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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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. 

  6. 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. 

  7. 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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  8. 2 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    MAGA is no longer about political ideology it’s demonstrating unwavering fealty to the orange god. She will soon be labeled a rino and drummed out of the party if she doesn’t fall back in line. 
     

    that being said I don’t think she ends up in the Democratic Party especially since people like Cheney and Kinzinger haven’t 

    MTG will never shift left because she's authentically crazy in a specific, reactionary way. 

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  9. If he had a good primary challenger I probably wouldn't vote for Walsh in a Dem primary, but one thing you absolutely know about him is the only thing he really cares about today is the destruction of Trump and the modern GOP, and I could certainly live with that.

  10. 3 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Do you believe the cease fire isn't real, too?

    Am I the only one under the guise that the cease fire was real?

    No, it wasn't ever really real, except for the hostages that got to go home. Trump insisted on Israel agreeing to a pretend ceasefire because he thought it could get him a Nobel prize and now that's over with he's moved on and Israel is back to doing what they do, which is mass murder.

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  11. The real test would be someone like Joe Walsh, who was never MAGA but was definitely pre-MAGA and still doesn't align with Democrats on much, but hates MAGA more than he ever hated Dems and knows how to fight them.  

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  12. 7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    What I love is the openly endorse concept that if only the UK could be rid of everyone but the native English and such, it would be a crime-free paradise.

    Yeah. 

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    Those native-born white Englishmen, not a troublemaker or criminal to be found.

    They're not crimes when committed by pasty white boys, they're just little oopsies we shouldn't rush to punish them for because they've got such potential. 

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  13. It all boils down to nerds trying to make themselves seem useful so they can get positions of influence within campaigns and the party apparatus (to the extent that exists) to ensure lucrative careers. In a properly-functioning party these people would be treated the way Ryan Gosling treats his quant in The Big Short (but without the racism).

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  14. Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I think he’s handling this in a stupid way but it depends on what kind of points you are giving. 

    Depends on how my trip to Vegas this weekend goes. I'll let you know. 

  15. 17 minutes ago, softlynow said:

    “I’m not a secret nazi” is more or less the same as “I am not a witch” in the context of electoral politics. Mills could be 99 and still get the nod over Platner next June.

    If anything, he's handling this issue much much worse than Christine O'Donnell handled "I am not a witch." E.g.

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    He handled the reddit posts much better and much more in line with the type of response that would appeal to Democratic primary voters. This whiny shit here? This is what works in the Republican party. 

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  16. 10 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Coming back to this- are you giving points? I may want action on this. 

    He just lost his second campaign manager in as many weeks and several additional reports have come out making it clear he's lying about the tattoo. You really want to bet on this guy?

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