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Gene Hackman Fan posted:i'd be interested in breaking away, because backing a pro-corporate neoliberal would mean that the dems didn't learn a god damned thing. drat it irene, you were supposed to NOT make the perfect the enemy of the good and now we have trumps all over the place. good going irene
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If the 2016 GOP primary had been between Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, and three other rando no-hopers (let's say Fiorina, Carson, and Kasich), Jeb probably would have won the primary in a squeaker and then lost to Hillary Clinton in the lowest turnout general election in history. The presence of other base-pleasing ideologues like Cruz and Paul and establishment-pleasing empty suits like Rubio and Christie split the party's support system up, which allowed Trump to survive long enough to embarrass Jeb on the debate stage, say enough ridiculous poo poo to dominate press coverage all the time, and pick the others off one at a time until there was nobody left. And that won the GOP an election. So I say, for the 2020 primaries, flood the loving stage and let's see who sinks and who swims.Al! posted:drat it irene, you were supposed to NOT make the perfect the enemy of the good and now we have trumps all over the place. good going irene The problem with saying "the perfect is the enemy of the good" all the time is when the good is actually bad
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zegermans posted:Bevin was elected two years ago - did Hilldawg tip KY's congress over? Yep. Kentucky House flipped and the first thing they did was implement right-to-work. Senate had flipped a while ago. Almost like Republicans know that shattering the unions will hurt Dems and compound their own power...
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breaklaw posted:All you posters going at "bad dems", would you be willing to break with the party in 4 years if they nominate another corporate stooge, but this time one with a non-zero likability rating and a god chance to win? third-parties are hopeless, that's why bernie ran as a dem
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We're gonna get national right to work anyway so I guess all these state-level laws are meaningless at this point though
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zegermans posted:A bernout coming up with a grandiose conspiracy when things aren't 100% tilted in their favor? 
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#BernieOrBust and #NeverTrump are two things that never really happened but could have. Bernie and Cruz or someone both running in the general and we would probably have a different president now.
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The left is dead, Dems will field someone like Booker in 2020 and win and the establishment Dems will view it as a repudiation of the Bernie wing (as if they needed any further evidence of that in their eyes). There will never be meaningful leftward progress in America in the next 20 years or so because there's simply not even a hypothetical path for it to take. Good luck maintaining even BAU neoliberalism as the climate destroys the world and puts "refugee" onto the resume of half of the world's workers.
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whoever runs for president in 2020 will be a corporate stooge because republicans are aware that calling the democratic candidate a corporate stooge is an easy way to push the buttons of white progressives
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call to action posted:Warning, the Hillarymen are purging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_lhRNV3XfE
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zegermans posted:We're gonna get national right to work anyway so I guess all these state-level laws are meaningless at this point though Disagree. At least if the Dems ever take back congress they can reverse it in one fell swoop - if the states pass it individually, it'll be a lot more durable.
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zegermans posted:http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...bad29dbd1a.html Hillary will invest massively in the downticket!! 
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Remember when they were pals and then kanye offered to play at the inaug, only for trump to say no because he didn't look "American enough" lmao
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breaklaw posted:All you posters going at "bad dems", would you be willing to break with the party in 4 years if they nominate another corporate stooge, but this time one with a non-zero likability rating and a god chance to win? 3rd parties dont really work in first past the post voting but if perez wins the dnc chair i'm willing to call the democrats a dead party and bail
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wapo 3 years from now "why frankensteins are just bernie bros scheming to take down booker"
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anime was right posted:wapo 3 years from now almost certainty, if he actually threatens him.
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Business Gorillas posted:Remember when they were pals and then kanye offered to play at the inaug, only for trump to say no because he didn't look "American enough" lmao the frendship over with/new best friend meme
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Al! posted:the frendship over with/new best friend meme Friendship ended with TRUMP Now KANYE is my best friend
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I like this idea on its face but was actually a little less into it when I read the article because the author also thinks nominating the Starbucks guy or Marc Cuban would be a good idea
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Nonsense posted:Missouri is going straight into the poo poo house in a couple years. Missouri has been a poo poo state full of poo poo people for over a decade, but until recently they at least had the sense to not vote for governors that run on the platform of making them earn less money.
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loquacius posted:The problem with saying "the perfect is the enemy of the good" all the time is when the good is actually bad Yeah I wouldn't say that someone like Booker even qualifies as "good." He lives in a fantasy land where the American economy still works for the middle class and things like drug prices and college tuition haven't spiraled totally out of control, I don't trust him to address any of these issues at all. Basically the only good thing you can say about him on economics is that he isn't as actively bad as a Republican, that's not good enough.
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Bootacheck.
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logikv9 posted:he will wipe the slate clean Feel the Butt
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logikv9 posted:Bootacheck. im pretty depressed today, they had a free bootacheck at work and they discovered a buttgeig.......
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Why is this thread full of probations is zoux mod again
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Majorian posted:"My plans are beings to expanding SCHIP...to include...a keratinous horrrrn implant...on each beautiful child-rens. A word about health care. Each American will receive a free cryogenic probe-tube, and it will give them an professional feverdepression.
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Al! posted:what's the word for a romantic relationship but that's based on being enemies????? its probably on tv tropes somewhere marriage
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:Why is this thread full of probations is zoux mod again Baloogan went on a rampage and them probed himself when someone told him to go to bed Its 430pm on the east coast
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:Why is this thread full of probations is zoux mod again something about a giant bird circling the thread
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:Why is this thread full of probations is zoux mod again target-rich environment
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it's actually been heartening to see so many people stand up for concerned citizen, i thought you guys hated him
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Al! posted:it's actually been heartening to see so many people stand up for concerned citizen, i thought you guys hated him every thread needs a punching bag
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zegermans posted:We're gonna get national right to work anyway so I guess all these state-level laws are meaningless at this point though Yep. I'm pretty that is next on the republican docket, if they haven't already started the process. I'm sure pragmatic dems will vote along with it though.
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