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They just always seem three steps behind.

Chuck Schumer is still thinking that playing by the old rules is going to work.

This has not come quickly. It has been coming at us for years. But appreciate you see it now.

If they do want to keep on messaging on affordability, at least they could explain what would happen to affordability if Europe and the rest of the world start dumping US debt following Trump's insanity on tariffs and wars.

"Bread is too much! ... And yeah, sure, they're also shooting moms in the face... But bread is like WAY up!"

I'm sorry, man. Try to take a little time off to hang out with your family.

If I had photoshop skills, I'd take 'this is fine/fire dog' meme, add some armed masked goons kneeling on necks & battering doors to the fire, and change the dog's words to 'our issue is affordability '

100% Every single person who chose not to vote for Harris/Walz or not vote at all in 2024 has serious questions to answer as to where their basic priorities lie. Tough shit if this is unfair, but you self-centered assholes are to blame.

Release the Trump-Epstein Files. Trump is a pedophile and a demented fool!

And it’s not like it has to be one over the other! If they tried, they could form a cohesive argument that most Americans already agree on. The absolute worst thing they could do is turn a blind eye

The Democrats who voted to fund your problems: Don Davis of North Carolina Tom Suozzi of New York Henry Cuellar of Texas Vicente Gonzalez of Texas Laura Gillen of New York Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington Jared Golden of Maine

I can cope with prices. What I can’t cope with is an insane corrupt government.

AOC's answer:

Yes yes, the Dems are supposed to somehow impeach him, somehow overcome ICE, somehow overcome his EOs, somehow derail budgets and evil Republicans with literally billions of dollars intent on literally destroying this country, my god, why won't the Dems DO SOMEHTHING. People are ridiculous.

Oh yeah

Notice how the media has stopped caring about affordability? They’re not running “INFLATION ARMAGEDDON” updates every five minutes anymore.

Are you listening @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @ericswalwell.bsky.social Use facts in your messaging and indict trump verbally. Optics guys , optics. Republicans talk one way behind closed doors but when the lights come on they’re kissing trumps aşş. Show that! Eric knows.

Democrats need to stick to ONE MESSAGE. Trump is a Pedophile Protector. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! 💙💙💙

It absolutely terrifies me that next week, this could be my neighborhood, my kid's school, my neighbors.

Dem leadership is 100% reactive. Led around on a leash by what outdated polls say is important. They fail to recognize that they have power to *create* the narrative, to decide what it important, to take the goddamn leash and start leading rather than following. Always 10 steps behind.

The democrats have FAILED US! They are compromised! Support independent, progressive candidates in the midterms (if we have them) and resist!

I watched the Marines march on our streets many months ago but thanks for the input.

I get everyone’s point about it not being the first time. Yes, Rush was a monster but let’s appreciate he’s been drug free for 5 years now. My point is that this is where it all coalesced.

That is the best line I've read today. It was a crystallizing moment, wasn't it? In conjunction with everyone wanting to film themselves talking and the handy internet as a method of decimating their internal dialogue made digital. Really miss the hippies.

Does Fox have buildings with offices and doors? Good place to become the news IMO.

Oh, it started before then. Reconstruction was undermined at every step.

*don't have liberal...

If you mean Bill Clinton then you’d be right.

The economy is historically a winner for the GOP, not Dems

Not only justice. People actually voted for him despite this. Perhaps because they were information poor, perhaps because the media didn’t get this out far & loud enough…or maybe they just don’t care

Democrats remain the same political failures, by and large, they have been most of my adult life.

FUCK the Democratic Party. ENABLE A NAZI = YOU ARE A NAZI End the 2 Party system that has crumbled to *dust*.

You’re right about that vote. That sucks huge. And I’m furious about that too.

They cannot comprehend that most of us would be cool with these prices in the short-term if Dems would help us actually fight this administration.

I hope you guys find your way out of this. If you do, serious reforms are in order. We need them too because this can happen in any country. Time to put the power where it belongs and that's not with oligarchs who don't give a damn what happens to people on the ground.

Dem "leadership" is absolutely captured. There is no way they're this useless accidentally.

Big money is the root of this US authoritarian problem. UK Green Party's Polanski ⬇️ Showing some Mamdani vibe. mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse...

