Yea that’s why I think it’s some post hoc ass covering through left punching and the actual reason was they didn’t think it was beneficial for the cost of of a lost day of campaigning in the home stretch, progressive backlash or not.
I actually think it may be dumber than that. I can see the campaign thinking that the issue with Rogan is that he tells dirty, racist jokes and embraces some conspiracy theories. They may still be living in a world where hanging out with war criminals like Cheney is fine because they speak with some level of sophistication and decorum, but you can’t do the same with an apolitical shock jock. Which of course just reinforces the stereotype that the left is a bunch of snowflakes triggered by offensive words and not the incredibly harmful actions carried out by the GOP over the years, all while ignoring what the actual left wants.
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She went on Howard stern. He might not be a shock jock anymore though.
You don’t think the dems should excessively purity test media interviewers?
really weird how she suddenly cared about progressives’ opinions in the case of rogan but not on, say… anything else?
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Who even knows what they mean by “progressive”?
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Centrists know what they mean, in the same way that conservatives know exactly what they mean when they talk about “urban” people.
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Watched the John Oliver piece from this week. Any reason why Biden wouldnt commute sentences for prisoners on federal death row on his way out?
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4990825-aclu-petition-biden-federal-death-sentences/
ACLU petition signature goal is incredibly small, wtf:
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I could come up with a lot of reasons that aren’t very charitable.
The “politics is easy - you just need to support policies that materially help people’s lives” crowd takes another L
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“I don’t even care if the leopard eats my face” says man whose face hasn’t been eaten yet.
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Anyways I actually watched the video. Cliffs:
- He’s an undocumented mechanic in Texas with two young daughters (US citizens)
- He would not regret supporting Trump even if he is deported because Trump is so much better on the economy that with respect to the trajectory of his daughters’ future, it’s the right gamble
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That’s sort of an argument that simple economic populism is a winning message.
There is a problem that people will always assume that rich businessmen are inherently good at making the economy better when in reality they are conmen fraudsters or trust funds that got rich exploiting the labor of this mechanic. Rich businessmen will always tilt to the economic right. They don’t actually need worker protections or collective bargaining rights.
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People (well, Americans) believe this because Dems conceded this territory to Reagan after Reagan stomped them. Its not actually a given, it just feels that way in the US because it has been an accepted belief for 45 years.
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Pretty much sums it up
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And did anyone tell him that ICE will not have a problem deporting the entire family even if his daughters are US citizens?
When Hitler is talking about the Jews I don’t think he means Jews like me.
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I am not sure that was the thinking back then but I think it is a very interesting question why so many Jews remained in Germany after all what Hitler and his entourage said all the time. They just couldnt believe that a country with such a rich cultural history could go down that path.
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