Kamala's team shouldn't have muzzled Walz. Mocking the Republicans was working, and they stopped for some reason. Newsom is picking it back up now finally.
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Fundamentally, a country where things like that make a difference when the alternative is fascism, is a country that will fall into fascism no matter what. You may squeeze a victory once and but it is not sustainable. Every campaigns makes mistakes and people forget if they win…
aug 31, 2025, 1:05 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, it's sad we're in this state, but the Supreme Court put us here.
aug 31, 2025, 1:06 am • 2 0 • view
And voters put us here by giving Rs the Senate in 2014. It always comes down to voters choice (until full blown dictatorship)
aug 31, 2025, 1:10 am • 1 0 • view
I think coddling voters is at least a contributing factor. But also, what we see here now is happening in UK and EU as well: rabid anti-immigration anti-other sentiment by people raised to feel entitled. It’s not this candidate or that strategy. It’s more fundamental, and alarmingly so
aug 31, 2025, 1:13 am • 1 0 • view
I understand the impulse to blame x or y mistake as opposed to fuck 50 of my fellow citizens are bad people. The latter is a lot more depressing and a lot harder to fix. Which is why l am so despondent- l think it’s the latter
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Several years ago I watched a documentary about Steve Bannon. He has gone all over the world peddling right-wing politics.
aug 31, 2025, 2:14 am • 1 0 • view
…if they lose people obsess about this or that “mistake” as if it made a difference. I think it’s like obsessing over that one an extra ice-cream eaten before a heart attack killed you. The clogging of the arteries is the fundamental reason, not the last ice-cream.
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