If that report causes Martin to lose his position, then it will have been worth something. We've got to keep the pressure on. The centrist losers have to go. We need a new look for the DNC.
I could have told them that Martin was the wrong choice for the job. He didn’t have any good ideas for the future. He clearly favors the past over the future. The party needs to go with the younger (mostly) people who aren’t afraid to say what they think and offer new ideas on how to fix the mess. I like Zohran Mamdani. He’s done what he said he would do, even though it was risky.
My biggest concern now is the possibility of fiscal collapse. What happens when China calls our debt in?👹
This is getting depressing. The dnc had a younger guy that would have done his best to make a difference as the chair (I don’t recall his name) but what do they do..? Choose this guy instead. Harris was doing great out of the gate and what did they do….? Started ‘managing’ her so she started spouting all the old, tired stuff and we know how that ended. They ignored the Gaza / Palestine issue and……. it cost them my state…. straight up. 500,000 or thereabouts protest votes ENDORSED by an Islamic mayor. For the life of me, I don’t get that but it is what it is.
I’ve been screaming, yelling, cajoling, begging and pleading re: Project 2025 for a while yet ppl seem to be kinda blasé about it. I watched Mamdami with excitement, was geeked about him being elected and hope fervently for his success. The establishment Dems are scared to death of him. The way I see it is this…. he went out and actually talked to ppl - and - even more importantly, he really heard what they said and wants to make a difference, has a plan and is busily trying it out. Each and every area in the country needs their version of him. Will everything that gets tried work? Probably not but I, for one, am sick of the ‘well, we’ve always done it this way’ bullpucky. How can we convince these ppl they need to pull their heads out of their ever lovin’ asses???
Your P.S. literally says it all imo. Both parties have turned their national orgs into the equivalent of a corporation that is beholden to their shareholders and want to control all aspects of what goes down…. instead of doing their best to serve the candidates & voters. They constantly ask for $$ yet not ONE peep about what it’s for, how they will spend it or an accounting of how they did ultimately use the $$. Sorry, if they cannot give us the courtesy of saying how the $$ helped, no more will be forthcoming.
I’m not quite ready for a revolution and….. I’m also pissed as hell! The establishment folks are the definition of insanity (doing the same thing over & over while expecting different results)….. the times they are a changin’ as Dylan said a long time ago….
Thanks for listening to my rant…. am a tad animated today. 😉
Deb...never apologize for a rant this good...the animated version of you sees the PATTERN more clearly than most of the professionals do.
You nailed the recurring move: talent shows up...and the institution's reflex is to manage it rather than back it.
Harris had real energy out of the gate; you could watch the handlers sand it into the usual paste. The younger chair candidate you can't quite name...lost to the safe factional pick for the same reason...the machine distrusts the spark.
And...on Gaza, you don't need to "get" the protest votes...for them to be real and predictable.
People warned the party for a YEAR. The party answered with silence...and your state paid the bill. That's not a mystery; it's a CHOICE.
One friendly push on Mamdani: I'd hold him as a promising hypothesis...not finished proof.
The part that actually travels isn't his ideology...it's his METHOD.
He went out...talked to people...and heard them.
That works in any zip code. Whether every policy bet lands...is a separate question...and you can root hard for him...while staying clear-eyed about that.
And your P.S. point is the WHOLE game.
"Give us money...ask nothing...get no accounting" is how a corporation treats a customer...not how a party treats a citizen.
Holding your dollars until they show the books isn't disloyalty...it's the ONLY language they understand.
Not-quite-revolution...but pissed as HELL...is the right setting right now.
Are you referring to David Hogg as the young guy? He was bringing the fire. Mamdani is a democratic socialist, and the “S” word is so very misunderstood in our country.
Too bad, since we have so many jointly financed institutions here, anyway.
Yes, David Hogg is the younger guy! I thought he was really motivated and all about getting stuff done, moving ahead and changing if it benefits. All good in my book.
I’ve also run into folks that completely freak out over the ‘S’ word which is very unfortunate. They seem to want to conflate it with communism which is very sad. Many do not realize that things like social security and Medicare are socialistic programs so we’re already doing some of it. It’s going to take a big effort to educate people. Unfettered capitalism sure isn’t working out too well…..
