Loved this post from over at The Establishment Bar.
Why Yes, “Establishment” *Is* a Slur
Posted by Proud Establishment Dem
August 17, 2026
Hats off to “moderate” David Crowley for saying out loud what we’ve known forever. From The Wisconsin Examiner:
After getting back into the race, Crowley faced accusations of being the “establishment” candidate who was chosen to defeat the democratic socialist candidate, Francesca Hong. He called that accusation a “slur.”
As he accepted the nomination, Crowley thanked Evers “for his friendship, his leadership and his belief that Wisconsin works best when working people come together to solve problems.” He also sought to put to bed the narrative that had surrounded the race as he thanked his primary opponents. He said that Hong’s campaign “reminded people across Wisconsin that there are no long shots when it comes to believing in a better future and fighting to expand opportunities to every family” and said he looks forward to earning the support of Hong voters. The narrative that the primary was ”a battle between the left and the center, between progressive and the establishment, between insiders and outsiders” was inaccurate, Crowley said.
“When I traveled across Wisconsin, I didn’t meet people who introduced themselves that way. I met parents wondering how they afford childcare. I met workers who want wages that keep up with the costs of living. I met farmers trying to preserve family traditions. I met small business owners trying to keep their doors open, and I met seniors who deserve security and dignity after a lifetime of work. We may not agree on every policy, we may not use the same labels, but we all want safe communities, strong schools, affordable health care, good-paying jobs, and a brighter future for all of our children.”
Crowley said Democrats must now unite around keeping “MAGA extremism” out of Wisconsin and called Tiffany the “real threat.”
And just like that, David Crowley has given the Normie Democrats the blueprint for this election cycle.
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Which is why Crowley’s framing of it being a slur is exactly on point. In fact, it’s a framing that more Democrats need to adopt. Truth be told, there is no such thing as the Establishment. It was only used as a boogeyman by Bernie Sanders and his ilk to try and create some mythical force preventing themselves from being elected. The idea is simply the latest in a series of excuses weak “Democrats” make when they lose elections. First, it was George Soros. Then it was the “Establishment.” Today, it’s AIPAC. These insurgent movements that try to undermine the Democratic Party refuse to acknowledge that their candidates have lost a free and fair election (sound familiar?). When someone says that a person is an “Establishment candidate” it’s gotten to the point where that phrase has lost all meaning. It is a slur, and the more Democrats can say so to shut down divisive media asking them questions about it will only help their chances come November. David Crowley is simply setting the bar for Democrats moving forward.
There is no civil war among Democrats. DSA and its ilk are nothing more than the latest installment of fringe groups trying to divide and conquer the Democratic Party. But as we saw in Wisconsin, the “Establishment” candidate is frequently the one who matches up better against Republicans in the general election. That’s why the far-left has adopted the slur. Because they know that Democrats in moderate districts are the ones who are central to flipping the House and Senate. They know that these candidates are backed by prominent Democrats because they get things done. When an outgoing governor like Tony Evers goes all-in for David Crowley against a Democratic socialist, it’s because he knows what it takes to win a statewide election with a diverse statewide electorate. Despite what DSA believes, the vast majority of Democrats are more than happy to vote for someone who is endorsed by prominent members of the party because we respect our party elders. Where DSA sees government experience as a weakness and a liability (except for Bernie), the rest of us understand that when a senior statesman or stateswoman endorses a candidate, it’s because they believe they can both win and govern effectively.
Read the complete essay at the link above.
Yes, it’s a slur. Meant to denigrate regular, normal Democratic Candidates who have, more than not, spent years in public service to the general community.
I actually do believe that politics is a profession. And, if someone has done well in it -in service to the general public- that should be respected, and that resume validated when they run for higher office.
Lara Korte
@lara_korte
Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker.
2:29 PM · Aug 21, 2026
https://x.com/lara_korte/status/2090883997651939424
Reggie B.
@reggiebblue
Jasmine Crockett: “The Democratic Party needs to find its backbone. Right now there’s not enough fight in the party. Republicans don’t care if they break the law to get it done. They decided to elect a 34-count convicted felon because they stand by their man.
