Nick Lloyd

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I am a simple man of the Great Lakes. I see a book about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and I read it.

So you’re saying Forced Reset Triggers might be going away in VA in 2026?

Republicans trying to understand how “many red worth less than few blue”.

Generals always fight the last war.

If we can’t get rid of billionaires, we should at least tax their political giving at 10x. Elon has $250m to spend on killing democracy? Cool, you owe the federal gov $2.5b

Also quite plausible.

Oh, I wasn’t aware of that! Yeah, maybe part of it is personal then.

The logic seems pretty clear for Schumer. He’s assuming Mandami will be unpopular by the time he’s running again (not a bad bet, as most big cities mayors are unpopular) so why risk alienating Jewish voters over an endorsement that’s not needed and won’t be remembered by 2028. I get it, but still…

I agree. The fact that people were mad at Obama over it. Like, sorry the world doesn’t revolve around NYC?

I would get Obama or anyone not from NY not endorsing because it’s not their business, but the states two senators really should have endorsed. We can’t talk about the sanctity of elections (re 2020) if we aren’t going to respect the winners of primaries. It will come back to bite Schumer next cycle

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Gullible saps

Ah yes, the latest iteration of the old game, Only Democrats Have Agency. The “Every Person Left of Center Speaks for the Democratic Party” edition!

Ah, so that’s the issue. You don’t know what “Establishment” means. You could have just said that and saved us a lot of time.

Oh it’s crooked for sure. But the point is you don’t have to be “the Establishment” to do crooked shit. Using the term to describe everything any politician does that you don’t like renders it meaningless.

Man it’s gonna be fun watching President Pritzker tear that thing down in 2029. Bus in some union guys from Chicago, have the rubble trucked down to Florida and dumped in front of Mar a Lago. If you put that on PPV you could wipe out the National Debt.

Yes, if you’re unfamiliar with Chicago and only know what’s on Wikipedia, you make asinine comments on the internet like calling Chuy Garcia of all people the “Establishment” lol

When did you live in Chicago?

Again, no one actually familiar with Chicago would call Chuy fuckin Garcia the “Establishment” lmao. You know outsiders can make back room deals too, right?

Wild stuff

If Chuy Garcia is The Establishment now then the word is truly meaningless. Just say a member of Congress did a thing you didn’t like.

TIL Kyler is Korean

Someone asked me when the shutdown would end and I said we’ll see on Election Day. If Dems don’t do as well as hoped, they will cave immediately. If they do as well or better, we’ll keep going longer (the GOP being incapable of self reflection)

I remember walking into my Battalion CP in 2008 and seeing Fox News blaring. I was like…is this legal? Apparently

Regardless of ideology, I do think he has the playbook: not afraid to attack Trump for *waves hands at literally everything around us*, but doesn’t make him the focus of his campaign. Always steers it back to affordability, which for many voters is The Issue of our times.

The ones who watched Family Ties and thought Alex P Keaton was an example to emulate lol

I really don’t get it. How does a group of non-conformists raised on Rage Against The Machine and the golden age of rap suddenly support The Man crushing dissent? Don’t Tread On Me™️ but please do tread on everyone else?

I mean, critical media is fine, but when they apply completely different standards to Democrats than Trump and the GOP (the “Only Democrats Have Agency” approach), I’m fine with telling them to pound sand. Go on podcasts; that seems to be all we have the attention span for these days anyway.

Presumably one could be on the city council or a borough president, but I think state assembly is adequate. If it were just a random influencer running (as has been the case in some other races), I would say that’s not enough experience.

I think he has plenty of experience but in fairness, running NYC is the equivalent of being governor of Virginia in terms of population (and greater than 38 states!)