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  1. You can't win without 'em so they better shape the fuck up.
  2. PRETENDERS Newsom (fascist apologist, weak, squandered his credibility). Pete (ties to McKinsey, will be eaten alive by populists, not straight) Booker (owned by big pharma, all sizzle no steak, washed up before his filibuster and hasn't made news since, not white) Warren (looks old, no charisma, not male) CONTENDERS Walz (the peak of the Kamala Harris campaign's momentum, but looks old and might not actually want to be president) JB Pritzker (compassionate, strong as hell, clearly wants the job but can be criticized for his wealth and is a health risk due to his size) Beshear (proven he can win in a red state, young and handsome, but may be too moderate) Shapiro (strong in a swing state, skilled orator, but would alienate young voters and has baggage relating to the death of Ellen Greenberg) Ossoff (from a swing state, also well spoken, and much younger than Shapiro, but could be too moderate for young voters and the party may not want him abandoning a hard-fought senate seat in a state where Warnock barely held onto his seat) ONES TO WATCH AOC (Needs a stint in the Senate or as Governor but she is the de-facto leader of the party, so watch what she does in 2028 with that power) Crockett (Not in the squad, but knows how to attack and has risen to stardom because of it) Talarico (Needs an opportunity to transition from TX Lege to Congress, watch to see if he gets to speak at the DNC)
  3. "He openly brags about how he controls Judges, and even Justices of the United States Supreme Court" is the new "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
  4. Blue sky says the vote is secret so not necessarily, just that she doesn't agree with Jackson's opinion for whatever reason.
  5. Tomorrow there will be an Executive Order invoking the Alien Enemies Act against white Afrikaaners
  6. https://i.imgur.com/0raSpls.gif
  7. It's the perfect crime. Nobody would even investigate it. Cybertrucks fall off bridges because of course Cybertrucks would fall off bridges.
  8. So the redacted stuff, I'm guessing he has a medical condition?
  9. The entire "groundswell" of pro-Paxton billboards and social media ads came from that asshole
  10. That graph tells half the story. It's not just that they're appealing to stupid people (they are, and the stupid people are responding as expected) It's also that these counties have driven out the people who have (or tried to get) college degrees. They're driven out because the counties have nothing going on economically: goodbye to that rural clinic and sayonara to that tiny, underfunded, private university. They're also driven out by red state policies that are openly hostile to women, to people of color, to queer people, to the irreligious, and even to people who are religious but not Protestant. You only have one life to live, so why would anyone who values education spend it in a podunk town with nothing going on? The part of the story I'm not sure the graph fully captures is that people who have attended college probably haven't increased their affinity for the democratic party. I don't think the people have "moved further left" it's just that the existing left-of-center people have been forced to relocate to population centers where all the jobs and amenities are.
  11. Probably should move this to the Help forum. Do you know where the false loan applications were made?
  12. Peterson is washed up. Low view counts compared to before he joined Daily Wire. But he got them to pay him while his stock was high. The grift is over.
  13. https://mynorthwest.com/crime_blotter/shawn-kemp-tacoma-shooting/4092614 That's a great prank call name I feel like they should consider his years in Cleveland as time served. The man has suffered enough.
  14. It's why Idiocracy was so terrifying despite how entertaining and funny it was. That movie's all I think about any time I'm in a large crowd of unwashed masses.
  15. What are the steps for an indictment exactly?
  16. The problems with the party are much, much deeper than its inability to "message."
  17. Looks like he's from SA and does stand up comedy too. Wonder if he's any good
  18. Asteroid City was too pretentious for most audiences, and while I enjoyed it for what it was, I wouldn't call it one of his better movies. The quirky affect of his style didn't lend itself very well to the story, which at times dragged. I really hope this new movie is an improvement.
  19. These goons are in her domain. She has the right to tell them to fuck off. If they're interfering with her official duties, she is not just allowed to but I would even say obligated to tell them to back the fuck off. Any criminal defendant with a half decent lawyer could use the presence of masked goons as grounds for a mistrial. Why would she risk that when she has the power to control what happens in and around her duty station? Fuck outta here.
  20. 8 years ago, Alex Jones was a novelty to Joe Rogan. Someone he found fascinating and could hold an interview with that would be entertaining and incisive at the same time without ever devolving into namecalling or a debate. Today, Alex Jones is a personal friend who influences his opinions and values. 8 years ago, Joe Rogan opposed government intervention into personal liberties such as abortion, gender-affirming care, and marriage. Today, Joe Rogan pals around with people who think the government should pass laws to increase white birth rates, people who think "gender ideology" is corrupting our children, and people who want women to be submissive and for gays and trans people not to exist. 8 years ago, his guests included Bill Burr and Steve-O. Now, it's crackpots like Aaron Rodgers and xenophobes like Douglas Murray, author of "The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam" and "The War on the West" This is what happens when dark money is behind the wheel of a Gen X-er's social media diet. You turn libertarians into white nativist conservatives. You create a climate where someone with the exact same platform as Pat Buchanan's becomes electable.
  21. He used to be progressive, probably as a way to fit in with his colleagues in LA, back when it was possible to call yourself progressive while still having slurs in your standup routine and be friends with married guys who sleep with subordinates. No progressive would have endorsed Donald Trump, knowing everything we knew about him by 2024. Maybe I should have used more precise words than "seemingly progressive." When I say "seemingly progressive" I mean "doesn't talk like Pat Robertson." He's really more of a throwback to the 2000s Ron Paul libertarian guys, who were completely insufferable.
  22. He's bad/maga because: he explicitly endorsed Donald Trump he constantly platforms eugenicists he owes much of his success to MAGA loyalist Dana White He's extra dangerous because he normalizes these things as a seemingly progressive guy, with a lot of the same seemingly progressive values that his viewers used to have. It's essentially a permission structure for socially-aware progressive-leaning guys with asshole tendencies to embrace their asshole tendencies and slowly reject decency. The narrative being that if a guy like Joe Rogan made these lifestyle changes (moving from LA to Texas, going from apolitical to explicitly right wing) and can still be successful then I can also embrace a set of values that allows me to overlook my friends' problematic behaviors and disregard the hurtful consequences of voting republican.
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