The Democrats could not stand by their woman who would have made lives better. A woman was the “man” for the job. You would have been in a better situation. The world is suffering because of the inaction of some and the ignorant hateful action of others.”
https://x.com/reggiebblue/status/2090883925249851570
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
🗳️ Want to know the truth about the DOJ’s election monitors?
“These monitors will not be judged on honest reports of what is happening at the polls,” Marc Elias writes. “They will be expected to generate information that can be weaponized against voters and election officials.” democracydocket.com/opinion/doj-is…
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2090786103347310786
DOING THE LEGAL IMMIGRATION PROCESS
LEGAL
LEGAL
LEGAL
Anonymous TV 🇺🇦
@YourAnonTV
🚨 BREAKING: ICE just arrested Blerim Skoro, 55, a man who spent two years undercover infiltrating al-Qaeda for U.S. intelligence – while he stood at the front desk of a New Jersey immigration office renewing his paperwork
https://x.com/YourAnonTV/status/2090729964588941670
UH HUH
UH HUH
The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a “red line.”
https://x.com/AP/status/2090880923835236751
Michelle L. Price
@michellelprice
6h
Vice President JD Vance will return to his hometown Friday to campaign for Republican candidates at the same steel plant where his grandfather used to work.
apnews.com/article/jd-van…
Meryl Kornfield
@MerylKornfield
This plant was supposed to get $500 million from Biden to make upgrades that would let it run on clean energy, but Vance knocked that investment and the admin blocked it. Now the admin is announcing a $500 million grant that will lock the mill into keep using coal.
https://x.com/MerylKornfield/status/2090851403468018058
Be A King
@BerniceKing
Earlier this week in Martha’s Vineyard, I had the opportunity to visit a home where my father stayed from time to time to write, reflect, and gather with other leaders in the struggle for freedom and justice.
Malcolm X and other prominent voices of the era also spent time there. To stand in a place that held those conversations, ideas, and moments of reflection was deeply meaningful to me.
I was honored to visit and grateful for the opportunity to connect with this part of my father’s journey.
#MLK #MarthasVineyard #CivilRightsHistory
https://x.com/BerniceKing/status/2090775880926662837
FactPost
@factpostnews
Trump’s pick to lead the FDA, Heidi Overton, says the FDA, CDC, and NIH need to be “reformed” to fund more “conservative-based” research instead of peer-reviewed and evidence-backed medical science
https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2090834622372262094
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
White House panic and rookie mistakes over Natalie Harp.
It’s not pretty. Amazing Jonathan Lemire piece from The Atlantic by @JonLemire
https://x.com/TheRickWilson/status/2090760418838937883
Love stories like this:
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Dorothy Boggess and Velma Long, both 109, have been friends since they were 23 years old. They met during World War II as “Rosie the Riveters” and have lived near each other in D.C. since.
https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/2090793574073880687
Claire
@claireXanda
Oh he gagged them so bad 😂
Something you won’t ever see on British day time tv. Someone telling the truth.
The guy next to him tried to bring in the usual lies and propaganda but Archie said not today .
https://x.com/claireXanda/status/2090805247992119402
dominic dyer
@domdyer70
A heartbreaking investigation revealed that Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is systematically rounding up thousands of America’s wild horses, then quietly selling them off to buyers who are shipping them to slaughterhouses abroad.
Before, the U.S. government rarely sold wild horses. But since Trump took office, government sales have more than doubled.
Slaughterhouses pay up to $750 a wild horse, the investigation found.
The Bureau of Land Management is nominally in charge of protecting the 73,000 or so wild horses who roam America’s public lands in the West. Under Trump, the Bureau is sending our wild horses to the slaughterhouse.
(Source: New York Times)
https://x.com/domdyer70/status/2090760406537052201
Because, of course…
GOP Ls
@GOP__Ls
🚨 Texas Republicans repeal law ensuring construction workers receive water breaks during extreme heat.
