Tristan (Politically Concerned)

To foster engaging and productive conversations, please consider these guidelines: 1. Avoid personal attacks. While it's fine to disagree with my perspective, articulating why you think I'm mistaken or misguided will be far more constructive and push our discussion forward. 2. Answer questions directly. I strive to provide clear and direct answers, often adding nuance afterward. If I need to prompt you for a straightforward answer multiple times, it only complicates our dialogue without any real benefit. 3. Don’t misrepresent my points. If my views are unclear, I welcome you to ask for clarification. I often seek to understand your stance better as well; that's why directly answering questions is crucial for effective communication.

@CIDsix6 @WhickTv @Timodc If he can't destroy it then he also can't help it.

@WhickTv @Timodc Hasan is not going to destroy the Democrats chances of winning, this is hysterical conjecture but I understand why you do it, constantly whining about him is good for your channel, good for the algorithm, and it makes you feel like you're actually doing something productive.

The long sermon on Hasan discourse starts around 16 minutes here’s a teaser youtube.com/live/GMluDgu55…

@hutchinson I'd really like to win elections without the far lefts help. I think we can get that done.

He thinks the Democratic Party is the 2nd most evil institution in the world and genuinely hates 99% of elected democrats. Refusing to go on his stream is not what “cancelling” means. He’s toxic. Why would any mainstream dem in a competitive seat be seen cozying up to him lol?

Whatever Trump decides to do, he needs to do it before midterms or he'll have a cabinet he can't get confirmed.

@WhickTv That's not to say I'm for changing it, that is to say I think it can be sold to American citizens in a way they will agree with.

@WhickTv Honestly, I think if the Trump administration actually tried to govern, they could pass an amendment on this that would be supported by most Americans.

lol he knows how it went What a joke of a president.

@Kafkaesquire @TheOmniLiberal This you?

@TheOmniLiberal If I, an idiot, can't understand it, that just means it's complicated. If you, a person with above room temperature, think it doesn't work, that just means you aren't able to recognize complexity.

It’s not complicated, it’s just worse lol

Americans with US born parents might start with more wealth and education, but children of undocumented immigrants are showing significantly higher income growth. The data suggests these first generation Americans eventually earn more than their peers.

@hutchinson You need to have government officials on stream.

Some thoughts. Take a walk with me: We really need to launch a massive, country-wide campaign of educating (reeducating?😬) voters about the importance and function of the Congress. It is not enough to have majorities if you want to pass bills. A party winning control of government does not mean that literally anything can be done. There are limits to power, and those limits are set by the constitution and the voters themselves by deciding which politicians will represent them in government. The parties are not monolithic. If you don’t have the votes to do a particular thing, that thing simply cannot be done. That doesn’t mean you should give up on said thing, but it may have to be a long term project if the votes aren’t there. It is way, way, wayyy too common that this or that commenter on social media assumes that winning the presidency and control of the Congress means you can do literally anything you want. We are seeing that limitation now with Trump. He has been harassing republicans to drop the filibuster since the first term. He wants them to do that now to pass the SAVE Act with a simple majority in the senate. They are saying no, but he doesn’t have the votes to pass it even if they did get rid of the filibuster. He cannot brute force them to do anything, even though he generally gets a lot of the stuff he asks for. Then again, so did Biden and Obama. Obama had a functional 60 vote majority in the Senate for ~90 days when the Senate was actually in session in his first term. This short window was due to Sen Franken taking months to be seated and Sen Kennedy dying. Obama did not run on something more sweeping like M4A but even if he had, the voters did not elect a Congress that would have passed such a bill. He did campaign on a public option but Sen Lieberman and a handful of other democrats (that the VOTERS elected) said absolutely not. The ACA was a Herculean task and it was frankly a miracle that it passed given how many times most thought it was dead and how contentious the negotiations were. It did draw inspiration from a model established by then Governor Romney of MA, but Romneycare was the result of *bipartisan* negotiations with a Democratic Party supermajority led legislature, and it was democrats who forced massive subsidies into that policy. So yes, the ACA’s general model was inspired by Romneycare, but it was democrats who forced massive subsidies into both Romneycare and the ACA. Republicans were broadly and definitely *not* in favor of these subsidies, so the idea that the ACA or even Romneycare were “Republican policies” is pretty ludicrous.

