"The future ain’t what it used to be."
-Yogi Berra
I mean look around you. For years' we've been shoulder to shoulder with apologists who claim to be on the supposed "left" but keep making excuses to defending the indefensible.
You can't have bipartisan ship with fascism: thats just more fascism.
You can't expect people to support the lessor two evils: its just more evil.
Policies that only ever do half of the job of fixing the problem never results in the problems being solved.
What we're experiencing is the true cost of the half-a-loaf politics of the liberal, NPR, Pod-Save-America, Democrat. Obama-era nothing burger chickens come home to roost.
Here are the top recipients of the campaign's billion dollars of spending.
> After raising more than $1 billion, the Kamala Harris campaign is expected to end up with millions of dollars of debt once it’s done paying vendor invoices. The debt will likely get passed along to the Democratic National Committee and could burden the party as it works to rebuild after its catastrophic election season. > > President-elect Donald Trump is already scoring political points over the Democrats’ debt issues. Over the weekend, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do. We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was ‘Earned Media,’ and that doesn’t cost very much.” > > You’ve probably heard already about some of the Harris campaign’s most outlandish splurges, like the $1 million it paid to the media company of surrogate Oprah Winfrey, or running ads on the Las Vegas Sphere, or spending six figures to build a set for the “Call Her Daddy” podcast while declining to appear for free on the Joe Rogan podcast.
stop sending ALL aid to israel now.
Get ahead of the curve and give yourself worms now.
Hasan Interviews Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
(I set the link to when the interview began to cut out the set-up/ intro)
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I've said this before, but I think it needs to be repeated:
The populist, anti-elitist lane on the left is wide open. I don't know that a mainstream "Democratic" party can take that lane, and I don't know if we should bother trying to drag them there. However, what I can say is that there is going to be some significant hay to make in that field.
I think Pramila Jayapal, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Delia Ramirez, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Cori Bush, Katie Porter, anyone who has been rat-fucked by Democrats should all abandon their identification with the Democratic party and become independents. And in the time that he has left, at their lead, should be Bernie Sanders, who never needed to be told about the consequences of running with milquetoast policies.
Even if they caucus with Democrats, true progressives need to show them that their votes aren't a given, and if they want them, they need to take a step towards their legislative priorities. Giving up our votes without leverage, giving in to the Washington groupthink: THIS LOSES ELECTIONS!
We shouldn't focus on redeeming the Democratic party. Let them sink. Focus on getting good quality, reliable progressive populists elected. The Democratic party is a fucking anchor and we're better off without it. Let those unwilling to let go of that Washington groupthink sink with it.
Only a small portion of GenZ was incentivized to show up this election. Interpreting the fact that only right wing GenZ showed up shouldn't be treated as a condemnation of a generation. White women didn't show up for Harris either. Would we make the same condemnation?
It all comes down to the fact that Democrats offered little and less in the four years where they could have accomplished something, and when called out for that, those critical were told to shut the fuck up.
What the Democrats offered was right wing politics: their base won't vote for it. Which isn't to say that groups like GenZ or women won't show up if you actually offer them something they want to vote for.
This loss can be dropped squarely on the shoulders of the deeply toxic "Blue No Matter Who/ Blue MAGA/ You can't be critical of Democrats because you only have two choices" philosophy. It was seriously at work here on Lemmy, and moderation and prominent posters here (and across the internet) did real damage filtering down forums like c/Politics, r/Poltiics, etc to select for a narrow and now very proven wrong approach to electoralism.
could you fucking imagine if Merrick fucking Garland had gone after Trump like this in 2021?
People really gotta stop taking MIT articles as meaningful.
it was a political lie.
Not too dissimilar how the administration handled holding Trump accountable for his crimes. Too little, too late, and clearly just for show in an election year.
If you don't see the direct connection between how Biden has governed and how that set up Trump to win, I don't know that you can be helped.
Its beyond the scope of my comprehension, how you can call Trump a fascist one week, and then congratulate him winning the next.
Legacy?
This is his and the parties legacy. They made this. it's a direct result of how first the governed, and then campaigned.
Bipartisanship with a Nazi party means you just have two Nazi parties.
Duh. We said that on day 0 of it happening.
Granted, when saying that we were all down-voted to oblivion by Blue MAGA apologists who "knew better" and were telling us that voters just needed accept what the Democrats were serving, but then, here we are. Living the outcome of a strategy that directly contributed to the downfall of the idea of western Liberal Democracy.
The brain worm that ate NPR liberals brains on the issue of "strategic voting", as if they had a strategic thought in their head, needs to routed out and crushed in the dirt.
Welp. Title claimed.
They..
They were called Bernie bro's.
You..
You pushed them out of the party, Democrats..
So by that logic is Primer not a time travel movie?
She should have gotten the fuck out before super Tuesday.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen tells Zeteo he's concerned the deadline was a "political attempt" ahead of the election to show Biden cared about the situation.
Democratic Senator Slams Biden’s ‘Shameful’ Inaction on Gaza
“President Biden's inaction, given the suffering in Gaza, is shameful. I mean, there's no other word for it.”
Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland sits down with Mehdi on this week’s ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ to discuss a second Donald Trump presidency, whether Kamala Harris and the Democrats alienated working class voters, and the US’s failure to hold Israel accountable on Gaza humanitarian aid. Van Hollen doesn’t hold back in this wide-ranging, exclusive interview.
Israeli Soccer Attacks: Amsterdam Photographer on What Really Happened
Photographer Annet de Graaf captured the Israeli Maccabi soccer fan violence in Amsterdam. In her first interview with US media, she tells Mehdi that outlets like Sky News, the New York Times, BBC, and CNN misused her footage and twisted the narrative to frame the Maccabi fans as victims of antisemitic attacks and overlook the anti-Arab racism that fueled the clash.
