shrewd political operator

Could mean he knows how to get things done. Could mean that he has little to no ideological consistency. Usually a mixture of both but mostly the latter.

incremental progress

Usually 1 step forward when already 5 behind the rest of the world. Incrementalists are usually willing to trade 3 steps back to fascists negotiating in bad faith in the name of holy bipartisanship.

a progressive who is not willing to let perfect get in the way of good.

You mean a Neoliberal incrementalist trying to pretend to be a progressive while continuing to work for billionaires and their corporations against the working class?

Source: was well connected

I bet you were!

Sounds like you’re describing a carbon copy of Jeffries. There’s already way too many of those kind of politicians in Dem leadership. That’s why they lost every part of government to fascists.

Speaker House Minority Leader Jeffries

Is the last person to talk about billionaires and other things that shouldn’t exist:

Ben Wikler, Wisconsin Dem Party Chair who’s a front runner for DNC chair

Another hypocrite pretending to be against oligarchy while being backed by oligarchs

Ken Martin, Minnesota DFL Chair, also a front runner for DNC chair

This guy looks promising, but there’s little to no donor information readily available on him, so grounds for cautious optimism at best.

James Skoufis, NY 42nd District State Senator

Again little to no public donor disclosure, which is very ominous for a state Senator from NY of all states…

TL;DR: Dem leadership consists mainly of hypocrites who are as beholden to billionaires as their (much worse in almost all other aspects) fascist colleagues.

Democrats and the media need to stop acting like anyone cares about “muh norms”

That’s the thing, though: the Dem leadership and the billionaire owned establishment media care about 3 things above all else.

In ascending order of priority: norms, institutions, maximizing their own wealth and influence.

They pretend to care about truth, justice, fairness, dismantling the orphan crushing machine, and all that, but that’s mostly just a performance to gaslight the poors.

You’re 100% right about everything else, though.

Mere hours after Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed off the public option in a 2009 interview with CNN, a top UnitedHealthcare lobbyist sent out an email to various Washington insiders inviting them to a $2,400-per-person “event with Speaker Pelosi at my home.”

And people keep insisting on pretending that the Dem leadership cares about the working class 🤦🤬

Dem committees have an uncanny knack for confirming what everyone has known for a year and a half and then doing effectively nothing about it.

Still faster than the Garland DOJ, though.

True. Betty White was hilarious until the end. Schumer, on the other hand, has never been known for great wit…

Maybe. Should still step down, though.

If he thinks 93 to 3 and 76 to 20 is close, it’s probably time to step down and let someone who’s not a 74yo shill for fossil fuel interests get a say…

far-right fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD)

European populist-right fascist politicians, including Italian Prime Minister and Mussolini devotee Giorgia Meloniand Reform UK leader and inbred British bigotry incarnate Nigel Farage

Fixed it.

Here’s hoping! 🤞

Unfortunately, spaceships are mostly for bad guys now. A tendency that’ll only get worse once the simultaneously richest and most cringetastic billionaire in history is about to be the de facto president 😮‍💨

Guess what? People aren’t their families and we don’t know what his relationship with them is.

He may well not be on the best of terms with the rich members of his family, being the good kind of class traitor and all…

As long as you didn’t meet anyone named Martin Swanson at age 13…

I mean, it’s a defamation case. If not for his own words defaming them, what WOULD they use to advance their case? Puppets?

That being said, I’m crossing everything except the streams that he’ll finally see some consequences for one of the many crimes he’s bragged about or, as in this case COMMITTED while on live national TV 🤞🤞

Could be… If not for the fact that any sane Republicans still left are going to be gone by spring.

Not in a month of Sundays, to use an expression that was brand new when Biden entered politics.

Lemmy world should have lost all credibility after they hard commited to the bias bot against the majorities wishes

Hard agree!

but even on the fediverse people just don’t want to move instances

Soft disagree. I took a long time to do it, but I moved from .world because of the whole “being the r/politics of Lemmy” thing.

You won’t find a more wretched hive of scum and Neoliberalism than the .world admins and mods anywhere outside of the aforementioned subreddit and the DNC itself.

“Protecting our soil isn’t just an environmental priority; it’s an economic and social imperative.”

Corporations, who own most of the world’s resources, the American government and by extension most of the world: “nah, not enough short term profits in that” 🤬