@NateBlanchett I've been writing in Bob Dole for every local, state, and federal election since 2006. My conscience is clear.
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DudeManGuy
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I voted for McCain, Romney, Clinton, Trump, and Harris. My conscience is clear.
Elizabeth@alluringmedia
I voted for Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Harris. My conscience is clear.
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@dprzygoda She earned 2 1/2 million fewer votes than trump did and that's entirely on her.
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Let’s be clear: Platner has not earned ONE VOTE yet.
And to blunt the inevitable anti-Kamala tweets: she DID earn our votes. During the 2020 election and during the 2024 primary before the general.
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@MarkBerry915 @hutchinson If you as a politician ignore the concerns of your base and then lose the election the blame lies with you not the voters.
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@DatboiGoofin @hutchinson Those voters are ok with a Trump presidency then. Trump is their president by their own actions.
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What else would it mean? If there really was an autopsy showing that folks who sat 2024 out because of Gaza were the reason Kamala lost, they would necessarily have been responsible for Trump winning.
That’s what that would mean and there’s no getting around that.
tamarackhack91@tamarackhack91
@hutchinson You’re so unsophisticated it’s hilarious. Your argument is “if you think Gaza was the reason Trump won you are “giving him credit” when in reality the left is entirely laying the blame at Harris feet for caving to the donors on the issue as they have been since 24
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@TheAgentNDN Because anyone that wades even slightly into politics gets their feed blasted with the most annoying liberals possible
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Actually, this might be good. Watching the party fall in behind Platner is pissing the KHIVE off lmao.
Karim is reading A Farewell to Arms@shift_in2_turbo
Cry more, please.
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@Mike_from_PA - Moderated his views
- Speaks out against the party going to far in his opinion
- Condems Hasan Piker
- Has proceeded to come out strongly for tougher immigration enforcement
Yet his polling has fuckin cratered.
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@Mike_from_PA I actually want to hear a good faith response as to why any centrist thinks that Fetterman isn't an example that following the dem gameplan of moderating and pushing down progressive/leftist elements of the party.
He checks all the boxes for what we're told is necessary to win
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@hutchinson Aside from there being any unforeseeable wild shit happening yeah that's how politics works.
There would be criticisms of his faults and what errors he made in his campaign but why would anyone yell at the voters unless it's the people who say blue no matter who and then don't?
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I’m maximally blue no matter who so this doesn’t apply to me, but let’s say a bunch of Maine dem voters decide they’re not comfortable voting for Platner. Platner loses and dems miss a senate majority by one seat.
Are you guys going to blame Platner in that spot? 😃
Mike Cohen@mcohen2
@hutchinson Blaming voters is loser shit. Candidates are responsible for GETTING votes.
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@hutchinson when they made these decisions and then blame the voters. Voters spoke their piece dems said they didn't care and then DEMS lost the election.
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@hutchinson If the base begs the candidate and party to stop the genocide, proceeds to not take their demands and warnings seriously and miscalculates so hard it loses them election that is a failure that is the fault of the party/candidate.
You can't treat them like they didn't have agency
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We're literally in a war with Iran at the behest of Israel lmao.
greg.@mistergeezy
Palestine doesn't help with the rising cost of groceries, electricity, and gas.
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Dudes get so mad when they actually have to parent their children for a day
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol
Just so we are ALL CLEAR on what happened today... Educators and school administrators single-handedly CANCELLED SCHOOL for 700,000 North Carolina students... ...INCLUDING MY SON!!! To wave signs around in the street instead. The signs vary from: a) F**K ICE!!! b) Defeat Trump's Agenda c) Trump is a N*ZI d) ICE OUT!!! e) Protect trans kids f) Refuse fascism g) Stop bombing schools DO NOT TELL ME THIS WAS ABOUT KIDS. IT NEVER WAS. This was ADULTS using 700,000 children, INCLUDING MINE, as political leverage against a president they don't like. That is despicable. You know better... DO BETTER.
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@harrisonjaime The only way to do anything to stop black districts from getting wiped out is by having the power to stop it and refusing to make changes just ensures that power will never be gained leading to guaranteed disenfranchisement.
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@harrisonjaime How many dems in their 70's+ have died in the last 4 years Jaime?
Having 70 and 80 year olds as the face of the party in influential positions and dying in office is part of the reason the dems are losing.
If black districts get wiped out making changes is even more important.
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In all due respect, if Black districts get wiped out across the south, you don’t have to worry about the age of committee chairs… because there won’t be any committee Chairs.
Wrong moment. Wrong fight. Wrong priorities.
Amanda Litman@amandalitman
If Democratic House members allow this to happen, the likely effect will be a majority that will not do what they’ve been elected to do — this is a generation of leaders who (by and large) are not willing to do things differently.
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@BrandonLBradfor Who is responsible for democratic party losses outside of the democratic party?
Are you ignoring that conservative democrats are part of the democratic party?
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@DatboiGoofin When you make up what you want to see and respond to you'll always be confused
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I think the idea that Dems have had SCOTUS is.....well just untrue.
Ignoring that conservative Dems exist will make history easy to frame, and a future difficult to build.
Why is the Right never responsible for their actions?
agent ndn@TheAgentNDN
Dems literally controlled all three branches of government under Biden and did so little with it that they lost to the president with the lowest approval rating in modern history. There's literally nobody else to blame for Democrat losses except the Democratic Party itself.
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@J_fassler "It's not likely to get you the support you're going to need" - Guy who refuses to support your candidate
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Oh, and if you crowd my mentions with "hahahaha" and "cope and seethe," just know that there is such a thing as being a sore winner - and it's not likely to get you the support you're going to need.
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I knew this would happen but it’s disappointing nonetheless. I won’t be writing a single postcard for her opponent. Maine, you’re on your own.
Patrick Svitek@PatrickSvitek
Just in: Janet Mills suspends #MESEN campaign “While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else – the fight – to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources.”
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@magi_jay I have it on good authority what is supposed to happen is we tell you you're being a crybaby who doesn't want to win and if the election doesn't go the way we like we come back and blame you for a year and a half.
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I'm a data point. A voter. I feel disrespected as a woman, today. I feel as if my reasonable concerns have been not only ignored, but sneered at. Gaslit. If I feel this way, others will too. If you want to win, you treat people's feelings as having merit. Then you try to persuade
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@theoluminati My brain no good
I think I was trying to say "but would you meet melancholy with some from twitter" and I jumble fucked it into whatever that was.
Might be time to sleep tbh
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@DatboiGoofin that’s actually the meaning I took out of it but I still don’t know what you’re implying by that 😭
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@theoluminati I meant "With" instead of "in" as if up were a person but i was shitposting fast and loose and now it's all goofed up
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