James Carville should shut the fuck up… Young voters should vote - definitely… but this asshole is responsible for the political strategies that landed us Biden as a candidate and lost an election to Trump.
Eh, I’d argue Debbie Wasserman-Shultz focusing on Hillary and intentionally keeping Bernie out of the spotlight was more to blame for Trump’s first term. There’s really no way to tell at this point though. Regardless, we agree that Carville is a dumbass.
There was a whole crew of six-figure idiots from the DNC that all got together and decided that Debbie Wasserman-Shultz should be in charge. Carville's right up there with them; he was furious at the idea of having Obama instead of Hillary Clinton, and he wanted to skip the primaries entirely and just have Nancy Pelosi pick all the candidates. He's a full-blown loony. And a dumbass yes. I'm genuinely very surprised that he's managed to say something that I so fully agree with.
I mean, he married a republican strategist, and there’s definitely some fails there but I don’t know that I’d blame the vast string of milquetoast kakhi-wearing hair-model losers the DNCC teed up for several decades on him.
“The Supreme Court has out of nothing getting ready to create immunity for one person, Donald Trump. Now, I am hardly a scholar of the American Revolution and the founding, but I do know this: One of the principles of the founding of the United States of America was that no person was above the law,” argued Carville, before calling the originalist wing of the Supreme Court “illegitimate whores” for asking questions during oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case last week.
I hate agreeing with James Carville. But I hear him. This is Serious As Fuck.
His main issue is trying to appeal to young voters. They overwhelmingly don’t vote, they just bitch afterwards when it doesn’t go the way they wanted it to.
I would even go so far as to say the party has abused and relied on the excuse "they're worse than we are" to the point of failure. Even the last few elections a popular stance is to go full reverse logic and let things burn down because the "better" side doesn't care about the people either vs. the position of power. And I'm finding it hard to argue against them.
Locally, get informed about real choices (hopefully) or even get those choices to run, and vote. That is what makes the difference for things that affect you directly. The national scene is all but a lost cause though. The ones who could start to fix the inherit problems within are the ones benefiting from the status quo.
“Okay, Boomer.” is the only acceptable response here.
lets not forget, that he- and the “old school” democrats are a large part of why we’re in the place we are. They like sharing power with the pubies. they have more power that way than they would have if they didn’t. Not saying that leftism is popular… but voters are still more progressive than this guy is.
“So, I hear this a lot,” began Carville. “‘James, young voters are just not into this. It’s two candidates, one’s in their 80s, one is almost in their 80s, they’re concerned about things that Washington politicians, and you just can’t blame them for-‘ Oh, shit. Fuck you!”
“If Trump and [John] Roberts and Alito and [Neil] Gorsuch and [Clarence] Thomas and Leonard Leo and the Heritage Foundation, if they get a hold, there will be no government left, there will be no rights left, you will live under theocracy, you’ll end up with Christian nationalism. But that’s all right, you little fucking 26-year-old, you don’t feel like ‘the election’s important to me. They’re not addressing the issues that I care about,'” said Carville.
Carville concluded by advising the press and Democratic operatives “to tell these young people to get off your motherfucking ass and go vote because you should vote like your entire future and the entire future of this United States depends on it because quite frankly, it does — and that’s not an exaggeration.”
I never thought that in my life me and James Carville would see exactly eye-to-eye on things, but there you go. IDK if talking this way is tactically productive, but he's not wrong. They should have this guy intervene in every newscast about how Trump's ahead 3:1 among first-time Wisconsin voters with odd numbered license plates or whatever, to yell "Fuck you!" at the anchors with little bits of spittle flecked around his mouth.
They know fptp voting forces us to eat whatever shit stinks the least and they’re mad the youth won’t play ball…but it’s not them it’s everyone else who’s the asshole.
Ask yourself this. Does carville look like an asshole to you?
Bruh this is the time for principle. We cannot allow Donald Trump to take back the White House. I don’t even like Biden, but I’ll vote for him if it means that Donald Trump stays out.
I agree that FPTP is garbage. We all still need to vote.
I would rather have Vinegar Man than any 100 anchors going on TV and treating this election like a normal election where neither of the candidates wants to kill his political opponents and have the military seize the voting machines, and the Supreme Court is thinking about letting him
These are great ideals. Let’s come back to reality. For every person that doesn’t vote, they are tacitly voting for Trump. I’m going to have to throw hands when they take my healthcare away. Please don’t make me have to throw hands. I’m not saying you, but rather the oppressors.
Pretty sure they don't tally up all the people who didn't vote and add it to Trump's total. If Trump wins you want to be mad, be mad at the people who voted for him.
Yeah that’s not how it works in a first-past-the-post election. Like we do. RepubliQans cheat, and they vote in lock-step. It’s a law. Massive D turnout is the only way to win.
This is why the whole “biden bad me no vote” is also a russian troll talking point. It’s a happy circumstance for them.
For the record, I'm an advocate for everyone voting. Everyone should vote for who they want to represent them.
