lmaoo if that s*** made you more right-wing then you were probably right-wing the whole time

it definitely made me hate establishment democrats though

The goat Chris Rock

Charlamagne been pissing me off in recent years but this post is gold

Anyone listen to chapo trap house?

Robert Trump has passed

Wonder if Roberts death was due to covid

libertarian party twitter is killing me

they retweeted these things right next to each other

between this and the Alex Morse story im honestly speechless

Hilary has infected the membrane of the catastrophe of the conformity of society

Wtf does this even mean bro

0:49

How many years go by before politicians stop bringing up 9/11?

Some of them really took that Never Forget s*** to heart.

regardless of party or personal alignment the RNC absolutely blew the DNC out of the water. RNC messaging was all over the place and some of the speeches sucked for sure but it's going to connect with their demographic far more than the whatever the hell the DNC was doing. also the DNC production value...what were they thinking?

what do you think the future of the DNC is? what were they doing wrong?
i keep hearing the narrative that the DNC is trying to pull from the "moderate republican base" or some s*** like that while ignoring progressives

the issue with the DNC imo is they're in a constant flux to figure out who they're actually appealing to. "moderate republicans"? corporate democrats? cosmopolitan liberals? progressives? The RNC is very good at coalescing various groups under at least SOME common shared values (some form of populism) and then allowing the differences to occur within the party given those tenets otherwise. This is not a praise of the RNC; it's just an observation. I mean hell, there was a literal "socialists for trump" ad at the RNC despite speakers saying Biden was a socialist in disguise. They're good at presentation if anything.
I don't necessarily buy into the idea the DNC is trying to pull the "moderate republican base". They're just absolutely lost, and I'm not sure if it's any person's "fault" specifically. Democrats are so far removed from the actual working class of this country - both right and left leaning- that their messaging is clearly not aimed at them. it's like...they really have almost nothing. There was like no policy at the DNC. And what did exist was weird pandering with all over the place messaging. Some of the "panels" were like twitter levels of extreme woke but then the next panel was like 2008 obama moderate. The DNC has an identity and an audience problem. This doesn't apply to the entire party but it definitely is getting more obvious. I think this is in part because the DNC has a stitled tent; people who talk big and talk anti-establishment but then largely bend over backwards for the establishment, thus reinforcing and diminishing their own validity while angering their voters causing them to further splinter despite their rep not doing so.
Personally while it's hard to tell the ultimate future, the DNC is likely going to continue to splinter because of this weird clash. However, a lot of it depends on this election. If Biden wins, then the progressive wing of the party is virtually f***ed at least for awhile, as the weird obama moderate side will be cemented for a bit as being "viable" even if unpopular on a local level. If Trump wins, progressives have a big opportunity. on the other side, the RNC can go either way if trump wins; either corporate neocons say "welp guess populism didnt work haha it's our tme again", or they double down and get even more populist. with that said, from what it looks like now, i expect the RNC to continue to get more populist (even if it's fake populists like Hawley) if for any other reason but the sheer popularity of it among its voters.

tl;dr DNC has an audience demographic problem complemented by contradictory behavior, RNC is a semi-successful big tent fueled by a shared populist rhetoric

also quick follow up on my post, there is a large % of people that justc are about rhetoric, they don't care about actual policy. The DNC barely has widely agreeable policy because of its all over the place messaging between federal-state-local and convoluted in-party differences, and it's rhetoric is all over the place and can't find footing beyond s***ting on trump, and when it does find footing, it's ridiculously alienating yet obviously transparent woke stuff (see: the panels at the DNC, local governemnts). the RNC might be garbage at policy even in the eyes of its adherents but its very good at espousing populist rhetoric.

F*** Donald Trump

anniversary of an inside job

F***ing kill me

Mattis not wanting to kill Assad. I don’t recognize this world anymore

This thread needs a new op

TrueAnon podcast series on 9/11 is great

this might not have all the episodes from their patreon there’s like 5 total