Here’s the same thing I said the other day, only far more amusingly.
Where is the Democratic leadership? We’ve got a couple of do-nothings like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries doing their best to dodge responsibility, rather than standing up and fighting back. The Democrats have no coherent policy on health care to oppose the quacks who have taken over our scientific institutions, and on the issue of immigration, they seem to be Republicans Lite. I dread the next election — I’ll be voting against every Republican on the ballot, but I won’t be enthused about voting for the opposition.
OK, I’m warming to Tim Walz.
Also, I really, really dislike Fallon — he’s a childish suck-up.
From a outsider perspective, it is because the Democrats are a right wing party competing with an extreme right party. As for “next elections”, I wouldn’t hold my breath. The USA has already removed the right to vote to a large percentage of the population (most married women), in the next 3 years the current administration is going to expand to other groups.
Never seen Fallon to know about him but I have seen, regularly watch and love Stephen Colbert, John Oliver esp on yt and previously sometimes episodes of James Corden when that show was on.
Oh and also David Letterman decades ago when it was on late at night and I was half asleep and didn’t want to disturb the cat from my lap and was too settled to move so kept on watching after then-new episodes of Star Trek : The Next Generation i.e. the one with Picard, Data, Riker & Deanna Troi..
If nothing else, they give us much needed laughter at the tyrants and powerful’s expense and their popularity and theimpactr that it has on the public is kinda shown by the backlash to Kimmel’s sacking.
If nothing else the mob demands its circuses – and, sadly, will vote for klowns of the unfunny – at least not intentionally funny – variety.
Where are the democrats? Answer: panicking over the fact that their “leadership”, which is all the ones currently in office, with very few exceptions, are losing their jobs to “radicals”, who they then try, desperately, to sideline. There is change coming, but, like with everything Trump is doing, no one in the media, is talking about it, and the Democrat’s leaders are just doing what they always do – grifting for more money with emails saying, “We are all about to lose. Donate now and some rich donor promises to double it!” Now, whether or not the result of this will actually be, or be allowed to be, a less right wing party…
I think the current Democratic leadership view Republicans being in charge as the just punishment that voters receive for not electing them. As a result, they see doing anything to oppose the Republicans as letting the voters off easy, as protecting them from the consequences of their own bad decision. They want you to learn that nothing better is possible, and you have to support them or things will get permanently worse, and if they ever fixed anything or made any real effort to check the power of the Republicans, they would be giving up leverage. Plus, if they accepted the idea that voters have any right to expect anything of them, then they would have to admit that they had been doing a bad job, and that in turn would mean changing their behavior, which would cost them big in terms of donor bucks.
@evandrofisico: I feel the same. As a European I am always amused when the Democrats are called “left-wing” in American news; here even their “radicals” would be considered bang in the centre.
I still can’t get over how Jeffries said at a press conference that he and Schumer were going to have a “good faith” discussion with Trump, and then a couple hours later, to no one who has been paying the slightest bit of attention’s surprise, Trump posts a racist ai-generated video of them. Hard to imagine two dumber, more spineless people in leadership of a so-called “opposition” party right now
@ ^ Hex :Allow me to introduce you to the “leaders” of the ldregs of the leftovers n Australia’s LNP and even worse -although much moe anonymous the leaders of the South Aussie Liberal “opposiion” parties..