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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

not only are they not good people, this performative courting of nonexistent integrity is a bizarre waste of everybody's time

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Booker: "There are really good people in the Senate on both sides of the aisle, and I have these private conversations with my colleagues about what's wrong. But they're afraid or unwilling to say these things publicly. And that is the crisis that we're in. It's a crisis of conviction."

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

hey what if instead you called them out for being genuinely unethical and terrible people in a creative and hyperbolic ways that leveraged social media virality and the press' obsession with platforming engagement controversy

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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

democrats spent many years as a performative corporatist opposition party so when authoritarianism came all the structural faults revealed themselves, much like trying to overload a badly designed bridge with too many eighteen wheelers

Better than Ezra Klein (1)
@mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social

Here's the thing... I 100% believe that they are very cordial to Cory Booker. I 100% believe Markwayne Mullen is nice to Kirsten Gillibrand. Liz Cheney and Kamala probably had a few laughs together. And that's why I'm so angry all the time.

wakandangriot.bsky.social
@wakandangriot.bsky.social

To be fair, Liz Cheney had separated herself manifestly from her party, to the extent she helmed investigations into president Trump. Biden gave the eulogy for Strom Thurmond. I’m not crazy about campaigning with Cheney, (it got her nothing), but her demise was the terrible “centrist” campaign.

K-pop Ambassador
@goatsgotohell.bsky.social

I went by the phrase “the worst Democrat is better than the best Republican “ but I honestly cannot believe this anymore. They all suck and our politicians are simply corporate shills in one form or another. If they aren’t when they start, they morph into them in due time. This sucks.

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

I mean fascism will always be worse than performative hollow corporatism and banal corruption, but it's still not much of a choice

Chris
@cjf.bsky.social

Now, now, he can't just call them corrupt AI-loving Republibots who have no souls, backbones, or common decency. Suggesting they're driving up costs while driving down wages in an effort to break the very people they represent is also out. Betting on crypto rather than your kids future, nope nope.