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wildcat09

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  1. Guys, where the fuck have I ever given the impression that I don't think Dems should talk at all about material issues? I have been incredibly consistent on this very simple point for a long time now: Dems need to stop running and engage in the culture war. Bozo's way works, but that's not the only way. There are a thousand different ways to do it depending on the issue, context, and candidates involved. Yet every time I push back on "Dems need to run away harder from the culture war!" with this point, people who agree with me go "NO THAT'S COMPLETELY WRONG!" Our fundamental perception of what the party even is and does and has been doing is so completely broken. ETA: there was a time, not that long ago, when being openly racist would've immediately disqualified a candidate even among the Texas GOP. Did the state just become 500% more racist within the past 15 years? Or is something else behind that change?
  2. Are you saying you will refuse to vote if Dems say actually we need to pass a new voting rights act?
  3. Why do so many people constantly talk about a fake version of the Democratic party that's even worse at politics than the real Democratic party? Why is their "solution" to the problems of this fake party always what the real party has been doing (and which has proven insufficient)? Dems have been trying to hide from social issues, duck culture war shit, and focus on kitchen table issues every single election since 1992. When do you think that will start actually working? Before or after they've herded us all into gas chambers? Ducking from culture war fights is how you lose the fucking culture war and that fight is much more important to most people than economic issues they don't understand. When you tell voters that your opponents are right on their culture war shit, you're telling them to vote for your opponents. THAT is what has driven people to vote Republican. It wasn't telling them that we support trans rights, it was refusing to tell them they should too.
  4. It's not really possible to deradicalize at scale. Our best bet is to splinter their political coalition, destroy some of the major financial sources of their political power (particularly car dealership owners, MLMs, and crypto), and find some charismatic liberal politicians who can make being conservative seem lame and stupid again to younger people. We can disillusion many of Trump's voters so much that they never vote again. But we can't deradicalize them, and doing what we need to do to diminish their political power will radicalize many of them further.
  5. No, it was much more important to tell people that republicans are right that trans people are gross and trying to harm their kids.
  6. I don't think aligned interests will be able to keep the media from helping Trump change the story like Democratic officials calling him a pedophile would. The Pod Save bros can't drive mainstream media coverage like Hakeem Jeffries or AOC can.
  7. And yet the overwhelming majority of Americans never knew most of it. That's a media failure and that's a failure of the opposing political party.
  8. It's not about taking control of the scandal. It's about making sure they're out there stoking the fire, because if they're not Trump and his allies in the media will douse it. We've seen this happen with literally dozens of scandals and every time smart and sophisticated Democrats go "don't interfere when the enemy is making a mistake!" and then it all fucking goes away because Dems don't know how modern media or political rhetoric work. It's an entire fucking political party of George McClellans, going "maybe if we play prevent defense and run Greg Davis-designed wide receiver screens against OU it'll work this time!" Doing nothing has never been the winning move in politics. It's not the winning move now. The Dems need to stop trying to be fucking clever and just need to constantly attack Trump and the entire GOP for being pedophiles. It wouldn't even be a lie, there's an endless fucking volume of supporting evidence that pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory.
  9. Oh my fucking god. "Yeah, the thing they've been doing literally forever, the thing that's brought us to the brink of ruin, is how we'll get out of this." Stop this nonsense. When the other team is begging you to stop running the play that they can't stop, you keep running that fucking play.
  10. Man, mother nature is some bullshit sometimes.
  11. I wonder how many nazis were as tedious as as daggerhorn in their justifications. "They grabbed that child on his way to school, not at school, before sending him to the concentration camp" is some of the lamest sophistry I've ever seen.
  12. I was shocked when she confirmed that texashammer was in the room with them when they did it.
  13. "We will never have a holocaust because I will deny it."
  14. I don't even think this is true. Doesn't mean he shouldn't have withheld support, but Israel has their own military industrial complex and they're committed to this.
  15. If I’m Maxwell, there’s no way I agree to do anything for him in exchange for a future pardon or commutation. First, you can’t trust him to keep to any deal he makes and second, he’s fucking desperate. She should demand an immediate pardon in exchange for lying for him, leave the country when she’s released, then tell the world Trump was totally involved with Epstein and she personally saw him rape children. That would be the funniest possible outcome.
  16. You should be imprisoned at alligator Alcatraz.
  17. I mean, if he had Epstein killed to cover this up, I still don't think that's as bad morally as the original crimes he would've been trying to cover up.
  18. Yeah? I would expect they include much of the same information on financial transactions that Ron Wyden has been investigating, and probably evidence and case notes regarding his associates and potential accomplices. There was a pretty substantial case compiled around his first arrest, and after he served his sentence he basically went right back to doing the same shit. A lot of his financial activity between his first and second arrests is already known thanks to a New York Department of Financial Services investigation into Deutsche Bank: It's possible the FBI doesn't have anything more on the financial side, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did have more.
  19. I mean, technically speaking there is some sort of conspiracy. Epstein had European connections who found young girls in Europe for him and he was paying them and many girls in Europe (presumably girls he’d abused or exploited until they got too old for him). It sure seems like a couple other rich assholes in the NY beauty pageant/model scene may have been criminally involved with him as well, including Trump. I also don’t entirely discount the theory that Epstein used his parties with these girls to develop blackmail material on a bunch of his associates, who didn’t know the girls were underage (but should’ve known). I doubt he was doing it as a mossad agent as some of the more antisemitic theories posit, more likely he would’ve doing it for his own ends. But that’s still a radically different conspiracy theory than theories about huge pedophile cabals.
  20. Because there are young men in gaza it's fine for Israel to starve a million people to death? What the fuck?
  21. It's still been going. Paramount just gave them an enormous new contract. It just lost all cultural relevance the past few years, particularly beginning with covid. It became a huge fucking bummer then and I think most people quit watching.
  22. Also this. My guess as to what's in the Epstein files is a lot of shit implicating some people who are dead or are so old they might as well be dead in crimes, and embarrassing many more who were friends with Epstein and very likely knew he was a pedo but didn't care, and both of those groups of people were/are wealthy and connected people so I'm sure there's plenty of people on both sides of the political aisle who would prefer they not be released because their associations with them would be embarrassing. There's probably also a lot of evidence of overseas financial transactions with Epstein's foreign collaborators that the DOJ didn't really care enough to chase down once Epstein killed himself, especially after they had to pivot to focus on prosecuting 1/6 assholes. Garland and most of Biden's administration thought Trump would slink away quietly after he lost (this is well documented and I'm not going to re-litigate this if anyone has the urge to argue), their norms and rules didn't permit releasing the Epstein files, and they would've been concerned about the impact releasing the files could've had on their own friends and associates. I could even believe that they were never even consciously thinking about potential impact on friends and associates, and just were being "good" little rules followers, because that's who Merrick Garland is and that's who most mainstream Democratic public officials are, especially those who are lawyers. I don't believe that, I expect there were at least some people high up on Biden's DOJ who were worried about that, but that wasn't even necessary for Biden's DOJ not to release the files.
  23. Did they change the definition of the word “immediately” and I missed the memo? They spent months begging him to please be a good boy and give them back.
  24. Because Donald Trump is President, Pam Bondi runs the DOJ, and everyone who would tell her no that's against the rules has resigned.
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