James Carville should shut the fuck up... Young voters should vote - definitely... but this asshole is responsible for the political strategies that landed us Biden as a candidate and lost an election to Trump.
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Eh, I’d argue Debbie Wasserman-Shultz focusing on Hillary and intentionally keeping Bernie out of the spotlight was more to blame for Trump’s first term. There’s really no way to tell at this point though. Regardless, we agree that Carville is a dumbass.
That and Clinton skipping campaigning in Michigan and Wisconsin and mouthing off about coal in West Virginia, next door to coal heavy Pennsylvania.
There was a whole crew of six-figure idiots from the DNC that all got together and decided that Debbie Wasserman-Shultz should be in charge. Carville's right up there with them; he was furious at the idea of having Obama instead of Hillary Clinton, and he wanted to skip the primaries entirely and just have Nancy Pelosi pick all the candidates. He's a full-blown loony. And a dumbass yes. I'm genuinely very surprised that he's managed to say something that I so fully agree with.
I mean, he married a republican strategist, and there’s definitely some fails there but I don’t know that I’d blame the vast string of milquetoast kakhi-wearing hair-model losers the DNCC teed up for several decades on him.
“So, I hear this a lot,” began Carville. “‘James, young voters are just not into this. It’s two candidates, one’s in their 80s, one is almost in their 80s, they’re concerned about things that Washington politicians, and you just can’t blame them for-‘ Oh, shit. Fuck you!”
“If Trump and [John] Roberts and Alito and [Neil] Gorsuch and [Clarence] Thomas and Leonard Leo and the Heritage Foundation, if they get a hold, there will be no government left, there will be no rights left, you will live under theocracy, you’ll end up with Christian nationalism. But that’s all right, you little fucking 26-year-old, you don’t feel like ‘the election’s important to me. They’re not addressing the issues that I care about,'” said Carville.
Carville concluded by advising the press and Democratic operatives “to tell these young people to get off your motherfucking ass and go vote because you should vote like your entire future and the entire future of this United States depends on it because quite frankly, it does — and that’s not an exaggeration.”
I never thought that in my life me and James Carville would see exactly eye-to-eye on things, but there you go. IDK if talking this way is tactically productive, but he's not wrong. They should have this guy intervene in every newscast about how Trump's ahead 3:1 among first-time Wisconsin voters with odd numbered license plates or whatever, to yell "Fuck you!" at the anchors with little bits of spittle flecked around his mouth.
It's the candidate's job to serve the will of the people, not the other way around.
If you want people to vote for you, you have to do the things the people demand. Like, oh, say, not enabling and funding genocide.
If it's super mega omg important that people vote for you, then it's on you to you do those things really hard.
If you consider the principle of democracy valid, then whatever the voters choose is correct by definition.
And by the same token, if they don't vote for you, you have only yourself to blame.
That's the game. Don't like it, don't play.
This is just a weird paternalistic point of view to me.
It is absolutely true that rich abusive criminals are in charge of the country, doing all kinds of horrifying stuff. You can put Biden in that category if you want; at least as far as Gaza is concerned I won't really fight you on the classification.
Sitting back and waiting like "well it's on them to fix it, and until then I won't take steps that will change the outcome to one that's better" is absolutely guaranteed to fail. If you want things to be better, work for better outcomes. That is the only way it will ever happen.
You wanna work for better outcomes in Gaza? Fuckin a man that sounds great, tell me how. You wanna give Biden a hard time about Gaza? Fuckin a man sounds great.
You wanna commit to sitting out and not taking positive steps until something changes from above to make it worth your while? If that's your choice, then buckle the fuck up, because I think there's a definite possibility that you might get a chance to firsthand experience how much worse than present-day reality it can get if enough people do that.
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These are great ideals. Let’s come back to reality. For every person that doesn’t vote, they are tacitly voting for Trump. I’m going to have to throw hands when they take my healthcare away. Please don’t make me have to throw hands. I’m not saying you, but rather the oppressors.
Pretty sure they don't tally up all the people who didn't vote and add it to Trump's total. If Trump wins you want to be mad, be mad at the people who voted for him.
Yeah that’s not how it works in a first-past-the-post election. Like we do. RepubliQans cheat, and they vote in lock-step. It’s a law. Massive D turnout is the only way to win.
This is why the whole “biden bad me no vote” is also a russian troll talking point. It’s a happy circumstance for them.
For the record, I'm an advocate for everyone voting. Everyone should vote for who they want to represent them.
But that doesn't change what I said. People who didn't vote for Trump aren't the ones responsible for Trump winning an election. Thinking otherwise is just backwards
enabling and funding genocide.
Israel and the US have been strategic allies since the 1960s. There aren't any (and won't ever be any) American politician who won't honor that. I'd bet my last dollar you'd call any and all military aide "GeNoCiDe SuPpOrT". Ie, you'll hate any us political option. So what's the point? Just say "nuke the us" and move along.
This ain't my war, and just like all the others I've seen I don't like it. You can't stop it anymore than anyone else so stop slinging mud.
Yeah, kids should recognize how fucked up our government is and lower their expectations. This is why we need more civics education: So we know exactly how little our government is capable of.
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"Okay, Boomer." is the only acceptable response here.
lets not forget, that he- and the "old school" democrats are a large part of why we're in the place we are. They like sharing power with the pubies. they have more power that way than they would have if they didn't. Not saying that leftism is popular... but voters are still more progressive than this guy is.
“The Supreme Court has out of nothing getting ready to create immunity for one person, Donald Trump. Now, I am hardly a scholar of the American Revolution and the founding, but I do know this: One of the principles of the founding of the United States of America was that no person was above the law,” argued Carville, before calling the originalist wing of the Supreme Court “illegitimate whores” for asking questions during oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case last week.
I hate agreeing with James Carville. But I hear him. This is Serious As Fuck.
That's the neat part: It's always the most important election of our lives. It's always defending democracy and harm reduction. It's exhausting.
It wasn’t always. Just since the right lost they damned minds.
This seems unhelpful.
nothing is as persuasive as being sworn at. Just usually not in the way people think it's persuasive.
This is Carville. You get what you get, and sometimes its really good. And sometimes its just really loud nothing.
Old white man screaming get off my lawn or were all going to die is not a great look.
He doesn't actually say anything about young voters other than acknowledging the party has ignored them, even knowing it needs their votes. Big torch.
Vote, tho
I would even go so far as to say the party has abused and relied on the excuse "they're worse than we are" to the point of failure. Even the last few elections a popular stance is to go full reverse logic and let things burn down because the "better" side doesn't care about the people either vs. the position of power. And I'm finding it hard to argue against them.
Locally, get informed about real choices (hopefully) or even get those choices to run, and vote. That is what makes the difference for things that affect you directly. The national scene is all but a lost cause though. The ones who could start to fix the inherit problems within are the ones benefiting from the status quo.
"Plesse vote for the guys who are my friends," says raging geriatric on a cable news.
*on a podcast from his living room swaying unhinged-ly back and forth
I'd bet my next paycheck that James carville smells like onions all the time
He sure sounds like he's got one tied to his belt
His main issue is trying to appeal to young voters. They overwhelmingly don’t vote, they just bitch afterwards when it doesn’t go the way they wanted it to.
is this guys name supposed to mean something?
Yeah, its a politics thing.
Don't worry about it.
Coprolite carville can fuck right off.
"anything is a dildo if your brave enough. Including petrified shit."
Uh. . .huh. Well alrighty then.
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