SlingshotPeriwinkle

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What MAGA shares with wokes: An inability to just be normal.

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@neoavatara The system is so broken that Raman essentially conceded on the first night.

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@DerekPederson3 This presumes there are leaders - there aren’t which is how you end up with a Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton running in the first place

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@DerekPederson3 Caruso was the one time this should have worked, he was painted as a republican for being able to make that happen and it led to him being driven out of politics for good and a gut wrenching loss.

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@DerekPederson3 You can’t expect republicans to vote for Dem’s that no one has heard of and that not even 2% of Dems are going to vote for. Sell your soul and your election chances is even less desirable than just your election chances alone.

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@ajlamesa And that a tax sold as a tax on millionaires that led to less construction of housing is bad.

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@ajlamesa And that police are good.

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@DerekPederson3 Who was the moderate Dem in the LA mayors race this time? They did that last time around Caruso last time and still got wiped out by the same days later pull from behind crushing loss.

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@neoavatara Both Raman and Pratt thought Pratt had won the second spot in a landslide. That’s how bad the system is regardless of fraud (no evidence) and the legal but bad stuff like harvesting.

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Lots of talk about disappointment amongst Pratt fans and not enough talk about how the system is so broken that Raman essentially conceded on the first night. Also harvesting is bad no matter the outcome.

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The whole Spencer Pratt thing is like liberals being confused that Wendy Davis didn’t do well — he’s a Republican running in a big liberal city in an off-year election in the context of an incredibly unpopular Republican president, what was supposed to happen here?

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@Gurdur I would hypothesize one path is that since GLPs seem to curb not just excessive eating but also other cancer risk factors like drinking, smoking and other unhealthy dopamine hitting activities.

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@moseskagan I’ve been reliably informed this is your fault somehow in some pretzel twisted way

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@LJS527 @brettnolan @EliLake I vaguely recall an interview with the guy who owned the pawnshop had reached out to his local RNC? It’s so long ago the bullshit has been replaced by so much other bullshit since then it’s hard to remember

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@LJS527 @brettnolan @EliLake No arguments there, in this case the coverup was bigger than the ‘crime’

I still can’t believe the laptop was just given away like that though, those Russians in Delaware are sneaky

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@LJS527 @brettnolan @EliLake The Streisand Effect is real but not always what happens.

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@conor64 New Irvine

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@LJS527 @brettnolan @EliLake At the time Twitter was the primary way journalists were breaking stories to not just their audiences but to each other too, right?

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@LJS527 @brettnolan @EliLake It wasn’t illegal but it was bad. The amount of anger is proportional to the political usefulness of the info being held back multiplied by the timing of it. Imagine if Graham Platner’s tattoo was similarly held out of the public record days before his election.

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@DerekPederson3 It now solely functions for congressional races in districts redder than Texas

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@DerekPederson3 It’s been completely neutered, and the strongest parts of it are more maga than most other state parties. It’s why Bianco couldn’t get out of the way. It’s a mess of party.