Post

the thing about being a leftist and being always right is that there is actually no feeling of "i told you so" satisfaction because the things we're right about tend to be things like "ratfucking for joe biden in 2020 will give us trump in 2024" which sucks and everyone got mad at us for saying that

the people who supported forcing this mess on us in 2020 are very upset you think they're stupid & making fun of them

i love being cassandra it's so cool actually it's really fun and definitely isn't constant mental torment

My favourite part is that no matter how many times we’re proven right they’ll never stop ignoring or demeaning and belittling us when we sound the alarm

those damn leftists never shut up and always lose us the election smh

😂 😭

As a leftist, every time we're proved right our credibility diminishes. Every time a centrist/right-winger is proved wrong their credibility burnishes.

Seriously I don’t think anyone who *KNEW* trump couldn’t possibly win in 2016 lost their jobs or had any the slightest adverse consequences

Most of them were promoted.

What must it be like to have a job where the more you fuck up the better compensated you are

Punished with Porsche 911s.

Very few people who makes "mistakes" that benefit capital ever suffer. No one who is correct in a way that would harm capital ever prospers. It sucks.

Yup

the Kass is short for Kassandra for this very reason

it's a good name

tysm

I'm going to call it now: Even if Biden wins, SCOTUS is going to ratfuck it and Trump will be president anyway. Liberals with casu martzu for brains will spend four years say that we should have voted harder and that we need to get them in the midterms

Looking forward to Biden's flag bedecked, semi-incoherent post-victory concession speech about the urgency of pacifically respecting the Supreme Court's decision to hand Trump the presidency. And that even though Biden won the EC, Biden is not a king and will of course be stepping down.

I made a post in December of 2015 about how Scalia was gonna die soon and president Trump would appoint his replacement. 😅

Yeah, it's hard to take any joy from saying "I told you so" when the country is going down in flames

The I won’t take credit for it is in regards to posting this and taking credit for her joke

hahahhahahahhahah

i feel like the party was relying on all of us memory holing 2020 to the point we’d forget bernie winning all those primaries until they ratfucked him

i will never forget the stereo despair of watching the democratic primary context close rank around joe biden while covid had its first surge it was one of the worst few weeks of my life

genuinely horrible

i actually get a pit im my stomach thinking about it

I generally agree with this sort of take, but Bernie was viable against Trump in 2016, not 2020. Trump campaign was organized in 2020 and wanted desperately to run against “socialism.” The argument you’re making is effectively that it would have been better to lose to Trump in 2020, which, maybe.

your brain is filled with lead

no

There were literal leaks that Trump thought he was sure to lose in 2020 if Bernie were the nominee. The only reason Biden was able to beat Trump was bc of his disastrous pandemic response

Literally any democrat would have won in 2020, with Biden being one of the weakest in the general election. People were not voting because they wanted Joe, they wanted not Trump. A soggy ham sandwich with a D next to it could have won in 2020, and probably would have aged better than Biden as well

When he won Nevada, the Dems freaked. We remember.

Republicans call literally every person they have ever run against a raging communist, people don't care

ah yes the pragmatic needed to avoid the electoral baggage of socialism (the highest approval rating of any politician in the US, most donors of any candidate, and leading the democratic primary polls)

incorrect, if anything the opposite is true where 16 would have been more of a tough sell but the guy who's whole thing was public works programs and healthcare would have destroyed Trump during fucking Covid are you kidding me

Bernie was the last slim chance to avoid violence on significant scales.

never forget

This really sums it up for me as far as which one they chose to stop

oooh it’s been a few years since i saw this one

There were so many bad takes. Chris Matthews and the public executions. Chuck Todd and the brown shirts. Anything James Carville said.

who needs a candidate successfully campaigning on healthcare during one of the worst plagues in modern history, really?

(so far, heyoo biden what about that birb flu!)

Bernie telling people to stay home because he cares about them and eugenics/crime-bill Joe telling his geriatric base to go to the polls in person because he cares only about himself and his direct immediate personal interests

Ppl are now up in arms about the NYT. They have been horrible for a long time. They loved the NYT when they helped tank the Sanders campaigns.

It is hilarious I cancelled my times subscription after they hired Stephens and published his climate denial nonsense and have seen no reason to regret that decision ever since but they’re upset about one thing they got right

the literal only thing that kept me sane during that was I was visiting my husband at the time and he kept me distracted from the looming 'hey that virus seems like a real problem actually' and 'hey did everyone but Warren just drop out at once to support Biden? That's weird right?' dual barrels.

The ideal democratic primary voter is one of these guys that comes back up and hits the vote button every time the donor class punches it

Or just depending on useful idiots to repeat the party line of "what ratfucking?" so hard as to drown out the truth.

I voted for Sanders in the primary, for all the good it ended up doing 😩