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 āno tax on tipsā. They have all 3 branches and Trump ran on it. You canāt 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 Iām not sure what you do about it when itās 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 isnāt 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 didnāt 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. Iām 50/50 on whether they do it, or even try to do it. Of course they donāt care about the deficit, but they also donāt care about putting energy into helping regular people. If anything maybe they do another tax cut, where itās 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.
Iām still planning on posting here, but Iām out of ideas for how to recover from this.
Maybe thereād 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 itās time for one of you straight white dudes to start a podcast. But it canāt 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, thatās 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 wonāt admit it thoā.
Pete B is great at what he does on TV media, but he aināt 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. Donāt care if Iām a terrible person.
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Itās a joke. 2000 was bad too and they got steamrolled by bullshit.