thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social
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Voting by smartphone is such a terrible idea that they should absolutely try this and show everyone how disastrous it could be before someone tries it in an election that actually matters.
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Schumer's finally become unpopular among the rank and file but his fellow Senators are still quietly supporting him and people aren't giving them nearly enough shit over it. Regular Dems remain very easily tricked into thinking problems are contained to one or two individuals rather than systemic.
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Dems just have an irrepressible urge to always be trying to turn the temperature down because they think it makes them look more serious.
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Finally some good news out of this trainwreck of a conference.
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Dems need to take stock of how much of their fundraising is just immediately getting flushed down the consultancy toilet and what else they could be doing with it.
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The page containing the spell to banish him mysteriously crumbled to dust and there's nothing anyone can do.
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I mean that's what Tapper clearly wanted but it didn't pan out. The RW book sphere is mainly a vehicle for big donors to put money into the pockets of favored individuals by mass-buying books almost nobody actually reads and Tapper and KJP aren't favored.
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It's unfair to call people like Jeffries losers just because they suck and lose all the time. You have to assume they're secretly competent and they're going to come through for us any day now. Or at some indeterminate point in the far future.
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You've got people in the replies (okay it's mostly just one guy on repeat) still doing the whole "Dems probably definitely have a super secret plan that you're just not allowed to know about" wishcasting that we all remember from both Mueller and Garland.
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They built new high school in my town a few years back and this honest to god looks like a teeny tiny miniaturized version of it but with a garage door.
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If I put it in to soak and the water's still warm when you find it I am blameless.
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Two images badly overlaid atop one another in MSPaint would be simultaneously more charming and less evil.
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A smart person definitely wouldn't pick that fight, but a ketamine-fueled dope just might.
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I feel like her turn to evil started with people innocently asking questions about the lack of diversity in the series and her response rather than being "Yeah if I had to do it over I probably wouldn't make all three leads lily white" was to pretend she never described how they looked in the text.
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You could probably convince him that that time he almost died his soul actually vacated his body and he's been living on as a cursed husk.
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Bluesky's moderation tools are far from perfect but the nuclear block is really powerful. If someone's being really horrible, use it!
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I wanna applaud people when they announce they're unsubscribing but the more time passes the stronger my feelings of "it took you this long?" become.
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There's a certain level of unpopularity where the donor dollars dry up. If you can't even threaten to take back power nobody's gonna invest in your attempts and that includes small donors and megadonors.
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So based on this how long until this admin winds up deporting one of those SA "refugees" they just brought in?
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It's important to emphasize that votes that look tight almost never are. The last time we had a measure that actually hinged on a single vote was McCain and that was only because he basically lied to his own party about how he planned to vote.
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When you say things that are true but YOU don't believe them that still counts as lying. And that's Dems all over.
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Want healthcare? That's asking for unicorns.
Want a new media personality to spring from nowhere and instantly become as big as Rogan while exclusively shilling for Dem leadership interests and never pushing back or creating friction? So sensible. Much pragmatism.
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"Free toothbrush, cool, I'll use that. Free toothpaste, well of course, need some of that too. And another tiny floss to add to my pristine collection that will never be opened because I'm barely halfway through the one I got in 2002."
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Dem partisans keep proposing similar ideas that all hinge on the voluntary compliance of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people and it is nothing but wishcasting.
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Weren't they banking pretty heavily on him specifically for their upcoming midterm spending?
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Dems having poor messaging is downstream of the majority of them having no strong policy positions to message in the first place and continually ceding policy ground in many areas to Republican positions.
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If you're someone who wants to see positive change in the world, trying to achieve that by working through the Democrats is a great way to squander all of your time, energy, and money and have jack to show for it in the end.
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Mostly they don't like the candidate for other reasons and are grasping for something that could be spun as a scandal but really isn't.
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Backlash to TLJ scared them into retconning every major plot point to try to win people back and all that happened was they lost the people who actually thought those plot points were or had the potential to be interesting.
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Apologizing for Biden specifically doesn't even address the larger problem of always circling the wagons to defend leadership against criticism. Biden's out of office and more or less irrelevant forever but Schumer's still got people defending him for some reason. Maybe tackle that one, guys.
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Republicans are using their time to craft the most awful legislation they can dream up so I dunno seems like Dems "wasting" some of that time would be a good thing.
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Touch the weird iron hand that makes you catch fire or drink canned coffee. Tough choice.
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I have a desperate need to see them finally hit the limits of propaganda. The lying and bullshitting for decades has been intolerable and I have to see it come crashing down and it really feels like we're almost there.
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If the term "humiliation ritual" could apply to anything it would have to be this. People just gotta stop agreeing to be near this guy when there's cameras around or just in general.
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Some people suggesting the answer to their woes would be to mentor younger pols and that's like the one thing I think they definitely should not do. The sole upside to these self-centered gits failing to nurture the next generation is that incoming pols should feel zero obligation toward them.
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It's a borderline comedic reveal because you find out when he was shittalking Gandalf for liking pipe-weed he was secretly importing and the smoking the stuff himself.
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The degradation of online shopping is why I still try as often as possible to buy things in actual stores. That and I can usually ensure the thing I bought can make it all the way to my house without getting dropped, kicked, and spat on.
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Probably would have helped if the timeline on those investments had been sped up so that most of the money wasn't still sitting around unspent at the start of the next President's term only to be canceled and clawed back. And this isn't hindsight. People were saying that at the time.
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Need to tell this guy it's because he personally didn't buy enough tallow fries.
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Bad leaders aren't just useless, they're actively harmful. They burn resources other people spent effort collecting and weaken the whole team. You gotta kick out bad leaders or you won't get anywhere.
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Like it's not like they had big pie-in-the-sky dreams and were just held back from achieving them by mortal failings. When they wrote things like "all men are created equal" they straight up did not mean it in the same way most people today read it, where as a start we substitute "men" for "people."
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Also the whole angle of "they had nice ideas but only future generations were able to live up to them" when it's more like "future generations liked the sound of some of these words when read in a much more charitable light than they were actually intended when written."
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It comes across as a threat to try to get him to stop acting up in public, but they can't really push him out because as much as his repellent behavior is driving their stock down, he's still the reason they're massively overvalued in the first place. Their only plan is damage control.
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It's been so long since we've had a Pres. with facial hair I think the only way it could happen is for someone to grow one out after they're inaugurated but they'd probably have like 50 advisors telling them not to.
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Some people are willing to tolerate small amounts of criticism toward the Founders but only up the point of "yeah they were complicated but on the whole more good than bad." Past that point they get really upset in a way they never seem to act toward people pushing the traditional hagiographic take.
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Some Dems get really mad when people rag on Schumer and Jeffries but the cost of misleadership like this is pretty massive. How many fights do these dipshits need to throw before people truly understand they are an asset to Trump with how badly they suck?
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Seems like she might have realized how badly she screwed up in that moment and just decided there's nothing left to lose at this point.
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It's hard to imagine they're not still massaging those numbers as much as they can get away with so could be even worse than it looks.
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They're trying really hard to sell the idea of serfdom as the ultimate cure to the phony crisis of masculinity they've been engineering and I dunno, maybe there's enough really dumb young guys that it will work short term, but I think halfway through their first shift they'll be reconsidering.
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"For the rest of your life" also sounds really sinister and not hard to read as "yeah, retirement will not be an option."