sasha - they/he

what democrats do is just virtue signaling to their hyper online base. which doesn't really help (or hurt) literally anyone, sooo

his goodwill is shot with the public, this is his one chance to see if he can claw any of it back before we descend into campaign season and impressions of him will become baked in

and like........ that should scare the shit out of the GOP because he's *NOT* capable of good speech delivery anymore.

it matters more for democrats what trump says and the implications of that than literally anything they do during or immediately after the speech

there is no answer to "how should Democrats handle Trump's SOTU" because the question is flawed. the public does not really notice or care about any of it except the main response

they *may* /notice/ heckling from democrats (Al Green did this well last year) but they'll forget after five minutes

one of these days i'll have to scope out how active Portland DSA is in my area

it's because people just don't actually pay attention to anything around them

that's a good thing, though. IMO the dem socialist cause manifestly benefits the most from having dem socialists in office!

if i were Talarico i would've gone nuclear on her

i just fail to see the universe in which that effort isn't worth it if both of them win

the reason why TX-Sen is so acrimonious is because one candidate deliberately chose to make it so.

and enough of this "it's so ugly" bullshit. Crockett *made* it ugly on purpose. Talarico did not and has remained respectful the entire time.

Bernie would've been a worse President and didn't try to reach outside his base at all. on principle he was the wrong choice.

i don't understand this. feels like most DSA types should be leaping at the chance to endorse anyone that engages with the org, given the alternative in every circumstance is a normielib (derogatory, since it's oregon)

that's a time the rank and file was demonstrably incorrect, fwiw

i fully agree in theory, in practice i would if she hadn't volunteered to appear on hasan's stream like two weeks ago

something iirc AOC for example has not done

I know what the belief is.

1) it is nonsense, as you say

2) nonvoters probably prefer candidates like Talarico over candidates like Crockett anyway!

Polling. is. bullshit. in. primaries.

how many times do I need to say this before it gets through everyone's head

i'm gonna prefer Reynoso until someone can give me a reason why he's bad (over Valdez who pals around with Hasan Piker)

yeah it's????? he's to *HER* left. why would he struggle with that

and it's also funny that Crockett's argument is that she can bring in nonvoters, when those are likely to break for Talarico!

Oh boy here we go. Another round of many bsky libs tentatively defending Newsom because they think leftists being annoying is worse than his transphobia.

The way movement atheists & toxic Crockett stans talk about him I assumed Talarico was a lib-coded evangelical but you telling me he went to a Presbyterian seminary instantly makes him the most viable Sandinista to ever run in Texas.

operative words: algorithmic feed

i don't think she's being unnecessarily generous but i do want to glonzo gavin newsom

does anyone seriously fucking think Jasmine Crockett is capable of winning a statewide race in Texas? do her supporters even believe that horseshit?

no, she'd fucking lose. let's all stop pulling punches here and just say it. she's a bad candidate and her theory of how she'd win this race is flawed

ah, the discourse...

oh good grief

Platner is probably going to win the primary and a whole lot of people seem unprepared for this outcome in a way I hope does not reelect Susan Collins

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