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Did stuff in the Senate for four and a half years. Senategabe.33 on Signal. Yes, I am voting for Joe Biden.

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@senategabe

Gabe

26 days

By far the most shocking part of my Senate career was seeing how at the top levels of the Democratic Party, all the data driven strategy I kept hearing about was totally bs and composed of grifters who could confidently state whatever they want with pseudoscientific handwaves. 🧵

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@senategabe

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22 days

If you live in the orange lines of this map (2/3 of the population), you are considered in the border zone. Inside it, Border Patrol can set up checkpoints anywhere, stop anyone under “reasonable suspicion”, and other insane stuff most people think is illegal.

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Ronald Brownstein

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In other words, anyone who thinks Trump is just blustering when he pledges to round up millions of people, put them in camps & then deport them is deluding themselves. If he wins, you can bank that deportation at a scale unmatched in US history is coming.

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2 months

Big picture: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thought Trump was so insane post January 6th that he called senior officers into a room and told them to affirm that he personally must sign off if Trump wanted to launch nukes. Trump has called for him to be executed.

@GregTSargent

Greg Sargent

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Just amazing: One reason the Gerald Ford foundation declined to honor Liz Cheney was express fear of Trump retaliating against their tax status if he wins, per letter @dlippman obtained. That's the Trump/elite accommodation dynamic we discussed on the pod

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29 days

Not sure people have internalized how disturbing of a development this is.

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Aaron Rupar

29 days

Sunday show hosts keep asking Republicans if they'll accept the election results, and their answers indicate they won't unless Trump wins. It's just not a sustainable situation for democracy.

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7 days

I’m imagining how unbelievably outraged this account would have been if it existed in 2019 and Trump did the same exact thing. It’s one of the most insane unilateral concessions I’ve ever seen.

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Biden’s Wins

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BREAKING: President Biden will sign an Executive Order that will allow the U.S. Government to deny asylum and deport immigrants who cross the border illegally. Reminder, Republicans voted against the toughest border security legislation in decades.

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6 days

It is super unnerving how Fox repeatedly talks about a terror attack that hasn’t happened yet. They are priming everyone to rapidly blame a large attack on Joe Biden and immigrants.

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Aaron Rupar

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"They'll be a lot of dead Americans. And they'll have blood on their hands" -- Hannity can barely conceal that he's rooting for a terror attack

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1 month

I will say the Biden team would not have gotten away with being terrible on the Gaza war for so long without the Democrats in Congress just blindly marching in step. Biden was uniquely bad but the whole catastrophe was a complete failure by national Dems.

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Jayne Dough

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@senategabe And the timescale is going to drag on other Democrats, because they’ve also had several extra months to make utter fools of themselves justifying what Israel’s doing, while the Israeli cabinet constantly provides new evidence that yeah, they’re intentionally committing genocide.

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4 months

It is mortifyingly irresponsible how Dems has been with this. An insurrectionist is the Speaker of the House, Donald Trump is not in prison, and the Republican party is celebrating and encouraging violence nationwide. This isn't an election about anything other than that.

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3 months

The amount of lives Trump very obviously is responsible for ending with how he handled Covid is too horrible to contemplate.

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Aaron Rupar

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“We’re going to be pretty soon at only 5 people, and we could be at just 1 or 2 people over the next short period of time” — Trump on US coronavirus cases on February 26 (there are now more than 10,000 cases in the country)

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22 days

There is this desperation in his voice that is so unnerving. He wants to be close to absolute power so bad that he’s willing to throw away what’s left of his self worth to do it.

@atrupar

Aaron Rupar

22 days

"We're gonna have to do something dramatic" -- Marco Rubio on Meet the Press says he supports Trump's plan to round up migrants and send them to detention camps. Kristen Welker then plays tape of Rubio saying in 2016 that he doesn't support Trump's plan to round up migrants.

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19 days

What the hell is wrong with Dem leaders? This is complete insanity.

@JakeSherman

Jake Sherman

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NEWS -- @SpeakerJohnson told me that @SenSchumer will sign the letter inviting @netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress. JOHNSON said the address will be "as soon as we can schedule it." Johnson said Bibi told him personally that he is "interested in doing" the address.

