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https://freespeech1212.substack.com/p/maga-memes-pride-month-and-left-wing

Democrats continue to crystallize their platform on these core principles:

Illegal aliens should not be deported. The government should give them free everything - healthcare, housing, education, food, and more. Veterans can go to hell.

All white people are racist.

Tranny grooming your children is vital. Boys should compete in girls’ sports at all costs.

Taxes aren’t high enough. Taxes need to be higher for everyone. Especially white people.

VIOLENCE. Democrats endorse violence.

Let’s look at the violence that Democrats are endorsing. The media either ignores or spins this violence in an attempt to keep control of the narrative. Here are just a few examples.

Democrats attempted to assassinate Trump TWICE during the campaign last year. TWICE.

Democrats call for Trump’s assassination daily on social media. Can you imagine the outrage if a single white person called for Kamala’s assassination?

A Democrat lunatic burns down the Pennsylvania Governor's mansion while the governor and his family were home. Democrats ignore the incident, even though the governor is a Democrat.

Hamas Terror Sympathizers and ANTIFA on university campuses across the country routinely assault Jewish students and conservatives.

A young couple was gunned down and murdered in cold blood by a radical Democrat in Washington DC. The murderer? A radical Democrat who hates Israel and Jews.

ANTIFA attacked a peaceful Christian gathering in Seattle - TWICE. More than 30 ANTIFA freaks were arrested, and the woke Democrat mayor blamed the Christian group and Trump. Extensive video evidence shows that ANTIFA was the violent group. No Christians were arrested.

An illegal alien terrorist in Boulder, CO, firesbombs a peaceful gathering of Jews and Israel supporters. Boulder’s mayor has been openly anti-semitic. Police have refused to call it a terrorist attack because “the motive wasn’t clear.” Are you fucking kidding me?

If you wear a red hat in a restaurant, there’s an 80% chance some woketard woman with TDS will assault you.

Tesla owners are routinely assaulted, and their cars are vandalized daily. Democrats support this.

An instructor and staff employee at Washington State University assaulted a student who left a take-out restaurant. The reason? The student was wearing a red hat and was minding his own business. All caught on camera.

Let’s remember when a Democrat lunatic shot up a Congressional softball practice several years ago. Again, Democrats approved this violence.

In other news, woketards are trying to keep their gay month alive. Pride month is dying. There’s only one flag that is worthy of celebrating all month. Tranny groomers and gay blue hairs can go to hell.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/prohibitions-tuesday-june-3-2025

Solving this problem is not straightforward. The Democrats have a structural problem. They cannot rebuild trust with young men while simultaneously blaming them for society’s ills, denying their struggles are real, and pathologizing traditional masculinity. If Democrats could somehow reverse course on their male-hating ways, a highly speculative possibility, it would create a victim-group civil war inside the Democrat party.

Modern progressive politics relies on a hierarchy of oppression. Straight, ‘cisgender’ men (especially white ones) sit at the bottom of the empathy totem pole. None of the other groups want that bottom spot. If Democrats start validating male suffering, especially without the required qualifiers (“but privilege…”), they’ll break the foundational rule of their own belief system: straight men are not allowed to be victims.

They are trying so hard to figure out how to thread this needle and still recapture young men. They think a solution might be found in a podcast. “Let’s fund our own edgy podcast network! Something like Rogan, but inclusive and equitable! And oh yeah, diverse!”

The problem is that if Democrats ever acknowledge men’s suffering, without also blaming them for someone else’s, they instantly commit heresy against the entire intersectional hierarchy. That’s a tough bind. It’s a progressive tar baby, if you will, and they’re stuck fast to it. Fighting draws them more deeply in.

Meanwhile, more and more young men are finding a place in conservatism, which offers them respect and individual agency without collective blame. If you want a single explanation for this trend (that started in 2016), you might begin by looking at President Trump’s unapologetic masculinity.

Further proof that when illegals get deported, wages for Americans go up.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crooks-and-cooks-thursday-august

For months, the media has complained at length about how Democrats are leaderless, rudderless, and underfunded. But post-election-loss handwringing and emo introspection are historically common. So it’s been impossible to handicap whether the Democrats’ problems were performative or profound. But yesterday, the New York Times debuted another disastrous-admission piece headlined, “The Democratic Party’s Voter Registration Crisis.”



“The Democratic Party,” the Times bitterly complained, “is hemorrhaging voters.” There’s literally no good news, anywhere they look. “Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party,” the article explained, “Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.” ...

Even worse for Dems, voter registration is a lagging indicator, because people usually start voting differently long before they formally switch party registration. Which means if the rolls are already showing a 4.5 million rightward swing, the real erosion underneath the “Democratic brand” must be even deeper. ...



... This data —and the Times’ open admission— guts the notion that Trump lacks a mandate. Voters are flocking to him. ...

