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Sad but true

I wanna hate the placing of PIKL on Wilshire and La Brea, seems like a missed density opportunity--on the other hand, good place to put their noisy asses

The point is, Chuck *didn't* take the win. He did everything he could to not be associated with the win in his backyard.

Seems like that good faith would come in handy right about now!

Then why not take the easy win?

Are we up right now? Is there some calculus that you have where we can afford to keep our winners at arm's-length?

As a simple matter of principle, when Cuomo lost, ran as independent, and then was *endorsed by Trump*, it would have been an easy place to step in!

I simply wanted the Senior Democratic Senator to have the political acumen to back the favored Democratic nominee in a well-publicized election. Seems like it would have helped him and the caucus in a time like this!

The election that was happening in the state that he represents in the Senate.
For mayorship of the city that represents 40% of the population of the state.
The city where many of the national press apparatus operates out of.
That thing that just happened that you are now playing dumb about.

The losses are *in the Senate*, where the body manages to keep processing Trump's judicial nominees while he flagrantly overturns scores of laws they passed.

"Endorsements are done as a favor"

Is it then surprising that people are not crediting Schumer for the recent crop of Democratic wins when he will not meaningfully engage with the winners?

You just defended how hands-off Schumer has been in his own backyard! He could have actually had some halo from Democratic wins if he wasn't being so goddamn clever

You can maybe have this attitude if you aren't hemorrhaging trust and constantly losing all the time, but it's a real dumb way to be if you are in fact hemorrhaging trust and losing all the time

Everyone should leave Twitter besides JCO, she's doing important work there

Good way to put some daylight between you and the other meatball that Dem voters are experiencing remorse for putting in office, too

If I was a Maine Senate candidate who was having a bit of a rough time, I would maybe use this opportunity to blast the independent Senator that was working hand-in-glove with the Democratic caucus leader to prematurely surrender.

The switch didn't flip in exactly March 2022, but once the Fed rate started ticking up, tipping points were reached

fake boy bibliophiles

My kid came home with this meme, I was like "hold the fuck on"

By this logic, part of a Reconstruction Fed government would have involve removing that contingency, right?

Seems like that would be a necessary step.

This poor fellow "accidentally" confirmed Josh Devine to the this summer, reportedly as a favor to his fellow Senator, just can't find any way to get a leg up on this Trump guy

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And yeah, the Senate was in a pickle, practically impossible to 'win' our current situation. But the Senate didn't show up yesterday, every step toward the current lawlessness of the executive has been horse-traded away by the gentry of the Senate, one judicial vote here, one quorum call there.

If it was such a wise move, and very defensible, then they wouldn't have engineered the vote so as to minimize the blowback.

This was a work by the Democratic caucus, who think you're too dull to notice that the Senators taking the fall are either out or not running in 2026.
The same body that's been processing the judicial nominations that will only entrench Trump's power grabs, they also made the decision to fold.

“We’ll shoot the hostage unless you cave” doesn’t work if you’ve been shooting hostages for fun for the last ten months.

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some words suck

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ZIRP was bad though. Many of the villains we currently face were dumping cheap cash into money laundering for at least a decade, and have built up incredible piles of e-cash. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars last election to protect that laundered money.

Speaking of which

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Weak / Strong thing, derived from gender

Harris would get us involved in conflict because she's too weak, whereas Trump's madman shtick would make other countries wary of messing with us

There are no words for how evil this is

We develop our soft power to reduce the odds that a situation will develop that requires our hard power. It costs us far less than sitting in the dark and waiting for something to happen.

Weirdly enough, I am hosting the Altamont of comics that same weekend, I guess scheduling around the HA has some downsides, but you can't argue with the price