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Gabe

7 days

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20 days

For the sake of argument, let us pretend Durbin is not full of it. Let's think for a moment here. Durbin can compel anyone in the country to show up and testify on national television. Is the decision REALLY "Well if Alito doesn't show up, what am I supposed to do???"

@brianbeutler

Brian Beutler

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. @SenatorDurbin told reporters today that Dems would not seek accountability for Sam Alito because “there’s no recourse other than impeachment.” That’s wrong—a dodge to justify his and his party’s abdication of oversight.

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7 days

It really is insane no Dem is calling for Trump to drop out over this. In a sea of shocking Dem messaging this year, this takes the cake. I don’t think I’ve seen things deteriorate this bad before.

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Gabe

4 months

I live in the midwest. I go to many diners around here and I have many conversations. To the surprise of many DC people, regular people actually care a lot about if their leader is a deranged nazi who wants to abolish the constitution and execute people.

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4 months

I sat in many silly poll briefings while I worked on the Hill. We had polling about health care and bipartisanship and blah blah. Absent from these poll briefings were such questions as "Is being a nazi bad" "Do you prefer leaders who don't like executing military generals"

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4 months

It is batshit how Dems are sleepwalking into a nightmare. There is a very good chance our democracy ceases to exist in less than a year. And Dems think this election is about how hypocritical the GOP was about a border bill? Get a grip.

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Gabe

3 months

For all the talk about how Mike Johnson has held up Ukraine Aid, and he deserves all of it, I think people are scared of acknowledging just how much influence Marjorie Taylor Greene has on US policy.

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Aaron Rupar

3 months

Kevin McCarthy praises Marjorie Taylor Greene as a policy wonk on CBS's Face the Nation

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22 days

No new laws need to be passed to abuse this even more than it is. Trump already did so while in office. Does anyone remember when he sent DHS into Portland and they didn’t identify themselves and kidnapped people and stuffed them into unmarked vans? Yeah that happened.

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10 days

It’s just so upsetting that for whatever reason, Biden does not understand maybe Netanyahu hates his guts and will use every tool at his disposal to make sure he is embarrassed and Trump waltzes into the Oval Office.

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Alex Marquardt

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Moments after Biden says an Israeli plan could lead to a permanent ceasefire, Netanyahu's office said “the war will not end until all of [Israel's] goals are achieved, including the return of all our hostages and the elimination of Hamas' military and governmental capabilities."

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11 days

Remember when all those Senate Republicans refused to convict Trump because they were worried about their families and their personal safety? These jurors don’t have Capitol Police. They have nothing. Unlike so many powerful people, they took an oath and actually honored it.

@brianbeutler

Brian Beutler

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All counts. Shame on everyone who put off accountability in other cases, tried to derail this one, and will continue to stand in the way or cower in fear.

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20 days

Forget all the spin and whatever silly cope Schumer is doing for this border bill. The problem with the bill is it's atrocious. I’m sorry. I’m not going to pretend “shutting down the border” is a serious policy. These are solutions five year olds make up to solve problems. 🧵

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4 months

I know of course the real reason they don't want to talk about this...it's terrifying! Also the implications are vast. How am I supposed to negotiate with people like Mike Johnson, a man with an insurrection flag outside his office door, if I say he's fascist? You don't.

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25 days

It’s going to be really fun finding out in 20 years what sort of insane surveillance programs the FBI setup to monitor Gaza protestors at the request of Nancy Pelosi.

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4 months

If the Dems cannot get out of their rut and start realizing that the country is at risk of catastrophic collapse, then we are completely screwed. So that perfect communications strategy the Dems are looking for? Here it is: tell people what you really think.

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2 months

Oh great, so now can we all demand Biden change course because of his awful poll numbers now? Or is it still the Dem position that polls aren’t real life too? Or those ceasefire calls every office has been getting at 99-1 ratios. And all your mail? That’s fake too right?

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Adam Jentleson

2 months

this tracks with all the other data we've been seeing. twitter is not real life.

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Gabe

4 months

By July, Biden is going to have to decide what the hell is going to do about that small little border situation where Governor Abbott and 25 Republican governors are openly defying the federal government. Just because he is ignoring it now doesn't mean its not a massive crisis.

