yupperdoo.bsky.social
Reply guy; Shitposter; Interested in political realignments; I make mods for a browser game
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The newest TCT mod inshallah
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Hopefully 2026 is a blue wave and gives us some strong recruits downballot. Of course I honestly wouldn’t mind Conor Lamb either.
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I’m guessing neither Magaziner or Amos are willing to do it? Considering how quickly 25-year incumbent Schakowsky changed her mind from some random TikToker running against her, I feel like it wouldn’t be too difficult to scare the guy into retiring.
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Tbh I always hear that Georgia is gonna be the new Virginia but at the rate Atlanta is trending I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes the new Illinois
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Forgot where I saw the term but “vice signaling” is a pretty apt descriptor for it IMO
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Reminds me of how every progressive Republican in the 1920s was like “the big banks dragged us into the Great War!” and then a decade later the same exact person would be like “the Jews dragged us into the Great War!” all while frothing at the mouth with conspiracies about the Rothschilds
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Reminds me of how more voters in 2016 viewed Trump as the “moderate” choice compared to Clinton, despite that being obviously not true
Of course IMO that just proves the point that swing voters hold a completely incoherent amalgamation of views based on the “vibes” of their social media of choice
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If the internet existed in the 1930s there would 100% be an extremely annoying contingent of online tankies calling themselves “Gerald Nye progressives” and claiming that Japan’s invasion of China is ackshually anti-imperialist because they’re purging China of western influence or whatever
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Wallace-McGovern voters in question:
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I think this is a big part of what’s been threatening our democracy. Like you can’t have one party for conspiracy theorists and one party for educated suburban moms who vote in every election. Like unironically having all the cranks on one side alone makes them too powerful and too dangerous.
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Also isn’t there that whole “26% of people have an authoritarian psychology” thing? That number has come up a few times tbh
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More and more it feels like they’re just the reincarnation of the old progressive Republicans in the Midwest circa 1930s, constantly relitigating 2016 ad nauseum fighting against an “establishment” no matter how real all while taking increasingly bizarre positions to do so
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What’s especially funny to me is just how little he really tried to win over the isolationist right. Like until October he treated what was essentially a party coup as an actual primary win and just proceeded to decapitate his own party’s isolationist base.
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Still thinking about the one quote from Truman to George Smathers in 1949: “I want you to beat that son of a bitch Claude Pepper”
Funnily enough I’m pretty sure Truman endorsed Pepper anyway in 1950 IIRC, but I’d have to double check on that
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Aside from *maybe* Murk, Collins, and Curtis, how much crossover support is realistically possible? Dems would need like 20 Republicans senators, right?
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If there’s one thing I hope this stupid timeline teaches us it’s that finance bros are actually pretty dumb
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Have you considered that if China buys our oil then that means we’re being Woke Globalists? They’re communist, we clearly can’t be doing that
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You have a point but you’re also forgetting the other option of becoming an ultra partisan resistlib who still calls the president “tRump” and posts in like 17 different lib facebook groups about the next protest (to be clear this is a very based option just pointing it out)
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Tbh that’s pretty much how I learned the specifics of a lot of random mid-century senate races
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Didn’t even realize she was going for AG. Was kinda hoping one of them would primary Hickenlooper tbh
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What do we think Phil Weiser and Jenna Griswold do now? Run for senate?
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Honestly it’s this kind of stuff that makes the Progressive Era so unique. Like the idea of having coalitions not entirely rooted in ideology feels so foreign to today but in a way I feel like it was conducive to a way more productive government.
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People also forget that left and right used to mean different things. Like being pro-business before 1896 generally meant supporting “big government” i.e. tariffs, railroad subsidies, etc. while being pro-labor meant supporting “small government.” It just doesn’t translate easily to modern politics
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I think what we need is a single reform-libertarian-green third party that consistently takes crank positions on everything and saps up the 10% of voters who are most clinically insane
Like the types drawn to conspiracy thinking, I’m worried “everyone gets a thousand dollars” won’t appeal to them
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Tbh most people assume so much BS about the party switch. They ignore that Wilson campaigned hard with black voters in 1912 (and won a plurality of them that year). They forget that Taft mainly used southern delegates to get renominated at the RNC. The southern strategy was long in the making.
