Sweet Splotchy Cat
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Sweet Splotchy Cat
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So had I but I never knew that was him
For me it's "Tim Curry, the guy who voiced Slagar the Cruel on the TV adaptation of Redwall"
Also, wasn't he an early proponent of Biden dropping out?
The permanent Republican majority Karl Rove boasted of during the Bush Presidency is finally here.
Certainly there were many more conservative Democrats in Congress than, but Lieberman may not count as part of the "Obama Coalition" since he endorsed abd campaigned for McCain in 2008.
2025 definitely looks like it's shaping up to be a massive Republican wave year. And yes, I'm already preemptively depressed.
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Probably safe to declare the American experiment an objective failure when unelected British monarchs are held to higher standards of accountability.
OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.
I wonder if Biden would have ever been elected to the Senate in that world, since he would have been too young in 1972.
Especially impressive with Biden's war on gas stoves still in recent memory. There's some sapphire blue fruit growing in the Garden State. And I'm not talking about the blueberries.
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the problem is that we don't have a thirder coin
Maybe they think a quarter pounder is 25 pounds since a quarter the coin is 25 cents
People probably said that about Dem losses in Arkansas and West Virginia in the 2000s, and about GOP losses in Vermont in the 1980s and '90s.
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I hate MattY way less than the rest of you but I agree he's useless because of this. None of this works when the other guys get activated by whatever rumor and hearsay Fox or worse ONN puts on the wire.
Matty correctly understands that the nationalization of media and edpol has meant that this dynamic no longer works; people in Nebraska do actually vote based on what they see on TV about Baltimore. His solution to this is to establish a Leninist vanguard party-style control over all Dem policy.
The idea that Democrats should adopt nationally popular but locally unpopular positions in locations where they have supermajority control of politics makes no sense. That's exactly where you should implement correct policies that the rest of the country nonetheless dislikes!
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people in real time experiencing their first splotchy cat bait
Of course, now that most major cities are turning red, Democrats probably won't have concentrated urban membership much longer.
I hope you're right, after all trends are nit guaranteed to continue. But Trump made significant gains in most major cities between 2016 and 2024.
Look at how most major cities have shifted between the 2016 and 2024 elections. Almost all shifted toward Republicans; even cities like Milwaukee and Atlanta where Democrats made massive gains in their suburbs; and Democrats utterly collapsed in New York City and Miami.
Of course, now that most major cities are turning red, Democrats probably won't have concentrated urban membership much longer.
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I think the bigger issue, which Matty remains mysteriously silent on, is that putting police and prison abolition on a list of "unpopular democratic policies" is treated as so obvious as to not even merit comment, but saying republicans want to do project 2025 was roundly condemned by the media
Here with yellow checkmarks we have five examples of real things that Gavin Newsom and leading California Democrats espouse. Not a straw man.

My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.
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The potential future Senator from Texas is leading this charge.

BUT ANYWAY remember that one time a person in 2019 with 5000 followers on Twitter said "abolish all prisons"
While Tylenol remains a tool recommended by medical professionals to treat pain and fever during pregnancy, the state of Texas is suing the makers of the medication for allegedly hiding unproven links to autism and other disorders. Scientists have found no such causal relationship.
I'm already preemptively depressed