Don't let the media goad you into believing that whining about Joe Manchin is "activism." It's not.

Our job is to pressure Manchin, bend him to our will, and get our legislation passed.

Whining always has the opposite effect.

You can whine and lose, or you can fight and win.
Same thing with Kyrsten Sinema. If you’re whining about her, it means you’re losing and she’s winning. If you want to win, stop whining, and start fighting.
“But we’ll primary them next time!” No, that’s also loser thinking. You’re giving up on our entire legislative agenda, assuming the loss on that, and plotting revenge. Who plots revenge instead of trying to win? Don’t be that kind of loser. This is all too important.
Whether Manchin and Sinema are “good” or “bad” is 100% irrelevant to our fight to get voting rights legislation passed in this term.

If you can’t understand that, you’re an even bigger impediment to voting rights than they are.

Winners fight.

Whiners lose.

Which one are you?
Think back to all the pundits who spent four years whining and lamenting about how Trump was going to defeat us no matter what. They contributed nothing, while we went out and beat him. Don’t let these same useless pundits talk you out of fighting and winning the next battles.

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20 Jul
House Republicans picked Jim Jordan for the 1/6 committee for a reason: they know he’s a non-starter and Pelosi will have to veto him. They’re hoping it’ll allow their other four picks to survive, who are all no names, but who are also unsuitable. Pelosi has some options.
Pelosi can make a point of vetoing Jordan, while allowing the four no-name House Republicans onto the committee. She can then say “see, I allowed the Republicans to have their people, just not that mentally unstable clown Jordan.”
Of the four no-name House Republicans, two voted to certify the election, and two voted against it. Pelosi can veto the two who voted against it, along with vetoing Jordan. But then the Republicans can claim the committee isn’t bipartisan, because she vetoed 3 of their 5 picks.
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19 Jul
DOJ bases its charging decisions on likelihood of conviction. Would have been hard to convince a jury that a half senile elderly man like Wilbur Ross committed perjury on purpose. This “Fire Merrick Garland” stuff is premature, overwrought, and makes us look a bit silly.
Pressure Garland to be aggressive? Of course. That’s our job.

Demand that Biden fire Garland? Ridiculous. Zero chance of happening. And calling for it merely weakens Biden’s and Garland’s position. You’re making it harder for Garland to do what he IS looking to do.
Not one of us has any idea whether Garland’s DOJ will prosecute Trump. Today certainly didn’t tell us anything in that regard. Shouldn’t we at least wait for that decision, before giving up and trying to destroy the Biden administration out of resentment?
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Can we stop with this nonsense about how Trump almost won There’s no such thing as getting extra votes in just one state, in a vacuum. For him to have gained 22,000 more votes in Wisconsin, it would have required a nationwide trend in which he gained about 1.5 million votes.
In other words, Trump would have needed to be about 1.5 million votes more popular nationwide in order to have won the closest states he lost, and therefore flipped the electoral college. Which means he lost the electoral college by 1.5 million popular votes. Not even close.
This whole “if twenty thousand votes had gone differently here and there, Trump would have won” narrative is statistical gibberish. It could not have happened that way. The trends that impact the vote in any one state, impact the vote in every other state.
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16 Jul
Media is trying to manufacture controversy by insisting the Democrats have abandoned voting rights in favor of infrastructure. Nope. They just have the votes for infrastructure now, so they're doing it now. They're still amassing votes for voting rights, so they'll do that later.
The media is getting worse about pushing the notion that if something in politics doesn't happen immediately, it'll never happen. It's as if the entire political universe is something that began yesterday and ends tomorrow. Anything to ratchet up the tension and keep you tuned in
The media has also managed to assign such magical omnipotent powers to Joe Manchin, all they have to do is mention his name and liberal activists will conclude that any given battle is "doomed." This kind of ratings-driven reductive nonsense does real harm to political outcomes.
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Dear @molly0xFFF – you've publicly identified yourself as one of the editors who hijacked Palmer Report's Wikipedia page. You've also inserted yourself into our Twitter replies. Accordingly, perhaps you'd like to answer some questions about the con game you've been playing:
1) Why have you allowed a rogue editor named "Dr. Swag Lord PhD" to continue editing Palmer Report's Wikipedia page, after he was caught removing all positive/neutral sourcing from the page, and after he used threats to chase another established editor off the Talk page?
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ALL HANDS ON DECK: if you have any ability to edit Wikipedia, please delete all of the conspiratorial, biased, fictional nonsense that a small band of rogue editors has placed on Palmer Report's page. Keep deleting it until these trolls give up. Thanks!
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We've already gotten one of these rogue editors banned for their gross abuse of Wikipedia. We won't stop until they've all been banned. Just keep removing the dishonest garbage from the page. If they add it back, remove it again. THIS IS WAR, and Palmer Report needs your help.
Looks like these sick fucks have locked the page again. So be it. We won't stop until they've been permanently banned from Wikipedia. And we're looking at all possible legal action, again them and Wikipedia at large. These sick fucks will regret this.
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