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Washington, D.C.
these Grammys feel like Kamala won
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Hold my hand when I say this: You cannot, in fact, plagiarize yourself.
At least this time she’s plagiarizing herself…
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They’re gonna crash the economy again and we’re gonna have to fix it again and then they’re gonna blame us for not fixing it fast enough again and I just want this doom loop to end
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I’ll never forgive you people.
I’m still upset because we could’ve had a president who after dinner needed “a lil sum sweet”
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temu ass bush administration
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Gaga eating. Beyoncé touring. Republicans crashing the economy. WELCOME BACK 2009!
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Being a Republican seems so fun, because even when you're literally in charge of everything, nothing is ever your fault ever.
Thune says any government shutdown will be “entirely of the Democrats’ making”
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Beyoncé told Blue to get on the stage and take it all in “cuz this the last Grammys we coming to. We got Grammys at home.”
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god he’s such an old queen it hurts.
If it’s Friday…. Trump is blaring “The Phantom of the Opera” at the White House.
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I’m just a millennial… …standing in front of the U.S. economy… …asking it not to crash… …for the third time in my life.
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my god. just…my god.
Headquarters
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I hate to say it. I hope I don’t sound ridiculous. But I don’t know who this man is. He could be walking down the street. I wouldn’t know a thing. Sorry to this man.
Morgan Wallen scores his third #1 hit on the Hot 100 with “Love Somebody.”
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zoomers this is what obama winning iowa felt like
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I’m sorry I’m still floored. Saying “I’d rather be at the beach” when ~300,000 of your constituents are about to lose their health care is just absolutely wild. What are we doing here.
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While you were talking about the debate, the Supreme Court decided that federal judges, and not scientists or experts, should decide if carbon emissions are actually all that bad.
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love it when the timeline is libbing out together
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BA in Political Science
What's it called when you're delusional but self aware
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of course our first gay president is evil
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and the district attorney was *this* lady
Trump: “San Francisco, you know, is, was a great city 15 years ago.” FYI: The mayor of San Francisco 15 years ago was Gavin Newsom.
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Sadly it seems that my family and I will be departing the city I’ve called home my entire life. NYC will become a very dangerous place to live in if we elect mayor Mamdani and that is a risk I am unwilling to take now that I want to start growing my family.
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Open for business. 💛🖤
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Y’all got Peter out here cussin!
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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careful what you wish for partner
Can we just do a country halftime show next year?
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Step on the gas, kids. They're scared.
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I have lived 1,000 lifetimes since this tweet.
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.
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If I send you this it means you're wasting my time, but I'm blackfully being polite about it.
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Oh so THIS is what it’s supposed to sound like
Didn’t need to cry today but here we are 🥲
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They're coming for Obergefell, by the way. Only a matter of time.
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This position wins 400+ Electoral Votes.
RNC Research
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Happy anniversary to this murder. Clean kill. No notes.
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me if they make libbing the fuck out a crime tonight
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me normally: America. America has a problem. me during the Olympics:
when the olympics kick off you are going to see unbridled and impassioned nationalism out of me that you would not believe
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It’s an overlooked point, but part of the reason Mike Johnson keeps stepping on rakes by vows to repeal popular legislation is because the GOP has no popular proactive governing agenda besides repealing things Democrats have done.
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The lesson here for Democrats? Pull up.
Tina Smith on her interaction with Mike Lee: “I think he was surprised to be confronted”
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It’s officially HER season.
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Kamala Harris this weekend apparently
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This decision overturning Chevron should be right up there with Dobbs and Shelby County v. Holder in terms of the worst things this Court has done. Just unspeakably bad.
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AOC is a great case study of a leader with deeply progressive values who understands how power can be used to secure material change while rejecting empty posturing that makes a small cluster of very online purists feel validated.
AOC is a great case study of how DC can transform a young person with an exciting and aspirational worldview into an extremely predictable and boring politician
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flawless victory.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has deleted all three of his tweets from his personal account that mocked and fanned conspiracies about the assassination of Minnesota Democrat state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband.
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The older I get, the more I realize that she was right about ABSOLUTELY everything.
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We’re being mean girls in this campaign and it honestly feels so right and good. 💙
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I want election night for Joe Biden to be like Emmys night for Schitt's Creek send tweet
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nobody: jd vance:
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.@Tim_Walz hits it out of the park here.
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just know if I send you this it means you have a bleach blonde bad built butch body 🤭
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Brooke Rollins: "Soybean, corn, wheat, sorghum, cotton farmers are facing very difficult times. We are currently in conversations here at the White House, across the government, on a farmer aid package."
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Not to be too blasé about all this, but “politician tries to arrest political opponents because they won’t agree to election rigging efforts” is the type of thing that can transform an electoral landscape under the right circumstances.
