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Lemming posted:If I had one wish it'd be every time anyone said this they'd immediately get struck by lightning Yeah, I cringed. Ossoff's a good dude; if he runs again I hope he just dumps that one. D.N. Nation fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Pakled posted:You're comparing special election turnout to presidential election turnout. Dem voters in particular are hard to motivate to turn out to "less important" elections. I mean, if we're gonna play that game, it was also the most hyped, publicized, and heavily funded special election in recent memory, and I cannot stress enough the complete facelessness and basic nonexistence of Rodney Stooksbury, so I'd still hesitate to call this a historic victory D.N. Nation posted:Point 2's "Washington sucks" was less "Trump sucks" and more "stop frivolous spending"/"I'll work across the aisle", which granted isn't a great message from a Democrat but plays well in places where David Brooks columns are taken as a source of intellectual inspiration and not toilet paper. Anyone who wants to curb government spending and for Democrats to cooperate with Republicans is going to vote Republican, rear end in a top hat suburbs or not
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Zemyla posted:I love this for some reason. The delightful mix of blob-ular McConnell; not-overbourne self-awareness and being rather apt?
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Zemyla posted:I love this for some reason. It's very meta, sort of directed at weirdos like us who follow political cartoons. It kind of reminds me of "Gonzalez" the cartoonist in Matt Bors's cartoons.
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Butt Potato posted:
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Lurdiak posted:Eh, it'd be nice to see someone actually run on a leftist platform and fail, instead of the usual nobody's-happy compromises that also fail.
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U.T. Raptor posted:iirc this happened in 2016, several times over in fact. Bernouts aggressively ignore this when you point it out, or try to blame Clinton because of course they do (even though some of those losses happened in places she herself did well), to the surprise of absolutely no one. Lol. Didn't know Fulchrum had a baby brother.
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Lemming posted:If I had one wish it'd be every time anyone said this they'd immediately get struck by lightning "I'll work across the aisle" is something Candidate Obama stressed in 2008, and it played pretty well then! Eight years of obstructionism and dozens of attempts at ACA repeal later, most Democratic voters are thoroughly uninterested in the idea
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D.N. Nation posted:This'll look just terrific in B&W.  Few pages late, but it only got printed in the AJC today.
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I'm honestly surprised that Theresa May has lasted this long. I legitimately thought that her party would dump her within the week. I suppose that she just doesn't have the dignity and grace of noted pig-fucker David Cameron, and wants to just hang on no matter what instead of bowing out willingly. U.T. Raptor posted:iirc this happened in 2016, several times over in fact. Bernouts aggressively ignore this when you point it out, or try to blame Clinton because of course they do (even though some of those losses happened in places she herself did well), to the surprise of absolutely no one. When you point this out, they usually try to claim that Tammy Duckworth is actually a pure leftist rising star in the party, and ignore poo poo like the run of Zephyr Rain.
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Can we borrow Corbyn? Like...just for 2018?
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Pants Donkey posted:Can we borrow Corbyn? Like...just for 2018? Corbyn would kill for the sort of swings the Dems have been getting
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Fulchrum posted:I'm honestly surprised that Theresa May has lasted this long. I legitimately thought that her party would dump her within the week. No one else wants the job. If she steps down, whoever takes her place has to either: A) Negotiate a deal with a minor party of gibbering lunatics to enable them to push through dramatically self-destructive Brexit policy or B) Immediately lose an election to Jeremy Corbyn. Who's going to want to face that? May's career is already dead, they can use its still-warm corpse as a shield.
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Is it normal in the US for doctors to set up press conferences in random hospital hallways?
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 The Senate health care bill working group is all male. (Note the padlock.)
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Selachian posted:
Telnaes's faces are all delightful.
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Fulchrum posted:When you point this out, they usually try to claim that Tammy Duckworth is actually a pure leftist rising star in the party, and ignore poo poo like the run of Zephyr Rain. Can you explain what this means? I like Tammy Duckworth, but I'm not sure how liberal she is. She's got a great personal story (Democrats already have our greatest president as someone who couldn't walk, so why not another?) and I remember her grilling someone for taking advantage of VA benefit fraud. I'm not sure who Zephyr Rain is or why they're related to Duckworth, and google is somewhat unclear.
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A lot of Democratic politicians aren't terribly left, and that's because of the problem with the Republican Party being so absolutely batshit insane that traditionally conservative politicians have no place there. Politicians that in Europe would be center-right like Macron are Democrat in the USA, because they aren't interested in things like climate change denial or mad conspiracy theories.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Do the Republicans ever discuss why that is or why it's okay, for any of the various times it happens? I mean I know no one can make them but I wonder if a comment about it ever slipped out by accident. "If men and women are truly equal, then it doesn't matter. You're the real sexist for implying it makes a difference."
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Pakled posted:"If men and women are truly equal, then it doesn't matter. You're the real sexist for implying it makes a difference." If that cartoon is a fair representation, it's all white, too. Obviously Republicans are completely non-racist and non-sexist, which is why their committee is all-white-male - they'd never commit "reverse racism" by "promoting an unqualified minority or woman."
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BarbarianElephant posted:If that cartoon is a fair representation, it's all white, too. The guy with the beak is Ted Cruz.
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Jurgan posted:The guy with the beak is Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is rrrrrrrrrreal loving white
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Jurgan posted:The guy with the beak is Ted Cruz. White and/or slime golems.
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U.T. Raptor posted:iirc this happened in 2016, several times over in fact. Bernouts aggressively ignore this when you point it out, or try to blame Clinton because of course they do (even though some of those losses happened in places she herself did well), to the surprise of absolutely no one. It's grimly comical that being endorsed by Bernie is a near guarantee that you lost your election. Hillary is included in this.
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All you need to know about that heartbreaking situation is that our government did not free him sooner- maybe they didn't even try- and that the Supreme Court ruled that people released from Guantanamo Bay cannot sue the people responsible.
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U.T. Raptor posted:iirc this happened in 2016, several times over in fact. Bernouts aggressively ignore this when you point it out, or try to blame Clinton because of course they do (even though some of those losses happened in places she herself did well), to the surprise of absolutely no one. Clinton's strategy was to appeal to dissatisfied Romney voters who would split their tickets for her while voting Republican downballot and assuming these would make up for losing blue collar voters, so it would be weird if she didn't outrun the downballot given her strategy. She succeeded in the first part, getting wealthy Republicans to split their tickets, but miscalculated somewhat when it came to the second part, whoops.
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