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19 days

I still don’t understand why Mike Johnson was bailed out with no strings attached by Democrats as a thank you for procrastinating on military aid for seven months. Did anyone even ask him to commit to the peaceful transfer of power this year?

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Gabe

23 days

What I will say is so genuinely weird about this is all the progressive are silent. Merkley has called for Alito to resign a year ago but no further followup today. My former boss made some instagram comment about how this sucks. I don’t get it at all. Super weak reactions.

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Murshed Zaheed

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Good lord. What pathetic reaction from Senate Ds to Alito #SCOTUS blockbuster about paling around (or in this case sleeping) w/ insurrectionists. AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS? WHERE ARE THE CALLS FOR RESIGNATION & IMPEACHMENT FOR ALTIO & THOMAS FROM DEMS? YES, I AM SHOUTING TODAY.

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4 months

They didn't poll it because we all know the answer but also there is this cultish believe that "real people" don't care about that stuff. For some reason they only care about Dems talking about priorities like health care. This is such bs.

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1 month

When are Democrats going to consider that maybe just maybe, they are part of what is allowing fascism to be normalized? And it’s not just Joe Manchin or Sinema, but a huge swath of the top staffers and members in the party?

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Gabe

1 month

No offense but if you didn’t think this, you haven’t thought much about his career. This is the guy who tried to smooth talk every city in the country to let Uber break all their labor laws so they could steal wages from working people and destroy taxi unions.

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4 months

The phrase "Sleepwalking into a Nightmare" keeps popping into my head. It's a much more extreme feeling than what I felt when I watched Dems take SBF's money without thinking about how stupid that was. It's 2024, this is it. I hope to god the Dems wake up. /End

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Gabe

4 months

Maybe that seems like a fantasy to some folks. Maybe it is. But its within their power, they are just not doing it because they are scared. I worked with many of the people involved here, I'm not just saying that. We are in a dark place. Tell people the truth and confront it.

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Gabe

10 days

Unbelievable.

@murshedz

Murshed Zaheed

10 days

Nice press release - yet what is it missing? A simple assertion that Donald Trump is a convicted fellow or that Trump is a criminal. A word salad from Biden campaign that misses the obvious point.

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22 days

This is all going to happen a lot faster than people might think if he wins. The President has a ton of power. And the big lesson Trump learned in his first term is that he can make up whatever bs he wants to use it and no one stops him.

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2 months

The Fetterman story gets even crazier, did anyone read the NY Post piece where they took him to a three Michelin star restaurant? Holy crap. I’m done with the Sinema comparisons, she’s a super smart operator relative to him. This is just Rupert Murdoch humiliating him.

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24 days

@chrislhayes No but Chris don't you see, one of his neighbors had a lawn sign that had a curse word on it about Trump. What else was he supposed to do but endorse overthrowing the government? Any originalist reading of the constitution would clearly indicate this.

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3 months

Now that I think about it this post is enraging. You and your party literally control the fucking United States Senate. And the best you can do is tell everyone else to clean up the mess you refuse to confront?

@brianschatz

Brian Schatz

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Promising a bloodbath is disqualifying. I don’t care what you think about other issues. This guy is promising a bloodbath. He needs to lose. Stand up for America. Please.

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23 days

Just because we don't think we see it much, I'll give my take on why so many senators are being silent on important issues from their perspective. This is less a corruption story and more a personal relationships, culture, and power story. Aka: how a Senator might see it. 🧵

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Gabe

3 months

But they didn’t vote for Biden in the midterms. They voted for candidates who ran away from all his weaknesses.

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G Elliott Morris

@gelliottmorris

3 months

Lots of people out there don’t like Biden but still say they’ll vote for him. This group decided the 2022 midterms and will be decisive in Nov

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22 days

So rather than think about how tiring it’s going to be for him to do all the insane stuff he says he will, worth thinking about how fast he’s going to exhaust all of us as we try to fight the hundreds of raging infernos he will light at once that impact every part of our lives.

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2 months

As promised: will now tell a sitting member of the U.S. Congress why I called him a phony. And while there is much to discuss, I will focus on the most clear cut: his corrupt stock trading and how he is using clever tricks to make it look like he is against it but is not.

