Polis has repeated right-wing talking points about the need to protect workers’ choices, frustrating advocates and scrambling public perception.
That’s the gist of it, they suggest that in the interest of courting big business for campaign money, he is comfortable with ignoring workers.
He needs to go.
Democrats are a fucking joke.
And I’m someone who tries to like them because I feel I have no choice. Fuck, I’m not even speaking from some kind of progressive agenda either.
How do you take your name back when you are the party that gave us half the idiotic fools fucking up this country rn?
I’m not “bothsidesing” I’m begging the dems to cut the dead fucking wood like this goddamned asshole.
Complacent, in denial, crooked, just incompetent… I don’t care they really need to weed them out. Anyone who isn’t working 100% on how to protect American lives from Republican mass-suicide needs to GTFO.
If you’re feeling disengaged or depressed or washed out or faded or tired, any of it… you need to resign and let some one hungry in. Stop being selfish.
Yes, because that’s the important thing right now, Joe… 
Apparently the erratic behavior hasn’t turned off everyone. Bill Maher actually thinks this guy should be our next president.
I heard a little bit of Maher being interviewed on a podcast recently. My guess is that he likes Fetterman because they share an enthusiasm for bombing Gazans into oblivion. Really repugnant stuff.
Honestly… Let him run as a Republican then. Maher can vote for him.
History rhymes again
Was catching up on Stacy Abrams videos and thought this was a good take on changing the direction of the Democratic party:
This is the guy that married Kimberly gargoyle or whatever right?
He’s from the same lot.
He’s probably figuring this is the way to become president.
And… that might be right (make right?)
he might win somehow some way but I’m not sure i would bother voting if he ran for president.
Not even worth the protest vote to me.
I’m sick of their ilk. Anyone who has a connection of blood, money, or semen to the current regime is poisoned in my mind.
bUt h3 C4n wiN m0deRAtez, s0 letZ m4ke hIm teH 2028 noMineE!!! said Dems leadership… /s
He’s the perfect candidate for RFK voters and temporarily embarrassed Tesla owners.
But who else?
Exactly. The Democratic leadership, though, seems hellbent on trying to win over never Trumpers or other “moderate” republicans and any alienated Trump voters, instead of having an actual difference with the GOP! It’s fucking maddening!
It’s also just stupid. You can’t even imagine the deep animosity that people over here have for Newsom and the democratic party element he represents. These are not the people going out and voting for Dan Patrick on purpose either. These are the “moderate republicans” that the Dems fucking think they can win over with this shit.
They do not understand anything.
Like idk how you get your own country so twisted but after engaging my privilege to Eliza Doolittle myself into good company I’ve developed a few hunches… These… arrogant… stupid… fucks.
I guess the idea is he can get the country by getting Musk to buy it for him or rig the election for him?
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/10/why-the-democrats-are-still-stuck-in-the-past/
A light bulb went off recently while I was reading Dan Davies’ “The Unaccountability Machine” (interview here). It’s about that same tension between present and future orientation, which Davies argues is present in virtually every organization, as described by the Viable Systems Model developed by Stafford Beers. The VSM model describes systems at five levels: The first three dealing with things as they are, the fourth deals with future possibilities and the fifth deals with the tensions between those orientations.
This was my Eureka moment: Democrats completely lack both fourth- and fifth-level systems, while Republicans don’t.
I’d argue differently.
The Democrats have some nebulous ideas for the future, or so they claim every election season… yet the can tends to get kicked down the road because they never seem to have “the numbers” or the political will to push those ideas into fulfillment. They acknowledge (far-)future possibilities yet have no apparent plan for how to get us there. (Seriously, there’s been more state than federal progress on minimum wage increases over the last couple of decades. I am so very, very tired of unfulfilled promises.)
They also seem to have no comprehension of what appeals to their actual base (as opposed to their goal of gaining centrist and “moderate Republican” votes.) How many people still cheer for Bernie and his cries for Medicare for All and workers’ rights… and the last campaign trail featured Liz freakin’ Cheney and “the world’s most lethal military.” All I can say to that is WTF?!?
So I’d say they’re only partially dealing with “things as they are,” and partially dealing with future possibilities.
We deserve so much better than that.
And they do it so often and so effectively that people like David Hogg start to believe it. And then breathe more life into it. Because they think that will help them win votes for Democrats.
As if the pathetic incels who buy into this shit were ever going to vote for a Democrat in the first place. Why would any of them vote for a sort-of Republican when they can have an actual Republican? What does David Hogg think these guys want, slightly more sexist fair trade policy?
This will win exactly zero votes from disaffected young white men, but it will absolutely guarantee fewer votes from young (and middle-aged, and older) women, and the men who think they’re, you know, human beings who deserve full enjoyment of their human rights.
All it will do for those disaffected young white men is reinforce a pernicious world view that has made them economic canon-fodder for the plutocrats at whom they would be directing their wrath if people like David Hogg made it their mission to educate rather than placate them. A world view that believes calling out misogyny and racism is worse than misogyny and racism.
What Hogg very likely did with this nonsense is further depress turnout from the Democratic base, and make it that much harder for the next Democrat to speak truthfully about the corrosive misogyny and racism at the core of the MAGA movement without being accused of being a “scold.”
