I’d say Democrats never learn from their mistakes
I mean, if you did say that…
Someone would just point out it only means you’re 15 months late to the party and still only getting your news from billionaires.
And man, that would be embarrassing
Hey, how many other presidential candidates have made it to a general election while never earning a single primary delegate in their entire career?!
She’s a once in a generation candidate!
/s
The fight definitely isn’t over…
But the hardest part is. That was getting the DNC back from neoliberals, who had held control of it for 30+ years.
That happened 15 months ago.
And none of the next steps, would be possible if that hadn’t happened.
What is that headline?
Did you post the wrong picture or do you think that’s what the tweet says?
She won’t get it handed to her this time and any attempt at a primary will go worse then the last time she tried a primary
Members of the Democratic National Committee voted down a symbolic resolution aimed at curbing the “growing influence” of “dark money” corporate groups in Democratic primaries that specifically called out the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
And instead voted to pass one that affects all PACs…
Which obviously includes AIPAC…
DNC Chair Ken Martin posted on X, stating, “We had various resolutions that focused on different industries and groups, and instead of going one-by-one, we passed a blanket repudiation.”
Like, I get why billionaire owned media is mad, they’re the ones funding all those other PACs…
But I have zero idea why any informed voter isn’t hyped something even better is happening instead.
if direct “contributions” from AIPAC were still considered ok since it’s just a “regular” donation.
PACs are “dark money”.
Some kinds are worse than others, but AIPAC is “American Israel PAC”.
It was literally created because it’s predecessor was finally forced to register as a foreign agent. Bso the first people it donated to, was everyone on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.
But the reason this ain’t just flipping a light switch, is the DNC can say “no PACs” but they can’t legally prevent a PAC from spending money… By definition a PAC can not coordinate with a campaign.
That’s what happened with Kat and Bliss. Neither are pro-Israel, both had spoken out.
But AIPAC was more afraid of Kat than Bliss, so they bought ads for Bliss even tho he was publicly condemning Israel. literally no one can prevent anyone from running a campaign ad.
So the DNC could take the easy win for the press and just say they banned it, but theyre trying to find a way to actually fix it, not just get the credit for saying they will.
Last I heard they were talking about requiring a candidate who got a PAC ad, to pay that much to the state party from their own campaign funds.
But the obvious problem with that, is AIPAc or someone can dump expensive and purposefully ineffective ads to bankrupt a campaign.
Like, we need to change the actual laws, and to do that we need to gain seats, not just Ds but progressives willing to fix shit.
We’re making progress, it’s just the absolute worst time for people to be giving up on the party. No matter what happens, we need people voting in Dem primaries.
Do they consider AIPAC “dark money” though
Yes…
That’s what the quoted words mean…
There’s nothing yet, but will like eventually show up here:
This vote was just the committee. Martin could be making all these calls himself, but that would be undemocratic.
He’s going thru committees, they vote on if it goes to all ~400.voting members of the party. Once that vote happens and it passes (or very unlikely fails) then they would announce it.
Billionaires own the media.
Ask yourself why as soon as the party elected Martin, every billionaire owned talking head suddenly did a 180…
That’s not a bad sign that billionaires wont stop shit talking the party, it means they lost control of it and they’re willing to sabatoge it even if it helps trump.
Because if they don’t control the DNC, a real FDR type could get into the oval.
That’s what they’re scared of, and everyone from Faux to CNN leaped to act like this was the DNC loving Israel.
C’mon…
You really didn’t see any of this on your own?
I’m seriously asking, because it’s hard for me to predict how an average person sees shit like this
I mean…
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-leo-no-tolerance-abuse-any-kind-catholic-church
He has tho?
Like, he didn’t say Kristi Noem was a piece of shit for shooting a puppy in that social media post either, doesn’t mean he thinks it’s fine.
Also weird to claim it’s “disingenuous”…
Why do you think the fucking pipe wouldn’t be against war and widespread intentional human rights abuses?
You think he should want it to be happening or something?
None of your headline makes logical sense to me, can you explain what you meant?
I don’t think the suggestion is that she’s a victim
That’s how she’ll spin it, because there is undeniable connections.
Not just that she was herself trafficked to start with, but that she went on to recruit and traffic others herself
Her only exit path is try to play the victim.
It’s not a “power struggle” where people are trying to gain control of the ship, the ship is burning and the rats are trying to find any way off.
Most of the people involved will just be trying to get away very soon. Like not just resigning and distancing themselves from trump, I think within 9 months a lot of them will legit dip the fuck out of the country and get somewhere they can’t be extradited from.
