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Perhaps the most powerful element of Biden's speech is the unspoken message to the Republican Party that the era of Democratic cowering is over. That is a very important step in the termination of an abusive relationship.
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This sort of thing will not receive 1/100th of the negative attention received by some 19-year-old wearing a scarf to draw attention to this sort of thing.
Israeli right wing activists blocked aid trucks which were on their way to Gaza today at the Tarqumiya crossing in the West Bank
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Not a single word about Trump's epic, explicit, written threat to investigate & lock up his opponents under the false pretext of election cheating. Readers of the NYT simply are not being told what the stakes of the election are.
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However the Biden crisis ends, it should be beyond dispute that the Democratic Party needs to be reimagined, restaffed, and rebuilt as a party whose
#1
goal is to defeat (and not appease) a Republican Party that is extraordinarily weak, unpopular, and dangerous.
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According to the NYT politics desk, the weather on the left is essentially the same as the weather on the right, and folks need to be warned equally about each.
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The truly scandalous thing about the MSM's failure to splash this across the front pages is that secret treacherous collaboration between the GOP and Russia is a huge, sensational story by any normal journalistic standard.
5 YEARS of Hunter Biden coverage and all of a sudden media has lost interest now that we learn it was a Russian op that Republicans were happy to engage in. Absolutely insane.
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Sean Patrick Maloney evicted Mondaire Jones from his district, lost, and could well have cost his party 2 House seats. Maybe not have a guy with terrible political judgment and no team spirit the DCCC Chair?
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Literally every Republican president from Reagan onwards has crashed the economy. Every Democratic president in the same period has overseen a boom. I simply don't understand why Dems don't brand themselves the party of prosperity.
If you don’t look backward, you can’t remind people how abysmally Trump dealt with the arrival of COVID-19 four years ago—that he bears significant responsibility for crashing the economy and would likely crash it again if confronted with another crisis.
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I mean this is incredible. This is stop-the-presses stuff.
Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies: I said I would not protect our NATO allies. In fact, I would encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they want
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The identical demonstration in the US would be unlawful, attacked by cops, condemned as pro Hamas etc
🚨Tel Aviv now
Thousands are streaming in to call for ceasefire deal, hostage exchange, and calling on the government to quit.
A crucial evening as deal is on the table.
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Very important for Dems to grasp and communicate that this is an internecine Republican shooting and a symptom of the gun violence and political extremism of Republicans. It is a disturbance within the GOP cult. It has nothing to do with the rest of America.
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The most basic, unarguable point about Trump is not being made by anyone: he obviously should withdraw from the presidential race. There should be an enormous clamor from the press about it.
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Quite simply, we are entitled to an explanation as to why
@SenateDems
are not using their last months of power to investigate extraordinary evidence of (1) corruption in SCOTUS and the Trump White House; and (2) systematic GOP intimidation of public servants.
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AOC is a dream partisan. Nobody is more clearsighted about the limits of Dem leaders--Biden, Schumer, Jeffries--or more forceful about how they must improve. But when it comes to adversarial politics, she's in their corner like a tiger.
Nice story.
You could also do the right thing, Lawler. Your district voted for Biden by 10 pts. You could end this by representing and voting for Jeffries.
A lot easier for you to vote your district than expecting me to vote for a man who wants to take my right to choose away.
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The GOP attempts a coup, declares Trump a demigod, outlaws abortion and affirmative action, bans the study of racial injustice, cuts social services, guts Obamacare--and it's the Democratic Party that must moderate to keep the support of nonwhite moderates?
The Democratic party's moderate wing is disproportionately non-white. The party is going to lose their votes if it isn't realistic about their beliefs.
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To repeat myself: the NYT will not say what Dems want unless Dems say it, loudly and insistently and publicly, whereupon NYT will be forced to report what Dems are saying.
It was an assassination attempt on a Democratic leader -- the third most powerful person in the country -- by a man radicalized by right-wing propaganda that is echoed by Republican officials at every level, every day.
It couldn't be more plain. And it will be a 1-2 day story.
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WaPo's subscriptions have declined since 2020 in significant part because it has declined to report on the biggest story in the US--the extraordinary threat of Republican fascism.
