We need anther revolution, a fact lost on the corporate Democrats, and their consultants, who rule the roost. Concentrating on “kitchen table issues”, tinkering with the periphery of core problems, failing to implement fundamental reforms, failing to aggressively pursue those who have committed obvious crimes and punish them accordingly, will only allow the cancer to metastasize, as we have seen. Our status in the world is destroyed, but we can at least repair our shattered democracy if we elevate and support the generals now standing by.
The big wigs in the Democratic party are in denial, claiming that the autopsy represents the views of the author and not the DNC. They never learn.
Yes, "we wuz robbed" but the robbery would only have worked if it were uniform, we still lost Wisconsin, Michigan, . If the Democrats of Penn yslvania had been motivated to vote, it would have been harder to rob.
Yet the Democratic party will not come to terms with the stupidity of the Hispanic, Muslim and young black male vote.
There has been a big push against identity politics. but it is precisely identity politics that has brought Trump to power. White, male identity, Hispanic male identity, Black male identity and Muslim identity.
One would think that there is a lot of buyers remorse, but I personally have my doubts.
When grievance has hunger pangs, it looks to scapegoats.
Our report’s purpose is two-fold: to illuminate why the Democrats lost and to help propel the party toward a different approach and result in the future. Without a full and honest accounting of the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party’s myriad failures, there can be little realistic hope of defeating Trumpist authoritarianism in the future.
Our report identifies five main reasons for Harris’s failure:
Voter Disenchantment: Losing a whopping 6.8 million voters who supported Biden in 2020 proved pivotal in this extremely close election. Harris’s inability to mobilize these pro-Biden voters may have been the campaign’s biggest failure.
Biden’s Betrayal: Former President Joe Biden’s disastrous decision to run for reelection, and his stubborn refusal to step aside until very late in the process, robbed voters of a Democratic primary process, created confusion and chaos, and severely hindered Democrats’ chances.
Abandoning the Working-Class Base: With millions of Americans already disenchanted and desperate due to inflation, the Harris campaign lost this essential Democratic base by focusing on courting Republicans, kowtowing to corporate donors’ interests, and failing to confront the role of corporate greed in escalating inflation.
The Gaza Effect: There is ample evidence that Harris lost many voters, especially young voters, Arab-Americans, and critical support in Michigan and elsewhere, due to the campaign’s failure to shift or even signal a potential shift in policy on Israel and Palestine.
Losing Young Voters: Extensive evidence shows a huge drop-off in both turnout and Democratic support among young voters aged 18-29.
Excellent summary! Isn't the path forward for the Democratic Party to downplay social issues and emphasize economic issues? To promise all Americans financial security with fair-paying jobs with dignity.
I don't want the felon in chief to rest in peace. I hope he gets no rest at all if there is a just God, as I believe now, but rather a period of painful recompense equivalent to the damage he has done. Which could mean eternity.
Karma is inescapable Either he gets his just due in this lifetime or the next he will have to face his own karmic debt It's right up there with Hitler's debt
The Post-Trump Stress Disorder PTSD metaphor that the media is using lately is, of course, a bit off. The main reason is that the traumatic stress is not "post" and it is not yet a "disorder." It is not clear if it will evolve into a disorder either.
Post-traumatic stress was first observed among service members in combat environments. As some of my psychology colleagues have pointed out, when in stress-filled environments for extended periods, our nervous systems tend to change our homeostatic setpoint for tolerating stress. That helps us stay cool when shot at, and behave appropriately - take cover and return fire as needed. The clear evidence for this phenomenon is how we behave once we return home to the safety of America. It takes about 3 months for our brains to realize the stress is gone and reset the homeostatic setpoint back to where it was. Even though there was no term for post-traumatic stress until late in the Vietnam war, all commanders since at least WWI likely understood that units returning from deployment needed several months in stand-down mode before returning to normal operations.
For first-time combatants, it takes about 6 weeks to adjust to the stress. But once adjusted, subsequent combat deployments trigger the homeostatic setpoint change almost overnight. The brain (nervous system) remembers. The "D" part, disorder, appears when even before leaving a combat zone, a service member starts over-reacting to stress, behaving unreliably, experiencing sleep problems, etc., and must be sent home, or once their unit has returned home, their nervous system cannot re-set to normal stress, and they over-react to loud noises, get violent in arguments, have nightmares, etc. that will not go away.
