Well, my understanding is that the property owners who have properties there choose just not to rent it at all.

Yeah, kill them.

Kill those motherfors and murder those motherfuckers in the street.

Let the streets, let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist bloods, dude.

Hello, everyone.

My apologies for the intensity and the language in that last clip. I did my best to clean it up just in case there were any children in earshot. That was the voice of Hassan Piker, the hugely popular YouTube and Twitch streamer who was at the center for a couple weeks in April of Democratic Party discourse around who should

be included in the Big Tent Coalition and who candidates would probably do best to distance themselves

from. Now, this all happens in the context of a Democratic Party in crisis. You know, the hits

just keep coming. It's like a super slow motion, thousand car pile up on a densely foggy, moonless winter night,

with the highway still shuddering from the earthquake of the 2024 election loss.

The Dems are somehow, in my conceit here, the car in the middle of it all squeezed between a digital media that has

trended overwhelmingly to the right, a conspiracy drunk public loss of trust in institutions,

the most popular American reactionary right-wing movement in decades called Maga, and a small

but very loud activist class, perhaps represented by folks like Hassan Piker, that

has landed significantly to the left, not only of a huge majority of the country, but

also of the minorities for whom it claims to advocate.

And if you think I'm exaggerating, in the last election, Trump not only won the electoral

college, the popular vote, all the swing states, the House and the Senate, but he also made alarming demographic gains with women, college-educated people, blacks, Hispanics, naturalized immigrants, and voters under 30.

Now, to be clear, Democrats still won several of those groups, but they lost ground.

The Democrat post-mortem on this disaster continues as a preface to any conversation about how

to approach this year's midterms and the looming presidential election of 2028.

In simplified terms, we're in something of a civil

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