@yogeshtwet As far as I can tell he hasn’t said word one about the war in Iran. You have to engage with issues like that if you want run this country imo.
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@BadassIntensity
Holding court on the issues of the day.
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@FlyinMackenzie @Wilson__Valdez You’re not using that expression correctly.
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@BadassIntensity @Wilson__Valdez Hit dog hollering.
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@hecubian_devil It’s the same phenomenon when rando libs or lefties online complain about Trump voters being dumb and someone will reply “no wonder you lost”. There’s this collective centrist center right agreement to treat any Dem/leftie = all Dems.
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Why do people say this shit so authoritatively? Did the Dems ever weaponize Marjorie Taylor Greene against the GOP nationally? Nancy Mace?
They got plenty of attention, sure, but I don’t remember any races turning on them as the face of the GOP. Why would this happen for DAC?
Mark Halperin@MarkHalperin
I talked to quite a few moderate Democrats who are very concerned about the rise of socialism and out-there views in the party. Here’s the spiciest quote:
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@FlyinMackenzie @CentristMadness @Gyarke @Wilson__Valdez This is you flailing pathetically and negatively polarized into defending the indefensible. Many such cases.
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@CentristMadness @Gyarke @Wilson__Valdez You'll notice at no time was Ukraine, its Army, or any of the atrocities carried out by Russia against Ukrainian civilians the butt of the joke. They're all making fun of comfortable westerners who spent the early months of the war virtue signalling over it until they got bored.
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@Wilson__Valdez Solid joke at your expense. She's making fun of Americans who made Russia's war on Ukraine all about them.
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@ImNotOwned It leads to too many people refusing to do the work.
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@ImNotOwned Good policies are good policies whether they are popular or not and if not then you have to persuade people. A corrosive post 2016 twitter thing normalized this idea that left policies are election winning magic and if they don’t win it’s a conspiracy plot.
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This is the main area where the socialist left drives me a bit insane, the delusional electorate theories. It is probably good politics to center working class, etc etc, but too many actually believe they will reverse global political patterns. It is a game of inches, so
Shane Goldmacher@ShaneGoldmacher
Graham Platner is ahead of Collins by 2 points in new NYT poll. One of the most intriguing details: She has a 21-point lead among non-college voters as Platner has made centering the working class the center of his campaign.
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@CentristMadness There have been zero kinis at any of the America 250 events.
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@CentristMadness He’s incapable of not extending way too much goodwill toward literally anyone who was “cancelled” for shitty behavior it’s like a machine that automatically assumes “maybe this person is secretly good” like lol no dude people can become hated for doing bad things.
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@InlandCaGuy @hecubian_devil @TADStrange89 And Biden admin still forgave billions of dollars in student debt and these people don’t care. Years from now the “cancel it” Bernie left people who don’t credit Biden for his meaningful tangible efforts there will complain that “blacks got their loans forgiven but I didn’t”
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@InlandCaGuy @hecubian_devil @TADStrange89 In reality “cancel it” was probably one of the worst flagship progressive policies because (as many predicted) a right wing court was always going to declare it illegal and it never made sense to not instead center the policy around bringing college costs down.
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@hecubian_devil @TADStrange89 You know better than this Cassie. You know this ridiculous cope.
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@TADStrange89 If there had been a full-throated effort by the party to build consensus around this, if they’d organized and propagandized competently and made it a big issue and still lost, I’d cut them some slack. But they didn’t! It was anemic
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@ImNotOwned I guess a thing to think about is Harris had much higher likability polling than Trump in 2024 (which I was clinging to hoping would compensate for Trump’s apparently polling lead going into Election Day)
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I would still bet on him winning (low confidence but I would rather be him), but the first number here is the scariest of all. Character is a nice to have, not determinative
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
NYT/Portland Press Herald/Siena poll | 6/19-6/26 LV US Senate Maine 2026 Is too extreme? 🟦Graham Platner 47% 🟥Susan Collins 34% (incumbent) —— Has good character 🟥Susan Collins 66% (incumbent) 🟦Graham Platner 44% —— Has the right kind of moral values 🟥Susan Collins 61% (incumbent) 🟦Graham Platner 45%
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@ATwinEarth @frigglehorn @CentristMadness She should have lost in 2020 and polling looked like she was until the very end when undecideds all broke for her. It seems fake to say it’s entirely because of “weak opposition”, voters know that these things are a binary,
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@frigglehorn @CentristMadness So how would you decide if a politician is beatable? “Forget it guys, it’s Collins. Her polling is awful, but it’s like punching a sandbag. No use finding a good candidate!”
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Hey why did this account stop covering train derailments
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
BREAKING: An investigation is underway after 23 train cars derailed in Arizona. A BNSF train carrying cars, trucks and vans came off the tracks north of Phoenix in Coconino County late last night.
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@sam_d_1995 The right’s big complaint for years was “you libs etc bring politics into everything” and there were times I could see validity to that but now Trump has made his voters by far the biggest offenders of that tendency, like 1990s Susan Sarandon Tim Robbins times 1000 it sucks.
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it should probably be a bigger story that there was a normal bipartisan America 250 organization but then Trump decided to launch his own competing right wing grift version and ruined everything
Mack's Cats@maxkatz515
This sounds amazing and I would've wanted to go to DC for this. Alas, people wanted the child rapist in bed with the KGB instead.
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@xbhaskarx @CentristMadness That’s kind of a sick person! Fully gives the game away that he despises libs for non political aesthetic projected psycho sexual reasons! No wonder his brain exploded!!!
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@boggsbroads65 @HOLLYWOODCAUST @ImNotOwned Also you are doing that dumb Twitter guy thing of thinking the rando you are talking to represents/is responsible for an entire political party. Although sadder in this case because I am more of a supporter and more knowledgeable about the candidates you like but don’t realize it
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@boggsbroads65 @HOLLYWOODCAUST @ImNotOwned Wait you are defending this obviously crazy person and you want to be associated with it because they are vaguely “anti-Israel”? Also the people who won those primaries are closer to Scott Weiner on the issue than freaks like you are. I support the people who won.
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“Fuck you Scott” “we fucking hate you”
Yeah just normal healthy people voicing their disagreements
onion person@CantEverDie
@ImNotOwned he’s a politician. he wants represent people, he should be able to face their legitimate problems they have with him
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@CentristMadness There is intentional dark comedy in how patient his date is but clearly uncomfortable both there and when he takes her to the funeral ground below to show her the rotting corpse of his dead wife.
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