Washington Post CEO Will Lewis is introing the paper’s new “Build It” plan today. In a meeting with staff, he noted that the paper lost $77 million over the past year, and saw a 50% drop off in audience since 2020: “To be direct, we are in a hole, and we have been for some time."
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Christ (ex-GOP) and Demings (ex-cop) are the dream centrist candidates who ran by-the-book centrist, pocketbook campaigns. They're getting utterly destroyed by a midterm incumbent GOP.
Florida democrats simply and plainly did not vote in this election, that is a fact before even a single vote is counted
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The GOP plan is to delay or render impracticable the vote count in the big blue Atlanta metro counties--Fulton, DeKalb etc--& build a huge red "lead" as rural counties report first. Then chaos, then a corrupt pro-Trump SCOTUS majority to engineer a Trump win.
Breaking news: The Georgia State Election board approves a rule to require election workers to hand count ballots on election night. The vote was 3-2.
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Millions of Americans donate, knock on doors, go to meetings, write postcards to voters, put careers on hold--all to elect a Democratic Senate majority.
And then Feinstein, Durbin, Schumer, Gillibrand, et al tell the grassroots to jump in a lake.
Feinstein’s indefinite absence makes Joe Manchin the decisive vote again. This Republican-led measure just passed by a single vote.
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WaPo's subscriptions have declined since 2020 in significant part because it has declined to report on the biggest story in the US--the extraordinary threat of Republican fascism.
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It would tear the nation in half if Dems were to do anything about anything. But this is just fine.
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There's something fatally anachronistic about Hochul. Machine politics have so deeply insulated her from ordinary Ds (moderates & progs) that she has no conception of the extraordinary personal investments of time, emotion, money they've made since 2017 to defeat the GOP.
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Note that Elias states that it's the Republican Party that's acting here, not just Trump. It's politically vital that other Dems chime in likewise--and belatedly state that the GOP, not just the GOP leader, attempted the J6 coup too.
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Just so we're all clear on this: there is no medical or police evidence that Trump was hit by a bullet. By claiming otherwise, Trump appears to be lying about it. Why isn't this a huge scandal? Remember how Clinton got roasted for claiming to have come under sniper fire ?
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The only one of these with the potential to hurt Harris--hurt her quite badly--is Shapiro.
Bloomberg: Kamala Harris' search for a running mate now has a shortlist of 3: Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
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The most important element of Biden's rock-bottom approval ratings is that he viscerally identifies with older white conservatives and viscerally disidentifies with his own party base--women, minorities, young voters. He just has no clue what they're thinking.
Right, "seething hatred of Mitch McConnell" is just part and parcel of being a mainstream Democrat. When Biden talks about what a great and trustworthy guy McConnell is, he is not only dead wrong, but completely out of sync with his own party
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The right is arguing, in effect, that apartheid would be OK if a state legislature ordained it to be so, and federal authorities--judicial or legislative--could do nothing except stand back and wait for a mysterious process of 'political contestation' to take place.
Progressives that relied on the Supreme Court to legislate their preferences and secure them against democratic politics will go through a period of withdrawal and (perhaps) return to the field of political contestation.
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Biden will inherit a country in ruins. It will be a bumpy ride even if he succeeds, with GOP blaming him at every turn. To avoid repeat of 2010 disaster, Biden must not only fix the place up but constantly remind people that the Republicans wrecked it.
If you give me the honor of serving as your president, I won't waste any time getting this virus under control and building our nation back better.
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I mean this is truly shocking. Trump is the leader of the GOP, its presumptive 2024 nominee. "Trump admits to attempted coup d'etat, positions himself for another attempt" should be the headline everywhere. Where's Biden? Didn't he take an oath to defend the US constitution?
Today: “I never called Mike Pence a wimp. Mike Pence had a chance to be great. He had a chance to be, frankly, historic. But just like Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people, Mike did not have the courage to act.”
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The refusal of
@DickDurbin
@chuckschumer
to hold hearings about the GOP's attack on judges is a terrible mistake.
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Without irony of any kind, Dems including Biden should call for this guy to drop out.
NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Video/story here:
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"I may be old, but I'm not about to let a rapist back into the Oval Office."
"Call me old-fashioned, call me old--but I will not let someone charged with 91 felonies into the White House."
Honestly how on earth is the primary charge against Trump not that he’s a dangerous rapist and criminal?
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The GOP has utterly broken the US judiciary.
BREAKING: Judge CANNON has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump's trial date in Florida.
It may be months before we know the new schedule.
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The liberal grassroots--which has been the strongest, least acknowledged, most undervalued political force in the US from 2018 onward--gets its moment in NV.
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Democratic officials flying into a rage about the perfidy of the Republican Party and its worshiped leader would be politically effective and ethically called for at this point.
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Average voter doesn’t equate Republicans to insurgents, in large part because Dem leaders have gone to extraordinary lengths to deny the equation.
Who needs an insurgency when voters are willing to hand over the country to the insurgents?
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It is extremely concerning that after 4 years of oversight powers, we approach 2025 with the GOP's autocratic machinery stronger than ever, and elected Dems acting more powerless than ever. The time to press
@SenSchumer
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@DickDurbin
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Almost certain that Trump & Netanyahu have agreed not to support or effect a ceasefire before the election.
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Delighted that
@BardCollege
has announced it will immediately take up to 100 Afghan students, plus threatened scholars, at our Annandale campus.
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This is my personal bottom line--the planet. One candidate is an imperfect old man who will try to save the planet, the other is a corrupt old madman will try to destroy it. It's a no-brainer.
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How is this not the biggest political opportunity any incumbent president has ever had? Months before the elections, the leader of the other party unrepentantly reiterates his ambition to bring American democracy to an end?
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Recalling how Dukakis got destroyed by the DC media for sitting in a tank while Trump gets red carpet DC media hush for breaking into Arlington for a campaign photo-op.
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Now that the 2020 elections are over, one thing is salient: America was saved by the descendants of its slaves. It is an extraordinary story. The country owes them more than ever. They must be repaid.
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The problem with Shapiro isn't just that the antiwar left will be annoyed. It's that Gaza is electoral nitroglycerine and it would be a disaster to make the issue salient again and divide the party again. Biden's approval numbers never recovered from his embrace of Netanyahu.
Tricky decision for Harris if the reports that Mark Kelly and Josh Shapiro are her 2 top VP choices.
Kelly’s weak stance on labor will annoy the union left.
Shapiro’s stance on boycotting Israel & on college protests will annoy the antiwar left.
So, why not Beshear or Cooper? 🤷🏽♂️
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Extraordinary and unacceptable in a democratic society. When will
@SenateDems
finally hold hearings? Americans need to see how pervasive, systematic and extreme the use of (threatened) violence by the GOP is, and what a menace it poses to the rule of law.
Judge Kaplan, to jurors: "My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury."
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Note that Ds are failing to attach a *political cost* to this stuff. How could they do that? By having a master narrative--the GOP is no longer fit for power--in to which they feed the various daily outrages.
Right now the Stone commutation - the very definition of a corrupt, impeachable act, committed in full daylight, inconceivable two years ago - is leading every paper.
Here's what happens next:
-Dems won't react or do anything
-The news will move on
-It will start to feel normal
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Allow me to point out that we organized, marched, donated, mobilized, voted, donated again, mobilized again, voted again, won a landslide trifecta, all to stop the GOP. We mandated the president and Congress to stop the GOP. We made our voices heard. Have they listened?
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Quite extraordinary authoritarian outburst and attempted electoral intimidation that has no precedent in modern US history and would stop the presses if US media was not in the business of normalizing Trump for profit.
BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, Donald Trump just said he will arrest anybody who “steals” the election from him. Trump has gone completely insane. Retweet to make sure all Americans see how deranged he is.
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How is it not the biggest news story of the century that Trump admits to demanding Pence and Barr to hand him the presidency and overturn the election of Joe Biden?
