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this is true, but also doesn’t seem to be a huge issue for his opponent who suffers from the same condition

It is completely obvious that the party lost in 2024 because it overcommitted to a range of unpopular left-wing positions, some of which yielded disastrous policy results (like the Biden migration wave) while others merely persuaded constituencies that had voted Democratic in the past (like blue-collar Midwesterners or culturally conservative Latino men) that the party now cared more about climate change

In poll after poll, Americans have said that they know little to nothing about the IRA, with the most recent poll, out in April 2024, finding that 4 in 10 people say that they don’t know enough about the law’s provisions to have an opinion on them. At the same time, a July 2023 Data for Progress poll found that large numbers of Americans support provisions in the IRA when asked specifically about them, including tax credits for businesses that produce clean electricity, electric vehicles, and new clean energy technologies (69%); rebates up to $14,000 per household to improve home energy efficiency (71%); and ramping up production of American-made clean energy technologies (73%). And perhaps most significantly, support for these key IRA provisions has grown over time among all likely voters, especially Republican voters.

Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.

The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!

The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.

cuomo has been conducting a campaign of vicious gutter racism against Muslims, Black people, and more, while working with Trump, and Schumer and Gillibrand had not been able to even endorse his opponent.

they both deserve to lose their seats.

The Union Army ended the widespread practice of child sacrifice in America

one thing fascists understand is that you need to present a positive vision for the future, and an explanation for why we aren’t already there (that is to say: someone to blame)

without a moral narrative (and an oppositional one!) you cannot build a movement

i have yet to have a techno-libertarian UBI supporter explain to me the political mechanism by which such a thing would get passed. dogg, everyone in your coalition hates the welfare state… and you think they’re gonna pass fucking UBI? are you demented?

exactly. conflating criticism of Israel with anti-semitism has always been a profoundly dangerous defense. witness how actors like Carlson, Fuentes, Owens, etc. see an opportunity to leverage this purposeful confusion on behalf of fascism. scary shit, man

really grim shit, man

knew this was inevitable for a couple years now, but Complete Epistemic Collapse is not going to be a fun thing to live through

the vastness and the malevolence of the forces arrayed against basic concepts of community, social order, and a baseline of shared truth. not sure how we allowed this to all just happen

hell yeah

i… had not considered it in quite this way before

note that there is basically no such thing as a widely-accepted and culturally-revered American image of a blue collar *woman*

The women married to fascists are usually also fascists. They weren't "tricked" into being with these people. They chose them.

they seem convinced that they can inflict massive suffering upon a population, and then control where that population directs its vengeance

i think this is an optimistic plan, on their part

i can think of a few we can probably write off

This is a good way to put it. I'm not going to write anyone off as an irredeemable human being but as a political matter, the American right is animated by bigotry and misinformation. It just is.

a great horror for me, in Trump 2.0, has been realizing how many people are not mistaken or misguided; they are evil, and desire to make others suffer

this has been accompanied with a recognition of my own naive privilege in not seeing this before — because their evil had not been aimed at me

it’s really, really bad, man

i’m no fan of the actions of the state of israel but some of the language surrounding the issue, from all corners… not good, man. these are dark waters folks are swimming in and many of them don’t realize it

God forbid a poor child should be able to have a cake and their favorite food on their birthday! I guess there’s nothing to do but destroy health insurance for everyone and give up all our freedoms!

There's something deeply disturbing about EBT/SNAP hate to me. Like just truly bone blanching shit.

i think if a President gets to the stage where he has to use the bunker under the East Wing his days are likely numbered regardless of whether he makes it to the safe room or not

It's pretty cool that the US economy is propped up entirely by continuing work on software thats only real functional uses are eroding consensus reality, spreading often politically motivated misinformation, and for various scams like impersonating your grandma and saying she's been kidnapped

I wish MAGA republicans would work as hard at legislating for vulnerable and working class folks as do at covering up for pedophiles.

yeah, it’s basically impossible for me to imagine this same defense force arising if he didn’t have certain demographic and aesthetic qualities

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

This is intentional. The propaganda machine is going into full swing. They aren’t going to give back the government no matter what. They will do anything to maintain power. Even manufacture the news. Wake up to the reality people. We need to get everyone to touch grass people.

this is right and you’re right to say it

sure it's frighteningly easy to manipulate trump. but somehow vance is even worse. he will be and do anything his handlers dictate. marry a south asian and write a book about being a hick yes mistress chua. convert to catholicism and be a nazi yes master thiel. terrifying cipher of a man

the widespread political and media delusion that Christian Nationalists’ support of Israel equated to a love of the Jewish people was always insane.

buddy, they want the Jews in Israel so they can all die and bring Jesus back. these people are not your allies

scarborough would defend billionaire pedophiles even if they didn’t pay him. it’s just love of the game for that guy