waprog 🌲
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I’ll never understand why this sentiment is so common with JFK when Jimmy Carter is RIGHT THERE
Isidro de Extremadura@dss0952970
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The “came close to winning in an upset but ran again and lost by a much wider margin” caucus:
Rumper 💜@PurpleHeartMan
I’m still shocked how did Jack Ciattarelli lose by so much last year
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@waprog Dino Rossi would’ve won it in 2020
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@ATPMstealsO2 @Faj1791 @clusterbitch_ It’s “country over party” until they actually do it and you gerrymander them out of their district or throw them under the bus when they switch parties.
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@Faj1791 @clusterbitch_ "emotional purity tests" and it's "let's not run a guy who's only ever governed as a republican"
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georgia is a trump +2 state, 2026 is going to be a blue wave. why in the world would we run a moderate conservative there??
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Dem primary voters sincerely lack the appetite for a Tisza-style strategy even when given a perfectly good option in a reddish state
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@waprog Sadly I can’t look to see the caucus results due to Dave Leips sucking and liking to hide data like that hidden but from looking at previous iterations of the image it seems correct(?) but with the wrong colors
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Updated the 2008 Republican Pennsylvanian primary page
(Old vs New)
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Sea lions cannot be an invasive species within their own natural range
That indigenous members have convinced themselves they need to compromise because “dam removal is unrealistic”, even though the Oregon tribes just successfully got the Klamath river dams removed, is sad to see
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@ostonox Daniel Evans, who was one of the greatest governors of our state and is remembered for his conservation advocacy, was a strong supporter of the dams. The dams were built as a new deal project under FDR.
Tearing them down would make energy unaffordable and destroy the economy
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@ostonox inb4 “what about duh dams,” it’s not a realistic option. At all. Our energy is created by the dams and are agricultural sector relies on it. Any party that goes after the dams would be crushed, even the Democrats! It’s one of the reason Jay Inslee was so unpopular.
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This is a classic example of a member getting a nice clip for social media out of a hearing but not actually asking a question or eliciting any new information
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Grijalva to RFK Jr: "You apparently once cut the penis off a roadkill raccoon"
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@orcamando @AlHendiify Because electric bills would go up 400% and it would annihilate the agricultural sector of the local economy. Breaching the dams is unbelievably politically toxic in this state and she would lose in a landslide to a Republican. It’s not a real option.
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@AlHendiify why are politicians literally allergic to breaching those goddamn dams, they will blame the most obscure stuff and come up with insane evil policies instead of admitting that it’s literally just a few walls of useless concrete that’s killing all of the salmon
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The Klamath Dam removal led to faster than expected salmon recovery and instead of looking at that and seeing how it applies to her state's situation this braindead jackass said "lets kill sea lions"
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez@RepMGP
These big boys are driving up food costs for families by gorging on salmon. I’m doing something about it tinyurl.com/mr27j4nz
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It’s been funny (“funny”) watching this issue take on left-right valence when sea lions have been a problem for as long as I can remember. Folks really will get mad about something they know nothing about.
Andrew Solender@AndrewSolender
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is pressing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to reduce bureaucratic barriers around culling sea lions, which she says are wreaking havoc on the local salmon population:
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@Lucid_Stew @RepMGP >socal
Lol. You’re not from here. You have no idea about anything
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@RepMGP This is real. 😂 I totally though it was some Onion-type satire. Imagine being so soulless that you hate sea lions.
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These big boys are driving up food costs for families by gorging on salmon. I’m doing something about it
tinyurl.com/mr27j4nz
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@ellis_kap @PEWilliams_ Also, anyone that says that the dams should be breached has no clue what they’re talking about. That would massively increase energy costs and annihilate the agriculture sector in our economy. It’s not an option. The Biden administration took a look and backs off after realizing
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@ellis_kap @PEWilliams_ Yes. As someone actually from this part of the country, this is a major issue that needs to be dealt with. The sea lions are invasive. It’s a little similar to the Carp situation that’s going on in the Great Lakes.
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It's actually kind of virtuous for MGP to take the heat on this issue. It's the tribes who are demanding the sea lion hunts, but everyone is getting mad at her instead of them.
Paul E Williams@PEWilliams_
I know people love to rag on MGP, but it's literally the indigenous tribes of the pacific northwest who are asking for this. The tribes have been managing the sea lion population, and now have gone to their congresswoman for more funding. Is she supposed to tell them no?
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Why didn’t this tweet blow up like @RepMGP’s did?
Congressman Michael Baumgartner@RepBaumgartner
We have too damn many sea lions eating too many salmon at the mouth of the Columbia River. Taxpayers in Washington state are tired of spending so much money to protect salmon when a simple part of the solution is staring us in the face - shoot, trap and kill sea lions to reduce their number to the historically appropriate level. Stop letting environmental extremists and layers of bureaucracy get in the way of common sense. Kill👏More👏Sea lions👏 Save👏More👏Salmon👏
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