Actually that was a JD Vance quote. Harris kept it more classy.

Either way, he’s more of a Mussolini type. Less vision, more opportunism.

There is a tremendous amount of mostly empty Ukrainian land left. If Russia wants it all, their casualties will end in the millions, even without additional US aid. We’re not the only suppliers, after all.

I wonder what percentage of them actually get paid. I somehow doubt it’s all of them.

There’s a lot of technological possibilities. Also just things like food imports.

I don’t actually know what they got in exchange, but I’m guessing the N Koreans got the better end of the deal.

That’s a pretty slow “slicing through defenses” if you ask me…

It really depends who votes for them. If progressives, responding to the Walz pick and $15/hr minimum wage vote in very large numbers, then the dem party will do more to try to maintain their support going into the future.

If the conservative never-Trumpers come out and vote in large numbers, the dems will try to maintain that support instead.

They’ll chase the votes, basically.

I mean, tbf that was admittedly last millennium.

That looks like it’ll be harder to shoot down with a shotgun.

Very simple. You just need to explain how guys like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have clearly always had all the best ideas and should be given completely free reign to do anything they want with our country, with no checks whatsoever, for however long they want. This will clearly make all of our lives much, much better in every way.

Yeap. Election day itself is basically the eye of a very large bullshit storm.

Bold to assume he bothered to feed it to a computer when you can just reject without having to do that. Feeding something to a computer takes time, and time is money y’know.

Their plan basically got activated early, that’s all. They had been trying to erode the structure of positive civic engagement since Newt Gingrich, and had been steadily developing this base of angry people for a couple decades. But before they quite got a majority together, this random asshole from reality tv shows up and hijacks the whole thing.

If you think back to the 2016 gop primary, though, they all really hated the guy. But once he had co-opted their movement and installed himself on top with a huge rebranding, they didn’t really have a choice but to go along with it. The ratio of Never Trumpers like Liz Cheney to converted MAGAs like Vance is basically an indicator of the percentage that were willing to sell most of their values for this shot at seizing power. About 80% or so.

Only with about 50-75% of the gop base though, depending on region, that was the result of the plan hatching prematurely.

Not necessarily. Prudent to start with an offer higher than your actual goal so you have room to bargain downward.

… is that a cannon-armed drone at the end?

Moreover, older Americans punch above their weight because they’re more likely to be registered to vote and to cast a ballot. Recent polling from The New York Times/Siena College put seniors at about 29% of the electorate, compared with only about 13% for voters under 30.

I knew there was a disparity, but over double is a bit more than I expected.

Don’t forget Gamergate.

I think the reason the left doesn’t hit back as hard is because it feels sort of strange to do so. It’s difficult to acknowledge at the emotional level that we’re really back to just fighting for the most fundamental basics of liberty, equality and pursuit of happiness. Especially given how the right co-opted talking about freedom in general a number of years ago. Do we really need to rewind our level of discourse all the way back to the 18th century though?

Well, if those are the principles that are under attack, perhaps we do.

The bottom paragraph of the article states that they’re just as likely to say health care is a right and governments should pay more to help lift people out of poverty. So, there’s a disconnect between the identity and actual policy positions which I think is pretty key.

Don’t eat fissile cucumbers.

For the record, the Constitution requires that each state decide how its electoral college votes will be distributed. The federal govt has no authority to intervene.

What dems in federal govt could potentially do is some campaign finance reform, to add some transparency to all the money that flows into PACs since the Citizen’s United ruling.