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Posts posted by wildcat09
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It helps that Allred sucks ass.
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1 hour ago, Hefeweizen said:
He posts on surly with very intelligent concerned questions.
This guy gets it.
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When I was a kid the neighbors had a son who would do literally anything for attention. He’d smear mud on his face and pretend it was shit, he’d throw rocks at you, etc. It took me awhile to understand, but he was mostly doing it because he wanted to be friends, but he’d learned from his parents that the only thing that got him any attention was bad behavior.
He was 10. It’s hard to imagine what a miserable, friendless existence he’s likely living now.
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Well damn, we might actually see a real civil war in the Texas GOP.
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Gotta give credit where it’s due, Ana pretending he doesn’t want to be adversarial is some top shelf trolling. Much better than the usual slop he gives us.
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
In a way you have to feel a bit sorry for Usha.
By most accounts, JD was a lot less of a shithead until he went off to Peter Thiel's gay boot camp.
Naw, she knew what she was getting into.
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1 hour ago, LCHorn said:
I know everyone wants Schumer and Jeffries to be something they are not, but it’s pretty clear that the next version of the Democratic Party (I.e., the one that can win two elections in a row) is going to be fronted by different leadership.
I hate quoting him as much as I do, but @Bozo_Casanova has said (and this is going to be to his chagrin, but Ezra Klein just said this, too) that the candidate changes the party, not the other way around and I think that’s a better road map for what comes next than to continually be disappointed that Schumer isn’t a wartime consigliere.
@wildcat09I know you’re out on Platner, but he’s so much better as a template candidate than trying to run 72 year old Sherrod Brown again or 77 year old Janet Mills.
I don't think anyone here thinks Schumer and Jeffries are capable of changing their stripes. I very much wish Platner was what he had appeared to be, it's just clear to me that he isn't. You'll all get there soon enough.-
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The money guy saying the campaign isn't aligned with his professional standards is a pretty glaring red flag.
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5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
Hey, someone figured out that maybe Dems shouldn't concede to the Republican framing of every issue! And dunked on a dishonest reporter! Maybe at least part of the party is capable of learning basic politics!
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24 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:
4D chess by Usha here. She's gonna cash in with that divorce compensation package, even though it's just couch money for Peter Thiel.
More likely she'll get the Shelly Miscavige treatment and JD will blame the radical left for her disappearance.
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Dems should start talking about how Trump has partnered up with the Sinaloa cartel and is now eliminating their competition.
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Oh boy, it’s time for Thursday Ana to project all of his insecurities on the rest of the board!
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2 hours ago, Buzzrock said:
What he actually says is that once AI and robots take all jobs, humans won’t need to work and goods and services will be free. People would then presumably be free to pursue higher purposes than making money. Like in Star Trek.
I’m just a little skeptical.
Surely Elon has never lied about his goals before.
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7 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
The name was the best part. It was an instant hit and almost sunk Clinton in 2016, and a lot of otherwise apolitical working class people who wound up voting for Trump wanted it.
anyway- a large majorities of independents and Democrats want everyone to have coverage, want their coverage to cost them less, and understand that the government will be involved. That’s all most people hear when they hear the words Medicare for All.
Democrats, being morons, took that fact and decided to get wound around the axle about precisely what policy that meant annd fight amongst themselves instead of focusing on outcomes during campaigns. That’s a recipe for lost support.
Incidentally that’s why I think Elizabeth Warren is so toxic - all her wonky, complicated “I’ve got a plan for that” specificity is the shit that kills democrats, not great brands like Medicare for All.
What's funny is her plans were generally clearer and simpler and easier-sold than most other Dem candidates' plans generally are. Compare her plans to 2020 Kamala's tax credit for opening a small business in a disadvantaged community or whatever that one was. It's just that Warren was the optimized version of that shit and it still didn't sell to anyone but nerdy libs. Maybe a billionaire businessman Dem could steal her plans and people would buy them better, but that'd be because of the billionaire businessman thing, not the detailed plans.
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37 minutes ago, Hermanator said:That Sark may leave for the NFL thread on the football board should be used as a case study for Journalism school how not to handle themselves. Shoddy reporting with no evidence leads the dumb masses to just circle jerk each other with more and more outlandish bullshit until it snow balls so badly that democracy dies and the country is tossed into dystopia.
That thread is so fucked it's got me agreeing with a post 52-80 made.
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14 minutes ago, G650 said:
I really want to know what fucking planet these people live on that they were shocked by any of this. I mean, I know it's true, I just can't conceive of how it's possible they have insulated themselves that completely.
Even the fucking poll dorks know this shit!
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14 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
I was in a meeting a few weeks ago with a group of Democrats between 25 and 35, a person who’s thinking about running for office, and a couple of longtime Democratic consultants.
