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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. This is the way
  2. Texas is an open primary state. Registration isn’t a thing. You just can’t vote in both primaries. So most of these ex Republicans on here (in this forum, I mean) have been ā€œDemocratsā€ since they participated in Rush Limbaugh’s ā€œOperation Chaosā€ and voted/caucused for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary. Our precinct caucus in HaysCo was Hilarious. I was an Obama precinct captain and everyone caucusing for Obama was like a regular Democrat. The people caucusing for Clinton were like 1/3 regular Democrats, 1/3 well known Republicans and 1/3 ringers from out of state the Clinton campaign had bussed in and demanding to be recognized before they were physically ejected.
  3. And look, that sucks in terms of policy. But take heart- nobody expected the Democrats not to fold, especially not the swing voters. But the swing voters are the ones who are losing ACA subsidies and snap benefits, and by and large they do blame Republicans. Democrats folding won’t change their mind.
  4. I like the crowd shot
  5. Meanwhile the CR only has 59 votes because nobody seems to know where John Cornyn is.
  6. I flip friends votes fairly often. To do that all I have to do is convince them not to vote for people who haven’t done enough to keep their vote, which is mostly Republicans. I’m not trying to convince them to change anything about themselves
  7. Correct. And yet they still get my vote by default because the GOP is far worse, and I have no misgivings about that and experience no inner turmoil or disappointment. This is what a big tent is: a coalition of belligerents who can tolerate each other, accepting the enemy of your enemy as a friend. I can do that. Can you?
  8. Btw- I love all these true believer progressive Democrats who are mad at their party leadership calling me a clown for getting understanding the play when I literally left the party over this shit a decade ago.
  9. Indeed it wasn’t. The only outcomes were going to be who hurt the most. That was Republicans. were you expecting Chuck fucking Schumer to extract some kind of policy win?
  10. Or, maybe realize you don’t need to be a Democrat to vote against things
  11. No of course not. Democrats have no idea who the people who rely on SNAP and ACA subsidies are. They’ll talk to each other, they’ll talk to Republicans, and they will talk to The Groups. Under no circumstances will they manage to communicate with the actual human beings whose lives are impacted by all this. But luckily for the Democrats, those people will mostly blame Republicans because the Republicans do talk to them and the consistent message has been that Republicans are in charge.
  12. Democrats are the reason people who depend on food aid or ACA subsidies got hosed? Oh no Republicans will say mean things
  13. ā€œThe narrativeā€ that will change literally zero votes. Yes. Democrats are pussies. Not news. But they’ve wrung about all the political value out of this shutdown they can. Republicans lost the shutdown because it made them less popular. Democrats were already at their floor. Maybe the real shutdown was the friends we made along the way. Dude. Opposition parties can’t usually get anything. But they can throw sand in the gears and they did. They left a little on the table this time but basically accomplished what they could here. If I was Schumer I would have held them together until the week of thanksgiving but all in all this wasn’t badly played.
  14. No. This is the way people keep voting, despite everything. There are basically three ways that people make and find meaning: to improve people’s lives, to right a wrong, or to prevent the end of something good. None of those things involve actually buying into the idea that some jive ass 115er student government type is going to do what you wish they would. Saving the Republic and punishing the GOP is my why. What’s yours? No, this pack of sad bitches on here are just really easily demoralized.
  15. I’m not trying to make anything better. Our system works a lot better if voters are guided by voting against elected officials who don’t *earn* their personal vote. Stop looking for things to vote for and be proud to vote against. And in the unlikely event you have the opportunity to vote *for* someone (which has only been the case twice in my entire life), realize that’s a rare and wonderful thing, like a double rainbow or a threesome you don’t wind up regretting.
  16. You don’t. You have to vote against the Republicans. Once you get over that, things make a lot more sense.
  17. I think the Senate Ds have played this situation about as strategically as it can be played, but Schumer needs to be bounced for a very simple reason: he’s not a good leader, and his caucus can’t trust him. Klobuchar, Warner and Tammy Baldwin would all be better choices at this moment.
  18. He should, but not because of this.
  19. Nah. Democrats will be unhappy but normies have already made their minds up and the damage is done politically from the shutdown. It would have been great to get the subsidies restored but honestly them expiring hurts Republicans a lot worse politically than it hurts Democrats. We can always do this again in February.
  20. Will Lyman VO: ā€œThey were done. They did not have a viable opposition party.ā€
  21. Tony Hinchcliffe, basically. These guys are so safe they make Joey Bishop look like Lenny Bruce.
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