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to the extent there’s connective tissue between the Dems who considerably outperformed Harris in competitive districts/states (Gallego, Gluesenkamp Perez, Ryan) it seems they all championed progressive policies while wrapping themselves in conservative cultural coding.
Today I’m announcing my Congressional campaign against Scott Perry. He just voted for the biggest Medicaid cuts in history, to pay for billionaire tax breaks. We deserve better than a career politician who keeps selling us out.
This is why I think voters were full of shit when they said their #1 issue in 2024 was cost-of-living. They KNOW that voting on the basis of which candidate is more likely to feed immigrants to alligators is psychotic, so they had the sense to lie about it to pollsters.
MAGAs are now driving up to the Florida concentration camp to take selfies at the sign
The rise of Donald Trump makes perfect sense once you realize that he's voters' Id. He says stuff that people wish they could say without facing social censure, and gets away with stuff they wish they could get away with so they live vicariously through him.
Everyone mad about Cuomo losing can just go point the finger at Cuomo. Ridiculously entitled and absolutely toxic candidate that had no appeal to anyone beyond “hey that guy used to be governor right?” Mad about a socialist winning? Don’t run toxic candidates from the center.
ON THE NYC MAYORAL DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY: Split Ticket doesn't predict primaries, so I'm doing this here. IN SHORT: after the Emerson (Mamdani +4) survey released today, I'd say the data suggests a tossup, based on the data available to us. If I had to give odds, I'd say Cuomo has…
Even if you don’t agree with him, other candidates can learn from Mamdani Met voters where they were in person and online Gave them something to believe in instead of just opposing someone Think this was less ideological and more inspirational for many voters
Thoughts on Mamdani winning the primary? I don't agree with him on many issues, but I have to say it was an impressive campaign. He dominated social media and even people outside NYC were talking about him.
Every time Dems lose an election you hear from the same chorus of people who say Democrats need to talk about economic issues. Clinton and Harris did talk about economic issues. Voters say it's the economy that drives them but it's really cultural issues that animate people.
“I’ll never forget what they did to us,” and it’s like, they got yelled at on social media for saying slurs. Their favorite video game franchise got a female protagonist for one installment. They had an annoying female HR rep. They’re burning down the country over that
never forget what these people did to us. what they still *want* to do to us. we can't live with them anymore
I agree but it also works the other way: It’s easy to advocate for a ceasefire if you don’t have to live the consequences. One could just as well make the argument that all the people who support a peace deal should get sent to the frontlines if Russia breaks the agreement…
It is easy to advocate for wars that you are not going to fight.
Arming Ukraine has re-industrialised America as the bulk of our spending has gone to opening factories and hiring workers to build weapons and ammunition and to otherwise revitalising America’s own military. This is the man who told Zelensky he didn’t need to go to Ukraine…
The bitter irony of America’s present predicament is that the very people who cheer for permanent arms shipments to Ukraine also supported the de-industrialization of America. The very things you want us to send are things we don’t make enough of.
Let's get this straight: > Trump announced a Crypto Strategic Reserve, including Sack's select shitcoins > Trump, Don Jr., and Sacks allegedly (?) placed massive bets on these coins right before > Trump and his friends profit billions by using the taxpayers to fund their exits…
Tariffs, mass deportations and tax cuts are all inflationary policies.
The best ones (Rubio) are sycophantic cowards. The worst (Gabbard) are massive nat sec risks. Some are both. In between are a mix of racists, misogynists and a sizeable chunk are convicted or accused sex offenders who you would not hire as babysitters. Who am I missing?
It is impossible to overstate how deeply unqualified and utterly incompetent all of these Trump picks are. These are the people you would pick if your goal was to destroy America and pave the way for a Chinese/ Russian century.
hot take but bathrooms should never be segregated by gender. if safety is *really* the main concern, then all bathrooms need to be redesigned into non-gendered single stalls inaccessible to anyone from the outside
Im 100% convinced that Democrats are losing the culture war because they dont know how to attack. They let Republicans dictate the debate while they're too afraid to use mean language. If the Gaetz situation was reversed "pedophile" would be in every GOP press release
Feels like this one is going to get some traction over the next couple of years
Trump says Cheney wouldn’t be ‘war hawk’ if ‘guns are trained on her’ bbc.in/3CiJPcQ