Brandon Doerrer

Reporter @adage | Bylines @campaignliveus @prweekus @hellgateny @dualshockers @greatist @westchestermag @hudsonvalleymag | Not yet the Doerrest

[❥ 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒔 ❥ @tonyhawktruther]

B*tches will watch Severance in a bed full of crumbs, b*tch you should be more worried about “several ants” (not usually a fan of using the B word to talk about women but this is just for a joke)

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

me whispering in RFK's ear that the best way to make america healthy again is to end car dependency and build affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods

[Liberal Hivemind @LiberalHivemind]

🚨BREAKING: Sam Hyde has been selected as Trump's upcoming White House Press Secretary.

[Aaron Carr @aaronAcarr]

Welp it finally happened! After decades of NYC tenants being forced to pay countless $ of their hard earned money for brokers whom they didn’t want or need, the tenants of NYC will no longer be forced to pay brokers fees

The NYC brokerage mafia has been dismantled as we know it!

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Eric Abbenante @EricAbbenante]

Jake Tapper shocked by map that shows that Kamala Harris did not out perform Joe Biden in a single county:
Jake Tapper: "Holy smokes! Literally nothing? Literally not one county?"

Trump was the biggest winner tonight. Joe Biden 2nd biggest winner.

[Tom Cecil @scopgieb]

Wow. This could be big. Early turnout suggests Jill Stein is winning a massive share of voters who have set up GoFundMes to escape toxic roommate situations

[Pitbull @pitbull]

Every day you wake up and you have to fight.

[ani ! @anivgc]

me when my nonbinary friend has a really nice fit

[Brandon Doerrer @doerrerbrandon]

@winzigwinsbig Wanna see this so bad. Lmk what you think

[Ron Fournier @ron_fournier]

Writers/Editors

[Bad Left Hook @badlefthook]

There are no transgender women boxing in Paris https://t.co/ulA4ylgmlX

[Dalida "Zoum Zoum Zom" (1969) HQ Audio! @Zam__Zoum]

Mamma mia! I never-a been hit-a so hard in ma life 😔 It could-a only have been...como se dice? 🤔 El globalista trans agenda 😫 ohhhh!!!!!

[Pitbull @pitbull]

People take so many pictures, they miss the big picture. They’re so connected, they’re disconnected.

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

Disable this here:
https://t.co/iDIoxaiP4V

[Brandon Doerrer @doerrerbrandon]

@winzigwinsbig I voted for Deadpool