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10 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
It’s what the brass wants.
Thompson could call on Biden to post the subpoenaed Trump documents online, the committee could refer Trump for criminal prosecution; Schumer and Pelosi could draft legislation under the 14th amendment to bar Jan 6 plotters from federal office.
Garland could name a special counsel; Biden could call it an emergency and insist on new legislation, even if it means eliminating the filibuster. @brianschatz could pants @chriscoons on the Senate floor.
Even just assembling the leaders for the purposes of getting mad in front of the cameras and demanding Republicans renounce Trump for it would be better than nothing.
Absent even a hint of anger or potential consequences, the press can’t do much more than blare one round of headlines, report out the origin story of that PowerPoint presentation, then follow newsmakers where they lead.

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1 Dec
That’s too bad imo because in addition to putting Biden’s life in jeopardy on purpose last year, the former president is trying to overthrow the constitution through both pseudolegal and violent means right now!
The floating-above-the-fray thing seems to scratch some psychological itch for leading Dems, but it doesn’t work. It’s how you wind up responding to a coup attempt with an infrastructure bill while the coup party convinces more voters that you’re the threat to democracy.
Biden wouldn’t need to take umbrage on a personal level at all. It’s just a reminder that the former president is a wholly immoral person who should have never held office, and his loyalists in Congress share culpability for all the damage he did to America.
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22 Nov
Many Dems, including the highest-profile ones like Biden and Sanders, did have to disavow the slogan in summer 2020. Probably they didn’t love that. What’s missing is, e.g., evidence that Dems were leading by X, until the defund moment, after which they were leading by Y < X.
The telling thing about defund is it’s this kind of phantom for everyone invested in proving SJWs are out of control. Meanwhile Biden won, civil unrest plummeted, and unless I’m mistaken, activists haven’t adopted any splashy, unpopular slogans, even briefly, in the year+ since.
I suppose you can tell a story where the threat the wokes pose is stuck in abeyance, but may roar back at any moment, while their aims were rerouted into other forums (corporate anti-bias trainings?) where they still hurt Dems indirectly….
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18 Nov
I interviewed several San Quentin inmates a few years ago for a reporting project on felon disenfranchisement. All of them stipulated to their guilt. After the formal part was over we were shooting the shit and one of them asked me how I’d refer to them as a group in the writing.
I said I hadn’t thought about it, but probably a mix of terms like prisoners, inmates, and felons. They were to a person wounded by “felons,” since it defined them by their worst actions. But only one guy spoke up to request “people with felony convictions.”
I said (in essence) I wouldn’t go that far because the felony convictions didn’t just happen to them, and this was a series about the right to vote despite criminal history. He thought that was reasonable and that was the end of it and I used “prisoners” a lot and it was fine.
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17 Nov
A key GOP insight is that there’s no such thing as “banking” in this regard. Gas prices are a soft target now, so they’re hammering that issue and playing up how winning it is, then if prices fall they’ll move on to the next attack, which they’ll also portray as winning.
Meanwhile if gas prices fall, and Republicans drop the issue, no one is going to make them pay any price for inconsistency or lying about who was to blame, and Dems may well not claim credit, because they’ll “bank” on the risk that prices will rise again.
Take it from an actual GOP practitioner. Then imagine how the Trump years might’ve played out if Dems had brought this mindset to a party led by the most despised, plainly corrupt man in America.
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15 Nov
“Too dangerous for American families” is something a computer programmed to go negative, but only in the language of kitchen-table issues, would spit out.
They left dead bodies in the halls of the Capitol when they lost the last election.
They cheat, and when they lose anyhow they lie and resort to violence. Just say that.
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5 Nov
NEW: The handwringing over tactics is fine and probably inevitable in a race as close as VA-gov, but it’s the definition of sweating the small stuff. mailchi.mp/crooked.com/bi…
The small-bore stuff might have actually made the difference between victory and defeat in VA, but it’s also the stuff we understand the worst. crooked.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=88…
Ultimately, though, McAuliffe (and Dems in NJ) were swimming against strong currents; some of which Democrats in Washington had no control over, but others of which they did.
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