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Figarosmom

(9,988 posts)
4. Your loss and why post that you are pissed
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 07:20 PM
Monday

That it's not up to your standards on how or where it is posted? I don't care.

maxsolomon

(38,295 posts)
5. You should care.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 12:41 PM
Tuesday

I think you should give us a clue why you found important enough to share. As a courtesy to your fellow DUers.

Everyone who shares videos in GD should do the same.

Figarosmom

(9,988 posts)
6. I gave you a clue and the title of the short
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 12:53 PM
Tuesday

Was easy to see.

You may notice that the DU Birthday video is in General Discussion this morning.

As far as I'm concerned I did introduce the short. I'm not going to post the whole point of what the short is about because then what would be the point of posting the short?But point taken.

MineralMan

(150,710 posts)
10. OK. I watched it. The video maker and subject can really talk fast.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 01:46 PM
Tuesday

However, I'm still not sure why I should accept his evaluation of the situation. Who is he? Why should people pay attention to his ideas?

So, the questions are still there. You insulted one of DU's best posters for asking you why we should watch the video you posted. Now, you can insult me, if you wish. I still don't know why I should have watched it. I'm not about to cast aside the current Democratic Party leadership because some fast-talking guy on YouTube says that I should.

Neither should you or anyone else here.

Figarosmom

(9,988 posts)
11. I do not hear him call for the removal
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 02:17 PM
Tuesday

Of Democratic leadership? I didn't insult anyone. I merely don't understand why someone would click on the link and then tell me I didn't do enough to have them click. I am also a longtime member in different illiterations. I have been here since the beginning but in different screen id's due to not being here during the time before my eye surgery and forgetting my screen name and password.

Rich Laguna is of the podcast Ohh That's Rich, a journalist with the education behind him to qualify. He's also one of the guys in the Find Out Podcast.

Here's his bluesky page Ohh that's RICH (@ohhthatsrich.bsky.social) — Bluesky https://share.google/uj6iWvMQOjGPN2kn1

MineralMan

(150,710 posts)
12. What he is is yet another YouTube Influencer.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 02:29 PM
Tuesday

And that's all he is. He has 300-something thousand subscribers to his YouTube channel. He has other online presences, but never reveals his actual name. I looked for it. It's not there. He's more or less anonymous unless you're willing to hunt his name down. I did. I don't care. He's an old MTV "journalist." Well, I'm an old journalist, too, and was a contributing editor for more than one major Computer Magazines. That's meaningless, though, when it comes to my writings about politics, isn't it?

300-something thousand subscribers on YouTube. Impressive? No, not so much. Theres a middle school girl who plays Bass who has a channel. "Ellen Plays Bass" on YouTube. She has almost 700 thousand subscribers. Then, there's a 30-something woman from Holland who rides her motorcycle all over the world. Her channel has over 3 million subscribers.

Neither of those two women talks about politics of course.

I'm not impressed with "Ohh That's Rich." Whoever that is has a lot of opinions about politics, and talks really fast.

When you post a video on DU, the polite thing to do is to offer a bit of a hint about what DUers will find if they click through to the video. I don't normally bother to click when a poster skips doing that. I did this time, and followed up to see what else I could find, after you insulted another DUer upthread. So, I checked. There was nothing in the video that helped me understand anything except that the video-maker talks very fast and has some opinions. It was not worth my time.

Help your fellow DUers out. Give them some information on videos you post. That'd be great!

LudwigPastorius

(14,286 posts)
13. His basic premise: If you campaign with fiery rhetoric (i.e. are a "fighter") then you will win elections regardless...
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 02:49 PM
Tuesday

of your competence in policy or knowledge of how government works.

MineralMan

(150,710 posts)
16. Maybe. Not always.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 03:17 PM
Tuesday

The public, meaning voters, don't always follow that rule, either. It's not that simple, by any means.

What isn't happening is voters thinking about elections and what they will mean. That a bloated man with dementia got elected twice is plenty of evidence of that. Will voters finally learn that lesson? I have no idea any longer. At 80 years of age, I'm getting closer to not having any role to play, either way. It's frustrating to see the country I've been part of wandering so widely as it goes along. You'd think we would have learned something over the past 80 years. Perhaps not. Maybe I'm overestimating the rationality of the population in general.

I'm not able to do much with regard to campaigns and elections any longer, so I guess I'll just have to cast my vote and watch the parade pass.

I hope people will wake up. I hope that for their sake. I didn't make any replacements for myself. Sometimes, now, I'm even more glad of that.

Figarosmom

(9,988 posts)
15. His name is Rich Laguna
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 03:06 PM
Tuesday

He is out of Milwaukee and a Democratic reporter.

