The Lief Reservoir of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners

[GeorgiaModerate]

Judas sold out Christ for 30 pieces of silver. The Republican Party appears willing to sell out America for a stacked judiciary and tax cuts.

[Politician]

Politico is not a reliable news source.

[kyc0705]

Imagine being such a worthless person that your first impulse upon seeing a thread about a shooting at a synagogue is to defend Donald Trump.

[Anti-Bothsidesism]

I think the problem is that you expected tolerance and civility on a political forum.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Are you saying that one has to be a staunch ideologue? This "either you're with us, or you're against us" mentality could be the avenue to violence and war.

I’m saying that whatever the “moderate, centrist” position is on caging children in abandoned Walmarts while their parents are deported hundreds of miles away, is still dangerously unacceptable.

[Dr. MB]

FC, the bernie sanders of candies

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

If you play with fire, you get burned. If you buy the Tennessee hype, you get blackburned.

[Cold War Liberal]

Trump should recognize that immigrants perform some jobs that Americans won't do, like marry Donald Trump.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

If we're going to accuse people we don't like of "paying for the caravan" I'm going to put my own neoconservative twist on it and say that Bashar Al-Assad is paying for the caravan and he planned the whole thing with Saddam Hussein in 2002.

I have just as many facts to back my theory up lmao

bolded part especially

[Very Legal & Very Cool]

I still think that Cruz wins, but something spooked him today:

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1058363039047733249

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/691742501212983296

[Atlas Force]

Are people really freaking out about a 1% decline at 538 and a +.03 R in the GCB average? I guess it is Atlas.

[IceSpear]

[IceSpear]

It's really odd to me why people continue to act like Beto can't win. Sure, is it likely? Probably not. But it's not impossible. I don't get why people here are instantly writing it off. Bad analyzation.

The argument for Cruz winning: Numbers.

The argument for Beto winning: Hopey-changey stuff.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Most people don't even know how to listen if you're not recycling a line that they recognize. At best, they'll substitute a more familiar idea for what you actually said. At worst, they'll get angry at you for confusing them. But most of the time they'll just carry on as if you haven't said anything at all.

[Atlas Force]

I was about to ask "Has this forum learned nothing about drawing conclusions from early returns?"  But then I realized that you don't need to ask questions you already know the answer to.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

This guy earned himself a fan tonight!

Western U.S. and Great Plains > Eastern U.S.

Well, that's been the case since, well, forever. As the wise Bill Walton once said: "if the Pilgrims had landed in California, the east coast would still be wilderness."

[IceSpear]

Good map and analysis.

The Republican party is clearly the party of racist rural hicks. That is all that is left of the GOP across the nation. It is the same pattern everywhere.

And everywhere that there are racist rural hicks is a death zone for Democrats. Basically American politics now consists of Racist rural hicks on one side (GOP) against everyone else (Democrats) on the other side.

[IceSpear]

You do realise that gaining a majority is impossible with writing off rural (and urban, a lot of the swings in WV, OH are in semi-urban areas) hicks and I'm pretty sure suburban voters will swing against the Democrats with a Sanders presidency, allowing Democrats to be in the permanent minority.

The annoying thing about takes like these is they act like Democrats are only catering to sunbelt suburbanites.

They aren't. Cordray's records as CFPB chairman is as populist as you can get. The Democratic party of Missouri dropped its litmus test on abortions. The last four years are littered with Rob Quist-type Democrats who ran uphill races that paid just as much, if not more, to a rural electorate that the mainstream media fetishized with diner-reports and Steve Bullock profiles. Voters in rural areas don't care and don't want anything to do with the Democratic party as long as Republicans can corner them on culture war issues. Campaigns that leave votes in urban and suburban areas chasing after voters that won't have anything to do with them for reasons beyond their control are doomed to fail.

edited to add: Richard Ojeda is the quintessential Democratic feel-good populist candidate that won't budge the majority of rural voters.

[Atlas Force]

As much as Republican elected officials are to blame, the media's hard-on for calling races quickly is also to blame. It creates the notion that the race is over (and the media doesn't deal with any of the fallout from that).

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

Whether you're a Nelson supporter or not, I don't understand why anyone is so keen to say that there's no need to verify the votes. Don't people, as a general principle, want people's valid votes to count?

“Only if they’re Republicans.” — Republicans

The breakdown of democratic norms among Republicans, both in the party establishment and in the broader general population, is that complete. They have no interest in democracy as an institution whatsoever.

[Sestak]

That’s it, we’re naming the next thread for jfern.

I think you get fired in Florida if you are too competent.

[Politician]

Dems need a strong, progressive candidate and Randy Bryce is the guy.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Context:

This will be the best progressive coup since Ocasio downed Crowley.

More like Pressley and Capuano considering Capuano was left of Pressley but still lost due to latte liberals wanting a black person in congress instead of the person who would be a committee chairman for transportation.

[IceSpear]

Cletus and Jimbo aren’t interested in starting a civil war to repeal US highways lol. They are however tempted to start a civil war if one more Mexican family drives through their trailer park town.

This is what the GOP establishment fails to understand. Their base is angry as Hell but not quite for the reasons they always think.

[Atlas Force]

None of them. They’re all scum

Much lesser then Republicans they defeated.)))

They want to tax me more. Any one whos trying to steal my money is a scumbag. The republicans are scumbags too, just less so since they dont want to steal as much

I tolerate taxes when their purpose is justified. That's the difference between me and you.

It’s nevef justified. Think about it, the government is a pimp and we’re all working hoes. We’re the ones earning the money, why should Big Daddy Government take any. Like a pimp, govt says they’ll “take care of you” but that’s really just to keep you dependent on Big Daddy G. If the govt just f’ed off and let us keep our own damn money, I think we’d all be better off

Have fun without roads, police and safe drinking water. These are the type of things we take for granted but they only exist thanks to government funding. Government can always be improved but whining about taxes just shows your level of entitlement.