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Ro Khanna

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@senategabe @nberlat Respect your critique. I supported Klobuchar's antitrust bill, address antitrust in my book progressive capitalism, and have put forth some of the strongest policies for holding tech accountable in my book progressive capitalism. Would love your take!

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18 days

Senate Democrats: [Uses the power of the Senate to bring up a cruel border bill that winks at great replacement theory favored by fascists] Senate Democrats: “Why isn’t everyone else bending over backwards to tell everyone how corrupt and dangerous fascists are???”

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Gabe

26 days

Ignoring every indicator while simultaneously touting a data driven campaign. To be honest, I couldn’t think of a better end to our democratic way of life than this. Poetic in a way.

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Ken Klippenstein

@kenklippenstein

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“President Biden doesn't believe his bad poll numbers, and neither do many of his closest advisers”

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2 months

The problem with Biden's approach has always been you can't be one quarter into great-replacement theory. Because if you are a nazi, why get the lesser thing when you can get the vermin rhetoric and the full on fascist policies too?

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@ettingermentum

2 months

Look in fairness maybe they thought that the strategy of capitulating to the right on the issue was due to work after failing every single other time it was tried.

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It’s been what, half a week since the verdict? And we’ve pivoted to Gaza and immigration? Seriously what the fuck is wrong with these people.

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20 days

Oh that sounds extreme to you? What do you think right wing media talks about all day? The owner of this site even endorsed that theory! Maybe instead of attempting to compromise with literal fascists on immigration, make extremely clear that you won’t be fascist?

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3 months

I sometimes think back to how on January 6th it was immediately clear there were the votes to impeach Trump and Pelosi held everyone off and asked Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment instead. Seriously what the hell was that nonsense.

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Let’s pretend that magically it passed. What then? Does Schumer think this will neutralize fascists like Mike Johnson in how they talk about immigration? No! It was literally never true that Jews are funding immigrants to come across the border to commit a white genocide!

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1 month

No offense but if you didn’t think this, you haven’t thought much about his career. This is the guy who tried to smooth talk every city in the country to let Uber break all their labor laws so they could steal wages from working people and destroy taxi unions.

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Aaron Fritschner

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There are people I expect to whitewash the bad deeds of Trump’s worst enablers, launder the reputation of awful people, or treat attempts to kill American democracy like an exciting spectator sport. I did not expect it from David Plouffe

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19 days

There is no precedent for this. I went through the entire list of leaders that the U.S. has ever invited to speak to Congress. Netanyahu has spoken before of course and even that was inappropriate. But now? My lord.

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Savannah Behrmann

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Sen. Sanders says inviting Netanyahu to speak to Congress is “not a good idea.” Sanders says Netanyahu’s military action in Gaza “has created one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history, where hundreds of 1000s of people now face starvation.”

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20 days

This is actually a super interesting comparison I hadn't even thought about. I remember that period well. It seemed like DeJoy was doing Trump's bidding to steal the election and Dem pushback was fierce. Still remember writing some tweets and my boss dialed them UP.

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Noah Berlatsky

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congress had hearings on Louis DeJoy, where they embarrassed him publicly and demanded he do his job better. they can't remove him either. the difference is that Alito is considered too powerful to challenge? I guess?

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Let’s also be clear: Durbin’s stupid bill he keeps pushing doesn’t even have a code of ethics in it. He could create one today if he wanted to. He could hold hearings today if he wanted to. But he keeps tweeting bs like this instead so everyone takes their eyes off the ball.

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Senator Dick Durbin

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Let’s be clear: Chief Justice Roberts could establish an enforceable code of conduct today… if he wanted to. But, he’s refused. So long as he does, we will continue our investigation and pursue an enforceable code of conduct.

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20 days

You could bring in some great lawyers explaining why Supreme Court Justices aren't considered above the law. You could bring in some charismatic smart person to lay out all the corruption. You could call for him to resign. I mean, how dense does Durbin think we all are?

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2 months

As promised @RoKhanna , this is my second thread calling you out. This time for your relationship with Elon Musk despite Elon systematically turning Twitter into a safe haven for nazis. I thought a good place to start is a tweet from 2 days ago. Weird right? What does it mean?

