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11. The Repugs don't know what they want...

Fri Dec 27, 2024, 10:32 PM

Dec 2024

..they just know they don't want Democrats in the White House.

Ramaswamy and Musk have run out of budget cutting ideas and seemingly gone off topic. Musk says we need more high-skilled foreign workers and Ramaswamy says “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence..."

The pundits keep trying to blame "messaging" for the Harris election loss saying the Dems, in part, didn't connect with the blue-collar crowd. Joe walked on a damned picket line and Kamala talked about the low wage, blue collar crowd in every speech I heard.

She lost because she didn't get enough votes: she's Black, female, didn't address the price of rice, didn't close the border and didn't have a propaganda machine superior to Trump's...the people who could have voted her in, didn't vote.

Trump got 3M more votes in 2024 than 2020...3%. Harris got 6M less votes than Joe got in 2020...8%.

I'm not sure she would have won if gas was $2 and the alleged border crisis was non-existent.

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For the last month and a half, everybody has been saying that the Democrats were out of touch bc they represent college [View all] Yavin4 Dec 2024 OP

Do not look for logic or reason in wrong wing world... mikeysnot Dec 2024 #1

Fishing for reason in a whirlpool of insanity only gets one dragged under. Grokenstein Dec 2024 #21

It's been fifty years since the Republicans made any kind of sense at all. Aristus Dec 2024 #2

The last noble act of any Republican was when... Yavin4 Dec 2024 #3

Didn't John McCain soldierant Dec 2024 #12

Yup...Here it is. sheshe2 Dec 2024 #20

Thank you so much. soldierant Dec 2024 #24

You are welcome. sheshe2 Dec 2024 #27

So did I Rebl2 Dec 2024 #55

Yes he did! sheshe2 Dec 2024 #56

McCain stated that saving the ACA had not been his intention. He didn't like the procedure the Autumn Dec 2024 #61

What Goldwater did was far more important Yavin4 Dec 2024 #34

They purged themselves of liberals/moderates that worked with Democrats to get monumental legislation passed. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2024 #7

It was only fun to criticize elites when they were assassinating Hillary's character SheltieLover Dec 2024 #4

Who? Not me. I've been nothing but supportive of our Reps, Sens, and Harris , Biden. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2024 #5

In fact, the largest voting block in the US nt bee_peaceful Dec 2024 #53

something I never see asked The Wandering Harper Dec 2024 #65

Fair question. Might be something a major news org might want to investigate. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2024 #67

MAGA engineers and MAGA doctors scare the pants off me bucolic_frolic Dec 2024 #6

The GOP is likely to suffer a major schism Ocelot II Dec 2024 #8

Don't forget: Lower taxes or more loopholes to avoid paying any. Justice matters. Dec 2024 #14

Working Class Voters: My paycheck isn't covering all of my bills. Ms. Toad Dec 2024 #9

Well, there's that $200 ticket for football. Justice matters. Dec 2024 #15

Thanks for making my point. n/t Ms. Toad Dec 2024 #16

No Democrats told anybody "You're imagining things" or told them they're "lying eyes" or anything like that. betsuni Dec 2024 #19

You might want to review DU in the immediate aftermath of the election. Ms. Toad Dec 2024 #23

We lost because this nation is still a racist sexist cesspool that refused to vote for a woman POTUS PortTack Dec 2024 #25

Saying Republicans are no longer in election mode and have dropped the pretense of fixing betsuni Dec 2024 #36

maybe your subject line would be more accurate The Wandering Harper Dec 2024 #66

It is accurate, as is. Ms. Toad Dec 2024 #69

Rec'd, but I think you miswrote "and even though Black voters voted overwhelmingly for Trump," vanessa_ca Dec 2024 #74

Thanks for the correction. I'll fix it. Ms. Toad Dec 2024 #75

THIS !!! The Real Wage Index came from sub hell to just hell an dems were saying the economy is great uponit7771 Dec 2024 #87

The IT unemployment rate is 6% !!!! uponit7771 Dec 2024 #10

So? Johnny2X2X Dec 2024 #81

"..Vivek and Elon are saying that Americans don't produce enough engineers..." uponit7771 Dec 2024 #84

IT or engineers? Johnny2X2X Dec 2024 #85

In the context of Elon and Vivek its IT engineers this is what the predominate H1B visas are used for in the US uponit7771 Dec 2024 #86

That seems odd to mention something as specific as IT engineer Johnny2X2X Dec 2024 #88

The Repugs don't know what they want... Septua Dec 2024 #11

That's it in a nutshell. "didn't have a propaganda machine superior to Trump's" OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2024 #30

