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wildcat09

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  1. The thing about crimes punishable by the death penalty is that they have no statute of limitations on them because they shouldn't.
  2. My two cents re the immigration talk: I agree with chainsaw in that I liked Beto's messaging better and the Dems behavior toward the border under Biden has been Dumb Politics by giving in to GOP framing on the issue. But I just don't really have a problem with Kamala picking up the "Trump is the one who fucked up immigration reform" message at this point. The sad fact is that even many Democratic voters are pretty low-key racist when it comes to immigration (because Dems have fucked the messaging on this so badly for so long). We've only got 100 days and we're not changing anyone's minds in that period. Saying "hey we had a solution and Trump fucked it up" and redirecting to other issues we're better on is the right politics right now. If we get a trifecta any immigration bill isn't going to be nearly as bad as what was agreed upon because Republicans won't have the leverage they had this year and it's known now that they don't believe in their own proposed solutions.
  3. Beshear and Walz are 1a and 1b for me right now, with Shapiro well behind (though I'd still be fine with him, personally). I don't know this with any confidence, but I feel like Beshear can probably appeal to suburban/exurban and rural voters a little better than Walz can (tough I think Walz will be great at it, as far as Democrats can be). He's younger and that family photo could not possibly be more appealing to undecided voters who are somewhat racist but don't want to think of themselves as racist. Part of this is that I also think Beshear would also make a very strong future Presidential candidate, but he's term limited where he's at and running for Senate would be a step sideways at best. Walz seems like he rules, but he doesn't have the same political potential that Beshear has. But what the fuck do I know, I'd be extremely happy with either of them as the VP pick.
  4. And the thing is that if you're a conservative who doesn't want your kid exposed to what you consider degenerate content, this is exactly the type of thing you should tell your kid about something like this. That's boring and they'll just go "huh, ok" and forget about it. But if you get angry and start ranting about how it's filthy and they're not allowed to see it, what the fuck do you think they're going to want to do?
  5. No way Kelly's would stay that high with the public attention a VP nod would get him.
  6. The funniest and most inexplicable fucking thing is how many Americans clearly see and have seen how weird and offputting the rest of the GOP is, but don't see Trump as weird and offputting the same way the others are.
  7. AOC and Bernie get this. Shitposters do not.
  8. Talking shit about Simone Biles should be considered treason and punishable by death.
  9. Absolutely incapable of beating those allegations. It’s sad, really.
  10. Evidence is mounting in support of the Rex is illiterate theory.
  11. Yup, same guy. Pride of the Houston Rockets right there.
  12. Another obvious point: there is nobody else. All of the people involved with planning Project 2025 are the only people who have been vetted for positions in the next Trump administration and there are no more normal Republicans to take those jobs. His administration would still be staffed with all of the same people pursuing all of the same policies.
  13. What I get from that is Royce really likes getting peed on.
  14. I've got to admit, I did not see "I'm not persuadable because I'm functionally illiterate" coming.
  15. Imagine being too scared to engage with the facts that you "TLDR!" two sentences with two supporting links. Couldn't be me.
  16. Two sentences is long, huh?
  17. I really don't know why you engage with these guys, man. What they think is very clear: Palestinians aren't people, they deserve the most vile treatment imaginable, and those who inflict that treatment on them are morally good for doing so. You're not going to convince them otherwise.
  18. Too many repeats, not enough fresh material.
  19. Hard to imagine a more cursed mashup.
  20. The only existential threat to Israel is its own right wing. We're maybe a couple of months away from Ben Gvir openly advocating concentration camps for disloyal Jews.
  21. Congress is accountable to the people. The Supreme Court is not. ETA: I see this has been covered already. As to the idea that term limits would make Congress more accountable, it's actually the opposite:
  22. I don't know how effective it will be because there's always a ridiculous gap between votes on specific policies and votes on the politicians who support and oppose those policies, but she has an easy argument to make that their vote to protect abortion won't matter if Trump wins.
  23. It’s actually because of Harris, she wanted to use weird as an attack against Trump in 2020. But Walz knew that and was smart to run with it immediately.
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