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5 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Electing younger candidates isn’t going to work if they have rocks for brains. slotkin sucks. 
 

 

Younger than who? That's a rough 48. 

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Slotkin seems like she sucks the two times I have heard of her: her weak sauce Reagan dick riding official response to Trump's speech and some shitty bill she proposed in the Senate that I forget the details of.

So not a great first impression.

And how about you come out with an effective message to lead the way instead of lecture on what not to do?

But hey she has a warplan. Hopefully there is more to it than "I love Ronald Reagan"

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3 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

And how about you come out with an effective message to lead the way instead of lecture on what not to do?

How about this: “Republicans are destroying your country and making you poor. vote for us if you want more and safe streets”

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Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

How about this: “Republicans are destroying your country and making you poor. vote for us if you want more and safe streets”

That works.

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5 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Yup. I hate that branding, “moderate”. As if what we needed was compromise between competing elite factions instead of smashing them.
It stinks like fear and pee. 
And while I like a lot about that book and what him and Derek Thompson are doing, San Francisco is just a terrible example, because it’s so sui generis. Every other big city with the same problems looks like it has shit together when you compare it to San Francisco- hell Ezra Klein praises Austin on housing, which is utter nonsense until the last 2 years. He’s just looking at MSA data, and what that is really telling him is not that Austin is doing a great job, but that it has sprawling suburbs in places where San Francisco has seawater. 

San Francisco is basically the same as LA and NYC in terms of housing and development, save for one regulatory quirk that allows it to claim the title NIMBY king. I think the main issue with Thompson and Klein’s writing over the past few years is that it is very relevant to the insular political discourse in those Blue coastal cities among your Blue coastal elites, but it’s not clear how their arguments apply to national politics.

They don’t seem to realize it, but the “Abundance” agenda is basically how growing Blue cities in flyover country have generally always operated (on a podcast with Matt Yglesias they used Houston as a red foil to San Francisco, which I found quite amusing). That’s great in one respect - I tell people all the time that San Francisco should be run like Houston. I loved Bill White! But that dude and everyone in his path continue to fail to win statewide office. I’m not really sure how their book will lead to any real impact.  
 

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4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

How about this: “Republicans are destroying your country and making you poor. vote for us if you want more and safe streets”

or just keep repeating pete’s dream for america and make the opposition argue against it.

any dem who is shitting on pete after that podcast hated him before (likely for stupid/petty reasons) or didn’t listen, or both.

any non-dem shitting on pete is scared shitless now that he has a beard.  

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