- Praises Kim Jong Un’s health
- Retweets a fat joke about himself
- This is just getting weird now
- He’s throwing anything at the wall at this point
- The #TrumpTapes have clearly rattled him
- Trump is going to prison
- It’s still only 10:20am
The real problem with our side is our base. We think it’s our leaders’ job to coddle us into wanting to fight. We sit back and complain about our leaders, while doing nothing ourselves. We think the goal is to make ourselves feel superior to our leaders – not to fight and win.
What most of us really want is to feel outrage. We demand that our Democratic leaders set themselves on fire daily in a way that allows us to feel the most outrage, regardless of whether it’s good strategy. On the days they don’t do it, we attack *them* so we can feel outrage.
We’re stuck on this perverse idea that feeling and expressing outrage is activism (it is not), and that it makes a difference (it does not). Idle outrage is a vanity tool at best. At worst it’s a deranged excuse to destroy our own side’s leaders for our own entertainment.
Not long ago I said that when it comes to the Trump regime we should try to strategically focus on one thing: the incompetence. We’re naturally drawn to the corruption, the extremism, and the cruelty, because that’s what outrages us the most...
But those aren’t things we can work with. We can’t bring a single person in the middle over to our side just by accusing Trump of being evil; that’s the rhetoric that the people in the middle expect to hear from both sides.
First the Trump regime laid off hundreds of government employees who were in charge of preventing nuclear terrorism. That’s obviously not a corner you want to cut. This was a glaringly stupid mistake.
I use words for a living, but sometimes even I don’t know what to say. This week we’ve seen the Republican Senate cave and approve nearly all of Trump’s remaining cabinet nominees, all of whom are insane. We’ve seen Elon Musk hold an unhinged press conference while standing...
...behind the Oval Office desk, as Trump sat there confused. We’ve seen Musk steal federal funds from the people who need it most. And we’ve seen Trump turn US foreign policy into something the Onion would have had a hard time coming up with.
This all makes me want to vomit. There’s no other way to say it. It’s just sickening. My heart goes out to the vulnerable people, at home and abroad, who are being hit the hardest by this lunacy.
Donald Trump’s big weakness just came front and center
Trump’s 2024 inauguration saw far fewer viewers than President Biden’s inauguration. It’s fun to see the narcissistically ratings-obsessed Trump get clobbered in humiliating fashion. But it also points to something else...
Even most of the people who just voted for Trump didn’t bother to turn around and watch him get inaugurated. It means they don’t really care. Even most of Trump’s voters are not in any way enthused by the prospect of him returning.
Outside of Trump’s base, which only makes up about 25% of his vote total, no one really likes Trump – not even most of his own voters. So how on earth did this guy win? That’s pretty straightforward.
The more I look at the numbers, the more I believe the 2024 House majority is going to be mainly decided in California. Yes, California. There are five "toss up" House districts in suburban pockets of California that can go either way. GET INVOLVED in these five races:
CA-45 (California), Democratic candidate Derek Tran
As I warned you would happen, CNN, Daily Beast, and Politico have all now floated “Kamala is doomed” narratives today, all based on nothing at all beyond the media’s desire to shake up the narrative and juice ratings. The media will keep trying to do this next week. Ignore them.
“But how can the media get it so wrong?”
They’re getting it wrong on purpose. That’s the entire point. Major political media outlets exist to drive ratings, not to inform you. If ratings drop a bit, the media decides what to make up in order to boost ratings. Simple as that.
Is this election over? No. Keep fighting and you’ll be glad you did.
But has anything happened or changed of late to justify suddenly the media suddenly claiming that Kamala is in trouble? Literally nothing. They’re just making it up for ratings.