Professor of ye 18th century letters. "I have been in such a Twitter my self before now" (S. Centlivre, 1707). Opinions mine + at no one's behest. He/him/his
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Not sure the ancient Greeks never came up with this but a nation ruled by assholes would be a "proctocracy"
In Trump's head there is a short list of countries that matter because they're powerful, and he doesn't really update the list, and every other country is supposed to bow before them and thank their lucky stars they haven't been destroyed by the Powerful Country Club yet.
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The midterm take I hate most is that Republicans lost more than Democrats won. Every midterm is a referendum on the party in power, but you don’t put up Dem numbers without good candidate recruitment, fundraising and messaging from Congressional leadership.
Apparently acknowledging so is too much for a segment of the punditry and the political left, who have spent week trashing Democratic leaders anyway.
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I really have come to believe that Bernie style progressives convinced themselves politics is easy and Democrats haven’t been trying, rather than learn politics is actually hard. Great example here where a Senator Elect has no idea his own party has been making gains in Boise for years
El-Sayed: Does anybody organize in Boise, Idaho? No, not even Republicans. Why? Because it's assumed that they're gonna win, and so they don't have to do any work anyway.
So what would happen if we actually showed up and said, I think you need a union and healthcare. What would happen? I'd love to see it. We should do that.
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The mayor of Boise, Idaho is Lauren McLean who has served in the role since 2020. Despite the position of Mayor being non-partisan Mayor McLean identifies as a Democrat.
ballotpedia.org/Lauren_McLean
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I’m just a regular dude w/a regular job who doesn’t make millions of dollars running a “Democratic party bad” content farm. If what I say hurts Jon and Elijah’s feelings then I must not be the only person who thinks this way. They’re free to ignore me and go about their days.
ISTM El-Sayed is saying that Biden had a bad policy because woke activist groups were being loud, which the kind of people who like El-Sayed don’t usually like to hear, so maybe his real talent is to say things that his stans don’t hold against him
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You’d think that in the Democratic Party pushing a candidate who committed sexual assault, threatened staffers and had horrendous political judgment would end their career, but for some reasons the bros at Pod Save America think this guy deserves another chance
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So this is just a total lie. Talarico and Roy Cooper both did better among men 18-29.
interesting how much focus there was on winning young men in 2024, but when abdul el-sayed is the senate candidate who performed best with men aged 18-29 of all races, suddenly crickets
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Exit polls show James Talarico received about 70% support from men 18-29 in Texas, Roy Cooper about 65% in North Carolina, versus Abdul El-Sayed's 66% in Michigan per NBC News.
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Because there is a shitty insurgent war in the Democratic Party waged by rapidly middle-aging former Obama staffers who refuse to grapple with the reality that:
1) they're no longer the young upstarts, and
2) Obama had wayyyy more to do with their success than they did for him
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Pundits on here have almost zero exposure to actual Dem messaging.
Most of America never saw these ads, but if you were in Mississippi... you couldn't wait for a new @scott_colom ad to drop. His wife, Nadia, was a 🗝 figure in showing support, partnership, and bringing your attention to his campaign in the earlier days.💙
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Yep. The left is constantly looking for their New Savior figure.
First it was Mamdani. Then it was Graham Platner. And then when that all went to shit, they hard pivoted to Abdul. And now he's literally the only thing they care about.
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It is confusing to me that Chuck Schumer, who quarterbacked much of the Democrats’ midterm strategy, is being pilloried in some Democratic spaces while Morris Katz is being given elite platforms for reputation repair despite having a provably awful theory of the midterm case
A fascinating CrookedCon tidbit from Dem strategist @katz_morris, who said that on the IE side for Talarico, they ran digital ads targeting people googling things like “my husband cheated on me” or “I think my husband is cheating on me” 👀
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Has anyone considered that maybe Democratic leaders would be more popular if the left didn’t irrationally hate Democrats like the right does?
Chuck Schumer is legitimately one of the least popular politicians in the country right next to Trump himself.
The American people voted for change and that's exactly what we should deliver. To keep the exact same leaders would be to spit in their faces.
Schumer has been Senate Majority Leader before, he is extremely experienced, but there is the practical reality of perception and what voters expect from us.
Jeffries is going to be the Speaker and I hope he represents us well, but Schumer already has a handful of Democratic Senators, like Elissa Slotkin and Adam Hamilton, questioning his viability.
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Never understood the attack on "slacktivism" and performative empathy of Faith No More's "We Care A Lot" more than I do today. Decades before social media allowed people who tell everyone they "care a lot". TikTok's motto should be "It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it".
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It's just sad. These people literally only cared about this one race. They made it their entire personality. Their entire existence.
Dems doing well outside of it is both an impediment to their worldview and are clearly upset by it. Everyone else has been elated, while they've been spending all their time lying and taking gratuitous pot shots at Thuh Libs.
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Now that the midterms are over, let me correct the record.
-I never took a penny from AIPAC. Those claiming otherwise, when they knew better, were playing to the old Jewish dual allegiance trope.
-I wasn't handpicked by Chuck Schumer. I didn't even talk to the man until after I announced.
I’m not sure exactly what a corporate or establishment Dem is, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a first-time candidate or a career military guy. Call me a moderate, I’ll take it. I always think big, but I don’t let idealism get in the way of getting a job done. I’m practical and would take Medikids and lower age limits for Medicare to expand healthcare and drive down costs over nothing at all. In 2028 after a Dem trifecta, I expect bold moves.
-Be an asshole and call me a carpetbagger! So I moved here four years ago, AFTER SERVING IN THE U.S. ARMY FOR 21 years. I'm here with my family, raising my daughter, and caring for my elderly parents in SoFlo. I decided to run because it was clear that the midterms would trigger a Blue Tsunami, because Trump sucks. And I saw a path to win the general election. I jumped-in to help. Call it a call to serve. Same one from a lifetime of service.
Let's just say I was very skeptical, because hey its Florida, but I wasn't going to sit on my ass when the stakes were so high.
No I didn’t move to Florida to run for Senate! 🙄
-I have some regrets, but even in losing, I delivered 1.5M to Florida candidates and to races that would have otherwise been left short-changed. I feel that in some small way I pitched in to help break the super majorities in the Florida House and Senate.
-I invested 3M total campaigns and parties around the country including Iowa, Ohio, Alaska, etc., including in Kansas and South Carolina when few were looking there.
-I wish I had chosen to outspend Angie 20, 10, or even 5 to 1 on the primary. I only spent 2:1 on the primary. Obviously a HUGE mistake. I was too focused on defeating Moody and building real democratic power.
-Angie was tireless in making her case to primary voters, while I was trying to connect with potential crossover voters without first securing my base.
-I neglected to heed the old maxim always fight and finish the battle in front of you.
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I like others assumed maybe Democrats could convince Trump to pass a couple of things, but yeah, when the brain damaged old President is being led around by this guy and his weird printer girl for 2 years I don’t think so.
