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BrickHorn

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  1. Horan has been a turnover machine in the games I’ve watched. We’re too static overall. Need to start making runs and passing with anticipation. It looks like we’re terrified of losing possession.
  2. Same here. The unity and surge of enthusiasm took me by surprise. The Republicans tried the attack I expected (namely, that the party tossed the primary votes and selected Harris in a rigged back room deal) but, unlike Bernie Bros in 2016, it isn’t sticking. Which is fucking great.
  3. So… wining and dining and dancing is disqualifying?
  4. Relax. You’re the one who introduced your personal political history to justify your estimation of Clinton’s politics. I was just responding to that. You’re a smart dude. If you haven’t done so, read up on Clinton’s record and reconsider whatever views you developed decades ago about his place on the political spectrum. There was a time when I thought he was a liberal hippy, too.
  5. He’s right and the rightward shift of the Clinton-era Dems is a big reason why the working class was just waiting for an asshole like Trump to come along and promise them a return to the glory days.
  6. If you’re going to misrepresent which part of my post you quoted, maybe do it in a way that makes your point stronger instead of just even more nonsensical.
  7. Ah, okay. This is starting to make sense. You were awash in Republican propaganda while Clinton was in office, and the memory of GOP vitriol at the time is clouding your hindsight judgment. The Republicans hated Clinton for reasons, even though Clinton passed numerous regressive pieces of legislation. Politics is weird that way. Opinions are often irrational and counterproductive.
  8. Fair enough. But also legit for American progressives to recoil at an authoritarian governor shutting down protests. But I guess it will be the far left’s fault for not supporting the Democratic establishment’s preferred authoritarian asshole. Or something.
  9. Here’s a different perspective: fuck the people who demand left wing votes while supporting right wing / inhumane shit.
  10. I didn’t say he was Reagan. I said one rightwing pundit compared him favorably to Reagan. My point is Clinton was right of center. He signed a lot of ridiculously regressive shit that caused a lot of harm to minorities and the working class. He had some progressive views, certainly. But he was right of center on balance.
  11. Yes. That sarcastic comment was the main point of my post. Good job, G650’s brain.
  12. They don’t get a free pass. But principled left wing voters who can’t bring themselves to vote for a dude who apparently is cool with genocide (if, for example, Shapiro gets the nod) would bear far less blame for a hypothetical Trump win than the actual fascists who vote for Trump.
  13. Or you could actually look beyond superficial party labels at a politician’s record when making this determination. Clinton signed NAFTA, the Defense of Marriage Act, welfare reform, the 1994 Crime Bill, and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. This dude at The Federalist of all publications fucking loves Clinton’s record and compares him favorably to Reagan. But yeah, Clinton was a real progressive reformer. Mmkay.
  14. My point is not a personal defense. I voted for Kerry and Hillary, for practical reasons. But it’s just lazy victim blaming to pin a right wing victory on left wing voters, instead of on the two parties who only offered right-wing candidates.
  15. And to be clear, I don’t include Johnson in that. I’m talking about voters who supported Nader or Sanders (and then were unenthusiastic to support Hillary). But again: when a nominally left wing party puts up a shitty, center-right candidate, it’s idiotic to blame lack of enthusiasm on the left-wing voters.
  16. Pinning blame for the rightward shift at the presidential level on only the group that voted for furthest left candidates is certainly another choice. Not a rational one, mind you.
  17. What an entitled, tone deaf take. The far left didn’t vote for W or Trump. They supported non-mainstream candidates because neither of the parties offered even a true left-of-center option. If anyone is to blame for losing the far left’s support, it’s the Clinton Democrats who dragged the party well into (and possibly beyond) midcentury Republican territory on the political spectrum. They also lost the working class in the process. Now our allies are former gung-ho small government / low tax Republican types. Yay.
  18. It’s becoming clearer by the day that these idiots think Leonardo Da Vinci’s 15th century painting was a photo taken at the actual last supper.
  19. Good idea. If they want to attract young voters, Republicans should emphasize their policies, like low capital gains tax rates, banning student loan relief, illegalizing same-sex marriage, and prohibiting birth control. The Swifties love that shit!
  20. This Walz guy fucks.* * Human women, not furniture.
  21. Let’s be honest: JD won’t be doing much sleeping on that couch.
  22. Dems should flood Facebook, Truth Social, gun shows, and MAGA rallies with codes and Bible verses implying that Trump is the antichrist. Confuse these dumb fuckers into apathy. It’s not like it’s unfair, since the right has been using imaginary coded messages and prophecy bullshit to firm up Trump support for years. You have to speak to these idiots in their own dumb language. It’s a two-pronged strategy. Call Republicans weird to earn votes from inattentive centrists, while feeding MAGA weird shit to dampen their enthusiasm.
  23. More like Blech-sit, amirite?
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