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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social

A centrist Democratic think tank begs the party to ditch terms that alienate swing voters and help Trump.

aug 22, 2025, 3:59 pm • 22 5

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Ezlifelin @ezlifelin.bsky.social

Damn, republicans are scared of words????!!!!!! All in their feelings, I guess. Little wussy babies.

aug 22, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Loud Mouth @truthsquad.bsky.social

All this will do is piss off left leaning voters in their own party, voters they need to win. Stop blaming marginalized groups for your loss. When you don’t stand for anything people don’t vote for you. The fact that it came from a despised group who then leaked it to Politico is such a WTF. 🤬

aug 22, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Loud Mouth @truthsquad.bsky.social

I agree the language sucks. Swapping out “police reform” for “defund the police” was a marketing nightmare. But centrists keep chasing after swing voters while alienating MILLIONS of democrats. 50% failure rate with centrism. Gore, Kerry, HRC, Harris. GOP running ALL 3 branches by NOT doing this. 🤷‍♀️

aug 22, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Fabian Donato @reliablenarrator.bsky.social

Wait, sounding like a crazy person HURTS your political chances in the USA of the 21st Century?

aug 22, 2025, 5:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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#ORANGEDOOSH @orangedoosh.bsky.social

Totally agree! Only way out of this hell is to have a more centrist platform to bring in more of the moderates/centrists. Otherwise this will never end as extremists will rule this country! #ORANGEDOOSH™

aug 22, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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tdrico @tdrico.bsky.social

Yeah cuz the centrist position really helped in 2024 🙄

aug 22, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 1 • view
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#ORANGEDOOSH @orangedoosh.bsky.social

You think they played the centrist card in the 2024 election? Respectfully disagree. #ORANGEDOOSH™

aug 22, 2025, 5:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Loud Mouth @truthsquad.bsky.social

Did you miss the red carpet roll out for Liz Cheney, the one that went on for a week? What about the weird “I’ll be tougher on the border than Trump” ads? The refusal to be in the same room with supporters of the Palestinians, trans people? I respectfully disagree with your take. 🤷‍♀️

aug 22, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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tdrico @tdrico.bsky.social

How did they not?

aug 22, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bob @mahnkenstein.bsky.social

"Centrist." That is to say, "halfway to fascist."

aug 22, 2025, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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CerealBus @cerealbus.bsky.social

The Overton Window has shifted so far right that I'd say that centrists are more than halfway there.

aug 22, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 1 • view
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Sandie Berners @clny.bsky.social

Fucking stupid

aug 22, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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rob1432.bsky.social @rob1432.bsky.social

Help Rump do what??? Get a third term???? So now we’re just giving up on the constitution??? Fuck Rump!!

aug 22, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pedro Malafaia @phenriquebr.bsky.social

They are being SARCASTIC. If you’re unable to understand sarcasm, dude… He’s never spoken like this before. Is it so hard to understand?

aug 22, 2025, 4:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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Trapped in a Suburban Hellhole @carljanderson.bsky.social

They tried that in 2024, and look what happened. The only people using those terms were the GOP and centrist pundits when they tell the left to "stop using those terms" you've already stopped using Fucking Third way people should be jettisoned to the center of hell with the fury of 1000 suns.

aug 22, 2025, 4:03 pm • 4 0 • view
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KCL655321 @kcl655321.bsky.social

Democrats have been listening to centrist consultant douchebags for 4 decades and all it's led to is a right wing fascist takeover. Fuck those scumbags and listen to the people for once morons.

aug 22, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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Konstitution @konstitution.bsky.social

aug 22, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Erik the Blue @erock81.bsky.social

Funny, "turn your backs on whole groups of underrepresented peoples just to appeal to maga terrorists" does not have the flex these so-called Democrats think it does.

aug 22, 2025, 4:24 pm • 2 1 • view
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dazz-sands.bsky.social @dazz-sands.bsky.social

Fuck centrists! Hardcore Trump voters are never going to vote for democrats. The majority of white people haven't voted for Democrats since the civil Rights act of 1964.

aug 22, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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mcalifornica.bsky.social @mcalifornica.bsky.social

If only Starbucks had put a wreath on their holiday cups all those years ago, none of this would have happened

aug 22, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view