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Posts posted by Hank Kingsley
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Also it would serve the Democrats well to treat Biden's 2020 win as a complete fluke. That if a global pandemic didn't happen, Trump would have easily won again.
2020 presidential election was 100% a pyrrhic victory. Take nothing positive from it.
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33 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Jesus Christ, she'd be shredded, probably assassinated.
I have zero such faith. The American people have gone full racist again, and man, they LIKE how it feels. ESPECIALLY suburban women. Hate is fucking intoxicating, and we're drunk as hell on it now.
You mean, on "MARXIST COMMUNISM?????" That's all the GQP has to do. Call him a marxist communist non-stop, and he's toast. It doesn't have to be true, it just has to appeal to idiots.
That is the entire story of America politics 2025: it doesn't have to be true, it just has to appeal to idiots.
The sooner the Dems wake up to that and start playing that game, the better a chance they'll have.
Which is never going to happen. So, we're fucked. We are a full-on idiocracy now, and there's no going back.
I can always count on Brisket to be further out on the ledge, and I respect it.
I might be slightly more optimistic, but the last 4 words of the above post are true and I think everyone - politicians, voters, any American - really need to come to grips with it: there is no going back. What was will never be again. This country has morphed so quickly that you can't even look to 2024 to figure out what to do next.
We need an entirely new path. Past victories and strategies are meaningless.
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3 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:
1. Too cute, too female.
2. Too old.
3. Too cute, too female.
4. Fuck no.
5. Okay, maybe Jeffries.
7. Sure
8. Doofus.
And I think Jeffries and Booker would be the two worst out of those options.
Disarray, baby. Disarray.
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2 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
This is just copium on your part. Almost every article that reported on this poll has used a headline to the effect that AOC is the face of the party. But fine let's bring this back to Pete Buttigieg. He got 5% (tied with Hakeem Jeffries).
So why are we spending so much time pretending Pete is this generational political superstar when despite all his media hits and Fox News debates and town halls he can't get even one fifth of AOC's share in this poll?
This has nothing do with Pete. The copium is coming from you, to the point where you declare that perception is reality.
Maybe AOC will become the face of the party. I generally like her. IMO, no one has really taken the reins yet. Jeffries and Schumer are absolute embarrassments, so we need someone to emerge ASAP.
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1 minute ago, chainsaw said:
Well a pollster ranked a bunch of people and AOC is by far #1, with Bernie Sanders #2.
This is misleading, if not outright false.
According to your link:
AOC - 26%
No one - 26%
Other - 22%
Bernie - 12%
48%, almost half of the respondents, couldn't even come up with a name. The title of the article is "'No one' is the face of the Democrats? New poll should scare the party ahead of next elections".
And you read that as AOC is the face of the party? C'mon.
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Just now, chainsaw said:
If not AOC, then who's the "face" of the party?
I don't know. Right now I'd say there is no real "face" of the party.
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9 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
I'm just saying perception is reality. Trump lies about many things but one of the few things he has going for him is instinctively knowing who has power. There's no democrat with more clout than AOC. He knows it. I know it. Everyone knows it.
Are you okay? Trump calls AOC the leader because of the "socialist" label attached to her. It's strictly a scare tactic. And you use polling, where in this specific case "No one" and "other" are basically in a 3 way tie with AOC as evidence?
What's going on here?
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The first play Arch stepped on the field vs. A&M - Arch Manning TD
Marcel Reed and Aggie offense for the entire game - Zero points
Looch's hunger to humiliate himself everyday is unrivaled.
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Go off, Tim.
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Just watched with my boy, we are both big fans of the MI films. Generally agree that Final Reckoning is a bit disappointing.
SpoilerBut the William Donloe appearance was an awesome callback and fun to watch.
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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Maybe so, but I think there's something of a middle that's reachable that is currently coopted by the Rogan/Von brocast thing. Bozo is right a lot of the time and I think he may be right on this, that "we" can't wholly abandon the field to these clods.
Agree with this! Those are good faith attempts to reach people on the right. All for it.
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7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
But as long as nearly half the country is going to be engaged politically only by "pwnage" and sound bites, they're absolutely necessary.
But the right will always win that war. When a large group abandons good faith and takes on trolling as a literal and primary personality trait, you're never gonna defeat them with pwnage or soundbites. That game is rigged. We have to find another way.
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22 minutes ago, softlynow said:
They’re interested in making money. That’s all that can be said with any certainty. You and others above your post in this thread point out the total reversal of their policy positions. They know their audience. That’s all. Bulwark, Meidas, Bluesky/tiktok influencers, Lincoln Project hacks, none of these people likely believe much of anything they say. They’re just grifting on the right side for now.
