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It's meant to show his disdain for rules and standards. He's a privileged trust fund baby who thinks rules don't apply to him.

Few things give me more political schadenfreude than watching John Fetterman utterly humiliate everyone who supported him. John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure Some excerpts... Here's my favorite tidbit...

This is an example of toxic privilege. I can't take anyone seriously still out here with "both sides are the same" after everything we've seen. One side wants to kill us all and the other doesn't.

More parties wouldn't change the fundamental problem: we have a lazy, stupid, deluded electorate where rural voters have outsized power. All of these fantasies of "the party has to change" and creating new parties requires people, especially young people, to get off their asses and do some work. That's not going to happen. Trump's been in office a year and we haven't seen any sustained opposition or rebellion from the public. It's been a couple of feel good rallies where people bring their kids and pets. (We won't see anymore rallies for a while now that the weather is getting colder.) Real resistance requires making your enemy uncomfortable. I'll believe people are serious when we start seeing people burn some MAGA flags. Instead they are screaming at Schumer, Jeffries and Harris because they are too weak and scared to take the fight to the real enemy and because of what I've started calling Overseer Syndrome. Too many believe the Democratic Party is a reality show where they all get a vote on who gets to stay or go. ("Primary everybody! So and so needs to go!") Look at where we are right now: government is reopened, Federal workers are getting paid and back pay, people are getting their SNAP benefits, and the Epstein emails have been released. Maybe it's time to admit that the Dems knew what they were doing and had a strategy.

I honestly don't know what people think the result of releasing the Epstein files will be. Republicans don't care about sexual predation. It's part of GOP/Christian nationalist culture. Nobody is going to go to jail. As for Trump, everybody knows he's a sexual predator, pedophile, and rapist. That didn't stop millions of people from voting for him multiple times. I just wonder what people think the endgame is.

Black voters aren't going to let that happen and frankly progressives are incapable of governing. Look at the Squad. What have they managed to accomplish in all these years? Nothing. Governing requires coalition building and the left has shown they are incapable of that. I'm still waiting for people to realize that Democrats can't save this country from white voters no matter how much you scream at them. Folks need to turn that energy on their friends and family but they are to afraid to so they pass the time screaming at Black people and Jews online. This is why Black people are sitting this out. So you will dismiss good news and concrete results in favor of freaking out and vibes?

What about what got us to last Tuesday? Or am I the only one who remembers Dems kicking GOP ass last week?

I don't think they caved. Did people think that the government could stay shut down forever? How many people have to sit in food lines for hours? Or were people hoping that we get a few plane crashes between now and Christmas? What exactly would be the better outcome? This shutdown is now firmly in the lap of the GOP. Or at least it would be if people could stop beating up on Dems. Every day we stay shut down is because Mike Johnson won't bring the House back into session.

One thing people seem to be overlooking is that no matter what the Senate passed, it will need to go back to the House and Mike Johnson has no intention of doing that so nothing changes yet.

Mandami is a [!@#$%^&*] you from white progressives to the Black and Jewish base of the Democratic Party. Just like Platner is and Fetterman was before him. I feel sad for the Black and Jewish New Yorkers. I will say this election made it crystal clear that my decision to leave the party was the right one.

MAGA women don’t stay single for long. I saw that during COVID with the Herman Cain Awards. COVID widows would post on Facebook how they lost the love of their life then a few months later they’re engaged to one of hubby’s friends.

Don't let him steal your joy. Trump says so much stuff and it never happens. Remember when he said he was going to re-do the census? Or his EO opposing mail-in ballots? I desperately wish people would stop treating Hamhock like he's Thanos. He's a dying moron.

Caught up. My thoughts: this felt like table setting going into sweeps. It was a lot of people talking about their feelings and a lot of declarations of who loves who and who wants what from whom.

One of the things I appreciate about this show is how sex-positive it is. I don’t understand half of what these folks are doing to and/or with each other but this is the world we live in now. 😀

I think this Hegseth debacle is going backfire terribly. There's no normal person who would look at that revolting display and have it increase their support for this administration. It was a gross, perverse, shameful spectacle that nobody would try to defend. The only people impressed by this are the hardcore magats.