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@Makhnoviteplus @thrillsseeker @scarylawyerguy That was probably what killed him but the tank thing and shit like the Willie Horton ad meant that Dukakis was behind in the polls before the debates were even held. Dukakis’s performance in the debates just turned it from a slight loss for him into a landslide

@thrillsseeker @scarylawyerguy I thought Dukakis's presidential bid was ended by him admitting that he wouldn't seek the death penalty for a man if said man raped and murdered his wife?

Quayle told a kid to tack an "e" onto the end of the word "potato" and it basically ended his political career.

@KennethKirkPC @GoldieAuH20 @MaryPeltola Well it seems odd to act like gravel died in the 80s and could never give his opinion on modern events. He did, he let a bunch of college aged communists run his presidential election in 2020. Just look it up before saying anything else, it was crazy

@bloodfactory111 @GoldieAuH20 @MaryPeltola I'm looking at when he was a Senator (I think he lost in 1980?), not what happened later. I really didn't pay attention to him in later years.

I was the first person born in Alaska to represent Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives!

@KennethKirkPC @GoldieAuH20 @MaryPeltola He literally ran to the left of Bernie sanders in the 2020 presidential election. In a lot of ways (mostly economic), the current Democratic Party is to the right of where it was in the 60s-80s. Either way you’re wrong with that particular example

@bloodfactory111 @GoldieAuH20 @MaryPeltola He was pretty left-wing for the time. But anyone who was considered "liberal" back in those days would be seen as to the right side of the Democratic Party today. Compare Biden or Obama to Jimmy Carter; their party swung way left over time.

@KennethKirkPC @GoldieAuH20 @MaryPeltola In no universe was Mike gravel more right wing than Mary Peltola. You’re either lying or extremely ill informed.

@GoldieAuH20 @MaryPeltola Yes, but that's why I specified "the House". Although as crazy as he was, I suspect Mary P. is actually farther left.

this is an all time Trump clip

@weintendtowin @Gaismair JFK didn’t really do anything, I’d place him in C tier as well (but I’d put McKinley and Garfield in C or below in all fairness)

@Gaismair This person belongs in prison. Now way in hell should Jack Kennedy be the lowest ranked POTUS who was assassinated on a Presidenial Tier list.

the narrative on Hoover is so broken "classical liberals" think he's satan when he is the most popular bi-partisan figure of the interwar

There is No Plan, Period.

@kfgpnz @ferald_gord How exactly can someone represent a community without living in that community? How is a member of a community supposed to voice grievances to a rep who doesn’t live among them? At that point you might as well just let representatives live in a completely different state.

@ferald_gord Why is that crazy. Doesn't affect their ability to do the job.

it’s kinda crazy that members of congress don’t have to live in their districts. they just have to live in state. like it would be totally permissible for someone living in Miami to represent a district based in Pensacola.

Berlin police banning Soviet symbols to mark Liberation Day has created an entirely new genre of historical revisionist art

Why does everyone insist its fine to only read books made for children and watch tv shows made for children and never engage with anything else ever

@MoreanSneed @mat1_u Yeah I’m honestly surprised even that many people knew about him, from the outside looking in it looks like his appeal is entirely from hyper online losers

@bloodfactory111 @mat1_u There was no way in hell the broader electorate is familiar with one of the former MP’s of a minuscule party whose sole (in)famous figure is Farage. If he were in the news half as often as Starmer, Badenoch, or Farage, his approvals would be the same as Starmer’s, or even worse.

Bragging about -15% net favourability Incredible

@MoreanSneed @mat1_u I looked at it and you’re right, it’s because 59% of the public said they didn’t know who he was. Having a net -13 approval rating at that point is nothing to brag about.

@mat1_u Given the state of everyone else it is a sort of accomplishment, although it should be caveated by the fact that I doubt most of the British electorate has even heard of Rupert Lowe.

El Papa cuando le preguntan su postura sobre la migración: “Yo cambiaría la pregunta: qué hace el norte global para ayudar al sur global en su situación que les obliga a migrar”

The moral of 4chan's cultural victory over Tumblr culture is that calling someone a f****t and telling them to kys seems to be less hostile and alienating than typing a paragraph about why their statements are immoral

Looking at the titles and lyrics of the D4VD discography is like watching the Key & Peele bit where the rapper is being arrested over a song titled "I Killed Darnell Simmons"

@sp4nk_me_d4ddy @69420Communism1 @hellspatisserie Dude in 1941 the Germans were still mostly using panzer 3s, I don’t even think those could touch a modern tank

@69420Communism1 @hellspatisserie not a tank but 10,000 of them all at once along with long thousands of fighters and bombers in air there will be no command and control left

“Who would win, [HISTORICAL GREAT POWER] or [LITERALLY ANY MODERN DAY POWER]?” Modern day power. Literally zero exceptions unless the historical power is like late Cold War. Literally every single time

@762x54RAWR you’re smoking american mids meanwhile i’m puffing on chinese loud you can’t even comprehend

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. Republicans have fought for partisan gerrymanders across the United States of America. And these are the rules that they have set. And so if the Republican Party wanted to start this, they did this in North Carolina. They drew out three Democratic members of Congress in North Carolina. They did it in Texas. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over, doesn’t fight, and takes everything sitting down. And what they’re mad at right now is that we are here in a new day. And we have been asking the Democratic Party to stand up and fight, and now they did—and now the Republican Party doesn’t like the fact that they are fighting against someone who actually will stand up for the American people. So if Republicans decide that they would like to revisit a ban on partisan gerrymandering, I welcome them. We have the bill right here to end this all today. But they don’t want to, because they like pursuing and continuing to enact an unfair electoral landscape. And so we have an obligation to defend ourselves.

Alex Jones seems to be taking the news well

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.