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Ro Khanna

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@senategabe @nberlat Respect your critique. I supported Klobuchar's antitrust bill, address antitrust in my book progressive capitalism, and have put forth some of the strongest policies for holding tech accountable in my book progressive capitalism. Would love your take!

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I guess this just totally permitted? I don’t understand how this passes the Brandenberg Test. Her profile pic for a long time was her proudly showing that when she tweets, bomb threats follow?

@AriDrennen

Ari Drennen

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UPDATE: Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik said on March 28 that "it's about to get worse for Planet Fitness" and since then, at least 43 locations of the fitness chain have reported bomb threats - 26 new public incidents since just last Friday.

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Democrats need to stop dismissing this. This isn’t the horse race polling I complain about. It’s a very massive and clear signal his coalition is crumbling.

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@ForecasterEnten

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Huge divide among Biden 2020 voters in 2024: Israel/Gaza. Biden gets 87% in the pres. race from those who approve of him on Israel/Gaza. Gets just 50% from those who disapprove of him on it. By 2:1 margin, those who have left the Biden camp say U.S. gives Israel too much support

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Legit curious how many members of the team buy their spin and how many know the situation is nuts but are unwilling to say anything.

@EricMGarcia

Eric Michael Garcia

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Bidenworld's entire blase response to his low poll numbers is not only alarming. It also directly contradicts the whole rationale for his 2020 candidacy: In 2020, Biden said polls showed only he could beat Trump. Now, he's saying don't sweat polls.

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Something a smart staffer pointed out to me when I was mystified leadership kept pushing back on creating basic digital analytic best practices for Senate offices is something like “They don’t want this because it would reveal how many errors they are making.” Ding ding ding!

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Just one time, seriously one time, I would love for Democrats to stop for a second, think about how some massive political event makes them feel, and then write that down and message it without fear.

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Brandon Friedman

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This is political malpractice. By not talking about it, you are a) not telling voters that a jury convicted Trump on 34 felony counts and you are b) specifically telling voters it's not a big deal.

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That’s the problem. There is tons of data in Dem circles and there is zero culture of anyone questioning it. That example was just social media, this extends to polling. What that ends up meaning is that information is entirely weaponized by salespeople with their own agendas.

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"Oh what is that going to do?" Prove that you aren't a feckless senator who is unconcerned about the shocking patterns of corruption and comfort given to insurrectionists at the highest levels of our government? That's a start.

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It is literally amazing to see everyone who follows the Senate but is not paid to be a hack all yelling the same exact thing about holding hearings. And then Durbin is still like “hmm gee I don’t know, you all really think this is important?”

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The answer is yes but of course they will never tell anyone it is related. I’ve seen it happen multiple times actually.

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The justifications strain all plausible believability. "He can't talk about the verdict because it's not his style." And abortion is?? From where I sit: the campaign has zero message at all and is just a bunch of comms staffers fighting with each other on priorities.

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1 month

While this is true, the impact of the war on the left on November 7th was not nearly equivalent to what it was even a month later. Also most critically: Joe Biden was not on the ballot. I really think the Biden part makes a huge huge difference tbh.

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Noah Berlatsky

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For all the Dem leaders constantly complaining about both sides media, Schumer literally is both siding fascism by himself. This is the statement I always think about when I think Schumer and immigration:

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Igor Bobic

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Schumer on Trump’s “poisoning the blood” comments: “What Donald Trump said and did was despicable, but we do have a problem at the border and Democrats know we have to solve that problem, but in keeping with our principles.”

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There is a blindness with Dems and some of the top people in our camp and just how awful they are. It’s totally normalized to be successful on the Hill and then go over to the tech companies and help them lobby the political system so they can keep plundering our society.

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8 days

Awhile ago Garrett Epps wrote a piece where he described the current state of affairs like this: "Our Supreme Court is now something akin to the Guardian Council that ensures religious conformity within the 'democratic' government of the Islamic Republic of Iran."

@newrepublic

The New Republic

8 days

Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are intent on using maximal power to fundamentally reorder society.

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Gabe

22 days

Biden’s policy on Gaza is indefensible. If he wants to fully embrace the fascists running the Israeli government then that’s a shocking tragedy but that’s his dumb choice. If he wants to not do than awesome. His posture right now is paralysis. Literally no one likes it.