A “preference cascade” is a concept coined by Timur Kuran (Private Truths, Public Lies): when individuals privately disagree with the dominant narrative but stay quiet — until enough people break ranks, and suddenly everyone feels free to express what they already thought. Think of the Berlin Wall moment: for decades, people grumbled in private, then overnight the whole edifice collapsed because everyone realized they weren’t alone.

That’s what makes the article such a calculated risk. When the New York Times —the cathedral of Democrat respectability— says “the Democrat Party faces a voter registration crisis,” it legitimizes what millions of voters already know. Readers who were privately thinking “maybe I’m done with the Democrats” now see it echoed in the Times. That can turn hesitation into action.

Grok explains where the Democrats went wrong with China:

Support for Trade Agreements: President Bill Clinton (1993–2001) championed trade liberalization, notably supporting China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2000. The U.S. granted China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status in 2000, which facilitated increased trade and investment, enabling outsourcing. Clinton argued this would open China’s markets to U.S. goods and promote economic and democratic reforms.

Impact: The “China shock” (1998–2010) led to significant U.S. manufacturing job losses—nearly 4 million by 2008, with 11.5 million manufacturing jobs remaining by 2010. Democrats, including Clinton, underestimated the scale of job displacement, prioritizing global economic integration.

Party Dynamics: While Clinton and centrist Democrats (e.g., Democratic Leadership Council) supported free trade, labor unions and progressive Democrats opposed it, citing job losses in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. This created a divide within the party.

And even worse was and remains the overwhelming Democrat support for flooding American with criminal aliens, undercutting wages yet further and increasing crime rates. We should all relentlessly use the precisely correct term "criminal alien" from now on, because first of all, Democrats love to say "no person is illegal", and secondly, committing the crimes of illegal entry and of displacing US workers by taking jobs here makes them criminals by definition.

If so, the prophecy may come to pass:
2028 JD Vance Elected President
2032 Vance Reelected
2036 Rubio Elected
2040 Rubio Reelected
2044 No idea: DeSantis is too short to be a modern president.

rocketjoe79 says

If so, the prophecy may come to pass:
2028 JD Vance Elected President
2032 Vance Reelected
2036 Rubio Elected
2040 Rubio Reelected
2044 No idea: DeSantis is too short to be a modern president.

Next best one:

Via a quirk in the secession rules in the Big C, if Trump dies btwn now and Jan 20, 2027, Vance can only run in 2028 and thus only serve 6 years total.

But anytime after Jan 20, 2027 & Trump dies, Vance takes over and can finish this term and two more.

2027 Jan 21 Trump dies, Vance becomes POTUS 48.
2028 Vance Elected
2032 Vance Re-Elected
2036 Rubio Elected, Vance would have served almost 10 years in office. The longest serving POTUS since FDR.
2040 Rubio Re-elected.

Patrick says

“The Democratic Party,” the Times bitterly complained, “is hemorrhaging voters.”

The midterms will show if this is actually true. Do not forget the predicted "Red Wave" that never happened.

I can't believe Mamdani is leading for NY Mayor. May as well box up the city and flush it if he's elected.

HeadSet says

Patrick says

“The Democratic Party,” the Times bitterly complained, “is hemorrhaging voters.”

The midterms will show if this is actually true. Do not forget the predicted "Red Wave" that never happened.

Never underestimate republicans ability to throw it for the uniparty.

Democrats don't really have any sort of grand vision lately.

They worry a lot about 'why the messaging is ineffective' but they struggle to realize that the problem is the lack of vision.

They seem to be trying to make a party who is trying to stich together a constituency from a combination of super progressives, sjw/identity-grievance politics, and anti trump themes. These constituent groups don't have much in common and appealing to each one separately creates a fractured and nonsensical vision. That is where they are at right now.

It seems like it would be easy to write down their basic governing vision for the US and try to appeal to a broader set of people who value social mobility, rule of law, and commitment to democratic process... But they can't seem to break out of their own self destructive behaviors lately.

DeficitHawk says

It seems like it would be easy to write down their basic governing vision for the US

That would require for them to be an actual they.

But there is no 'they' but a weak coalition of various disparate groups. In fact, internal Party hacks call them just that: The Groups.

So, all they got is TDS. As you said, its their ONLY common denominator right now. Forget asking whether it is their best CD or not. Its not really relevant. Oh wait! There's another: their self reinforcing political impotence. That feeds the TDS even more.

I have to force myself to remember this. When I do, I just ignore them. For myTDS friends raging online, I mention this harsh truth once and then don't engage anymore with their threads. The female ones especially do not like being told this reality and their accountability in it. Key word here being accountability. :)

I'm a TDS er. I won't vote MAGA, I think it's just recycled populism on the face, combined with overt corruption and democratic backsliding behind the scenes.

But I don't see the Democrats bringing a cogent alternative.

There's a broad set of core values that both sides seem to ignore. I'd vote for either party that builds off the values I mentioned, which I think are core American values. But those politicians are currently considered DINO/RINO and are both on the outs in their respective parties.

And...