Not everybody is biologically equipped to handle chronic stress. The cruel irony in the case of Trump is that he uses stress as a tool of dominance and control. Like it or not, all Americans' lives are more stressful under the Trump Reich. We now have a Gestapo killing citizens being harassed by ICE agents, we must cope with runaway inflation, Trump seems to have no impulse control, so we cannot anticipate his next assault on an ally or invasion of a country on some trumped-up pretense like possession of nuclear bombs aimed at LA (like why would Iran want to blow up Hollywood?). We have the most incompetent administration in US history, so we now have to worry about getting Ebola or some other deadly disease for which there is no vaccine, because he has shut down medical research under an HHS director who thinks vaccines cause autism.
Our FAA is a disaster, with planes crashing into one another, long waits to board, and now ticket prices off the charts. Trump is now encouraging the pollution of drinking water so that the fossil fuel industry can thrive and delay transitioning to EVs, which are causing severe climate change that is flattening entire neighborhoods with wind storms, wildfires, and floods that Trump laughs off as a libtard hoax. Will Post-Trump Stress turn into a Disorder? Well, it seems like there are a lot more mass shootings in the news of late - could that be related?
A great take by Elie Mystal on the Democratic Party. Frustrating.
Worst Argument of the Week
On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee released its “autopsy” of the 2024 election—but don’t get too excited: The DNC has its head so far up its ass that we now need an autopsy for the autopsy. DNC Chair Ken Martin initially said he wasn’t going to release the report, then changed course as people, including Kamala Harris herself, demanded its release. Then, it released a report that was full of errors—like, it literally gets people’s names and positions wrong and cites figures that are provably incorrect.
In addition to the report, Martin put out a statement. This paragraph stings:
I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards. I don’t endorse what’s in this report, or what’s left out of it. I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on it. But transparency is paramount. So, today I am releasing the report as I received it—in its entirety, unedited and unabridged—with annotations for claims that couldn’t be verified.
It’s the most “I’m not a member of an organized political party—I’m a Democrat” moment we’ve encountered in a while.
I could end this week’s “worst argument” section here. Martin’s “I put out a shambolic report riddled with errors that I am not proud of” is a terrible look. So, for that matter, is “Ken Martin should be the head of the DNC.” Martin is so obviously bad at his job that he should be playing for the Mets.
Still, I’m not going to end this section on Martin, because there is one thing that’s even worse about the DNC report—and that is what is not in it: any mention of Gaza. Somehow, the Democratic Party did a 192-page review of what went wrong in 2024, and its response to the genocide in Gaza didn’t rate a single mention.
I don’t know how you do that. I mean, I guess I do know because I know how cowardice and complicity translate into better jobs and power within the Democratic Party. But even for an establishment from which I expect so little, the decision to ignore Gaza really shocks the conscience.
This report gives me no hope for the future. How can the party learn lessons when it won’t even acknowledge facts?
I’m not normally one of the guys who thinks that the Democratic Party needs to be burned to the ground so that we might build something better from its ashes. But in moments like these, it’s hard for me to argue that anything could be worse than the current Democrats.
Tulsi Gabbard is getting out of this lawless cabinet as director of national intelligence(DNI) Even though she seems to have a valid excuse(husband has a rare form of bone cancer) I think that with Cheeto refusing to use the information she presented to him after rationally laying out the pros and cons of what agencies were relaying to her was extremely problematic The Iran war is case in point Circumstantial information by the NYT among other sources suggest that the main factor in the decision making for the Iran war was Netanyahu Of course Cheeto denies this but his never ending lying makes this impossible to believe
How frustrating it would be that the dictator she worked for would act in contrary fashion that was not in the best interests of the country making POTUS the country’s biggest national security risk And with his incessant desire to align the country’s foreign policy by catering to other dictators such as Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu makes our country isolated from our once trusted friends and allies Since the other dictators don’t want any part of what he’s selling America is isolated and alone
With Cheeto’s DOGE purging of agencies responsible for countering foreign threats from health(Ebola response muted due to loss of USAID presence) to election interference both domestic and abroad(gutting agencies that provide risk assessment and prevention) to cybersecurity, national security becomes a major concern
America and its citizens are less safe more than it has ever been in the history of the country all due to Cheeto
We need anther revolution, a fact lost on the corporate Democrats, and their consultants, who rule the roost. Concentrating on “kitchen table issues”, tinkering with the periphery of core problems, failing to implement fundamental reforms, failing to aggressively pursue those who have committed obvious crimes and punish them accordingly, will only allow the cancer to metastasize, as we have seen. Our status in the world is destroyed, but we can at least repair our shattered democracy if we elevate and support the generals now standing by.