Norway has an interesting structure. Ppl pay fairly high taxes and in turn the govt gives the population a base stipend (allows ppl to live very basically). If they want bigger houses, fancy things then they are charged with earning them. I doubt that would fly here but as all the AI rolls out & jobs disappear, we might have to consider at least discussing something that will allow ppl dignity because in many instances, it’s sure gone missing. Lots to fix, modify and make better.
One very quick question pre-read…WHY THE HELL DO THE DEMOCRATS KEEP PICKING SUCH LOSERS FOR DNC CHAIR? I can’t think of anyone who has done an outstanding job…Wassermann-Schultz, Brazile, Perez, Harrison…none of them outstanding, in my opinion!
Christie...honestly? Because the job is built to produce EXACTLY that.
The DNC chair isn't really a leadership position...it's either a staff job for whoever's in the White House...or...a COMPROMISE pick...cobbled together by warring factions...when no Democrat is president.
Either way...the process rewards the person who offends the fewest people...NOT the one most willing to tell hard truths.
You don't get a leader out of that. You get a manager...who keeps everyone calm.
Martin is the perfect example. Handed one real test...release the autopsy or bury it...he tried to satisfy EVERY faction and ended up satisfying NONE.
That's not bad luck. That's the job...working as designed.
Until Democrats decide they actually want a chair empowered to LEAD... rather than to soothe...they'll keep getting EXACTLY what you've described.
“Now the story isn’t merely Democratic failure in 2024.” - it continues to be their failure into 2026. The DNC needs to have people who can give out the truth bluntly without trying to shield themselves personally from a lack of accountability or doing their job right.
My concern with this whole thing is this: why is a report about 2024 assigned to a guy in 2025 who then can’t handle the simple premise of doing the report causing delays and missing information until 2026? It was not supposed to be about him but of what took place in the Democratic Party for the 2024 election.
CC...you've hit the question that should embarrass the DNC most: why did reviewing a finished election take longer than the election itself?
A postmortem is the easy version of the job. The facts are ALREADY known, nobody's voting...there's no opponent.
All it takes...is the willingness to write down what happened...and sign your name to it. That it took from 2025 into 2026...and STILL came out unfinished...isn't a scheduling failure...it's a tell.
And...you nailed the trick: it became about the author.
Once Martin's defense was "the draft was sloppy, the guy didn't deliver," the subject quietly shifted from what the party did in 2024...to who botched the paperwork in 2025.
A report meant to hold the party accountable got reframed as one strategist's bad homework...and accountability for the real 2024 decisions vanished in the swap.
Which is why your opening line is the important one.
This isn't a 2024 failure anymore.
The loss was a defeat; the two years of delay...burial...and disowning are a fresh leadership failure happening right now.
You can lose an election to circumstances. You can't blame circumstances for refusing to tell your own voters the truth 18 months later.
The blunt truth-teller you want is exactly what the job needs...and exactly what the selection process keeps screening out.
Jack is correct in pointing out that the DNC’s current leadership approach and messaging strategy aren’t connecting with a lot of voters who feel ignored or left behind. That critique matters, because it highlights a real gap between party elites and the base they need to rebuild trust with.
At the same time, turning it into an “I told you so” moment risks missing the bigger opportunity: the focus now has to be on what comes next—clear strategy, stronger grassroots engagement, and policies that visibly improve people’s daily lives. If that shift happens, the criticism becomes a turning point instead of just another cycle in the same debate.
Jane...this is a fair check...and...I want to take it seriously rather than wave it off.
You're right that "I told you so" is empty if it stops there.
Vindication isn't a strategy...and...a newsletter that only ever says "see, I was right" is just a different flavor of the self-regard I'm criticizing the DNC for. Point taken.
Where I'd push back a little: the "I called it" framing in this piece isn't there for a victory lap...it's load-bearing for the argument.
The whole case against Martin rests on the claim that the "distraction" excuse was transparently a pretext from day one.
The only way to show it was obvious...is to point out that it *was* obvious months ago...to ordinary observers...without leaks or inside sources.
Strip that out and you lose the proof that this was a choice rather than a stumble. So the backward look isn't nostalgia...it's the evidence.
But..your real point stands...and it's the right one to end on: accountability has to clear the ground for something...not just salt it.
Naming the failure is step one; it's necessary...BUT... it doesn't rebuild anything by itself.
The forward agenda you're describing...real strategy...grassroots engagement...policy people can feel in their own lives...is EXACTLY the test of whether this becomes a turning point...or...just another lap around the same track.
