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The Democrats Suck is the political commentary podcast holding the Democratic Party accountable to the people who actually vote for it. We break down the gap between what Democratic leadership promises and what it delivers: abortion rights, voting rights, labor organizing, minimum wage, and the donor money shaping party priorities over its own base. Primary challenges. Progressive candidates vs. establishment incumbents. The stuff mainstream political coverage won't say out loud.

This isn't a show for the other side. It's for lifelong Democrats and independents who built this party and want it to answer to them again.

Who does that benefit? Flock? That BBYahoo man? The Epstein class of rich people in your community? Because keeping you dumb to the facts and in your feelings, instead of engaged in direct action where you have power, definitely benefits somebody, and it’s not the people in Gaza, not the people shot and beat by police down your block, not the people targeted by mass surveillance on the roads you drive everyday.  

But that’s not how America has chosen to conduct itself. America has chosen incrementalism; change by ballot. 

So we vote. Or we don’t. Maybe once in a generation, there is a sizeable change to policy. More often than not, the changes that do come, don’t help the people. 

Historically, when citizens deem a government illegitimate or perceive it to be dangerously unaccountable, some conclude that only direct action will bring meaningful change.

However, it’s also historically evident that direct action, especially if it involves risking one’s own life or openly defying state power, tends not to materialize overnight.

Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The lawsuit’s main legal tool is the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, a Reconstruction-era law Congress passed to fight hooded night riders who terrorized Black Southerners. The surviving piece of the Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), lets people sue anyone who conspires to deny a group equal protection of the laws out of racial or class-based animus, and it specifically covers those who "go in disguise on the highway." 

Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Having said that, for some, it’s the idea of term limits, and they engage the conversation with nonsense. They really like Bernie, so term limits for everyone but him. AOC is just getting started so we should give her more time. 

If we’re going to be serious about term limits for congress, it’s term limits for everyone in congress. 

So why hasn't it happened? Because the only people who can make it happen are the people it would remove. That’s like asking the fox to install the lock on the henhouse.

But here's what Angie Nixon is probably going to say when she loses her race for US Senate in November: we stayed true to who we are, we ran a campaign for the people by the people.

That's not the same thing as, we ran an effective campaign. And the Democrats know it, it’s why they’re not throwing millions of dollars behind her, not because, as she suggested on MSNow’s favorite show of minstrelsy, because she is a Black woman. 

Macklemore said Free Palestine in his opening act for Ed Sheeran, and Ed fired him.

Then Macklemore released a statement naming Robert Kraft as the mastermind. 

Then Robert Kraft gleefully accepted credit. 

The next day, Ed released a statement he probably regrets because after that, every other opening act and 2 bands immediately left the tour in solidarity with Palestine and in protest of billionaires using their money to silence people.

Does that make Ed Irish, or a plastic paddy trying to wash himself with the oversimplified and romantic version of what it means to be Irish. Is it the folk music? The traditional instruments? The beer?

Or is it the struggle of the people, which Ed, apparently, has chosen to selectively forget? Yeah. It’s probably that. Ireland, after all, has an intimate and painful history with colonization. Again, Ed doesn’t live in the shadow of this history. 

And that matters today. Recently Ed kicked music artist Macklemore off of the final leg of his tour in the US for the crime of…saying Free Palestine during his set. 

Hasan Piker didn't cause people to turn away from the conservative Democratic party. Democrats did that. 

Pablo Torre didn't cause people to stop consuming traditional mainstream media. The media did that.

A few days ago, a woman from Trump’s tightest inner circle, Laura Loomer, called Florida state rep and Democratic nominee for US Senate Angie Nixon, a "ghetto Black communist b****," and compared her to a dog that needs to be put on a leash. This isn’t the first time. She’s gone after Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. 

It sorta just…sat there. A few lawmakers on the right made preemptive statements written and posted by their staff. You know what didn’t happen? The media didn’t run around capitol hill or bang on republican lawmakers or candidate’s doors to ask if they denounce Laura Loomer. 

Genuinely rough stuff. 

Then people in her comments connected the dots back to the administration she voted for: the labor shortage, the input costs, the tariffs.

And instead of engaging with any of it, she posted a follow-up rant calling the responses "hate."

Trump is gonna have to flip-flop on some things. But he can't look weak or like he lost. 

And, to get anything from Trump, Democrats are going to have to cut a pound of flesh with a dirty knife and zero anesthesia. 

Hakeem is the one with the knife. He didn't go to Jared because of his "special envoy" status, he went to him because Jared is the son-in-law of the Art of the Dealer. 

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The Democrats Suck is the political commentary podcast holding the Democratic Party accountable to the people who actually vote for it. We break down the gap between what Democratic leadership promises and what it delivers: abortion rights, voting rights, labor organizing, minimum wage, and the donor money shaping party priorities over its own base. Primary challenges. Progressive candidates vs. establishment incumbents. The stuff mainstream political coverage won't say out loud.

This isn't a show for the other side. It's for lifelong Democrats and independents who built this party and want it to answer to them again.

There is a small but pudgy group of men who are advocating for the repeal of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Essentially their arguments are as follows. 

Ahem.

Women shouldn't have the right to vote because we vote with our emotions instead of logic, and letting us into politics has made the country softer, more immigrant-friendly, and sexually and morally corrupt. 

Well damn that sounds terrible. The fix is going back to a setup where the husband, brother, uncle, or son is the one who votes for the whole household, because apparently that's the "rational" system, and men, famously, are only ever rational, are manly, manly men, all men hate immigrants, and all men are the bastions of sexual morality. 

Let’s look closer at one group of these men: farmers and ranchers. 

Angie Nixon doesn't represent a fad. She represents something powerful and real: the aspirations of Americans. People who vote for Democrats are hitting a new critical mass in this country; they understand that to achieve something we've never had before, we have to be willing to do things we've never done before.   

So what happens if James Carville actually leaves the Democratic Party? Not much, actually. 

An ultimatum only works if the other side needs something from you; voters don’t need anything from James Carville, and the party doesn’t either. 

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The Democrats Suck is the political commentary podcast holding the Democratic Party accountable to the people who actually vote for it. We break down the gap between what Democratic leadership promises and what it delivers: abortion rights, voting rights, labor organizing, minimum wage, and the donor money shaping party priorities over its own base. Primary challenges. Progressive candidates vs. establishment incumbents. The stuff mainstream political coverage won't say out loud.

This isn't a show for the other side. It's for lifelong Democrats and independents who built this party and want it to answer to them again.

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The Democrats Suck is the political commentary podcast holding the Democratic Party accountable to the people who actually vote for it. We break down the gap between what Democratic leadership promises and what it delivers: abortion rights, voting rights, labor organizing, minimum wage, and the donor money shaping party priorities over its own base. Primary challenges. Progressive candidates vs. establishment incumbents. The stuff mainstream political coverage won't say out loud.

This isn't a show for the other side. It's for lifelong Democrats and independents who built this party and want it to answer to them again.

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The Democrats Suck is the political commentary podcast holding the Democratic Party accountable to the people who actually vote for it. We break down the gap between what Democratic leadership promises and what it delivers: abortion rights, voting rights, labor organizing, minimum wage, and the donor money shaping party priorities over its own base. Primary challenges. Progressive candidates vs. establishment incumbents. The stuff mainstream political coverage won't say out loud.

This isn't a show for the other side. It's for lifelong Democrats and independents who built this party and want it to answer to them again.