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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Yeah but that doesn’t help Ted Cruz and Donald Trump get elected
  2. For once, an incredibly accurate headline on Fox News.
  3. Oh and by the way- they are not “interchanged.” Using them both is a “giveaway” that I know what the fuck I’m talking about and referring to a crucial distinction, ie the laws that were passed and the way that programs were deployed and managed. Way to defend the party, though. You should go on a speaking tour.
  4. I can't decide what's a more on-brand behavior of progressive Democrats towards people who are culturally middle and working class: assuming we don't trust them anymore because we need a political history lesson about the civil rights era or accusing us of bad faith, rooted in either hidden agendas or personal confusion/ignorance. Speaking on. behalf of every American who has ever had the rent for a shirt with their name embroidered on it deducted from their wages, you seem to have missed the point.
  5. Democrats have no agency, they were innocent bystanders to repealing GS, the bankruptcy bill, private student loans, making the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent, not holding anyone accountable for the financial crisis, etc.
  6. Are you posting from Egypt? Because you are in denial.
  7. Good post. He also wrote a book called “A Place Called Freedom” and features a scene involving the payment of “Arles,” which in this case involved the laird of a Scottish coal mine giving a few shillings to the family of an infant at their Baptism and then they swear their child’s labor, life and soul to service of the laird. This was a practice that persisted in the UK from the Middle Ages into the early 1900’s. In real life a lot of those scots miners came to America and went to work mining coal in Appalachia, and brought the mentality of bound servitude with them, which persists today.
  8. And I did! If my hypothesis is correct (essentially, white college grads and women combined with lower enthusiasm among trump voters than in 2020) this is what happens. It's basically a 2-3 point underestimation of Harris in the polling average, with an exception for Nevada.
  9. Nah. That one got to him and I sort of regretted it, even though it was true. I think the election is really starting to wear on him, and I get a sense that while he’s going to vote for Trump he’ll be relieved if Harris wins, because he’s starting to put disclaimers around his support- that he knows Trump is a “liar,” “boorish,” a “cad,” “probably corrupt” and so forth, but “strong for America.” I think a lot of decent old people with bad media diets have sort of painted themselves into a corner here and are hoping the rest of us bail them out so they can complain about Harris nonstop and avoid facing the truth.
  10. The short answer is that the RGV operates on the basis of machine politics and the machines are coin operated. Two things: 1) the ”Hispanic vote” is not a thing. Show me a Hispanic voter who otherwise checks the socioeconomic-demographic boxes of a Republican voter and I’ll show you a Republican voter 2) to the extent that there is upside for Democrats to find in the Hispanic population it’s going to be in urban centers, not the RGV, because until Democrats are a least competitive at the statewide level the RGV machines are going to drift towards the money.
  11. He’s right. One of my high school teachers was much beloved but is all-in on Trump, and we stay in touch. I told him this the other day: “If Trump wins, 3 generations of students who loved you will remember you for that. You grandkids will remember you for that. You won’t be the guy that took them camping. You won’t be the teacher they looked up to or the grandfather who taught them to fish. You’ll just be a Trumper, until enough years pass that you pass from living memory and nobody knows who you were or talks about you anymore.”
  12. I love her. She’s smart, beautiful, witty, a huge history buff and has beautiful tatas.
  13. Um, I’m not talking about the “white working class,” yall are. Again, I’m saying: Democrats have not represented the interests of the middle and lower middle class effectively for 30 years. Over and over, when the interests of the lower middle-middle class and the top decile came into conflict, the Democratic leadership chose the latter. When they had the opportunity to protect or expand the tools available to the lower middle and middle to protect their own interests or build equity, they opted not to take them. With the rare exception of people like Sherrod Brown, the Democratic Party mostly represents the cultural and social agenda of well educated knowledge workers in urban centers mixed with Clinton-era corporatism. To the extent that labor Democrats exist at all anymore, they are an anachronism. It seems silly to pretend otherwise.
  14. Oooweee! I don’t carry generally but I’ll be wearing a shoulder holster and my Harris/Walz shirt for a few days Because Sherrod Brown is the kind of Democrat that held the house for decades and has credibility with the middle class in a way that the rest of the Democratic Party doesn’t.
  15. You seem very committed to missing the point.
  16. The Dixie chicks were wrong about Bush. He’s from Connecticut. Michael Bolton is the one who should be embarrassed.
  17. No offense, but I can only assume you’re being willfully obtuse here.
  18. Not bourbon, but bourbon adjacent: I’m not drinking Sunday-Thursday anymore, so I really don’t have a place for mixers. For example, the picture below is a Manhattan I made with Barrel Seagrass, and it’s over-the-top delicious. A lot of people would only drink that whiskey neat or maybe with an ice cube, but I figure if you own good whiskey you should drink good whiskey.
  19. I love this so hard
  20. Disagree Honestly this is the best argument flippable Haley/Bush/normie Republicans who plan to hold their nose for Donald Trump: presidents come and go until they decide they don’t want to leave office. We can be reasonably certain if President Harris is voted out she’ll leave. Trump has already proven he won’t.
  21. Much like my response on "the American Gentry" above, that's not who I'm talking about.
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