Less affordable, the more unemployment there is, the more terrorizing there is, the more republicans are able to recruit ICE thugs. Soon if they have not already started, republicans will offer immigrants safety if they become ICE. This is a false safety, republicans will come for everyone

I'd run ads showing citizens with busted in doors and car windows with this: They promised to make life more affordable. But the cost of healthcare, rent and food just keep going up. And, now they've stuck you with the bill for this, too.

It pisses me off the shit they are wasting our time with. This is all hands on deck and get the felon and every single one of his co-conspirators. They literally can't figure out why their approval numbers are lower than a dictators 😳

Democrats are a dead in the water after voting for DHS funding. 7 threw themselves under the bus to cover up for the rest.

But Aaron, that would require #DumpChuckSchumer and #DumpHakeemJeffries to change and, for the first time in their lives, be effective warriors rather than rotting heads of lettuce.

Based on the fact that we re-elected Donald Trump, Democrats need to cover all their bases because the American public is not very bright.

Sending prayers

What did the libs during Vichy France do during occupation? Good things I hope.

The sad fact is many of these people would be fine with all we're losing, if they could only have cheap groceries. bsky.app/profile/dizz...

Right?! Kamala telling people exactly that this was going to happen was “hyperbole” while the media harped on about stupid eggs.

@dfl.org

"Any authoritarian (Trump) doesn't need your votes anymore. So he doesn't care how big your electric bill is, he doesn't care that you're paying the tariff on your car repairs. We need your vote, so we will cut the corporate profits which cost you $ everyday."

Dems need to act, not message. Who’s listening and who’s distracted?

I never was able to agree that both parties wanted the same outcome. After dems twice voting to fund ice and this administration I will admit I was wrong

Crazy that even needs to be said.

And seven Democrats in the House voted to keep funding it. Why should anybody vote for them? The time to fight back against this is now, not after some imaginary victory in a midterms that will offer them absolutely no more leverage than they have now against a regime that does what it pleases.

Retribution. That's the message. Make them pay.

The other issue is that with voters, especially Asian and Hispanic - the issue is not ICE as an institution. The issue is how Trump has perverted ICE now. Which is why "demand more training" polls much better with those groups than it does the activist class. Plus, it's a possibility.

And they ARE addressing other issues - confronting the regime about ICE, trying to stop Trump from starting wars, etc.

We need to come to terms w the fact that Schumer isn't scoring much higher than Trump on the ol' man-woman-person-camera-television test.

Everything becomes unaffordable under tyrannical rule. The priority has to be to sustain Democracy, even if it means undemocratic behaviour during this wartime. Look around at the so many nations who have been run into extreme poverty by the wannabe “King god”

Democrats everlasting problem will always be their messaging.

Democrats need to keep messaging on everything Republicans are taking away from Americans.

I’m sure you’re aware that affordability is what is affecting 100% of Americans. Not everyone even is aware of the tragedies happening in Minnesota. It’s not on everyone’s radar and democrats will do both. Good grief. 90% of America is not on this app but they are buying food & voted accordingly

Under-rated comment: not a lot of educators on this thread is all I can surmise from that.

Dems are always behind on messaging because the entire media system is there to support right wing talking points. This is what the GOP has been working towards for decades. Most of that country doesn’t know or care what is happening in MN and that is the real tragedy.

We’re entering a wartime economy because the U.S. government is waging war on the American people, on our fucking dime, and stealing everything that isn’t nailed down.

Wayyyyyy deeper & they’re just ignoring it. Just trying to keep their heads down until the election (as if)!

It's insanity. Almost as culpable as the MAGA perpetrators, the Dem elected officials bypass the fact the administration is waging war on our USA by ICE murdering thugs. Bypass Venezuela was invaded to steal oil on the whim of a seditious pedophile. Bypass he has threaten our allies for extortion.

I think the Dems are fucking useless except for maybe two handfuls Pathetic

They really need to message on how this is a Republican problem and stop blaming it all on Trump. If they don't, his enablers will continue to get elected and continue to treat their oaths as optional.

I agree totally. The Democrats can't do much about justice if they don't win elections.

yes, and it's great to focus solely on that if you're running for mayor or even governor. but all campaigning is pandering, and while most folks are disgusted by this, it's not affecting them or their families personally (yet) on national scale. sorry, being more blunt than usual today.

More than one city will be voting.

Not according to the polls. Also, Dems message about other things.

