I don’t agree with Tester on everything. Not by a long shot. But if you look up “authentic” in the dictionary, they have his picture.
People like him are the only way the Dems will ever control the Senate again short of making PR and DC new states…
I think it’s entirely possible that Trump’s pure embrace of racism and Naziism could pull all Democrats’ chestnuts out of the fire.
Whatever it takes…
I like it!
I’m not seeing his “BROWNS COMING” gambit actually getting a lot of people to the polls – I still think that Dems will have a turnout advantage not predicted by most “likely voter” screens.
This country needs more parties. Because of the Electoral College which forced coalitions to be formed before the elections for President, the Democrats are forced to support politician who are somewhat to the right. To me it doesn’t matter, but it matters to many leftists that people like Tester, Heitkamp or Manchin and others have much more conservative views. This forces these politicians into the party of the left might turn off center right constituencies. After the election the parties can form a government where negotiations could take place over the issues. Elections would probably have to be fought twice once to determine the top two vote getters and the second to find the person who can garner a majority of the voters. It would be better if the coalitions could be formed after the elections better representing the different constituencies and possibly mitigating the the extremes in both parties. This could also encourage instability, but probably not more serious than what Great Britain or Canada experiences.
Agreed. The only people who are likely motivated by this are people who were already planning to vote Republican. I also believe/hope that the big post-midterm story will be about likely voter screens and how badly Democratic voters were undervalued.
And it’ll be because of closing messages like this one that help Democrats win over enough GOP voters to grind out close races in key red states.
I see what you did there.
Don’t forget to add “except for themselves”.
The Republican Congress will add a clause requiring their pre-existing conditions be fully covered.
Talking about missing fingers, whatever happened with that Khashoggi guy who got into that fistfight awhile back and lost bigtime. Did they ever find him, or figure out who done it?
Absolutely. Trump never does anything but play to his base, who will never vote for the Dems anyway. But I think there is a HUGE group of people not captured in the polls that are just sick and tired of all this bullshit and can’t wait to vote out Republicans who have given Trump the green light to be a sick bastard 24/7/365. And I’m pretty sure a lot of women are pissed off right about now, too.
Caveat here: isn’t that the exact same messaging strategy the GOP pounced on in the last weeks of 2016? Which got those extra 77k impoverished, GOP-minded, red-meat eating voters to the polls in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, to tip the scales for Trump? So then, why wouldn’t they (and we) be banking on the same type of result being likely with that messaging this time around?
OT, but It’s not a funny topic to me. My cousin, at the age of 17, lost multiple fingers while working a summer job in a meat market. He was headed to a prestigious university on a engineering scholarship which he lost. (In those pre-computer days, engineers needed their hands for their work.) He eventually recovered and became an accountant, but there was a dark period when his depression and that of my uncle (his Dad) had us all really worried. I understand Tester’s point about insurance, however.
You are making the argument for a Parliamentary government, far more representative than our republican form. In a parliamentary system, all interests can be represented in government, with multiple parties. And yes, these various parties do coalesce and form coalitions, like in all countries with parliamentary systems. I believe the USA will have to totally collapse in a revolutionary / civil war and re-build the government as a Parliamentary system next. However, the elephants in the room may crowd out all reason: ACD / MIC and world war - used to distract We The People from the government’s destruction of our lives. This is what is next, preceeding the violent domestic insurgency and civil war. The incoming civil war in the USA is discussed and visualized in Greer’s great recent book: Twilight’s Last Gleaming. In this view of the collapse that is coming, the author indicates that the break up of the USA into several sovereign nations is most likely the outcome.
YOU GO JON!
take one of those stubby remaining fingers and stick it right in Trump’s eye!
A possible reply is because Trump is not on the ballot. I think a lot of people who go to Trump rallies think they are participating in a reality tv show, and will not take the trouble to go out an vote for candidates that Trump for the most part can’t even be bothered to talk about at his rallies.
Obviously, there’s no time to add this to Sen. Tester’s powerful ad, but this very same scenario could also be used to explain why “gummint regulations” can be a good thing–for example, by requiring meat grinder manufacturers to design and build 'em so one can’t get their fingers into the works.
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) has the unenviable task of opposing a totally Republican State Legislature and Governor that the Koch Bros. have by the balls, along with the immense power of the Catholic Church arrayed against her in heavily Catholic ND.
The Anti-Abortion rhetoric arrayed against her in ND is appalling, and very effective when the economic downturn in Oil Drilling is also blamed on her opposition to the Trump Tax Gift to Billionaires.
The Koch Political Machine has had her in their cross-hairs from the day she was elected and are spending massive amounts to defeat her to complete their takeover of ALL ND political positions, and they very influential (in sparsely populated rural states especially) AM-Hate Radio has been calling her everything in the book to destroy her.
And while not every Democratic candidate has Tester’s knack for local flavor (it’s hard to compete with missing fingers)
Tell that to Max Cleland.