So here's where I'll meet you: the critique earns its keep only if it's followed by the harder, less satisfying work of saying what should replace it.
That's a fair assignment...and...it's one I intend to take up in what comes next.
Jesus F***in Christ on a bicycle. If that's normal, throw the normals out. If we need a parliamentary democracy with coalitions and vitriol to get someone elected, better than this. I expect this kind of bloviating evasion from the right. What happened to my way-left-of-center?
Barry..."Christ on a bicycle"...I'm stealing that. But under the profanity is a real question... so here's a straight answer.
"What happened to my way-left-of-center?" It didn't lose a debate. It got managed.
The left flank wasn't beaten on ideas...it got absorbed into an institution whose actual job is risk management...not conviction.
The DNC isn't ideologically left or centrist; it's a fundraising-and-logistics body that treats bold positions the way an insurer treats a claim...exposure to be minimized.
So...the energy you're missing didn't vanish. It's still in voters...in candidates...in your reaction right now. It just has no institutional HOME...because the institution exists to sand it down.
That's why this reads as right-coded to you. The evasion and the burying of an inconvenient document...isn't left or right behavior...it's institutional-self-protection behavior...and a body built around self-protection...produces it no matter WHO runs it.
And...half-seriously...on parliament: at least coalition vitriol is honest.
Factions fight in daylight and the public sees the trade. This week you watched the opposite...a faction fight run entirely in the dark...dressed as a scheduling delay. The vitriol's already here; we just don't get to watch it.
So it's not normal in the sense of acceptable...just normal in the sense of predictable.
The fix isn't a politer chair. It's an institution accountable to its base instead of insulated from it. Stay loud.
I think it’s more what wasn’t there than what was. Biden’s decision to run for a second term… Harris basically being nominated without the normal process… I recall Obama pushing back on that… and Gaza. The delays and suppression have become a big problem since he was basically FORCED to release the report when he finally did. Someone please correct me here if I’m wrong.
Everyone is clamoring for the youth vote and it was allowed to just slide on by. They don’t know it CAN be better because they’ve never SEEN it better!
Would have, Should have and Damnit 😩 No doubt, Jack, this is the ground this DNC chairman will die on. So Shame... brilliant breakdown here, let's hope the Democratic party can hold itself together moving forward?!! There's going to be a lot of shackin' going on, I've got a good stock pile of Popcorn 🍿! TGIF to you and all of your readers, have a good, safe Memorial Day weekend, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍💙
Dumbassery hires a clown car to carry its message. Not even sure AI could have written it bc Gaza and Biden’s condition and choices were all over the media where AI would get its info.
The consultant class is to the Dem Party what benefits managers tend to be to health care. We’ve had them for so long and some do a decent job—we don’t even question why we use them.
Except, yes we do. See, people who need heath care don’t control the benefits managers’ decisions. An algorithm does. We suffer from lack of care and yell about wasted money. We know that a single payer system would give us more access but oligarchs are making a killing with the existing system. Likewise, consultants are hired by organizations who get funded by PACs & corporate donors, people with the money to decide how much they want the existing system to remain in place. The people who need representation let their electeds know what they need. But there are layers between that and the overarching organization that hires the consultant class. The consultants absorb the money and stifle or garble the message so we’ll need better consultants.
Except we all know we don’t. What we need is to be heard.
When money is speech, dark money has the biggest sound systems and that is how voices get heard. The absolute only thing the consultant class / PACs / oligarchs *don’t* have is the NUMBERS. We may not have much of a sound system, but we have our own voices tens of millions-strong. And we actually make the economy run by working and buying things.
Organized resistance makes quite a noise. It’s the only thing that will help us to be heard.
Based on the delay and petty excuses and ongoing actions from the Democratic party, makes me think that they do not have a leader truly leading the party unless a violation has occurred and then it is all hands on deck to remove that person from office, i.e., Eric Swalwell.
Transparency is important and these types of action is not showing transparency.
Why should the American people listen to the democratic party if they are not going to be honest with them?
There are a number of topics the democratic party can run on but they seem to be too busy bickering among themselves and not thinking about what the American people want from them.
If they are not going to lead, maybe we need a change to bring actions for the topics that are most close to the hearts of the American people.
