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brush

(61,033 posts)
1. Excellent and thought provoking. And the fact that Dems are winning special elections...
Thu May 29, 2025, 07:30 AM
May 2025

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all over does not bode well for rethugs. Their extinction event is getting close. The mid-terms will tell us even more.

Chi67

(1,274 posts)
2. Exactly
Thu May 29, 2025, 08:14 AM
May 2025

He’s right. This is what the GQP has always been about. It certainly was never about the economy. Because clearly they don’t care about that.

BumRushDaShow

(165,874 posts)
4. I've been saying this since the election
Thu May 29, 2025, 08:30 AM
May 2025

but what he didn't mention that made it worse, was Harris actually becoming a VP after 45 lost the 2020 election. IOW, he lost to a "black/Asian woman".

And the one who is the tie between Obama (the original source of their wrath) and Harris (the latest source of their wrath that left them too stunned to even mention her)?

JOE BIDEN, who they have continued to pummel non-stop, 24/7/365.

Biden has been considered to be and slimed by the bigots as the proverbial "n***er lover".

Forget the "economics" shit. They're not listening to "economics". They would rather live in a shack with no indoor plumbing (and many of them do) so long as they can exact "revenge" on "the other" (Blacks, Jews, LGBTQ+, Hispanics, Asians, Indigenous, immigrants, differently-abled, non-Christians, and so on - and don't count "poor" when including a "poor White" because they consider the "poor White" higher on their ladder than anyone who is a minority).

LSparkle

(12,122 posts)
6. This gives me hope (something in short supply for me)
Thu May 29, 2025, 08:36 AM
May 2025

They are afraid and angry. They know what’s coming but their triumphalism at “owning the libs” isn’t joyful ... because they know deep inside it can’t last. The dam is going to break — bring it on.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
7. Based on brush's comment I watched. He has a very perceptive take which leads to strength to sustain our movements
Thu May 29, 2025, 08:38 AM
May 2025

I don't usually watch these random kind of videos, but he's right. That is an observation from experimental psychology with pigeons and he illustrates it with a very human behaviour we've all experienced -- been there done that.

Then the conclusion he draws regarding maga racism is spot on. We can also call it "rearguard action" and "last gasp" and "death throes", even though the actions impact lots of people and inflict lots of pain. But this guy's analogy is very good, better than those.

He lays it out directly and clearly without the usual kind of wasted verbiage we hear in so many posted videos here.

in2herbs

(4,243 posts)
9. I watch all of the videos that he gets posted on DU. I think he's great!! The summary in this video is
Thu May 29, 2025, 08:59 AM
May 2025

spot on.

With regards to this upcoming extinction he talks about, in addition to behaviors, there's some human content that needs to go extinct as well.

Martin Eden

(15,367 posts)
12. There's a difference between behavior and deeply rooted grievance
Thu May 29, 2025, 09:24 AM
May 2025

Since the passage of Civil Rights and Voting Rights legislation there has been considerable progress in racial justice, though the struggle was far from over before Trump came along. Progress has also been made on gender rights over the decades.

That doesn't mean that people were cured of racial, gender, and religious bigotry. However, open expression of these age-old hatreds became less tolerated in public and business spheres. The BEHAVIOR changed somewhat, but grievance over the inhibition of behavior simmered.

Then Trump came along. He validated and liberated those behaviors, and they love him for it. Changing deeply rooted cultural bigotry is a longer term challenge than inhibiting behaviors by altering rewards.

FAFO is more likely to change electoral outcomes, as people can easily connect the dots between their real world pain and the actions of the current administration. Perhaps not among the cultists, but they alone are not the margin of victory.

progressoid

(52,599 posts)
15. I wish I had his optimism.
Thu May 29, 2025, 03:54 PM
May 2025

Unfortunately, they control the media and the narratives.

We need someone as charismatic as Obama or Bernie or ? to take over the narratives. Someone who the corporate media can't manipulate.

Figarosmom

(9,784 posts)
16. Much of theirmedia
Thu May 29, 2025, 05:13 PM
May 2025

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Is beginning to lose listeners. Midis Touch has out ranked them all in podcasts for the last 3 or 4 months. Charlie Kirk lost his last debate badly as did that church guy peterson who said a woman that calls the cops on an abusive husband is evil. Little by little.👍

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