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Posts posted by berlinerbaer
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27 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:
A lot of gaslighting going on here. Thanks to Citizens United—elections are rigged by billionaires. And Schiff—like Feinstein—is more favored by billionaires than a reform-minded Porter who threatens their stranglehold on political power.
Schiff propping up a Repub candidate will hurt Dem candidates in close races—as California Repubs will have a reason to go out and vote against Schiff (a man hated by trumpests) and every other Dem on a ballot in swing districts.
Finally, reform minded Dems (who appreciated Porter’s approach to corporate malfeasance) will be less enthusiastic to vote--lowering turnout.
Stop gaslighting.
Bolded is absolutely true. There are Republican reps that need to be shown the door and a D sweep on the Senate ticket in November would have made that easier.
But the idea of outside influence propping up Garvey at the expense of Porter is some next level Leftist dooming bullshit. Let's not pretend there aren't actually Republican voters in California. I think there are more who live there than in Texas. In any case, Schiff and Garvey both doubled up Porter's margin. There's no way she could have closed that gap, dark money or not.
The real problem was Lee running and crowding the progressive lane. She probably would have gotten my vote if I still lived in CA. East Bay represent!
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9 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:
Is this even remotely apples to apples though?
Outside of Biden, I haven’t heard of a single Dem on the ballot other than Phillips and that’s only because he was the only me to raise his hand and try to do something when Biden wasn’t on the ballot in NH
Democrats in coherence: why that's bad for Biden.
- NYT, probably
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On 2/28/2024 at 2:07 AM, Voldemort86 said:
Of course there’s a TX democrat party operative idiot in there telling us not to. I’ve been voting this way for 10 years. I think the point is to just vote against people you hate as much as possible.
I vote against bathroom Dan, indictment Paxton, and hot wheels Abbott several times a cycle and I love doing it. They’re a joke.
I'm considering voting in an R primary for the first time ever, just to stick it to Cheeto, Rafael, etc, but I'm not willing to go down that path if I'll get my mailbox filled with batshit GOP flyer trash. What has been peoples' experience?
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The father of a special needs child showing up at a Nazi rally, AND bringing the kid?
That can't be real.
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11 hours ago, Js1 said:
That poll isn't terrible actually
They have Trump +7 and the GCB is GOP +4. So they have Allred outrunning Biden by 7 points
We can debate the accuracy of the D-R head-to-heads, like Trump +7 over Biden. That result is obviously subject to the perceived partisan lean of the sample set versus the actual partisan lean, which is of course unknown. The comparisons within party, OTOH, such as between Biden and Allred, are likely to be more accurate because the partisan lean of the sample set doesn't really matter as much.
IIRC, the last poll had Allred running ahead of Biden by a similar margin. A national environment like that in 2020, when Trump beat Biden by 5.5 in Texas, could see Allred beat Cruz.
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I read lots of screaming on here about the Left, and I get it. The Left is VERY online and punches way way above its weight in communication capability. You'd think they would be the bloc to make or break the Democrats.
Here's the thing: politically they are irrelevant, as the following evidence will support. Certainly not enough to warrant the hand wringing on this board. There just aren't that many of them, at least those who vote.
Biden has been crushing the primaries up until now. If the Left was such a large presence, surely they could drag themselves to the polls and vote for Marianne Williamson at a greater clip than the 2% she has been getting? Nicely matches the 2% Tulsi Gabbard was drawing back in 2020. Now, Bernie had a good showing in the primaries in 2020 as a Leftist, but he at least has some responsibility and mainstream cred after being in the Senate like 20 years. He heads the Senate Finance Committee, FFS. That takes the edge off.
Next comes the Border Bill, which - let's be honest - was a fucking awful conservative's wet dream of a bill. It had the potential to be a total wedge issue for the entire left-of-center crowd. But most Democrats would have happily voted for it and Biden was going to sign it. Why? Because they know damn well that the number of independents/moderates they could have courted vastly outnumbered the amount of Leftists they would have pissed off. It was a total poison pill but worth it electorally, because the Left is loud but otherwise inconsequential. Now it's the Republicans, in their extreme idiocy, who decided to not only torpedo their own Democrat subversion efforts, but to OWN it. Fucking clowns. There are Republican strategists tearing their hair out right now.
