mtutiger

We'll have to wait for Catalist to release their analysis of the 2024 electorate, but while it isn't the sexy answer, backlash against inflation seems to be the biggest driver based on what evidence exists today. Partisan Rs are currently making the same mistake that all winning sides do in these contests in assuming that their win means that American voters love every single position they take on every single issue. And that's just not the case. (Full disclosure, I made this mistake too in 2020 at times too, so I am as guilty as anyone)

For a variety of reasons, I would be very wary about using the 2024 Presidential Election results in making determinations about attitudes on guns.

Even setting aside the implications of his militia comments, the arrogance reminds me of Proverbs 16:18 quite a bit.... Never get high off your own supply...

I'll take your word for it on all of this, I don't recall it nor do I think anything regarding either assassination attempt was staged. By that same token, however: You really haven't provided any evidence of some grand conspiracy regarding the assassination attempt either, despite many many attempts to insinuate there is one.

Not specific to Nancy Mace, but it is a sign of the times that the members of Congress that get the most attention from cameras are often the least productive in terms of actual legislation or governing. Regardless of which party they reside with, my rule of thumb is that the less they show up on TV or on social media, the more they are doing actual work.

Which is ironic given that MTG's whole thing is an act as well (wealthy suburbanite heir to a commercial real estate fortune cosplaying as rural rep)

Maybe not the most common attack on her, but I've always found the attacks on her background as a bartender to be very interesting in the context of how the GOP likes to code itself these days.

Just waiting on the obligatory Catturd tweet of the day lol

Somebody needs to go touch grass here, and it isn't me lol

Trump aides ready ‘universal’ tariff plans — with one key change Huh, I was reliably informed that the tariffs were paid for by foreign governments..... interesting.

I still don't know what you're talking about... the cryptic references suggest a need to go outside and touch some grass.

Is 1/6/21, in your estimation, a day to be celebrated?

Go touch grass, my man...

I have no idea what this means...

https://m.jpost.com/international/article-835554 I seem to recall someone saying that the AfD "had a point" or something to that effect recently

Correct, and in the context of both New Orleans and Las Vegas, they manifested themselves as the opposite sides of the same coin (one flying an ISIS flag, one spouting wild right wing / pro-Trump rhetoric). Making this a pissing match about ISIS (not to mention blaming illegals when they were both born in the USA) doesn't solve anything

https://nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PO-003a-01-03-25-Livelsbergers-Letters.pdf Excerpts from the "wild manifesto".... I have another theory on why some folks think this isn't worth talking about (hint: it's inconvenient)

Posting polling data which conflicts with your views on the VA and challenging you to answer basic questions is "aggression"?

Pew nailed the 2024 election in terms of the popular vote nationally... and in their 2023 polling (shown below), they have the VA with a 56-28 favorable-unfavorable rating nationally. So, I ask again... Why change anything if the users like the end product? What's the benefit?

As has been mentioned before (and as you have ignored), vets seem fine with the VA as is per per polling. Why change anything if the users like the end product? What's the benefit?

Honestly do believe that if the Adam Schefters and Jeff Passans of the world moved over, Twitter would lose a ton of it's utility. People who are on these platforms for mostly political reasons underestimate how much casual sports and other non-political interest prop them up (or keep them from growing)

No judgment, I get it.

Uhh, it's permanent for some of us. Enjoy that cesspool boss 👌

@Tigeraholic1also elides the point (as has brought up multiple times now) that VA practitioners deal with medical conditions and issues that aren't always easy to obtain geographically or in a cost effective manner for vets among private practitioners. I'm gonna hazard a wild guess in saying that Donald Trump and Elon Musk probably haven't given any of this a second of thought

Even setting aside the politics of privatizing the VA, as the Speaker vote demonstrated yesterday, the margins for the GOP are *tight*.... zero room for error. I'm sure the strategy will be to carry a massive bill with every single Trump priority through reconciliation, and I'm sure he'll use all his political capital to get it across, but as a standalone item, a privatization of the VA wouldn't stand a chance in the House (and would probably have significant issues in the Senate tbh). The same probably holds for most of the things that "DOGE" wishes to cut. When you have a 220-215 majority in the House, just on math, you don't have a "mandate"