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11 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I swear to god this is what people mean when they say Democrats can't get out of their own way. One thing NOT lacking in the party is secular voices. What IS lacking is a voice that tells evangelicals that might be having issues reconciling the teachings of Christ with the political movement that's joined at the hip to their church that it's okay to vote for democrats.

This is flat out wrong and indicative that you are inattentive to races held primarily in African American communities.  In many of those, a religious element is deeply tied into the winning candidates rhetoric.  

I’ll also point out that the evangelicals running away from the Democrats began in the 70’s and longer articles in The Atlantic and Politico (discussed here when they were published) link them to an anti-abortion movement that was truly an appeal to racial segregationists.  
 

You’re not pulling these voters back in because you run a Talarico and he puts his faith front and center.  
 

Anyway, my main point is it’s a big tent and ascribing a party wide disfunction is to neglect races in which it’s a major element and in which a Democrat uses their faith effectively.  


 


 


 

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On 7/21/2025 at 6:02 PM, Guadaloopy said:

Sorry for the Twitter link, but Talarico's feed on BlueSky is just a few months old and I remembered this particular press appearance from the election days.   He's reprised the "WWJD" argument several times since then.  I voted for Harris and his approach rubbed me the wrong way then, and still makes me uncomfortable. 

 

Yes, like others, I see that as calling out the hypocrisy as opposed to demanding that real Christianity dictate the outcome.

As soon as he starts using Jesus or Christian arguments of a certain strain to support legislation, then I'm right with ya.

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11 hours ago, Thermos H. Christ said:

If the democrats weren’t such fucking cowards they would be out there promising that WHEN they return to power there will be consequences for foreign and domestic figures who aid the Trump regime. Nayib Bukele and every other foreign leader taking third country deportees should have known in no uncertain terms that if they disappeared people on Trump’s behalf their countries would be sanctioned, and it would simply be a matter of time. Tulsi and Stephen Miller should be afraid. ICE should be so scared they won’t even show their faces… oh wait.

Is anyone afraid of the democrats?

This. 

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I can’t find the interview to post, but Talarico was spitting fire Tuesday night on MSNBC. His quote- “The only minorities destroying America are the billionaires.”

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21 minutes ago, 254512 said:

I can’t find the interview to post, but Talarico was spitting fire Tuesday night on MSNBC. His quote- “The only minorities destroying America are the billionaires.”

Sorry too religious

 

/democrats

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On 7/22/2025 at 6:30 PM, Bullneck said:

 

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Go read the sermon on the mount, considered the quintessential Jesus sermon on the gospel, I mean he just annihilates the gay, trannies, queers, all of them. Really hard to disagree with the Aggies here. Jesus hated him some mother fuckers.

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I can’t find the interview to post, but Talarico was spitting fire Tuesday night on MSNBC. His quote- “The only minorities destroying America are the billionaires.”

Yeah. They interviewed him at an event in Plano that we attended. Over 1K attended and they had to do another event a block over for the overflow. That’s where MSNBC did the interview. He was good, clear and concise. Spoke with him briefly.
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22 hours ago, 254512 said:

I can’t find the interview to post, but Talarico was spitting fire Tuesday night on MSNBC. His quote- “The only minorities destroying America are the billionaires.”

I and maybe thousands of others have had this exact quote written on a sign over the past few months. I think Texas Dems are starting to get with it. This is exhibit A.

Exhibit B is the Dems making a spectacle out of the upcoming redistricting hearings this Saturday.

Nothing to lose

 

 

 

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So I talked to Chair Scudder today, and he is still willing to come take the slings and arrows you guys want to toss at the TDP.  I am figuring some night the week starting on 8/11.  Would hold a zoom where you all will get an invite link posted here and can attend incognito.  Would start at 8.  I just want you folks to let me know which night is best for you all.   I'm not sure how to do a poll in here, and think maybe you have to start a new thread, so I will just keep an informal tally from responses here.  Hardball questions are ok, but trolling is not.  

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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

It's stunning that America's "left-leaning" political party can't seem use stories like this to its advantage.

 

That's an interesting number... 

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4 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

So I talked to Chair Scudder today, and he is still willing to come take the slings and arrows you guys want to toss at the TDP.  I am figuring some night the week starting on 8/11.  Would hold a zoom where you all will get an invite link posted here and can attend incognito.  Would start at 8.  I just want you folks to let me know which night is best for you all.   I'm not sure how to do a poll in here, and think maybe you have to start a new thread, so I will just keep an informal tally from responses here.  Hardball questions are ok, but trolling is not.  

Fuck that. We can do an AMA here, ain't no one getting on a fucking zoom. 

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On 7/24/2025 at 9:28 AM, David Dennison said:

Is it, though?

 

Nope. And I am pretty sure that if they HAD used it, it would have had little or no effect. 

Something like, "Well, sure, Trump is a pedophile, but the price of gas! Eggs!"

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On 7/26/2025 at 5:06 PM, Goredho said:

I'm not sure "democratic party" isn't just fatally toxic as a brand at this point.

That happens when you stand for nothing people need to help them in their daily lives. GOP lite creeping towards GOP proper as a brand is showing itself as one of the worst ongoing product shifts ever. Think New Coke, but if they had just kept coming up with newer Cokes every couple years rather than getting back to what worked.

Fuck centrist feelings. Embrace what Mamdani stands for, which is policy innovation and/or experimentation for the people. Suck it up and take the good with the bad. Lord knows Trumpers have learned to do it.

We need a vibrant and organized opposition, not a Clinton/Obama wunderkind executing yet another delaying action against the slow march of the oligarchy as it pushes liberal democracy into the sea. 

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45 minutes ago, softlynow said:

That happens when you stand for nothing people need to help them in their daily lives. GOP lite creeping towards GOP proper as a brand is showing itself as one of the worst ongoing product shifts ever. Think New Coke, but if they had just kept coming up with newer Cokes every couple years rather than getting back to what worked.

Fuck centrist feelings. Embrace what Mamdani stands for, which is policy innovation and/or experimentation for the people. Suck it up and take the good with the bad. Lord knows Trumpers have learned to do it.

We need a vibrant and organized opposition, not a Clinton/Obama wunderkind executing yet another delaying action against the slow march of the oligarchy as it pushes liberal democracy into the sea. 

The assumption seems to be that people prefer a higher ceiling for a higher floor.

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29 minutes ago, softlynow said:

Whose assumption?

The institutional thought leaders who keep pushing the "new coke" GOP lite analogy you so aptly described.



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