Cool, President DumDum just started WWIII.
Way to go you #FIFA World Peace Awardee.
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Cool, President DumDum just started WWIII.
Way to go you #FIFA World Peace Awardee.
So, if Markwayne Mullin moves to DHS, and his seat is up, who is the frontrunner in the GOP primary now?
As of the last quarterly report, no one, other than Mullin, has raised more than 30k for the seat in either party.
A new entrant could file between now and April 3rd.
#DHS #OkSen #Senate
This is it. It is simple.
It is an illegal, unjust war. Full stop.
For too much of my lifetime, from Vietnam to today, the US has been engaged in wars of choice.
The people choosing those wars make big promises, and never deliver.
This war is wrong.
End the war. Don't fund it.
Americans, even a lot of the smart ones, are too dumb to understand these two things:
1. two things that appear to be in contradiction, can be true at the same time.
2. which one of those two things you value more, to the exclusion of all else, says a lot about you.
We can always find money to bomb other people.
When it comes time to take care of our own, even our veterans, we beg poverty or blame the victim.
It says a lot about who we are as a country...
And if you're going to call yourself a progressive Christian, you've got some big shoes to fill.
Because to be a progressive Christian, you need to be actively helping people and turning over the tables of folks exploiting their neighbors.
Time to turn over some tables.
/end
I want a Democratic Senator from Texas REALLY BADLY.
And I want Talarico to have a chance at winning.
He may. It depends on who the GOP makes their standard bearer in May.
But Democrats need to stop using bullshit electability claims to stifle leadership from marginalized communities.
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And while Talarico DID acknowledge that too often electability is used as a cudgel against minority communities, he didn't take it back, and ultimately benefitted from it.
So all that talk about faith and all apparently doesn't mean you don't use dog whistles to win.
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Further, Talarico's slip ups: Calling Alred's campaign "marginal" and using "electability" as an attack on Crockett, leaves me wondering if he can motivate Texas' African American community in November.
Because electability is just white people shorthand for "too black".
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Because while religiosity may be comforting to some, I've seen it used to hurt way too many of MY people to be anything less than skeptical.
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Whether it is abusing power to abuse the flock, or using their platform to "other" marginalized communities.
I don't trust them any further than I can throw them.
It will take a lot to get me to believe, and Talarico repeatedly failed to meet the moment he was trying to foster.
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And I'll go on record saying I'm REALLY FUCKING SKEPTICAL of this "liberal Christian" branding that Talarico and Beshear seem to be spearheading.
I'm not opposed to faith, but my life has been filled with people who wear religion on their sleeve, and use it to hurt other people.
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At the end of the day, no one on the Democratic side may have been intending to be racist when they called Crockett "too partisan". But that was the effect.
Its a fucking primary, what else are you supposed to be? We don't need "GOP-lite" in a Democratic primary!
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That interview, and the controversy around it, gave a national platform to Talarico that he might not have had otherwise.
If you look at polling collected at RCP, Crockett had a steady lead until AFTER that Colbert interview.
Then it shifted hard Talarico.
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Truth be told, Crockett got in this race a whole 3 months after Talarico and 5 months after Alred (who dropped out).
A three month head start is a lot of time in a campaign that has a lot of ground to cover.
And I don't want to downplay the impact of the Colbert interview last month.
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This is one reason ambitious young African Americans have growing skepticism about the Democratic Party.
Democratic money men look just like the powerful local guys who have spent their whole lives trying to undermine local black leadership.
The intent may not be racist, but the effect is.
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I live in a majority black city. I see this kind of stuff all the time. It is an effort to undermine black leadership.
More often than not, that leadership is female.
"Too partisan" was DC insiders saying she was too black.
Beutler tries to gloss over that fact.
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Beutler opines, it was the DC insiders PROJECTING racism on TX voters that was the basis of their real opposition.
Beutler also says this projection is not necessarily racism.
I'm not as forgiving.
I've seen it too many times to give these "money men" that grace.
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Calling Jasmine Crockett "too partisan" and playing that as a bad thing, is the new Third Way, Blue Dog, DLC, corporate Dem attack to stop outspoken black women and progressive candidates in a Democratic primary.
It happens too much and depresses the base in a self-destructive way.
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I just read @brianbeutler.bsky.social Off Message take on the #TXSen primary.
I can't speak to how the campaigns were run. From my vantage point in TN, all I know is what's been reported nationally.
I think Brian's take is pretty solid, especially as it relates to Dem "insiders" saw the race.
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What happened with voting locations in Texas yesterday will absolutely happen again in November, but statewide.
@democracydocket.com is there a way to sue the state before November to create some kind of sanctions or remedy when they do it again?
Image from the 2000 Presidential election recount in Florida. It shows a man, holding a magnifying glass up to a punch style ballot. The magnifying glass is positioned so his eye looks HUGE in the photograph.
This #NC04 primary is TIGHT.
About 6k more votes and the margin is right at 1200.
3/4 of the remaining votes are coming from areas challenger Nida Allam is currently carrying.
Also, I see there will be a recount no matter what happens, so this probably won't be resolved tonight.
El Paso, San Antonio, and Austin also have a substantial number of votes outstanding.
Then there's the issues at the polls in Dallas.
I'm just saying, this one seems far from over.
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As an aside, I don't know if you read Jonathan Larsen, but he published a story about how WAY TOO MANY Officers are calling this Armageddon to bring back Jesus.
#WTF
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Here's where the rubber meets the road.
Now that we're in this thing, how long will we stay in?
Because all it takes is a couple Dem hawks in the House and Senate to make this thing official.
Some of them will have a hard time leaving Israel holding the bag.
That's when the real test happens.
Here's Schumer statement from yesterday.
Mostly boilerplate "I don't like this, but I don't like the Ayatollahs either, so God bless the troops."
One thing he says is -2 is "the most trigger happy Prez of his lifetime. Where will he strike next?
Ecuador, the answer is Ecuador, Chuck.
This administration makes decisions the same way a 4 year old decides between a popsicle and ice cream.
They really want both, and can't believe you're making them choose.
Let's not forget, the current President negotiated the terms of the US withdrawal.
By Trump announcing a "drop dead" date (5/1/21) for withdrawal, he basically wrote the Taliban's plans for them.
Biden waiting an extra 4 months (9/11/21) gave them more time to train to take Kabul.
Its fun watching James Comer fellate the President while tripping over the most basic questions of logic.
This is a really strong thread about why "regime change" is a terrible idea, and an even worse one in the hands of this callous band of dipshits.