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Posts posted by wildcat09
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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.
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Why are you censoring "kidnapping" and "sexual assault"?
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2 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:
Given the inability of the Democratic Party to act as anything other controlled opposition to the the thriving billionaire and corporate oligarchy, the easiest path to Medicare for All is for progressives may be to promise Trump a spot on Mount Rushmore if he cuts big insurance out of healthcare in America. He can pardon Luigi, credibly claim he is saving the country $150-500 billion annually, and cut off a huge donor pipeline that props up Democratic Party politicians who oppose single payer healthcare.
Shit-libs are soulless slaves to their masters who are actively enshitifying this country. With friends like them, who needs enemies.
I see Ana has hacked Washpark's password.
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13 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:
There has always been a dark, pessimistic view of most Democrats as being just as crooked as Republicans, and on the take from the wealthy just like Republicans, but they just hide it behind a bunch of ineffective, bumbling actions. On purpose. I’m starting to believe this.
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.
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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.
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On 11/8/2025 at 8:58 AM, TwiceHorn said:
Back on topic some things have become more clear.
Remember the indictment alleges that Comey lied about "authorizing" someone "at the FBI" to "leak anonymously."
There was some question about who that someone could be. One speculation was Chris Wray, who apparently did leak anonymously, but even according to his testimony to Congress and elsewhere, did so without Comey's prior knowledge or approval.
The other person was Daniel Richman, a professor at Columbia, with whom Comey communicated about various things as a friend and consiglieri. And Richman was in fairly constant contact with the press, but rarely, if ever, anonymously.
And Richman was not an FBI employee, fairly obviously.
He was, however, a "special employee" uncompensated consultant for the FBI. But the terms of his "employment" are murky and it appears that he was not actually so employed in the relevant timeframe.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more-trouble-for-the-comey-indictment
Another hole in the government's already flimsy case.
The most glaring problem with the case is that what Comey said to Congress, within the limitations period, was "I stand by my earlier testimony." And that is a statement that is not really capable of being proven false. Certainly not by proving 2017 testimony false.
Chris Wray wasn't with the FBI when Comey was in charge.
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5 minutes ago, gernblansten said:
Killing the filibuster would remove any remaining guardrails reining in the majority party. Neither party should be able pass everything they want without challenge. I'm shocked anyone thinks it's a good idea when the Senate is close to 50/50, voted by the people, that the entire Country is subjected to all the worst impulses of the majority party. "Nothing ever gets done" is a hell of a lot better than the party in control getting everything it wants done.
That's called democracy. People should expect to get what they vote for.
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1 minute ago, LCHorn said:
That's not what they did last week, nor what polling is indicating with the decline in Trump's popularity.
I'm with @David Dennison that this was always going to be a losing effort. The only silver lining would have been the elimination of the filibuster, but that's still on the table if the Democrats regain Senate control.
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.
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6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:They were going to lose this fight no matter what. Being in the minority sucks.
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.
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Fantastic messaging work, Dick. Voters love hearing about how Senate procedure matters more than anything else.
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1 minute ago, pacman said:
Then we will be right back in a shutdown on February 1, except Trump will not be able to leverage starving the children/disabled.
Sure he can. He was already doing that illegally, he'll just do it illegally again.
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That vote is never going to happen.
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On 3/14/2025 at 4:02 PM, wildcat09 said:
The nos all need to be primaried too. Unless you see them move to remove Schumer from leadership in the next few days, it's a safe bet that many of them are chickenshit and only voted no because there were enough yes votes to give them cover. Assuming they don't do that, none of them can be trusted because none of them can be honest with their own voters.
Hey look, this is the case yet again.
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7 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
Off-topic, but I didn't realize Axios was dumb/right. A couple of the media bias sites have it rated as truthful with a middle bias.
I don't read it real often, but what I have seen seems to fit that.
Also, Jonathan Swan's (second?) Trump interview was one of the better examples of someone standing up to the bullshit.
But, whatever.
Axios is a seemingly-mainstream mouthpiece for Republican ratfuckers. If you have any media literacy, it’s not hard to tell that their political sources are almost all Republican operatives and they’re one of the GOP’s favorites for reporting “Dems in disarray” narratives.
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Real crappy. We should be up by 8-12 right now.
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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.
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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.
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The money guy saying the campaign isn't aligned with his professional standards is a pretty glaring red flag.
The GQP / MAGA Pedophiles Thread
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But he just copied and pasted from an nbcnews.com article and went through it and censored those words himself.