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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. The nature of the Republican voting coalition is completely different. Yes of course. There was even a Texas Young Democrats LatinX Caucus focused on getting the vote out in the RGV plus big cities. Meanwhile in the real world.
  2. You silly thing I didn’t even imply that. Here’s what I said Hope that helps. Pancho said it didn’t happen and I’m saying I saw it happen. Sure, but Chainsaw implies above that they aren’t on the internet, so they don’t know about it. Latinx is our little secret! Because The Groups influence politicians to talk a certain way and promote certain things, and then they get out in the real world and the distance becomes apparent. That’s how it works. That’s why Democrats go around chanting litanies of magic words instead of addressing their potential constituents in a way that connects. By the way, I love it when people who don’t know if a thing happened or not argue with me about whether it matters. Sure, but this is not about what Republicans say about Democrats. This is about how Democrats present themselves.
  3. I saw it in person with my eyes, but OK
  4. That’s unknowable, but it’s representative of how distant the progressive political class is from actual people and how they see themselves. And if you think they people don’t hear progressive class discourse you’re wrong. I third-hand know a guy in the RGV who volunteered for Bill Clinton back in the day and was the involved in the farm workers movement. in 2024 he had two bumper stickers on his truck: 1) “My Pronouns are Mexi/Can” 2) MAGA Republicans didn’t take that guy. Democrats lost him. And if your reaction is “good riddance,” then get used to losing and living with the consequences. Yep. You’re a member of a marginalized group, but you’re not a representative of “The Groups,” meaning the complex of political non-profits that presume to speak for you and assert the power to withdraw or apply your vote and support. And look, some of The Groups are great! But some are just grifters. Then you need to step out of your bubble. Are you saying it wasn’t part of the progressive discourse, or that people in South Texas aren’t aware of national political language? Truly one of the silliest things I’ve ever read. Bravo.
  5. Fucking terrible. Although, and not to fall back on an old-standby her, Lieberman was a cosponsor of Wyden-Bennett, and that would have delivered true universal coverage. Obama killed that one, because big employers and the USCOC got in his ear.
  6. Ezra Klein makes my ears bleed so any amount is too much, but he’s right about the way the various Washington and NY based groups in the Nonprofit/Think Tank Industrial complex have FAR too much influence on the thinking of staffers and politicians than they should based on the false premise that they actually represent the people they claim to, and a lot of them are just straight up grifters. That how you wind up with Democratic politicians in South Texas calling people “LatinX,” among so many other things.
  7. What about him? And how does that reflect on what the American people want? Joe Lieberman was protecting the insurance companies who supported him at the expense of the human beings who elected him to the senate. The my point above about The Groups
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  9. Well in Clinton’s case, the plan was clunky and they put the most inept and tone-deaf person in the administration in charge of running it through the system, and then they lost their nerve. In Obama’s case, they stupidly tried to pass cap and trade first, then allowed the Senate to come up with their own plan, then Max Baucus got okey-doked by Charles Grassley, they lost legislative momentum, and then they lost their nerve when the bullets started flying and backed off. A majority of the American people have been supportive of Universal Healthcare for decades. Republicans have just brainfucked progressives into thinking otherwise.
  10. That’s false. I support Mamdani because he’s the best of the bad options. I’m just not excited about him, and I expect more of the same when he’s mayor. He’s DeBlasio Light. I think being anti-genocide is a majoritarian, centrist position, not to mention a moral imperative. I think being “Anti-Israel” is politically marginal and costly. That’s categorically false. That said, social equality is NOT a substitute for class solidarity when it comes to holding the Democratic voting coalition together. Thats why I asked you if you knew what I was referring to with “The Groups.”
  11. The name is Dumas. And the American people want Universal Healthcare to the tune of 60-65% and have voted for it twice when it was at the center of Presidential campaigns.
  12. No, don’t be silly. It’s not like they were ever offered that choice. They wanted a public option. When they were sold one they bought it. Twice. It was just never delivered. STOP INTERNALIZING REPUBLICAN FRAMING. Don’t be silly- the majority chose rejection of the status quo. Just as they did in 1976, 1980, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 & 2024 STOP INTERNALIZING REPUBLICAN FRAMING.
  13. Fuck that. No. Those are *moderate* politicians. Universal healthcare IS the goddamn center, and if they won’t fight for stuff that 60+ percent of the voting population wants, they aren’t *centrist* politicians in 2025. STOP INTERNALIZING REPUBLICAN LINGUISTIC FRAMES
  14. Sure, it's terrible. But the phrase that should chill you to the bone, the one that is actually crucial and will not get much attention, is "my attorneys."
  15. Are you not familiar with “The Groups”?
  16. the center is pissed, the center wants cheaper housing and universal healthcare and wants to actually do big things, not lose elections over a handful of special interest group purity tests.
  17. I like this guy. This is what I mean about being centrist but not moderate, as in strong positions about shit that matters for a majority in a way that resonates with them.
  18. I wish I had some money
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  20. Auto, presumably. It was a .380.
  21. Most do work alone, but some don’t. One serial killer who consistently roped in accomplices was Kenneth Allen McDuff, who was in Austin at the time and abducted and murdered Colleen Reed at the car wash on West 5th street three weeks after the yogurt shop murders. McDuff was also a rapist who frequently bound his victims with their clothes. He also confessed to the murders in 1998, but it’s possible that he was just trying to get his execution stayed. At any rate, he was executed and his DNA did not match what was recovered, although it could have been his accomplice. She still does, but she used to, too.
  22. And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. And as soon as the deliveries are made in the front door, you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.
  23. I heard you can get a bird rub in Palma.
  24. I’m sure it was frustrating but this is very workmanlike play
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