Oof, nobody told her about the master plan to cancel all future elections. awkward

The synthesis of these concepts is "billionaires should be taxed into oblivion so I dont have to pay any taxes"

people have got to realize that we are not getting Medicare for All without taxing the middle class. we are not getting free child care without taxing the middle class. we are not getting better schools and free college without taxing the middle class.

I make $95,000 a year. raise my taxes, please.

How much of this tho is just downwind of the fact that our electorate is terminally hooked on slopulist nonsense and doesn't think tradeoffs are real?

Canadian

"This'll all blow over by Tuesday after he posts a couple tweets"

thinking about this guy rn, wonder how he's feeling

Dems tried to tell people. Many members of that first cabinet tried to tell people. Many normal citizens tried to tell people. It didn’t get through. Too much of the media and social media was dedicated to the opposite message and also people are largely very stupid.

Yes but a democrat isnt in the white house so will anyone care?

I mean the thing is at the end of the day, the American people voted to make things cheaper by voting for higher tariffs because liberals killed Peanut the Squirrel. I don’t know how to message for that kind of electorate and neither does anyone else.

Theres a bit of a severity gap between "spontaneous misinformed trade policy" and "doing Spec Ops the Line"

Well in the past every time line started going down grandpa would put out a 2am "oopsie daisy/mission accomplished" tweet 3 days later and the media calls him a genius and stonks go a morbillion % up. Might be a bit harder to do that this time but ive been wrong about that before...

You mean stated DSA policy goal of ending USAID? You'd think they'd be extatic about that.

I like chicken parm more than pho

what did y'all think touching the stove meant? vibes? papers? essays?

In reality average people are incredibly apathetic to most current events and only form opinions on things that either affect them directly or attain meme status

Because they genuinely think average people love this shit. They've been sidelining every voice with enough sense to tell them if an idea is bad in order to create content for the twitter reply guys who are for sure 100% real and actually exist.

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Well my other thought was that a bunch of them were directly involved in his campaign either financially or promotionally. Basically using their clout to try and brute force a blue tea party, in which case yeah theyre true believers

I think the connection behind all his backers is 90% online beef. The primary stopped being a proxy for mods v progs the minute all of the bsky scolds found him "problematic," so now the X addicted pundits have a cross ideological emotional stake in seeing Planter win to piss them off.

I think we need to look at the ME primary as less of a proxy fight between mods and progs and more as one between X and bsky.

Leftist memes be like

The implication here is if Planter wins then nobody gets to complain if Newsom is the nominee? Is that what hes trying to say?

These things only matter when democrats are in power.

...Hang on im now being told that this is all democrats fault anyway.

Say what now?

I vaguely remember a tweet from Ezra Klein where he casually remarked on how many people he knew who abuse ketamine

I'll say it again: If you're consistently finding ways to rationalize away Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo or embrace of Nazi content creators then you really are no different than those on the right who were trying to explain why Elon really wasn't giving a Heil Hitler

There are no ways an opposition party, strong or otherwise, could have stopped a lame-duck Commander in Chief, with a trifecta at his back, from ordering a military strike.