Hum... Actually, Emperor Palpatine was the result of having people who wanted to be coddled and wrapped up in a security blanket. To quote Senator Amadala: “So this is how liberty dies: with thunderous applause.”

The Republicans want this:

I don’t want to help any republicans at the moment. Nor do I want to help any centrist or right wing democrats. Any time that one of them seems to be turning a corner they produce a smile and a thousand knives saying: “Well, I would compromise but I’ve got money and power behind me - I just wanted to watch you waste…

I get the feeling that Ben Shapiro would pay an obscene amount for AOC feet pics. 

I’m sure the marketing team was grilled over how this happened.

“I represent the American dream, where anyone can get a massive loan from Bill Gates’ dad to buy a profitable coffee chain.”

He’s also afraid his lower-rung employees will start getting uppity ideas like running for office to actually make a difference. Also because he knows they’d be a) better politicians than he ever could be, b) know more about life than he ever will and c) won’t listen to him when he waves wads of cash in their faces…

What the hell is all of this for?

Classic self burn.

I recently heard Tanya on a podcast that had nothing to do directly with Twitch, and though she didn’t go into detail, it was so evident that some Twitch-related element of her life was really stressing her out, to the point of affecting her health. Now I know what it is.

It is truly delicious to watch them squirm as she shoves the Overton Window back to the leftward side!

It’s more the people they are afraid of. That incredible statement about waiting for the seat like it’s some kind of entitlement for being a good little cog in the party machine says everything about who is upset with her. Corruption knows no partisan boundaries. Where there is power. There is corruption. These…

That’s true. But I’m actually thinking of the 74% of Democrats who would support her for President. And I’m sure that stupendous percentage of support isn’t lost on Anonymous and Company. Throwing down with her publicly will most likely be personally embarrassing when she shuts them down, and politically perilous.

Yes, that’s just it. Political seats are earned solely through making a convincing argument to the voters that you are the best choice to represent them, their views, and their needs/desires.

Yeah, its amazing how out of touch they are - if you want to primary her, sure.  But you’re going to run the cousin of the guy she beat?  Wait 20 years for a seat?  JFC don’t they realize this is exactly what people don’t want?  We want the best person, not who’s “paid their dues.”

“You’ve got numerous council people and state legislators who’ve been waiting 20 years for that seat.”

If anyone on here thinks that this is about democracy, I’ve got yellowcake uranium in aluminum tubes that I’d like to sell you. This is about oil, because we haven’t fought a war for a full-half century that didn’t involve oil.

Precisely. Think of this as focus-grouping the idea past the American public to see if we’d be in outcry, and how many of the Trump loyalists would start masturbating.

Agreed, this was very much a strategic move on his part. That those were the only two things written on that pad, when a note card or a note on his phone would’ve done just as well, is telling. Besides do we really think he needed to write down those two things to remember them?

He seemingly did not know that the note was legible.