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Is every job getting back to their old applicants this month? I’ve heard back the last couple days from multiple jobs I applied to in like December and January
Granted they were just flat out rejections but still lmao
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My favorite part of Republican pseudohistory is their complete denial of how long their party was trying to court white southerners. Even some libs think there was a single switch in 64 when black leaders were abandoning Reps as early as the 1920s. Several black papers even endorsed Smith in 1928!
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I mean on foreign policy he was a dogshit imperialist but on domestic issues was he really that bad? IIRC didn’t he break up more trusts than Teddy? Plus he got the ball rolling on tariff reductions. I feel like in some ways he’s viewed as being more right wing than he actually was.
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God there’s way too many dumbass Republicans who like to pull out the Klan card with Wilson, as if it’s some immense moral failing to vote Democratic a hundred years later
Also if you think Taft or Teddy were all that much better on race in practice, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you
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Don’t know if kind words from a rando online will help, but you’ve done a lot of really important work for the economics field and having someone who can draw up the kind of detailed analysis you do for all the rapid fire policy changes Trump does means we can understand and prepare for any of them.
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Feel like it’s likely he drops out if Cooper runs, but I think it’s still good for him to stay in the political arena. He could always run for AG if Jeff Jackson runs for senate in 2028.
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It really is the stupid, economy
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Tbh even if it turns out he really is just bluffing I’m not so sure I see the market coming back from this. Just the threat of tariffs is enough to scare away investors.
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Can’t wait to tell my golf-playing married father-of-two manager that he’s actually a woman because he has a computer desk
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I keep saying to people that the weirdest thing of all in today’s politics is the insistence of people on voting for this one guy based on *not believing* that he’ll do what he says he will
Like I didn’t vote for Biden in 2020 because I *didn’t* think he’d actually try to pass an infrastructure law
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Tbf I thought 2020 would be the end of the 6th party system (and it looked like it would be for a while) and I was dead wrong
My best guess is that he’s our Grover Cleveland, and we’re not getting a left wing Reagan, but a left wing McKinley
We could also just be turbofucked so who the hell knows
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I think it also just speaks to the bizarro world ability of half the country to vote for Trump and then justify it with “he won’t *really* do it, it’s just talk/red meat/bluster”
Like I’ve never based my vote on not thinking that my preferred candidate will do what they say they will
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“The woke CEOs have been doing such terrible things. They do all the DEI, and then complain when it raises the prices! They just hate MAGA, it’s so sad to see. But believe me folks, we’re gonna stop it. We’re gonna decide all the prices, even the woke ones! Sleepy Joe couldn’t do it, but I will.”
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See this point is always the one that seems to destroy people’s intelligence because any time some moron says “wE nEeD tO tAkE cArE oF aMeRiCa FiRsT” their response to any proposal at all to actually do that is “nO tHaTs SoCiALiSm”
Makes me bang my head against a wall every God damned time
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Bill Kristol 🤝 Josh Barro: The Grand Coalition
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I think a lot of them just assume that once the trump era “passes” then voters will default back to preferring tariffs, and they’re preemptively triangulating for some stupid reason
Unrelatedly, most of the party doesn’t seem to have very good instincts
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Welcome back, 2006
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God Veep really is just reality now isn’t it
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Well you see have you considered that the borger price was a dollar higher? Clearly it’s all Brandon’s fault that it didn’t stay 2019 forever. I am a Very Serious Person.
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TBH I still think he’s just trying to crudely cosplay as William McKinley. Like I’m just waiting for him to start rambling about how we need to “Civilize and Christianize the Filipinos”
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At this rate Abigail Spanberger is gonna win the VA Governor’s race by 15 points and the headlines will be telling us about how it’s actually Good News for Donald Trump
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Considering Nikema Williams’ resignation, why not go for Georgia Dem Chair? I think she’s ultimately pretty strong behind the scenes anyway, esp with voter registration and turnout.
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Every Republican accusation …
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Been keeping my eye on Rob Sand for this very reason