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wildcat09

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  1. I’m honestly not sure if this reflects worse on her or Allred. But it definitely says a lot about the political efficacy of the brand of centrism they both supposedly stand for.
  2. A much saner court stole it in 2000. These assholes all just chose to give Trump total immunity a month ago, expecting he'll be the next President and that he'll finish destroying American democracy. They're going to be all in on that unless they're worried about angry mobs outside their homes.
  3. The real key in blowing them the fuck out is that it will change the calculus of the Republicans on SCOTUS whether they think they can get away with it or not. If it's close like 2020 in several states and a bunch of county-level GOP officials refuse to certify, SCOTUS will likely make up some pretextual bullshit to intervene. If they lose by 2+ in those states and it's only close in like North Carolina, the Republicans on SCOTUS will be too scared of what might happen to them if they intervene to try.
  4. Reed O'Connor is going to get overturned so fast on this one.
  5. No, he's engaging. He's engaging by confronting their attacks head on and pointing out how they're fucking creeps and by being an example of what's actually normal and good.
  6. Their campaign is such fucking clown shoes it's incredible.
  7. Imagine being so pathetic you get bodied like this by Chuck Schumer.
  8. Then the GOP should stop being so fucking weird about 9 year olds.
  9. It won't break through to them quickly, but Tim Walz is a great example of an actually positive vision of masculinity and people on the left (not directly affiliated with the campaign) should talk about him in those terms.
  10. I know this wasn't Biden's pick and maybe he didn't even have any input in it at all, but goddamn my hat is off to Biden and Harris over what they've been able to do in the last month. They were underwater, with virtually no enthusiasm from the base and facing down a donor revolt from a bunch of morons with punditbrain who wanted to force a contested convention. And in one month, thanks to great humility from Biden and a better grasp of politics than any fucking centrist dipshit pundits or the triangulation wing of the party will ever have, they've completely flipped the game around. Now the base is energized like we haven't seen since 2008, Harris and her campaign have finally figured out the right way to attack Republicans, and picking Walz shows that she's got better political instincts than the "progressive" Dems from Obama's era. You don't fucking moderate by triangulating and supporting unpopular Republican policies to try to appear bipartisan. You don't give on your core values to support some shit like school vouchers so you can say you worked across the aisle. It's actually not fucking weird or out there to think people deserve healthcare or that kids deserve to eat. Just fucking believe that and act like you believe it, and make it clear that you're happy to work with Republicans who believe it too but that the many who don't are fucking weirdos who are the ones who actually hurt kids.
  11. I want to like this, but right now a Dem can’t be a decent person and work with Republicans. Maybe once the current GOP is ground into dust and replaced with something sane. Right now is the time to turn Republicans into social outcasts that nobody wants anything to do with.
  12. The resistance winemoms have the mandate of heaven.
  13. I think you might legitimately get better analysis from FoxNews these days.
  14. Who’s weirder, Pronghorn or Icono?
  15. I think Walz fits the "we're not going back" message better than anyone else, too. Kelly was too anti-labor until five minutes ago and Shapiro definitely has strong Obama technocrat anti-labor lean tendencies. Either to me feels like going back to the Democratic party of 2008 on labor issues, which I really do not like. Of course, the party is very different today than it was then and they will be pushed left, but they and the people around them will be more resistant to those pushing than I would prefer.
  16. Mostly agree with this, though because of his baggage (which isn't terrible but we want as little talk about Israel/Gaza in this election as possible) I don't even see Shapiro as the "safe" pick. I think those that do believe he's the "safe" pick not because he can guarantee Pennsylvania (he can't) but because he excites a few big donors more. I think that's bad calculus and I also don't give a shit what excites a few big donors.
  17. If Allred somehow wins he’ll be the Texas Krysten Sinema.
  18. They could have at least given us some more fun between her and Rhaenyra if we weren't going to get anything else interesting in this finale.
  19. SCOTUS DID just give the President free rein to have their VP killed...
  20. There must be some big donor pressure for Shapiro.
  21. In the context of a national election, "reaching rural whites" for Dems means losing rural counties like 65/35 or 70/30 instead of 80/20 or worse.
  22. Neo-nazi gang affiliates attacked a mixed-race family in Martindale, only one was arrested:
  23. I think it's largely an overreaction to the AI bubble deflating if not bursting, while some of the smarter money is deciding to wait for the anticipated interest rate cut.
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