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wildcat09

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  1. No. My point is that issues largely don't even matter. It's not a matter of turning the dial left or right, because there isn't a center. People don't go into the voter booth and look at a spreadsheet of issues a candidate supports and opposes and choose the candidate that aligns with their preferences the most. The overwhelming majority of potential voters in each election won't even choose between candidates, they'll choose the candidate from the party they prefer or they'll stay home. What's left, probably no more than 10% of voters, have completely incoherent politics and vote based on vibes. Do they really like a candidate or at least hate the other? So campaigns are about two things: 1) turning out your base, and 2) winning the undecideds. You hurt both goals by trying to triangulate around some imagined optimum collection of "centrist" or "moderate" positions. That shit turns off your base and gets a lot of them to stay home and it tells the undecided voters that you don't really believe in anything. That you don't care about anything. Undecided voters love "change" candidates because those candidates give the impression that they'll care enough about something to get shit done. Issues largely don't matter, how you message them does. The Dems are absolute dogshit at messaging them.
  2. Of course I'm not fucking happy with the results. I'm saying that the shitty results are the results of your proposed solution because the campaign strategists that run political campaigns for Democrats have been doing what you propose since fucking 1992.
  3. I'm so sick of this shit. Dems run a centrist platform every fucking time and every fucking time some fucking Republicans go "well I just couldn't vote Dem because they ran on a radical leftist platform and they need to come back to the center" and every fucking time literally millions of people buy that bullshit and regurgitate it online. If you're not paying any attention to what candidates are saying or doing, stop offering uninformed opinions about what they need to fucking do. Jesus christ, imagine reading Bret Stephens and thinking he's offered anything of value. That's literally the opposite of his job.
  4. …you’re certainly misreading something.
  5. I gotta say, seeing someone who supports Palestinians so consistently stan for Bari Weiss, who has spent her entire adult life trying to oppress Palestinians, just to disagree with me is fucking depressing. They deserve better.
  6. Jesus Ana, what have I ever posted here that would make you think I have any serious respect for the legal profession? I thought you knew me better than that. In my approval rankings, my profession is just barely ahead of you and cancer and about even with aggy.
  7. Can you name some other schools with a wildcat as a mascot?
  8. Given your love for dishonesty one would think you’d have more respect for lawyers. Also why do you think I went to K-State?
  9. It bears noting that the government’s not arguing that they don’t have to bring him back because he’s not a citizen. They’re arguing that they don’t have to bring him back because a court can’t compel them to force El Salvador to give him back. They’re saying they can kidnap citizens and send them to a concentration camp they pay another country to run and there’s nothing the kidnapped citizen can do about it. The Nazis literally gave their victims more due process than this.
  10. He might legitimately be dumber than workswithseed.
  11. Trump got China and Japan to cooperate on something. What an incredible fuckup.
  12. Most of the decision-makers at those clients probably still don't realize that this is a bad deal for them too, but that's because they're stupid. Paul Weiss, Skadden, and their clients that approve of these deals are trading the rule of law for Trump's good graces. I know which I'd rather be reliant on if I was in charge of a multi-billion dollar business.
  13. I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.
  14. There's no endpoint to any deals in international relations, which makes attempting to negotiate with Trump pointless. If you're dealing with a lunatic in a real estate deal who is being a belligerent asshole, you can still make some concessions if it's worth it to you to get the deal to the finish line, because then you don't have to deal with that asshole again. This is a whole different scenario, which is why ultimately the only response any other countries can give Trump is to tell him to shove his tariffs up his ass.
  15. The Caleb Love experience is always a fucking rollercoaster.
  16. Goddamnit fuck you Hader.
  17. "Existential" and "external" are different words that mean different things. You're really not beating those illiteracy allegations.
  18. This is like when I said the only existential threat to Israel is its own right wing and Rex read that as me saying that Israel has no external threats.
  19. “No foul play suspected.” Has Nicole infiltrated the police?
  20. Mag's empty
  21. I'd still like to know why Johnny posted tweets from someone completely unrelated to the person/story I posted when he quoted me.
  22. Opposition to American empire equals hostility to America? Someone should tell Donald Trump that before he finishes tearing the empire down.
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