The Dems need their own propaganda machine but it's actually a truth machine. kerry-is-my-prez Dec 2024 #44

Not only that. ChazInAz Dec 2024 #49

Vivek is literally lecturing Americans, but God forbid Obama ever points stuff out! OrlandoDem2 Dec 2024 #13

Vivek talked to White people the way White people talk to Black people. Armand Domalewski. Yavin4 Dec 2024 #33

What he's really saying - America doesn't produce enough engineers willing to work for peanuts groundloop Dec 2024 #17

Bingo! PortTack Dec 2024 #26

... and work as indentured servants. RandomNumbers Dec 2024 #39

When my husband & his department were training their Asian replacements, CrispyQ Dec 2024 #78

repukes ARE the "elite" Skittles Dec 2024 #18

Vivek's like "You should respect the mathlete over the jock and prom queen!" Prairie Gates Dec 2024 #22

Can you imagine if Kamala Harris said something like that? Yavin4 Dec 2024 #40

Kind of a misnomer. People voting Democrat are just more intelligent. College degree not required to be intelligent. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2024 #28

The problem is Democrats want to be all to everyone Historic NY Dec 2024 #29

60 Minutes reported on tech companies abusing H1b visas as far back as 1993 JHB Dec 2024 #31

I Don't Think RobinA Dec 2024 #32

They know they don't need consistency. dgauss Dec 2024 #35

Elite as an Insult has been in the Democrat-bashing bag of tricks for a long time, from all directions. betsuni Dec 2024 #37

The Dems' "Panera Bread" strategy focuses on comfortable white suburbanites GreatGazoo Dec 2024 #38

Which is a false argument, because Trump is not going to make beef & eggs cheaper. nt TBF Dec 2024 #47

Respectfully that is missing the point GreatGazoo Dec 2024 #52

I understood your "point" - TBF Dec 2024 #57

"we need to get better at telling people what they want to hear" - No GreatGazoo Dec 2024 #59

Can you tell me which democrat dismissed the "realities of low income voters"? TBF Dec 2024 #60

I could give you a hundred examples because they did it every day of the 2024 GE GreatGazoo Dec 2024 #62

All I can find is right wing sources claiming Kamala said that - TBF Dec 2024 #64

You asked for examples. I gave you 3 big ones. GreatGazoo Dec 2024 #70

I talked about democrats needing a bigger reach & you won't touch that with a ten-foot pole - TBF Dec 2024 #72

I cited a change in focus and strategy that catalyzed in 2015 and played in the Ossoff race of 2017 GreatGazoo Dec 2024 #73

"DNC strategy of ignoring working people and chasing TBF Dec 2024 #82

here Celerity Dec 2024 #71

K&R ck4829 Dec 2024 #41

I think Democrats need to focus on income inequality, the rest will take care of itself. jalan48 Dec 2024 #42

A simple solution. Shut down all the colleges and replace them with McDonald's and Wendy's., car wahes, amd 7-lls. Ping Tung Dec 2024 #43

Non white people without college support democrats JI7 Dec 2024 #45

The very wealthy republicans (multimillionaires & up) - are voting solely on TBF Dec 2024 #46

Musk does not speak for maga. This is being repeatedly made clear by maga posts. . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2024 #48

But Eloon wants to murder the Dept of Education. How does that square? OMGWTF Dec 2024 #50

Sociopathic billionaire republicans and libertarians own 90% of the media. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2024 #51

who is everybody? everybody here on DU? or Everybody on TV news cable? msfiddlestix Dec 2024 #54

What the very wealthy want is skilled workers who will work for as little TBF Dec 2024 #58

At the same time they want markets to buy their goods & services. CrispyQ Dec 2024 #79

You would think -- TBF Dec 2024 #83

Yes, it's complete lie. alarimer Dec 2024 #63

Great point because maga influencers are actively downplaying the usefulness of going to college ecstatic Dec 2024 #68

Now the truth comes out that they hate their non educated voters. Irish_Dem Dec 2024 #76

Everybody? Must be the MEDIA you are referring to? msfiddlestix Dec 2024 #77

'everybody has been saying' is a bad way to start a post. Voltaire2 Dec 2024 #80

Anti-intellectualism is a standard tool of the populist right. Ping Tung Dec 2024 #89

This whole thing is hilarious actually Johnny2X2X Dec 2024 #90

Logic and rational thought don't exist in the Trumpiverse Blue_Tires Dec 2024 #91

And the "diploma divide" (happened during Obama admin.) is about fear, part of the culture wars/race. betsuni Dec 2024 #92