Ironic given that Luigi just had his terrorism charges dismissed.

It feels like we’re near or possibly over the precipice of losing our democracy

I’d just caution our friends to the north and those across the pond that when I look at people like Carney and Starmer I see people as bad or worse than Biden and then I look at who’s waiting in the wings…

I’m not a politician or political consultant. These people are supposed to be good at their jobs so they should come up with something, but here goes:

First of all they need to get rid of Jefferies and Schumer. They are both horrible communicators who can’t even begin to match Trump’s charisma. I’m not sure who in the house, Sanders is the obvious senate leader. Insane they don’t have anyone younger and more dynamic but there we are.

Secondly, they need to define a positive vision for the future of this country. The only person doing that right now is Mamdami. They need to embrace his style of politics and contrast themselves with the Republicans as a party of optimism with ideas.

Thirdly, they need to start fighting tactically with Trump. The democrats are currently freaking out because the Republicans are going to force a vote honoring Charlie Kirk. What the democrats should do is

1. table an amendment altering the resolution to honor Kirk, the Hortmans, and all victims of political violence
2. table an amendment to honor the children killed in Colorado and all school shootings this year
3. table an amendment outlawing the granting of military honors to civilians who never served

Force the republicans to vote each of those down, then vote against the resolution saying that the Republicans aren’t serious about combating violence and also (by the way) dishonor our troops.

I know military members and point number 3 is a serious fault in Trump’s coalition that should be exploited.

They also need to condemn Israel’s actions in Gaza understanding that 80 percent of democrats and at least 40 percent of Republicans would be with them.

Fourth they need to go after Trump’s Media crackdown using every lever they have. Hold hearings, etc. In particular they need to focus on Sinclair Broadcasting and its nextstar merger.

Finally, they need to have a laser focus on putting together an all-star winning plan going into the midterms, they need to focus on base energy and turnout. They need to start building their ground game now, understanding that Trump will likely take control of the media and social media. They should be putting together alternate grasroots communication networks and figuring out how to get the word out. Again, they need to quit with the machine politics and focus on finding the best candidates who can win elections not whoever’s turn it is. They should dust off Howard Dean’s old “50 state” strategy and quit trying to force creeply glowies like Slotkin on us.

“We’ve done nothing and we’re all out of ideas.”

Understanding that the right wing extremist government in the United States is attempting to squash free speech but it makes less sense that the Labour government of the UK would do its bidding. Have they tried putting a Human Rights lawyer in charge?

Time for Canadians to wake up to the fact that their politicians are all trained seals answering to Washington?

Most sailboats only seem to have that one Jimmy Buffet song on board so…

Which is why it is very important that voters never be given the chance to choose it.

I’ve noticed that half the media freakout is mid-level political commentators coming to terms with the idea that they can also be victims.

The fact that a lot of left commentators are realizing this along with the rightoids is a little disturbing because where have they been in the last several decades of escalating right-wing violence?

I didn’t know him by name but by the “prove me wrong” meme. He was a mid-tier grifter on the way down with the likes of Fuentes in the way up. The key thing is he had a lot of access to Trump.

Is U of T forgetting what country it’s in? 😒

They “think” the country is at war with them the way Nazi Germany “thought” Poland attacked their radio station.

If Peter Theil’s neck explodes on camera do we have to be horrified?

Do you think his blood is red?

Will we have to memory-hole all the shit he said about being the antichrist and being “transhumanist”?

Will there be a government directed red scare purge even after it comes out that the killer was a slightly different faction of violent right extremist?

Will we just completely ignore the concurrent school shooting because those are happening all the time now and aren’t even worth commenting on unless the killer is trans and it can be incorporated into the culture war?

Someone with more time than me could easily do an entertaining mashup of Kirk and Mussolini quotes

I always thought i was left, but seeing how a lot of people on the left gleefully react to someone’s assasination makes me wonder if i’m actually left.

I don’t mourn Benito Mussolini’s passing, i never liked him. But i certainly don’t celebrate his murder either. Anyone who does should be put in a mental asylum as far as i’m concerned. They certainly have mental health problem

Probably closer to like the Sergei Kirov killing actually.

Yeah they’re still insisting that the guy who murdered the Hortmans is a “democrat” despite him having right-wing signifies all over him, because he got himself onto a state panel once.

I bet they’ll scour this guys history to find him saying something good about Dennis Kucinich on some forum in 2015 or something to prove that he’s really an antifa sleeper agent.

White guy from an extremely mormon town. Clearly this was leftist.

I guess the right wing outrage machine is going to flip back to the subway stabbing now?

Good point. Everyone is assuming Charlie Kirk was only a piece of shit in his professional life. He could have been one recreationally too.