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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social

For clarity to the noobs: my problem is the stage setting of negativity towards Dems for hypothetical future acts. I'm a New Yorker. We have first dibs on the...

aug 31, 2025, 11:17 am • 5 0

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Edgar Allan Crow @agnotology.bsky.social

A problem I would love to avoid: a future Democratic Party stacked with Chuck Schumer clones.

aug 31, 2025, 11:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social

Chuck Schumer has stymied the GOP. I don't want only Schumers, but you need to start respecting what Congressional leadership does.

aug 31, 2025, 11:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Edgar Allan Crow @agnotology.bsky.social

There is no requirement for entertainment here, but what fault do you find with my analogy? Let’s be specific, then. I understand the limitations of representation in a minority scenario. Let’s ask the SPD how well following procedure fared against the DAP once opposition was outlawed in 1933.

aug 31, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Edgar Allan Crow @agnotology.bsky.social

Relying on a log-jam for flood control makes sense only so long as water does not continue to rise and the presumption that it will recede in some finite period of time. When the logjam breaks, the logs become projectiles downstream.

aug 31, 2025, 11:34 am • 0 0 • view
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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social

Stop analogizing yourself into a frame that is fantasy. With a minority, there are limitations. You want Schumer unleashed? Jeffries unleashed? Give them majorities. Everything else is you lying to yourself about fairy dust. I'm not entertaining this line further. It's dumb and it wastes my time.

aug 31, 2025, 11:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Edgar Allan Crow @agnotology.bsky.social

I hope we all continue to enjoy that privilege. I remember expressing opinion very in line with your own back in 2016 or so, before we went so far off the rails. I failed to observe that the trajectory was set decades earlier. Not only was this planned, it was aided & abetted. Thanks, though.

aug 31, 2025, 11:57 am • 0 0 • view
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Plato Karamazov @platokaramazov.bsky.social

Party in the streets as his hearse rolls by

aug 31, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view