Biden’s 78 now. Trump also has the ability to whip his voters into a frenzy and get them to the polls. If Biden turns out to be the milquetoast President many on the left think he will be, if the current trend of centrist Dems attacking leftists on, let’s say statistically debatable grounds continues, and if…

Kinda surprised no one’s brought up Tanden’s openness to cutting Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare when the Obama admin was floating it with Republicans.

Florida went Republican but massively supported a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage referendum. Missouri also went Republican but defeated right to work in a referendum two years ago. Another way of looking at this election is that voters are getting tired of the incrementalist promise of establishment Democrats, that…

I think saying every Democrat since FDR/Hoover won by campaigning as a liberal populist is extremely reductive. I’d say the same for saying Republicans have been attacking Democrats as socialists since then. And all Democrats between FDR and Clinton only managed to win one term each, not just Carter.

That works for the GOP because their social and economic policies aren’t really at odds and they’re a broadly unified ideological party. Democrats aren’t, they’re a coalition ranging from the right of center to the progressive left, and policy moderation isn’t exciting, while progressive policies, a source of…

Yeah, cause the con law prof who turned out to be fine with mass surveillance of Americans and a massive expansion of drone warfare that included targeting American citizens using a classified process for deciding which citizen lives and dies with apparently no input from the judiciary would be a great addition to the…

Something like 9-10% of Obama voters went for Trump in 2016. One study puts it at around 9 million who voted for Obama in 2012 then voted for Trump in 2016. The broad takeaway from multiple studies looking at the phenomenon is that they’re economically liberal to progressive while socially conservative and anti status…

Youtube. You can just do a search for Title Update 11 builds, or TU11 builds.

They probably made the calculation that the general electorate cares about the ACA and pre-existing conditions, and the majority care about Roe v. Wade, but those voters couldn’t tell you off the top of their heads what legal reasoning applied to Roe or what the 14th Amendment actually says and what it has to do with…

If 2016, with its open supreme court seat didn’t get those people to vote, then why think this would register for them?

I read your comment as meaning withholding your vote, not ceasing to vote, ever, particularly given the conversation these last five years about certain parts of the Democratic coalition withholding their votes or voting third party.

This feels entirely like the sort of thing that there should be ads running on TV about.

If politicians want the votes then they should earn the votes by giving people what they want. If politicians don’t give people what they want then they don’t get the votes.

Huh. Looks like it has anime sparkle eyes. Can’t unsee that.

I’m glad that the framing helped you and you stuck with the game. I’d just stress that the mods I’m talking about aren’t unobtainable, and in fact if you join any decent clan with high MR players you might be able to get most of them for free, as they aren’t worth much and those players just vacuum up multiples of…

That isn’t really accurate, warframes are the classes, sure, but power creep and progression mainly come from warframe and weapon releases, and in some instances intended or unintended consequences of system reworks by the developers.

“Kamala is a Cop” is legitimate criticism, it’s just inconvenient for Harris and the Biden campaign that it’s so easily condensed to four words that people open to that messaging can understand.

Yeah, but the whole Boomer thing has also morphed from describing a generation to describing a mindset. 

This is one hell of a myopic take. Republicans had years of infighting where Republican seats were consistently primaried by Republican candidates to the right of the incumbents, and it pulled their party further to the right.

How likely is that to happen? Rowling’s success is international and trans rights don’t hold equal sway around the world. To put it into context, neither of the two Fantastic Beasts movies managed to make even 30% of their box office in the North American market.