2024 Election POST MORTEM

Ratfucking bernie led directly to this

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jfc the 47th district is probably lost to Baugh, a WOAT candidate. So much for that district turning permanently blue with Porter, she got rat fucked pretty good. This is one of the biggest self owns ever, and I watched the Yankees last week

I think the GOP is actually going to have to do ā€œno tax on tipsā€. They have all 3 branches and Trump ran on it. You canā€™t tell me that they are going to gaf about the deficit.

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They never gaf about the deficit that Reagan ballooned - unless Dems are in power obv.

I think my main takeaway from this whole thing is that the media, and mostly social media, has fucked us. And Iā€™m not sure what you do about it when itā€™s almost all controlled by billionaires who benefit from Republican policies.

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True!

Even my wife, who mostly stays out of politics, proactively made that point to me last night. I was like damn you are awesome.

And it isnā€™t just the 2020 ratfucking. Arguably the last 3 Dem nominees were not who would have been chosen in an open non-collusive primary setting.

Also think back to the whole Bernie 2016 progressive movement. The Dems really managed to completely squash that threat didnā€™t they. Probably a lot of those voters have given up on the Dem party and/or voted Trump last night.

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I was thinking specifically about this one this morning. Iā€™m 50/50 on whether they do it, or even try to do it. Of course they donā€™t care about the deficit, but they also donā€™t care about putting energy into helping regular people. If anything maybe they do another tax cut, where itā€™s hugely weighted towards the rich and corporations, and lower tax brackets go down like 1%. No tax on tips sounds good for winning an election, but if you then actually go and give a tax break to that small slice of people and not other people making the same exact amount of money, it potentially backfires.

https://x.com/daveweigel/status/1854205091357605914?t=Fsy2sOeNfRCBevknKcsoUQ&s=19

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Iā€™m still planning on posting here, but Iā€™m out of ideas for how to recover from this.

Maybe thereā€™d be some shred of a silver lining if it was close, but Democrats got obliterated everywhere.

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https://x.com/idothethinking/status/1854185740105884055?s=46&t=k3YA52U8SV6oodQANcy20g

Real talk, perhaps itā€™s time for one of you straight white dudes to start a podcast. But it canā€™t be about politics. It has to be about gaming or working out or whatever shit the dudebros are into, then you start subtly injecting left wing stuff.

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Twice!

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You recover by refusing to vote for the EDem ghouls who got us here going forward. Try and win primaries for progressive candidates and if they lose then boycott voting for the EDems going forward.

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The EDems have held the left hostage for long enough. Fuck them all.

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Well, thatā€™s functionally what happened here. Whether the hard left withheld their vote or not is irrelevant. We are in the accelerationist scenario for better or for worse.

4 years from now try to remember that texting/calling me 100x in the week leading up to the election did not work

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The ratfuckers wonā€™t admit it thoā€™.

Pete B is great at what he does on TV media, but he ainā€™t the solution for people working 2 jobs who have to pay all that medical insurance bullshit etc.
Never mind wasting all that $$$ on a military budget.

Blind test of policies w all voters:

Bernie/AOC policies
Centrist Dem policies
Moderate Republican policies
RW Republican policies.

Leggo!

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I work in an office with 2 bosses who are 1st generation habibi and 5 staff who are first generation foreigners and two old white racist

Really hard to work up the energy to go back to work after lunch

I do have noise cancelling head phones but still

Hearing my boss cackle all day is too much

Legit want all their parents deported. Donā€™t care if Iā€™m a terrible person.

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