The Democratic Party's Slide Into Irrelevance

Don't know anything about the guy other than what is posted here and I am seeing he served in the military, has a Nazi tattoo and wants to tax the rich and universal healthcare.

I don't think the dems and lefties are going to agree to back up the truck on this guy. But that is the reason why this OP exists.

NN, where would you rank Graham (1-10) on preferred Kings to take control of the helm?

You can check the UHC box but Nazi Germany also had state supported healthcare.

He's advocating for domestic run business minus the global corporate element, but he'd only be off on that mark by not making them Aryan only owned.

I don't know enough about him.

If I had to choose someone, I would probably choose Johan Rockstrom as the king with the final say. I'd like Bill Gates to be the CEO and Jon Stewart to be the press secretary.

Rockstrom has the skillset to understand how the planet as a whole needs to be sustainably managed. Gates has both the experience running a giant successful company and the credibility of caring about people who don't have a lot of money. Stewart is a great communicator.

Jeff Bezos would be a good candidate to be responsible for resource distribution and allocation. The Chief Logistics Officer. Elon Musk could be the Chief Engineering Officer. These people have undeniable talent and drive ..... let's put it to good use for the benefit of the species as a whole instead of for the purpose of elevating themselves and maximizing unnecessary consumption.

So, your answer is to put multi-billionaires and Comedy Central performers in charge. What could possibly go wrong?

How much are you going to pay Bezos for this job?

Comedy Central performers definitely seem more intelligent and sane than the Fox News performers running things now.

I'll take Gutfeld over Stewart.

I wonder how much of Mark Levin's salary is paid by AIPAC?

Rise up for Mamdani's aunt, the real victim of 9/11

I don't think we would lose any of your pessimism if we instead said no one cares about anything other than their material well being, however they see that. I think a politician would want lead out of the water if his kids are drinking it and not just to avoid medical bills.

But when you say no one do you mean the politicians? Because other participants, like voters, vote against their own interests all the time. You can easily find interviews with Trump supporters who now lament that their own trusted and valued immigrant employees are being kidnapped and shipped out of the country. What were they thinking? Not about lining their pockets.

There are different what are called "sociological perspectives" that model the meta dynamics shaping society. Through one of these you might look at things through a material struggle of elites vs. workers. Or another perspective is called symbolic interactionist, which I personally think explains a lot more, especially the phenomenon of people voting against their economic interests. I think this perspective is used to exploit the masses and, actually, keep them from thinking only about their pockets. If everyone just thought about lining their pockets we would just vote to take away the trillions of dollars hoarded by the rich and give it to ourselves, but that's not on the table or even wafting out from the kitchen. You should google symbolic interactionist perspective.

He never said that I get how its taken out of context and he might have mentioned the 3000+ that died

Mamdani will win and will se how New York goes. Mamdani reminds me of a Justin Trudeau on his first campaign run Very Charismatic a great speaker promising the world . sadly Trudeau destroyed the country for generations to come .

Mamdani is a fraud. And what has he ever accomplished? A lot of this outrage against him could be fake too. It's a cat and mouse game where the establishment keeps finding new ways to mask its agents. We had Obama who ran as a progressive, but in retrospect his billionaire sponsors should have been a red flag. Then you had AOC and her ilk who didn't take money from AIPAC but still vote the party line and against their espoused values. We should have kinda known she was a fraud by the mere amount of media exposure she got. AOC was in politics, a staffer for someone with a big name, then she goes away and comes back to beat some long time incumbent who doesn't even fight back? And you find out she is connected to Cenk from TYT. We won't get fooled by that again so what's next? If the establishment acts like they hate someone this gives them the bono fidas needed to win (to then do the establishment's bidding).

And then there is the media. When the oligarchs want to quiet you they just have the media ignore you. They were actually scared of Bernie for a second and you can tell because they tried to act like he didn't exist. Nobody gets pub unless they are approved. And do you see Mamdani trying to share the limelight with some obscure socialists? Nope. But he's a socialist, right? Nope.

I am really looking forward to the sanders/AOC v newsome debate 1-2 years from now

I already have an aoc tattoo on my left buttcheek.

Assuming Mamdani wins, I wonder how much (if any) effect his success or failure will have on the 2028 races?

I don't see why it actually should have any effect on federal races. It should be more relevant to mayoral races in other big cities.

Anything is possible but what would the real Mamdanis and AOCs look like?

I don't think Obama was really much of a progressive at all tbh. He seemed rather centrist to me with his "progressive" side really just being able to speech well.

AOC really just doesn't know much of anything, but that isn't needed, and she is going to evolve into whatever she saw trending on SM before she got into congress and whatever her peeps do once she's inside - but I'd agree that she is overrated which I guess gives credence to her being CIA or something.

But really, what’s the CIA supposed to gain from having her climb the ranks? They’re going to stage this big complex operation around a young congresswoman just so she can tone down a few anti‑war takes and drift a little toward the center once she’s in office to accomplish what again? But that's why it would be nice for some people to realize that there is a big difference between Bernie and AOC on basically everything that matters.

...Im also seeing that Nick is possibly CIA. I am seeing a pattern here. It's either that the CIA is really working hard with some incredible skills and reach to accomplish absolutely nothing of value, or they aren't

I thought the Democratic party was the party of science and professional expertise?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-30/firefighters-ordered-to-leave-smoldering-palisades-burn-site

Los Angeles Times

Days before Palisades inferno, firefighters were ordered to leave smoldering burn site

They were almost certainly ordered to “roll up the hoses” due to budgetary concerns; possibly also conflicts with mandatory DE—err, non-firefighting related training.

One can speculate what parts of the LAFD budget have had the highest cost increases since, say, January 2017. There’s no need to speculate that during any upcoming hearings the primary explanation given for the various failings leading to the disaster will be lack of federal funds, and the primary solution offered to prevent future disasters will be an increase in federal funding.

Of note from the article: the former chief is still employed by LAFD, and is suing over ‘her’ demotion.

What does this have to do with the Democratic Party, or anything to do with politics? The fire chief isn't an elected position, and I can't find anything about Villanueva being a member of any party.

Trump is a billionaire and a TV actor. It can't get worse than him.

Gates formed and ran an organization with tens of thousands of employees which won the competition to revolutionize the world.

Unlike Trump, Stewart is not a compulsive liar.

It's a prestigious job with a lot of responsibility if he wants it. If he doesn't want it, someone else can do it.

It's a prestigious job with a lot of responsibility if he wants it. If he doesn't want it, someone else can do it.

I am well aware that you'd rather just use the guy for slave labor like some of your other comrades for your own personal agenda, but the Chief Logistics Officer of the entire world would be a pretty stressful and detail-oriented job? Are you paying him anything or is the prestige part of it worth enough?

What if the guy was a rookie up and comer with no money other than talent as opposed to already having a quarter trillion in the bank. What will you pay him or her for this position?

What's interesting is how a lot of your language throughout the 12 threads has aligned with the plantation owners of the 1800s and old school medieval kings.

It will be a true honor to sacrifice my life for the good of your idiotic takes of the world.