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3 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What a great, blunt, honest thread by Sen. Smith. This is what I wish elected representatives would do more of: lay out what needs to happen, lay out how they want to get there, tell us honestly what the obstacles are, and then focus on removing them. Thank you, senator.
But with that said, here's a really serious problem: while it's great for Dems to admit the votes aren't there, it can't be that the ONLY response is "vote harder."
Tell us which members of your caucus are the obstacles (especially if it's not just the obvious ones), and PRESSURE THEM. It's not acceptable to say the problem is recalcitrant Dems and then not even tell us who needs to pressured or replaced.
Americans deserve to know which Dems are blocking their access to reproductive rights and blocking the party's agenda, and if the party stands for what it says it stands for, it'll pressure those people. "Who is letting Republicans kill Roe?" can't be an intra-caucus secret.

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5 Sep
I find the reflexive blaming of Manchin and Sinema so bizarre. I mean, yes - they’re a huge obstacle. But the idea that two senate votes render the party that controls the White House, House, and Senate powerless? A party that represents well over half the country?
The idea that America’s tens of millions of Democrats should simply accept that their priorities and their preferences are meaningless and cannot be expressed at all, except to the extent they reflect the priorities and preferences of these two Senate dilettantes, is insulting
If 48 senators, the White House, and a House majority strongly desired dramatic action, and then 2 senators were bottling it all up, don’t you think you’d detect a teensy bit more frustration with the state of affairs? Instead of “Oh well, that’s that! Maybe after midterms!”
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3 Sep
People like to say “You just can’t accept that Manchin and Sinema won’t ever change their mind and there’s nothing more Dems can do,” but that argument would be more persuasive if obscure party figures like Joe Biden didn’t also publicly support the filibuster.
Pretty funny max pressure campaign we’ve got on, where the White House virtually buries filibuster-obstructed legislation of vital importance to focus on an infrastructure package that can get through reconciliation. Probably nothing else could possibly be done, though, right?
I mean I don’t watch cable TV but I’m guessing barely a day goes by where you don’t see moderates like Coons or Warner getting worked up on the news about how we HAVE to kill the filibuster to pass Biden’s agenda? I mean, unless Dems are lying about pushing as hard as they could.
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2 Sep
This is literally the plan. Three years from now abortion will be illegal in 20 states and it'll be reported as "Restrictions threaten rights guaranteed by Roe, some liberals say"
They'll be able to do this because our political media refuses to treat any view contested by a partisan as provably incorrect, even if that view is "You have a constitutional right to abortion in America, a country where many states ban abortion"
Republicans will no doubt be raising millions and millions by promising to overturn Roe for years to come, long after Roe has been wiped away
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31 Aug
This is an increasing number of dudes’ excuse for not having to care about other people, but the cost-benefit analysis is almost exactly the same as it was a year ago: moderate mitigation versus mass death
When someone says “it’s not tenable that I have to wear a mask for indeterminate period of time so your parents don’t die” what they’re trying to do is figure out a way they can excuse not caring if your parents die
But a lot of people aren’t vaccinated. You hate the idea of that you might have to protect anyone you see as undeserving at any cost to yourself, so you’re using “They could have gotten vaccinated” as a justification for not caring if they live or die.
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31 Aug
There is a community of dudes on here who just log on every day and argue for more COVID infections and death to the unvaccinated
I try to wrap my head around this and I just can’t. ICUs are clogged and thousands are dying and your concern is… that we’ll slide into permanent dining hall closures? Why would that happen, even? Who wants that?
James the thing you’re missing isn’t that outdoor mask mandates aren’t kind of silly but that it’s a minor problem and your evaluation of these policies is entirely driven by your own personal proximity to them
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31 Aug
Nate’s ongoing issue isn’t really with any specific policy with but with the basic concept of public health, and the idea one group might need to sacrifice to keep another group healthy.
Nate Silver and a lot of dudes like him have been on a mission to convince us the pandemic was over and life should go back to normal the moment they personally felt safe. The idea it might impose on them unfairly is only aspect of COVID they seem to care about
I mean he’s literally arguing in favor of letting the disease spread freely because attempting to prevent new cases would interfere with his hot vax summer. And of course any cases among the unvaccinated in adjacent communities are just irrelevant
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