As usual, targeting relatively vulnerable demographics for scapegoating: teenage girls and gays. Nice job Republicans.
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As usual, targeting relatively vulnerable demographics for scapegoating: teenage girls and gays. Nice job Republicans.
Another classy move from the dad of Sarah "victim" Sanders.
Another thoughtful, insightful tweet from the former Governor and wannabe heavyweight.
Frankly, he makes such a fool of himself so often you should only get half-credit for pointing these out.
So, the SCOTUS passed Trumps Muslim ban 5-4. Meaning the seat that McConnell stole had the final say. Apparently it passed because it contains a waiver but Sotomayor called this a 'sham'. Apparently no one will be eligible for the waiver!
Nevermind Trump, it's people voting for the current version of the Republican party that blows my mind.
Nevermind Trump, it's people voting for the current version of the Republican party that blows my mind.
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And those who couldn't see any difference between the two candidates.
Why does that fat mess insist on using a title he doesn't have. Governor isn't a life appointment and he hasn't held office in a decade.
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I wouldn’t object to that QUITE so much if they were genuinely held beliefs and genuine tears, but he’s acting, and not even convincingly.
Weeping about “being slave to the lender” and being $20 trillion in debt... but voted yes on the Republican tax cut. Hmmm.
Let’s Be honest you wouldn’t be staggered if there was a sordid scandal in his future would you ?
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I’d be fairly shocked if he’s not either had a homosexual affair or forced a mistress to have an abortion.
Well done to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in NY 14.
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for the Dem old guard!
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for the Dem old guard!
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It is great news. New York Democrats are as corrupt and disinterested as anyone anywhere in the country. They need to be destroyed.
But the real test will be whether candidates like her can win in Red States, not just in districts where hell will freeze and dinosaurs reinherit the earth before a Republican could ever win.
They certainly couldn't do much worse than the apologetic corporate oafs or veterans-for-hire that the Democrats tend to fling against the wall in these places.
Fox News et al will be falling over themselves to spin her background as "Identity Politics" gone mad, even though her policies and public remarks are almost entirely class- and economy-focused.
Unashamedly left-wing candidates like her, who promote a strong economic agenda against the Democratic Party, have a message that the Koch Brothers et al won't want West Virginians to hear.
Maybe purple states but I doubt a candidate like her will win a proper red state any time soon, that's what the Claire McCaskill's of the world are for!
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It's an interesting question.
The majority of voters in places like that have literally never heard a message like hers. Red States are terribly served by Republican government, which in large part explains why they are full of poor people who live in third-world conditions. They are obviously not inclined to support Democrats who offer 85% of the Republican economic agenda, while also seeming to sneer at them for not knowing who Thomas Friedman or Lena Dunham or Emma Sulkowicz is.
I suspect her message might actually cost the Democrats their cherised rich Purple voters - like Chuck Schumer's imaginary Philadelphia suburbanites (who in any case still mostly voted for Trump) - but that it would actually do quite well for them in places like Louisiana, or rural Oklahoma, or West Virginia (which reliably voted Democrat well into the 1990s). A lot of the teachers out on strike were Trump voters. Of course, it remains to be seen... but it not like going with the same vapid centrism yet again is going to produce better results this time either.
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Another thoughtful, insightful tweet from the former Governor and wannabe heavyweight.
Frankly, he makes such a fool of himself so often you should only get half-credit for pointing these out.
Huckabee is a genuine imbecile. He creeps me out.
In other news, SCOTUS dealt a big blow to public-sector unions today. Between it, Masterpiece and the FACT Act case it looks like we'll be in a revived era of 1A scope debate.
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