TEXAS GOVERNOR ORDERS ARREST OF DEMOCRATS WHO FLED THE STATE
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Good morning. If you’re in line to dunk on Olivia Nuzzi after years of definitely not being down with her vibe or work product but not being able to specifically put your finger on why, STAY IN LINE.
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This from @davidshor stopped me in my tracks this morning.
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none of your veep takes can make me any less excited to have *this* very specific energy in the White House. 💙
“alright now!” ηick
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One day, y’all gonna learn to listen.
Pod Save America
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I am so fucking proud of @JohnFetterman. That’s it. That’s the tweet. 💛🖤
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The best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history
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Biden: Happy Monday. I’m cancelling more student loan debt. Trump: Happy Monday. A 12 year old should be forced to bear her rapist’s baby if a state government says so. Pick a side, y’all.
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Replying to @EJH_Jr
Knees COVERED for the lordt.
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Y'all are making this WAY too complicated. They are BOTH old. One of them tried to cancel a lot of student loan debt and was stopped by the Supreme Court (so he canceled a little less). One of them is the reason the Supreme Court ended the right to an abortion in this country.
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People are about to start circling back…
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This is the best thing I’ve seen on this hell site in QUITE some time.
Conscious Lee
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The fact that Hochul got here before Schumer, Jeffries, or Gillibrand is such an embarrassing look for those three.
New York City deserves a mayor who will stand up to Donald Trump and make life more affordable for New Yorkers. That’s @ZohranKMamdani. nytimes.com/2025/09/14/opini…
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Due respect, I’m oh so very tired of being lectured by a socialist whose only electoral purchase is in Vermont. I’ll be the first to admit that there are problems in the Democratic Party. But if you’ve had a decade and two failed attempts at convincing even the most nominally sympathetic audience of your arguments, perhaps you, too, are part of the problem and not the solution.
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.
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Chappell Roan on why she hasn't endorsed Kamala Harris: "I have so many issues with our government in every way... There are so many things that I would want to change. So I don’t feel pressured to endorse someone. There’s problems on both sides."
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Sounds like a heterosexual problem to me.
NEW: @CBSNews has learned the Red Cross is declaring a national blood crisis for the first time and tomorrow the organization will ask people to donate immediately.
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Being a Democrat is so much fun. You’re in charge of the government even when you’re very specifically not in charge of the government.
If the Democrats can’t convince a handful of Senators to vote against a bill that will tragically hurt most of their constituents, then there is a problem with our democratic leadership.
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Can't ban gerrymandering if you're gerrymandered out of ever having the power to ban gerrymandering.
Replying to @NebraskaMegan
The answer to rigging elections for republicans is not rigging elections for democrats. We need to ban gerrymandering and have districts redrawn every ten years with the census - as they are now - by independent redistricting commissions. That’s it
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“I hate both sides” is such an easy way to collapse the massive differences between the two major parties and thus absolve yourself of any responsibility to be informed or, heaven forbid, pick a side. Love her music. Hate her takes.
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I will *never* regret being an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton. She would’ve been fantastic.
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Getting pretty fucking tired of cheap shots like this aimed at the only party that’s ever fought to raise the minimum wage, actually cancelled billions in student loan debt, or secured massive investment to combat the climate crisis.
Days like this happen and Dems tell us they can’t pass a minimum wage increase and can’t cancel student loans and can’t declare a climate emergency
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The "Founding Fathers" also never intended for me to be five-fifths of a person, but GO OFF Big Mike.
The Founding Fathers never intended for Washington D.C. to be a state. #DCStatehood is really about packing the Senate with Democrats in order to pass a left-wing agenda. Just look at the DC voter registration data: 🔵 76.4% Democrat 🔴 5.7% Republican
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Jealous of every single low information voter today.
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Elizabeth Warren, unsurprisingly, perfectly explains why broad cancellation of student loan debt stands to benefit the entire economy and all who participate in it. I love this woman so very much. nitter.app/alexisgoldstein/status…
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I cannot imagine a more strategically asinine time to propose this.
Progressive Hill staff are asking for a 32-hour workweek "We write today to encourage you to consider adopting a proposal that would improve worker satisfaction, increase staff retention in Congress, and model a more sustainable approach to work on a national level."
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I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited: “Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval. "In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good “We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! 🦋 He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.
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Rewatching VEEP and Ben was the realest and most accurate depiction of a veteran DC staffer and we simply do not discuss it enough.
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Good afternoon to these two, for no reason in particular.
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Can’t say I support what that twink did, but I don’t think he was trying to kill Members of Congress or overthrow the government while he was Lawrence v. Texasing on the dais.
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I have zero patience for democrats/liberals/leftists/comrades who don’t understand what time it is. This is what fighting fascism looks like in America in 2025. Please get on board or, respectfully, get out of the fucking way.
This is not good either!!!!!!!!!!
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Alls I’m saying is if I were Olivia, the three of us would’ve figured SOMETHING out, ok?
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I really need you people to be more afraid of the likelihood that Trump will replace Thomas and Alito with thirty-something Christian nationalists who stopped reading the Constitution after the second amendment.