As far as influences go they are important as you may have noticed with trumps campaign.

And as far as insults I felt I was the one being insulted. But okay, whatever. I don't want to argue. Also how you comprehend what he said in his video is not how I heard it.

There are many on here snd bluesky that know who he is and like him. He also has a following on substack. The Findout Podcast is popular and has many good discussions.

MineralMan

(150,710 posts)
17. Follow whomever you like.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 03:19 PM
Tuesday

But, please show some consideration for others at DU and offer more information when you post videos. If you want people to click on what you present, I recommend that you give them better reasons to so so. That's the polite thing to do.

Bread and Circuses

(1,669 posts)
3. Agree.
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 06:29 PM
Monday

The party that we thought that represented us …..is not meeting the moment.

They have two gentleman who are leaders in Congress and they are bench warmers, have their allegiance to the donor class.

I’m voting for the courageous and brave and will vote out incumbents who have been shuffling their feet.


I can’t say more because I may get dinged.

Bettie

(19,339 posts)
7. This one made me feel a little bit of hope
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 01:00 PM
Tuesday

and that is worth the few minutes it took to watch.

Thanks!

Kid Berwyn

(23,312 posts)
8. We need fighters.
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 01:00 PM
Tuesday

"People vote for fighters, not policy writers."

Agree 100-percent!

Thank you for a great post and message, Figarosmom!

bigtree

(93,480 posts)
9. it's a binary political system of elections where one party is trying to either own or kill you
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 01:20 PM
Tuesday

...and the other, our Democratic party, outperforms even itself when in the majority.

This drivel supposes that THEY (the drivelers) need convincing which party to support.

Or, even stupider, that the people supporting Trump give a shit what either leader says.

Who needs convincing that Trump is out of control? Who needs the leaders to perform for them?

The function that the Democrats in their respective bodies voted to two leaders to perform is to organize THEIR votes, so pretending that these Dem leaders are some kind of autocrats is a misunderstanding of their role.

I mean, who wants the Senator or rep they sent to Congress to be dictated down to by anyone? That's not how elections work and that's not the expection they bring into their elected office. These leaders represent their membership, period. Not the other way around.

Any gripe someone has with their messaging is a diversion from the people they represent in what they convey to the press and the public.

Moreover, this campaigining against the Democratic leadership is pretending like their removal from the leadership is a function of voters; trying to actually unseat members who vote and represent the issues and the Democratic agenda as effectively as anyone in their respective states and districts.

Indeed, the two Dem leaders we have in Congress are as progressive or more progressive than the membership as a whole; the people who put them in the leadership. What critics expect to change about the collective votes of the membership, by changing the leader THEY elect, is baffling to me.

This navelgazing is conterproductive, misinforming, and just a waste of political energy that is better spent focusing on the people we elected who actually disagree with their critics.

The falderal from this fellow about some, "chasm of conviction between progressive policies and Democratic party leaders..."

Where do they disagree? The latest canard about their views on ICE was a false and suspiciously misleading one that supposes their personal views expressed to the public and press are more important than the consensus they arrive at among the people they are charged to represent in their respective houses of Congress.

Moreover, these performative expectations are coming from people who don't have one speck of responsibility, and express ZERO concern or responsibility for the ultimate lever of control and messaging which is OUR votes in the upcoming election to ensure a Democratic majority.

That's something that many Democratic voters and many others professing concern about the fascists in power in the republican party FAILED to effect in the last election. pretending like that's up to Jeffries and Schumer; or pretending like something short of electing a majority of Democrats is a solution in another round of delusion and sophistry about them saying just the right thing to convince THEM to go to the polls.

The people we need scolding are the ones who were sanguine or acted butt-hurt in the last election; easily misled by the shit-talking against Biden or Harris about the economy Trump cratered before they arrived; or blaming Democrats for the supply chains that Trump let collapse during his pandemic; or for whatever some working class voter thought they needed to hear from the only sane people in the race; whatever fuck-all reason they sat out and didn't vote for the Democrarts running; none of that is the responsibility of the Democratic leadership.

More like some like of mental illness on the part of those voters, and they either need to seek professional help for that, or get up off of their ass and support Democrats.

TWO parties; one of them is trying to either own you or kill you. OUR CHOICE.

betsuni

(28,797 posts)
14. He's selling division. Goals of Dem Party and whoever he's selling are the same. That's why character attacks
Tue Jan 20, 2026, 02:55 PM
Tuesday

and pretending there's huge ideological differences. "But inspiration" too authoritarian.

I do hope "standardized" Democrats is the new insult replacing "establishment" because over ten years of this bullshit is very boring and they need a new script.

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