My guess after listening to the gaslighting little shithead was that the report probably showed that all views under the big tent can’t be equally served to deliver a Democrat victory, so he’s going to pull the same shit of telling one group of voters that the Dems will deliver for them, while telling another group that the Dems will deliver something mutually exclusive of the first group. It sounded like Martin was trying to pander by delivering only what “lessons” he thought each group of organizers needed to hear to win their block of voters without entertaining the idea that Favreau was suggesting that maybe we need to have the messy debate about whether the DNC platform can hold everyone’s positions (and by “everyone” i just mean enough voters to win an election). Or maybe Martin is just a simple man.

He kept saying over and over again, ‘we need to learn the lessons’ of the report while being the one withholding that very report. It was infuriating and further proof that this party does not represent us and has absolutely zero intention whatsoever to evolve towards that end.

Let’s see whose really behind the decline of the party.

peaks under the cover page

“Holy shit, this looks real bad for us”

Only question is whether the report had a sincere analysis of the failings of the Biden/Harris campaign team that are too humiliating for high ranking party officials. Or the report is just a smear job against Palestinian Rights activists and the LGBTQ community, such that releasing it would further alienate these voters.

Having an inkling of how the DNC operates, and remembering the dialog on MSNBC following the election in which campaign staffers insisted Harris ran a “perfect campaign”, I’m prone to believe the latter. In that case, just tossing it in the bin was probably a smart move.

Israel fucking us again and again

“If we stop supporting a fascist, criminal-even-in-it’s-own-country Israeli regime, we’ll get less pac money”

“Why look into why the Democrats lost so badly in 2024?? Just look to the future and do things!”

Seriously, he should resign after that answer, it’s absolutely unhinged. Also has psychopath tech-bro vibes: “Move fast and break things!”

“We just need to learn the lessons, but you don’t get to see the evidence those lessons are based on. We get to decide what evidence continues to our conclusions we decided before we conducted the study we’re going to make (on behalf of donors).”

Does it really need to be released??? We all know what happened. You refused to hold primaries and your candidates sucked money ass. You ignored the issues the voters want addressed, and bend knee to your corporate pay masters.

It’s not that complicated an event. Trump set the bar really low, and you fielded people who couldn’t reach it.

I watched half of it and had to turn it off. What a weird, evasive little creep.

Not to be confused with observations of maritime military activity: naval gazing.

TIL Navel Gazing is a term that means “prove the left was correct all along”.

do it anyway.

–registered independent who leans left. Like, very left, Like, falling out of the boat left.

“Why is my navel full of shit and corruption?” —DNC, probably