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..
Im increasingly annoyed at all the people who want to blame the democrats for the torrent of fascism and the impending government shut down. Are ye daft?
Blame the fascists! Blame the fucking media.
Blame the goddamned republicans in Congress.
Go blow up their phone lines with ire at the republican utter failure to check and balance the orange turd.
The Dems are doing everything in their power as a minority party to stop millions from losing their healthcare, but the media somehow isn’t reporting on all the imminent destruction of hospitals in rural America due to the republicans “ budget” which benefits only the very wealthy.
We’re told that after the war
The Nazis vanished without a trace
But battalions of fascists
Still dream of a master race
The history books they tell
Of their defeat at ’45
But they all came out of the woodwork
On the day the Nazi died
They say the prisoner at Spandau
Was a symbol of defeat
Whilst Hess remained imprisoned
And the fascists, they were beat
So the promise of an Aryan world
Would never materialize
So why did they all come out of the woodwork
On the day the Nazi died
The world is riddled with maggots
The maggots are getting fat
They’re making a tasty meal of all
The bosses and bureaucrats
They’re taking over the boardrooms
And they’re fat and full of pride
And they all came out of the woodwork
On the day the Nazi died
So if you meet with these historians
I’ll tell you what to say
Tell them that the Nazis
Never really went away
They’re out there burning houses down
And peddling racist lies
And we’ll never rest again
Until every Nazi dies
@ ^ dregs .. Respectively Sussan (not a typo – for once, yes really) Ley :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussan_Ley
& .. um, who is it again.. ? Oh yeah, Vincent “not an actual tarsier*” Tarzia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Tarzia
.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier might almost actually vote for one of those and would at least be a bit better option..
I do wonder where people get such nonsense information as this.
No. This is completely false. Why would you make such ridiculous claims?
In any case, the court jesters have always been on the front lines of power and influence.
Schumer is the US Senate Democratic Party leader.
He is also the poster boy or rather the Poster Old White Guy for useless, at age 74.
When the USA is desperately searching for leadership, Schumer is nowhere to be found. Even a Zombie would be more active.
There are some Democratic Party leaders that have stepped up though, They are mostly iignored by the Mainstream Media.
A few.
Gavin Newsom Governor California
Pritzker Governor of Illinois
Adam Schiff Senator California
Chris Van Hollen Senator Maryland
Patty Murray Senator Washington.
Jasmine Crockett US Representative Texas
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez US Representative NY
There are many more.
One of the up and coming young candidates is Kat Abughazaleh, running for the House from near Chicago, Illinois. She makes the point that the time to oppose the fascists is right now.
I’m impressed.
I blame the fascists, but I can still be frustrated with the limp response of many alleged “allies.” I can also pay closer attention to those politicians who do respond appropriately and hold them up as role models for others to follow and recommend future actions.
Walking and chewing gum aren’t mutually exclusive activities. From what I’ve seen, the people who routinely whine about blame against weak Democrats are stuck in the past to avoid doing anything in the present or for the future. They want their past actions (and inaction) to be justified for the “I told you so” energy, not to figure out and do the right thing now.
@7 Hex – 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,
I read that the other day and could only think: How the hell can you still believe Trump is capable of “good faith” anything? That is definitely insane thinking at this point.
The ongoing actions and rhetoric of Trump preclude the concept that he could operate in good faith. The continued belief that it is possible tells me they are disconnected from reality.