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11.03.2025 09:26 — 👍 2171    🔁 203    💬 112    📌 141

Very bad, getting worse.

(1) direct from Trump, so it’s the administration’s policy

(2) many to come

(3) conflation of material support for terrorism with generalized anti-Americanness

(4) no recognition of distinctive legal protections for green card holders

Terrifying.

10.03.2025 17:30 — 👍 1346    🔁 372    💬 46    📌 15

every person accused of being hysterical in 2016 was simply correct

18.01.2025 10:50 — 👍 1042    🔁 219    💬 14    📌 5

Warren leaves office at age 79 in 2029, teeing off the VP to carry on to the next race.

Obviously this is total wishcasting, and I think winning 2020 would have been very tough if Dems won 2016, but Dems winning 2016 would surely have prevented a two term Trump situation

04.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She picks a dynamic younger VP who has more "back of the classroom" energy to balance her professorial persona. Moore, Whitmer, or Newsom come to mind. Age does become a factor in the race, and she commits to one term. They win in a tight race amid the anti-incumbent wave

04.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

let's say that Kaine/Warren win again and Kennedy/Breyer retire if they didn't do so already, creating a 6-3 liberal majority on the court. Inflation is still a thing, but there's no senility to allege of the President. Warren, at age 75, is the 2024 nominee

04.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Now with the Scalia and RBG SCOTUS seats filled by Kaine (5-4 liberal SCOTUS), he runs for re-election in 2020 as the incumbent 62 year old president. Covid happens, but hopefully a better managed pandemic response means less of a swing against the incumbent. tossup result?

04.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

with Kaine as a popular VP at the top of the ticket in '16 it could have tipped the scales in PA, WI, and MI to prevent a Trump victory. Who would be Kaine's VP? A woman from the Senate, most likely. Warren makes sense, considering what was happening in 2016

04.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Checking out the alternate timeline where Obama followed his "heart" and picked Tim Kaine for VP, instead of following his "head" and picking Biden. I think '08 and '12 results would have been unaffected and then Kaine would have been the heir apparent in 2016

04.01.2025 20:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0