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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Yes! Saying that the Democrats won the off year elections in blue areas and won’t do well in the 26 midterms are literal GOP talking points right now. No it isn’t. The online right is crashing out right now. Democrats broke the government for 6 weeks, during which they won elections, Republicans took the blame, Donald Trump couldn’t do shit about it, and the shutdown ended when Democrats decided to end it. And now they are at each other’s throats about anti-semitism and the filibuster, just in time for the Game of Thrones to succeed Trump. Democrats shouldn’t have missed their expectations about policy outcomes, but they won the shutdown and the GOP lost. This! It deeply divides the MAGA coalition. It’s as potentially damaging to the GOP in 26 as bitcoin stupidity was to democrats in 24.
  2. This is what Darryl Royal meant when he told Mack to get the BBs back in the box.
  3. I don’t have one because of that reputation but i included it simply because it’s so popular.
  4. So she’s in her prime? Stop internalizing Republican framing. They are, but they won this shutdown.
  5. Wordle 1,606 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  6. Oh right. People now have the freedom to be turned away for primary care. They’ll be thrilled about their prices going up.
  7. Yeah Mike, maybe if we don’t talk about it nobody will notice their legally required Health insurance got more expensive.
  8. They let you have Internet access at the ahuasca retreat?
  9. Local Citizens United supporter denounces “Shit-Lib enablers” I wonder what she’s doing these days.
  10. Surely Republicans were just ready to pounce, right? About that…
  11. Yes. That’s the filibuster I want them to return to. Maximum pain. Maximum risk. Maximum reward.
  12. I don’t like the filibuster in its current form, but I would be very much in favor of returning to the talking filibuster.
  13. I only learned about him because he was at the MSG event and looked at some of his other work. I have no idea who the other three guys are.
  14. I think it will, for two reasons: 1) a number of R senators need to vote for it to save their hides 2) Thune is shook Big pro-vagina guy here Leaving the party was the cost of my vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. And yet, I’m still advising candidates for office, offering perspective when asked, donating money, and generally being helpful, because that’s what allies do. What are you doing?
  15. A lot of really important people whose name rhymed with “Jillary Blinton”
  16. I don’t believe that for a second
  17. And one more thing: the reason MAGA beats you people is because when they win they declare victory, when they lose they declare victory, and when it’s a draw, they declare victory. And even when their own people and the mostly unaffiliated population don’t believe them, you do. They live in your head and you (not you personally, but base Democrats) need to throw them out. You keep looking around at this leadership vacuum and wondering where the fighters are. They aren’t going to fight until you people fight. They aren’t going to act like winners until you act like winners and start treating victory, not policy, as the basis for making political choices and choosing candidates. You only get to win on policy when you win on Election Day. You didn’t get the policy you wanted because *you* haven’t won enough goddamn elections. But what you did get was an opposition successfully throwing sand in the gears. Opposition is defined by how much shit you can get away with fucking up. Democrats managed to break the commercial aviation system while not taking the blame for it and SWEEP elections while they were shutting down the government. You think that’s not terrifying John Thune right now? You think he wants to do this again in February? You want more policy wins? Do what @Pancho said he’s going to do: get pissed off enough at this to get involved. Otherwise enjoy the moment and look forward to the next time. This is OK.
  18. They won’t. Look, they didn’t make the optimal play in terms of what they were fighting for, and ended up setting the wrong expectations with their own base (y’all.) But this isn’t the disaster y’all seem to think it is, and the GOP messaging isn’t really going to land either. The bottom line is that this has been a political net positive for Democrats and a net negative for the GOP, and it could have very easily gone the other direction.
  19. Effective at what? People aren’t changing their minds. Y’all really need to stop internalizing Republican framing.
  20. lol so true Literally every successful turnaround of struggling political parties in the last century was mostly powered by party bases revolting against their own elite establishment. dejection got Donald Trump reelected. Anger wins midterms.
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