Today is Christmas Day for us. We got confirmation that Trump really does have no idea how to save himself, and as a bonus, a smoking gun for his criminal trial.
If your response to today’s news is to hang wring and lament, then you have no idea what winning looks like.
Politics is war. And in war, the only goal is to win. If you’re the good guys, you can then carry out a liberal agenda. But first you must win. If you want to enact positive change, there is no other way to approach it. You don’t lament and cry over a win. You gladly seize it.
The night Trump won in 2016, I said this would be a “four year war.” I said that in war, the losses are unacceptable on both sides, and that the winner is the side still standing when the other side falls. Well here we are. Unacceptable losses for us, but Trump has indeed fallen.
No one has ever won a war by lamenting, fretting, panicking, or hand wringing. If you’ve spent the past four years behaving like that, you’ve been trying to lose to Trump. But it’s not too late to stop being a loser. You can still decide you want to fight and win. We need you!
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When the tape of Trump's phone call surfaced, pundits quickly decided that Trump strategically recorded and leaked it himself. This made no possible sense. But it fit the pundits' ongoing narrative that Trump is some secret evil genius strategist that we're too dumb to understand
It's since turned out that – of course – Raffensperger's side recorded it. In other words, Trump really did idiotically make that call and unwittingly incriminate himself. Trump is the world's dumbest villain. So why do the pundits keep insisting he's a secret evil genius?
The only possible explanation is that the pundits and the media are so invested in milking the "Trump is a secret evil genius strategist" narrative for ratings, they're still unwilling to even consider the mountain of evidence that says he's highly inept as a villain.
House Republicans now have a lunatic Lauren Boebert who wants to carry a gun, and a lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene who promotes Q anon. Let's make these two rock stars and household names. The new face of the GOP. Then we make the 2022 midterms a referendum on these two assholes.
We can cost a LOT of House Republicans their seats in 2022, simply by forcing them to either endorse or disown the deranged antics of Boebert and Greene. House Republicans will all lose some votes in their districts, no matter which side they choose.
This is essentially what the Republicans did to us in 2020. They made up fake caricatures of AOC and the Squad, then used it to attack every House Democrat facing reelection.
We can do the same to the GOP in 2022, except we don't have to make up fake versions Boebert and Greene.
My final take on tomorrow's Georgia runoffs: we have 50-50 odds of winning.
I was originally at 50-50 odds. Those odds began to drop when we allowed Trump's endgame antics to distract us from the runoffs. But now Trump has the Georgia GOP in disarray, so I'm back to 50-50 odds.
I do expect a close result. So it's possible we won't know the winner by the end of the night. If so, it'll be important to keep fighting for every vote to be counted. You know the drill
As always, panicking, fretting, and hand wringing are the opposite of being helpful.
One thing to watch our for: despite their recent anti-Trump stances, Kemp and Raffensperger are corrupt pieces of shit who are trying to rig the Senate races for the GOP. In the coming days you'll be reminded of this. Kemp and Raffensperger are not your friends.
No, Pelosi can’t just magically refuse to seat seditious republicans. Courts would overrule it, and she’d look toothless. There are NEVER any magic wands in politics, on either side. Stop listening to pundits who promote simplistic magic wand solutions as if they were real.
“But the 14th Amendment...” No. Amendments aren’t magic wands that can just be waved. The courts don’t interpret something a certain way just because you think they should. A childlike simplistic notion doesn’t become a realistic strategy just because it’s gone viral on Twitter.
Now if you want to push the 14th Amendment narrative as a way of educating the average American that the GOP committed sedition, go for it. But that’s not the same thing as expecting a magic wand solution to actually happen, or bashing Democrats for not waving a magic wand.
It's been two months since Biden was declared the winner in a blowout. Since then Trump has had literally zero chance of overturning the election. Yet the panickers on our side have been henpecking us nonstop, every step of the way, over imaginary doomsday scenarios. ENOUGH.
These past two months have been FUCKING MISERABLE. Not because of Trump's election antics, which have been shameful, but entirely expected, and have had zero impact. It's been miserable because of the panickers on our side. Absolutely miserable.
I've never really liked being a political analyst; I do it because people tell me I'm good at it. But these past two months have caused me to FUCKING HATE being a political analyst – and it's entirely because of the doomsday panickers on our side. It's literally fucking insane.
Please stop asking me what happens if Mike Pence calls for a "ten day window" or whatever. NOTHING happens. Nothing a fucking thing. He doesn't have that ability. It would be like me calling for giraffes to grow wings. Please stop asking me about obviously imaginary things.
Those of you who insist on fretting and panicking over imaginary bullshit are becoming a real liability to our side. You're ensuring that those of us who want to fight and win important battles, are instead stuck babysitting your panicky asses. PLEASE STOP. You're hurting us.
Some of you panickers have become such a gullible and pathetic joke, even Ted Cruz is laughing at you now. He knows he can't magically overturn the election with imaginary procedures. He's laughing his ass off at you for being gullible enough to fall for it. You're the joke now.