What people care about is not always what they vote for
We don’t know because the DNC won’t stay out of primaries or let a progressive into the general.
Stop acting like why trump won is a mystery, we can’t afford to miss the obvious solution
Saul Goodman vibes.
Exactly
But more likely to vote for progressive economic policies? I don’t think so.
So, that’s your opinion…
That says 5 out of the top 6 policy positions are progressive economic policy…
All over 60% support.
So like, you’re entitled to your opinion, but statistical analysis is still a science and I’m going with science this time.
With the money and resources the government is throwing at this, the five best Lawyers in Altoona wouldn’t be good enough.
Altoona’s metro area is 1/20th of Philly, and an even tinier percentage of Pittsburgh.
This guy is literally just a small town local lawyer.
The lawyers at his firm are: himself
He isn’t a defense attorney, he does worker comp and divorces too.
I’m not saying he’s terrible, it’s like grabbing the most middle of the road highschool basketball player and throwing him in a NBA Dunk contest and asking why people are saying he won’t perform well.
They’re not saying he’s a bad HS player, they’re saying he is completely out of his league.
Well, first off the murder charges are NY and this guy’s has only practiced in PA, so it’s a safe assumption he hasn’t passed the NY bar…
There’s other reasons, but the fact that this guy literally can only fight the extradition and gun charges.
I feel like it’s a safe bet that Luigi will need another lawyer
and clearly has some media training
I admit I haven’t watched the entire press conference…
But I think our standards have been drastically lowered by the last election if the dude in that video qualifies as “clearly having some media training”.
I found this
But it’s like I said, he’s a small time lawyer.
The most noteworthy case in that article was a robbery turned double murder where the defendant is clearly guilty. I didn’t see anything about appealing the PA SC, but whether or not that’s impressive is highly dependent on the exact case. And it’s not as rare as you seem to think it is.
I’m not saying he’s a bad lawyer.
Just that he’s not the caliber lawyer Luigi needs when the full force of the government is going to come down on him.
He 100% needs a better lawyer…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Jav3T2K00
The one he has now is probably just the only lawyer in Altoona.
It’s insane how fast they normalized geriatric candidates who both clearly had issues.
The only two presidents over 70 on inauguration day is trump at 70 and Biden at 78, now it’s gonna be trump at 78 again.
Bill was 46, Obama was 47, even GW was 54.
This is a very recent development and everyone’s already acting like anything under 85 is fine
It’s fucking insane to me. Just a complete rejection of reality
You could almost say that after 20 years the standard of progressive changed?
Dont tell Pelosi or Biden, they still thinking the standard isn’t open racism, because that’s what it was in the 60s.
But yes, AOC is more progressive in 2024 than Obama in 2004.
But so is fucking society.
If you want the Dem party in 2024 to be the same it was in 2004, that’s like if in 2004 you wanted 1984.
If that’s what you want, go be a conservative and drag them to the middle.
Stop fighting progress because you don’t want it that far. The bigger danger is going too far right. So for fucks sake be honest about your political identity and go moderate the Republican party instead of ruining the only other option.
Get organized and primary the fuck out of the people blocking things.
You’re ignoring primaries are rigged, the party can just ignore the results, and pro-corpo candidates take in an insane amount of bribes.
Also ostracized…
I literally just blocked another troll before seeing this post, that’s literally ostracizing.
It was a 4 day old account too, so in all likelihood they were ostracized before, it was a negative consequence, and if it continues to happen. Maybe someday they won’t immediately be a troll on a new account.
But if normal people do that, the trolls only get replies from each other and that’s not fun for them.
Healthcare is a social issue…
But it’s incredibly depressing that people believe it’s economic policy now.
In fact, all 24 Members of the Chinese Politiburo are men, zero women. Doesn’t sound very communist to me.
You’re confusing economic systems with social policy…
Which is ironic considering that’s what you’re upset about others doing in the rest of your comment.
I appreciate the sentiment, but none of that seems based on reality.
The reason is both those groups mad about LGBTQ are Abrahmic religious extremists.
And for the Abrhamic religions, it’s a numbers game. They want their population to reproduce faster than others because the more followers the more power/wealth the leaders have.
we have always been a threat to power by way of not engaging with the specific torture that keeps the world going, and we still respond to terror enacted against us by calling on people to sing, dance, and be merry, they might do something dangerous: they might start singing, dancing, and being merry
Not whatever that was supposed to mean.
This isnt the town from Dirty Dancing and the danger isn’t being told you can’t “be merry”.
And that is not going to be an effective way to fight back.
37% “don’t know”
And if that doesn’t sum up American politics…
In the end, Harris brought in a bunch of Clinton leeches to destroy her own campaign.
What?
“Clinton leeches” have been running the DNC for decades…
It’s not that they latched onto Kamala. It’s that they had already fixed the primary and attaching themselves to Kamala was a condition of them give Kamala the nomination.
Hillary’s people are Biden’s people, would have been Kamala’s people.
For 8 years a group of unelected now liberals have been deciding our candidate and running our campaigns.
And those people are fucking idiots
That’s what they would have said about Obama in 2004 if anyone knew his name back then…
AOC could, should, and hopefully will run
Nope, McTurtle got rich along the way. But his lifelong goal has been packing the courts.
He is literally salivating like he just walked into a salad bar at the 42 vacancies Biden is about to hand over.
Pelosi doesn’t give a shit about the Dem platform or helping people. She wants America to stay in the early 90s, that used to be enough to be considered somewhat progressive.
But the early 90s were 30 years ago. Imagine calling someone in the early 90s progressive because they wanted America to go back to pre civil rights movement.
That’s the same time frame.
The right move was forming a serious left third party decades ago. We’d have a right, center, and left party and nothing would get done without some compromise between the wings, likely leading to a more fluid party structure.
We’d never see this shit where a handful of republican extremists sabotage everything no matter who has the majority.
Fuck everything about Pelosi and her bullshit insider trading.
She’s not there to help Americans, she’s there to maximize her and her husbands investments.
“Blue no matter who” winds up like ghouls like this running the party, because they’ll never give up personal.power, and corrupt enough to sell out for campaign donations.
We have to have more standard than the letter by a name.
We can yell at them that the handful of issues should matter enough, or we could actually try to get a popular candidate past the party itself and I to the general.
But shit isn’t going to change until we all admit the DNC isn’t automatically on our side. I’m more hopeful than I should be for the DNC election in February, but I’m ready to be disappointed.