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James Carville Slams Democratic Socialists: 'These People Are So F**king Stupid (www.huffpost.com)
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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 55 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

“These people are so fucking stupid, I don’t know what to say about it,” said Carville in a video for Politicon. “So now we have this idea that these insurgent Democrats — and what is their solution? Is their solution to beat Republicans, to run against Republicans? No!”

He continued, “Their solution is to beat Democrats like they’re part of the problem.”

Feels a bit Dunning-Kruger to me. He has no clue how shallow and dumb his own position is, and or how the people he's disagreeing with have already thought through it and far beyond. So he thinks the stupidity lies with them.

[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did Carville just find out about primaries? Did he just wake up from some kind of cajun hibernation where he missed the DNC primarying the fuck out of everyone who identifies as leftist since the dawn of time?

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

cajun hibernation

He's late to the party, so... tardy gras

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“I am a proud liberal,” Carville confirmed Friday. “I am not a leftist..."

Finally! Someone who knows there's a fucking difference.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 2 weeks ago

he sounds more like a conservative, usually when someone uses that tone they are neither a DNC, or even the left. cons love to use this doublespeak alot.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not a liberal, I'm a leftist

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We are talking about James.
We both know we know the difference.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, idk why I just felt like saying it.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For yourself, or rhetorically?
I can read it as a bit, and I can welcome it🤭

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was a bit

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

🤣👏🤣 you got me.

Damn, educating amekos sure is hungry work.
Time to chow some sum.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Centrists become abusive when they know they're wrong.

This guy only advised one winning campaign three and a half decades ago, and only won that one because Ross Perot split the republican vote and Bill Clinton was more charismatic than GHWB.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'll never forget when they got CNN to leave the mics on so Elizabeth Warren could call Bernie Sanders a sexist and a liar on live, national TV. The euphemistically-named centrists are the reason we got Donald not once but twice.

These people deserve a permanent case of crabs.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My favorite was when they were like "Did you tell Warren that a woman can't win" and Sanders was like "no" and then they turned to Warren and were like "How did you feel when Sanders said a woman can't win?"

Now the same people say women can't win whenever someone brings up the idea of AOC running.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, when truly, a woman hasn't won because the female candidates they give us are brazenly and openly corrupt or completely inauthentic.

[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 25 points 2 weeks ago

Old man yells irrelevant stupid neoliberal crap.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 21 points 2 weeks ago

What an idiot.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just

STOP

GIVING

HIM

ATTENTION

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

I’m interested on learning why.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So this piece of shit is still alive? I thought he died in the 90s when he was relevant for some reason

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

he's 81 years old and thinks his opinion should still matter. it's distressingly common in the American gerontocracy and, well, we've all seen the results.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's actually an anthropological issue:
As elders survive longer and fit better than the minors they oppress, they use their survivorship bias to groom the next generation to fit their exact needs.

It's happening everywhere.
Where I live, it's hopeless.

[–] bjc@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

more than any other place i've been on the internet, lemmy really feels like the place to go for watching the first draft of a propaganda campaign

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

But, that's kinda blatant. Who goes to offshoot a decentralized reddit if not people that create a draft of something without having the time and patience to finish it?

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Old ass man fears change, judgement, and accountability. News at 11.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

When are Amerikka going to flush out their old demagogy?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

It'll be better for us all when he joins his buddy Lindsey Graham.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He is utterly without shame. In the same interview he was decrying the left for "infighting".

Carville unloads on far-left Democrats over party infighting ahead of midterms

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh so this is what libbies mean by “left unity”: rule by the majority

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

Only when the majority is moderate. When the majority is progressive that's a devious attack that should not be rewarded.

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who’s James Carville?

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

A guy who some credited with being instrumental in getting Bill Clinton elected that quickly faded from relevance but keeps appearing on CNN and MSNBC to spout his opinions, which are frequently either bad, irrelevant and/or dumb.

Corporate dem to the core as far as I can tell.

[–] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 5 points 2 weeks ago

Media pundits need to be flushed out just like their political counterparts.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

The greeks said something similar before the Romans kicked their ass

[–] Corvidae@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

On the subject of democratic progressives: Carville's judgment, "Left wing idiots"; Trump's judgment, "Communists".

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hey libs, where’s that “liberal unity” I read about so very very often?

[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's easier for conservatives to line up behind a leader because they don't think about what the leader says. Listen and Believe is the way (when it's an old white dude saying things that make them feel good).