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Gaius🇺🇸 retweeted
"Candidate quality" is by and large just a talking point that is effectively used to muzzle conservatives, and most conservatives fall for it. It is insufficient and a distraction from Republicans' real disadvantages.
I am not saying candidate quality doesn't matter, but it's mostly marginal.
When Dems have "bad" candidates (Jones 2025, AES 2026, Fetterman 2022), they generally still win albeit by a slightly lesser margin than the "better" candidate on the same ticket.
When Republicans have "bad" candidates (Moore 2017, Graham 2026) red states are flipped and it's catastrophic.
Democrats have ballot harvesting, an extremely loyal voter base, and the entirety of the media narrative on their side to mitigate devastating losses and pummel "bad" Republicans.
Republicans need to compete on voter loyalty, ballot harvesting, and offense against opponents if they want to win elections. You can spend all your energy trying to find "perfect" candidates, and you'll either lose anyway and/or lose the entirety of your platform.
Gaius🇺🇸 retweeted
Don't hire a Press Secretary and just let Stephen Miller come out once a week to talk about deportations
“They’re clearly lying and we were cyber-attacked but also we shouldn’t spend money to fortify the infrastructure.”
Thank God you’re not in Congress anymore, you dumb bitch.
This press conference is unreal bullshit. It’s literally like a shakedown for more money.
Basically they are saying,
Hey guys, relax it’s just our “old antiquated systems and old hardware” that went down causing a communication crisis that forced FAA to ground all airplanes in America.
Sec Duffy is demanding more of your hard earned tax dollars to fix it.
Paying all your taxes, which is like $5.7 TRILLION DOLLARS per year is NOT enough!!!
He is demanding $50 billion immediately to fix systems so that we can all safely fly.
I mean it doesn’t matter to any of them that the US Congress and every administration has spent like $15 trillion on foreign wars over the past 25 years but yeah you guys gotta fork over 50 billion more dollars so they can finally fix something in America.
Oh, and by the way, according to Markwayne Mullins, this is a national security risk so Congress needs to handover the money is what he is saying.
They are claiming it’s not a cyber attack, even though there’s been plenty of cyber attacks happening like freezers in Europe, blood banks, Microsoft literally yesterday and more, but they are claiming this is not a cyber attack just “old out of date systems” that the American people have to fork over more fucking money so that we can actually be safe to fly on an airplane.
But these guys are perfectly fine with their boss, President Trump, demanding another $350 billion for the military so he can have more weapons to go bomb Iran.
This is the biggest fuck you to the American people. I’ve never seen anything so pathetic in my life!
We are over $40 trillion in debt and the American people are always put last. Our money is stolen sent to foreign countries and wasted on nonstop bullshit that never helps make our country any better.
Thank God, no one got hurt today, but I am shocked they turned this press conference into a shakedown of more money from the already broke American people!
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Trying to find more information about this FAA grounding announcement and every single search result is a quote tweet from a retard prophesying the end of the world.
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It’s very reassuring that Miller understands the problems with the tyranny of the partisan judiciary in this country.
I worked with Stephen Miller every day. He’s going to fail. Catastrophically. open.substack.com/pub/defian…
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