• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      Sounds like the cornerstone of the centrist movement once again triangulating between the worst of the Republican party and the meekest Democrat. I don’t know why anyone expected him to stop.

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    Full quote. Yikes.

    “A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females … ‘Don’t drink beer, don’t watch football, don’t eat hamburgers, this is not good for you,‘” he said. “The message is too feminine: ‘Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet. You’ve got to eat your peas.’”

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      Are we sure he’s not talking about his care facility nurse whose reminding him to eat healthier?

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      Who the fuck is telling him this shit? I feel like he’s sitting in his room scripting whatever will cause him the most outrage because no one embedded in normal society is getting told this shit.

      Also, James Carville should eat his goddamn peas, he looks like a fucking zombie. Like if the Crypt Keeper’s dad died and was dug up 70 years from now and then offered some peas.

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      It’s not entirely wrong. Biden is losing to one of the worst humans to ever live…top 1000 out of 20 bn or so.

      The D’s need to take a hard look at why.

      Just saying Yuk isn’t going to get Biden elected.

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        well, I think the shitty thing about Carville’s take is that he’s directing blame to people who are likely doing good things rather than highlighting the actual problems and what solutions could look like. If you’ve gotta meet the electorate where they are, then find out where, don’t presume that you (ie Carville) are in the same place, and go from there. Nebulously blaming a bunch of people is likely just a vague reactive take on what’s obvious (that Trump resonates with a good deal of Americans) rather than anything helpful.

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        The D’s need to take a hard look at why.

        • Centrists like Biden and this guy support genocide in gaza,
        • Biden et al just ran so far right on border security and immigration the far right is trying to figure out what else they can ask for besides machine gun turrets and pillboxes.
        • While its “recovering”… most americans are still hurting. pitching the economy as “fixed” isn’t helping him.
        • He’s courting Nikki Hailey voters who are never actually going to support any one whose not a republican; flashing a giant birdie to even moderately progressive democrats.
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          And all that’s true…

          Like how bad do we hate gaza? Do we kill them slowly or with nukes.

          How bad do we hate immigrants? Do we starve them at the boarder or cut them up with razors and drown them?

          How many fucking hand outs can we give? The middle class is simply fucked with either choice. I get to pay for Musk or petty crime.

          The Haily comment is spot on.

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    … Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet. You’ve got to eat your peas.

    Dude is in his 70s and still acts like his mom is literally Satan for saying he has to eat his peas. That’s some real snowflake shit.

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    How amusing. A preachy male is trying dominate a culture with no point other than complaining that women talked about issues. WTF is the call to action supposed to be here, just steam and be a fucking baby like this man?

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    Looks like I’ll be the first to say it…

    Is he OK? Seriously, has anyone checked in on him and made sure he’s not, you know, stuck in a chair somewhere?

    I’d be worried he had a stroke or something…

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    Oh look, another “political strategist” who literally looks like a reanimated corpse talking shit.

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    Projection.

    Carville is the preachiest bitch of them all.

    Can’t wait for history to be rid of his FILTH.

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    The only problem with the Democratic Party is that not only is it run by geriatrics who are out of touch, all their advisors are also geriatrics who are out of touch.

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      I mean, when people say “both parties are the same” they are correct in this particular metric. We need term limits and younger representation.

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    I’ve always hated this asshat. He’s always seemed like a guy trying to run a football game instead of having a platform based in policy.

    He never spends his time on TV talking about an issue that matters. It’s just whatever bullshit talking point of the day on the news which will be promptly forgotten about the next. He’s Newt Gingrich dressed blue… Okay, maybe not the satan shitpile Newt Gingrich is, but I hate when people are dying and windbags like this are going on about Iowa straw polls.

    Who gives a damn what Puskatawnee Phil says about the election; our future generation is fucked if we dont nail down climate change, the economy which is based on exponential growth and the whole slavery thing thats still alive and well and everyone is worse off for it…

    Hell, child labor laws are being repealed and women are being jailed for having a miscarriage. But tell me again how so-and-so shoulda spent more time campaigning in that county because its a purple county in a swing state instead of, I dunno doing what won Bill Clinton the Election… Carville’s one big win. He talked about the economy and healthcare after Bush Senior had trashed it by sending us to war in Iraq to try to clean up the mess he made when he was head of the CIA… I hate politics

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    What the fuck

    Before he said something weird on a podcast a few weeks ago, I hadn’t thought about James Carville since 32 years ago when he was active in politics in a nontrivial capacity. But now that I take a look at him again I am impressed by the strangeness of him. Among other things, he came out swinging against Barack Obama as a presidential candidate and attacked people who supported him, he wanted to “jettison” the Democratic primaries and caucuses and let Nancy Pelosi pick all the candidates, and his international résumé is interesting reading. He’s just an all-around very weird guy it sounds like.

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      he wanted to “jettison” the Democratic primaries and caucuses and let Nancy Pelosi pick all the candidates

      Yes, James Carville is a centrist Democrat.

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        Yeah. It’s actually pretty instructive to look at his example to see how far the party has moved left since Clinton. He used to be squarely in the mainstream of Democratic politics, then he was shocked and outraged by Obama (and showed for whatever reason an unerring instinct to gravitate to the worst candidates available, Pelosi and Hilary being two good examples), and now Biden’s doing a bunch of things that would have been unthinkable even for Obama, so a one-time Democratic king maker is now on the far outskirts raging against the whole dominant culture of the Democratic party as it currently exists.