“Honestly, guys, the fire alarms are the scary part, they need to go. The fires themselves aren’t that bad.”

This is the exact right messaging. Privately celebrate the win - it’s a real win - but publicly press for every inch. GOP can’t scapegoat their way out of coordinated oppression and constitutional betrayal.

When your opponent retreats, chase after them.

He is not, finish reading. Admits DHS will likely not be split from minibus, and re-affirms he will never vote to shut down the government.

He’s REMOVING pressure from GOP by saying this - would have been more helpful to say nothing about minibus at all.

We have to learn to read. He’s announcing to GOP that when they DO NOT split DHS funding from minibus, he will vote YES on whole package to avoid a shutdown.

His support for splitting DHS $$ doesn’t matter if there is no GOP support. Which there will not be if they know they can count on his vote!

These guys really think we’re all illiterate, good lord.

Summary:

1) He supports splitting DHS funding from minibus

2) He concedes GOP won’t do that

3) He re-commits to never voting to shut down the government.

Translation: he’s voting for whatever is brought to the floor, including any amount of DHS funding.

Well, that’s the ballgame, no need for me to vote or campaign or do any advocacy whatsoever ever again…

Keep carrying water for the GOP’s vote-suppression ops, this is great. An effective tool for achieving exactly what the article fears, well done.

“Why yes, we did in fact digitally alter that woman’s face, why would we hide such a thing?”

They were. And they would have succeeded if the North decided “yup that’s just what it means to be American.” Anyone who concedes an inch b/c “it’s AlWaYs BeEn ThIs WaY” chooses the other side’s version. Reclaim what it means to be American or accept the sins of the fathers on yourself.

The Civil War and civil rights amendments, famously, were won by declaring “the confederates are only doing exactly we’ve always done here!”

Van Hollen. He gets things done. Let Murphy keep kicking ass on messaging.

Source: dude who spent 25 years living and breathing white evangelicalism.

To win elections, win the visual. Doesn’t matter if the church-goers “deserve” it (they probably do!). All that matters is the camera footage that now confirms the stupid endless fantasies of persecution that delude millions of church-going GOP voters - many of whom were starting to reconsider.

Congrats it is lol

All we can do is pressure him now and primary him later. Mostly the latter - seems immune to constituent and even donor pressure.

PA resident here - you’re right in principle, and he’s not a plant - he has a long democratic record he ran on. Problem is he’s not the same person since his accident - literally, not metaphorically. Senator Fetterman is a different human than Mayor / Candidate Fetterman.

Thank you, that is hugely important. Equally important is blocking bill provisions to militarize ICE and sell off public lands.