billthepony.bsky.social
Voters don't swing from Democrat to Republican, They swing from Democrat to couch.
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And this is before we talk about sheriffs
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Do what works, i guess
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I know it's boring but this is why he was impeached the first time!
Using Congressional funds to extract concessions
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Pile it on
The court wanted everything to run through them. Let it
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College helps develop interpersonal skills and shows dedication beyond what is required.
These are all reasons it should be free but at a minimum conservatives used to preach this in the 90s-2000
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I think we might be interpreting the same thing slightly differently.
This is what I'm reacting to.
I don't think they made a horrible political decision " in Michigan" And ate s***.
I think they made it overall. It was bad for Michigan. Bad for everywhere
Muslims and leftists didn't do this
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I still cannot believe i run into "leftists and muslims cost us Michigan and that's why we lost..."
As if we didn't lose every swing state.
It wasn't leftists and muslims who rejected harris, it was the whole party. Bottom up
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NY allows cross party voting, mr Republican?
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We are fully in the post constitutional era
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Well, i guess that settles it!
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So many people don't even realize the game is already over
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Being stealth tough didn't work for biden.
I don't think anyone will have an appetite for cutesie games in 28
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I live in Fresno.
We are bracing for the worst
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I should be very clear: i do not want trump to seal team six anyone (including people overseas)
Perhaps for their own sake, the judges will listen to our constitutionally protected public pressure
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Once he seal team sixes one or two of them, maybe...
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Interestingly, CA is A microcosm of what would happen if this went national.
We have it done. Problem of localities dodging and evading extremely clear state laws.
Or local clerks and planning departments simply ignoring what the law is.
The state has tools it can use that hasn't yet. Yet...
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Its a good thing roberts had the wisdom to issue moderate and narrowly tailored rulings that preserved the court and avoided any embarrassing loss of face or contest of power.
*Finger to ear* .... I am being told that didn't work.
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I know it upsets a certain crowd but up to this point, up to this point, UP TO THIS POINT, Trump has not been worse than biden or Harris on to Gaza genocide
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My suggestion would be to look at what my state, California, has been doing every year for the last 5 or 6 years.
Every year they have put forward and passing creasingly aggressive housing packages.
Because it seems like once you knock down that first Domino the rest get a lot easier.
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Yes, it is something we could all do now today in our towns and states
That is its biggest advantage.
A powerful advantage
(Has its own limits but still...)
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This is what i object to
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So am I, right wing deregulation alone will fail.
It always does.
We need the government to re-enter the housing market and start buildig.
To avoid half measures, don't support half measures. Demand an all of the above response.
Stop settling for less
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Triangulation as gotten
1) clinton at 47% support in a divided gop election
2) a guy everyone thought was a communist in an economic collapse
3) anyone but trump on a pandemic.
The rest: gore, kerry, clinton, harris
All got mollywopped.
When does this approach start winning?
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Now you're just making stuff up that you like.
I would strongly recommend you take a second look at these proposals and then argue what they actually are. Not what you wish they would be.
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The left is not the reason that Harris lost.
She lost because of a broad general turned down in Democratic voters running out across all demographics.
Until we can honestly confront what happened in 24, we can't move forward.
And focusing on in irrelevant population of "the left" doesn't help.
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The Americans owning gaza Will never happen to be busy. Israel is genocide us. That's a red herring. Lets deal with things that happen
But from a policy perspective, yes biden harris pursued Trump's policy with nice words
Gaza is currently a parking lot due to american bombs biden/harris sent.
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I am being serious, what has he done that Biden harris wouldn't/didn't?
Both parties decided an " unconditional supports the genocide" policy was pervert.
Both parties took that stance.
If you're trying to draw a distinction between yourself and someone else... Make one. Make a distinction.
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But that is not what the yimby approach is.
It specifically rejects any top down approach for an exclusively local zoning reform (which makes sense because that's where zoning is set).
The yimby/abundance argument entirely and wholly rejects any federal role aside from pressuring local govs
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But I'm not wrong
Because Democrats didn't lose because of Michigan. That's what the meme claims.
We have results to this election.
We don't have to pretend like it's still summer 24.
So when you're ready to say " dang my bad' Make sure to tag me
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I don't think this is an accurate representation of the state of play.
If anything, a second Trump term with no resolution on housing frees up Democrats to have a more expansive vision of what's possible.
But you do raise one of my main concerns with the yimby approach, its vulnerable to attack.
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If that were the case, then I think it should have been pretty easy for Harris to make a public distinction in the campaign.
Something she was unable or unwilling to do.
Saying " Trump will be worse" needs to come with some difference in policy.
Also, so far he hasn't been worse.
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We are pointing at Democrats because that's the opposition party.
If the Democrats were more successful they would be the majority party.
Who else are we supposed to point at?
Should we I'll run around screaming about Ralph Nader and Jill Stein?
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This is the honesty i wish we got.
I am *very* anxious about the promises the yimby deregulators are making.
Its not that they are wrong on yhe prognosis but they are making big promises that this can all be easily and cheaply fixed with painless technocratic rule changes
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It wasn't a question of whether some rally goers had their feelings hurt.
You're welcome to attack that but its made of straw
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I agree with this general take on the abundance boys.
They decided that progressives are wrong and that the right path is deregulation and then worked backwards.
I am happy to push their policies in some places if they were more honest that their argument is modest and conservative
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One of the hallmarks of Boomer thinking is completely retconning how they actually behaved.
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Exactly right.
I think Biden and Harris misread the political moment.
They had a lot more leeway than they believed they did.
And substantially more power.
I think concluding that they were either into it or stupid is reasonable
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Yeah, there's benefit to pausing and delaying. I'm not denying that.
If we had been able to fill the office for four more years, maybe Trump meets his natural end in that timeline....
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That's not even true.
We still would have been faced with a Fascist court and a Republican Senate at a minimum.
We would be dealing with the constitutional dismantling of the last 50 years
Jim Crow voting. So much so much more
It's not a one-election thing
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Don't be stupid. Life didn't start in 2024
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I don't think it's fair to lump in the USAAID stuff because That was less explicit in the campaign.
But what's the case that Trump is making decisions that Harris would not have?
If Harris wanted to make it clear she had a different approach than Trump. She should have explained it.
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I don't understand why Democrats haven't had three press conferences about it today.
They should have had articles of impeachment drafted and ready to go this morning.
This inability to see around the corner. Even a little bit is so devastating
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Yeah you're acting as a monster does... Thanks for clearing that up.
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We live in a country where all employment is voluntary.
Anyone working for these institutions is doing so because they like it.