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softlynow

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  1. You want real change? Run up the score, don’t look for progressive purity. You could get the leftiest lefty in the WH, but jack shit changes if you’ve got a tiny majority in the house and turtle still obstructs everything in the senate. Run with the one whose coattails are the longest. And for fucks sake, drop this no pac money bs. Movement conservatives got the changes they wanted back in the ‘50s by first capturing the GOP then using every available resource, from legitimate and semi-legitimate to outright criminal over the following decades to get where we are. Dems need to stop deluding themselves that what’s right or good for regular folks will win out. Take the bad men’s money, get power and fuck em. Warren can play logic games about having corporate money? Great! That’s the kind of fuckery you need to win. Biden and Sanders need to go away. Biden as nominee means less base enthusiasm. Sanders means defending the constant professorial dive into why socialism shouldn’t be a bad word for white collar workers who grew up in the Cold War, thus a real chance to leave them to be picked off by trump. Buttigieg, I’d love to see make his run, but I think he’d also be less likely to lead a wave in Congress, for the obvious reason. Anyway, I feel differently than y’all who’re interested in the exact plans 46 has for us. I just want a Dem with a cushion in Congress. We got Obamacare knowing it would end the careers of some in Congress. You need those kinds of numbers for real, immediate change. Otherwise you’re just hoping to strike a few deals with the current Trump-enabling assholes who know any thing they vote for will be looked at as an opening to be primaried. Give me the most inspiring choice. I’m looking at Warren and Kamala right now, but maybe someone down the list can break out in the next 3-4 months. If the pecking order is similar in the late fall, I hope it’s Warren or Kamala who grab the early momentum in Iowa and NH. I think either of them could offer the right mix of being inspirational to the base and non-threatening to fragile, centrist white males. Long term, the Dems could do with a better messaging apparatus. But that’s been true so long, it’s hardly worth hoping for. Label your ideas better before Pubs have a chance.
  2. The fantasy of a return to 19th century laissez faire governance wets the panties of upper middle class white males who have no clue why their lives are so easy.
  3. Will there be long-winded examples involving widgets and nazi rocket scientists, and the benefits of the totally not racist Robert E. Lee Day celebration? If not, out.
  4. Long-term, some of those people will go back to voting their interests, but Dems have to offer them that choice again. They’ve had the choice of pain or pain and the promise of sticking it to [insert group they hate], and really made the obvious choice for the latter.
  5. Nope. The cure is winning. They’re impervious to reason. Get the 2008 base back out and hope enough sensible Pubs stay home.
  6. It’s not that they’re idiots and suckers (those too), it’s that Trump is inflicting pain on those they don’t like (browns, libs, statists, etc.). Many of them know exactly what’s going down. They feed off of our disdain, and they get the added sense of belonging to team deplorable. They could be the person he shoots on 5th Ave. and they’d be grinning ear to ear for being a part of showing us how totally owned we are.
  7. I don’t understand the need to get the impeachment failure over so quickly. You try, fail, then that pressure is off, and Trump goes back to slinging red meat nonstop. Right now he has to flail about threatening to investigate the investigators, declassifying CIA processes that shouldn’t be and otherwise pissing off all but the brain dead. But the b_ts of the world need their golden egg-laying goose right now(!), so here we are, arguing with the instant gratification folks instead of keeping the heat squarely on a senile, functional mentally challenged, despicable racist who can end the world if he sees no other way out.
  8. So, rather than using this forum for oversight of public officials, you’re saying the people would be better served by having a congressional hearing, which almost no one watches, spend time teaching a concept that is easily explained in a few paragraphs on a website? And nice blind jab at her credentials which you didn’t seem remotely aware of until today.
  9. Katie Porter is the rep who, a couple months ago, schooled the director of the CFPB with the consumer law textbook she wrote. I’m guessing she knows what’s she’s talking about.
  10. Fuck Bud Selig.
  11. You know the answer to that.
  12. "Damn, all that asshatery and I'm still $300,000 in debt!"
  13. Your tears seem librul-ish to them, so their answer would be "yes."
  14. He wants to put Tupac on the $100 bill and replace the Jefferson Memorial with one for Rodney King.
  15. That’s the kindest thing you can say about them.
  16. He won’t stop with the city name. Country, continent, planet, solar system, quadrant, galaxy ...
  17. This show is pretty boring. The characters are meh, the plot lines somehow simultaneously outlandish and repetitive, and the plot twist of the obviously guilty guy getting another season has really fallen flat. The show runners need to take a cue from True Detective and put in a whole new cast next season.
  18. He's just a placeholder until Honey Boo Boo is eligible.
  19. Distracting? Sure. Counterproductive? In what way? What would the GOP congressional majority that couldn't pass anything but a silly tax bill done differently?
  20. I won't be satisfied with less than 173.
  21. Y’all need to calm the fuck down. Barely anyone is paying attention to this shit right now, and an apology on things like teenage hacking and the like kills the story, while a no comment/digging in gives it air for another day or so. This is the oppo dump that helps clear the way forward to concentrate on message and let his style do its work.
  22. Sounds like your beef is with the Guaido government-in-waiting. And said interim government appears to want to make the case for becoming the next elected government by taking steps now to improve the lives of its constituents. That or securing cash/clout to take permanent power via extra-legal means. Either way, in order to deter Guaido from his course we’d likely have to intervene militarily.
  23. He’s gonna get desperate soon. If he seeks advice from the Kremlin, I’ll be concerned that the next distraction play involves serious violence, something making caging children look quaint. If he sticks with the Miller/Kushner/Junior braintrust, i’ll be concerned about the stress on my body from the uncontrollable laughing.
  24. Dem 2020 policy positions can be left, just cannot be absurd. Pubs will portray them as far left regardless. But they must present positions that give activists reason to be excited, and the 2-3% who are real swing voters (whether it's from one party to the other, or from non-voter to voter) reason to listen. Dems have to convince people their lives really could change for the better. That probably means at least a riff or three off of things you would consider far left.
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