Let me sum up this whole problem with one short comment, fuck Joe Manchin.
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While I don’t want the perfect to be the enemy of the good this is barely good. It is imperative that Ds pick up at least two senate seats next year to cancel out Manchenema. More would be even better.
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Everybody, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, everybody, in Washington DC believes we are going to lose the Congress in 2022. The belief is based on history. It is becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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Dear Democratic Asshats, if you lose both houses of Congress, nothing you put into law will matter.
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Negativity encourages lazy thinking, especially if the premise of the Democratic Party is positive actions to help people.
The thing is…it also looks so much more authoritative. for the NaySayers
For Boo Birds
For BeltWay Boys
TFG is not on the ballot next year. His cult comes out for him; remember what happened in 2018. Ds can’t count on it happening again so work, and good candidates, are necessary.
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My Mom is now a faceboot loon gop. Years ago, the gop floated a mandatory 10% savings plan for poor people. My Mom thought it was a great idea to force those lazy (almost certainly Black) bastards to save.
We were dirt poor when I was growing up and didn’t reach lower middle class till I was almost out of high school. I asked my Mom where she’d have gotten that 10% from, given that every dime of both paychecks were spent before they hit the bank. She had no answer.
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Which two do you suggest we focus on?
John Fetterman has a better than good chance of taking over Pat Toomey’s seat in Pennsylvania.
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Especially if they just forgo the voting bit and just have the candidates settle it in the ring.
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I suggest we focus on all of them.
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godwit makes a point, but at the same time I have watched the Democratic Reps just struggle so much to get out a strong sentence when someone asks them questions, and it’s tremendously annoying.
I know the Goppers have been training in their Hitler Youth College Clubs in the Lee Atwater method but jeebus Dems, get off the effing stick. This is serious shit coming down the pike NOW, not 2 or 4 years from now.
Like they say after the two minute warning, I don’t get a sense of urgency that should be evident as the plod up to the line of scrimmage.
I think Liz Warren would kick Scott Brown’s butt.
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Man, this is a dumb thing to be fighting over at this point in our planet’s manmade and ongoing ecological disaster.
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A stunning discovery for me in this process was how completely our government is at the mercy of incumbent hydrocarbon producers. Carbon tax design is a big deal elsewhere, even China. Coal-fucking-burning China. And the offshoring of first-world emissions to developing countries is discussed actively in other developed countries, e.g Europe. This is hardly inside baseball as embodied emissions in imports account for nearly a third of the US carbon footprint. I have one question for Manchin and SInema: What is the price of carbon?
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Imagine if there were Corporate welfare benefits that cut off at 60K or 150K. The outcry would be deafening.
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People don’t see and compare themselves with corporations in nearly the same way as they do with other people.
If they’re not getting a check and the neighbor with the nice place down the street with the Mercedes parked in the driveway is, you’re going to end up with a lot of pissed-off people out there.
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The issue appears to be that the house and Mercedes down the street most likely have two incomes, and not really the children at all. Down the street from most Americans are people who have been cheated out of the fruits of their labor and are struggling for necessities. It’s been that way for decades.
Maybe the problem is that not enough of them talk this way. And of course the tilt of the “liberal” media that is in fact usually operating on assumptions that benefit the GOP.
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Make DAMN SURE Republicans get painted as the Anti-Democratic, Obstructionist, Anti-American, Anti-Women and Minorities Party of Trump Cultists. And throw in Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema as Republican Obstructionists.
IT’S ALL ABOUT MESSAGING PEOPLE!!!
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