Republicans famously are in favor of massively expanding Medicaid and SNAP subsidies, repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, capping student loan payments, the Fair Sentencing Act, expanding Children’s Health Insurance Program, etc.

@hutchinson Jill Stein retweeted this mess 🫠

Bonus incentive for people to go out and vote Democrat in November: If Alito and Thomas don't resign in time and there's a vacancy on the court with Democrats in the Senate majority, they can pull a McConnell and block any Trump SCOTUS nominee for his remaining 2 years 😍

@NancyMace It's already on track to being eliminated

I am the ONLY candidate with a plan to eliminate the state income tax. As the fastest growing state in the nation, it’s time South Carolina becomes the MOST affordable. South Carolina STRONG.

I didn't actually watch the full convo, so perhaps I'm missing context but taking the clip at face value, this is 100000% the right norm to set. I say that while not liking many of @TheOmniLiberal's debate norms. If someone just wants to ramble and evade you should simply leave the convo and let them cry about it or tell them to wave when done rambling then mute them on your end and just refute their points/shoot the shit with your own audience till they're ready to stop being clowns then pick up at exactly where you left of and refuse to follow whatever new thread they established during the rambling dodgefest. There are other options but these are 2 I like.

@ScottPresler Paaaaasta.

I’m almost there. In 4 more days, I’ll have gone 1 entire year w/o chocolate, bread, or pasta. Chicken, cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, avocados, blueberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, protein powder, & hearts of palm have completely transformed my life for the better.

I think I agree here. I believe Israel pulled us into the last war and I'm not a fan of it.

@RepNancyMace Didn't you go on the house floor to talk about your husband? Or boyfriend or whatever

The media wants to talk about Bryon and Kristi Noem's personal drama and indiscretions. I want to talk about who is getting deported, who got paid, and who's stealing from taxpayers. Different priorities. Let's focus on what matters.

@hutchinson I know on paper everything you're saying checks out but I sure hope Kamala isn't the choice of the DNC :/

Trump barely squeaked out a <2% popular vote. If ~120k votes had went Kamala’s way in MI/WI/PA, he would have lost. After his W, we heard months of rhetoric about Trump’s political dominance and the potential death of the Democratic Party. Fast forward a year, and…🤷🏼‍♂️

@LyonKingslayer @hutchinson "but then the Democrats backstabbed them by helping their maga counterparts" You are referring to the far left 🙄

@PolitiConcerned @hutchinson Tell that to Hillary and Kamala. 🤷‍♂️ Biden won because he opened to republicans voting “left”. But then the democrats backstabbed them by helping their MAGA counterparts (because they thought it would be an easy win) and backfired 100%. The Dem 🫏 leadership is idiotic.

The scorecard for winning election cycles in the 21st century is 7 for Republicans and 6 for Democrats. We are going to demolish them in November, so that’ll make it an even 7-7. The far left’s score is…0. They’ve had 0 winning election cycles.

The affordable care act extension would have cost $80 billion over the next 10 years. The Pentagon wants to request $200 billion for their war in Iran. It's painfully obvious that Republicans are financially full of it.

@Honesttruthman @RapidResponse47 @SecretaryWright And now trump is doing it all in 1 year.

@RapidResponse47 @SecretaryWright What’s amazing is that people forget to easily the pain that we endured under Biden for 4 years!

.@SecretaryWright: "Prices today are still far below what they were in the Biden Administration, where they were begging, bartering, and bribing Iran to behave better."

@PrinciplesBP @WhickTv So you don't know what the floor is? I'll take an estimate.

@PolitiConcerned @WhickTv Hitting literally zero is functionally impossible. There is some baked in number that it's not impossible to hit but is unrealistic due to hardened partisans who are incredibly difficult to rile. For most pols who have actually won an election, that figure is in the high teens.

This isn't even the lowest its gonna get gang.