

So I ask again...what is that you're dissatisfied with? Is it Palestine? as recently as March she was calling for a ceasefire and demanding aid to Gaza. Keep in mind she's pretty constrained as to what's possible to do in this situation.

Is it just that she was a prosecutor? That is an important job that needs to be done and we WANT people doing it who aren't rah-rah tough-on-crime Gestapo types, which she is not. We need prosecutors who are addressing the root causes of crime and looking for ways to help people escape the cycle, which she has done to the point that she was often called SOFT on crime.

So what is your objection here? Is it that her politics aren't 100% aligned with a bunch of Tumblr socialists? I got news for you...we Tumblr socialists DO NOT REPRESENT THE ELECTORATE. If such a candidate existed, they would not win.

Democrats struggle sometimes because our tent is large. Republicans just want you if you're a straight white man and preferably rich. There's room for a lot more types in the lefty side, but sadly that means a lot of room also for dissention among the ranks. This is how they get us. Let's not let them, huh? Just a suggestion.

[frsgumper]

KISS YOUR DREAMS GOODBYE

If you have any dreams or long term plans for your future, you can forget them and kiss them all goodbye. TRUMP is destroying that. In the next coming year, IF Trump is President, American's lives will be destroyed, unless you happen to be rich and buy or pay your way thru. You've heard of "the end of days", well, we are now in those days and everything from now on will get drastically worse for everyone who is not at least a millionaire. Don't make any plans because they won't happen. Don't try to chase your dreams or work towards them, because it won't be possible. If/when Trump is in office a lot of ordinary, everyday, common people are going to die from many, many different forms and ways. The poor and sick will go by starvation, lack of water and no way to protect themselves.

Your life is going to change and it's not for the better.

I don't understand how or why it has come to this, but it is the greedy, rich assholes who can never have enough money that will rule like demonic kings, fascinated by pain and misery that are going to enjoy watching us all die. We are their show, their guinea pigs, their entertainment source. Why would anyone need more money than they are capable of spending during their lifetime? There should be a cap placed on wealth. Anything over 500 million should go back into the system. Nobody needs more than that and to be honest, no one really deserves that much to begin with. That's 500 millionaires put into one person.

If a President has term limits, then every member in Congress should have term limits too. If you are in survival mode and have a cabinet full of rice and beans, would you want the ones that have been there for 50 years or the ones added last year?

The voting process should be by popular votes only, not determined by how much the rich pay for. The delegates and superdelegates are just fancy words for 'the rich'. Who in the fuck is the electoral college? WTF do they do? It's NOT a college at all. It's rich assholes that 'talk' with their money. Big donors financially to campaigns. Fuck the fancy names for these fucks. It's "WE THE PEOPLE" who should have the say on who is in office.

I don't know why I even try to express myself or my feelings because nobody cares or gives a fuck. My thoughts don't matter to anyone. Who am I to even try? I'm just a simple man.

In one way I'd like to keep on living, but in another way I'm glad I won't be around much longer. I'm already seeing the destruction of our society and downfall of mankind. It's going to take some kind of miracle or a major catastrophe in order to bring us all together. The path we are all on right now is the wrong path. It's taking the wrong road that will lead to our doom. Who's driving? How did we end up on this bus?

FUCK IT ALL,.................... who gives a damn anymore?

[darkmaga-returns]

Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for October 24, 2024...

Strange Sounds

Oct 24, 2024

This is Hilaryious…

And I thought my eyes were dying…

YouTube have changed the time bar. It now has a pink-ish tint at the end of it…

A leaked phone call from Diddy’s time in jail has surfaced.

The hip-hop mogul can be heard discussing a range of topics, from reaching out to a Netflix producer to some cryptic instructions involving pizza boxes.

Now, fans and insiders speculate about the deeper meaning behind his words and what exactly is going on behind the scenes.

When the feds raided him back in March his private jet got moved around. Diddy wasn't allowed to leave the state but that jet was doing work. They tried to hide where the jet was going and they flew it without transponders so it wasn't on flight radars.

Those pizza boxes are in someone else's collection for now…

Remember this conspiracy theory? 1 year ago today…

One interesting part of the article:

“If they’re going to do it — the actual power brokers and backrooms and power structure would not want to bring this up until next year in the spring until it’s too late for someone to jump in and it has to go to a convention fight where superdelegates control the process,” Rhodes added.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

The trial against businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates continues in The Netherlands.

He is accused by a Dutch group of corona skeptics of 'vaccination damage' due to corona vaccines.

Gates had objected because he believed the judges had no jurisdiction, but the court in Leeuwarden ruled on Wednesday that it did have jurisdiction.

More (in Dutch)…

Do you think this is deliberate?

Alarming study finds 100m Americans live in areas with cancer-causing 'forever chemicals' in their water…

Predictions of groundwater PFAS occurrence at drinking water supply depths in the United States…

The Persian princess…

In 2000 Pakistani scientists announced the discovery of a mummy thought to be a daughter of Xerxes I. The find caused a diplomatic dispute, with both Pakistan and Iran claiming ownership. Museum curators later found out that she was a murder victim...hit by a car in 1996…

So you will ask me: Who claimed ownership after the reveal? A charity fund. Thankfully, they gave this poor woman the respect she deserved

The Edhi Foundation took custody of the body, and on 5 August 2005, announced that it was to be interred with proper burial rights. However, police and other government officials never responded to numerous requests, and it was not until 2008 that the foundation finally carried out the burial.

Philippine flooding triggered by tropical storm Trami (Kristine) kills at least 24, displaces 382,300…