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politiBOO!

@politiburb.bsky.social

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Nerd obsessed with comic books, 90s television shows, and unfortunately politics. Annoying scoreboard tracker. Neoliberalism was right all along. A Biden Democrat to the end.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · Feb 14

The Work. Never. Ends. Humanity is (hopefully!!) stuck here forever, and while we're here we have to help each other. And that means fixing broken systems, then our kids fix it again, then their kids fix it again. Looked at cynically, we're all Sisyphus.

But one must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 6h

Genuinely think that for some people they've got this weird psychological reaction where Dems winning makes them panic *more* because all good news must somehow be a trick.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 6h

We are on the offensive for the first time this year, we're winning against this admin & people are acting like we're at the cusp of the Civil War crossed with the Enabling Act crossed with the Years of Lead. I am begging people to get a fucking grip.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 7h

you could walk through Times Square buck naked with one of those car-dealership inflatable men tethered to your head, setting off bottle rockets as you go, and you would not be as desperate for attention than this sweaty twerp

a shitty post even by chris Cillizza's standards: "What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?"

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 7h

Bluesky's optimal timescale

8:00 am: Rural R voters starve, drop dead all at once

11:24 am: GOP turns on Trump, riots in streets

2:17 pm: Senate threatened into removing Trump

4:30 pm: Scotus jailed by military junta

6:45 pm: Dem president sworn in

8:00 pm: GOP officially outlawed by congress

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

for all the talk about how voters need to touch the stove, like, we are touching the stove. this [waves arms wildly] is what touching the stove looks like. nothing happens on a twitter timescale.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 7h

okay man sorry you feel this way and I agree it's a bad thing that some of our neighbors want to shred the constitution and be fascists but what the fuck does this mean and what does "not playing" mean to you?

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

i will remind you that thune’s reputation prior to becoming leader was that his primary value to the party was looking like a senator and was never entrusted to anything more intellectually challenging than rudimentary addition and subtraction

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 12h

You know, you could just not do that.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 8h

Kind of an odd thing that Trump doesn't realize that bullshit cases that die in court against his political foes just raise those foes visibility by significant amounts

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h

The Justice Department won an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James Thursday.

The indictment makes James the second of President Trump’s political foes to be charged in the Eastern District of Virginia.

Justice Department indicts N.Y. attorney general

Justice Department wins indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, accusing her of committing mortgage fraud in 2023.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 8h

You only need to look back to 2018 and 2020 though to see Dems actively benefitting electorally because Trump tried to take away the ACA *and was stopped from doing so*. No it didn't last for another 4 years, but almost nothing does in politics in the 21st century

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

the shutdown dynamic here is that neither thune nor johnson wants to be the first to cave and neither trust trump not to cave because all three are very weak leaders in bad positions

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Emboldened Democrats dig in on health care demands in shutdown fight

Senate Dem comms directors got a briefing and poll memo y'day. The pollster's advice? That Republicans are losing this battle, health care demands are popular, and stay the course.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Emboldened Democrats dig in on health care demands in shutdown fight

Energized by public opinion, Democrats are refusing to budge on their demands to extend expiring Obamacare tax credits, frustrating Republican leaders as the shutdown continues.

www.nbcnews.com

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 12h

President Deals folding against Democrats fighting for healthcare that is incredibly popular is not a win for President Deals, actually

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 9h

Sanders does not appear to be unduly encumbered by an overly reflective nature

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 10h

I saw this 15 mins ago and I am still laughing

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

sort of also think people are underestimating the cascading effect on employer-provided health care costs if ACA subsidies fail

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 9h

Gonna be real here, a whole lot of people are letting recency bias govern their thinking to a dangerous extreme right now. You think the political playing field has completely changed and none of the old rules apply, and that may be true, but it's going to change again, probably very shortly!

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 9h

This is too truth-based and sensible of a take for this place

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

republicans are consistently extremely vulnerable on health care, if dems can force a concession on ACA subsidies *in a CR*, the next round becomes another loser health care fight and dems can up the stakes with medicaid

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 9h

Some people have absorbed the idea that enough suffering will be a cheat code which means Dems won't just 'win' but will win the magic blowout that lets them Win American Politics permanently, and I simply do not think that is true!

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 9h

never change, bluesky

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

i feel like everyone discussing this on either side is doing so as if the CR is the only bite at the apple dems will get when it comes to appropriations, which is not true

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d

If Dems win the standoff and get their policy demands, yes they will have substantively helped millions of Americans (a good thing, to be clear), but also they will have kept Republicans from a self-inflicted wound in upcoming elections

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 9h

This is a great example actually. If Dems did what some folks here are demanding in 2005 they would have let Bush gut Social Security right before the Great Recession kicked in.

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 9h

Actively giving benefits is very different; Dems have had tremendous success campaigning on successfully stopping Republicans from doing bad things in high profile fights, including ACA repeal in 2018/20 and social security in 2006/8

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 9h

Nobody is helping the fascist govern well, they have publicly staged a high stakes fight to stop the fascist from doing a bad thing he wants to do, in the process making themselves look strong, making him look weak, and drawing attention to his desire to do bad things, *without* hurting people

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 9h

I blocked him when he straight up said he doesn't believe in democracy as anything other than a means to an end and that it's not worthwhile in and of itself

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 17h

This is not a risk. We have seen over and over again that there is absolutely a major political benefit to publicly stopping the GOP from doing harm in a high profile showdown. If Dems win the standoff then it is imperative that it be yelled from the rooftops that they won the standoff

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