Post by @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

Suppose I told you that the 50M immigrants in the US, almost all of whom are here legally, needed to continue to vote for Dems in record numbers for the next 80 years, while the Dems passed increasingly larger ICE budgets and ramped up ICE killings until ICE was killing 2 people a day in the streets.

Now suppose I told you that the immigrants said, "No! That deal sucks!"

And so I told the immigrants, "Too bad! You have to vote for me! The GOP is even worse! LOL!🤡"

And the immigrants said, "No dude, we really don't. We can vote for the subset of Dems that aren't even more pro-ICE than the GOP."

There are about 50M Black people in the US.

Cops kill 1 or 2 Black people a day. Some days it's up to 6 in a single day.

Some of the most violently racist criminal justice laws in world history have been written by "tough on crime" Dems like Biden.

Black people have waited for over 80 years.

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Mr. Scam Likely

@unlofl@mstdn.social 5 min. ago

@mekkaokereke "vote blue no matter who" is dead, and it was always code for "we shouldn't need standards"

Captain Superlative

@CptSuperlative@toot.cat 3 hr. ago

@mekkaokereke

This is one reason I always want more people, first timers, to vote in primaries.

mekka okereke :verified:

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 5 hr. ago

1) Any "tough on crime" Dem that pushes anti-Black policies will become unelectable, unless they can win without Black voter support.

2) You cannot win Presidency as a Dem, or Senator or Governor in a "state that matters*" without Black voter support.

*Except California. Not enough Black voters.🤷🏿‍♂️

A lot of people are still trying to play 2026 politics using a 1986 playbook.

They think that they can still take Black voters for granted and it will work.

But it doesn't work.

People still haven't understood that if Black voters have delivered you victory, they can also take it away.

mekka okereke :verified:

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 5 hr. ago

I'm telling you all this is a warning, just like I gave you a warning in 2020, when Biden got elected and started talking all that foolishness about "The problem with politics that we've all been to divisive!🤡"

And as he ramped up cop funding and cop killings again, achieving the US cop kill record.

Some of y'all got so exuberant with Trump's loss that you forgot that Biden's win was delivered by overwhelming turnout by Black voters.

You genuinely thought that Biden could increase mass incarceration over Trump 2016🤦🏿‍♂️ and kill more Black people than Trump 2016🤦🏿‍♂️ and get that same Black support?

You can read all the silly Atlantic and Politico and New York Time articles that you want, that claim, "How the Blue Wave Happened!🤡" but don't mention the phrase "Black voters" once.

All of those articles are wrong, and are seducing Dems into making the same mistake.

That Blue wave can disappear.

Geo Saich

@geos@social.seattle.wa.us 5 hr. ago

@mekkaokereke all waves do.

mekka okereke :verified:

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 5 hr. ago

Because that Blue wave is made up of Black bodies.

And at least 10% of these Black bodies don't trust most Dems 🙋🏿‍♂️, after watching the last 80 years of them lie about us and to us repeatedly about our most basic human rights.

If any Dem pulls a Biden? Then they will also lose reelection.

The Animal and the Machine

@taatm@mathstodon.xyz 3 hr. ago

@mekkaokereke
Your ‘racism lite’ comment is the one that stuck with me. In the competition for racist votes, racism lite will always lose to racism heavy. They need to do something fundamentally different, which means fundamentally changing.

Weird Socks

@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us 5 hr. ago

@mekkaokereke
Thank you. I've never gotten involved in candidates' presidential campaigns before the primaries.
Buttigieg and Newsom both fit Mekka's description. I will help a candidate defeat them.

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🚧Monster Can Ashley🏗️

@kirakira@furry.engineer 5 hr. ago

@mekkaokereke guaranteed. every single election cycle, it's the votes of racist white people they need to 'earn' and the votes of marginalized groups that they expect. and then the campaigning to those groups is based on infantalizing stereotypes and the campaigning to the imaginary 'real america' baseball apple pie undecided voter has the political teeth, aimed squarely at the groups whose participation they feel entitled to. democrats campaign like they think you can average the political spectrum and get the most votes instead of coming off like some sort of weird racist wearing a target _____-month shirt

Emily Vale, Gendermancer

@sillyCoelophysis@hachyderm.io 5 hr. ago

@mekkaokereke I want to say Dems are allergic to learning the right lessons, but that would make it sound like they can't help it. I'm pretty sure the truth of the matter is the source of funding prevents them from putting lessons into practice. They must know that they're continuously burning the goodwill they're earning, but they can't utilize the momentum of it because they would alienate their corporate money.

HumToTable

@HumToTable@sfba.social 5 hr. ago

@mekkaokereke "Because that Blue wave is made up of Black bodies."
⬆️ Bears repeating. ⬆️