The sweeteners in it are monk fruit, stevia, and sucralose

They have a 42g version that tastes slightly worse but is still better than anything else by a mile

Biden broke with neoliberalism economically in some major ways, but one DEEPLY ingrained cultural trait that persists in the party is a knee-jerk reaction against direct, aggressive government action. everything has to be "by the book" and run through obscure tax credits and shit

maintaining civil law for some things instead of common law is pretty significant imo

Louisiana has a very diff legal system but yeah

“trump is no ordinary man” fuck you yes he is

I’m now being yelled at by lefties on the other site because apparently McBride’s strategy that the dems are lining up behind is “ceding the framing” or some shit. God they’re addicted to the martyrdom of losing

Also notably the dems are taking direction from McBride herself on how to respond to this.

How many people are gonna fall for this parody account lol

Could it be that progressive outlets not managing to be profitable is itself evidence that Americans are not as progressive as we’d want?

I think it’s both and somewhat dependent on the age of the person at question

Jamelle please I am begging you get the word “pedocon” into the times

AZ being a situation where both happened

Yeah my thinking as of now is that the EC loss was persuasion but the PV loss might not have been

Maybe but the actual nat sec picks so far are all raging neocons. Not the isolationist types Thiel props up

do not yet know the contours of the fight to come, but if we can re-tool our messaging and be ready to pounce on their sure-to-come failures we can easily claw our way out of this. The fight never ends, it just evolves.

already underway by 2015. Out of the wreckage of the old coalitions he managed to build the republicans a more diverse and younger coalition than they've had in a generation. So all this to say, the most important lesson of 2012 that we must heed is to be flexible and opportunistic- we simply

and beat all their asses in that primary and had their elite class mostly convinced they were totally fucked because he was doing the opposite of what they thought they needed. He assembled an extremely efficient coalition in 2016 and 2020 that accelerated some slow-moving realignment that was

The final thing I'll say in this thread- in 2012 the republicans (broken by an election they thought they should have won given the economy) wrote up a post-mortem about how they had to moderate on immigration to become competitive again. that was their elite consensus. Trump came down the escalator