Jean-Claude Damn Van™ (commentary)
@ChaosAgent_42
If it isn’t clear to everyone yet, you are witnessing the collapse of a nation:
Health & hygiene conditions are plummeting, with foods getting recalled almost daily for contamination.
Crumbling infrastructure, both civilian and military due to deferred maintenance as resources are allocated elsewhere.
Social disintegration, as the elites shift the blame on target minorities or made-up adversaries both domestic and abroad, to avoid responsibility.
International hostilities, paired wirh dysfunctional diplomacy is escalating towards the inevitable. Unsurprisingly, the nuclear option has already been suggested.
Overall propaganda shift towards the three basic tenets of mind control: Promises, Theatrics, and Scare tactics. The paranoia you’ve been feeling? Injected.
Focus on the real enemy.
12:32 PM · Aug 20, 2026
https://x.com/ChaosAgent_42/status/2090492242339176842
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Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
BREAKING NYT: DHS claimed nearly 16,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in Nevada.
A month later, officials found just 185 potential anomalies and could not substantiate the claim.
Trump’s voter fraud narrative collapsed under scrutiny.
4:52 PM · Aug 20, 2026
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2090557519215099919
The evil never stops with this bunch
Lucius
@Lucius0
The culling of wild horses was written in Project 2025.
They told us they would murder wild horses so they could make money off the land, and now they’re doing it.
https://x.com/Lucius0/status/2090513719583215964
FactPost
@factpostnews
The Trump administration is rounding up thousands of wild horses on public lands and selling them off to slaughterhouses abroad.
https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2090452581130645632
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
NEW: North Carolina’s GOP-controlled election board has again denied an on-campus early voting site at the nation’s largest HBCU.
The decision came despite student pleas and follows other moves to restrict access for Black and young voters.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2090581622210895880
The depths of evil of this bunch KNOWS NO BOUNDS
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
ICE deport both parents—leave 2 U.S. citizen children behind.
Mom repeatedly told agent wanted to take kids with her—was told no.
Agent said family would be locked up in detention if stayed together—not taken back to country.
50 U.S. citizen minors separated from parents a day—every day—under the Trump administration’s new “ICE guideline on detained parents.”
Incident occurred in Fort Worth, Texas.
Posting first full length and credited video on this platform to help raise awareness.
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2090522221676478703
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
Republicans spent years demanding answers about Hunter Biden.
MS NOW asked them about 15 companies backed by Trump’s sons receiving $3.2 billion in federal support.
Suddenly, they had nothing to say.
Apparently, corruption only matters when a Democrat can be blamed.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2090457374658060334
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
Attorney General Todd Blanche says the federal government should play a role in elections.
That’s not what the U.S. Constitution says.
“The federal government plays only the role that Congress gives it. Period,” Marc Elias says.
Help us protect free and fair elections: demdock.com/Pk39XwB
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2090627752428749295
Gene Trevino
@GenoVeno73
🚨 REPUBLICANS ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO STEAL THE MIDTERMS 🚨
The Attorney General’s from the States of…
– Alabama
– Florida
– Indiana
– Kansas
– Louisiana
– Missouri
– Montana
– Nebraska
– Oklahoma
– South Carolina
– South Dakota
– Texas
… filed a Notice of Appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
These 12 States are attempting to OVERTURN Judge Indira Talwani’s ruling that PREVENTED the U.S. Post Office from having rulemaking power over mail-in/absentee ballots, and limiting transmission of such ballots to individuals on state-provided participation lists.
THEY ARE ATTEMPTING TO STEAL MIDTERMS.
👇👇👇👇
https://x.com/GenoVeno73/status/2090581132295225770
THIS IS CRAZY
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
Maggie Haberman says foreign leaders use Natalie Harp as a backchannel to Trump when official routes fail.
Trump reportedly says she loves him as much as his wife and children and “will never leave.”
This is not merely strange. It is a national security vulnerability.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2090486192382844979
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
📦 The FBI seized sensitive voter information from Fulton County, Georgia, earlier this year.
