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Responses are all just validations of the mommy/daddy party theory. They can't be bothered to give the first fuck that Trump and MAGA voters used their agency to decimate Medicaid but are spitting anger that someone would suggest Dems not clean up the mess after they punch themselves in the face.
And ‘closing rural hospitals frequented almost exclusively by rural senior citizens will mainly kill democrats’ is one of the stupidest sentences ever posted on this site.
There is polling on this! White rural Medicaid recipients voted heavily for Trump! This is not unknown.
A new paper by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin has found that countries where men take on more of the household labor and child care — in other words, those who buck traditionalism’s standards of the provider husband and homemaker wife — have higher fertility rates.
I was just writing some notes about this for myself. There are two basic approaches: 1) Break the power of the court, or 2) capture its power from the radical right. Capture is technically easiest: just expand with a Dem president to appoint 5-7 new justices. Straightforward, but yes, arms race.
Breaking its power means changing how it operates. "Circuit-izing" the court by expanding it & having it hear cases on randomly selected panels weakens it by dividing it internally. Adding members randomly from the circuits also; so does reforming the cert power to abolish the shadow docket.
When - looking back at 30 years of post-Gingrich midterms - a thermostatic reaction to a president who won with 43 percent of the vote was almost inevitable, especially if he was trying to enact major changes to health care and spent his entire first two years getting backstabbed by Blue Dogs.
They really believe that kitchen table caused the 1994 midterm backlash.
Harry and Louise sitting at their kitchen table killed Hillarycare in 1993 (back when anyone knew what this means) and elderly Dem electeds have thought ever since that it was the table that was the silver bullet and can't stop trying to recreate it. Sheer gerontocratic cargo cult all the way down.
Policy-wise. I’ll try to drop a link.
Studies of under 30s like the Harvard study have consistently showed over the last two years that - regardless of who they vote for - Gen Z men are the most progessive cohort of men ideologically (overall).
They could lose their lack of self-respect and that means more than anything in the world to them.
Literally true for my kids
Yeah like when someone attends a protest whose subtext is that Evanston’s large historic black community, which rich whites have been trying shove out for years, doesn’t belong there and she doesn’t apologize after then she stops becoming a lot of people’s cup of tea.
These people were saying to the west side “there’s already a nice Popeye’s across Howard in the city you can go to and feel free to move there if you’re more comfortable.” Kat going back to the city to eat Popeye’s is literally what that protest was telling people to do.
Unfortunately I’ve been denied the original tweet
Because they love electeds who suck.
same day his girlfriend picked a fight with a black alderman over whether a Popeyes would ruin a suburb already filled with fast food restaurants evanstonnow.com/candidate-st...
Those comments about 'Popeye's doesnt fit in our community" are a lot more ominous when you know Evanston has a large black population basically centered around the location of the proposed store and that it already is littered with fast food restaurants. data.census.gov/profile/Evan...
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Who are these New Deal gladhanders? The New Deal consensus certainly sputtered both politically and policy-wise in the 70s but Carter, Mondale and Dukakis were all anti-New Deal proto New Dems and many of their staffers went on to found the DLC.
Saint Louis has an enormous French quarter that looks just like New Orleans
Just go to Carl’s
This is one of the greatest maps I have ever seen
Third: The text of the Constitution promises that appointment to the federal judiciary is for “good behavior,” which is a term with a commonly accepted meaning at the time that can be redefined. Moreover, it says being a federal judge is a good behavior gig—not the circuit or role.
I’m just saying that we could absolutely make 18 year terms for SCOTUS justices by rotating them off of the court and onto another circuit.
1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state. 2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
The administration and some senators believed at the time that the statute could be applicable, they just didn't have blocking this sale as a priority. Stancil is not covering new ground or going out on a limb here. www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
Um, many people - including the Biden Administration and some senators, did read the statute and believe it applied at the time, they just didn't bother to do anything? www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
No one has a problem with this concept when they want a piece of sending out the same mail piece 14 times or running the same ad on Jeopardy so many times it makes seniors’ arms start to go numb when they hear it again.
He left office with a 10 percent approval rating.
Religion aside: Cooper is also a member of the Presbyterian Church (USA), a tradition that openly ordains LGBTQ folks. Also among their number is Rep. Sarah McBride who, in addition to being the first openly trans person elected to Congress, is an ordained PC(USA) elder.
