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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | January 08, 2025 01:07am |
In fairness, Canada has natural resources and healthcare.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | December 15, 2024 06:24pm |
Delusional.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | December 09, 2024 09:34am |
Happy Birthday
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | December 07, 2024 03:29pm |
His replacement will be worse.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | December 04, 2024 11:58am |
Weird journey from a Biden-Duarte district to a Trump-Gray one.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 23, 2024 11:25pm |
Graham would have just lost in some different ways than Gillum ended up doing.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 21, 2024 10:43pm |
Bread & Butter & Bacon & Beans
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 20, 2024 12:29pm |
Happy Birthday
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 20, 2024 12:27pm |
Harris didn't run on identity politics during her approximately 100 day Presidential campaign, sure. But she clearly didn't shake off the image of being the "woke crusader" she had established herself as in the 2020 primary.
No one was making up her statement on being in favor of taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal aliens in prison. That was just a genuinely out-of-touch statement of hers from 2019.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 17, 2024 03:22pm |
No one was going to take her seriously after those disastrous 2024 polls.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 17, 2024 10:15am |
Alaska's "independent streak" over. Partisan hack state like most.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 15, 2024 06:12pm |
This will definitely help with that whole "win back the working class" thing.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 13, 2024 07:52pm |
Uncharacteristically reasonable pick from Trump. Gabbard is qualified and has been consistent in her views on foreign policy.
Frankly if she had never made a party switch and hadn't been so prominent on Fox News I don't think the left would have had such a problem with her in a Harris administration. This could be a good way to taper some of the neocon elements present in the rest of the cabinet.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 11, 2024 11:52am |
Democrats are going to have to target red states over the next several cycles. They don't have any other choice.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 11, 2024 11:28am |
AOC and Trump share common ground on trade. As the Democratic Party has moved increasingly towards suburbanite finger-wagging on tariffs, however, that has changed the traditional dynamics of working-class voting habits when it specifically involves a pro-tariff Republican and anti-tariff rhetoric from Harris.
At the end of the day, tariffs appeal to working-class voters. They just do. You can try to tell them they're too uneducated to understand why tariffs are bad for them, but you will never win votes trying to persuade people that their intuition is wrong.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 11, 2024 10:58am |
Harris won't run again. But Newsom almost certainly will, and as he is the closest thing to an AI-generated politician would be a disaster.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 11, 2024 08:52am |
Happy Birthday 🎂
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 10, 2024 08:34pm |
In retrospect this was a very important caucus.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 09, 2024 03:24pm |
Keeping their powder dry for the lobster flag.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 08, 2024 04:57pm |
Who is Merenda?
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 08, 2024 12:55pm |
Low information voters are king-makers.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 08, 2024 12:03am |
I don't think Kinzinger is accusing Harris specifically of trying to alienate men, so much as the general culture of the left since 2014 when pronouns, cancel culture, and "check your privilege" entered the cultural zeitgeist.
Politics at its core is about meeting voters where they are. Young men see a world where they get worse grades for the same amount of work, are less likely to go to college, are less likely than their fathers to get a union job because their town's steel mill closed and nothing replaced it, are more likely to get addicted to opioids and are more likely to kill themselves. But if instead of hearing solutions they are being told to check their privilege, they are not going to vote for you.
Personally, I would consider myself an ally of most left-of-center causes. I support equal pay for equal work. I believe in achieving a color blind society where race is irrelevant. I support gay marriage and, like a lot of Americans, am trying to understand transgender issues. But don't tell me I can't enjoy old horror movies because of their problematic male gaze or whatever. That sh*t just gets exhausting.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 07, 2024 06:38pm |
The party infrastructure is corrupted and will never solve its own problems. The Democrats basically need their own version of Donald Trump who will speak uncomfortable truths about the party and often in politically incorrect ways.
The Republican Party is now at the point where it has marginalized its former leaders in the Bush era, and is stronger for it. The same needs to be done of the Clinton-era globalists and various identity politic-driven activist class who have completely lost all credibility with the working class.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 07, 2024 06:10pm |
A stunning rebuke against meteorologists.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points) | November 07, 2024 06:02pm |
Democrats will need to expand the map and effectively run the table in swing states or else they will permanently be in the minority.
Jared Golden is the obvious recruit in Maine assuming he holds on. That does open up his seat in the House, but it's a trade-off worth making in a midterm year. Presumably there's a military veteran or lobster fisherman they can find somewhere in the district who appeals to working class voters.
Roy Cooper is likewise the clear choice in North Carolina and should be recruited accordingly.
Beyond that, the task gets much more difficult and will require a combination of strong candidate recruitment and dumb luck. Progressives will have to suck it up and let pragmatic, moderate Democrats who understand their states take the mantle. That means Laura Kelly in Kansas, John Bell Edwards in Louisiana, and Andy Beshear in Kentucky if he doesn't have Presidential ambitions. Whether or not any of them run is another matter, and they will not be initial favorites even if they do. But that is the first step.
For the GOP, Brian Kemp would be a formidable challenger and frankly I'd be surprised if Ossoff survives unless Trump's numbers go back in the toilet.
For Michigan I guess it's up to John James again? But maybe he won't be interested in running in a midterm year for the incumbent party.
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