How does the richest man in the world keep making me feel pity?

a million is not much compared to the ludicrous amount of money he made off just Trumps last tax cut.

Like so many others here on DU, Where were the ads from the Dems on the run up to the election? And for that matter, after the election, and most certainly this past month?????????? Our DEM politicians, with a few exceptions, are like a bunch of deer caught in the headlights of a car........ just frozen and staring at what's happening......

They're downstream of us. Reflections, like. We should learn from their failures what's wrong in ourselves and address the problem there.

Every once in a while we do get an actual leader, and that's a mixed blessing because it makes people think that's what it's supposed to be like. But it's not. We're all supposed to be leading.

with all the different factions of the Dem Party these past years, If there isn't a leader, all the different groups go off in all directions "Freelancing" and it actually backfires...........It's like the old drawing of a horse designed by a committee......

Ads work.

Unfortunately Democrats had hundreds and hundreds of ads during the campaign season (where gasbag pundits are STILL complaining about how much was spent on them) and people apparently ignored them, looked at the black female running, couldn't stomach it, and turned away, assuring their own soon-to-be demise.

I still can't wrap my mind around that stat and probably never will. WTF is wrong with people?

Biden after all his accomplishments in 4 years. I heard it over and over,” “ They just dumped Biden ober 1 incident in a debate when the guy had been running non stop for 4 years.

Then were expected to smile and voe for someone who had no major accomplishments.

Until Democrats face that fact we will not win.

This post will probably be rejected , but it is fact.

Including what you indicated, the whole "UNCOMMITTED" thing, and the student loan forgiveness issue (which actually also cuts across generations), where a whole populace has little understanding about the impact of the courts (who THREW OUT most of Biden's forgiveness attempts), so they blamed Biden, and then Harris as his replacement.

The voters, and many Democratic leaning voters, betrayed both Biden and Harris. The so called working class that Bernie touts about had a big group of racists who wanted no Harris. Union folks betrayed Biden despite all he did. Dems Senators and House members betrayed Biden as well. Yes, Biden was getting old. Only a year ago, they could have asked him to set aside. Instead, they encouraged him to stay only to force him out after the debates. Harris did great but, then, the racists in us woke up. Harris getting less women voters is absolute travesty.

Country deserves to suffer for this. Unfortunately, I am in the country, and so fight I must to save our nation.

was with the assumption that what is happening RIGHT NOW would "never happen" and the warnings were "all hyperbole".

The hope is that this will translate into votes THIS YEAR (there are a number of elections for state/County/municipal offices, including JUDGES) and if we make it to 2026, get enough to recapture at least the House.

10% of Biden women voters. I just finished reading a poll on that, the reason I posted.

We have to come to grips of how the olldLeaders deserted Biden. He deserved to be supported,, they failed.

Every where I turn I hear this and it makes me wonder if those long time Dems did not vote.’Al least consider what I am saying because we lost. That is fact.

And on social media. It wasn't even close. Plus they had Russian trolls farms helping.

I know here in PA there were a billion ads and I was even posting screenshots of ads that were running on the live-streams of of news sites for the major broadcast and cable networks. E.g., -






The Russian troll farms were definitely out there. We saw them coming here on MIRT.

yet Harris is STILL being trashed about "what did she do with the money" (which was a fraction compared to all the GOP dark money - and just ONE GUY who spent $1/4 BILLION alone).

I know I was posting about all the broadcast (OTA and cable) ads, streaming ads and billboards (highway ones and roaming ones) and ads on many of the internet streaming sites like YouTube (I have an ad blocker so didn't capture those).

since I saw one of the orange man’s commercials er… tv propaganda.
Now where did he get the idea to do this?
Isn’t that what they do in Russia?

Dems need to step up to the challenge and take the orange’s falehoods and disinformation bit by bit. ON THE AIR WAVES. TV and radio.

Remember this?...

they had enough weasel words in it to thwart Gov. Shapiro from taking action. Philly's DA went on and took it to court -

Philadelphia DA sues Elon Musk over $1 million giveaway to registered voters

but the court sided with Muskrat after they admitted that it was fake and pre-determined -

Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes can proceed, a Pennsylvania judge says

So far rule of law is shaking out at 5-4. So far.


Thanks for the info.

where Tom had become the Rep. for the old PA-1 (before a couple later redistrictings), replacing the ABSCAM-tainted Ozzie Myers (D) in that District in 1980.

stock TANK. He's lost over $80B since mid Dec as people head to the door. He now has some Board of Directors DUMPING their stock. Hell even his own brother is selling some of his stock. ROFLOL!!!

I remember being really impressed with his plan all those decades ago to build 100% battery vehicles and hoped for his success. Now look at what that POS brings to the table for ordinary citizens.

Think of people, collective, not this group, that group or the other. Stand as one, all together, no division. Leave that to the Trumpsts, Musks and Johnson’s.

Mark Cuban or someone on that tier of wealth to step up - or offer a way for donors to meet him half way.

This is propaganda. They are even running the Noem ads during the ABC Channel 7 Local News (New York Market).

All that Botox has made her look plastic and has affected her brain cells.

it’s soul for so cheap a price. To have this inhuman creature ,spawned in the bowels of apartheid oppression, lecture us just because he is the richest man on earth. Foul and bloody will be the wake of this regime.

