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Call me Charlie. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me online, I thought I would surf about a little and see the less loony part of the world.
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I'd say a lot of folks will need to get fired over this, except that "we never hold anyone accountable" is basically the Democratic Party motto at this point.
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Those reporters still believe protests work to Trump's benefit, as if someone else was the incumbent president in 2020.
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It's not the article itself, It's taking what Mina said on this site, writing a story about it, and then linking to that on Twitter, where the reaction is predictably hostile.
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Adam Schiff was inescapable on cable and on Twitter right up until the time he got to the Senate.
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Conservatives refuse to be a part of a social media platform if they can't dominate it.
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The Tea Party was pretty large scale, as I recall. To say nothing of 1/6/21.
"Don't protest or the people who hate you will end up hating you even more" isn't going to persuade many people.
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Not enough personnel to do martial law
The secret of American law enforcement is that most people voluntarily follow most laws most of the time
If that changes for a significant %, things get overstretched very fast
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"Things keep happening in politics that grab the attention of people who don't normally follow politics. This is a bad thing rather than a giftwrapped opportunity for the opposition to exploit that attention."
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Sort of in agreement here. More important than the stunts is the party's voices repeating the message (something that Republicans seem to do instinctively).
But it's like "weird" last year -- you know you're on to something when they squeal. And it bugs Trump because he knows it's true.
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True. The only presidential election I ever skipped was 2012, when I was living in Tyler. Louie Gohmert's district was sort of the ultimate in "you just don't matter." But I certainly would have showed up for Cruz vs. Beto 6 years later.
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In fairness, Braley basically calling Grassley an embarrassing bumpkin was a pretty big gaffe.
But yeah, the media were openly rooting for a Senate flip, and the contrast between Ernst and Tom Harkin made for an easy story.