I honestly fear for next year, at least congressionally. These people suck at their job so bad.
Every DNC/DCCC/DSCC person who remembers the Clinton years and thinks that was good politics needs to be purged.
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I honestly fear for next year, at least congressionally. These people suck at their job so bad.
Every DNC/DCCC/DSCC person who remembers the Clinton years and thinks that was good politics needs to be purged.
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absolutely. at least the professional democratic class does. they have no ideological project and freak out when in power.
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We really need to start building state power. its really hard for even the republicans to overturn states (really only the courts do). its how the republicans came back from death after bush. also state activists actually have skin in the game. these losers will still be drinking with their lanyards in Rosslyn tonight
I'm half convinced they legitimately love being framed as the "saviors of the country" fighting back against Republicans in power and can't wait to be under the boot again
this is some "Paul Ryan tweeting about an employee getting a $1.50 weekly raise after the tax cut, as if it's something meaningful" shit
I can have an issue and worries for the midterms for a myriad of reasons (history being one). But this is about as benign and unimportant as it comes. I don't think I will ever get fully accustomed to taking these tweets likely made by some intern seriously. Its goofy like nearly everything else on these minute to minute platforms.
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randomly work on a campaign wins and ride the coattails. or be a kid of a fundraiser.
also, from experience. lots of casting couch-like sleeping for a job (not lying)
"Yeah uhhh, just expand the prices the the thousandths place, even though there's no currency less than a penny, and then make the Y axis numbers increment by a half cent! It'll show huge progress!!"
The problem is that this mistake is endemic of an overlying problem with the Democratic Party in that they're A.) celebrating giving people scraps and B.) have absolutely no idea how to connect with voters and do what they were actually elected to.
Republican voters sure as shit are getting their votes worth!
Wow it's all the way down from the over 5$ it was according to every news article covering inflation.
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Great! Now we can all more easily afford to drive across state lines to have access to abortion that your party failed to protect.
I guess my reaction is based on me believing that its completely unlikely that whoever typed that tweet with that graph has any say or input on policy decisions, any real power over outreach and grassroots operations, and certainly not any connection to or responsibility for historic design/trends involving the party celebrating the insignificant.
As soon as I think about it even a little, I just can't escape the idea that its probably some low wage employee tasked with the account. And that feeling an extreme, one way or the other, for anything posted is akin to telling the teenaged CSR at my ISP that "You guys and your policies make me sick". The sentiment is legit, and the complaints have merit; but the focus/target just isn't adequate. But I admit this might just be me failing to fight off the cynicism monster. Who knows, maybe something can come of it or be learned from a social media backfire.
What kinda returns financially do you get sleeping for a job? Is it usually an ongoing thing(weekly, monthly) or is it kinda one and done then just being amiable with the slimeball
I'm pretty sure it's a ill planned out little shot at the press coverage and their histrionics about gas prices like when Wolf Blitzer intentionally took a picture 9f the most expensive gas station in DC to tsl tsk the White House
But sure it could also be exposing the entire Democratic party's Machiavellian plot to intentionally lose elections on purpose because of some hive mind villain plot
stay consistent on message and dominate the news cycle!
pocketbook issues!
Like not everyone that sucks, but the main qualification for those jobs is to have connections to politicians or rich people, and/or being good and fundraising.
And what really bugs me is that they all rely on absurd amount of unpaid labor for their campaigns, but those useless assholes get rich being terrible at their very important job.
The amount of well paid mediocracy that exists within the political parties in the US is just staggering.
pocketbook issues!
This is not really a hot take. You see those people on CNN, and that's like the cream of the crop of that profession.
Like not everyone that sucks, but the main qualification for those jobs is to have connections to politicians or rich people, and/or being good and fundraising.
And what really bugs me is that they all rely on absurd amount of unpaid labor for their campaigns, but those useless assholes get rich being terrible at their very important job.
The amount of well paid mediocracy that exists within the political parties in the US is just staggering.
Very much true in my limited experience (which is all outside looking in and friends) but I want to drill down a bit on one point -
Not randomly work a campaign, you need a campaign position where you get to work directly with the candidate or maybe senior people in the campaign.
I want to make that distinction because I've met people who believe you can get into politics by knocking on doors or phone banking. And seriously, that ain't it. But the campaigns half sell it as such.
