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Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

You know things are back to normal when the monthly threads return

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Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Herstory Begins Now posted:

lol the gop is really trying to build an entire comeback narrative off of something that hasn't even happened yet and that is, as far as anyone can tell, currently still pie-in-the-sky dreaming

early voting in va is 600% what it was in 2017 and has massively, hugely favored dems so far
What

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455625211362095111?s=20
Still a coin toss; no longer an assured GOP victoire

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455684037494837250?s=20
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455685508974190595?s=20

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Welp. He's almost seen enough.

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455688205227941894?s=20

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

And before any of you get wild ideas on why McAuliffe lost, just remember:

o A lot of VA is still fairly conservative even among Dems
o CRT was sort of the shorthand; the anger was with schools generally
o Parents are going to be angry about schools a long time; the pandemic was worst on parents without question.
o There was little if any support for parents; Youngkin won't make that better, but the alternative didn't either.
o It was an across-the-board failure, but it was a huge failure and frankly, covid rates among kids never justified how long schools were out. It was destroying people.
o Kids, according to (my friends') teacher friends, are just loving terribly behaved now, and are performing terribly. Parents are furious.
o Schools were closed longest in VA of almost any state. People are mad mad.
o So never run a terminally online guy in the primaries. You might be left with a subpar candidate who beats him.

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

New Jersey Dem Boss Norcross is spooked by last week's election results and predicts a bloodbath next year (not of course taking into account the Bipartisan bill just passed, or that covid swelled gop turnout)

(Politico Article, grain of salt, etc)

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Majorian posted:

There are things the Biden Administration could have done in the past months, and could still do, that would narrow this gap in how the parties poll. Those things have been discussed at length ITT. The fact that they refuse to do so is political malpractice.
Why are they refusing to do so? Focus on the BBB and/or Manchin's obstruction? Some other stupid reason?

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1460341867707613192?s=20
Fuckity bye Bannon :kheldragar: :kheldragar: :kheldragar: :kheldragar:

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

https://twitter.com/dsamuelsohn/status/1460649487114948620?s=20
Heres the 'Strategists':
1. Jim Manley, aide of Harry Reid
2. Jesse Ferguson
3. Chris Taylor, DCCC spokesman
4. Josh Manley
5. Sean Maloney, DCCC Chair
6. Celinda Lake

These are the people screaming "We just didn't call the angry parents foolish racists hard enough" as a strategy. They must be discredited if we are to keep seats.

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

eviltastic posted:

I think that the tweet is overstating it and that the article is overselling the idea that there's party consensus on a message here. I mean, it leads with a bullet point and quote going "On a political level, it's a real threat" and concludes with another quote from someone else that includes "But this is not a threat to us."
Then pray do tell which states and which candidates do you think are more or less likely to follow this 'didn't go hard enough on CRT' advice?

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Biden just said to a reporter live on TV that Taiwan is an independent country and they need to "make their own decisions" about how to run their country.

lol

Gonna be some apologizing or doubling down in the next 24 hours.
Biden what the gently caress are you doing?
Are you trying to goad China into invading Taiwan before christmas?? What is your aim?

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Holy gently caress Sean Parnell is out! :vince:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/22/politics/sean-parnell-suspends-senate-campaign/index.html

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

The White House says there will be no US lockdowns to fight Covid this winter.

quote:

“We can curb the spread of the virus without having to in any way shut down our economy,” White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients said. “We have 82% of people now with one shot and more and more people getting vaccinated each week.” Separately, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said U.S. health officials are not currently recommending lockdowns or economic restrictions to curb rising COVID-19 cases.

This is extremely good news for downballot races next year that desperately need anti-lockdown sentiments (responsible for the poor showings in VA) to abate. Among other things.

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Republican mega-donor buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey

poo poo if a GOP megadonor's buying stake is Trump getting his account back?

EDIT: Wait a second this article is 13 months old.

Grouchio fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Nov 30, 2021

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Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

I have just been informed that:

Lazyfire posted:

It looks like Agrawal is actually less amenable to Jack's buddies. Apparently he's scary to the Twitter Conservatives partially because he thinks there needs to be more fact checking on the site.

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