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Obviously spanking itself isn't that important, but it sure is emblematic of the rift between the white liberals who dominate Democratic Party decision-making and the working-class voters they claim to represent. nitter.gq/BenKrauss5/status/2120…
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It didn't even make any sense at the time, but the Fed holding last month looks even weirder now.
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There are a lot of reasons, including having seen what leadership struggles did to the GOP, not having the votes to stop him anyway, understanding what the Speaker's role actually is, the historic nature of Jeffries winning, no alternative candidate, etc.
Is Hakeem Jeffries just really charming in private? What explains the rapidity with which people he is actively opposed to are falling in behind him?
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Jon Ossoff is the Lisan al-Gaib retweeted
Erika Kirk has denounced Dave Chappelle. She said his comments were too spicy, but not as spicy as Charlie’s latest hot sauce.
Remember when she went on and on about how she’s a proud Democrat who just couldn’t support one candidate?
News: Dem Rep. Haley Stevens, who enraged Democrats by endorsing GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers, spent the vote series tonight in the Republican cloakroom, per multiple sources.
This was the first vote series post election.
Multiple reporters from The Sun stopped by her office today and it appeared to be closed.
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As a longtime Douthat defender, I’m glad to see everyone coming around. He’s always been a great heterodox thinker, and his commitment to diving headfirst into rabbit holes produces something valuable far more often than not.
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Getting someone to run against Schumer is a necessary precondition of having a different Majority Leader, so this is sort of a step in the right direction.
NEW: Sen. Chris Van Hollen is now open to a run against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Van Hollen has "received an outpouring of calls and is now in active listening mode," according to a person familiar w/ his thinking around leadership
"The door is not shut," the person added
Van Hollen is a leading progressive & has said he needs commitments from Schumer before agreeing to support him for another term as leader. The Maryland Democrat has also been eyeing a presidential run
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People say a lot of insane things about Abdul, but the claim that he didn't run on policy might be the most absurd thing I've ever heard. The guy is a walking position paper.
Senator-elect El Sayed invoked JFK’s faith to compare his election to that of the first Catholic president.
JFK ran on policy and took questions on religion.
Abdul did the opposite.
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Schumer recruited Turek, Cooper, Brown, and Peltola. He was also the one who pushed to invest in Mississippi. I think these people have all had psychotic breaks and just don’t understand reality.
Jon Ossoff is the Lisan al-Gaib retweeted
This is correct.
Video-games are indisputably an art form in the same sense that sculpture is an art form. The fact that the industry only makes action figures is another matter entirely.
The “no one else is running” part seems especially key. Ordinarily you can’t beat someone in an election if you don’t have a candidate.
Fifty six senators (if margins hold) will get a vote. 47 of them supported Schumer two years ago. He needs 29 votes and no one else is running.
He’s not in danger barring some extraordinary turn of events in the next week.
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Hell yeah. You simply cannot win an election on affordability and immediately nuke an affordability bill.
NEW: @RepDavids, one of the few elected Native Americans, is "breaking with her party’s leadership to demand swift action on critical permitting reform," her office says in press release. Davids, a member of @NewDems, adds she is working with negotiators to "fix" NHPA provisions
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If the country still exists in 2029, Democrats won’t even have to nuke the filibuster because they’ll have 65 Senate seats
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There are many dimensions to this, but a lot of what voters read as "liberal" vs "moderate" is the culture war stuff. It's why Twitter leftists think Kamala is a right-wing quisling and normal people think she's a hard-left ideologue.
