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wildcat09

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  1. I doubt it will, but it seems like it'll probably be more effective than repeatedly validating Republican propaganda.
  2. I mean, if you're a terrible student with average grades and a 1460 you won't get accepted into Texas, Michigan, Cal, UCLA, the ivies, etc., but you'll get in just about anywhere else. Don't ask me how I know that.
  3. I neg rep Republican propaganda. Stop peddling it.
  4. You got a source for this?
  5. Why are you posting this like it's new? Have you happened to see what's happened to Gavin's popularity in the month or so since this podcast aired? The only reason that undecided voters think trans girls in sports matters is that both Republicans and Democrats keep fucking telling them it matters. It's as much on you for validating Republican propaganda as it is on the Republicans peddling it. You know what will tell those voters it doesn't matter? When a Republican brings it up, just fucking ask why they're so desperate to give a pedophile a job looking under teenage girls' skirts.
  6. I think they communicated to voters as well as they possibly could have that they wanted to stop immigration and had negotiated a very "strong" immigration bill and that Trump killed it. So the question is how did their communication fail? On this issue, I don't think the failure was in their ability to communicate how seriously they took immigration. I think the failure was in the decisions they made years before to give in to Republican framing on immigration as negative, which contributed to a drastic change in public sentiment against immigration.
  7. This. Trans girls in sports is literally an invented issue. More people are struck by lightning each year than compete against trans girls in sports. And yet several posters seem to think Dems (who ran from the subject like a fucking plague while trying to focus on kitchen table issues) made it a "cornerstone" of their campaign. This is how fucking insidious right wing propaganda has become. This is how effective it is. And every time a Republican runs an anti-trans ad and someone like Colin Allred responds with "no I don't want boys playing in girls sports," that's the response the Republicans wanted. Why the fuck do you people think Republican pundits keep encouraging Dems to keep giving that response?!
  8. Name one Democrat running for a statewide or national office who has ever made identity or social issues a cornerstone of their platform.
  9. Have you considered trying to engage with reality? Biden ramped up deportations to record levels and he and Kamala (and all other Dems running in 2024) ran as fast as they could from trans issues. And yet millions of people, including you, believe otherwise. Why do you think that is? It sure as shit has nothing to do with what the candidates actually said or did.
  10. No. My point is that issues largely don't even matter. It's not a matter of turning the dial left or right, because there isn't a center. People don't go into the voter booth and look at a spreadsheet of issues a candidate supports and opposes and choose the candidate that aligns with their preferences the most. The overwhelming majority of potential voters in each election won't even choose between candidates, they'll choose the candidate from the party they prefer or they'll stay home. What's left, probably no more than 10% of voters, have completely incoherent politics and vote based on vibes. Do they really like a candidate or at least hate the other? So campaigns are about two things: 1) turning out your base, and 2) winning the undecideds. You hurt both goals by trying to triangulate around some imagined optimum collection of "centrist" or "moderate" positions. That shit turns off your base and gets a lot of them to stay home and it tells the undecided voters that you don't really believe in anything. That you don't care about anything. Undecided voters love "change" candidates because those candidates give the impression that they'll care enough about something to get shit done. Issues largely don't matter, how you message them does. The Dems are absolute dogshit at messaging them.
  11. Of course I'm not fucking happy with the results. I'm saying that the shitty results are the results of your proposed solution because the campaign strategists that run political campaigns for Democrats have been doing what you propose since fucking 1992.
  12. I'm so sick of this shit. Dems run a centrist platform every fucking time and every fucking time some fucking Republicans go "well I just couldn't vote Dem because they ran on a radical leftist platform and they need to come back to the center" and every fucking time literally millions of people buy that bullshit and regurgitate it online. If you're not paying any attention to what candidates are saying or doing, stop offering uninformed opinions about what they need to fucking do. Jesus christ, imagine reading Bret Stephens and thinking he's offered anything of value. That's literally the opposite of his job.
  13. …you’re certainly misreading something.
  14. I gotta say, seeing someone who supports Palestinians so consistently stan for Bari Weiss, who has spent her entire adult life trying to oppress Palestinians, just to disagree with me is fucking depressing. They deserve better.
  15. Jesus Ana, what have I ever posted here that would make you think I have any serious respect for the legal profession? I thought you knew me better than that. In my approval rankings, my profession is just barely ahead of you and cancer and about even with aggy.
  16. Can you name some other schools with a wildcat as a mascot?
  17. Given your love for dishonesty one would think you’d have more respect for lawyers. Also why do you think I went to K-State?
  18. It bears noting that the government’s not arguing that they don’t have to bring him back because he’s not a citizen. They’re arguing that they don’t have to bring him back because a court can’t compel them to force El Salvador to give him back. They’re saying they can kidnap citizens and send them to a concentration camp they pay another country to run and there’s nothing the kidnapped citizen can do about it. The Nazis literally gave their victims more due process than this.
  19. He might legitimately be dumber than workswithseed.
  20. Trump got China and Japan to cooperate on something. What an incredible fuckup.
  21. Most of the decision-makers at those clients probably still don't realize that this is a bad deal for them too, but that's because they're stupid. Paul Weiss, Skadden, and their clients that approve of these deals are trading the rule of law for Trump's good graces. I know which I'd rather be reliant on if I was in charge of a multi-billion dollar business.
  22. I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.
  23. There's no endpoint to any deals in international relations, which makes attempting to negotiate with Trump pointless. If you're dealing with a lunatic in a real estate deal who is being a belligerent asshole, you can still make some concessions if it's worth it to you to get the deal to the finish line, because then you don't have to deal with that asshole again. This is a whole different scenario, which is why ultimately the only response any other countries can give Trump is to tell him to shove his tariffs up his ass.
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