He doesn’t understand the King of England isn’t in charge of shit…

Porque los dos?

Run a progressive independent in both primaries, take a note out of the wealthy’s book

But you still asked that question…

So I guess I shouldn’t have assumed everyone who read it understood it.

I apologize

Then you didn’t read the summary even…

Just the headline and straight to commenting.

Quick edit:

This is just about federal contracts and everyone still has to follow the law:

While this may be a significant revelation, businesses still have to follow the state and federal laws, which include the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation, according to the National Archives.

The best thing he could do is be just as visible as an ex-president as he was while he was president…

Meaning the most I want to hear from that asshat is a few mumbled sentences between exiting a building and entering a vehicle, but I’d prefer to just never hear from him again.

Neoliberals have poisoned the party to the point that we’d all be better off if we never heard a squeak from them again

Maga had to do that to capture the rnc…

We just pried the DNC out of the hands of neoliberals…

Which is why mainstream media is suddenly ok with criticizing the DNC.

What would it take to get a primary system up and running for Independents (or more accurately I guess it would have to be a proper party for a primary to make sense)?

A lot, because you’d need a national and one for each state…

But the time to talk about this was anytime in the last fifty years up till a month ago when we got a DNC chair who will let a fair primary happen…

You’re trying to fix a problem we literally just fixed, and in doing so likely hand control back to neoliberals.

You want to know why it took mainstream media up until the last month to start talking shit about Dems?

It’s because the neoliberals just lost power

Now is the time to rally around the new Dem party, not make a new one

Nowadays, I have very little respect or identification with Democrats. It feels like a failed party

Yeah, but lots of us reached that point decades earlier…

08 Obama was the lone bright point going back forty years of the party.

Hell, at Carter’s time he faced a fractured party because he was moving to far right. So really it’s more like 50 years.

Dems have lost the plot for longer than most of us have been alive, and I’m all about reducing the strength of the party as an organization.

But we still need a DNC and state parties if only to facilitate primaries, that’s a very important function.

If I lived within driving distance of DC or a Tesla factory I would be…

Thought that was clear:

lots of Americans would love to switch locations with you so they could have the opportunity you’re wasting.

I think most state parties are ok, and the DNC just got it’s furtherest left chair in 30 years…

But the idea behind this, that politicians are loyal to voters over party is a lot better than where party comes first. Because helping voters is hard, and if it’s not the priority it doesn’t get done.

When we help voters when able, we have the numbers for majorities.

Websites publish what people will click.

People will click what’s shared on social media. And people will share this stuff just like they will slow down for a car crash.

With stuff like ad blockers, they’re also catering to people who still don’t use ad blockers. So, lowest common denominator

The most important factor, quantitatively speaking, is slightly technical and takes a bit of explanation. If you want to use household wealth data to determine what share of Americans “live paycheck to paycheck,” you have to exclude business owners from the analysis. This isn’t just because — to state what should be obvious — business owners can’t “live paycheck to paycheck,” no matter how poor they are, since they don’t receive a paycheck.

More than business owners, “contractors”.

If you’re a gig worker, including conventional tipped employment to an extent, you’re going to need a buffer because money could dry up. A waitress with a two week cough isn’t making the tips they’re used to and an Uber driver with a blown transmission isn’t making anything.

They couldn’t make it 3 months with no income tho.

Even when you have a career and make better money, better healthcare comes with higher premiums. And 401ks need contributions, so even more people paycheck to paycheck

The article definitely isn’t too long…

But tldr:

Yes, that’s exactly what’s happening

You’re talking about elected politicians.

That is not the DNC.

Party leadership isn’t the DNC.

For the past 30 years they’ve been intertwined, because we kept getting neoliberal chairs and the party leaders are neoliberals. And they worked together to prevent progressives from gaining ground.

Ken Martin wasn’t born yesterday, you can look at Minnesota and what they did under his leadership as state chair, and the type of politicians who got to office with his help.

He’s not perfect, but he won’t stand in the way of progress, and that’s all we need to get a non-neoliberal to the general in 2028.

Protesting a dealership when no one wants to buy one is performative.

Where protests should be happening is factories because even if Musk has to shut down one day, that is expensive, and it’s expensive to start it back up again.

So what’s really effective is protesting factories and not letting workers in.

For a day or two.

Then leaving till it’s started back up for a couple days, and just repeating that. Make them open and close production constantly. Make Tesla workers tires of the bullshit, better yet make Musk fire them so they get severance and unemployment.

So:

Look at the risk/reward of what you want to do/say at a dealership. Nothing you put on a sign is going to change anyone’s minds.

To quote a saying that’s been around for way to long:

You can beat the charges, but you can’t beat the ride

Meaning it doesn’t matter if what you’re doing is illegal, cops can still beat you, take you to jail, and just drop charges 10 minutes before you get to see a judge.

Edit:

moderately upscale suburb of DC with a particularly liberal (not leftist, liberal) population base. The protest has been happening every Saturday for several weeks now, and usually pulls around 200-300 people

Why the fuck is 200-300 people next to DC not fucking protesting politicians?

I assumed you were in some random city, you all are literally right next to DC and instead of taking advantage of that you’re wasting your time with this?

Go fucking protest the actual government in DC, lots of Americans would love to switch locations with you so they could have the opportunity you’re wasting.

Especially since DC is probably the last place that needs people to be discouraged from buying a Tesla right now.

No, it changes by having a chair that cares more about beating Republicans than beating progressives…

And we have that now

The fight over the party was over more than a month ago when the Chair election happened.

Neoliberals lost, the party of today is not the same party as 2 months ago, the chair is basically a dictatorship with all the power and zero accountability

On an article talking about how Dems failed voters…

There’s always going to be someone blaming voters and saying asking for representation is undemocratic…

“Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency.”

They’ve done that…

It’s just not how he wants it to be run…

Meanwhile, Dudek was fired for disobeying SSA as a mid level staffer in favor of DOGE, so trump made him the head:

https://abc17news.com/politics/national-politics/cnn-us-politics/2025/02/22/how-a-mid-level-staffer-rose-to-oversee-the-social-security-administration-within-days/

Democrats hit 27% approval this week…

That’s ironically the level Schumer said Dems would start doing stuff when Trump hit.

No one likes neoliberals, or their policies

It’s just not an effective political strategy, regardless of how you try to look at it. Even ignoring popularity with voters, even when neoliberals get elected, they refuse to do anything.

The entire purpose of it is doing nothing, it’s political nihilism.

Jon Oliver had a segment; Tesla lost more value than like 20 other real car companies in 2025…

It’s a meme stock that sometimes makes cars. The price was based on people thinking the numbers would always go up.

That usually ends bad