A true shot in the arm from PoliticsGirl

[Dem4life1970]

...just keep reminding everyone you know, that they have no mandate.

[viva la]

1. They'll govern like they do--

We saw that in 2001 and 2017.

Shamelessness is their superpower.

[wnylib]

19. Only if the people let them. That's what Politics Girl is saying.

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She is saying that there are enough of us to push back hard because the fascists do not have a mandate.

[Deuxcents]

2. Inspiring message from her..thank you

[WarGamer]

3. Sophistry.

They control the White House and all of Congress... scored an electoral vote win and a popular vote win.

This kind of whitewashing isn't helpful.

I've never understood the allure of these catnip purveyors on social media.

[Dem4life1970]

4. When you know what you are doing...

...it is helpful to control all three branches of government, like the last competent, credible, and highly productive administration from 2021-2025. When you don't, and you build a house of cards on top of a bed of lies, and install incompetent, loyalists to do your dirty work, you end up with....what was the computer saying? Garbage in, Garbage out. They have no idea what they are doing, and their agenda is so unpopular that they ran AWAY from it in the campaign. Now that they have won, they are rolling it out, but guess what? Most people who voted for them, voted for cheaper eggs(?), not facism. Just as their voters FAFO, so too MAGA is going to FAFO when their opinion polls in office once again end up in the toilet. It's coming....

[MayReasonRule]

18. Here's To That Happening.

Time will tell...
It Always does.

[Arthur_Frain]

7. Ima agree.

I normally like this person, but this is some weak sauce we’re scraping up here.

[wnylib]

20. Your name might help you to understand.

There is not a fascist mandate. Many Trump voters don't even want what his regime will try to pull off. They believed his lies when he said that he did not know about or support Project 2025's economic austerity program.

So how will the general population react when he tries to pull it off? When he cancels people's health care, cuts Social Security to ribbons?

[marble falls]

30. Nuffin. They will at most sit out the next election. They'll piss and moan and then blame commies, libruls and dems, ...

... they be the guy in the old joke who lost a ring up the street but was looking for it a block away under a street lamp because the light needed to search is "much better here."

[marble falls]

29. Or the worship of "polls".

[Polybius]

5. I've watched a few of her videos, and every single one is positive (she even though we were winning the ND Senate race!)

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I prefer Dave Pakman. He's more of a realist.

[Wiz Imp]

8. She is so much better than Pakman

You obviously haven't seen very much from her. She is very much a realist and one of the best spokespeople out there for progressives and liberals.

[Polybius]

11. I'll check her out again, I've seen maybe 5 of her videos

I guess this is what turned me off to her, thinking there was a good chance in ND:

[Wiz Imp]

15. I didn't view that as her saying that there was a good chance of winning the ND Senate seat.

but rather as an encouragement for Democrats to try to engage in all elections. She started out talking about the 50-state strategy which was largely responsible for Obama winning in 2008 with a huge senate majority. She's telling people you can't just write anything off as, oh Democrats can never win there. You run good candidates, run good campaigns and get out and support them. Yes, you will likely end up losing most of them, but on occsion you will win. You can't win if you don't even try.

Videos like this show her at her best:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Cqv4bzJLk_w

[Polybius]

16. I think I just disagreed with her saying that we should send money to that race

I urged fellow DUers to concentrate on the tight races, such as OH, WI, ME, PA, etc.

But thank you for the videos! I will watch them during dinner, as I'm home alone tonight!

[HereForTheParty]

6. Their margins in the House and Senate are thin

That will help.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. We need to drive up the price of eggs

Expensive but buy 2x what you need. Toss the extra dozen. The eggshells are good for gardening.

[Sympthsical]

10. So hurt the poor for fun

Just checking to make sure I'm on a Democratic site.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Hurt the poor far less than Trump will, and in order to help the poor

Long game, short game. Politics is a complex business.

[Sympthsical]

13. It's just "Actively cause suffering so I feel vindicated" thinking

Which isn't a particularly liberal or Democratic ideal in my book. It's rage channeled into harm with the patina of justification. Sorry, not signing up for that one.

People aren't listening to themselves. And Trump's effecting full Nietzsche mode in others is getting weird. Trump's going to harm the poor, so I need to harm the poor before he gets the chance?

Yeah . . . that's . . . yeah . . .

[Maru Kitteh]

22. Right? This place is making my eyes bleed lately.

[Blue_Tires]

31. Well, helping them didn't earn their votes

So maybe tough love is in order? 😋

[Callie1979]

26. Its already happening:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/eggs-getting-scarcer-pricier-ahead-210107813.html

[jg10003]

14. they have power, they don't need a mandate.

[wnylib]

21. But without a mandate, they will face an uprising from the people

when their attempts to exercise their power are a bridge too far for people to tolerate.

[stillcool]

27. I think that is what they're counting on

pissing people off, keeping them off-kilter sector by sector... all part of over-throwing a government and drowning it in a bathtub. The end-game, should I live to see it, should be fascinating.

[Dem4life1970]

33. Trump doesn't care, however...

...John Thune wants to be SML and Mike Johnson wants to continue to be SOTH. They care about 2026 and you will start to see that in late 2025. They all remember what happened in 2018...trust me, they do.

[usaf-vet]

17. Right On!

I'm starting to pay closer attention to her.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

23. MAGAs need to stop using the word "mandate"

They don't know what that word means.

[Mike 03]

24. "...and that 90 million potential voters just chose

not to vote at all."

[supergrinch]

25. she must be on to something

she has all the obvious trolls in this thread upset. The same posters that were circle jerking over the post about brooklynite that now got deleted.

[GP6971]

28. Welcome to DU!

[mercuryblues]

32. Things that make you go HMMM

You've been a member of what a day and you already know what happened months ago who did what to who and And your insulting yours DUers As a result.

Please share with us how you manage to do that as a new "Member"