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softlynow

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  1. @Bozo_Casanova Just clarifying your arguments: Dem economic policies are too complicit with and/or complementary to failed (for the middle class) GOP economic policies AND they suck at marketing that their shitty policies would be, maybe a tiny bit better for the MC? If so, it seems to me the marketing failure is the far lesser problem, and really highlights that Dem marketing failures are baked in to the policy choices. Pepsi isn’t going to overtake Coke on marketing alone unless Coke pulls a Bud Lite and alienates a large portion of its target consumer. Sure. Dems could be better at all this. No argument there. But, IMO, actually capturing the non-idiot 60% is impossible without a better product. IMO, Dems don’t want to create a better product because that requires risking their careers and the known path to wealth when their time in office is up If I’m missing something in your argument, please correct me.
  2. Pregnant women call them the good ole days.
  3. Why? Because it would be the right thing? The cycle we’ve seen play out for decades will continue until there is a massive shift in power dynamics. Humanitarian considerations are merely a PR problem rather easily dealt with as long as the status quo holds.
  4. Kirby claims he didn’t remember doing it. SEC rules: he can just claim he slipped into a fugue state and we all have to accept it and move on.
  5. I don't know about drug dealers, but people who subject others to God Bless the USA deserve the death penalty.
  6. That's the kind of exchange I expect when President Buttigieg is debating Gov. Gaetz in the lead up to PB's reelection in 2036.
  7. More generally, this shows why Dems everywhere struggle despite a clearly superior platform for a majority of voters. People who could even consider voting Dem want something done, their Pub-leaning counterparts just want liberal tears and/or simply fear something non-sensical.
  8. So, you saying folks bonding through their love of tentacle porn on 4chan may not be salutary to the body politic?
  9. You were around for his presidency. You know the answer.
  10. Russia in not the enemy to GQP. Woke is the enemy. We fail to persuade and/or to shame because they are holding true to their values. Morally bankrupt values, but still, they are true to them. Reason doesn't matter, only power. I only have hope right now because the Dems stepping up seem to understand that.
  11. I get the sense they realize they don't even have to try anymore. Just let it alone and the new cycle shortens and we move on to the next thing. I also get the sense that Dem strategists do not see an upside in leaning into gun law reform anymore, and will also let the pitch go by. We are not serious people. Pubs realized this in the '90s, and I think it took seeing nothing ever matter w/r/t Dotard for the Dems to finally see this. The generation that grew up with school shootings will have to be in charge before the needle moves on this one.
  12. There's no guarantee that enough people ever will.
  13. Why did they use the Mexico/yellow filter for that Spanish language ad?
  14. Yep, 5-4 it's persmissible with Roberts shaking his head that maybe his fascist friends have finally gone too far, though only in a tepidly worded separate dissent. Thomas will write the opinion, which will concentrate on the god-given rights of fencing contractors to pay for his 3rd vacation home.
  15. Who was the previous most embarrasing Texan? Ted Cruz? Andrea Yates? Blake Gideon? Amazingly, and against all odds, Abbott stands alone as the worst person to reside in this state.
  16. 2004 Texas / Oklahoma St. The convention was Ramonce Taylor's reverse TD to tie. Now we run away with it.
  17. Hopefully this is a self-own, causing enough MAGAts to vote for RFKj thinking it doesn’t matter. If we could get them 1, 2 on a butterfly ballot in Florida the election gets called for Harris by 10 pm.
  18. Good. Finally a Dem campaign that understands they’re in a street fight not a beauty pageant.
  19. That's easy. Each volunteer offers to vote by proxy for 24 others.
  20. These clips in a targeted social media ad campaign from the Ted Is Not Our Standard PAC urging MAGA to leave his line on the ballot blank would work. Get 3% of them to sit that race out, and he’s done.
  21. Watch the speeches, go back to real life. Talking heads add nothing to my life. All the best bits end up on social media anyway. Election night is the exception, and Kornacki is worth keeping MSNBC on as background noise until his segments.
  22. I don't know how any of y'all watch CNN anymore. Fox News Lite.
  23. Put a paper license on your car and Kamala's laws can't see you.
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