Jack, totally agree re: Martin having to go, and go now. But there are things I can't seem to understand, and I really hope you can help me out:
>>> Considering when Biden made his announcement, what process would have worked to choose a new nominee? That's neither a defense of Harris, nor a critique of her -- what do you think could have/should have happened at that moment?
>>> With that in mind, what would a different nominee have been able to accomplish in an even shorter time frame than Harris had to work with? We point at the 107 days of her campaign, but had anything different occurred in the summer of 2004, the nominee's window would have been shorter, and maybe significantly so.
>>> The war in Gaza was significant, but what different outcome did Democratic voters think they would get by not supporting Harris?
>>> For me, THIS was the biggest issue: at the end of the day, Trump wasn't just the Republican candidate, he was and is an existential threat to the country as a whole. The 2024 election wasn't Carter/Ford, it wasn't Gore/Bush, it wasn't Obama/McCain; it was Harris, a Democratic candidate who, fairly or not, was unliked by many, against Trump, an evil man singularly unfit for the job. I'll repeat my question from the Gaza point above: what different outcome did Democratic voters think they would get by not supporting Harris?
Thanks in advance for any consideration and response you give to these questions.
This should surprise no one. The cover up is just more of the same. There is nothing new with the dem’s leaders. They have been panicked by their left’s successes for to long. Nancy Pelosi didn’t know how to deal with them. So their left kept getting run over. Bernie, David Hogg,AOC, many more.
So Martin is picked? More of the same shitz.
Just wondering if the will give it another try so they can hand everything to trump? Wouldn’t surprise me
If that report causes Martin to lose his position, then it will have been worth something. We've got to keep the pressure on. The centrist losers have to go. We need a new look for the DNC.
Walter...I'm right there with you. The autopsy fiasco was disqualifying on its own terms... and the pressure should absolutely stay on.
Thanks for reading, Walter...and for pushing on this.
-Jack
pressure is my jam lately! Go get 'em Jack!
Agree Walter...
I could have told them that Martin was the wrong choice for the job. He didn’t have any good ideas for the future. He clearly favors the past over the future. The party needs to go with the younger (mostly) people who aren’t afraid to say what they think and offer new ideas on how to fix the mess. I like Zohran Mamdani. He’s done what he said he would do, even though it was risky.
My biggest concern now is the possibility of fiscal collapse. What happens when China calls our debt in?👹
Ahhhh, Jack.
This is getting depressing. The dnc had a younger guy that would have done his best to make a difference as the chair (I don’t recall his name) but what do they do..? Choose this guy instead. Harris was doing great out of the gate and what did they do….? Started ‘managing’ her so she started spouting all the old, tired stuff and we know how that ended. They ignored the Gaza / Palestine issue and……. it cost them my state…. straight up. 500,000 or thereabouts protest votes ENDORSED by an Islamic mayor. For the life of me, I don’t get that but it is what it is.
I’ve been screaming, yelling, cajoling, begging and pleading re: Project 2025 for a while yet ppl seem to be kinda blasé about it. I watched Mamdami with excitement, was geeked about him being elected and hope fervently for his success. The establishment Dems are scared to death of him. The way I see it is this…. he went out and actually talked to ppl - and - even more importantly, he really heard what they said and wants to make a difference, has a plan and is busily trying it out. Each and every area in the country needs their version of him. Will everything that gets tried work? Probably not but I, for one, am sick of the ‘well, we’ve always done it this way’ bullpucky. How can we convince these ppl they need to pull their heads out of their ever lovin’ asses???
Your P.S. literally says it all imo. Both parties have turned their national orgs into the equivalent of a corporation that is beholden to their shareholders and want to control all aspects of what goes down…. instead of doing their best to serve the candidates & voters. They constantly ask for $$ yet not ONE peep about what it’s for, how they will spend it or an accounting of how they did ultimately use the $$. Sorry, if they cannot give us the courtesy of saying how the $$ helped, no more will be forthcoming.
I’m not quite ready for a revolution and….. I’m also pissed as hell! The establishment folks are the definition of insanity (doing the same thing over & over while expecting different results)….. the times they are a changin’ as Dylan said a long time ago….
Thanks for listening to my rant…. am a tad animated today. 😉
Deb...never apologize for a rant this good...the animated version of you sees the PATTERN more clearly than most of the professionals do.
You nailed the recurring move: talent shows up...and the institution's reflex is to manage it rather than back it.