The perspective candidate and the consultants were shocked that the young Democrats said that cost-of-living was their biggest issue and healthcare was their second biggest issue. They were also shocked that the group was unanimous that the Democratic party had allowed housing and healthcare costs to destroy their prospects of attaining the American dream.
This thread is a beating because this party is feckless, toothless, spineless, out of touch and has institutionalized losing. The national party has followed the example of the Texas Democratic Party, and is achieving the same results.
Anyone involved in Democratic politics who is shocked that young people are worried about the cost of living should be thrown into a fucking volcano. That's not some obscure ideological issue that the kids these days are fixated on.
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Just now, Valmy77 said:
Yeah? And that state hates him now.
Republicans approve of the job he's doing. I'm not sure how that helps non-fascists, though.
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Have you, uh, seen Fetterman's approval ratings lately?
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4 minutes ago, LCHorn said:
FWIW, Ezra Klein had Jared Abbott from the Center for Working Class Politics on and they discussed a vision of Dem or Independent candidates taking this position electorally.
I can’t imagine someone like a Talarico occupying this space, but maybe someone like a Troy Aikman running as an independent in Texas-a union guy, not a historical Dem, but also not MAGA yet willing to align with Trump on issues like border security.
No, that's horrible politics and is quite literally a big part of why Dems lost in 2024 (and lost in many prior elections). Telling voters "Trump is right about immigration and the border and how important it is, and Dems are weak pussies on it, and I will be like Trump on it but just a little nicer" is just telling undecided voters to vote for Trump. Biden and the Dems were actually very anti-immigration during his administration. That's why the public shifted so strongly against immigration generally between 2020 and 2024, and look what good that did. Trump's overreach provides another opportunity for Dems to embrace immigration as a fundamental part of the American dream. Legal immigration used to be pretty popular even among white Americans and it could be again.
If Dems want to try to appeal to some of the racists on immigration, they should yell about how Trump cut a deal with the cartels and brought a bunch of high-level cartel guys into the country and that they'll send those guys back.
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28 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
See the bullshit with John Deere. If a farmer wants to use his tractor to do X, or he needs to make repair Y.....he fucking can't. Not without paying an extra fee, or not without bringing it in to the dealer for some proprietary "process" that costs 10X what his repair in the field would cost.
I grew up in a world where farmers and ranchers kept a whole shed of spare parts, bits and bobs that could be used to fashion spare parts or makeshift repairs, etc. When something went wrong with a piece of equipment, the first place we went was the shed, to see if we could find something to use to fix it ourselves. Now? Get fucked. You just breached the "license agreement" (that's right, you don't even fucking own the whole tractor, you just have a license to use some of its features), voided the warranty, etc. etc.
Make a product. Sell it at a fair price that provides a decent profit. Buy that product. Own that product. Use it as you wish. That model is fucking DEAD.
I don't really want to overstate the connection here with the "masculinity crisis," because it's somewhat tenuous, but I do think there is one. One of the healthier forms of masculinity for boys and young men to aspire to is basically "responsible guy who can fix shit when it breaks." The massive decrease in standardization and interoperability in literally anything that exists physically makes that much harder and much more expensive. Fuck, just changing the oil in a car made after like 1995 is way more of a pain in the ass than it needs to be.
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17 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:
Yeah Fetterman isn't bringing some kind of bold centrist vision that will be more inclusive and popular. He just kind of cries about people being mean. I don't see how that wimpy energy is going to help the Democrats win.
It's pretty striking how much Platner's current whining resembles Fetterman's behavior. At least Fetterman has the excuse of he had a stroke and clearly has never really recovered fully from it.
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33 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
No, I’ll give you Sinema because she stopped being a co-belligerent but Fetterman and Manchin are exactly what I’m talking about Democrats welcoming more of. And if they don’t want to do that they should try not losing so much.
Sorry!
Fetterman spends most of his time attacking Democratic voters and saying we shouldn't oppose Trump so much. He's probably a year away from switching parties. We'd be better off right now if Connor Lamb had won that primary.
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1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Exactly. Not a hard call. I’m not sure he knows how to fight them, but he recognized early on what we’re collectively up against and broke with it at great personal and professional cost. Same deal with Liz Cheney.
We’re fighting for our lives here. Democrats need to understand that being in the opposition means accepting the co-belligerents who are willing to work with Democrats to defeat a common threat. Whether inside or outside of the party, there’s no reason to worry about policy differences unless and until they win.
I'm worried about welcoming people who appear to be co-belligerents but aren't. People like Fetterman, Sinema, and Manchin actively hinder the fight. Manchin was a bit of a special case because he was still preferable to literally anyone else who could win a senate seat in West Virginia. I don't think Platner is that.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
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Vote for me and I’ll throw Elon into an oubliette and very slowly fill it with water over a period of several weeks.