God save the gentle souls crushed under the wheels of the billionaires’ greed.

that is the key to their success.

I'm getting sick of all of the commercials fluffing him and his outsized ego. Enough, already!

He’s in bad shape physically himself!

FU Rasputin muskrat !

The DNC is not made of money. Elon is rich, and an asshole. After the election, donations to the DNC and Dems in general have retreated to some low, baseline level, while Musk can pay for almost anything with just the interest from a fraction of his fortune. Also, Democratic leaning PACs have either dissolved after the election, or they've gone into hibernation mode pending the run-up to the next election.

Although it's a hard sell, the DNC has to establish a robust base of year-round, monthly donors - almost like a subscription service - to establish the long term cash flow needed to do detailed research, engineer a distributed social media campaign with a unified and coordinated messaging, run adds in heritage media, and cause "good trouble" wherever they can.

What is really needed is a large, national opposition organization composed of the DNC, unions, liberal PACs, never-Trump conservative orgs, and individuals that would act almost like a trade organization.

I am still astounded at the lack of any firm response by Dems to the Trump train wreck. I hope something's going on behind the scenes and that we'll get information about more that we can do - some firm action that Dems on the ground can take - to start resisting.

Fuck this administration, fuck Fox News, and fuck you Elon!

This treasonous, ungrateful bum. What is wrong with him? Why does he now hate America? Is this what ketamine does to a brain? I submit him as subject matter for the D.A.R.E. program.

Drown the compliant media with false narrative of success measured against the fictional ever looming 'enemy'....so sick of this. '1984' writ large

Oligarchy is here!

over the last year. Soro's,Bloomberg,Cuban want to toss in a few bucks??

...eom.

If we don't bother to counter the propaganda as it emerges, then we have learned nothing and will continue to lose big. If these ads go unanswered, by the time November 2026 rolls around, Trusk will legit have 80% approval, the only shot at retaining Democratic congressional seats will be from mea-culpa-kumbaya Dems, and the elections won't even have to be rigged for a GOP blowout win.

Propaganda works. And this isn't even 2026 yet. Trusk's bunch can afford ad saturation even this far in advance.

If we can't afford media buys, we at least need some daily presence from "leadership" -- a Democratic response team making a daily press statement, weekly full pressers, and it needs to begin ASAP.

Whatever time we had seems to have run out. Resistance is weakening rather than growing, the assholes own the means of communication, the people are gradually wearing down to the point where we'll keep our heads low and accept whatever the rapists decide to do with this former democracy. By August, this country will be unrecognizable.

When broadcast media was deregulated in the '90s, that was the beginning of the end. Citizen's United finished it all off.

CSPAN will cover the pressers but then who watches CSPAN (whether on TV or stream) but those of us who are CSPAN junkies?

We spend our money on HELPING the people who get HURT by the GOP (with food, clothing, shelter, medical care, counseling, legal services, financial assistance, educational services, etc., ). The GOP uses everyone ELSE'S money to HURT people.

The people who gravitate towards the GOP are those who are perpetually angry and have a grudge and the GOP gladly recruits them and will appeal to them because they give them someone to take out their frustrations on.

Or perhaps it's something so old that the vast majority of us have not seen it in our lifetime. Seems we're doing the 21st century by going back to the 19th, complete with a new set of Napoleons and kaisers. This could have been such a beautiful time for humanity but, with help from the greediest assholes among us, our primal fears kicked the shit out of our higher values and virtues. Now we pay the price for our shortsighted views.

You forget what WWI and WWII was about - and those were in the 20th century.

The 1990s with the fall of the USSR caused a HUGE realignment of Europe. The creation of the EU helped to stave off some of the return of the despots but some came anyway in countries like Hungary.

And need we talk about the various "robber barons" here including the MIC and more recently the PIC (Prison Industrial Complex).

What is "new" is "the internet" and the ability to magnify propaganda beyond anything ever done in the past - and do so "globally". Previously there was only print, film, radio, and later television to spread the propaganda.

We may well repeat them later, but until then we'll be taking a role more like prewar Germany. I remember hanging out with a college housemate in 1992 who had an antique globe from pre-WWI. As the USSR collapsed and the Balkans fragmented, we observed his globe becoming increasingly accurate every day. Hard to believe that was over 30 years ago.

I haven't forgotten the 20th century, not at all.
However, this nation no longer fights on the side of freedom and democracy, that time has passed, even in my youth it waned, and now it seems truly gone if it was ever really the case.

this is the first time in American history where a President was elected to office who had never served in any elected or appointed office, nor had worked in any municipal/county/state/federal civil service position, and/or had never served in the military.

So he had never taken an oath to "support and defend the Constitution" and that concept was never part of his life.

All of the previous 44 Presidents had some kind of government experience (including some as vile as Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson).

I play Microsoft games sometimes because I don't have a life and between games they sometimes run ads -- the Noem one is subtitled in Spanish and she talks about how strong whatshisname is and how effective his border policy is at protecting the country blah blah blah. She also says that if you're here illegally, we will find you and deport you.

And we're paying for the ad.

Bring it on SNL.