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FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

GalacticAcid posted:

I generally object to fishing out no-name twitter accounts with bad takes but this one is real funny

The only shocking thing about that exchange is she doesn't have a blue checkmark. She earned it with that one.

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FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

what? The democratic establishment didn’t change their mind. They just lost to Obama, supported him while he was in power because he was in power, and then went back to supporting Clinton like they always had.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

WampaLord posted:

Surely you mean Access to Means-tested Medical Marijuana

For the employed. The bill will also offer a tax credit to businesses who drug test their employees.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
https://twitter.com/MikeGarafolo/status/1004428098643922944

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
All you need to know about Schumer is that when Hillary was looking for a Senate seat to carpetbag to she picked his electorate.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
My local "progressive" candidate opposes legalization, rofl.

https://www.scottwallacepa.com/

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
They said that about the Iraq War too. You know, that war Clinton voted for to find imaginary WMD that killed hundreds of thousands of people and then destabilized the region so much hundreds of thousands more died. Dems should have clapped harder.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Moving on, let's talk about this thing Bernie said in the 70s...

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Random uber drivers know more about politics than Sally Albright.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
I won't believe it until I have a Verrit code.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

WampaLord posted:

The bully pulpit is a thing

Democrats seem to support that idea right up until the moment when they win an election and actually have access to it. The SC is a much more compelling argument.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
https://mobile.twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1007718236761346050

My local ""progressive"" anti-pot legalization democratic candidate couldn't even get an AFL-CIO endorsement. I'm super excited to join the resistance by voting against what unions want and for arresting potheads.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

Serf posted:

i been saying it for years. you come down here to georgia and see how many trailer parks of abject poverty are filled with black and hispanic people working from dawn till dusk to barely make ends meet. i know a guy who lives in a trailer where the loving roof is separated from the walls, there's no ac and no running water and he pays $300 a month for rent

I think some liberals have a vague sense that if racism was over every single one of those people would be a college educated professional instead, because white supremacy caused all of their problems. Reality is not quite that simple.

Addressing racial issues has to come first as a matter of triage, but we need to help all the poor and oppressed rather than just certain identities of the poor and oppressed, because there are many disadvantages the poor face that have nothing to do with race or gender.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
On the one hand I'm like, "Do you really think right now is a good time to show up at a Mexican restaurant?" But on the other hand, Mexican food is drat tempting.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Being angry at primary challenges in areas with deep blue constituency is the biggest red flag that you are dealing with an ashamed conservative, not a pragmatic liberal or leftist. Let them have Manchin. Fine. AOC could not win a Senate seat there. But we don't need Manchin to win in deep blue areas.

That's the dirty little secret, a ton of blue state Dems are Manchins placating a blue base the way Manchin placates his red base. Not genuine leftists. They screw us over the same ways Manchin (occasionally) screws over the right.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
https://twitter.com/clarknt67/status/1011819584498913280?s=21

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.
Bad Idpol: Calling voters you need racist and sexist Bernie Bros as a baseless cynical manipulation. Implying voters you are trying to appeal to with your centrism are deplorables.

Not bad idpol: Being a POC. Campaigning to appeal to diverse demographics. Calling out bigotry.

Any questions?

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

Guy Goodbody posted:

Do you guys think that Democrats will realize that Republicans will paint all of them as far left socialists like AOC regardless of their individual stated positions so they lose nothing by actually embracing and running on those popular leftist policies?

They oppose those policies. Not because it's politically pragmatic to. Not (in total) because their donors pay them to. They just think those policies are wrong and fiscally irresponsible because they are conservatives.

They defend the status quo and fear change...because that is what conservatives do. They are conservatives.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

logikv9 posted:

deplorables was absolutely too weak of a descriptor

It was classic Hillary in that it was too broadly applied and not harsh enough at the same time. She didn't insult the Nazis enough, but then she unintentionally insulted a bunch of people she had no intention of insulting (she thought #2 was going to vote for her and didn't want to insult them, instead they felt lumped in) too much. But then #2 barely actually exists on the right anyway, and this is just a whole big empty black void of suck.

FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

rudatron posted:

lawyers do what you pay them to do, it wouldn't be hard to find a team to work out the details

the only reason progressive legislation is seen as impractical is because raising taxes has become this impossible hurdle thanks to generations of republican propaganda, actually it's a really easy thing to do. Tax the rich, bing bong.

Or just deficit spend like we do for everything else.

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FuriousxGeorge
Aug 8, 2007

We've been the best team all year.

They're just finding out.

etalian posted:

lmao if you look up to authoritarian groups like law enforcement or military.

or the washington post.

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