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One central fact about the 2020 election that Dem strategists need to understand: the Republican Party ran *without a policy platform.*
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In Hochul world, the Albany carousel still whirls as if it's 2012. Wall Street donors, machine hacks, and 'deal-making' Republicans are her chief collaborators. ActBlue doesn't exist. Indivisible never happened. Trump is guy you can do deals with.
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Not enough attention has been given to the sensational revelation that the
@RNC
and its head
@GOPChairwoman
Ronna McDaniel were by her own admission actively and institutionally involved in the attempt to overturn the election.
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This is a classic example of what you might call opinion flocking. Media commentators intuitively land on the same tree and chirp in unison. Not because they have investigated the matter at hand deeply but because there's safety in numbers.
it’s a midterm year and the party in power typically loses seats and people are more concerned right now about crime, inflation, the economy. Dismissing people’s real concerns isn’t a way to win them over.
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Remember that Axelrod, who opposed Trump's impeachment, was a key factor in the Democratic Party's electoral self-destruction from 2010 to 2016. His strategy of appeasement succeeded in producing the reddest maps in modern history at every level of government.
Former Obama adviser
@davidaxelrod
says that a court decision to remove Trump from the primary ballot “would rip the country apart”
Thoughts?
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Many Americans (1) get the news, then (2) look for guidance from folks on TV about how to feel. Dems are useless at doing their duty in the latter regard. It's imperative that they step up now and demand the GOP to renounce Trump & show that they are loyal to the United States.
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It's a fallacy that Dem midterm resilience was because DCCC did a good job. Please consult the evidence of your own eyes. It was ordinary people who went into battle against the GOP--on their own dime, with no leader, no media support, no following wind.The grassroots won this.
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Dreary bipartisan claims about potholes & bridges have been Biden's core message for over a year. It hasn't worked for him, just as it never worked for Obama. He has to change. Defeat in November is not an option.
Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we’re making the most significant investment in modernizing our roads and bridges since the Interstate Highway System was built under President Eisenhower.
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Correct. Also, Dems just ran a national experiment in which they talked nonstop about ACA to win downballot votes. It failed. That data is > data based on focus groups who profess to find issue-oriented stuff influential on them. A focus group is not the same as a polling booth.
If you point out
@sendavidperdue
opposes pre-existing conditions protections, he will lie and say he supports them, then pivot to court packing. If you talk relentlessly about the fact that he’s a huge crook, he will go silent, and entice reporters to dig deeper in his closet.
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I love how
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An extremist minority is imposing their unpopular views on the rest of America. We need to fight back by strengthening our democracy—including fixing the Electoral College. Five justices who ended the right to abortion were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote.
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"Musk transforms Twitter into a Nazi propaganda channel of historic proportions" does seem like a newsworthy story.
Look at the replies to this. Hundreds of paid, "verified" users - who are algorithmically elevated as Twitter's top tier of users - either endorsing Hitler outright or arguing that we should "listen to the speech" or "debate Hitler's ideas." This is who Musk is promoting.
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Once again: will
@DickDurbin
and
@SenateDems
call this witness, and indeed other witnesses, to investigate why a SCOTUS judge raised a flag of insurrection after an attempted coup, and why insurrectionists were counting on the same judge to use his powers to pull of the coup?
Justice Alito’s letter explaining his refusal to recuse in Jan 6th cases may include false statements to Congress (18 USC §1001)
Watch how credible Alito’s neighbor is in her first TV interview
@OutFrontCNN
⤵️
She contradicts his account and cites a police report and witness.
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We do not need a strong Republican Party. We do not need to save the GOP from its overreaches and attempted coups. We do not need to share power and advance bipartisanship wherever possible. We need to dominate US politics to the degree that forces the GOP to reform itself.
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Extraordinary that Kerala is a world leader in pandemic response. Is it a coincidence that it has a left-wing government?
Kerala, India, is implementing “test, trace, isolate, support,” and it is paying off so far. They are working hard to keep case numbers low. What can we learn from them? A short thread. 1/5
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This leads to disastrous miscalculations. In Hochul World, satisfying the secret machine bargain underlying the
#LaSalle
nomination > respecting the wishes of the party base. That might have worked when Cuomo was gov & his IDC gave GOP control of the NY Senate. But not anymore.
