Post-match: So what is next for the Democratic Party? (Post 2024)

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by ceezmad, Nov 6, 2024.

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Where does the party go after this?

  1. Does the party go right and try to find a new Bill Clinton

    58.6%
  2. Does the party go left to the Bernie Sanders wing

    41.4%
  1. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

     
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  2. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    1st cell phone ever was made in 1963.

    The first commercial cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, debuted in the United States in 1983. It was the first handheld mobile phone available for purchase and launched on the first US 1G network by Ameritech.

    The one I had belonged to the Town. We paid just $15 a mo. but $.40 per min for calls. 911 calls were freebies. :)
     
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  3. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    My brother had something like that in his car in the late 80's.

    I didn't get a mobile until the early 90's IIRC. I forget the make and model.
     
  4. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm not sure but that sounds great.
     
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  5. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    My brother and several coworkers who worked around the country would do their fantasy baseball drafts that way in the ‘80s “station to station collect call from Don Mattingly in Grand Rapids.”
     
  6. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    There is a story about lefty online influencers and them trying to organize a response to Charlie Kirk College tour.

    Well, the first attempt went well, but like good democrats, they started fighting with each other right away, and now they have fallen apart.

    The Democratic traditions are in good hands.






     
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  7. QuakeAttack

    QuakeAttack Member+

    Apr 10, 2002
    California - Bay Area
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Isn't that the problem with most of online media. People seem more interested in arguing than having a meanful discussion and aligning on something. No surprise that they started fighting right away.
     
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  8. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    As someone commented, the right wing does the same, but they want power so their fights like the H1 visa thing, flare up, they fight but then they go back to trolling us on the left.


    Lefty online personalities hold grudges and stay mad at each other.

    The Idea of putting shit to the side in order to gain power is not there.


    Part of it is that they are young, swallowing your pride for the team comes with age.
     
  9. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I think that guys nominally 'centrist' or 'independent' position isn't wholly believable but, yeah... there have always been people on the left that prefer to argue with people on the left than with the opposition.
     
  10. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    54% of young Americans are embarrassed by the country, that seems a bit high, I would like to see the source of that stat.

     
  11. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    Not true..."we" love everything about it except for a couple things. :coffee:
     
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  12. Pønch

    Pønch Saprissista

    Aug 23, 2006
    Donde siempre
    "Democrats are doing X (or not doing Y) and therefore I have no choice but to vote for fascism!!!!111"

    Same old bullshit :rolleyes:
     
  13. ElNaranja

    ElNaranja Member+

    Houston Dynamo
    United States
    Jul 16, 2017
    Bill Maher is representative of the kind of Democrat who will cheer the whole looking forward and not back, don't upset the current situation, embrace fascist policies but competently and quietly. Don't fix the fundamental problems and be shocked when this all happens a third time.

    F***" him and everyone like him.
     
  14. Germerica

    Germerica Member+

    May 2, 2012
    SoCal burbs
    Club:
    Los Angeles
    DNC looking to get rid of David Hogg. DNC credentials committee approves a resolution challenging the Feb. 1 vice chair elections of David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta. Will advance to full DNC. Justification from DNC Chair Ken Martin is a procedural error.

    Statement from David Hogg: "Today, the DNC took its first steps to remove me from my position as Vice Chair At-Large."
     
  15. Germerica

    Germerica Member+

    May 2, 2012
    SoCal burbs
    Club:
    Los Angeles
  16. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    He's another one of those who's 'on the left' because he says he is. For people like him being 'on the left' just means he wants to smoke weed and screw around.

    He's an oddball anyway. Can't maintain a relationship with a women. A bloke of nearly 70 who's never been married or had a long term relationship.
     
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  17. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Same ol, same ol with you.

    On one hand, there is Democratic bickering. On the other hand, we have MAGA influencers being financed by the Kremlin to push Russia's agenda. :sleep:
     
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  18. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
  19. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Is Maher even a democrat at this point? He is a contrarian, reactionary ass****
     
  20. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    The GOP outside of Trump is the kind of weird you make it a point to be as far away from as possible.
     
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  21. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    "People who run Gaza are great"
    Scraping the bottom of the toilet bowl with Maher posts again I see. :rolleyes:
     
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  22. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
    Shropshire
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I suspect he almost certainly votes democratic but then spends all his time telling other people why they shouldn't vote democratic.

    Regarding his 'contrarian' take on things... I don't actually mind a bit of contrarianism, (I can be pretty contrarian myself on occasion), as it can serve to refine and improve arguments of which I'm generally in favour.

    But it has to be based on SOME sort of logic or reason. You can't just make shit up, take things our of content and accept right-wing talking points without providing the counter argument.

    As for his argument that some on the left think that Hamas is 'great', basically because they're a tad squeamish about watching small children being bombed and starved on their colour tellies... Jesus H-fecking christ, Maher... get a grip, man!!! :rolleyes:
     
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  23. Pønch

    Pønch Saprissista

    Aug 23, 2006
    Donde siempre
    Well now you jinxed it :mad:
     
  24. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    I've rarely watched Maher over the year but his schtick seems like the cable version of clickbait and if I spend my time avoiding clickbait content online, I certainly wouldn't search it out on cable (if I actually had cable).
     
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  25. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999
    There's never any hope. Only doom.
     
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