Now, a lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from misusing those records has been dismissed.
But the case was dismissed without prejudice. Here’s why that’s important: demdock.com/4wHVDvV
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2090763379220615448
Talking Points Memo
@TPM
Josh Marshall: What worries Trumpworld “is the image of an 80 year old man wildly dependent on a clinically fan-girlish 30-something whom he appears to cling to as a kind of human emotional support blanket as his faculties and political power fades.”
https://x.com/TPM/status/2090488537028186193
Manny Jones 🦉
@MannyJones87
Aug 20
Replying to @WmAG_V
Honestly man, this ain’t it. It seems the black delegation is in their feels about Harris not winning Michigan in 24’ and they’re going to take it out on Abdul, but not only did Abdul vote for Harris, he legit endorsed her! Yet, people seem to forget that. But you all are blaming ….
Longtime Black Man Here
@groove_sdc
You mean kinda how some communities blamed VP Harris for the war in Gaza and knew Trump’s re-election would be devastating for the Black community particularly in Detroit and Wayne County but didn’t care cause they wanted to “teach Democrats a lesson.”
You mean kinda like that?
https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2090550890532839698
William A Goldsborough
@WmAG_V
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 HILARITY
Black voters are telling people to go fuck themselves just like they did us when they decided to fail an open book test. But it was ok then, now yall want Black folks to fall in line 😏
I not for letting maga win, but I fully agree with how Black voters feel
https://x.com/WmAG_V/status/2090408004881449058
ridiculous
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
🗳️ If Chick-fil-A isn’t open, polls shouldn’t be either.
That’s the argument a GOP county board member in North Carolina made for scaling back weekend voting in the state.
Some say the plea to eliminate Sunday voting has “serious racial undertones:” demdock.com/3SguPEX
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2090740755853615391
Greg Bluestein
@bluestein
For days, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff’s attack on a little-known aide to President Donald Trump has managed something unusual in the churn of today’s politics: It has stuck. #gapol
https://x.com/bluestein/status/2090428291807064269
Patrick S. Tomlinson
@stealthygeek
The GOP got what it wanted for 50 years. Health, safety, and environmental regulations slashed. Inspectors fired. Government bureaucracy shrunk until it could be drowned in a bathtub.
And what happened?
Our food is immediately unsafe, yet costs twice as much.
Total failure.
1:41 PM · Aug 20, 2026
https://x.com/stealthygeek/status/2090509652706369662
𝟐𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐲
@nomodeath
I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone. Every day, older patients call us confused.
They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link. Some of them do not know what a portal is.
Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.
He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.
He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.
But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.
Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.
Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.
4:39 PM · Aug 20, 2026
https://x.com/nomodeath/status/2090554277022613659
Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
EXCLUSIVE: Committee Review Finds Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion and Enriched Trump Allies
macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/exclusive-co…
https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/2090755034489176453
DA PHUCK?
Court Watch
@courtwatch.bsky.social
Follow
Scooplet: A former Assistant U.S. attorney was indicted threatening to use AI to create child exploitation materials of a senior officials in the U.S. Attorney office and wanted to use ChatGPT to track down their kids.
http://www.courtwatch.news/p/187-the-ju...
https://bsky.app/profile/courtwatch.bsky.social/post/3mtlnzpd7ls2c
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
The Trump admin is opening a new front in its campaign to remake higher education to please conservatives: threatening the American Bar Association’s power to accredit law schools.
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2090796126974706077
Ummmmmmm…..
According to CNN, Natalie Harp once jumped into the trunk of an SUV after getting into a screaming match with other Trump staffers after being denied a seat in the motorcade heading to a Trump trial appearance.
cnn.com/2026/08/18/politics/natalie-harp-trump-aide?cid=android_app
William A Goldsborough
@WmAG_V
That Uncommitted/Abandon Harris bullshit is starting to look real stupid to a lot of folks who were on that train.
Now yall crying about coming together.
This is completely silly, but sometimes folks need to see the table turn 🤷🏾♂️
https://x.com/WmAG_V/status/2090487386937389281
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