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I'm sure these good faith justices will treat guns and abortion the same because they are good faith justices.

What if before any of this many folks already thought the electoral collage already solidifies minority party power.... and nothing happens there except it gets worse?

Typical libertarian dipshittery

No it's clearly just that rand is a fucking prick. Rand actually didn't go through a natural disaster like you claimed so that's not why he had a good faith change of heart you seem to be suggesting No bonus points for expressing basic empathy once. That you chose to spend your time defending that behavior shows poor judgment.

Lol nice rephrase of Oblongs argument you couldn't counter so just stole

Uh huh If the election was stolen why hasn't anyone been charged with theft?

Amd you're trolling again. It was Republicans that violently attacked the capitol in an armed insurrection.

As someone on "the left" I'd like to formally disassociate myself with claims that it will be gone by Christmas. I don't know when it will be done. tags: inflation, receipts for December 26th me

I'm saying right now when we look at polling for 2024 it Trump is running we should add about +3% to his numbers for any poll. LOL only kinda kidding.

ok, gotcha. Honestly I think if the election were tomorrow, him vs. brandon, Trump most likely wins.

In 2020, I think a big reason Biden won was because he was able to consolidate the left and the center around him. I know we have Trumpers here talking about how much "the left" loves Biden. But as some IDK actually ON "the left", and not someone making elitist outsider assessments of "the left" - I'm not sure he's going to have them as consolidated as he did for 2020. I think it's both b/c of Trump not being president and b/c Biden has disappointed "the left" by thus far not keeping some promises they care about a lot. I also think there's a pretty good change he might be losing moderates to the GOP as well. But I do think that will be heavily impacted by Trump being on the ticket.

I feel like I said that kind of stuff in 2015 and 2016. I probably did.

I sincerely hope you're right. I've been disappointed in the change in a lot of GOP sentiment since Jan 7th on the Jan 6 stuff. It seems like they've shifted quite remarkably from being correctly outraged to now trying to downplay it. But I agree with the notion that on the scoreboard overall, when Trump was president he himself lost, and they also lost the House and Senate. That's obviously not a good record but I also think the battlefield could be quite different now in important ways. If he runs, I think it will be a very close election and I definitely definitely think he could win. I don't remember the actual breakdown but building off 2020 he'd only have to swing a handful of states by a couple hundred thousand votes total. It's not the 7million vote blowout.

In my experience in following politics for quite a while now, I'd also argue that relying on a "long memory" of voters is probably a losing proposition so I don't think the Democrats will be very successful reminding folks how terrible Trump was. Time and time again we see votes as having short memories.

I'm not so sure. I've thought and posted for quite a while that he's both their best and worst chance. He fires up both sides for sure. I think b/c the out party is always more motivated, last time the Dems were more motivated and this time the Qs are. I think the calculus could be different from last time even if the contenders are the same. The fact remains that trump did get very very large number of votes in 2020. IT was an impressive number of votes even in a loss. I would anticipate him getting more votes than he did in 2020.

I had no idea who jussie was before this incident and the incident did nothing to make me start caring about jussie. I don't care about anything hollywood and don't plan to start caring just b/c it's convenient for conservatives' internet arguments

Gop: inflation is cool when the gop is president

I love how "worst inflation since 1982" doesn't make anyone think "why would we want to elect those that herald policies that had this mess in 1982 when there wasn't a worldwide pandemic going on"

If its an insurrection why doesn't Clippy call it one?

lol

yeah but people here aren't a massive news network bro so it's a really odd comparison.