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@senategabe

Gabe

7 days

“What if we took the one topic the media seems to agree with us about and instead talked about two topics they have been constantly not agreeing with us about and see how that works out for us.”

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Gabe

20 days

Never worked for Durbin but I get the gist of how Senate Dems think about this stuff, its ridiculous. They somehow consider it beneath them to use the powers of the Senate to influence media. And yet Durbin gives a speech on the Senate floor to an empty chamber almost daily.

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@senategabe

Gabe

20 days

If Trump wins, it won't be a slow burn. The pieces to completely destroy what people think of as the United States are sitting around, waiting to be assembled. And this time, Trump and his team know exactly how to put the puzzle together.

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Gabe

2 months

As far as I can see, John Fetterman’s office policy is if anyone other than John Fetterman says something bad about Biden, they are traitors who are helping Trump and should put on MAGA hats. But if John Fetterman criticizes Biden, then of course that’s totally fine.

@AJentleson

Adam Jentleson

2 months

if you can't be in a coalition with people you disagree with on some issues, you can't build a coalition big and broad enough to defeat trump and repel the rise of anti-democratic forces in the US.

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@senategabe

Gabe

23 days

My personal thoughts on this are its 2024: this is it. There isn't going to be a next time depending on how this goes. So despite the pressures of office, I think more Senators need to accept that their leaders are failing to do anything about gigantic, time pressing problems.

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@senategabe

Gabe

2 months

This just came to me the other day but instead of all this weird maneuvering, maybe Sotomayor and others can just stand up for the rule of law and acknowledge the court is totally rigged to remake society into a theocratic conservative fever dream? Because that would be huge.

@SER1897

Stephen Robinson

2 months

Barro assumes that replacing Sotomayor would be a "slam dunk," but he doesn't seem to acknowledge that Dems are guaranteed to lose Manchin. And Sinema is a wild card.

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Gabe

10 days

Been super negative towards the Dems today but folks, this is so comically not complicated. Talk about how the Trump just got convicted by a jury of his peers, how the rule of law must be upheld and take concrete steps to show you care. And don’t pivot to talking about…Gaza??

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@senategabe

Gabe

26 days

I will never forget the first social media strategy presentation I ever sat in on. Will not name names but the person was in charge of a huge number of strategic decisions for the party. I still have the presentation.

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@senategabe

Gabe

27 days

It’s really frustrating the jarring contrast with Dems rhetoric and their actions. They clearly understand how massive the threat is from fascism but refuse to use the tools they have to do anything about it.

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@senategabe

Gabe

20 days

The Senate has power. Use it. It's not complicated.

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@senategabe

Gabe

20 days

Besides, at a certain point, the law stops mattering. Stuffing people into unmarked vans goes way past this. Trump proudly let it happen. Multiple judges ruled Trump's DHS head was illegally in the big chair. Didn't matter. Notice the bottom of his wiki portrait:

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Gabe

26 days

“Never post on Facebook more than every 3 hours” This contradicted a lot of info and also what Facebook has told us directly. So I brought this up. The person got annoyed and told me while they weren’t a conspiracy theorist, Facebook was lying with their numbers.

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@senategabe

Gabe

19 days

I’ve been in this headspace since about December. I wouldn’t call myself more optimistic than David because I’m not but I just have grown to accept there is a lot of uncertainty because all of (gestures frantically) this has never happened before.

@drvolts

David Roberts

20 days

Really seems like America is headed to a dark, dark place.

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@senategabe

Gabe

20 days

2) "Reasonable suspicion" is insane with border control. The Intercept did a good piece on this but here are things that are "reasonably suspicious". Who thinks the next time they get in a car they won't meet any of these? Has anyone NOT slowed down after seeing a cop?

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Gabe

3 months

Giving credit where it’s due: none of this anti-trust stuff happens without Elizabeth Warren. Easily one of the Senate’s best and most important members.

@SenWarren

Elizabeth Warren

3 months

It's time to break up @Apple 's monopoly. From limiting digital wallets to raising iPhone prices, Apple has used its power to stop innovation, crush competition & harm consumers. This a new era of antitrust enforcement. @TheJusticeDept Kanter is holding Big Tech accountable.