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New York City has millions of fired-up partisans from across the ideological spectrum, waiting for a NY leader of integrity and purpose to get behind. Hochul would seem no have conception of, or interest in, their existence or their strength of feeling. They are *in her way.*
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Another way to view this: if Dems locked up the political loyalty of under 45s, GOP would very soon have nowhere to run. Extraordinary that this isn't a priority.
I’d be less condescending to young voters if I were you. 18-29 year olds are the reason Biden is president. They made up 17% of the electorate.
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As the GOP's push to one-party rule intensifies, there seems no escaping the conclusion that a number of senior Democrats, disoriented and traumatized by years of compromise and defeat, need to stand down in favor of new faces who are ready and able to do partisan battle.
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Every indication that the media is preparing to celebrate, explicitly or tacitly, an authoritarian Trump term. The concept of the Fourth Estate feels like it's about to collapse. All the J-school homiliies, all the Press Correspondents Dinners, all the Tocqueville quotes...
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Amazing scoop by Detroit News. Reveals not only Trump’s personal involvement but also that of RNC head Ronna McDaniel, confirming that the coup was attempted by *the Republican Party* for the benefit of the R candidate.
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Garland has appeased the Republican Party at every turn. He not only authorized 3 special counsels demanded by the GOP (to continue investigating Mueller, and start looking into Biden Sr, and Biden Jr) but delayed Jack Smith's appointment until it was only too late.
They got EXACTLY what they wanted, and now they’re saying it’s not enough. This is goal post moving for the ages.
Republicans who demanded special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden aren’t satisfied - The Washington Post
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Dems have a very tough to beat base. If we could clean house at the top of the party and empower sensible, clear-eyed, in-tune-with-the-grassroots fighters like Ben Wikler, Dems would win even more.
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This is not only laudable, it's smart policing. Again: what is the rationale of NYPD's strategy of flooding the streets and staging confrontations with peaceful marchers? Who authorized this strategy? Who is calling the shots?
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Transcendentally bizarre, quasi-celebratory way to report on Trump's corruption and intimidation of witnesses. What the hell is going on the Times?
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This should be the stance of every Democratic elected official in a blue state.
I will do everything in my power to gerrymander the living daylights out of Minnesota until the Supreme Court cries uncle and makes partisan gerrymandering illegal
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A lot dispirited Dem infighting on here, superficially about the Trump Court scandalously helping Trump, but more profoundly about the near-total absence of adversarial energy, aka fight, in the White House or Capitol Hill.
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How does this work in practice?
1. You adopt a master narrative: "the Republican Party has gone crazy & extreme. At all costs vote D"
2. You verify the narrative with the torrent of batshit stuff that comes out every day
3. You mercilessly repeat the narrative.
Democrats should be on offense against Trump and the GOP, on everything, all the time, in the strongest language they can muster. That’s literally the only thing that breaks through on a national scale
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The Morning Joe scandal is a foretaste of the Vichy MSM in the Trump era, with corporate media bosses ideologically sympathizing with or intimidated by the GOP. Critics of the Republican Party will be marginalized, punished, and finally silenced.
“We were very surprised. We were very disappointed.” Joe Scarborough expresses frustration with NBC News for pulling Morning Joe from the air Monday. (Video: MSNBC)
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Another huge opening for Biden to (accurately) characterize the political struggle in the US as a fight between light and dark, progress and barbarity, reason and madness.
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Brilliant example of how the GOP, *working with nothing,* manufactured and drove the news, drowned out Biden's economic celebrations, strengthened the trust of its base, sent quaking DC Dems hiding under their chairs.
For
@haaretzcom
, I wrote how Claudine Gay's resignation—despite her plagiarism and timid response in Congress—isn't a victory for those concerned with antisemitism, but rather a huge win for the McCarthyist right in their manufactured culture wars.
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Pretty clear that Netanyahu is intentionally, strategically, calculatedly doing everything he can to hand the election to Trump.
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Trump or USA? It's either one or other. That is the choice that D leaders should be talking about on the TV right now.
