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

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.

 

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.

 

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.”

 

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.

 

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.

 

Not true..."we" love everything about it except for a couple things.

 

"Democrats are doing X (or not doing Y) and therefore I have no choice but to vote for fascism!!!!111"

Same old bullshit

 

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.

 

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."

 

Two more aides left John Fetterman’s office in recent weeks, the latest in a stream of staff exits amid the senator’s shifting political persona and questions about his health.

He's up for re-election in 2028.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/13/fetterman-staff-00344618

 

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.

 

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.

 

Democrat wins in Nebraska:

Unironically probably the most effective messaging Democrats have ever done on trans issues https://t.co/cJNzy5JaCb pic.twitter.com/xSnje11Euz

— Adam Carlson (@admcrlsn) May 14, 2025

And he's black! Maybe there's hope? @Knave

 

Is Maher even a democrat at this point? He is a contrarian, reactionary ass****

 

The GOP outside of Trump is the kind of weird you make it a point to be as far away from as possible.

 

"People who run Gaza are great"
Scraping the bottom of the toilet bowl with Maher posts again I see.

 

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!!!

 

Well now you jinxed it

 

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).

 

There's never any hope. Only doom.