Leonce Gaiter
@leonceg.bsky.social
leoncegaiter.com - Author of “A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom,” a PW Booklife ‘Editor’s Pick,’ and the historical novel featured in Harvard Magazine, “I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang.”
Reposted by Leonce Gaiter
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Reposted by Leonce Gaiter
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Gavin Newsom is quiescent before money and power. He would sell you and his mother for $1 to gain the latter. He is the scorpion who seeks a ride across the river on your back. He may wind up being the best choice (these are dark days) but we should all be warned.
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I Regret to Inform You That I’m Coming Around on Gavin Newsom
He seems like a huge narcissist—but huge narcissists have made good presidents before.
slate.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Gavin Newsom is quiescent before money and power. He would sell you and his mother for $1 to gain the latter. He is the scorpion who seeks a ride across the river on your back. He may wind up being the best choice (these are dark days) but we should all be warned.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.
November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.
YESSSSS!
What’s infuriating to me as someone who has identified as a Democrat literally longer than Spanberger has been alive is that many of the policies Mamdani supports would have comfortably fit within the Democratic Party tent before Reaganism.
Neoliberalism should NOT be the default for Democrats.
Neoliberalism should NOT be the default for Democrats.
Abigail Spanberger takes a swipe at Mamdani, saying "maybe he should be a Democrat" and that his campaign promises are dishonest.
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
YESSSSS!
The point might be to let him tell lies. An in-kind contribution.
On this @60Minutes interview. Trump lies as he breathes. He lies every time he opens his mouth. We’ve never ever faced this before. And the media still has no fucking clue how to deal with it. It is pointless to interview him if you don’t fact check his lies. It’s just pointless.
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The point might be to let him tell lies. An in-kind contribution.
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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
Dems taking political advice from this dude would be like teens taking sleep advice from Freddie Krueger
In Opinion
In political defeat, “there is a bottomless appetite for prescriptions that reassure the defeated party members that they just need to be truer to themselves, more effective, more ruthless,” Ross Douthat writes. “This is the psychological spot where many Democrats find themselves today.”
In political defeat, “there is a bottomless appetite for prescriptions that reassure the defeated party members that they just need to be truer to themselves, more effective, more ruthless,” Ross Douthat writes. “This is the psychological spot where many Democrats find themselves today.”
Opinion | It’s Obvious Why Harris Lost in 2024. But Can Democrats Accept It?
Lessons from the Tea Party and recent elections.
nyti.ms
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Dems taking political advice from this dude would be like teens taking sleep advice from Freddie Krueger
This dude's good.
Messaging is getting sharper.
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This dude's good.
Hoods off at Heritage
1. A watershed moment.
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Hoods off at Heritage
Often overlooked that Obama had no familial ties to American slavery - his father was African and his mother white. I think all of this allowed him to speak and interact in ways not available to most American descendants of African slaves.
The Black Lives Matter movement. America’s first Black president. The election of Trump. A resurgence of white nationalism.
@jelaniya.bsky.social connects the political dots of America’s last decade on this week’s “More To The Story.”
The latest from @revealnews.org: tinyurl.com/32v58wy9
@jelaniya.bsky.social connects the political dots of America’s last decade on this week’s “More To The Story.”
The latest from @revealnews.org: tinyurl.com/32v58wy9
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Often overlooked that Obama had no familial ties to American slavery - his father was African and his mother white. I think all of this allowed him to speak and interact in ways not available to most American descendants of African slaves.
Didn't vote for him last time. Never will - because he pulls shit like this. Another dem who decides to believe in nothing when he (falsely) believes it's in his best political interest.
That’s great but Schiff voted to confirm another Trump judge on Monday.
New: Democrats are ramping up probes into Trump's $300M ballroom.
@schiff.senate.gov sent a letter to the White House, demanding a “complete accounting” of the ballroom's financing and terms for donors
@blumenthal.senate.gov demanding info from the contractors
more w @jonathanreports.bsky.social
@schiff.senate.gov sent a letter to the White House, demanding a “complete accounting” of the ballroom's financing and terms for donors
@blumenthal.senate.gov demanding info from the contractors
more w @jonathanreports.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Didn't vote for him last time. Never will - because he pulls shit like this. Another dem who decides to believe in nothing when he (falsely) believes it's in his best political interest.
That is the perfect comparison.
The US has revoked the visa of a Nobel Prize winner in literature after the author called President Trump "Idi Amin in whiteface." Nigerian Wole Soyinka, 91, said the US consulate told him to bring in his passport so it could be canceled in person. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says his US visa revoked
The 91-year-old Nobel laureate in literature has been a critic of Trump's immigration policy.
www.bbc.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
That is the perfect comparison.
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Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Republicans spend all their time trashing dems as communists who want to turn everyone transgender. Democracts spend time talking about how happy they are to work with their colleagues across the aisle. One is seen as out of touch and the other isn't. Go figure.