Yeah given the empirical evidence of "Jan 6th was literally televised" and that didn't even slow Republicans down, and then "We all literally know he wants to be a dictator cause he said it on camera" I can't really blame them. They SHOULD fight, but it's still extremely bad.

Where people are meeting fascism it is DEEPLY inspiring, and generally this admin is failing miserably - But I spent all last year believing Americans would do the right thing and what I learned is the group of Americans that swing elections is dominated by people who's heads live in their asses

No, Democrats. They don't approve of it, but they're feeling like they don't know how to fight back. Seriously, people are bruised by the 2024 election, and it has gotten inside their heads.

And yet, look at Mamdani and, a separate issue, Mamdani hype. It's "affordability" with an occasional nod to "Fascism". But asking for a meeting with Trump, a fascist, receiving the meeting, and making statements on cooperation "on affordability" is perfectly fine, "cos "affordability!"

Mainstream media is notorious for talking to people at gas pumps and grocery stores while people are being kidnapped and attacked down the street.

But the consultants!

I called both my senators (Schumer & Gillibrand) yesterday and said: please let me worry about my family’s kitchen table, and you worry about the executive branch refusing to faithfully execute the laws

Millions of Americans would vote for Putin and would support a dictatorship if he wrote them a large check. The "economy" is really the only thing most Americans care about - everything else is secondary.

This 1000000x

Why not message on normalcy? Where we do the work on affordability and respect for people.

I’m a #xenial so I do NOT understand millennials, gen x or z! Can someone explain why we’re allowing this to happen?!?! Why can’t all you fuckers get it together and save us!

Great! We need more than just democrats! And if we can’t connect with leftists and independents then the US is over.

Indeed. There’s an obvious temptation to focus on affordability in isolation. The coherent pro-democracy narrative Democrats must message, however, is that Trumpism is worsening every aspect of American life, from our rights and freedoms to affordability to our security. It’s all interconnected.

Keep fighting for us!!!

Once again, Democrats (looking at you @amyklobuchar.com) talk about the right thing at the wrong time. People in Minnesota aren't just concerned about grocery prices, they're concerned about leaving their homes to even go to the grocery store.

What you’re experiencing is actually the real reason behind the 2nd Amendment despite what all months red necks, including Alito, think.

The leadership of the "opposition" party has been captured by neoliberalism, ineffectual and feckless. Whigs and Know Nothings be like...

Another absolute disaster by Dem leadership and the consultant class. With a dose of lucidity/clarity they could see the solution right in front of their eyes. They won't.

@atrupar.com I pray that you and your family are safe. I know it is horrible in your city right now.

Of course. They're feckless corporatists, but it does represent how Mamdani forced them to shift left on their politics which is a welcomed change compared to the usual rightward drift.

Gee what a mystery.

At what point are victims allowed to protect themselves?

I can't yet imagine what you folks are going through. The silence and lack of anything whatsoever from the dems is unconscionable. I don't give a fuck about my grocery bill when their are actual brownshirts in US neighborhoods.

Their refusal to actually call out the authoritarian and blatantly unconstitutional/illegal actions is making them look more and more pathetic each and every day they make idiotic statements like "how is ice going door, to door lowering grocery costs?"

Sure I'd like affordable healthcare but we have to be alive to actually get to the hospital first.

Who voted “YEA” to create the Department of Homeland Security? Joe Biden Hillary Clinton Chuck Schumer

Democrats are only talking about affordability. Is that what the opposition party did in 1939 Germany?

Yes, and it means that they will have no real reform mandate if they ever regain power. Structural democratic reforms, possibly including a Constitutional Amendment, are the only thing that can prevent a further slide. The problem is not Trump, he is the symptom.

No they don’t. Your problems are affordability. Shut the fuck up and vote democrat

MAGA voted to burn down our country our the price of eggs. It's heartbreaking what Trump and the Republicans are doing .

or just learn how to speak like a human. It’s not that hard to manage 3 ideas in the course of one week they’re still afraid of upsetting any racists & bootlickers

I don't know any progressive who doesn't agree with that. But those in Democratic leadership sure dont. And this is my problem, I can't support Democrats anymore. They're weak and feckless. We need to clear the board because we can't live like this anymore.

Bro shhhhhh they're hiding.

DEM OR NAZI. This isn't complicated.