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24 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If I had a dollar for every time I'm accused of having a position or a take for money I would be a millionaire.

(Hint: when it comes to Democratic politics the most money is in saying everything is going great or crapping on everything, not a "kinda sucky kinda good" take)
I'm in the camp that says mainstream Democrats are far superior to anything conservatism can offer and in a two-party system that's the only rational path, but at the same time Democrats need to be far more progressive and stop being utterly abysmal on communications.
And no there's no forces lining up to give me truckloads of money for that position.
The money and fame are either in always saying "Pelosi has a plan and everything is working perfectly" (not true) or "Pelosi hates us all and is secretly a right winger" (also not true)

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24 Dec
They are now trying to cover their rears. People like Isgur chose to go work for Trump and executed his policies. Don't let them get away with this nonsense.
After Hitler shot himself, suddenly the Germans acted like they all wanted him out of power. We saw you at the rallies, giving a sharp salute, wearing your swastika armband. You loved every minute of it.
You should also remember Isgur is the person CNN hired to be their politics editor despite her career in GOP activism. Liberal media, indeed.

vox.com/platform/amp/p…
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23 Dec
This kind of thing is cable news catnip for liberals and it just does nothing.
Cable news zingers with people you keep inviting back on cable news is just the snake eating itself. A lot of performative nonsense imo.
Christie isn't anybody anymore. He has no constituency. Even in the fake wrestler world of tv punditry he's a z-lister.
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22 Dec
Come the fuck on. Unacceptable. washingtonpost.com/national/biden…
The Biden team is going to quickly have to learn that "the rules" and "tradition" are not going to fly as excuses for not DOING STUFF.
With Trump, we learned a lot of stuff that Obama said "you just can't..." was actually stuff you really"just could." Continually setting up roadblocks for yourself that aren't reflected in the law will backfire. Just fucking do it.
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22 Dec
My aunts, who I'm not seeing this year because you know why, keep sending me food in the mail (homemade cookies, saltfish fritters).

This isn't a complaint, I love my aunts.
That's Aunt Lorna and Aunt Angela, my mom's two immediate sisters. My mom was the middle child of the three and has two older sisters, Aunt Madge and Aunt Joy.
Mom and her sisters, and my uncle, Mike. You can recognize my mom cause she's the ringleader in the middle talking up a storm ♥️
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21 Dec
its not a dealbreaker but i just realized AOC is a massive hand-talker. she doesnt just have one hand-move, but she moves her hands all over the danged place.

(this is meaningless theater criticism with absolutely no serious implications)
biden doesnt move his hands a lot. harris moves her hands but the motion is very deliberate and not "wild." trump has accordion hands and loves to do the "ok" sign. obama is a pointer. bill clinton is a thumb pointer. hrc nods in 180 degrees.
biden's "tic" is this thing he does where he rubs the side of his nose. he does it in almost every speech. the trump equivalent is when he purses his lips and tilts his head as if to say "what i just said is amazing and you should applaud it."
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21 Dec
There are some people on the left who practically salivate over the idea that Democrats should throw anti-bigotry aside. To be perfectly honest I think a lot of them have never really spoken to a black person. They've spoken at one, but not *to* one.
Their take is basically: Can we just stop talking about racism and misogyny and transphobia and the rest? Let's just talk about Medicare for all and UBI and that will solve *everything*.

The people who think this way are fucking stupid.
And they always insist when Republicans make some populist noises they've magically "outflanked the Democrats." Look, the Democrats are generally too attached to means tested neolib bullshit, but Josh Hawley sounding like Bernie isn't an actual movement on the right.
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