If you're worried America is too racist I've got bad news about most every other society on earth for you.
Cooper's church, Presbyterian Church USA, is extremely supportive of LGBT and trans rights and has been marrying gays for 25+ years.
Presbyterians were marrying gays 25 years ago.
Exactly. He's a Presbyterian. His denomination is supportive of trans rights.
He attends a liberal church. Presbyterians support LGBT and trans-rights. He cited his faith in opposing the bathroom bill. That is the church he has chosen to align himself with.
Cooper is a Sunday School teacher at a liberal presbyterian church. The Presbyterian church (USA) is supportive of LGBT issues and trans rights. For that matter, North Carolina is heavily Presbyterian. Getting triggered by him mentioning his faith is just bigotry.
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."
No way - you're saying the Hot Dog Heiress doesn't have an authentic grasp of what makes for effective vocational training or how to actually connect with the working class? Must not teach that at Cranwell.
This is the lady who spends all her time defending Jared Golden!
Senate Dem leadership staff has gone from mocking anyone who didn't love Schumer's CR strategy to calling for Sherman's march to the sea in the space of three months.
*the story* is evidence of wrongdoing
That’s WSJ’s publisher
I know it's not as heroic as not bothering to try to run the clock out on NPR/PBS cuts because you have a flight to catch, but what would the opportunity costs of trying to hound Trump from office even be?
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."
Except for Roberts are they not approved simply as judges, not supreme court judges, thus after 20 years (or whatever) could be rotated off (and not fired as judges)? www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...
*2010. 2014 the Dems were polling largely even on generic ballot but had a turnout collapse. 2010 they were polling 0 (and had a turnout collapse).
Gave me PTSD. Couldnt watch it.
guess who was the head of the party www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
The fact that he had an extremely weak showing his first time and only snuck across the finish line through gobs of cash (and this was recently) should be a clue here for him.
They would rather die as an organization (or die trying) than change. These people aren’t completely stupid. They are intransigent.
and then they faceplant!
In any other city you wouldn't have to be running to the state for permission on core municipal functions unless you needed money. Enjoy.
I think we’re going to see that a majority of Cuomo votes were working class voters who voted for him mainly because they got a palm card from their local party organization saying Cuomo was the Democratic Party candidate. Well, in November he’s literally not the Dem candidate.
That absolutely looks like an average piece of furniture that could be in any household in Iowa. Bring him home and set him free at a resale shop where he would be fought over, if necessary.
NBA talk is for GOTV. NFL and College Basketball is for the swing voters.
Its really a Daley machine cargo cult. Entire Vallas campaign consisted of old Daley hacks doing exactly what they did in the 90s, shouting down anyone who said they update priors, trying to summon back the old magic and a resoration, which they KNOW is coming, because they are the natural order.
Exactly. The old establishment has an attitude of (and you can see it in the Trib/Crain's every day) we opposed you and you affronted us by winning decisively and yet somehow you haven't come crawling back to do whatever we want, how vile (and confusing).
Constant anti-Johnson drumbeat from a media and business elite that hysterically opposed him in the first place. He hasn't really done anything that could upset anyone, because he has made no real changes. He doesn't have the smoothest relationship with city council members in the anti-Johnson bloc.
Johnson has basically done nothing good OR bad. No big changes. Slim governing majority that deserts him any time he tries to do anything besides pass a (largely status quo) budget. Record hotel revenues last year, office vacancy down. The argument appears to be he's destroyed Chicago by existing.
The Democratic Party has much more capacity to discipline the mainstream media than the mainstream media has to discipline the Democratic Party; they just refuse to use this leverage because it is more important to them to have the media’s assistance in their shared goal of disciplining the left.
this post reminded me, masked vigilantes were such a scourge that Congress made it a felony to "go in disguise upon the public highway" for the purpose of interfering with the free exercise of constitutional rights in the Enforcement Act of 1870
Idk if this law is still on the books, but if it is, Dems could promise to enforce it the moment they have power again and significantly change the incentive structure faced by ICE agents
This is why no one ever just put a COLA on the minimum wage. That was the exact thinking of previous Dem congresses.
He's declaring himself Chicken Luther King and that with your tweets you are blocking the school entrance eating a box of Chicken Fries and thinks this is a sick burn on YOU. Solid BlueSky work by all.
