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wildcat09

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  1. He doesn't have to drop it. Trump isn't president today. He should've kept prosecuting and made Trump fire him and order the prosecutions to be shut down once he took office.
  2. Who gives a shit? We're talking about the surgeon general here, they don't do anything. She's far and away his least offensive pick so far.
  3. It's basically this. They want to put Ukraine in as good a position as Ukraine can be in when Trump takes office, to make it politically harder on Trump to try to force Ukraine to concede.
  4. Oh he cares, he loves it when it happens.
  5. I don't see it. All appropriate qualifications about how it's still very close to the election and we're still gathering data etc. aside, one thing that's very clear is that Harris did better in the swing states relative to the rest of the country. This means that where she campaigned and where he campaigned, he underperformed. Those were the states blanketed with the most anti-trans advertising and it clearly didn't help him; if anything it seems to have hurt him. A somewhat different argument that I think could have more merit is that trans issues plus other cultural issues (DEI, etc. like you note), while not individually salient, contributed to a diffuse feeling all across the country that Dems don't really care about "you" (whoever "you" happens to be). But Democratic candidates can't help fight that by ducking the culture war issues; they already do that and it's that ducking that contributes to that very feeling among many people. The basic approach needs to be a commitment to egalitarianism. Egalitarianism as a concept is very popular and defending women, minorities, and gay and trans people as part of the fight for egalitarianism against the billionaires trying to divide us so they can treat us all like chattel should not be a hard message to sell.
  6. The writers seem to think that if they can convince enough people in media that Trump doesn't have a "mandate," that will somehow meaningfully restrain Republicans. To which the obvious response is, "have you ever met any Republicans?"
  7. The first sentence gets something wrong in a way I think the second sentence gets the same thing right. I don't think Dems should or even can eliminate all talk about gender. Hell they tried doing that this election. What did we learn? That the GOP can completely manufacture an issue out of essentially nothing. The average American is more likely to be struck by lightning than have their daughter compete against a trans girl in youth sports, but the Dems tried to run from the issue and focus on more salient issues and it didn't help (this is separate from whether I think the trans issue actually helped the GOP, I don't think it really did but I also don't think the Dems helped themselves with how they addressed it). But turning the discussion from gender to something else can be effective, and it's not even hard. The Dems don't have to throw trans people under the bus and can in fact defend equal rights for trans people if they stop running from it. Better messaging would both engage in the culture war to put Republicans on the defensive, while also highlighting how Republicans attempt to focus culture war issues to distract people while they pick their pockets. And that can be as easy as "why the fuck do you want to be able to look at a 12 year old's junk, Matt? Why is that more important to you than improving healthcare/increasing wages/improving education?"
  8. Rome actually often made deals with barbarians to settle within and defend their borders.
  9. *Reads Verhoeven quote* *Reads WWS posts* *Walks into ocean*
  10. The way it works in Russia is the leader threatens to have them thrown off a roof if they don't stop bucking then, if they don't stop bucking, he has them thrown off a roof. We'll see something similar here.
  11. They're going to use unilateral executive authority to refuse to comply with duly passed Congressional legislation. Noted opponent of executive authority Anastasis thinks this will be a good thing.
  12. Man, you don't need to post Ben Wittes "here's why one of my best friends didn't horribly imperil American democracy" nonsense. At least post Marcy Wheeler's weird defenses, which are more substantive (even if the substance is clearly cover for some weird emotional attachment).
  13. Probably time to stop drinking man. “What if the GOP does Medicare for all?” is an obvious cry for help.
  14. I see Ana has switched happy hour from Thursday to Tuesday.
  15. Ukraine has the chance to do the funniest thing.
  16. I think periodically unplugging completely is good for mental health and there's not much to be gained by being constantly plugged in reacting to every day's outrage. Besides, most of us know what's coming and there's not much we can do about it. But there can still be value in following the news, if only so you can disabuse other people of some of the flood of bullshit that's coming for all of us. But you should be selective in where you get your news. Nobody here should watch CNN, MSNBC or any Sinclair local news, or read the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, or USA Today (or anything else owned by Gannett). They are fascist collaborators and controlled opposition. Don't reward them with your views or your subscriptions. This list will surely need to be updated quickly once Trump takes power.
  17. Bookmarking this for your future post 2-3 years from now where you're like "yeah everyone knew or should've known that political prosecutions would be shockingly fast."
  18. Someone who supported Assad dropping barrel bombs and chlorine gas on his own citizens isn’t a warmonger because…?
  19. Ana stanning for Tulsi is pretty on brand.
  20. I’m gonna start negging every poster that quotes the troll.
  21. Man, we can all see that without you assholes quoting every post he makes for fucking pages.
  22. Would you fucking morons quit engaging with someone who is obviously either a troll or an 8 year old with a learning disorder?
  23. Naw, they'll just find a way for Roberts to render it ineffective. Congress never passed any enabling legislation seems like a slam dunk argument.
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