The big wigs in the Democratic party are in denial, claiming that the autopsy represents the views of the author and not the DNC. They never learn.
Yes, "we wuz robbed" but the robbery would only have worked if it were uniform, we still lost Wisconsin, Michigan, . If the Democrats of Penn yslvania had been motivated to vote, it would have been harder to rob.
Yet the Democratic party will not come to terms with the stupidity of the Hispanic, Muslim and young black male vote.
There has been a big push against identity politics. but it is precisely identity politics that has brought Trump to power. White, male identity, Hispanic male identity, Black male identity and Muslim identity.
One would think that there is a lot of buyers remorse, but I personally have my doubts.
When grievance has hunger pangs, it looks to scapegoats.
https://democraticautopsy.org/
Our report’s purpose is two-fold: to illuminate why the Democrats lost and to help propel the party toward a different approach and result in the future. Without a full and honest accounting of the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party’s myriad failures, there can be little realistic hope of defeating Trumpist authoritarianism in the future.
Our report identifies five main reasons for Harris’s failure:
Voter Disenchantment: Losing a whopping 6.8 million voters who supported Biden in 2020 proved pivotal in this extremely close election. Harris’s inability to mobilize these pro-Biden voters may have been the campaign’s biggest failure.
Biden’s Betrayal: Former President Joe Biden’s disastrous decision to run for reelection, and his stubborn refusal to step aside until very late in the process, robbed voters of a Democratic primary process, created confusion and chaos, and severely hindered Democrats’ chances.
Abandoning the Working-Class Base: With millions of Americans already disenchanted and desperate due to inflation, the Harris campaign lost this essential Democratic base by focusing on courting Republicans, kowtowing to corporate donors’ interests, and failing to confront the role of corporate greed in escalating inflation.
The Gaza Effect: There is ample evidence that Harris lost many voters, especially young voters, Arab-Americans, and critical support in Michigan and elsewhere, due to the campaign’s failure to shift or even signal a potential shift in policy on Israel and Palestine.
Losing Young Voters: Extensive evidence shows a huge drop-off in both turnout and Democratic support among young voters aged 18-29.
One solution is don't financially support the D candidates unless they clearly set out what their priorities are
Excellent summary! Isn't the path forward for the Democratic Party to downplay social issues and emphasize economic issues? To promise all Americans financial security with fair-paying jobs with dignity.
I don't want the felon in chief to rest in peace. I hope he gets no rest at all if there is a just God, as I believe now, but rather a period of painful recompense equivalent to the damage he has done. Which could mean eternity.
Karma is inescapable Either he gets his just due in this lifetime or the next he will have to face his own karmic debt It's right up there with Hitler's debt
The Post-Trump Stress Disorder PTSD metaphor that the media is using lately is, of course, a bit off. The main reason is that the traumatic stress is not "post" and it is not yet a "disorder." It is not clear if it will evolve into a disorder either.
Post-traumatic stress was first observed among service members in combat environments. As some of my psychology colleagues have pointed out, when in stress-filled environments for extended periods, our nervous systems tend to change our homeostatic setpoint for tolerating stress. That helps us stay cool when shot at, and behave appropriately - take cover and return fire as needed. The clear evidence for this phenomenon is how we behave once we return home to the safety of America. It takes about 3 months for our brains to realize the stress is gone and reset the homeostatic setpoint back to where it was. Even though there was no term for post-traumatic stress until late in the Vietnam war, all commanders since at least WWI likely understood that units returning from deployment needed several months in stand-down mode before returning to normal operations.
For first-time combatants, it takes about 6 weeks to adjust to the stress. But once adjusted, subsequent combat deployments trigger the homeostatic setpoint change almost overnight. The brain (nervous system) remembers. The "D" part, disorder, appears when even before leaving a combat zone, a service member starts over-reacting to stress, behaving unreliably, experiencing sleep problems, etc., and must be sent home, or once their unit has returned home, their nervous system cannot re-set to normal stress, and they over-react to loud noises, get violent in arguments, have nightmares, etc. that will not go away.
