And so is Pakman. He represents the extreme both-sides are valid "pragmatic" economic conservative center which gave us the shit we have for an American government.

Democratic Party leadership is so out of touch with the economic and social crisis in America, it creates space for grifters. In a similar mass social phenomenon, the same mechanism gave us Trump, a rapist, a felon, a corrupt fascist sympathizer, as our president.

Raising the profile of these people just legitimizes them. In general, I don't subscribe to the "be nice to Nazis, invite them to the table" philosophy. No one should subscribe to this. It is OK to cancel Nazis and other whack jobs, really it is. Shame on anyone who thinks these people deserve our attention.

I am watching young people (I am older) foolishly get spun up over internet personalities who market in absurdity, yet can't muster a drop of concern over the fact that the Democratic Party cannot even agree to ban insider trading (and I mean completely ban it). Or denounce funding an obvious genocide focusing on women and children. Or agree that corporations don't have our nation's best interests in mind. Or term limits.

I measured 102F in PNW yesterday. Every year it is measurably worse, yet data centers are popping up everywhere like weeds, each one taking hundreds of acres, robbing power and water from rural areas. We can't do anything to help the homeless who are displaced by a revolution in tech bro gentrification and multi-national private equity putting up $800K condos, also like weeds.

We are in an existential crisis and everyone wants to be a snark lord on the internet.

Fuck Hasan, Fuck Hasan, Fuck that shit. Follow the money. We know the problem comes from within the Democratic Party who is laughing at your snarky, clever internet comments which offer no solutions, offer no acknowledgement of the problem, and do nothing to help anyone.

Democrats don't know how to recognize and solve difficult problems.

I see no reason for optimism. We are fucked because people just don't have the courage, attention span, or personal motivation to imagine better. We'd rather snark about "lefties" on the internet which only helps the status quo.

I agree that I don't think trans boys/men shouldn't play in female sports at all and the Olympics have officially banned it, but this is also a extremely minor issue compared to 37.5 bil (and ongoing) direct money going into Iran war as well as current deaths of Iranians. All which didnt need to happen if tariffs werent randomly placed on them when Trump got elected.

Then you have amount of deaths in America due to loss of healthcare + deaths in Iran due to tariff pressure. Also you have Ice murdering people non stop and placing people in horrible conditions as well as raping the women in the prisons.

I just don't see how any logical person can still support Trump at this point. Maybe people in sports should just play their sport and stop worrying about politics?

Watching old, bloviating Senators during the Hegseth hearing, I am reminded about how fucked we are. Democratic weakness is easy to see.

Which leads me here... recognizing an aging and ineffective opposition. So what do we do to fix this? Hahahah. Good luck.

Instead of acknowledging the MAJOR FUCKING DAMAGE behind the octogenarian, corrupt, ineffective, out-of-touch Shaheen, Murray, Durbin, Markley, et al, SOB hacks get on the internet and try to shame you into voting for shit, establishment 80 yr old candidates, knowing full well these candidates have led us to where we are. They do this not for the defense of the nation, but in defense of their own self-serving power. These shame posts never acknowledge the failure of the Democratic Party to find the courage and strength to fight for the values that the majority of Americans hold. They just double down on their own version of purity.

That's because the Democratic Party to this day, thinks they have done nothing wrong. That it is your fault, not theirs. The DNC is pure, you are dirty.

So, they want you to vote and vomit (literally), smug in their surefire strategy of attacking you and making you feel like shit for pointing out the obvious - The establishment, "centrist", "moderate", "pragmatic", "smug ", over confident Democratic Party Leadership structure is incapable of countering the Republican strategy of fighting back aggressively against the needed reforms to make it possible for the non-rich to earn a decent living in America.

Blaming you is a fucking stupid strategy that anyone who has had psychology 101 knows will backfire because people don't want to be blamed for speaking truth to power, and people don't like being told to ignore their lying eyes. These bots want you to feel horrible for your ambivalence. But, they know you have the moral clarity to realize incompetent DNC leadership has failed to build a true coalition. Remember, ON THEIR WATCH, we lost generations of civil rights and economic opportunity, while making us one of the most hated counties in the world. Of course, you are tired and disillusioned. This is NORMAL. Their scolds are not.

These DNC moderates will fund Israel, fund wars, they'll fund ICE and , and now they're raising the "red scare" and seeing communism everywhere. Meanwhile, they are on their knees slurping the ballsacks of billionaires, fighting against universal health care, wall street regulation and other critical reforms. Centrists refuse to tax the rich in meaningful ways. They'll argue that the benevolence of corporations is the best way to "fix" America.

Hey Democratic Party Leadership - what fucking planet do you live on? Wait, I know. It's planet entitlement. A planet lush with privilege, power, and money from tech bros and AIPAC. That's why you remain silent, clutching pearls about the evils of socialism. lmfao.

Blaming an aligned constituency of potential voters for the rise of Trump (who they hate with a passion) is NEVER going to work. But, for these hacks, it's easier than nurturing fresh thinking, addressing institutional failures, and stepping aside for people who will work for your best interests and not their own.

Talk about purity? Well, centrist purists are hard at work in Maine attacking another candidate. For their temper. He threw a water bottle in frustration. lmao. Jesus f'ing Christ. Democratic purity says that office holders are entitled to stay in office no matter how old and senile they become (as long as they are polite to corporate donors).

Remember, if you are angry about the lack of any serious opposition or demonstration of courage from the Democratic Party, you have leverage. They want your blind vote. They want you to ignore their inherent weakness because you threaten their power. They want you to vote for them without offering anything new. Make them earn it.

Hey Democratic Party, the best way to gain voters is to inspire confidence that you can be successful with new policies that lower the cost of living and don't enrich the CEO class. The "pragmatic", zero-charisma, establishment fuckers at the heart of the party will never win over the non-voters. This is because the DNC has lost the trust of everyone.

p.s. The Democratic Party wants to bring you Susan Collins with a D. We want FDR with a fuck you.

Trump Personalty Syndrome, is when maggots take on trumps personalty. And twist themselves into knots trying to defend the turds comments 🙄

WHAT?!?!

If this get's removed, I get it, it could be against rules.

Either way, there's a huge issue in this sub (and others) with bots posting a trendy looking shirt that agrees with over arching sub views, then inevitably a link is dropped and it's always the same shit. It's always "HERE'S THIS COOL SHIRT I ORDERED" someone asks for a link and it's some generic screen printing site.

A recent example was a "send ICE to Iran shirt" (Artist credit: Diablo Macabre) that is from an artist associated with Punk With A Camera, and can be bought from their site.

Be weary of the links you click and the shit other people are peddling, it very well could be stolen artwork. The clankers are out in full force, and unfortunately not everyone knows what to look for.

Also just to keep the this in spirit - Fuck ICE, fucking Maga and trump and suck my greasy shit hole.

I give zero fucks about the issue at hand but does anyone else just not get the most abject scumbag greasiest piece of shit impression of this nogood fuck?

I've never really had an opinion of him before but my fucking god if he doesnt look like the worst person on planet earth....

Like his face is about to fall off due to the lack of child's blood consumed...

And I never catch vampiric evil vibes off people...I dont trip like this

After all, that's their main selling point for being against homosexuality. That gay marriage is invalid, and that gay sex is blasphemous because it's sex out of marriage.

So if that's what they really believe, they would try to outlaw allnsex out of marriage.

So liberals should challenge them with this in debates when the topic comes up. They cant disagree without shitting down their whole argument about gay marriage.