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wildcat09

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  1. Senate just passed it by unanimous consent.
  2. This dipshit cynicism is fundamentally no different than a 12 year old stamping his feet and insisting that the world is flat because his parents say it's round.
  3. Cool, cool. Thanks for confirming.
  4. Hey man, long time no see. You still think all this is worth it to make sure Troph can't have the letter F on her driver's license?
  5. Even Loomer is beginning to position herself for a spot in post-Trump conservatism. Either they know Trump is dying quickly or think he's so weak now that he might as well be. Anyone trying to predict how this will all unfold is an idiot, but we're definitely looking at some kind of schism.
  6. This. We should encourage it, while recognizing that she hasn't actually changed at all. She's useful as long as she's helping fracture the GOP, but she's not an ally.
  7. Ana still trying to neg his way to meaningful human connection isn’t exactly funny, but it’s not not funny.
  8. Ah, thank you. New dude is still deeply weird.
  9. You know Epstein had more than one victim, right?
  10. I don’t think it’s actually clear that the emails about Trump spending hours with a victim were about Giuffre. I think that’s an assumption someone made and a lot of people ran with.
  11. Not dispelling the fucking weird allegations.
  12. The new guy seems pretty fuckin weird.
  13. The real uncomfortable question is how many MAGA posters on Surly are child abusers?
  14. They just did.
  15. The entire way that Republican men act pretty much 100% of the time is entirely unbecoming of any grown man.
  16. Amen rules so hard. When we drafted him I was a little worried he and Ausar could be like the Morris twins where they really had an adjustment period to being apart and not playing together. Instead he's just like "if you suck I'll kill you."
  17. Not discussing with the Baylor guys in the firm who are all MAGA is going to take all of my self restraint the next few days/weeks.
  18. Also included in the emails released today is some indication that the NY Times was doing catch-and-kill for Trump:
  19. In other words, the absolute dumbest people to ever walk the planet.
  20. I'm pretty sure Epstein was misusing that phrase and meant something more along the lines of "the shoe that hasn't dropped."
  21. No, if Esptein was alive Trump would have him killed. Which, you know, it sure seems like he did in 2018.
  22. I think part of it is that in their minds they're thinking "well we got a vote, and then when the Republicans vote against restoring the ACA subsidies we can send out fundraising emails about how they just voted against healthcare!" It's classic too-clever-by-half Dem nonsense, as if going on tv every day and saying "they wanted to starve 40 million people to death" wouldn't be more effective for fundraising.
  23. Bozo's not wrong, he's just an asshole. By most measures, the Dems still "won" the shutdown. But they won this like Auburn beat Mississippi State 3-2 in 2008, when they had the chance to run up the score. Most of the people who will be marginal voters in 2026 in potential swing districts/states will have completely forgotten about this within a month, probably sooner. The undecided American voter has the memory of a goldfish and the tidal wave of shit Trump and the GOP have been and will keep dumping on everyone will overwhelm everything else. Dems should absolutely be better at messaging, but the GOP is about to make things so bad that dysfunctional Dem messaging likely won't even matter. My preference would've been for them to stick it out another week or two after which time I think Trump would've gotten the Senate GOP to cave and abolish the filibuster, because that needs to happen and this set of Dems won't do it if they manage to take both houses and the presidency in 2028. That would've also made it easier to pin the entire thing on Trump and the GOP, which would've been a nice bonus and probably would've shifted the odds in 2026 further in our favor, but the gains would've been marginal. What's frustrating is that there's still somewhere between 8 and probably 20ish Senate Dems that for various reasons just can't really adequately fight GOP fascism. We all want those fuckers to wake up and understand that the Republicans who are smiling to their faces are killing their friends and family and that they need to stop pretending that it can still be politics as usual, but it's pretty clear that's asking a leopard to change its spots. So the debacle in March and this cave are at least useful in illustrating who need to catch some primary challenges.
  24. My complaint about their behavior in this shut down is almost entirely that they fucked this part of it up. Hell, the easy message right now would be "they threatened to starve people and we weren't willing to let Americans starve" and they can't even consistently say that. Durbin is whining about nobody understands senate procedure, others are talking about how if the GOP doesn't vote for the ACA subsidies at an unspecified later date then people will know the GOP doesn't like the ACA, and King and Fetterman have basically just said "I am personally a pussy." I'd say it's stunning how inept their messaging has been, except it's entirely consistent with what we typically see from elected Democrats over the age of 40.
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