Fuck the lot of them.
This is really cynical, and I'm here for it.
This bleeds all the way to the far left. Engagement is all that matters. I think Sam Seder is a good man with a lot of good opinions, but the Majority Report makes their money by posting videos making fun of and "owning" right wing media/podcasters. In the end all this shit is completely worthless and unhelpful. Everything is broken.
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10 hours ago, chainsaw said:
JB's biggest liability will be that he's a billionaire, although it won't hurt him in a primary.
The primary is specifically where it would hurt him.
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🤘, Scottie!
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Good on Dr. Mike for making this video.
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Here is a perfect clip to share. 90 seconds and gets to the fucking point with the title.
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That video needs to be seen by every American. Show it your friends and family. Democratic politicians should talk about it every day when in front of a television camera.
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22 minutes ago, Bullneck said:
Holy shit. What a cunt.
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Also want to add that I voted for Bernie in the 2016 primary. I was a Buttigieg supporter in 2020, but voted for Bernie in the primary again because Pete dropped out of the race before Texas election.
I would never support Pete if I believed he was a neoliberal shill. Y'all have just completely misread him because leftist media and politicians misread him.
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28 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
I think if the party establishment threw its support behind him he would win a rigged primary. There's a reason everyone coordinated their drop-outs and endorsed Biden in 2020 before Super Tuesday. If they'd wanted it to be Pete, it would've been Pete. But because the DNC is a gerontocracy it wasn't "his turn" and that's how we got stuck with Biden in 2024. The establishment loves that Pete has been vetted by the consultant class and is comfortable among donors and coastal elites. They love that he can say he's done "active duty" but also that he has an ivy league education. He was placed on Biden's cabinet precisely because the DNC wanted to fast-track him for future presidential races, when it will be "his turn."
Bottom line? Pete can win a primary even without the support of leftist Democrats, so long as he's anointed by the party bigwigs behind the scenes who will shamelessly put their thumbs on scales.
Pete's problem is that all of the party's power evaporates in a general election, and the leftists who could help you win a general election (many of whom aren't Democrats) are gonna stay home because based on their lived experiences (nothing good from Bush, nothing good from Obama, nothing good from Trump I, nothing good from Biden, nothing good from Trump II) they perceive no difference between the party's anointed nominee (whose platform will be "Sissy Sause" Fascism with a side of Civility™ and Competency™) and JD Vance ("Original Sause" Fascism).
The party actually believes that a $20M focus group will give them the answer to reclaiming young men and Latinos. I don't know who sold them on that pipe dream, but it really captures how thin their playbook is. It's like being stuck in a 20-foot hole you dug and deciding the cause of the problem is that you used the wrong type of shovel--the kind of thinking only a self-interested shovel company would endorse.
The things about Pete that you, a college graduate with assets and a career, admire so much about him (he's articulate, thoughtful, accomplished, demonstrably competent) are the same things that are disqualifying for enough people in enough swing states that the only way to overcome that disadvantage is by making a convincing case that he's not just another neoliberal democrat willing to say whatever he thinks the people want to hear. I don't think Pete can make that case convincingly to leftists, even if he goes on their podcasts.
This is leftist brain rot.
Here's what you and most on the left miss about Pete. He's generally agreeable with the policy ideas that come from the left. The difference is he wants to use pragmatism instead of the antagonistic revolution to sell it to the American people. He wants to sell these policies as practical and a benefit to everyone.
You should read this long Politico article about Pete as Transportation Secretary. It's not a puff piece, there is plenty of criticism as he was growing into the job those first couple of years. But he listened to the concerns from the left and antitrust advocates, and made significant changes that were celebrated even by his biggest detractors.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/03/pete-buttigieg-tough-on-airlines-00181436
Psst, Pete is an ally for the left. He wants to get to the same place, he just believes in a different rhetoric and strategy to get there.
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It would be smart for Pete to eventually do a long interview with a popular lefty podcaster like Hasan or Sam Seder.
Speak to the left directly instead of letting their media people push their negative spin on his narratives and ideas.
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22 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
Not all straight, white (and, I'll add, Bible-believing) men have to be boring or safe. Make it class-based and don't pander to any particular racial demographic and you'll re-gain the youths.
I agree. My point is good ideas and policies matter more than checking the identity boxes.
If there is a straight white male that can be a top candidate based on substance, I'm listening and willing to support.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
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So far so good, but please no one give Elon credit for this heel turn and instead use it to needle the Trumpers and Elon bootlickers you know.
Fuck Elon and Fuck Trump.