the "it's a distraction" shit is emblematic of the "polling is fixed and exogenous" shit that has ruined so many Dems brains. even from a pure realpolitik perspective Abrego Garcia isn't a "distraction", he's an opportunity to flip one of your opponent's best issues! - ThreadSky

walmsley.bsky.social • 1 day ago

the "it's a distraction" shit is emblematic of the "polling is fixed and exogenous" shit that has ruined so many Dems brains. even from a pure realpolitik perspective Abrego Garcia isn't a "distraction", he's an opportunity to flip one of your opponent's best issues!

Reposted from Murshed Zaheed

Gavin Newsom calls Kilmer Abrego Garcia a “distraction” @washingtonpost.com

What an absolute disgrace he has become.

Beyond repulsive and shameful.

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wolfgangbrooks.bsky.social•1 day ago

ONE Dem, who has already showed he's playing ball with the right.

geminidrgn.bsky.social•1 day ago

‘This is what their solution looks like in practice’ is sitting right there

tlatshaw.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh wow I was so focused on human rights that I totally forgot the encroaching difficulty of affording items in my daily life!

mlungu.bsky.social•1 day ago

Besides, tariffs will have cut-through at the check-out. No need for politicians to do anything to facilitate it. Garcia, on the other hand, needs to be publicised because he won’t cut-through on his own.

problemfellow.bsky.social•1 day ago

When we win Shor Yglesias and Carville must suffer the same punishment as MAGA. Make an example of them to cow the other popularists

problemfellow.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3lmzg26fqpk2e Like you can’t tell me this old fuck doesn’t deserve to suffer

lorifreshwater.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is Bannon’s bud now. Try that filter.

moreacomment.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think the realization dawns that Newsom, specifically, is stupid.

darkelfontheshelf.bsky.social•1 day ago

For what it's worth, this turned out to be Wapo lying about what he said.

db-user.bsky.social•1 day ago

I've been calling this "consultant brain" behavior, tho I think "David Shorism" was once its name as well.

postdiscipline.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's not a distraction if people feel distracted from what they perceive as the principal source of violent attacks against themselves by endless talk over an additional sales tax on some of what they buy

early-adopter.bsky.social•1 day ago

How do you get here from being the Illegal Gay Marriages in City Hall guy?

I guess you just wonder whether he ever meant any of it.

jonnyv.bsky.social•1 day ago

As a gay guy who was living in SF at the time, he was always like this. He smelled a chance for a publicity stunt and exploited it, he is not a man of principles.

walmsley.bsky.social•1 day ago

Newsom is a man of pure, shameless ambition. he's just misread the room on what his path to advancement is right now.

notdred.bsky.social•1 day ago

Karl Rove gave everybody a comprehensive playbook on how to turn your enemy’s strength against them and Dems paid no attention at all

europtimist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Democrats are so cute...

They are so convinced there will be a next election, they are still playing the electoral strategy game!

darkelfontheshelf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why wouldn't there be?

metroplex.bsky.social•1 day ago

Whenever somebody uses the rhetoric of distraction, the one thing they tend to forget is that the people targeted by that distraction are the ones who agree with what's happening.

For folks like Abrego Garcia and his family, reducing the very real and material harm to a "distraction" is insulting.

grungehamster.bsky.social•1 day ago

And they chose the third worst subject to pick for it besides gay marriage and integration.

thedimpsler.bsky.social•1 day ago

Amazing that a political party can see people being deported to El Auschwitz for wrongthink, or nothing, and think “nah nothing bad going on here” instead of “we will win the next 100 elections if we get rid of the guy every sane person is either afraid of, hates, or both”

pettirosso.me•1 day ago

A freaking human being, a father, a husband, locked in a prison thousands of miles away from his family,
is a distraction 🫠

wishda.bsky.social•1 day ago

The idea that helping people and addressing their voters' concerns are a distraction is just code for "This is not what our donors want us to focus on!"

selectstarman.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think pols should focus on their popular issues in the close of a campaign. But you have to work in the long term to change views. You have a chance to explain what GOP immigration policy actually does. These thick, detailed, case studies are the foundation for later sloganeering.

wowthatscoolmyguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well it's 2025, not a close campaign, and polling is showing Republicans are collapsing on immigrants because they're sending innocent people to gulags. This is the optimal time to bury the hatchet squarely in the chest and show they're evil fuck ups on one of their "strengths"

wowthatscoolmyguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, irrespective of this issue, immigration is a Republican strength because Democrats run on it by saying "Republicans are right, but we're better at bureaucracy!" a stance this is tailor made to never win an argument.

selectstarman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Framing it as "immigrants are scary criminals but morally we have to let them in" is a disaster too. Try "we are lucky so many people love America so much they move here to win Nobels, found tech companies, and work the shitty jobs".

jjofbc.bsky.social•1 day ago

the most Idaho people on earth yelling "I'm PISSED!" at grassley about this should make it pretty fucking obvious

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