Part of me thinks we do need a major re-haul of leadership and out-front party ambassadors. Part of me thinks the desire to shit on Dems no matter what they do is too strong of allure with too much of an ecosystem propping it up for that to not make much of a different. Still probably a good idea.

Every time on these sites, understandable disappointment and frustration curdle into these maximalist flights of fancy that think politics works like in a movie. Shit is hard, people are complicated, our electoral system and media environment are tough. Individuals just make poor strategic calculus.

The fucking conspiracy thinking on this website is also goddamned wild. They were all in on it! They all coordinated to get a few retiring members to vote yes so they could vote no!

Get a fucking grip. This is just the bumbling reality of messy politics with the coalition we have, man.

As someone who relies on public assistance, I have to say, a lot of Dems need more tolerance for short term pain, even if it's us who are bearing the brunt of it. Because pain is inevitable with this administration, and the weakness of the brand is a bigger problem than getting blamed for pain.

I'm not sure how and when this would have ended otherwise, it was basically a lose-lose-lose situation because that's what happens when we elect sociopathic Rs to majorities. They deserve some credit for fighting in the first place, but lose points for not realizing people want more fight.

But also, I hate being on social media because every time a few Dems do something the extremely tuned in people on here don't like, it's time to start screaming "primary every single one!" Sure. Ok.

I remember him being on Red Eye a bunch. He's a hard one to pin down. Probably a libertarian blowhard who doesn't take any of it too seriously at heart. Still puts on a great show though.

Most of the old punks and indie darlings who went in that direction really aren't surprises when you really think about it. The signs were at least somewhere there.

Yeah, I'm sure the guy who went out of his way to make sure homophobes at his show were uncomfortable and championed a bunch of radical underappreciated/under-known female bands and hated the amoral glare of the spotlight would have just turned into another MAGA creep, that checks out.

Sadly, we're just too late to see an Agnes Varda Poison Ivy.

And somewhere else, there's probably a Robert Moses scheming.

1st: excellent deployment of the reference

2nd: people like this are as tiresome as conservatives in needing to filter absolutely everything through their politics and grievance. Granted P&R has a more explicitly political bent, but very lightly. It seems exhausting.

The only valid art is a d-grade giallo with only one good scene that only 100 people have logged on Letterboxd and a guy on Twitch from a French suburb with a mullet and one man black metal project reading the Communist Manifesto on repeat 12 hours a day while burning pictures of fans' mothers.