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The GOP does not have a problem bringing out their base.
This galvenizes their base away from actual issues like the economy to a moral panic issue that’s much easier for them to defend.
Their base can feel morally superior defending “the children” than trying to defend $6 / dozen eggs.
When I was younger (like late 20s), I remember watching an infomercial about the power of trading stocks. It was a “CD/DVD kit” where they teach you how to make money trading penny stocks and shit like that.
I remember talking about it with a co-worker and he said something like, “If they really made all that money, why would they have to sell the kit?”
My response was, “Maybe they want other people to know how to do it to.”
That conversation lives rent free in my brain because I realized years later that that’s what business school is: a bunch of people telling people how to run a business profitably. If they could make money doing it, they wouldn’t be teaching it.
I know that’s not what business school is but damn the analogy still fits.
But will those concerns turn into anything actionable?
It’s legal when a Republican President does it.
Super duper secret illegal when it’s a Democrat.
Democrats showing yet again that they would rather lose support from their most progressive voters than their most moderate swing voters.
My bad. I thought it was wide. I’ll update my post.
I do not trust this fucking administration for one fucking minute.
If you’re able to, vote early in person. If you can’t, vote in person on Election Day. If you still can’t, vote absentee and then deliver your ballot by hand. If you can’t do that, then use the mail.
Look, I’m not saying the post office is bad but it’s clearly questionable whether they’ll “accidentally” lost ballots they get from cities or blue areas.
Early voting starts today in four states. Go fucking vote.
This is something Democrats and the DNC need to understand: Republicans are willing to kill for their beliefs.
Until the DNC stops believing that Republicans will be “reasonable”, Democrats will fail our country. It’s only a matter of time until Trump has his version of the night of the long knives.
I’m going to guess: he’s running as a Republican.
Checks article
Not surprised in the least.
It’s impossible to prove a negative. Even as recently as a month ago, I sent a birthday card to a friend in Germany and she said she hasn’t gotten it yet.
I’ve mailed her letters and cards before and she usually gets them in a week.
I know she isn’t lying.
Imagine if this was a legal notice.
I do understand what your saying but the possibility exists that a legal notice mailed to someone can be lost or misdelivered. The US has process servers where you can hire someone to serve legal papers to someone. In this case, the person notes the time and date of service.
In the absolute worst cases, some courts allow service to occur in a newspaper. This often happens in divorces when one party cannot be located due to abandoning them.
Most of the time in the US, service to their legal residence via certified mail that offers proof of delivery is usually enough for most cases.
I agree that is class war but boomers are enabling the wealthy.
Boomers would rather punish millennials for our avocado toast than see billionaires taxed.
Trump has always suffered from incompetence. Trump v1, we saw this in spades.
During Biden, GOP/alt-right used the four years to consolidate power, find further vulnerabilities, and capitalize on them under Trump v2. GOP fucking wrote what they were going to do and then they fucking did it.
The DNC suffers from wanting to appeal to centralists, the largest bloc of voters that can actually swing an election. They know that progressives and anyone left of the DNC will vote dem because of the fucking two party system.
If progressives want change, NOW is the time to capitalize! Now is the time to support progressive candidates, set up election committees so when the primaries come up in 1.5 years, they will be front and center.
The reason the DNC doesn’t pander to progressives is that we don’t give them a reason to. We start too late. We hem and haw through the primaries, bitching and moaning that we don’t have Jon Stewart. The number of progressives that are breathing a sigh of relief yesterday was palpable. Yes, celebrate the win, but we didn’t “win”. We have an opposition that we can influence more than the other candidate.
We need to fucking take these new politicians to task.
And, at the same time, find even more progressive candidates and encourage them to run. I want more candidates Chris Gallant. We need more Zohran Mamdanis. We need more Allison Montgomerys.
We need more Gen Zs.
I’m fucking tired of the DNC going to progressive candidates and saying they need to stand down because they won’t win. I want progressives to throw the DNC the middle finger and say, “You go left or we’re leaving YOU.” I want the DNC to be the third party.
So yes, take the victory lap everyone. But start looking for progressives NOW to run in two years.
Don’t wait two months before primaries.