Why would they stop? That’s been the most effective attack they’ve had in a long time! Especially because it’s true, and I think the Republicans know it on some level.

  • StalinStan [none/use name]
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    It was too effective. If they raised thr bar that much the GOP could poke one of their obvious weak spots. They can both only stand up because they agree not to fight too hard

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    2210 months ago

    Liz Cheney got a standing ovation at the Copmala FireSSide Chat. They know their ideal audience.

    • Angel [any]
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      sucking off Dick

      This is why I’m starting my own volcel party and running against the Dems.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    I remember hearing about it on some podcast around a week ago. They brought on a strategist from either Biden 2020 or Clinton 2016 who thought that “weird” was running a negative attack campaign. It doesn’t match the vibes of Joy Reich where you can only do wholesome things like advocate for genocide.

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    They ran it into the ground, and it started to wrap all the way around, becoming “weird” itself. Someone here recently commented that in their area, Libs were going around putting little [ weird --> ] signs next to republican candidate yard signs. To go through all that effort, for something so boring, is also fucking weird. Who has the time?

    Waltz recently called Elon Musk a “Dipshit” at a rally. I say we just migrate away from ‘weird’ and just go full throttle into using language the FCC wouldn’t let you use on prime-time TV to describe Republicans.

    I want to hear Harris say on ABC tonight that “Republicans are a bunch of fucking stupid shitheads.”

  • chauncey [he/him]
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    If you pivot to “I will place Republicans in my cabinet” then you also need to stop calling Republicans weird.

    It’s been wild watching the campaign more or less retrace Clinton’s losing strategy.

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    They did, apparently new conservative advisors advised them to stop using it because it might alienate white suburbanites. Its why we’ve seen the vibe shift after the Walz pick. They decided to court white suburbanites and never trump republicans rather than their natural base. The Democrats love to lose folks.

    • REgon [they/them]
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      “Wow everything is going great, tell you what let’s bring on some new advisors and completely change course” - Rational, sane, smart thing to do
      “Wow everything is going to shit, tell you what let’s continue to listen to these new advisors we brought on and not listen to the people we listened to when everything was going great.” - Also rational sane and a very smart move.

      Dems have the best political instincts!

    • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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      After trump, the Republicans will find someone more palatable to run. Those white suburbanites they’ve been working so hard to court will go right back.

      In the end they’ll only alienate more POC.

    • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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      new conservative advisors

      The UK Labor Party narrowly won an election they should’ve taken in a landslide and sent over all their consultants to ‘help’ Kamabla, and they’re the ones who got them off the weird shit.

      Which the ‘weird’ thing had annoying ableist undertones but it was also working a lot better than whatever they’re doing now.

      Oh well, death to amerikkka, nice to see them eating shit with the new strat, the genocidal pain pigs they are.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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      Now some of the “bipartisanship” makes sense. Republicans just want to ditch Trump for that more competent fascist and then abandon Harris in 2028. Dems narrowly squeeze out a win and then the more competent fascist and other fash cronies win big time in 2028 as democrats completely let their guard down.

      • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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        Do they have one of those in the pressure cooker? They all seem out of touch. I would expect someone who read Kapital, said “fantastic!”, and was a natural public speaker to fill that role and act as an insidious ratchet turner. Instead they’re like if Holsten Bloodfeast used ChatGPT to say the most average talking points of a Google search for being an asshole

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        They should just declare the democratic-republican party and end this 2 party farce they have been running for over a century now

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    Im sure we’re not far away from ‘progressive’ libs pulling out the old trump and magas are narcissistic demons with black eyes, I really wasnt enjoying them throwing around ‘weird’ as they have been

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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    2910 months ago

    They got “lol tumblr SJW” PTSD from the last time they ever fought back against racists and went back to ring-kissing republicans…who still call them tumblr SJWs.