@ChristianHeiens Nothing is really on a permanent basis if you want to look at it like that. We’ll all be dust soon enough.
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bummerlog
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"It's all bullshit and it's bad for ya" - George Carlin
Katılım Şubat 2010
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Even if the Right continues to lose politically, nature will do the job that conservatives could not.
There is no world where Progressivism wins on a permanent basis.
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@bummerlog @paulnovosad A normal candidate might have made any attempt whatsoever to distant themselves from the insanely unpopular incumbent administration they were part of
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Unfortunately, the worse that Republicans get, the less incentive there is for Democrats to clean up their own dysfunctional party
Adam Singer@AdamSinger
This is a clear a sign as any that whichever party can act more normal will win
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@bummerlog @paulnovosad in no universe is subbing out your candidate 4 months ahead of the election "normal" either.
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The lesson that every Dem needs to take from this--as well as the previous ~10 years of politics--is: Don't depend on the online Far-Left for political support. No matter how much you cater to them, if you say *one* thing that diverges from "The Party," they will sabotage you.
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Let me tell you how awesome Idaho is…conservatives, and by that I mean real conservatives, have such a hold on power that not a single Democrat in the Idaho house voted against this bill. A few abstained. Be like Idaho.
Coinvo@Coinvo
WARNING: 🇺🇸 As of July 1, child rapists in Idaho will face execution by a firing squad.
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@NickJFreitas No one calls pedos that except right wing people FYI
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Blue states: “Call them Minor Attracted Persons.”
Idaho: “We’re charging your estate for the bullet we use.”
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The political influencers ripping into Beshear over this are obsessed with Israel and mistakenly assume the median voter is as well. Most people do not care about Israel or Gaza. This is not a top 10 issue going into the primaries.
POLITICO@politico
Dem @GovAndyBeshear is declining to call Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide.” “That’s becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never do as a party,” he told our @DashaBurns on #TheConversation. Listen to the full interview: politi.co/4uVmEfE
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Congestion pricing makes life worse for people who paying $9 matters to.
It makes life easier for people like me who don’t care about $9 and can get around more quickly.
There’s no free lunch and in blue cities it’s almost always normal people that get screwed.
Governor Kathy Hochul@GovKathyHochul
Congestion pricing has been a huge success. Traffic is down. Business is up. The cameras are staying on.
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@feelsdesperate Fewer cars makes life better for most people in the city.
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@zachweinberg There are probably 3x as many moderate Dem senators as progressive ones and you all still complain.
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This is why moderate Dems feel homeless with the current Dem party leadership.
Elizabeth Warren, one of the faces of the Dem party, is actively just anti-business. Doesn't really want to help anyone, just angry that sometimes people make money building things for customers.
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
This is why we must hold the line against slopulism in housing policy. At first Warren's position was "investors can build as many apartment buildings as they want, they just can't build single-family homes to rent" Now she is sending menacing letters to institutional investors who build multi-family apartments and manufactured housing.
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The idea that we wouldn’t be at war with Iran if Kamala was president or even involved in something much worse is ridiculous.
She’s a totally vacant person and the reason that there was extraordinary establishment enthusiasm for her is because she is totally pliable and would have been at the whim of nat sec and the administrative state.
The whole point of Kamala is that you could wheel her around as a prop just like Joe Biden, but it would be a little less work and maybe people would find it a little less off putting.
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@wtfwhytho12333 @cafreiman The answer was this chart is including covid relief.
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@bummerlog @cafreiman He made the baby boomers all reach 65! The jerk!
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You can certainly argue that we shouldn’t increase defense spending, but its worth acknowledging that we spend far more on entitlement programs than defense:
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Health care? "You're on your own." Housing? "Nothing we can do." Grocery prices? "You're out of luck." $200 billion for another war? "No problem!" Americans—Democrats, Republicans, independents—are SICK AND TIRED of endless wars. We need to invest here at home.
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@bummerlog @D_perrino @awstar11 It wasn't R's, it was D's. They demanded other concessions on what ICE could and could not do. They held up the deal through fillibuster. After the narrative changed D's caved.
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@bummerlog @cafreiman I would guess that he just grabbed a chart he had on hand. Obviously the 2020-21 spike was temporary, but that wasn't really the point of the chart, which is that the government does in fact spend much more on subsidies to private consumption than on the military.
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@1MrFantasy @WalshFreedom It's a tough debate because what Israel is doing is objectively ethnic cleansing, that's impossible to deny. By staking the debate on genocide, specifically, we leave a lot of room for argument. But it is a valid argument.
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@WalshFreedom Joe, if it's not genocide, show me where the 2.5m Palestinians who lived in Gaza are?
If you can show me a mass of people like that, I'll take your side, but you can't cuz most are dead.
Genocide.
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This is a bad answer. It’s a non-answer, it’s an answer based on fear & caution pounded into his head by advisors & consultants. Fuck that. If you’re asked if Israel has committed “genocide,” say yes or no. Period. When I’m asked that question I emphatically say “No.” And most Democrats disagree with me, but they appreciate my honesty. These inauthentic non-answers ain’t gonna cut it anymore.
POLITICO@politico
Dem @GovAndyBeshear is declining to call Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide.” “That’s becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never do as a party,” he told our @DashaBurns on #TheConversation. Listen to the full interview: politi.co/4uVmEfE
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@petersavodnik True, no charisma or rizz to speak of, with a barely-holding-on combover.
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@3RenChengHu @cafreiman Meaning he was trying to give the impression this was a permanent thing by cutting off this big drop post-covid.
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@bummerlog @cafreiman 2021. Biden did another round the next year.
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@3RenChengHu @cafreiman Probably why they cut the chart off at 2020.
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@bummerlog @cafreiman It has to be COVID gibs, but I don't know why those get classified as major entitlements.
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@EmryRaleigh @RichardGrenell Just telling everyone you're not very bright.
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@RichardGrenell They also use "Rep." for Representative to suggest "Republican".
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NBC News isn’t saying she is a Democrat.
When there’s a scandal with a Republican, the party affiliation is always in the headline.
#themoreyouknow
NBC News@NBCNews
BREAKING: House panel finds Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick guilty of 25 ethics counts after she was charged with stealing millions in FEMA. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
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