General Discussion

and then all through 2024, Republicans refrained from saying they would support the election result. Essentially their message was, "Yes we will support the election results IF it is a free an fair election."

Of course what that meant is, "We will only support the election results if we win, but if we do not, then we will attack the result by saying it was rigged."

I know you are aware of this double standard. Our problem as a party is we don't seem to have a spine. To my mind at this point there is nothing to lose. We need to do the same thing the Newtster and other GOP dirtbags decided to do to Obama on his inauguration night. They met in a DC steakhouse and decided to oppose EVERYTHING the Democrats did in lockstep. No matter what. Solid no votes always. If the Dems said the sky is blue, nope, the GOP would say it is green. They didn't do anything and voted straight party line for years.

All this time, our institutionalist leaders still made mouth sounds about working across the aisle.

Instead of that we need to unleash the progressive wing of the party, get in there and ram it down their throats. When Pelosi chose a 74 year old recovering from esophageal cancer INSTEAD of AOC for Ways and Means that was bullshit. We need to get down in the trenches, take off the gloves and make the Trumpies fight tooth and nail for ever single inch. Make every little thing they try to do hurt. Drag it out. Oppose it. Vote no in lockstep.

This new immigrant act that just got passed is a prime example. We should have voted no accross the board.

Anyway, look at how much of a Wall Street rathole our election financing has become. Harris collected over $1 billion from us and still lost. You know who won? Wall Street financiers and fund managers. They saw MASSIVE PROFITS for shareholders happen because of election season - all our mainstream media is publicly traded, which means the fiduciary responsibility senior people at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, WSJ, WaPo, NYT, and the rest is ONLY to generate profits for shareholders, NOTHING about truth in news. And lest you reposte by bringing up Rachel, Lawrence, Chris Hayes and 'the gang' at MSNBC, they are only still on the air because they generate PROFITS for Comcast through high ratings.

Trumpy started back in February 2020 harping on how our elections are 'a mess' and this constant lip noise, amplified by Fox and hate-talk radio, served to finish what Reagan began back in 1981 by saying government isn't the solution, it is the problem. This served to systematically undermine the confidence of Americans in the very intstitutions we count on in a republic.

I believe the GOP systematically suppressed votes in this election (they cheated) on 1,000 different fronts and it was enough to tilt it in favor of Trumpy just enough for him to win.