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wildcat09

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  1. No, that's horrible politics and is quite literally a big part of why Dems lost in 2024 (and lost in many prior elections). Telling voters "Trump is right about immigration and the border and how important it is, and Dems are weak pussies on it, and I will be like Trump on it but just a little nicer" is just telling undecided voters to vote for Trump. Biden and the Dems were actually very anti-immigration during his administration. That's why the public shifted so strongly against immigration generally between 2020 and 2024, and look what good that did. Trump's overreach provides another opportunity for Dems to embrace immigration as a fundamental part of the American dream. Legal immigration used to be pretty popular even among white Americans and it could be again. If Dems want to try to appeal to some of the racists on immigration, they should yell about how Trump cut a deal with the cartels and brought a bunch of high-level cartel guys into the country and that they'll send those guys back.
  2. I don't really want to overstate the connection here with the "masculinity crisis," because it's somewhat tenuous, but I do think there is one. One of the healthier forms of masculinity for boys and young men to aspire to is basically "responsible guy who can fix shit when it breaks." The massive decrease in standardization and interoperability in literally anything that exists physically makes that much harder and much more expensive. Fuck, just changing the oil in a car made after like 1995 is way more of a pain in the ass than it needs to be.
  3. It's pretty striking how much Platner's current whining resembles Fetterman's behavior. At least Fetterman has the excuse of he had a stroke and clearly has never really recovered fully from it.
  4. Fetterman spends most of his time attacking Democratic voters and saying we shouldn't oppose Trump so much. He's probably a year away from switching parties. We'd be better off right now if Connor Lamb had won that primary.
  5. I'm worried about welcoming people who appear to be co-belligerents but aren't. People like Fetterman, Sinema, and Manchin actively hinder the fight. Manchin was a bit of a special case because he was still preferable to literally anyone else who could win a senate seat in West Virginia. I don't think Platner is that.
  6. MTG will never shift left because she's authentically crazy in a specific, reactionary way.
  7. If he had a good primary challenger I probably wouldn't vote for Walsh in a Dem primary, but one thing you absolutely know about him is the only thing he really cares about today is the destruction of Trump and the modern GOP, and I could certainly live with that.
  8. No, it wasn't ever really real, except for the hostages that got to go home. Trump insisted on Israel agreeing to a pretend ceasefire because he thought it could get him a Nobel prize and now that's over with he's moved on and Israel is back to doing what they do, which is mass murder.
  9. Hey, congrats on actually quoting what you linked to this time!
  10. The real test would be someone like Joe Walsh, who was never MAGA but was definitely pre-MAGA and still doesn't align with Democrats on much, but hates MAGA more than he ever hated Dems and knows how to fight them.
  11. They're not crimes when committed by pasty white boys, they're just little oopsies we shouldn't rush to punish them for because they've got such potential.
  12. Naw, he won't run as VP, his ego won't allow it. He'll just threaten SCOTUS until they cave and let him on ballots.
  13. It all boils down to nerds trying to make themselves seem useful so they can get positions of influence within campaigns and the party apparatus (to the extent that exists) to ensure lucrative careers. In a properly-functioning party these people would be treated the way Ryan Gosling treats his quant in The Big Short (but without the racism).
  14. Depends on how my trip to Vegas this weekend goes. I'll let you know.
  15. G. Elliott Morris has a good breakdown of that report:
  16. Nobody reads the party platforms.
  17. If anything, he's handling this issue much much worse than Christine O'Donnell handled "I am not a witch." E.g. He handled the reddit posts much better and much more in line with the type of response that would appeal to Democratic primary voters. This whiny shit here? This is what works in the Republican party.
  18. Investors like it when companies cut jobs.
  19. He just lost his second campaign manager in as many weeks and several additional reports have come out making it clear he's lying about the tattoo. You really want to bet on this guy?
  20. It'd be funny if someone dressed up like them and walked up and took their knees out with a bat.
  21. At least Gemini got it right that Argentina's last surplus was in 2009, not fucking 123 years ago.
  22. No, I mean your post, which wasn't quoting what you linked.
  23. This reads like AI.
  24. I dunno if Carville had any actual involvement, but his endorsement sure doesn't help them in my eyes. I think the bigger problem is that this is just more of a certain type of Dem strategist pretending that politics can be Moneyball'ed and they're all Billy Beane. Like this shit was just Biden's presidency and then Harris' campaign (remember how much Carville praised her for running to the middle?):
  25. Where's the actual report? I don't have twitter and the semafor article doesn't link to it.
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