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wildcat09

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  1. The real uncomfortable question is how many MAGA posters on Surly are child abusers?
  2. The entire way that Republican men act pretty much 100% of the time is entirely unbecoming of any grown man.
  3. Amen rules so hard. When we drafted him I was a little worried he and Ausar could be like the Morris twins where they really had an adjustment period to being apart and not playing together. Instead he's just like "if you suck I'll kill you."
  4. Not discussing with the Baylor guys in the firm who are all MAGA is going to take all of my self restraint the next few days/weeks.
  5. Also included in the emails released today is some indication that the NY Times was doing catch-and-kill for Trump:
  6. In other words, the absolute dumbest people to ever walk the planet.
  7. I'm pretty sure Epstein was misusing that phrase and meant something more along the lines of "the shoe that hasn't dropped."
  8. No, if Esptein was alive Trump would have him killed. Which, you know, it sure seems like he did in 2018.
  9. I think part of it is that in their minds they're thinking "well we got a vote, and then when the Republicans vote against restoring the ACA subsidies we can send out fundraising emails about how they just voted against healthcare!" It's classic too-clever-by-half Dem nonsense, as if going on tv every day and saying "they wanted to starve 40 million people to death" wouldn't be more effective for fundraising.
  10. Bozo's not wrong, he's just an asshole. By most measures, the Dems still "won" the shutdown. But they won this like Auburn beat Mississippi State 3-2 in 2008, when they had the chance to run up the score. Most of the people who will be marginal voters in 2026 in potential swing districts/states will have completely forgotten about this within a month, probably sooner. The undecided American voter has the memory of a goldfish and the tidal wave of shit Trump and the GOP have been and will keep dumping on everyone will overwhelm everything else. Dems should absolutely be better at messaging, but the GOP is about to make things so bad that dysfunctional Dem messaging likely won't even matter. My preference would've been for them to stick it out another week or two after which time I think Trump would've gotten the Senate GOP to cave and abolish the filibuster, because that needs to happen and this set of Dems won't do it if they manage to take both houses and the presidency in 2028. That would've also made it easier to pin the entire thing on Trump and the GOP, which would've been a nice bonus and probably would've shifted the odds in 2026 further in our favor, but the gains would've been marginal. What's frustrating is that there's still somewhere between 8 and probably 20ish Senate Dems that for various reasons just can't really adequately fight GOP fascism. We all want those fuckers to wake up and understand that the Republicans who are smiling to their faces are killing their friends and family and that they need to stop pretending that it can still be politics as usual, but it's pretty clear that's asking a leopard to change its spots. So the debacle in March and this cave are at least useful in illustrating who need to catch some primary challenges.
  11. My complaint about their behavior in this shut down is almost entirely that they fucked this part of it up. Hell, the easy message right now would be "they threatened to starve people and we weren't willing to let Americans starve" and they can't even consistently say that. Durbin is whining about nobody understands senate procedure, others are talking about how if the GOP doesn't vote for the ACA subsidies at an unspecified later date then people will know the GOP doesn't like the ACA, and King and Fetterman have basically just said "I am personally a pussy." I'd say it's stunning how inept their messaging has been, except it's entirely consistent with what we typically see from elected Democrats over the age of 40.
  12. "Took a job with the Trump administration" didn't tip you off?
  13. But he just copied and pasted from an nbcnews.com article and went through it and censored those words himself.
  14. Republicans voted for ACA subsidies when they were first implemented in 2020, it wasn't a huge stretch to think they'd vote for them again if they felt political pressure to do so. Frankly, I thought it was an insufficient ask when this shutdown started because any sensible Republican party would've just said "ok fine" then claimed credit for passing a bill to lower healthcare costs. Their ideological hatred of poor people and/or Trump's refusal to ever admit defeat led the GOP to some really really fucking stupid behavior in response to what was a pretty aimless Dem shutdown. Basically, Dems played a bad hand poorly but the GOP played a better hand much worse, and they somehow ended up in a draw. Then, the Dems inexplicably folded after the river was dealt and the GOP had shown their hand.
  15. Why are you censoring "kidnapping" and "sexual assault"?
  16. I see Ana has hacked Washpark's password.
  17. They're less organized and more bumbling than you could possibly imagine. The result of all that bumbling though is that their behavior is for all practical purposes indistinguishable from what it would be if they were secretly colluding with the GOP.
  18. Greenblatt has effectively killed the ADL, he just doesn't realize it yet. Turning what was probably the most widely respected civil rights organization in America into a pro-Israeli hard right PAC that is all but officially a wing of the Republican party is one of the dumbest fucking things you could possibly do with an organization like that. If I were more conspiratorial, I'd say he was a Republican plant. The truth though is he's just a racist little shit who hates Palestinians and was willing to sacrifice everything else to hurt them.
  19. Chris Wray wasn't with the FBI when Comey was in charge.
  20. That's called democracy. People should expect to get what they vote for.
  21. It's very clearly not, unless several Dem Senators lose primaries. Some caved today because they're worried about people going hungry, others caved because they're worried about the impact to air travel a longer shutdown would have, but they all caved to protect the filibuster. Trump was leaning hard on the GOP Senators to eliminate it and they would've folded to him sooner than later. It's very likely that all Dems actually needed to do was wait another week, but they didn't want to risk it because there's still too many Dems who think the filibuster is important.
  22. Making the GOP abolish the filibuster to push through harmful and unpopular legislation would've been a win. But too many Dem senators still want to preserve the filibuster, so they didn't really have any achievable goals.
  23. Fantastic messaging work, Dick. Voters love hearing about how Senate procedure matters more than anything else.
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