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@senategabe

Gabe

2 months

@ElanteVig113 @BebopOtt Well congratulations then, you've just prevented over half of US citizens from voting! Most Americans do not have a passport.

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@senategabe

Gabe

26 days

This is the single biggest indicator that Biden’s theory he is the reason Dems didn’t get killed in the midterms is total bs. And while I have no idea who will win, I feel confident saying Biden is uniquely putting Dems in a far more dangerous position than needed.

@BFriedmanDC

Brandon Friedman

27 days

Polls show Biden is behind. Biden's team doesn't believe the polling and faults contemporary survey methodology. But those same polls also show other Democrats are running ahead of their opponents *and* Biden. Meaning: Biden is the issue. He must change course or he will lose.

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@senategabe

Gabe

28 days

I might talk about how horserace polls are bs and they are but jesus christ. These are absolutely horrendous polls for Biden.

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@senategabe

Gabe

3 months

Folks who follow me have heard me say this before but I want to emphasize: this is completely false. The Senate has broad oversight powers and currently has a Democratic majority. And the President is well…the President. There are actions that can constrain the Court.

@KyleMcC36631324

Kyle McCullough

@KyleMcC36631324

3 months

@senategabe Without a Dem majority in three houses, there is simply nothing that can be done. The President by himself cannot usurp the SCOTUS's authority - thank God. It might be that actions NEED to be taken now, but they literally CANNOT be.

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Gabe

20 days

“Sure I mean we aren’t talking about drowning children fleeing the worst situations imaginable in the Rio Grande but the people who support that do have some good points.” No, actually they don’t.

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Gabe

18 days

Truly hope media outlets, members of Congress, and others with connections to power have put together that a far more sophisticated, larger reaching, and dangerous coup than anything from 2020 is happening in plain sight. It's success depends on how those in power react.

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Gabe

20 days

The failure for Democrats to understand the media environment they are in and use common sense is seriously mind blowing. An unserious, cruel border bill that goes nowhere does not in fact show Democrats are serious about immigration! How is this complicated? /End

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@senategabe

Gabe

26 days

This is a very very bad status quo and the errors just keep getting worse and worse as times goes on because shaky assumptions are built on top of shaky assumptions. And it impacts not just Dem policy making, but its communications as well. Nothing is untouched by this.

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Gabe

2 months

Notable every single of these people talking objected to the election results except Ron Johnson but he was involved in a fake elector scheme so basically the same thing. The point is they all supported overthrowing the government.

@Acyn

Acyn

2 months

Johnson: The Senate runs on unanimous consent and moving forward, we may not be providing that consent

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Gabe

26 days

The point is not that I was right and this person was wrong. I don’t care about that (ok lol, maybe a tad). The point is that this person had been giving this presentation all over the place and was both surprised and annoyed that I asked a basic question.

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Gabe

2 months

Seriously we went through Nixon, Reagan, and Trump in 2016 AND 2020 doing this. I want to know about what he is doing in 2024.

@GregTSargent

Greg Sargent

2 months

Read @brianbeutler on the likelihood that Trump is "sabotaging US foreign policy" to serve 2024 needs: "Biden should listen to party wisemen like Schiff and Raskin...and let the public know what the government knows about Trump’s betrayals in real time."

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Gabe

26 days

On top of this, worshipping data without context is a path towards the hellscape that is the Dems email program. There is something so perfect about how our emails are no better than what a sleazy Ponzi scheme would use to market. Good politics is not a mathematical equation.

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@senategabe

Gabe

23 days

The Hill cycle of abuse I called it. The culture filters down to staffers too. And sure, you can get around this, especially if you coordinate. But leadership has a huge amount of resources at their disposal to quell a rebellion. So the asymmetry in any fight is large.

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@senategabe

Gabe

23 days

It's not talked about too much but while I described a fictional scenario, the gist has happened many many times. Party leaders and a lot of committee chairs can be huge bullies. They got hazed when they came in, now they are in the big chair and they get to do the same.

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@senategabe

Gabe

20 days

But also there are all these reporters sitting around all day by the Senate subway waiting for something to write about. Maybe do something a bit more interesting to focus their attention than whistle into the wind and leak on background silly nonsense? Good lord.

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