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The structural problem here is that Dems simply have no political operations unit--nobody charged with running and strategizing year-round, adversarial, partisan hardball. Whereas the GOP has FOX, the RNC, etc. *Why* this state of affairs persists is a whole story.
That all of America doesn’t know LaPierre’s name is again testimony to the failure of Dem messaging. Think of all the randos that Republicans have successfully turned into hate figures and boogeymen over the decades - but LaPierre stayed relatively unknown to ordinary Americans.
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It's time for ordinary Ds to start ignoring Biden & Harris and follow the lead of
@ewarren
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I want to talk about some very concrete next steps now that Roe v. Wade is gone—where we can go on offense as well as defense in our fight for the right to an abortion. Here’s a quick thread:
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Hochul is self-immolating. No Democratic official can have cops manhandling members of her base like this.
@GovKathyHochul
showed up to Sunset Park and not only used MLK legacy but also Sunset park community as pawns to push her conservative judge. And the worst part was she brought police with her and kicked out a respected, afro-latina leader who belongs to the church.
#NoLaSalle
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It's a serious political underperformance by Dems that shock and outrage about the attempted coup has pretty much been monopolized by the faction that supported the coup.
Rep. Ashley Hinson: "Everyday Americans are concerned that they are gonna be next" (how many everyday Americans conspire to overthrow the government?)
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We have a Vichy press.
Pretty clear that, on top of both-sides stuff, DC media are intimidated and/or corrupted by the Republican Party and this has produced bizarrely subservient coverage of Trump's explicit promises to act like a dictator, a subservience that would only worsen if he took office.
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This thread outlines the basic, doable, noncontroversial, healthily partisan, moderate, confidence-inspiring political action plan that we need.
Here’s how Dems can + must do more than wait for an election.
Let’s start w/ why:
- 7 of the 9 justices were appointed by a party that hasn’t won a popular vote more than once in 30 years
- 1 of those seats was stolen
- Several lied to Congress to secure their appointment…
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Not really. Experience teaches that a NYT-led, in effect pro-Trump non-scandal defamatory of Harris is one of the chief perils faced by the Harris campaign.
The number of high-status posters who think the New York Times is out to get Kamala Harris is a bit disturbing tbh.
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Occasionally we catch full sight of the Christianic nihilism--a quasi-theological desire to destroy the world--that underlies so much of the contemporary American right.
Family found dead in Pennsylvania made a 'joint decision' to kill themselves, police say
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Republicans remain loyal to a leader who attempted a coup and stole nuclear secrets for private gain. That is an outrage and should be treated as such.
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Zelensky is showing up a lot of so-called leaders in the USA right now, in particular the old fools and petty careerists who insist that ordinary people are not interested in the rise of fascism and will only respond to messaging about potholes and supply chains.
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This is an important point that the hand wringers don't get. Either Trump is (correctly) disqualified by a GOP SCOTUS--good news; or the GOP SCOTUS (corruptly) ignores the Constitution, firing up Dems.
It's unlikely Trump would've been removed from the ballot for any state he might've actually won. I suppose he wants to prevent MI, WI, or PA from booting him, but the SCOTUS ruling in his favor only further motivates the Democratic vote.
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At some point the radicalization of the 'law enforcement' community will threaten the U.S.
NEW: Members of the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Operations Division heckled former Officer Mike Fanone at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, Fanone tells me.
“They called me a piece of shit and mockingly called me a great fucking hero while clapping," he said.
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If we're going to have some kind Truth & Reconciliation Commission, this would be the perfect guy to head it.
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.
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Honestly it's quite possible that future historians will simply conclude that a historically smug cohort of self-involved old fools came to occupy the top D positions at precisely the wrong time --the Worst Generation theory.
As SCOTUS ends term, I asked
@WhipClyburn
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"Who am I to tell somebody to retire?...I feel fine. I'm still able to play 18 holes in the morning, 18 holes in the afternoon and have a little libations for lunch."
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This won't be possible with the current generation of DC Dem leaders. Schumer, Biden, Durbin, Hoyer, Pelosi & see the GOP as the natural party of government & GOP judges as natural custodians of SCOTUS. Others inc. Jeffries, are 'transactional' pols happy to receive GOP $$.
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