Not everybody is biologically equipped to handle chronic stress. The cruel irony in the case of Trump is that he uses stress as a tool of dominance and control. Like it or not, all Americans' lives are more stressful under the Trump Reich. We now have a Gestapo killing citizens being harassed by ICE agents, we must cope with runaway inflation, Trump seems to have no impulse control, so we cannot anticipate his next assault on an ally or invasion of a country on some trumped-up pretense like possession of nuclear bombs aimed at LA (like why would Iran want to blow up Hollywood?). We have the most incompetent administration in US history, so we now have to worry about getting Ebola or some other deadly disease for which there is no vaccine, because he has shut down medical research under an HHS director who thinks vaccines cause autism.
Our FAA is a disaster, with planes crashing into one another, long waits to board, and now ticket prices off the charts. Trump is now encouraging the pollution of drinking water so that the fossil fuel industry can thrive and delay transitioning to EVs, which are causing severe climate change that is flattening entire neighborhoods with wind storms, wildfires, and floods that Trump laughs off as a libtard hoax. Will Post-Trump Stress turn into a Disorder? Well, it seems like there are a lot more mass shootings in the news of late - could that be related?
Is Elon Musk the new Jeffrey Epstein? Trillionaire protected by immunity? Government agent?
How many days has Congress been productive other than passing bills to protect Tempertantrump?
Hearing AI content just dampens everything for me Your content is much better coming from you
Tempertantrump must foresee a cigar business for his familia.
Will Rubio be appointed president of Cuba?
A great take by Elie Mystal on the Democratic Party. Frustrating.
Worst Argument of the Week
On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee released its “autopsy” of the 2024 election—but don’t get too excited: The DNC has its head so far up its ass that we now need an autopsy for the autopsy. DNC Chair Ken Martin initially said he wasn’t going to release the report, then changed course as people, including Kamala Harris herself, demanded its release. Then, it released a report that was full of errors—like, it literally gets people’s names and positions wrong and cites figures that are provably incorrect.
In addition to the report, Martin put out a statement. This paragraph stings:
I am not proud of this product; it does not meet my standards, and it won’t meet your standards. I don’t endorse what’s in this report, or what’s left out of it. I could not in good faith put the DNC’s stamp of approval on it. But transparency is paramount. So, today I am releasing the report as I received it—in its entirety, unedited and unabridged—with annotations for claims that couldn’t be verified.
It’s the most “I’m not a member of an organized political party—I’m a Democrat” moment we’ve encountered in a while.
I could end this week’s “worst argument” section here. Martin’s “I put out a shambolic report riddled with errors that I am not proud of” is a terrible look. So, for that matter, is “Ken Martin should be the head of the DNC.” Martin is so obviously bad at his job that he should be playing for the Mets.
Still, I’m not going to end this section on Martin, because there is one thing that’s even worse about the DNC report—and that is what is not in it: any mention of Gaza. Somehow, the Democratic Party did a 192-page review of what went wrong in 2024, and its response to the genocide in Gaza didn’t rate a single mention.
I don’t know how you do that. I mean, I guess I do know because I know how cowardice and complicity translate into better jobs and power within the Democratic Party. But even for an establishment from which I expect so little, the decision to ignore Gaza really shocks the conscience.
This report gives me no hope for the future. How can the party learn lessons when it won’t even acknowledge facts?
I’m not normally one of the guys who thinks that the Democratic Party needs to be burned to the ground so that we might build something better from its ashes. But in moments like these, it’s hard for me to argue that anything could be worse than the current Democrats.
…Except, of course, for the current Republicans.
Cheeto: America’s Major National Security Risk
Tulsi Gabbard is getting out of this lawless cabinet as director of national intelligence(DNI) Even though she seems to have a valid excuse(husband has a rare form of bone cancer) I think that with Cheeto refusing to use the information she presented to him after rationally laying out the pros and cons of what agencies were relaying to her was extremely problematic The Iran war is case in point Circumstantial information by the NYT among other sources suggest that the main factor in the decision making for the Iran war was Netanyahu Of course Cheeto denies this but his never ending lying makes this impossible to believe
How frustrating it would be that the dictator she worked for would act in contrary fashion that was not in the best interests of the country making POTUS the country’s biggest national security risk And with his incessant desire to align the country’s foreign policy by catering to other dictators such as Putin, Xi, and Netanyahu makes our country isolated from our once trusted friends and allies Since the other dictators don’t want any part of what he’s selling America is isolated and alone
With Cheeto’s DOGE purging of agencies responsible for countering foreign threats from health(Ebola response muted due to loss of USAID presence) to election interference both domestic and abroad(gutting agencies that provide risk assessment and prevention) to cybersecurity, national security becomes a major concern
America and its citizens are less safe more than it has ever been in the history of the country all due to Cheeto