'Creating a False Reality' in America - Mehdi and Owen on Media Lies and Harris’ 'Weak Messaging'
Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan, the ‘Two Outspoken’, sit down together to discuss the role of the US economy and the impact of misinformation and media bias in the crushing defeat to the Democratic party and whether Bernie had a point in accusing the Democrats of abandoning the working class.
‘Two Outspoken’ is a US-UK political conversation between two friends on the left, Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan.
'Coalition Of MALICE' - What To Expect From Trump's 2nd Term
Steve Schmidt, ex-GOP strategist, 'Never Trumper' and host of "The Warning" podcast, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the 2024 presidential election, how the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris failed, and how Donald Trump managed to build “a multiracial, multiethnic coalition.”
Steve and Mehdi discuss the role of Gaza in the election, the significance of the punishment vote, and how Gaza would fare under a Trump presidency. “Donald Trump wouldn’t blink an eye or lose 30 seconds of sleep if a mushroom cloud went up over Gaza,” Steve tells Mehdi. “Whatever Netanyahu wishes to do, he has carte blanche.”
They also discuss the future of the Democratic Party and America, and how the next four years of a Trump presidency would look.
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"Inevitable disaster" - How Not Breaking with Biden on Gaza Broke Harris' Campaign
"The Democrats had a tremendous opportunity to make their candidate about change, but they made them about continuity instead."
Following Donald Trump's shocking re-election, Mehdi is joined by Palestinian-American political analyst Yousef Munayyer to unpack what happened — and what it means for the future.
They discuss Gaza's impact on the election, where the Kamala Harris campaign went wrong, and what a second Trump presidency could mean for US-Israel policy.
Dearborn Goes For Trump: Did Liz Cheney Hurt the Democrats?
Michael Moore, Ro Khanna, and Cynthia Nixon react to the latest election results, as Harris trails Trump.
Mark Robinson losing in North Carolina
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This is a strong signal that Harris may over-perform polling.
Trump "will give Netanyahu a blank check"; Rep. Jayapal argues Kamala Harris CAN be swayed on Gaza
In this town hall discussion, Mehdi Hasan speaks with progressive, pro-ceasefire Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal as she answers questions from Zeteo’s subscribers about the U.S. presidential election.
The Washington state representative tells Mehdi that this election is not about trusting Kamala Harris to change her stance on Gaza, but “about forcing her to change her position.”
Rep. Jayapal argues that “there's not a single person in the Republican Party who even disagrees with what Netanyahu is doing,” and that Donald Trump, if he wins the presidency, will give Israel’s prime minister a “blank check.”
Rep. Jayapal, the Progressive Caucus chair who has voted against sending military aid to Israel and has advocated for a ceasefire in Gaza since last October, discusses why she and other pro-Palestinian progressives are endorsing Harris, the coalitions building in the background (and the threat to them under a Trump presidency), AIPAC and the pro-Israel lobby, and more. If you’ve got 30 minutes, have a watch.
Nick Offerman on Fears of a ‘Civil War' and 'Election Anxiety'
It’s less than a week until the 2024 US presidential election and who better to discuss the government with than ‘Parks and Rec’ star and comedian Nick Offerman. The last time Mehdi spoke with Nick about current events was back in May 2021, right before Nick was to testify before Congress about the Covid-19 vaccine. More recently, Nick released a couple of comedic songs to encourage Americans to vote for Kamala Harris and defeat Donald Trump (hopefully) forever.
Mehdi and Nick rant about the Donald Trump x Elon Musk teamup and the influence of corporate money on our media and politics. "The corporate interests that generally own the mainstream media so that no matter what messaging you get, it's never the fully straight dope,” Nick tells Mehdi. “You can count the politicians in Congress who aren't taking corporate money on two fingers.”
Mehdi asks Nick about his recent role playing the president of the United States in Alex Garland’s hit film ‘Civil War’ and what Americans can learn from the cautionary tale about the waning days of a civil war fought on US soil. When discussing Trump, Nick humorously describes in graphic detail what he imagines the former president does on his golden toilet. They finish the conversation discussing the strengths and flaws of the Harris campaign, including her stance on Gaza and US arms sales to Israel.
‘We’re Not Kidding’ releases new episodes twice a month, with Mehdi, Bassem and a cast of rotating guest co-hosts from the worlds of comedy, entertainment, and the media. Funny people talking about serious topics.
Isn’t Trump “Exploiting You for Votes?” Mehdi Challenges Imam Who Endorsed Trump
🌶 Spicy one 🌶
In this episode of ‘Mehdi Unfiltered,’ Mehdi Hasan interviews Imam Belal Alzuhairi of the Great Mosque in Hamtramck, Michigan, just days after Alzuhairi announced his endorsement of Donald Trump for president at a rally in Michigan.
During the interview, Mehdi challenges Imam Alzuhairi on whether Trump can be trusted or considered “the peace candidate.” Alzuhairi contends that Trump promised to end the war in Gaza.
Imam Alzuhairi defends his controversial decision to support Trump in this lively exchange, stating that the Democratic Party is taking the Muslim vote for granted and “does not have any regard for us as Muslims.”
Michael Moore Urges Kamala Harris to Break with the President on Gaza
“We're not going to ask the Muslim community to vote for the people that are funding and doing the slaughter. So that means Vice President Harris is going to lose about 40,000 Arab and Muslim votes.”
As election night approaches, Academy Award-winning filmmaker and Michigan native, Michael Moore, talks to Mehdi. They discuss why Kamala Harris is losing voters in that key swing state, what she needs to do to win the election, and what Arab-American voters in Michigan want.