"75 Democrats broke ranks to join Republicans voting for a House resolution, which expressed gratitude for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other law enforcement officers." www.newsweek.com/democrats-ic...
The key is to actually give a fuck and use your stunts to try to stop these policies for real. You re not formulaic and stale unless you’re formulaic and stale.
Lol
That implies that they are on our side and that eventually, if they could just get past their concerns that everyone is doing it wrong, they would finally be against what Trump is doing.
That's only true if you look at the House vote. Dems WON the Senate and Governor vote in 2022 (aka everything at the top of the ticket). They did worse top of the ticket in 2024 than 2022, in Senate, Governor and local races as well as president. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Un...
Dems have been complaining for decades about poisoned information environments (finger on the scale in elections) in towns with a conservative newspaper, then towns with a Sinclair station/where the diner puts on Fox News. But ask them to think systematically about that and apparently its unserious.
If you're saying that voters couldn't get around to backlashing on inflation in 22' when it was there because they were busy backlashing on abortion...yeah, that's the theory.
306 EV and a 5 point victory is pretty landslide-y for this political era, nearly as many EV as Obama 2012 and better than Republicans had done in more than 30 years.
It is not the job of a good message to say what is popular. It is the job of a good message to make popular what we need said.
You don’t get to choose! Whining that what your opponent wants to talk about is a distraction from what you want to talk about instead of doing something about it just shows weakness!
The consensus Business Elite view in major cities is that Republicans are crazy but that doesn’t change the fact that Democrats are icky.
That's how it worked with the grand centrist abortion compromise, right?
Useless useless useless useless useless useless useless useless
Klein can pretend to be shocked, shocked, that there is gambling in the casino but we don't have to believe him.
Klein's whole schtick for years has been attacking "Everything Bagel Liberalism" aka undoing Bidenism and shutting out "The Groups." He's repeatedly interviewed Crypto co-conspirator David Shor on his podcast to pretend his mouth farts make sense (when are we getting those 60 R senators?).
The LAST thing you want when whipping votes for a difficult budget bill is chaos. It gives members an out to disappear. You want discipline and order and everyone marching forward. Unless they draw blood, your opponents’ whining you are passing your stated agenda ain’t that chaos.
Probably not going to flee, but it’s the only way to try to blow things up. There are ways to run a strong campaign against this budget but “HOnOR ThE KiTCHEN TaBLE” ain’t it.
Chaos and bad media/vibes is what blows up something like this. You can do it by weakly complaining about Medicare cuts and hoping it hits or the rats can flee when they see mom and dad are fighting and distracted and there is no one to keep them in line or protect them from their disgusting voted.
But do *Senate Dems* think this is real and consequential or is this the next play to shut down opposition to Trump after telling people to stop talking about Abrego Garcia? What have they done to shut down things like this besides…pass Trump’s CR?
Yesterday I had to red pill a friend with a reliably liberal voting record about trusting the NY Times. It’s another reminder how much of an outlier liberals who understand the NY Times being a problem is.
And Republicans have been getting slaughtered in elections in Iowa this year.
And they matter when someone might be receptive to hearing them and having them organize their perceptions. IN/MO-Sen gaffes would fall flat now. The environment today is 7-8 points more Dem than when she beat a mediocre candidate by 6 points. Rs have been collapsing in elections across Eastern IA.
Here’s the thing: I think a genuinely adversarial stance would actually draw a bigger audience. Call me crazy. I think there’s an appetite for it, and not for this bland crap that focuses on settling scores with out of office democrats
You don't think "No charges of embezzlement or financial misconduct were ever filed against Joni Ernst or her father" isn't a banger of a campaign slogan? www.thegazette.com/campaigns-el...
With all the NYT hayseed porn since 2016, it's easy to forget that over the last 20 years Iowans have LOVED violent political swings. Maybe they want to ride that dragon yet again!
You don't say?
"Don't they know the Supreme Court ruled that my sources have immunity from prosecution?"
He - just like the rest of CNN - barely HAS an audience.
It is not smart politics. See the Democratic party’s turnout problems from the 1980s until 2018 (and in 2024!).
Lol nothing says "i care about poor people and minorities" like retweeting a Koch brothers front.
Either young men have started doing the grocery shopping for their families or it's not a coincidence that 2020-2024 demographic changes mirror almost exactly what you'd expect if you said to your model, "Take Biden's #s and price in what racism & misogyny would do to them if we ran a black lady!"