You first. We’re not on board with any of this

I don’t think you understand.

Socialism isn’t on the table. We’re so incredibly far from that. Let me know when the revolution is coming and I’ll be there for it… Until then we very real issues that we can make a bit better. Not good - we’re totally fucked - but we can make things less horrible

There’s a genocide in progress. We’re going to go through a depression. We can tea party the Democrats to be more progressive… There’s no time to build up something new

I can’t impress on you enough how many people are going to die

You spelled “take” wrong

It matters because the party isn’t the people, it’s infrastructure. It’s buildings, it’s support staff, it’s mailing lists and payment processors

It’s getting a special (often unfair) place on the ballot in all 50 states. It’s 50 (often flawed) primary processes that follow local laws

And it’s a banner. Not one people like, but it’s one banner. A banner that theoretically stands for democracy and the common man

The left is not organized. Do we rally behind a fresh, ideologically pure banner? Which one? How long to work out which group is the best? How long until we can build up that infrastructure?

Fuck that. Winning is what matters.

The people are on our side for now, there’s so much anger and energy. How long until they adjust to the new normal and go back to refusing to believe in a better world?

We have a chance right now. The next 18 months. In one sweep we can take a tattered banner and get in control - before people get cold feet. While they’re still just screaming for someone to stop Trump.

We can use the momentum to unfuck our democracy once we take control, but we can’t get distracted. There’s no room for purity or lofty ideals. We have to take what is offered and exploit every opportunity. We have to use the system against itself.

We have to win. Now. Or we all die

Why? The party is dead. They’re just holding onto their seats

Take the seats, you take it all. Keep the infrastructure of the party, keep the name recognition and the data they have, and replace the members

It’s happening already - Hoggs funneled money into Mumdani’s primary even as they try to ratfuck him out…

Don’t sully my boy with that bullshit.

Vote for the best progressive candidate we’ve ever had. This is not a compromise, this is hope. And to those that will ratfuck him - never forget, never forgive.

Yeah… IDK, this guy’s eyes aren’t great. Plus, waiting for pelosi to retire? Sounds like some “wait your turn” ratfuckery

Because lobbyists get angry and markets get nervous when you mandate a change overnight, but no one seems to care if people get nervous angry

Well, making someone disappear could be all kinds of things depending on the context

Disappearing someone is something done by spooks and special police. It has specific implications

No, disappearing someone is a way worse subcategory of kidnapping

When you disappear someone, no one knows if they’re alive or dead, where they are, or what’s going to happen to them. They could be dead immediately, or dropped off at home in 3 years. Or they could be dropped off in Somalia with no ID and no money

The Democrats are going to try to ratfuck him, sure. They’re never going to get the message

But this is how we clean them out. This is why AOC and Bernie are doing rallies - so that every seat that comes up is filled with a progressive. And this is a big seat

As for it being too late… Yeah, we’re fucked. But we can still make things better. There’s no reason to yield ground, maga is incredibly incompetent - they can be beat.

And there will be an after

Who said it was strategic? He went to camp David and totally flipped his position

Someone sat him down, and drilled this plan into him. Then he lost his shit when it didn’t go like they promised

What he wants hasn’t changed, but it seems like they convinced him a quick bombing campaign and a “mission accomplished” banner could stop this war

I think it’s more than just the peace prize

Think of how long making peace in the middle east has been this near impossible goal. It’s even a trope in media to display super intelligence

He wanted his wall, not because he gave a shit, but he wanted a landmark. He wants the model Nobel peace prize, but he really wants to be remembered as this mythical deal maker, the peace president

And honestly? Aside from Gaza, for a little while it seemed like he was about to do it, through the power of open bribery and having a melty soup brain

I think you’re looking at this the correct way - these people are totally impulsive and incompetent, but they’re not acting randomly

I think Trump genuinely wants to be peacemaker, he was advancing talks and holding back the MIC (who have wanted was with Iran for decades)

So he goes to camp David, and in a matter of hours “Iran can’t have a nuke, they’re close, they can’t have it”

I don’t know what they told him, but I think Trump’s plan was to do a big bombing run, declare success, and force Israel to back off before working towards a peace deal

And yes, Trump just tweeted out a cease fire and expected it to work, but the US does have that much power over Israel’s ability to wage war… He told Netanyahu to cut it the fuck out, and we’ll see

The MIC wants this to go forward, they love supplying arms to Israel, but theoretically Trump could cut off arms shipments to them

But to be clear, this is not about the nuclear program itself one way or the other… It doesn’t matter if the sites were destroyed or moved beforehand. Peace talks were ongoing, Iran wants back into the fold

What matters is if a peace deal can be reached, and I think Trump genuinely wants it. The money behind both Israel and the US definitely want war

We’ll see who’s in control

Does this picture count as a meme too? Because Vance also looks weird and creepy in it

Did you see the parade? That was after people spotted ads for crowd fillers in the wild

This administration struggles to organize anything

OMG really? That must have been so hard for you

I’m also very sick of the clickbait titles. But in the case, he did actually lose it… I was doubled over laughing, the whole sequence is amazing

You don’t understand. They never stopped, they aren’t distracting from Gaza… They needed another war to keep Netanyahu in power

No need. Zohran killed it, he probably wins by double digits in round 2

I guess nothing is certain until it happens, but I really don’t think you understand what they’re doing over there

They basically opened up the Treasury and said “tell us what you need to produce weapons and we’ll figure out the money later”. They’re rearming Germany and a few countries are talking boots on the ground in Ukraine

They’re turning the war machine on for Ukraine as a bulwark. They’re really not holding back