Harris had real energy out of the gate; you could watch the handlers sand it into the usual paste. The younger chair candidate you can't quite name...lost to the safe factional pick for the same reason...the machine distrusts the spark.
And...on Gaza, you don't need to "get" the protest votes...for them to be real and predictable.
People warned the party for a YEAR. The party answered with silence...and your state paid the bill. That's not a mystery; it's a CHOICE.
One friendly push on Mamdani: I'd hold him as a promising hypothesis...not finished proof.
The part that actually travels isn't his ideology...it's his METHOD.
He went out...talked to people...and heard them.
That works in any zip code. Whether every policy bet lands...is a separate question...and you can root hard for him...while staying clear-eyed about that.
And your P.S. point is the WHOLE game.
"Give us money...ask nothing...get no accounting" is how a corporation treats a customer...not how a party treats a citizen.
Holding your dollars until they show the books isn't disloyalty...it's the ONLY language they understand.
Not-quite-revolution...but pissed as HELL...is the right setting right now.
Stay animated.
-Jack
Are you referring to David Hogg as the young guy? He was bringing the fire. Mamdani is a democratic socialist, and the “S” word is so very misunderstood in our country.
Too bad, since we have so many jointly financed institutions here, anyway.
Yes, David Hogg is the younger guy! I thought he was really motivated and all about getting stuff done, moving ahead and changing if it benefits. All good in my book.
I’ve also run into folks that completely freak out over the ‘S’ word which is very unfortunate. They seem to want to conflate it with communism which is very sad. Many do not realize that things like social security and Medicare are socialistic programs so we’re already doing some of it. It’s going to take a big effort to educate people. Unfettered capitalism sure isn’t working out too well…..
Norway has an interesting structure. Ppl pay fairly high taxes and in turn the govt gives the population a base stipend (allows ppl to live very basically). If they want bigger houses, fancy things then they are charged with earning them. I doubt that would fly here but as all the AI rolls out & jobs disappear, we might have to consider at least discussing something that will allow ppl dignity because in many instances, it’s sure gone missing. Lots to fix, modify and make better.
YES, ma’am!
Thank you! Frustration of the many in a nutshell. I'm tired of donating for nothing. Will the real leaders please stand up?
One very quick question pre-read…WHY THE HELL DO THE DEMOCRATS KEEP PICKING SUCH LOSERS FOR DNC CHAIR? I can’t think of anyone who has done an outstanding job…Wassermann-Schultz, Brazile, Perez, Harrison…none of them outstanding, in my opinion!
Christie...honestly? Because the job is built to produce EXACTLY that.
The DNC chair isn't really a leadership position...it's either a staff job for whoever's in the White House...or...a COMPROMISE pick...cobbled together by warring factions...when no Democrat is president.
Either way...the process rewards the person who offends the fewest people...NOT the one most willing to tell hard truths.
You don't get a leader out of that. You get a manager...who keeps everyone calm.
Martin is the perfect example. Handed one real test...release the autopsy or bury it...he tried to satisfy EVERY faction and ended up satisfying NONE.
That's not bad luck. That's the job...working as designed.
Until Democrats decide they actually want a chair empowered to LEAD... rather than to soothe...they'll keep getting EXACTLY what you've described.
Thanks for reading!
#HoldFast
-Jack
“Now the story isn’t merely Democratic failure in 2024.” - it continues to be their failure into 2026. The DNC needs to have people who can give out the truth bluntly without trying to shield themselves personally from a lack of accountability or doing their job right.
My concern with this whole thing is this: why is a report about 2024 assigned to a guy in 2025 who then can’t handle the simple premise of doing the report causing delays and missing information until 2026? It was not supposed to be about him but of what took place in the Democratic Party for the 2024 election.
CC...you've hit the question that should embarrass the DNC most: why did reviewing a finished election take longer than the election itself?
A postmortem is the easy version of the job. The facts are ALREADY known, nobody's voting...there's no opponent.
All it takes...is the willingness to write down what happened...and sign your name to it. That it took from 2025 into 2026...and STILL came out unfinished...isn't a scheduling failure...it's a tell.
And...you nailed the trick: it became about the author.
Once Martin's defense was "the draft was sloppy, the guy didn't deliver," the subject quietly shifted from what the party did in 2024...to who botched the paperwork in 2025.