But that doesn't change what I said. People who didn't vote for Trump aren't the ones responsible for Trump winning an election. Thinking otherwise is just backwards
Most people don’t have healthcare, most people are already at a point where they have to “throw hands” and people in your position are telling them to shut up and vote for who you want because you are comfortable where you are and see no issue with things continuing as they are.
Israel and the US have been strategic allies since the 1960s. There aren’t any (and won’t ever be any) American politician who won’t honor that. I’d bet my last dollar you’d call any and all military aide “GeNoCiDe SuPpOrT”. Ie, you’ll hate any us political option. So what’s the point? Just say “nuke the us” and move along.
This ain’t my war, and just like all the others I’ve seen I don’t like it. You can’t stop it anymore than anyone else so stop slinging mud.
This is just a weird paternalistic point of view to me.
It is absolutely true that rich abusive criminals are in charge of the country, doing all kinds of horrifying stuff. You can put Biden in that category if you want; at least as far as Gaza is concerned I won't really fight you on the classification.
Sitting back and waiting like "well it's on them to fix it, and until then I won't take steps that will change the outcome to one that's better" is absolutely guaranteed to fail. If you want things to be better, work for better outcomes. That is the only way it will ever happen.
You wanna work for better outcomes in Gaza? Fuckin a man that sounds great, tell me how. You wanna give Biden a hard time about Gaza? Fuckin a man sounds great.
You wanna commit to sitting out and not taking positive steps until something changes from above to make it worth your while? If that's your choice, then buckle the fuck up, because I think there's a definite possibility that you might get a chance to firsthand experience how much worse than present-day reality it can get if enough people do that.
Again: You're using a model that doesn't translate into politics.
Leaving an abuser is a hard road to a better outcome. Working to end the genocide in Gaza is a hard road to a better outcome (and yes, absolutely if that includes affirmatively putting pressure on Biden in whatever way.) Categorically refusing to vote for the non-democracy-ending candidate until something changes by magic from above is not a hard road to anything. It's just more genocide (by quite a lot).
It's like trying to fistfight the police when they're going to arrest you. It's like getting abused by your abusive partner and so refusing to make a decision to leave because the shelter is behind on their taxes. It's like getting a cut that's infected and refusing to get it treated because you don't like the American medical system and think it needs to change. It doesn't make any fucking sense. It's just a non sequitur.
The problems are real, but refusing to engage with the system where the outcomes can be impacted, until they get better on their own, will in this case make those real problems absolutely catastrophically worse.
IDK how long I want to go back and forth about it, but that's my feeling on it.
One of the two is going to win the election. It’s not like if you sit it out, nobody wins. At this point, all you can influence is which one. Trump is a far worse option in pretty much every category.
The state of the country for the next 4 years if the GOP gets in this year
The state of the country forever if the dems aren’t held accountable
The fact that the dems are willing to play chicken with the entire country and would rather see it fall into the hands of MAGA than let go of their precious genocide says a whole lot about their motivation.
If that faction of the party is allowed to prevail, there won’t be any point. They need to learn their lesson, fast. They can either cooperate now, or get their ass thrown out of power in november. Their choice.
I think you’re misguided if you think Trump’s damage would be limited to four years. How many years of damage will we suffer just from his current three supreme court pics?
Plus, you make it sound like Biden could wave a wand and change everything in Gaza. He is applying pressure, but the situation is more complicated than you imply.
It’s really simple: demonstrate that he has some kind of moral principles. Some atrocity he refuses to countenance, some red line he will not cross. Some point at which he’ll say “you know what, no, we’re not going to be part of this, we’re out.”
It might not stop them, but it would show he wasn’t an actual monster.
Yes -- which is why people in-the-know who are training neural nets periodically get frustrated and say "You know what, this thing's not producing the results I want, it did something really wrong as a matter of fact. Fuck it, I'm going to stop applying a gradient in the direction of better results, until it gets its act together."
Oh and also the neural net is physically in charge of all of our lives in this example
Except in this case we have 40+ years showing us that not only is the neural net design not working, it is making things worse and worse because the premise on which it operates is fundementally flawed and will never result in what it needs to.
There is no “gradient in the direction of better results” with the democratic establishment, how the hell do people not see that by now?
What about the context we’re in right now says that the lesser of two evils has been working? That it will ever produce anything that pushes the country back towards the center?
I can give you a bunch of examples of Biden pushing domestic economics and climate change policy real real firmly back towards the center. But, on the broader point about the Democrats in general I actually agree with you. If anything I said sounded like "Let's stop working to make the Democrats better or else find a replacement," it wasn't intentional on my part. Both of those sound like great things to do. (And fixing FPTP to avoid this situation in general in the future)
In the meantime, I do think that voting for the non-apocalypse, and choosing the outcome of "needs some improvement and really should be replaced" over "will definitely try to end the world," are good things to do.
It's like if the neural net runs the life support on the spaceship, and it's clearly not doing a good job and we desperately need to find a better solution, and so one guy says hey it's been so long of this that let's just turn off the life support, what's the worst that could happen.
Yeah, kids should recognize how fucked up our government is and lower their expectations. This is why we need more civics education: So we know exactly how little our government is capable of.
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