lefttwick

Indefatigable and incorrigible. Final fantasy and Gustave Flaubert enjoyer.

[lefttwick @leftwick20]

Looking for 8,500 friends....

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@FillmoreFanatic I think it just seemed significant that a progressive could win in orange county but that was predicated on a type of politics that could never win in non wealthy areas lol

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her whole brand was The Technocratic Progressive with Charts and then she ran an entire campaign on lazy slopulism like eliminating the state income tax for non-billionaires

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Being mean to her staff and a reporter is definitely not the full story of Katie Porter getting <5%

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kind of thing that only works when you're representing Orange County and your core voter is a corporate lawyer who used to lay wreaths at the reagan shrine but watches MSNBC 7 days a week now

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@Penguin57a @TannenbergBltz @admcrlsn @OurRevolution "Founders" are just ensconced in ideological bubbles and deeply in denial about the median bay area resident being a woke liberal

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@Penguin57a @TannenbergBltz @admcrlsn @OurRevolution No he wouldn't even say if he voted for Kamala and was going to Iranian monarchist rallies screaming for Reza Pahlavi lol

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steve king getting forced out in a republican primary for white nationalism was sort of the final vestige of the Old Times. he'd get 90% of the vote now

[neo @neo_kme]

Steve King won it just took six years to count the votes

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@Mountain_Twhick i voted for steyer but no one genuinely thinks this guy has the politics of bernie sanders, i can't really blame her

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@InvaderNation85 @AdamasNemesis Much better system if we're going to keep the structure

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kind of astounding how California is the one place in America where old school machine politics are still robust...absolutely no one knows who Becerra is but The Party coalesced around him so he's going to win

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@AdamasNemesis yeah definitely, the top two system very efficently makes it almost impossible for an insurgent candidate to win an election

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@ettingermentum i think it's just that the story is from 2023. it contradicts the "he lost himself in PTSD but is a changed man now" narrative that was compelling

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@OdchanTrangmo you're lucky i like u

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yes people who pay keen attention to politics know who Beccera is, you're kind of making my point for me. the average voter absolutely does not pay attention to backbench congressmen from the greater LA metro or to a Biden cabinet official that they barely let on TV

[Adam @adamjayarr]

The "machine politics" talking point is making less sense every time you guys repeat it, and I think not knowing who was head of HHS under Biden during the Covid pandemic is kind of telling on yourselves

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@cheer_wine other one party states don't function like that! establishment candidates regularly lose primaries and things are more fluid

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@PercyYaBysshe I think he almost certainly just had a call with some Lebanese politician and assumed they were Hezbollah but it's still funny lmao

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@KenanPerry @ptkrje my centrist take is that Israel is obviously not on the verge of collapse but a country that enlists America in a war against Iran and still loses is not on the cusp of establishing regional hegemony or Greater Israel or whatever

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@cowabungatime Bill Maher liberals who will never vote for a progressive and cynically used vote blue no matter who to cajole bernie fans in 2020 don't have an actual constiuency outside twitter and media sinecures

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@cowabungatime all this discourse is basically pointless because ~99% of party line democrats will fulsomely vote for Platner in november and Maine swing voters are 65 years old white women

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@cowabungatime @EricMGarcia especially when the only real people insistent on hammering this are Cuomo democrats who are going to endorse Rubio 2028 and a jilted ex-staffer

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@cowabungatime @EricMGarcia i just don't think voters agree with the Professional Class (tm) take on this