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I need people to understand how absolutely batshit crazy this is and what it says about the state of the Republican Party. Just astonishing stuff.
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So this is literally Abundance
Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico's "neoliberal period" is over, announcing a slew of new public works. Continuing AMLO's Fourth Transformation, Mexico is building passenger rail, highways, airports, 200K+ affordable homes, and more.
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After the election, we are absolutely gonna need to have a convo about the Democratic doomerism in the home stretch of these campaigns. In addition to being untethered from reality + unproductive, it’s also super annoying and I refuse to do another cycle of this with you people.
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Katie Hobbs sitting at double digit net positive approval rating in a border state Trump won convincingly is answering the eternal question: what if Kyrsten Sinema had just been fucking normal.
Arizona: I’m running for re-election. Your stories of hard work, hope, and determination inspire me to keep moving our state forward. I’m ready to serve you for 4 more years and always put your family first. Let’s get to work.
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My hot take is the people who previously called for Cuomo to resign but are now happily backing him as if nothing happened do more to damage the Democratic Party’s brand + credibility than any prominent Democratic Socialist has.
Add the New York Times editorial board to the list of groups that once called for Cuomo's resignation, but now say people should vote for him nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opini…
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The thing is: Democrats HAVE been opposed to it broadly. Whole state constitutions have been amended to reflect this. Everyone actually seemed to be fine with Republicans behaving badly, but when Democrats returned fire, then it suddenly became a race to the bottom.
"My side can gerrymander but yours can't" is not a defensible take. You basically have to be cool with the race to the bottom or oppose it broadly, regardless of which party is pursuing it.
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I’ll give them one thing: they’ve revealed just how fundamentally toothless our supposed “good governance” laws are.
It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
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Me: The National Anthem is incredibly problematic. Joe Biden: Ok but what if I get Lady Gaga to sing it? Me:
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‘JD Vance threw you off your Medicaid’ is the type of thing that has the potential to scramble an electoral map under the right circumstances.
JD Vance was the deciding vote to cut Medicaid across the country. An absolute and utter betrayal of working families.
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At the risk of starting a discourse, I really don't think the takeaway from Mamdani should be an ideological one. That's not how voters sort themselves. That's really not how he ran. He had a clear + resonant message—affordability—and he took it everywhere. Often.
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"Why won't Democrats do something?!" Democrats spent the better part of two years outlining in painstaking detail how awful a second Trump term would be. We lost. What you really seek is a change from the reality of how awful all of this is, and Democrats cannot provide that.
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i feel like we ALL know who needs to succeed ellen:
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LOOK AT HER. 😍
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Heard of him. 😌
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Replying to @seandoherty
Trevor said try Jesus, not me. Icon.
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A major plank of Kamala Harris’s economic agenda was expanding and extending the child tax credit. She talked about it quite often. To say Democrats “let it die” leaves out some pretty important context, but why let facts get in the way of some good ole fashioned Dem bashing!
The child tax credit basically ended childhood poverty in the United States and Democrats just unceremoniously let it die and barely ever talk about it since. I think about that a lot.
Community note
In 2024, 41 Senate Republicans voted against the "Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act," which included a child tax credit expansion. In contrast, only 3 Senate Democrats voted against it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Relie
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Do you understand how foul this case had to be for Alito and Thomas to be like “nahhhh dawg”
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS CASE THAT THREATENED ITS LANDMARK 2015 RULING RECOGNIZING A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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The goal cannot be to endlessly critique and theorize about power and the people who have it. At SOME POINT the goal must be to secure power and wield it to effectuate material change in people’s lives. Or else what’s the point of all of this??
AOC saying she doesn’t “want to do four more years of resistance nonsense” tells you everything you need to know about her.
Community note
The full quote was about not wanting to do “four more years of resistance nonsense under Donald Trump.” AOC was clearly referring to not wanting to have to protest against Trump rather than not wanting to push her own ideas and policies. nitter.app/AOC/status/185
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I don’t think VA Dems should seek Jay Jones’s resignation. Voters were fully aware of the facts and elected him. I don’t think you’re about to see a bunch of Dems doing and saying stupid shit because they can. I DO think, that thanks to Trump, the bar for disqualifying behavior is now in hell.
As a prudential matter, VA Dems should immediately seek Jay Jones’s resignation. As an analytical matter, and something I hear in Dem focus groups a lot: R’s tolerance for Trump’s disqualifying behavior has created a real “eff going high, let’s go as low as them” mentality.
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EVERYONE GET ON THE FUCKING BUS.
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Andrew Cuomo seen as possible White House candidate by some Democrats — The Hill
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It’s not even a “lesser of two evils” situation here. Biden has an objectively impressive record on climate—including the American Climate Corps, a onetime huge priority for Sunrise. If your goal is action on climate, Biden is the only option. Pretending otherwise is delusional.
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