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11 Sep, 10 tweets, 2 min read

This week is a reminder that politicians win battles by painstakingly amassing comprehensive legal cases before taking a big swing, so it’ll withstand inevitable legal challenges.

Winning has NOTHING to do with the “why don’t Democrats grow a spine” rhetoric coming from morons.

95% of politics takes place behind the scenes, and is all about setting the stage for making sure your big deigns can actually succeed.

Every pundit knows this.

Most pundits present politics 59 you as a simplistic fantasy land anyway, in order to pander to you.

Most political activists have a child’s understanding of politics, both because they want to pretend it’s a spectator sport, and because most pundits are invested in keeping their audiences stupid. Until you figure this out, you’ll continue to be confused everything that happens.

At least most of you have finally stopped whining about “why don’t the Democrats DO something” and “all hope is lost.” But many of you are still asking why Biden didn’t do this sooner, as if it were just a matter of him waving a magic wand. You still don’t get any of it.

Biden and his legal team (including Merrick Garland, the guy you waste your life trying to sabotage) have spent all this time painstakingly crafting the legal basis for Biden’s big swing, so it wouldn’t be overruled by the courts. It could not have been (successfully) done sooner

Most of you are still so clueless about politics, it’s like you’re watching football, thinking it’s baseball, and demanding it be played like basketball. You’re that clueless. But the media and the pundits want you this clueless, so you remain easy to pander to.

It also means you’re basically useless as an activist, because you don’t know what’s even happening, and you waste most of your time inaccurately whining about your own side - which costs your side votes when you do it loudly enough.

Biden and his team are basically scoring these victories through sheer force of will, with almost no help from liberal “activists,” because all that most of you do is whine like babies about Biden and sabotage him in the process.

Please for the love of God, make an effort to understand how politics really works. Stop sabotaging your own side why whining like a clueless two year old. Start supporting your own side for once in your life. This is too inept and for you to be this fucking clueless.

Right wingers are doing us a huge favor this week by becoming whiny self-sabotaging “all hope is lost” crybabies. They’re costing their side votes with that shit. Now, will we finally knock that shit off and decide to support Biden and the Democrats like the winners they are?

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