@dhaaruni
Man, sometimes I worry that I'm kind of a mediocre staffer, but I would never whine like this about being asked to do my job. Not to a close friend at the bar, and certainly not to press. Like... what the fuck?
@socialistdogmom
It's for swing voters. It's to get people who are center right but uncomfortable voting for a Democrat to hold their nose and do it anyway.
@whstancil
Progressives fought for a generation to get full employment prioritized over inflation control, and these supposed leftists immediately try to undermine that once we succeed! It's maddening!
@BearCurd
I'm reminded of the woman who went viral on here complaining about the price of bell peppers that she was getting individually delivered from Whole Foods, and who was then viscerally offended when people asked her if she had a Walmart in her town
@lanaramadan_
Trying to convince someone of a political opinion they do not currently hold is a wild strategy for a date. Like, pretty much regardless of the specific issue.
@chrislhayes
Somehow years later I still can’t quite believe the GOP nominated this man as the standard bearer for their party, let alone that they seem poised to do it all over again
@queerBengali
It's obvious that Kamala Harris is the better choice for actual Palestinians on the ground in Gaza, but many of the activists believe in Palestine as a cause, seperate from the welfare of actual existing Palestinian people. It's not good! SMH
@revhowardarson
The Mueller Report basically confirmed the worst version of it! Like, if you had told someone what was in the final report I. 2016 or 2017 they’d have called you a fabulist and a partisan hack!
@MattZeitlin
I mean, if both parties have been burned by the electoral college then maybe we can finally get rid of it! Almost happened in 2004, a few more votes for Kerry in Ohio...
@drvolts
not knowing where the parties stand on choice is particularly wild to me, considering for most of my life that's been THE dividing line between them
@un_a_valeable
I drives me crazy that the Mueller report essentially validated the most extreme Russia-Trump conspiracies short of him being a literal manchurian candidate, and yet the media mostly accepted the tacet "hoax" framing anyway
@_night_brain__
Becoming increasingly convinced by the posts on here that a C tier American politician would be a course of history changing electoral juggernaut in UK politics
@PunishedLink
This is why I recommend people who want to get into paradox games start with Stellaris. Since it’s a fictional setting it is free just to be a game and worry about things like “balance” whereas their other games are also trying to be historical simulations
@ArmandDoma
To be fair, this sounds like someone who should not been offered bail to begin with. What was the judge thinking is as important a question as what the bail fund was thinking
@whstancil
the railworkers got their sickleave! The union leadership was literally, like, "thanks, Biden for playing the long game" this one drives me particularly crazy!
@ArmandDoma
They also treat it as some out-of-bounds Gotcha question to ask what would happen to rapists and murderers, but this is literally the 1st question any normal person would have about their ideology!
@jbarro
It’s pretty simple: very progressive but also very white, and so progressives aren’t anchored by knowing actual black people or other minorities so it’s all thought experiments
@Chris_Said
When you say “police pullback” what you’re saying is that we’ve essentially been suffering under a nationwide police strike for the past two years, right?
@dieworkwear
Dear
@dieworkwear
, I got some Marigold colored jeans from Gustin. I love them as an individual piece, but I'm not sure what to pair them with as an outfit. Any suggestions? As a straight white guy wearing colors other than blue and black feels a bit flamboyant and is new to me
@CharlotteAlter
What’s his explanation for why the “Cyber Ninjas” found more voters for Biden when they finished their audit of the 2020 election, not less? Or for why Fontes lost his 2020 election when he would surely have had to be in on any rigging? Just forgot to rig it for himself too?
@ilpomodoro2
@DrewSav
I seem to recall during the Obama Presidency that a significant number of voters retconned that the financial collapse had happened on his watch, even though, obviously, he was elected in part as a reaction to it happening under Bush's
@espiers
I know Yang isn't the most popular figure lately, but I always felt sympathy when he melted down during an interview, because Adams had said that the thing he couldn't live without was bubble baths and the apartment he claimed to live in didn't have a bathtub
@zachp_25
We have also seen that, many state GOP parties, rather than grappling with their new swing state status and forming a disiplined party to keep power, often just go off the deep end and give up on electability, see: Colorado, Arizona, etc
@Bonecondor
I'm kind of darkly fascinated at the companies deploying AI where it's not really needed and they don't understand it, because someone told them it could save some money. Results like this!
@ALNL
I think the important context most modern readers miss is that this was in the midst of WW2 and the Battle of Britain, and sugar Had been rationed for quite some time already. Kids so desperate for any sweets, that even Turkish Delights are worth selling the family for
@nikicaga
The best time to waterboard Chaya Raichik in Guantanamo is ten years ago, the second best time to waterboard Chaya Raichik in Guantanamo is now. 😌
@swolecialism
@nikicaga
The idea that Trump has the upper body strength, stamina, and coordination to hold a 5 year old and walk across the stage at the same time seems laughable to me.
@vanillaopinions
The number of people who didn't believe Republicans would end roe v wade, despite it being, like, their public raison d'etre for like 30 years continues to be jaw dropping to me
@isabelzawtun
Seriously though! I’m constantly jealous of the Bob’s Burgers urbanism.
Twice in the last year they’ve explicitly mentioned that they are only a four block walk away from the school
@janecoaston
I remember as an elementary school student feeling like I was getting away with something reading Redwall books, like the parents and teachers had no idea how violent it was, and just assumed from the cute animals meant it was for little kids
@opinonhaver
Trump spouts vague platitudes about clean air and water, but when he was he was actually in office his main policy was making it easier for corporations to expose America's children to neurotoxins.
@lionel_trolling
man, if he hadn't blown up our incipient detente with Iran the entire middle east would be different...
He emboldened Putin...
Ending our opening to Cuba doesn't seem to have huge ripple effects, but it was still bad on it's own terms!
@LittleMammith
Something that I think was a blessing of growing up in a red part of a red state is that I was never under some illusion that everybody secretly agreed with me
@drvolts
Crime seems hard because it’s often a proxy for racial shit. But I feel like there should be someway to break through on the economic messaging.
@_sn_n
“In Romney’s America it’s the cars that get the elevator and the workers just get the shaft!” Is also peak 2012 DNC political messaging from Gov Granholm
@EnergizePhoenix
@vanillaopinions
If you take one thing away from this map it should probably be that that is probably a politically unsustainable policy
@oneunderscore__
@VaughnHillyard
Question: have any of these people been arrested or detained? I don’t know the precise legal definition of voter intimidation, but hanging around a voter site in full tactical gear seems like it should count
@whstancil
I learned recently (Thanks
@QanonAnonymous
!) there's a conspiracy bouncing around TikTok that Helen Keller wasn't real, and that's low stakes and fun to laugh at, but it does make you concerned about what the kids might be learning about more consequential topics on there
@NJPolitics7
@AlexaMystic56
Also the first national democrat to come out for Marriage equality! Not his reputation that he’s be out front on LGBT issues, but he has been!
@JoePostingg
My understanding is that when he was running for Governor, Carter kind of gave a nod and a wink to the segregationists so they all thought he was with them, then got up on inauguration day and was like "guess what, we're desegregating the schools motherfuckers" (paraphrasing)