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wildcat09

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  1. Mike was probably real nervous there for a second before he heard "protector."
  2. Do you think fact that that's the case and that the fucking President of the United States of America is nevertheless going online and on tv every day and openly saying delusional shit about how cities are burning down to justify a military crackdown is better than if shit was bad and he wasn't being delusional?
  3. Imma do you want people to post on Surly or not man?
  4. Our best realistic way out of this long term looks something like ICE/cops firing on peaceful protestors, leading to a huge public backlash, leading to an overwhelming defeat of the GOP in 2028. Chances are, they'll refuse to concede and claim it was rigged, but in that case the military likely refuses to go along with it (same as they refused in early 2021). Then we'd need a unified Democratic government committed to punishing the GOP and its enablers outside of government to wield the full force of the state against them as well as to seriously reforming SCOTUS. If Trump can get the military to shoot protestors, that's when shit gets real dark. If the military itself becomes embroiled directly in violence against civilians and generals start worrying about being held accountable if Democrats retake power, that's where things will get real ugly.
  5. The de facto White House Chief of Staff is not a nobody. Jesus christ.
  6. The worst thing she's ever done is make me agree with Ro Khanna.
  7. Yeah, it's stupid to try to make it about healthcare. We need some idiots to learn from touching the stove that touching the stove is bad and they shouldn't do it again. Last Trump admin Dems worked to alleviate the effects of his policies on millions of voters and got no credit for it. He just slapped his name on the checks they had worked to pass. There are lots of people who need to experience the results of what they voted for. It'd make more sense, and would have better public appeal, to simply say that Dems are in the minority and have no control over the outcome, but that they will not co-sign a lawless dictatorship that steals from taxpayers for his own purposes and benefit. But they're so fucking policy brained they can't help themselves.
  8. Damn, I missed catching up on this thread yesterday. Some of you boys had a really rough Saturday night, huh?
  9. Why are y'all engaging with an obvious troll?
  10. If they had a Tesla, elon probably blew it up on purpose.
  11. We need a rule about citing Yudkowsky.
  12. I hope the Ukrainian drone pilot that eventually gets GR Horn is trans.
  13. Are you fucking serious with this shit?
  14. I think the number of voters you're talking about, who don't already hate Democrats but for whom a pro-choice candidate is a deal breaker, is literally in the single thousands nationwide. For issues where it would make electoral sense to run candidates who deviate from the more-established party standard, guns and tariffs/trade are much richer veins to tap, and easier to run on. It's entirely possible to run a pro-gun and pro-gun regulation campaign that embraces the responsibility that should come with gun ownership, just as it's possible to run as generally pro trade, but supportive of specific protections for important industries. The first could help secure a lot of the type of voter you're thinking of, who I think are mostly conservative-raised young men in red states who are educated and have drifted away from the GOP on other cultural issues (I don't know if there are actually electorally significant numbers of people like this, but anecdotally I feel like I know a lot). The second is more of a rearguard action protecting against the likeliest defectors. Unions praising Trump's tariffs are a problem for us and to get some of the unionized work force back on side we're going to have to do some "guys we can actually do effective protectionism for you without blowing up the fucking economy" messaging. But Bozo is right, policies are not nearly as important in elections as guys like Klein want to think they are. Candidate charisma matters far and away more than anything else. And 956 was right in that it helps if the candidate comes across as if they like the people whose votes they're asking for. That's why Beto came close in 2018, it's why Beshear wins, and it's why AOC and Zohran are so popular. Clinton never seemed like she liked anybody at all and Kamala felt too reserved and guided by polling in the typical Democrat politician ways. Those were bigger problems than ideological purity tests.
  15. I'm not. I'm very aware of that fervor. But that didn't come from nowhere and it didn't actually come from churches (except for the minority of Republicans who are conservative Catholics). They developed that fervor around abortion because abortion became the stand in for segregation for the Republican party once they felt they could no longer openly support segregation on moral grounds. In other words, Republican voters embraced anti-abortion politics as a moral excuse to justify their hatred of Democrats. Being a Republican (and hating Democrats) came first and still comes first for the overwhelming majority of Republicans.
  16. It's fucking mind boggling that he thinks the/an answer might be to run pro-life candidates. As if there's a lot of abortion-only voters who only vote Republican because Democrats are pro-choice. Not only does the outcome from 2024 clearly reject his hypothesis (a lot of states passed laws and constitutional amendments protecting abortion rights while also electing Republicans), it completely misunderstands how people think about politics. Most Republicans voters today aren't Republicans because they oppose abortion as a first principle and that's the anti-abortion party, they're anti-abortion because they're Republicans as a first principle and that's the Republican stance on abortion.
  17. I notice we haven't seen Bern around these parts in awhile. Funny that.
  18. "I didn't oppose the nazis because those who opposed the nazis didn't suck my dick!"
  19. Ezra Klein is a dipshit who wants to have intelligent conversations with serious conservative intellectuals and if that's not possible, because there is no such thing as a serious conservative intellectual, he will simply pretend that the real conservatives we've got are actually serious intellectuals so he can flatter his own ego.
  20. It's funny how consistent he is on this point.
  21. Bozo’s been watching too much manosphere content.
  22. Some do. They're just fine with being shitty people.
  23. Really? What a shame.
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