Democrats didn't campaign on LGBTQ rights. Trans people weren't even permitted to speak at the DNC. This is the most persistent lie about the 2024 campaign, and it keeps being pushed by grown adults who should know better.
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Republicans spend all their time trashing dems as communists who want to turn everyone transgender. Democracts spend time talking about how happy they are to work with their colleagues across the aisle. One is seen as out of touch and the other isn't. Go figure.
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The GOP has been extremely effective at shaping perceptions of the Democrats, claiming they support policy positions they don't actually support
If your strategy, as a Dem, for winning in 2028 *STARTS* by buying their spin and lies, then you've already lost
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-strate...
If your strategy, as a Dem, for winning in 2028 *STARTS* by buying their spin and lies, then you've already lost
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-strate...
The Strategist’s Fallacy in American politics
The average American voter does not think about politics the way elite strategists and pundits do
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The GOP has been extremely effective at shaping perceptions of the Democrats, claiming they support policy positions they don't actually support
If your strategy, as a Dem, for winning in 2028 *STARTS* by buying their spin and lies, then you've already lost
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-strate...
If your strategy, as a Dem, for winning in 2028 *STARTS* by buying their spin and lies, then you've already lost
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-strate...
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Fine, do it. It was always imperative that, whatever else happens, Democrats cannot own any of the consequences of the Republican death cult budget bill.
Looks like Hawley and Scott are indicating they’re going to kill the filibuster
October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Fine, do it. It was always imperative that, whatever else happens, Democrats cannot own any of the consequences of the Republican death cult budget bill.
Typical day of a racist piece of shit at the Nazi bar.
Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?
Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?
And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?
Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?
And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Typical day of a racist piece of shit at the Nazi bar.
www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-...
Why is this asshole the only major Dem simply stating the truth that to the right, DEI simply means insufficiently racist and bigoted? What are they afraid of? Winning voters? The truth? Their own complicity?
Why is this asshole the only major Dem simply stating the truth that to the right, DEI simply means insufficiently racist and bigoted? What are they afraid of? Winning voters? The truth? Their own complicity?
Newsom’s Latest MAGA Dig Is Calling Their ‘Anti-Woke' Stance ‘Anti-Black’
“I mean, they're rewriting history, censoring historical facts," Newsom said on the "All the Smoke" podcast.
www.huffpost.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-...
Why is this asshole the only major Dem simply stating the truth that to the right, DEI simply means insufficiently racist and bigoted? What are they afraid of? Winning voters? The truth? Their own complicity?
Why is this asshole the only major Dem simply stating the truth that to the right, DEI simply means insufficiently racist and bigoted? What are they afraid of? Winning voters? The truth? Their own complicity?
When will intelligent people stop taking Ross Douthat seriously as a human being? His job is to smother right wing racist authoritarian bullshit with some fancy words and a legit underlying concept with which the right wing racist authoritarian bullshit actually has nothing to do.
I did have an "abundance" joke ready to go when Trump demolished part of the White House, but Ross Douthat is doing it for real.
October 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
When will intelligent people stop taking Ross Douthat seriously as a human being? His job is to smother right wing racist authoritarian bullshit with some fancy words and a legit underlying concept with which the right wing racist authoritarian bullshit actually has nothing to do.
His idea of 'moving sharply left' translates to 'grew insufficiently bigoted and racist, maintained belief in science, continued to believe guns kill lots of people needlessly, and that the American tradition of of immigrants should stand."
I wish Ezra had provided the evidence that the Democratic Party has moved “sharply left” on this laundry list of issues. To take one example, they pitched the IRA as a climate bill but also as a way of rebooting manufacturing, particularly in red states. And how have they moved left on “guns”?
October 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
His idea of 'moving sharply left' translates to 'grew insufficiently bigoted and racist, maintained belief in science, continued to believe guns kill lots of people needlessly, and that the American tradition of of immigrants should stand."
Uh huh.
I'd bet money that a million white kids carrying a bag of doritos would not set this AI's bloodlust
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Uh huh.
One guy. Days late. Should be a host of top dems, with guests including people who will be thrown off their insurance in a couple of days.
Wow they are doing exactly what this site is saying they are not doing
Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care.
Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.
Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.
October 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One guy. Days late. Should be a host of top dems, with guests including people who will be thrown off their insurance in a couple of days.
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media amplified the mandate stuff/a lot of them are looking for a payday/they're happy to use him as an excuse to resegregate their leadership and workspaces. The latter especially
October 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
media amplified the mandate stuff/a lot of them are looking for a payday/they're happy to use him as an excuse to resegregate their leadership and workspaces. The latter especially
Sorry. Black folks have been pointing at that tattoo for over 150 years now, but white folks like playing peek-a-boo with it. Well, Trump just cut off the hands that used to hide it.
in a way, hasn't this entire country turned out to have a metaphorical secret nazi tattoo that a lot of us weren't really aware of?
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Sorry. Black folks have been pointing at that tattoo for over 150 years now, but white folks like playing peek-a-boo with it. Well, Trump just cut off the hands that used to hide it.