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Grapplejack posted:So what is your proposed solution that isn't "civil war now." Third party? Attempt to primary every bad dem possible. If the party digs their heels in and absolutely refuses to move left even a little, hopefully the 2020 primary spurs a fracturing of the party and we get an actual viable leftist third party. Regardless, it's an uphill battle and everyone here knows it so we really don't like being told that we just need to work harder.
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WampaLord posted:Attempt to primary every bad dem possible. If the party digs their heels in and absolutely refuses to move left even a little, hopefully the 2020 primary spurs a fracturing of the party and we get an actual viable leftist third party. I’d also advise getting the public educated about socialism as much as possible. Not many people will change their minds right now due to the economy finally healing but that will change once the next recession hits. We’ll want to have as much groundwork laid as we can before that happens.
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Article about how Tocqueville was revived and consciously pushed as a conservative movement ideologue postwar when he was completely forgotten circa 1930 https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/04/03/non-to-tocqueville/
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An interview from NPR just revealed that Pruitt and his team lack the temperament or ability to go through with the lengthy legal processes required to roll back the EPA!
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Grouchio posted:An interview from NPR just revealed that Pruitt and his team lack the temperament or ability to go through with the lengthy legal processes required to roll back the EPA! Yeah all this poo poo is going to go to the courts and they have essentially mounds of loosely packed adulterated bullshit to justify what they're doing.
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Sounds like the liberal plan to vote in the Nazis didn't work in Hungary.
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I, too, am not old enough to remember the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
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Who really wants President Pence, though?
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Javid posted:Who really wants President Pence, though? Did we ever decide on the relative likelihood of Pence nuking/getting someone nuked? I feel that's a fairly relevant question right as I'm posting this.
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I'd personally guess substantially less likely than Trump. Other hand, he'd spend a lot less time tweeting angrily and a lot more time getting poo poo on his agenda done, and that's not what anybody ITT wants.
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How is David Axelrod this stupid? The article literally says that this strategy is in part designed kill enthusiasm among the Democratic base by forcing moderates to side against impeachment and his response is to emphatically side against impeachment? What the gently caress?
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https://twitter.com/owillis/status/982967396481814528 Exhibit A for the Democratic Party's desire to have its progressive base disappear. Obligatory lol at Shareblue Willis.
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Don't boo! Vote!
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Paradoxish posted:How is David Axelrod this stupid? The article literally says that this strategy is in part designed kill enthusiasm among the Democratic base by forcing moderates to side against impeachment and his response is to emphatically side against impeachment? What the gently caress? How indeed. 
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Impeachment has always been a political tool you loving idiot.
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from the subtweets re @deray: https://twitter.com/itsazul_/status/982857362993307648 "Also one of the only BLM activists who hasn’t got killed" I... uh...  is BLM a movement made entirely of spooky ghosts now
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:from the subtweets re @deray: A lot of the original Ferguson protestors here in st. louis are dead already. Many of them "found" by the police shot to death in burning cars. Hmmm.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:from the subtweets re @deray: That last part is insane.
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Azul is probably referencing things like thisquote:THE BETRAYALS DeRay also seems to cash in on his fame, such as when he tweets about how eating rainbow doritos is a nice way to support LGBTQ causes, or when he took a job as the head HR person for Baltimore schools, making almost $170k a year to provide political cover for a bunch of layoffs Also, gently caress TFA joepinetree fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Apr 9, 2018 |
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is this what horseshoe theory is, cause this is some hot-rear end garbage right here https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...m=.5d0ab9d0d8d0 This is how Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are the same person
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We all knew it was inevitable, and those kids probably knew as well. Good kids, they are, don't really deserve to go out with the rest of us  Take a swim in a pool of burning tires, Chuck. botany posted:is this what horseshoe theory is, cause this is some hot-rear end garbage right here "Bernie Sanders and Trump share the same DNA" *writes almost entirely about Donald trump* Also posted in June of 2016 so lol at you Johnathan Capeheart you punk rear end bastard.
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Don't ever write satire again. https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/983368851596431361 It is of no purpose.
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botany posted:is this what horseshoe theory is, cause this is some hot-rear end garbage right here yyyyeeeppp edit:  i didn't realize it was capeheart of bruce rappaport fame
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https://twitter.com/Trillburne/status/983173871565180928 This ride never ends.
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Of all the Democratic hopefuls, McAuliffe likely numbers among the not-worst. That's pretty loving bad.
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Wasn't he a nominally popular Virginia governor? I only know him for being drunk on TV, friends with the Clintons, and giving back a bunch of felons their voting rights by hand (which is legitimately pretty cool). I mean stories like these are kind of pointless, it's 2018 and anyone can say "I wanna run as a Dem for president" all they like, nobody is just gonna waltz through the primary unscathed. He's just gonna be M'OM tier material, the guy who is locally well-known but a non-entity nationally.
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lol I mean, that's about what you'd expect. Besides that's not entirely accurate, he touches adult women without their consent in public too! 
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Lightning Knight posted:lol I mean, that's about what you'd expect. Yeah, calling him a pedophile muddies the waters for the hundreds of other reasons why he shouldn't be a presidential nominee.
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That's a QAnon conspiracy theorist, I'm sure. Majorian posted:Yeah, calling him a pedophile muddies the waters for the hundreds of other reasons why he shouldn't be a presidential nominee. I strongly suspect that isn't a left-wing activist but a right-wing conspiracy theorist.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I strongly suspect that isn't a left-wing activist but a right-wing conspiracy theorist. Probably. Or someone who's just too whacked-out to fall on a defined point on the political spectrum.
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Lightning Knight posted:Wasn't he a nominally popular Virginia governor? yeah, but that's mostly because all the governor of va has to do is keep the dc cash flowing, and as a clinton bagman he was well-suited to the task
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The Muppets On PCP posted:yeah, but that's mostly because all the governor of va has to do is keep the dc cash flowing, and as a clinton bagman he was well-suited to the task Ah ok. I'm not gonna stan for him, he seems pretty middle of the road average.
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Condiv posted:yyyyeeeppp what's the story there? i didn't know this author before. (also i have to admit i didn't see that the article was from 2016, sorry everyone)
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My impression of McAuliffe is that he essentially exceeded expectations because everyone was expecting actively bad instead of inoffensively competent. I can't say that qualifies him for the presidency, but that's for the primaries to sort out. And the US has definitely done worse.
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Lightning Knight posted:Ah ok. I'm not gonna stan for him, he seems pretty middle of the road average. Yeah, he's pretty much a garden-variety Democratic apparatchik, but that's a big part of why he'd be a bad nominee. He embodies the Democratic machine too perfectly.
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LOL David thinks norms actually mean anything when one side of the isle is filled with cynical sociopaths.
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botany posted:what's the story there? i didn't know this author before. Capehart is a journalist who's on MSNBC a lot. Here's a good piece on him and his role in the 2016 media narrative. I've had a couple social media back-and-forths with him, and he strikes me as a nice guy who's well-meaning, but completely clueless about the political and social forces at work in 2016. Plus, as the Paste article points out, he had some personal ties to the Clinton campaign, so... Majorian fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Apr 9, 2018 |
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