A report meant to hold the party accountable got reframed as one strategist's bad homework...and accountability for the real 2024 decisions vanished in the swap.
Which is why your opening line is the important one.
This isn't a 2024 failure anymore.
The loss was a defeat; the two years of delay...burial...and disowning are a fresh leadership failure happening right now.
You can lose an election to circumstances. You can't blame circumstances for refusing to tell your own voters the truth 18 months later.
The blunt truth-teller you want is exactly what the job needs...and exactly what the selection process keeps screening out.
-Jack
Jack is correct in pointing out that the DNC’s current leadership approach and messaging strategy aren’t connecting with a lot of voters who feel ignored or left behind. That critique matters, because it highlights a real gap between party elites and the base they need to rebuild trust with.
At the same time, turning it into an “I told you so” moment risks missing the bigger opportunity: the focus now has to be on what comes next—clear strategy, stronger grassroots engagement, and policies that visibly improve people’s daily lives. If that shift happens, the criticism becomes a turning point instead of just another cycle in the same debate.
#HOLDFAST
Jane...this is a fair check...and...I want to take it seriously rather than wave it off.
You're right that "I told you so" is empty if it stops there.
Vindication isn't a strategy...and...a newsletter that only ever says "see, I was right" is just a different flavor of the self-regard I'm criticizing the DNC for. Point taken.
Where I'd push back a little: the "I called it" framing in this piece isn't there for a victory lap...it's load-bearing for the argument.
The whole case against Martin rests on the claim that the "distraction" excuse was transparently a pretext from day one.
The only way to show it was obvious...is to point out that it *was* obvious months ago...to ordinary observers...without leaks or inside sources.
Strip that out and you lose the proof that this was a choice rather than a stumble. So the backward look isn't nostalgia...it's the evidence.
But..your real point stands...and it's the right one to end on: accountability has to clear the ground for something...not just salt it.
Naming the failure is step one; it's necessary...BUT... it doesn't rebuild anything by itself.
The forward agenda you're describing...real strategy...grassroots engagement...policy people can feel in their own lives...is EXACTLY the test of whether this becomes a turning point...or...just another lap around the same track.
So here's where I'll meet you: the critique earns its keep only if it's followed by the harder, less satisfying work of saying what should replace it.
That's a fair assignment...and...it's one I intend to take up in what comes next.
Thanks for holding me to it. #HoldFast
-Jack
Jesus F***in Christ on a bicycle. If that's normal, throw the normals out. If we need a parliamentary democracy with coalitions and vitriol to get someone elected, better than this. I expect this kind of bloviating evasion from the right. What happened to my way-left-of-center?
Barry..."Christ on a bicycle"...I'm stealing that. But under the profanity is a real question... so here's a straight answer.
"What happened to my way-left-of-center?" It didn't lose a debate. It got managed.
The left flank wasn't beaten on ideas...it got absorbed into an institution whose actual job is risk management...not conviction.
The DNC isn't ideologically left or centrist; it's a fundraising-and-logistics body that treats bold positions the way an insurer treats a claim...exposure to be minimized.
So...the energy you're missing didn't vanish. It's still in voters...in candidates...in your reaction right now. It just has no institutional HOME...because the institution exists to sand it down.
That's why this reads as right-coded to you. The evasion and the burying of an inconvenient document...isn't left or right behavior...it's institutional-self-protection behavior...and a body built around self-protection...produces it no matter WHO runs it.
And...half-seriously...on parliament: at least coalition vitriol is honest.
Factions fight in daylight and the public sees the trade. This week you watched the opposite...a faction fight run entirely in the dark...dressed as a scheduling delay. The vitriol's already here; we just don't get to watch it.
So it's not normal in the sense of acceptable...just normal in the sense of predictable.
The fix isn't a politer chair. It's an institution accountable to its base instead of insulated from it. Stay loud.
#HoldFast
-Jack
This suppression by Marrin should lead to his replacement. He took a test and failed miserably. The true disaster is leaving him in charge.
I read a quick breakdown of the autopsy, from PBS, and there wasn’t a lot to disagree with. What am I not seeing? 🤷♀️
I think it’s more what wasn’t there than what was. Biden’s decision to run for a second term… Harris basically being nominated without the normal process… I recall Obama pushing back on that… and Gaza. The delays and suppression have become a big problem since he was basically FORCED to release the report when he finally did. Someone please correct me here if I’m wrong.
