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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Author of the book is Oliver Libby [nominative determinism]

This will go great as a slogan for Bane memes, as 'strong floor, no ceiling' essentially describes a pit.

e: meme

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

the-democrat It puts the vote for the blue has-been or else it gets the hose again

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

But notably not the football field

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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

“When you work hard and play by the rules in the United States of America, there should be no ceiling to the success that you can achieve.”

Even their love of overwhelming and unrestrained inequality has to take the from of bullshit platitudes? peppino-angry

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Jeffries will shit himself in jubilation if the world's first trillionaire is an American.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

play by the rules

wonder who made those rules thonk

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Brandonification followed up by Eric Adamsification

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

While at Harvard, he worked on a college program for the CIA that he wouldn’t elaborate on.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Strong floor, no ceiling" isn't a bad principle to build gulags with.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's Gavin Newsom looking a lot like Joe Biden.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

is he dispossessing unhoused people here or what

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeap. He took a really personal "hands on" approach.

Gov. Newsom launches task force to clear homeless encampments

Aug. 29, 2025

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[–] uSSRI@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gavin is actually Beau Biden pass it on

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://x.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1994920241025974558

One of the chapos with a strong point on where dem leadership has not had anything noteworthy to say.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why are we calling Adam Johnson one of the chapos

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Because it's the official podcast of the subreddit citations-needed

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

He is. But he's the Zeppo Marx. If you sneeze - you miss his one liner.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

this whole article is just a grey mess of platitudes and dumb failure and dogshit

[–] miz@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

A talk with his grandfather sent him into the private sector, to New York, making him plenty of money,

@DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net I found the secret to getting a job that showers you with money, it's talking to your grandfather!

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

I thought about reading it but I wasn't in the right "hate read" mode. Right now I can't laugh while I get angry. I'd only get angry.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

“People who are in the center have no political home. They are adrift. There is no brand. There is no slogan,” Libby said in the interview.

picard

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

There is no brand.

What be a man without a brand?

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I really wanted a rhyme for brand but I had to go with that.

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

very-intelligent

Know what has a strong floor and no ceiling? A well to drown in.

[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Or your pelvic muscles, if you are versed in Kegelian dialectics

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Naomi movie - very, very good. Plus happy ending. They live because they copied. Haha. 10 stars. But I don't like the horror. Really, really don't like the horror. Sad girl in the well looks up at the ring.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These people are disgusting

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Everything i've ever seen hakeem jeffries say or do has been loser shit

[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

I've got a better one: "Medicare for all"

It's the bare minimum you could do.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

When the ceiling is the limit to the extent an individual has power over society's production and eventually the government itself, it turns out that it kind of undermines your ability to have a floor to not have a ceiling.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The minority leader is trying out a venture capitalist’s new book title, “Strong Floor, No Ceiling,” as the Democrats’ centrist answer to “Make America Great Again.”

No actually it's not, it's sauceless and weird like the techbro bastards you lifted it from.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

venture capitalist’s

It's wild how fiction has to make sense and be plausible but reality just does whatever it wants however much it's on the nose.

I keep trying to mothball "fiction/reality" jokes because I've overused them to death at Hexbear. But - once again - it's too juicy for me to resist.

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Somebody should secretly follow all of Jeffries aides around everywhere and record everything they say. He and his aides must bathe 24/7 in sauceless and weird stuff. What Jeffries says publically is surely the tip of the iceberg.

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[–] roux@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Instead of trying to fix shit, we should come up with a catchy slogan."

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

catchy

But keep it centrist! Gotta keep it centrist!

[–] larrikin99@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Strong Floor. No ceiling? Isn't that what your gynecologist told you at your last checkup, girl reading this?

[–] DirtyPair@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

i thought this was about the youtuber at first

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

Word salad nothing burger.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

The problem, even if I'm simply critiquing your approach to your failed ideology, is how much you have to explain. Let's say that someone doesn't really like conservatives. After all, they're abrasive, pigheaded, greedy bastards. But you see some shit you don't like - POC on the TV, POC in government, prices of something going up. My MAGA evangelist ass comes up to you and goes "hi, how ya doing, my name is Holden. Do you like America? Do you like the direction we're going? What would you change?" and then you go "Yeah, I actually HATE that thing that's happening, that's why we want to Make America Great Again!" And before you know it, you have a fell-for-it-again who votes for you. Why? Well, I understand the word Make: you do stuff. America, yeah, I got enough propaganda to know what America is. Great? Well, I'm glad you asked, it's exactly that thing you said was making America annoying. We're doing the opposite of that. Again, yeah, we're unchanging the bullshit. It's simple, it's easy. It puts butts in seats.

Strong Floor No Ceiling? First off it doesn't roll of the tongue. There's like a stutter step in there. And before I get to anything, one has to ask how many times you can simply ignore making a strong floor before you get a reputation for it. So that same corn golem in the midwest you think of as the holy grail median voter is going to eventually call you a corporate golem in return. But let's say you get that same blank slate asshole. "Hi, how ya doing, my name is Deez. Do you like the direction America is going? What's got you down?" Let's even ignore the challenge that you have absolutely 0 interest in fixing the problem they tell you, after all, we did that for the Republicans. "Yes! I feel your pain. That's why we're coming to you with a new idea, Strong Floor No Ceiling." You're going to have to explain what the floor is. Unlike great which can mean whatever you want it to mean, you're implying a whole situation. Great? It's simply the absence of the annoyance. I have a solid floor? So I'm going to have heal- I'm going to get my family ba- I'm going to have access to abor- My representative is going to- In the same split second your victim is contemplating, the Republican has convinced them that it's going to be great. They'll go watch the TV and a charismatic leader is going to talk about how you're going to have the cleanest water and the most competitive hospitals. You'd need a strong leader who's popping off about a future worth sticking around for (and he already served for 8 years doing nothing). You have to make a case that your victim is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire for no ceiling to even come into play. In essence they have to already believe what you believe to be influenced by it. They have to already believe in the civic religion and believe that Dems are delivering effectual change. Otherwise you have to go on a diatribe about how complicated shit is and how incrementalism is... le good! and how the future could be so good despite having no figurehead.

You're not beating the cynical Republican at their own game and your toolkit is not fit to inspire people into mobilizing. Like @deforestgump@hexbear.net : "medicare for all!" how about "no hungry children!" ? how about "legal drugs"? how about "democracy in government, democracy in work."? If your strategy is convincing people to imagine the future, you need something positive to imagine (and preferably not having a reputation of fucking it up).

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No floor. No ceiling. Fuck the poor. Up the billionaires.

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Make Ameri[k]a Great Again" has proper meter and rhyme. It's catchy! It's a song sung by our show-tuner in chief!

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago
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