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If Chuck Schumer can’t bring himself to vote for the Democratic nominee for mayor, he should resign his position as Minority Leader.

Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."

I felt like Thom’s eye was sending me secret messages in the No Surprises video.

he won a Democratic nomination; his opponent murdered old people in nursing homes, sexually harassed his staff, and ran a viciously racist campaign while coordinating with donald trump.

if you can't take a stand here, what use are you? you're harming the coalition; your alienating voters.

Hope all those Goochland voters don’t get speeding tickets on the way to the polls!

How are my Albemarle folks doing?

The Scourge Of Wimpiness Terminal insecurity has damaged the Democratic Party's credibility more than any local policy choice or rhetorical trope.

Endless bickering over this stuff. But you might say the proof of the pudding is in the not eating shit. Newsom. Prop 50. The shutdown fight. That’s the path to restored credibility. www.offmessage.net/p/the-scourg...

Because Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans failed to extend ACA premium tax credits, 500,000 Pennsylvanians are going to see a dramatic increase in what they pay for healthcare each month.

SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous term in office (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly “handed” to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT

Trump confirms he is weaponizing hunger

‘I don’t know anything about that’: Mike Johnson becomes the low-information House speaker Confronted with questions he should know how to answer, the House Republican leader has proven to be surprisingly ignorant about current events.

You’ve heard of low-information voters, but have you heard about the low-information House speaker?

Mike Johnson’s ignorance about current events has become farcical. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Is this real?

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Laughter - YouTube

Dug into some storage boxes and pulled out gobs of newly resurrected CDs!

Blasting on the headphones now…

Mighty Lemon Drops | Laughter

1989

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It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:

1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

hey @democrats.senate.gov, you're obsessed with polls. Check this one. You're doing something right. Rs are freaked. Don't fuck it up:

Dems are more enthusiastic about the midterms

and

Trump's "disapproval rating, at 63%, is numerically the highest of either term"
www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Poll: Frustration with Trump gives Democrats an opening a year before the midterms Around two-thirds of voters say Trump has not lived up to their expectations on the economy and the cost of living, according to the new NBC News poll.

Beltway wisdom was that voters don’t care about democracy as an issue- wrong! www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's what they've been doing. And that's the reason they refuse to swear in Representative Elect Adelita Grijalva."

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Radical hypothesis:

If you're a reporter or even a columnist (umbrella 'journalist' camp), generally *least* useful thing you can do with your time and platform is tell political parties what their "messaging" should be.

-Reporters have the privilege of seeing things other people can't ...

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Yes! The media takeover has had a noticeable effect here in Hollywood, where creatives now have to take into account politics in addition to developing the best stories.

Feels like a soft black list, and getting worse.

Exploit The GOP's Nazi Meltdown Are we really going to accept the conceit that the central issue in politics is whether DEMOCRATS are too extreme?

If (knock on wood) Dems sweep Tuesday’s elections handily, can we ease discourse away from its obsession over whether Dems are too left wing to win, and take greater notice of the fact that Republicans are in a civil war over whether to be Nazis or merely lesser fascists?

I think the issue is communication style. Every district has its own unique challenges, and politicians who are able to express why voters should choose them in a clear way that connects with their priorities is the model.

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

“Speaker Johnson, many Americans are wondering why you’re unable to see or hear any developments in the news. Some are speculating that you were kicked in the head by a horse; others theorize that you’ve been huffing spray paint. Which is it?”

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

Between what came before and what happened tonight, Dems ought to treat encounters with CBS reporters as presumptively hostile and untrustworthy. A small thing, but there’s no way out of this disaster if the party continues helplessly submitting to unequal treatment from ~all mediating institutions.