Especially Melenia and she’ll take Barron with her.
If anything that link just backs that up more
What the DNC is actually doing, straight from the DNC chair:
Let’s be clear on what really happened: Today, the Resolutions Committee voted to pass a resolution condemning the corrosive influence of ALL dark money in Democratic primaries. We had various resolutions that focused on different industries and groups, and instead of going one-by-one, we passed a blanket repudiation.
I have made my position on this clear from day one: We must end the influence of dark money in our politics and restore power back to the people.
https://x.com/kenmartin73/status/2042289231008080292
Quick edit:
Obviously they need to get the fuck off Twitter tho…
OP posted an authorization mouthpiece from one of the countries with the least press freedoms on the entire planet…
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/trt-world/
I didn’t give them a click, but I’m sure the whole article is bullshit
tells conservative social media commentator Andrew Callaghan
What fucking idiot thinks Channel 5 is right wing?!
Answer:
The mouthpiece for a fascist authorarian apparently…
In 2024, Reporters Without Borders ranked Turkey 158th in the world for press freedom among 180 countries. According to Reporters Without Borders, “The witch hunt waged by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government against its media critics has come to a head since an abortive coup in July 2016. A state of emergency has allowed the authorities to eliminate dozens of media outlets with the stroke of a pen, reducing pluralism to a handful of low-circulated and targeted publications.”
In review, when reporting non-Turkey-related news, TRT World reports with minimally loaded language and utilizes credible sources such as Vox, Moscow Times, NY Times, Washington Post, Tass and republishes credible news agencies such as Reuters.
TRT World reflects a pro-government tone in its national coverage, as seen through its analysis of the upcoming elections. Most national coverage heavily sided with the ruling party and less coverage of the main opposition party candidate. Further, the UK’s Spectator states TRT World is “President Erdogan’s mouthpiece to woo the west.” In short, this is a pro-government propaganda source.
Although TRT World presents relatively low biased coverage of USA news, such as “Trump cancels summit with Kim; North Korea still wants talks,” they source through large blocks of quotes without providing any links to the sources.
They dont have numbers…
So the current DNC immediately made reinvesting in state parties a priority, we’re a year deep into the largest reinvesture from the DNC to state parties ever and we got the funds to keep it going thru the next presidential election…
Because prior DNC chairs had been doing their best Smaug impressions since 2015.
That is what “the opposition party” is doing, and it’s working.
The next Congress seats in like 9 months.
Shit can’t happen any faster than it’s happening without armed revolution, if you think that needs to happen, then go advocate for that. Dont spread misinformation that nothing has been happening just because a talking head on a billionaire owned cable news network hasn’t said it yet.
TLDR:
You didn’t know your seat, just a general area.
It seems they didn’t sell all those tickets, so they gave the worst seats to people who had already paid, and created two new categories with all the best seats, charging even more for them.
If these don’t sell out, it’s almost guaranteed they do it again.
Every time they’ll give the worst seats out, then the best seats get a new label and more expensive price tag.
I had no idea idiots were dropping this much on tickets with zero idea what seat they were actually paying for.
Nah, she’s put up with the worst shit imaginable for decades, because she’s also a piece of shit.
She’s not a victim, she’s not throwing a tantrum. She’s an evil piece of shit who only cares about her self and maybe her son.
She’s trump’s version of Ghislene Maxwell, and she’s trying the same playbook.
If/when it gets bad enough, I fully expect her to testify against trump to save herself.
Most of the article is just quotes from Jones about Melania…
But he did manage to realize the obvious:
The only reason she would do this, is she thinks trump is fucked and she’s trying to save herself and Barron
Glory Road is begging for an adaption, even tho a bunch of other stories have ripped off the premise. Like, it’ll be a “new” story to you, but you’re going to constantly see shit that other writers ripped off in the 60 years since it was published.
It’s Heinlein pulp SciFi too, so you can legit read it all in a day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Road
If you like that and want more, he wrote a shit ton of novels about “Lazarus Long”. Like, true old school 1960s sci Fi where the books weren’t telling a single coherent story, he just had to keep pumping out pages so he kept coming up with new stories.
There’s also “Stranger in a Strange land” which was known as “The hippie bible” during the height of the counter-culture movement, despite being about a man raised by Martians who returns to Earth.
Just anything by Heinlein really
Man, it’s been all day.
I don’t know why, but it’s like critical thinking just got the day off around here.