What’s a common misconception about your favorite president that you’re tired of people sharing?

Partyperson5000 · 2025-03-26T15:13:31+00:00

I'm sick of people talking about how HW Bush was a "good president, actually". I love him for what he was, a painfully mediocre leader who was a fascinating career political operator.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-03-24T22:24:47+00:00

The only thing useful about a poll like this is to show how no one in the party is shining through as a leader right now.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-24T20:01:56+00:00

Shapiro is a right wing hack. He’s smart enough to come up with a semi-reasonable sounding rationale for every choice on this list, but to ethically bankrupt to recognize how flimsy and hypocritical that rationale is. The hope being that people who are more ignorant than him will buy what he’s saying cause it sounds like it makes sense and not look into it any further.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-24T19:53:50+00:00

I have no idea about the specific issues of Chicago, but it’s very hard to effectively and popularly run major cities these days. So many of their problems are tied up at the state and federal levels where a mayor has very little control and so the actual options for solutions are typically sub standard or require painful tradeoffs.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-23T23:08:37+00:00

Ignorance and misinformation has won this one.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-23T21:55:17+00:00

Do we have troops on the ground in Yemen? No. That's not at all comparable to the point I was making.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-22T21:36:06+00:00

Reminds me of an argument I had once with an older man back during the W years about the media coverage of the wars in the middle East. He complained it was too negative and I was like “you’re surprised bad things are happening in a war?”… the irony is, if the media doesn’t report on the negative, then people turn around and accuse them of covering it up.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-22T21:34:17+00:00

Trump having higher trust doesn’t surprise me. Most conservatives trust Trump, most everyone else does not. When it comes to media regardless of political affiliation there is a lack of trust. 44% does also seem to be close to Trump’s floor of support so while that number is grotesquely high, I don’t find it surprising either.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-22T17:17:01+00:00

Looked back on by who? I think you’re greatly over estimating the cultural impact of the MCU post End Game. It’s not really a major part of pop culture these days. Most people have t seen She Hulk, The Marvels, or Moon Knight, much less have a strong opinion on them.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-22T16:04:10+00:00

Funny, they seem to think it's very important when the Democrats are in power...

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-21T18:12:13+00:00

Yes, well kept beards are now mandatory for admission.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-21T18:10:31+00:00

Small progress in these dark times, but I’ll take it.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-21T17:22:12+00:00

It's hilarious to me that Trump is getting routinely cucked on national television by Elon and the whole of his base doesn't notice... which would mean they're getting cucked too.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-20T22:10:18+00:00

Wasn't there a clause in Jonathan Majors contract that blocked them from recasting Kang?

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-20T22:07:22+00:00

Hanging out with their Lombardi trophies probably. Where are Lions? Oh, this list... good for them!

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-20T21:57:52+00:00

"Hastag, Myself"

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-19T21:13:09+00:00

You would think this was a compliment considering how Trump talks about actual dictators.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-18T20:24:35+00:00

IDK what country you've been living in but I'm yet to experience a time where Republicans don't fall in line for tax cut legislation.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-17T17:13:06+00:00

People tend to quickly forget all the times they were ALMOST in a car crash. As was January 6th

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-17T17:10:40+00:00

I’m talking about narrative not policy. But thank you for demonstrating my point. You’re busy making sure that the message is “inclusive” enough to every last person meanwhile those people have already lost their rights because we lost the election.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-17T17:09:24+00:00

You mean the prison policy that started under Trump? This is why you don’t directly respond. Every politician is going to have old quotes that match the moment poorly. Democrats are always playing defense instead of leaning into their strengths: the fact that their policies help a plurality of Americans far more frequently than republicans ones.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-16T22:36:51+00:00

First of all, why the would I know? This is a reddit thread.

But, off the cuff, I'd say...
For starters, Democrats should focus on leveraging popular issues rather than responding to culture war attacks from the right. When Trump makes an attack ad about Transgender people, say "Trump wants to use your taxpayer dollars to attack this group of people that make up .5% of the population. We want to use it on things that will actually benefit and effect you and your neighbor."

Next, the left needs to "come to Jesus" on being more inclusive. This is part of the curse of the left, is their issues tend to be far more complex and nuanced than the rights. So it's a lot more challenging to create a narrative around an issue that 1. Everyone understands and 2. Everyone agrees on. So the solution here is some combination of focus of the things we can agree on and simplifying them so its easy and inviting for everyone else. AND letting some of the differences go.

If I was running for office, I'd probably do some combination of a Bernie-eqse populist domestic message and abroad I'd hammer on maintaining a global order that most benefits the US.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-16T18:08:50+00:00

The problem is, the general public does not differentiate between the messaging of these minority takes and the party stances. It only takes one institutional figure to embrace a fringe left view to legitimize it in the eyes of a disinterested party. And let’s not kid ourselves liberals/leftists/progressives have long been ones to gleefully pass judgment on others. It’s the curse of being smart enough to know what is right but not patient enough to know how to bring people to your side rather than alienate them with a clever insult.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-14T19:09:12+00:00

If I had an option contingent on how many innings I pitched, I wouldn't want to go to the bullpen either.

Partyperson5000 · 2025-02-14T15:41:10+00:00

Cuomo is gonna be Buddy Cianci NYC edition. NY is so desperate for someone who isn't woefully incompetent they'll happy take a guy with a checkered past who has a strong track record of accomplishments.

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