AOC is basically a team player at this point. Ditto Bernie and Warren. Sadly, they have both stopped talking about single payer healthcare, but there is a simple explanation.
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Lol Biden has had a reputation of making gaffes for decades. From 2008:
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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:
lol, lmao even
30 minutes ago, Js1 said:They are bringing it back up tomorrow once Scalise is back. Why they didn’t wait a day, idk. They just ended up looking stupid today
I'm shocked it made it to the floor. All of Republican leadership is functionally retarded.
So with Scalise back it goes to 215-216. Still a loss. Maybe it'll take another 14 tries.
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We shouldn't be turning away anyone from the middle class, regardless of their country of origin. They are educated and have the skills we need.
Most Chinese and Venezuelans are in this boat (sorry...)
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2 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:
The gf was right, they were a burden on their future together. With him now being dead and all.
She's dead too
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4 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
We don't want no part of invading Iran, but we could bomb the shit out of them for a while to let 'em know who's boss.
They will return fire. Are you comfortable with American casualties?
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Fuck Tucker, but he's right in that we don't want a war with Iran. I have no qualms about him calling out known warmongers.
The proxies are fair game, if likely a futile exercise of whack-a-mole.
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2 hours ago, 'stache said:
She would be shot within hours and he’d gain in the poles. The worse he is the more they love him.
"They" are a minority and still only get one vote, no matter how much they love him.
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All of you centrists and former Republicans seem to forget that turning out the base is priority #1 for any winning campaign. For environmentalism causes, this is up there with canning the Keystone XL.
This matters even more to the millions of young people that have aged into voting since 2016 and 2020. Many of them are terrified of climate change and inaction from elected officials, real or perceived. At minimum, this will help Biden score some much needed points with this group after his approval of the oil expansion up in Alaska and the Gaza war. Getting voters from this cohort will outweigh any losses from other demographics.
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5 hours ago, FartingMonk said:
I am beginning to think China is paying them to launch drones just so they can gauge our capabilities.
We won't be showing off anything new.
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Raising revenue is a great idea.
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20 minutes ago, Vermin said:
Wasn't Spavital notoriously terrible at aggy?
Maybe he's worse everywhere else than at Cal, a historical first.
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2 hours ago, LTtxfan said:
baylor and aranda are clueless...
Aranda saw how a good offense turned down the temperature of Wilcox's seat and is looking for the same. Spav turned Cal's offense around this season once he settled on a QB.
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On 11/25/2023 at 2:22 AM, InkaUtexas said:
You all hear of the new emerging virus? Hard to track. Hits kids hard. Reminds me of the early days of Covid reporting. First reports that something was fucked up though came from a friend in Burma.
Yay china.
HONG KONG — Hospitals in northern China appear to be “overwhelmed with sick children” as the country grapples with a surge in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia, prompting the World Health Organization to ask Beijing for more data.
At the Beijing Children’s Hospital in the capital, long lines of people were waiting to register during a visit by NBC News on Thursday. Waiting rooms were crowded with parents and children, some of them on IV drips.
Minor point, but getting an IV drip is the norm for most hospital visits over there. It's like something patients expect and not a sign of anything out of the ordinary.
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Nice. Cal has scoreboard over Lil' Bro for the rest of eternity!
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On 11/10/2023 at 12:54 AM, PTINS said:
Global Warming: 8 billion people at 98.6 °F, approximately 30 ° warmer than the ambient temperature, generate a lot of heat, which warms the atmosphere. If everybody would simply hold their breath for 4 minutes, the problem would go away.
On 11/10/2023 at 9:06 AM, PTINS said:We eat organic compounds, carbo-hydrates, yet scorn the use of oil and gas, hydro-carbons. Different slice of the same pie.
QuoteSociety in General: Entropy is a scientific concept that matter and energy in the universe will degrade to an ultimate state of inert disorder. I believe that is where we are heading.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
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My restaurant eavesdropping just a few days ago revealed a man who thought it would be great for Trump to pick Tim Scott as his VP in order to lock up the black vote. Because it's that easy.