Alex Meadors 🇺🇸

I’m basically just here to follow the politickin’. I’m neither a bot nor a troll…just a nobody.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

It’s time for a new opposition leader to rise. A real leader…and when one does, the people will follow.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@fernmayne @JonahDispatch @IMAO_ Committed to defending their core principles, did the right thing, part of the winning coalition, and profited handsomely.

Jonah is fucking jealous and it’s showing. They shame him.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@fernmayne @JonahDispatch @IMAO_ 💯

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@JonahDispatch @IMAO_ 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@stephenfhayes But you are a fucking snowflake.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@HawksStan77 Almost certainly won’t be a top 5 pick in 27 b/c if it’s top 4, we don’t get to keep it!

Likely top 10…yes!

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@frez777 @reedgalen Yeah, so? So is Reed.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@mattyglesias Duh. No one wants people like Schumer or you to be directing the strategy of this party. You do not understand the moment, and you can’t help us meet it.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@SarahLongwell25 She was saying that she is now in a coalition with libs. Essentially, now our interests are the same…we are fully aligned, etc.

It’s not hard to understand what she meant and it doesn’t mean she abandoned all her principles.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@EWErickson Take the next four years off. You’ll be a lot happier.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@scottsantens Well said

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

Another part of this episode I loved was when Bernie expressed concern that ending the filibuster could be dangerous for a future when Republicans are in power and Jon said the same thing I said outloud when watching, that winning elections should matter. If a party wants to pass bad laws with a majority, okay. Let the voters feel that and express their anger after. Bernie said that's possibly the best argument for it.

It's like with tariffs. Trump lied and lied about their effects. People actually believed they would lower prices. But reality is reality and prices went up and it pissed off a lot of voters. That's how Congress should work. Pass bad laws and get punished. Pass good laws and get rewarded. It should never be the case that nothing ever happens. That's a recipe for a loss of belief in democracy as being effective.

Also, in regards to decoupling healthcare from employment greatly enhancing liberty, using this same logic, universal basic income added into the mix would maximize liberty.

No employer should be able to hold your life or death in their hands. Having no choice but to accept a low wage or bad hours or bad conditions in order to keep survival income and healthcare is not anything close to freedom.

[James 🇺🇸 @Realcoinforge]

FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE, I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW JANUARY 6TH WASN’T THE END OF DONALD TRUMP.

I WILL NEVER, EVER UNDERSTAND IT.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@baseballcrank @JonahDispatch You’re just fucking jealous that she’s come to the light and is making bank doing it.

Same with @JonahDispatch.

She did the right thing by going #NeverTrump and is being rewarded for it.

Her energy is authentic. You guys are losers.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@WalshFreedom Sarah is great. Fuck off.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@mattyglesias This election was about Trump. If you think Schumer had anything to do with this, then you miss the fundamental lesson of the cycle. Had Schumer spent money in FL and LA, there might be two more seats. Burned money on bad candidates in MI and ME. Most winners ran away from him.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@mattyglesias Why? The plan should be to end the filibuster.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@MLiamMcCollum @DraftMassie @RepThomasMassie Why doesn’t he run for Senate in KY? Seems like he could actually win that.

[Alex Meadors 🇺🇸 @Bumpy_Meadors]

@MercurySchroepp @davidfrum It only matters if you have the Presidency to sign bills into law.

You make a decent point about outrage fading if they do it now, but hopefully they’ll just do it in Jan. 2029 after a Dem wins the Presidency and tell the GOP to cry their conservative tears.