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So, no, the argument isn’t good-faith.

It’s a cynical pre-election Hail Mary. Lip service.

If they win, it’s business as usual in DC after Election Day: patronage appointments, corporatism, & undermining home rule.

POTUS is going to do whatever he wants. They already let him.

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“If DC voters exercise self-determination in this primary then the President will destroy self-determination in DC” is the McDuffy campaign’s closing argument.

If it were good-faith it would be remarkably naive.

But it’s bad-faith, and shameful opportunism.

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Presently, the Bowser is shrinking away from using the courts to push back against the assault on Home Rule in DC.

Right now. Today. Nothing.

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I’m not a member of DSA, but I think democracy is an additive enterprise.

You build governing majorities by bringing people into the tent.

Marginalizing people is a loser strategy.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

@andersleehere Honest question - why doesn't DSA form its own ballot line?

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@neeratanden Fun fact: Harris has never faced Democratic primary voters.

Let the voters decide if they think this is disqualifying.

Let. Them. Vote.

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@InsideOut2912 Some things are better unpaved.

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@DCCarViolence Did we have nice streeteries tho? Or did we have plywood and jersey barriers?

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@jcfdez599 @InsideOut2912 9000’ is where the fun begins in Colorado

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@CXWORLDUSA @mou55981652 Is the decathalon car overtaking other cars or simply holding place within the caravan? Hope this helps!

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Oh! I know this one.

Public healthcare, leave and pension benefits.

[Eruditus @deathmetalv10]

@Chadson If I spend a week in Europe it costs like $7k which is half their annual take home. I don’t know how they do these month long vacations in summer.

[Andrew DeFrank @andrewdefrank]

Outrageous. A now-deleted video from the Arkansas National Guard shows the soldiers sent here by Trump displaying DC flags like war trophies at an event upon returning to their state.

[☔ @Whotfismick]

When your boss says "we'll get it done somehow" and you realize you're the somehow

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@neeratanden “Chris Hayes should’ve shown the urgency that Obama and Garland wouldn’t/couldn’t/didn’t.”

Here’s the spox for an entire class of career insiders so self-assured of victory in ‘16 that they didnt make this an issue, and in hindsight think 5 mins on MSNBC would’ve done the trick

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@Team_Sand I knew that name sounded familiar.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

i setup a fake dog food company last month, bought purina at the pet store, and paid laura loomer $100 for this post

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

yeah boss i'm going to need to be sent to maine for about two weeks to really get to the bottom of this platner situation, need to pick up his trail in bar harbor, see if he did anything in acadia, check out camden, rockport, swing down to kennebunkport