Obama didn’t fail to seat a DNC chair. Where did that even come from? What he did do is bankrupt the DNC which contributed to the Democratic party losing over a thousand seats nationally during his tenure, and allowed Hillary to turn the DNC into part of her primary campaign organization in 2016.

I mean, it’s hardly that unique a trait that it makes sense to invoke him specifically. People hate enemy soldiers, but not with the kind of hate they reserve for traitors.

“to the core” was an important emphasis.

No, it’s not a direct line in the way you put it. With two corrupt parties cynicism grows, and fascism soon after. It’s as predictable as death. Sooner or later that’s where you end up with a population that feels trapped.

If you want a direct causal relationship, then I guess we should go into the Democratic consultant complex where nepotism thrives and utter failure gets rewarded with more and more responsibility. The consultants and culture that lost to Trump the first time around were still there to lose a second time. Power and advancement in the Democratic party are about who you know, not winning elections. If nepotism gives way to anything, it’s raising money to spend on more useless consultants.

How about this. Obama let Wall Street completely off the hook for causing the 2008 mortgage crisis, then let them in the room for setting up his healthcare plan that financialized healthcare like never before, then collected over a million dollars in speaking fees from financial companies within weeks of leaving office. That do it for you?

Wanna talk about AIPAC, Israel, and genocide for Biden? Nah, I don’t think you do. How about foreign donations to the Clinton foundation? Should we talk about Pelosi (among others) and inside trading? And then there is Joe Manchin, but it hardly seems fair to bring him up.

Democratic corruption is ultimately why we have Trump for president again.

Apparently a lot of people think the party that backs independent Andrew Cuomo over Democrat Zohran Mamdani isn’t corrupt to the core. Astounding.

How so?

Republicans are definitely more corrupt, but Democrats are better at hiding it. In a way that makes them feel more corrupt. In a lot of ways, I prefer a straight up enemy to one that pretends to be a friend.

These are not the droids you’re looking for.

Asked whether he agreed with this assessment, Trump said: “I don’t know. Based on television, I would say not particularly, because those children look very hungry.”

This is the man in charge of the most capable intelligence gathering operation in human history, and he still judges things based on what he sees on TV. What an idiot.

Get over yourself. All I did was state a fact that was contradictory to the previous comment. I didn’t even say anything about whether it was good or bad. Trump is trying to cut VoA.

The word “propaganda” is tricky. It has connotations of being lies, but that isn’t always or even usually the case. Objectively true information can literally be propaganda. The mission of the VoA is to spread American propaganda. That’s why it’s funded. That can be truths that foreign governments want to suppress, it can be spin, or it can be lies. VoA is generally pretty truthful, especially compared to the privately run domestic versions like cable news outlets.

Government officials don’t need to dictate content. As you pointed out, content can be controlled by who is appointed to manage the content. They know the mission.

He literally has control over it though.

True

Be that as it may, Trump is trying to dismantle it.

No, for the behavior of staff that he never directly condoned and in-fact provided training and policies against. He didn’t monitor or enforce (well enough anyways) and maintained a culture of competition that indirectly incentivized ripping off customers.

Again, I see that it’s entirely clear that AOC’s over-all case is very different. I said that right at the start. Her’s is a case of imperfect compliance with rules that she and her staff clearly tried to follow, and she immediately worked to correct the issue.

All I’m saying is that she isn’t innocent by virtue of “my staff did it, not me”. Just imagine how the shittiest Republicans you can think of would abuse that loophole.

Except that Trump is currently trying to dismantle Voice of America" and other propaganda machines around the globe.

My former CEO got fired after being chewed out by Congress for exactly this, so apparently, yes.

Oh, my innocent child…

Both sides harbor sexual predators? Yeah, unfortunately that is obviously the case. I mean fuck, we know with 100% certainty that Billy boy stuck his dick in an intern, and he had a long history of sexual misconduct accusations. When the truth came out, his popularity went up. Instead of being marched out to irrelevance, he has remained an influential member of Democratic leadership.

You might not remember this, but when the Trump “grab 'em” tape came out it was right before a debate. Trump brought a whole gaggle of Bill’s accusers to sit in the audience to call out the hypocrisy. A scandal they should have ended Trump made him stronger. I guess Billy boy fucked us all.