“You can’t blame the voters…”

Why not? I’m a voter. Why can’t I blame the people who have the same civic responsibility as me but choose ignorance, fecklessness, and destruction of American democracy?

Fuck you. Fuck them. “Democrats need better messaging…”

No. Our fourth estate needs to stop choking on billionaire cock. Opportunistic podbros need to stop fucking us from both sides.

Messaging offered in good faith has no value in this environment. You lot pretend it does because it profits you.

It’s impossible not to recognize that we are watching a battle play out for the soul of the Democratic Party. It’s a battle the GOP had the opportunity to wage in their own ranks, but, instead just rolled over and surrendered to the billionaire class and white supremacy. We watch voices we once trusted show themselves, one by one, to be pathetic, bought-and-paid for shills running to answer the bells of their masters, and it’s disheartening.

But, we are lucky in that our ranks have an actual soul still beating and worth fighting for.

The two most insidious lies and mischaracterization that keep circulating about the ABC interview are that Biden said only he could fix things / defeat Trump and that somehow his answer to how he’d feel if he lost the election was tone deaf. 1/ Here’s an example of peddling this nonsense from Jonathan Alter who apparently either sits around trading lies with his wife for fun or they both share a difficulty with active listening. Or maybe they think they can read Biden’s mind about shit he never said? Who knows?

Let me explain to you why your bullshit “but Kamala could replace him instead; it would be so unifying” tactic isn’t working on those of us that actually support her. 1. If you actually support her for top of the ticket right now, then you have zero issue with the possibility of her needing to take the helm should Biden have an emergency during his second term.

2. If #1 isn’t true, then your “unity” claim is bullshit.

So NBC News just put out an article By Peter Nicholas, Scott Wong and Julie Tsirkin headlined “Some Democrats say Biden's debate performance wasn't an anomaly.”

Let’s talk about the anonymous source fuckery at play. “…a Democratic lawmaker who shook hands with Biden in the House chamber that night was troubled by his appearance. Biden, the congressman said in a recent interview, looked ‘frail and weak’.”

So a congressman who shook hands with Biden used the phrase “frail and weak.”

Fuck it, it’s Sunday night. Let’s do a round up of the lies and misinformation Democrats have been subjected to this weekend and why we’re pissed off and done taking shit from media hacks, compromised journalists, and fair weather ninnies. 1/ Lie #1: Dems are refusing to acknowledge a bad debate.

Biden gave a whole ass speech the following day accepting it was a bad debate and vowing to move on from it. Most Dems openly admit the President had a cold, his stutter was worse than usual, and his optics were bad. 2/

This is your periodic reminder that Ezra Klein spent years at Vox writing fanfic about Paul Ryan that included nuggets like: “…no Republican will be able to win and govern without adopting Ryan's ideas.” I mean, it was just years of this:

I’m tired of correcting ignorant posts about “why can’t Biden just fire DeJoy” so here’s the fucking civics lesson you’re all too lazy or intellectually dishonest to Google. 1/ The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 made the US Postal Service an independent organization. It hasn’t been part of the Cabinet for over half a century. 2/

Here is what pisses me off about intellectually dishonest asshole takes like this one — Biden and Dems cannot fight an entire country that doesn’t want to accept the reality of a pathogen. I have had to structure my life around my compromised immune system long before COVID and I can tell you one truth that doesn’t change — the vast VAST majority of humanity would rather kill you than compromise their own convenience at any level.

Mutuals, if you’re in my demo, I need you to understand something.

If I see you insert yourself into the mentions of Black/WOC accounts wagging your ass stealing their energy and harassing them with your nonsense it becomes my entire day’s goal to exhaust you. I want you to sit there sad, exhausted, and confused at how your ww tears did nothing to save you. I want you to be afraid to ever, ever do it again.

Because there is no room for this bullshit. None.

Okay, I read that whole CNN article and all I can say is this…burn it all down. Nuke it from space. Only way to be sure.

Also The Atlantic writer makes it clear that expecting white dudes to hold their peers accountable is why American newsrooms are so very broken. You can just smell the GOP-complicit “but let’s call ourselves libertarians” douchebaggery as you read. Especially when you get to the part where they both agree that no matter what else happened, Don Lemon was certainly the biggest problem at CNN.

The thing about this gifter that annoys me is not that he constantly tries to rewrite history (all grifters do that) it’s that he constantly tries to rewrite RECENT history. Daou’s schtick of pretending to be so fucking progressively holier than thou only developed because he was too inept and unlikeable to leverage his contacts within the Democratic Party to any significant role after 2008.

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“Believe Women” was never intended to be about blind acceptance or never question anyone. It was about recognizing that assault, harassment, and threat are happening all around you and have been going on forever. It was about listening to those coming forward with an open mind. It was a slogan to raise awareness and drive a point.

The media allowed it to become weaponized by bad faith actors because the media was being revealed to be one of the biggest industries that shelters abusers.

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*deep breath*

Hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha It’s such a universally happy demographic that we have to delegitimize our entire democracy and corrupt all the branches of government so that a fundamentalist psychopath minority can force women to give birth and discover such happiness.

I absolutely refuse to post her name again on my TL, but I just want to say that woman did active, deliberate harm to survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Opportunistic journalists and clout chasers elevated her because it let them get cheap shots at Biden. We will not forget. Absolutely no part of her story made sense or held up. So much of it wasn’t just suspect but blatantly over the top and counterfactual. She had a long history of lying, manipulating the system, and fraud.

Bernie Sanders was a non-starter in 2016 because he had no significant Blsck voter outreach in the Dem primary. This was his own campaign’s fault and his choice as a candidate. Instead of accepting defeat with grace he chose to sabotage and poison the well. He chose to lie and cry “rigged” to cover his own political malpractice. He chose to complain that Red State Dems got a voice in the primary when they “didn’t matter” in the general. He chose to center only the *white* working class and disrespect the Dem base.

This bears repeating since all these “no labels” type grifters are trying to dupe uninformed voters.

In a FPTP voting system, voting third party only benefits those who are most diametrically opposed to your goals and values. White supremacists understand this. Any “third party” that is trying to sell you a reason to not vote for Democrats is trying to help the GOP. Some are useful idiots or stubborn old assholes that only listen to their own noise. Most are grifters that know exactly what they’re doing.

Fuck your “it was an impossible stage” takes. Hillary Clinton stood on a similar stage and held him to the fire while your entire industry played burn the witch and sucked the table scraps off GOP filled midwestern diner floors. It was not an impossible stage. It was set up to favor a twice impeached traitor and sexual predator that everyone in journalism has had years to prepare for but somehow is never ready for.

It was not an impossible stage. It was a deliberate stage.

And you all helped set it.

I want to point out one VERY IMPORTANT thing today. Every single complicit CNN mouthpiece and other journalist insisting today that there’s NOTHING THEY CAN DO as journalists when Trump just lies and lies are claiming their industry — based on communication — is helpless. These people who make their livings entirely around presenting information, spinning narratives, “debating” each other, and communicating with the public want you to believe Trump and the shameless GOP are forces of nature they just cannot professionally handle.

Undocumented immigrants give a lot more to our economy than they ever have a chance of getting back. Republicans know this. Their think tanks used to talk and publish about it pretty openly. But they willfully painted themselves into the corner of needing full scale white supremacy to maintain power so here we are.

FL’s economy isn’t going to be the only one tanking, but since our gov is gleefully burning down tourism, agriculture, and real estate…it’s gonna suck.