Thanks Susan. Much appreciated.
I just hope I’m right lol
Spot On!
As usual & predicted
You are so much so I hope you name your dog Spot!
As soon as they hijacked David Hogg and crew I knew.
You say #holdfast
Your readers say
#spoton
💜
Everyone is clamoring for the youth vote and it was allowed to just slide on by. They don’t know it CAN be better because they’ve never SEEN it better!
#HoldFast
“He released evidence of a burial.” That says it all.
Finally, RNC +DNC stand publicly on common ground. Same fuckery wrapped in different colred slime.
Would have, Should have and Damnit 😩 No doubt, Jack, this is the ground this DNC chairman will die on. So Shame... brilliant breakdown here, let's hope the Democratic party can hold itself together moving forward?!! There's going to be a lot of shackin' going on, I've got a good stock pile of Popcorn 🍿! TGIF to you and all of your readers, have a good, safe Memorial Day weekend, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍💙
Dumbassery hires a clown car to carry its message. Not even sure AI could have written it bc Gaza and Biden’s condition and choices were all over the media where AI would get its info.
The consultant class is to the Dem Party what benefits managers tend to be to health care. We’ve had them for so long and some do a decent job—we don’t even question why we use them.
Except, yes we do. See, people who need heath care don’t control the benefits managers’ decisions. An algorithm does. We suffer from lack of care and yell about wasted money. We know that a single payer system would give us more access but oligarchs are making a killing with the existing system. Likewise, consultants are hired by organizations who get funded by PACs & corporate donors, people with the money to decide how much they want the existing system to remain in place. The people who need representation let their electeds know what they need. But there are layers between that and the overarching organization that hires the consultant class. The consultants absorb the money and stifle or garble the message so we’ll need better consultants.
Except we all know we don’t. What we need is to be heard.
When money is speech, dark money has the biggest sound systems and that is how voices get heard. The absolute only thing the consultant class / PACs / oligarchs *don’t* have is the NUMBERS. We may not have much of a sound system, but we have our own voices tens of millions-strong. And we actually make the economy run by working and buying things.
Organized resistance makes quite a noise. It’s the only thing that will help us to be heard.
Based on the delay and petty excuses and ongoing actions from the Democratic party, makes me think that they do not have a leader truly leading the party unless a violation has occurred and then it is all hands on deck to remove that person from office, i.e., Eric Swalwell.
Transparency is important and these types of action is not showing transparency.
Why should the American people listen to the democratic party if they are not going to be honest with them?
There are a number of topics the democratic party can run on but they seem to be too busy bickering among themselves and not thinking about what the American people want from them.
If they are not going to lead, maybe we need a change to bring actions for the topics that are most close to the hearts of the American people.
Jack, totally agree re: Martin having to go, and go now. But there are things I can't seem to understand, and I really hope you can help me out:
>>> Considering when Biden made his announcement, what process would have worked to choose a new nominee? That's neither a defense of Harris, nor a critique of her -- what do you think could have/should have happened at that moment?
>>> With that in mind, what would a different nominee have been able to accomplish in an even shorter time frame than Harris had to work with? We point at the 107 days of her campaign, but had anything different occurred in the summer of 2004, the nominee's window would have been shorter, and maybe significantly so.
>>> The war in Gaza was significant, but what different outcome did Democratic voters think they would get by not supporting Harris?
>>> For me, THIS was the biggest issue: at the end of the day, Trump wasn't just the Republican candidate, he was and is an existential threat to the country as a whole. The 2024 election wasn't Carter/Ford, it wasn't Gore/Bush, it wasn't Obama/McCain; it was Harris, a Democratic candidate who, fairly or not, was unliked by many, against Trump, an evil man singularly unfit for the job. I'll repeat my question from the Gaza point above: what different outcome did Democratic voters think they would get by not supporting Harris?
Thanks in advance for any consideration and response you give to these questions.
Nice article.
This should surprise no one. The cover up is just more of the same. There is nothing new with the dem’s leaders. They have been panicked by their left’s successes for to long. Nancy Pelosi didn’t know how to deal with them. So their left kept getting run over. Bernie, David Hogg,AOC, many more.
So Martin is picked? More of the same shitz.
Just wondering if the will give it another try so they can hand everything to trump? Wouldn’t surprise me