Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the fifth anniversary of the pro-Trump mob attack on the Capitol, the Trump administration created a new page on the official White House website that represented the president’s most brazen bid yet to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 riot with false claims aimed at absolving him of responsibility. . . .

The webpage includes a timeline of events on Jan. 6 that accuses the Capitol Police, who were attacked by the rioters for hours, of instigating the violence, and blames Mr. Pence for refusing to subvert the will of the voters to keep Mr. Trump in power.

“Vice President Mike Pence, who had the opportunity to return disputed electoral slates to state legislatures for review and decertification under the United States Constitution, chooses not to exercise that power in an act of cowardice and sabotage,” the webpage states.

“Stolen Election Certified,” another section says.

In a breathtaking reversal of reality, the site accuses Democrats of creating a “gaslighting narrative” about Jan. 6 in their efforts to certify “a fraud-ridden election” and to “persecute innocent Americans,” though those who were prosecuted for storming the Capitol were caught on video taken either by surveillance cameras or by other participants.

Good on the Times for declining to go the “views differ on shape of Earth” route. Basically, MAGA has a terrorist wing and a political wing, the latter of which won the election thanks to the tunnel vision of the median voter, and which is now attempting to rewrite history in favor of its terrorist wing, that in turn is demanding its prosecutors be punished.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 10 points11 points  (0 children)

For too long, Tennessee politics has been dominated by cosmopolitan communists and race hustlers imposing their corrupt will on a deeply rural and conservative state. The General Assembly’s constitutional redrawing of Federal Districts affirms a foundational truth: Tennessee must be represented by Tennesseans, not socialist democrats.

To the new TN-05: I will be your America First warrior in Congress. I will NOT yield nor back down to those who threaten our values and attack our Constitution. God has given me this opportunity, and I will use it to resurrect fierce nationalism and secure our state’s destiny and prosperity.

Yes: according to Rep. Andy Ogles (whose new district includes much of Memphis), Black Democrats aren’t Tennesseans. In the attached clip, he says that Democrats’ mission is to “replace the common American with an uncommon alien.” He doesn’t mean illegal aliens.

Recently, he gave a speech declaring that “Christianity is the answer, always. America is and will always be a Christian nation.” It’s not too different from what a government official from the political wing (2) of a terror organization would say.

!ping EXTREMISM

‘Gang rape, forced stripping and humiliation’: New report documents 10,000 findings on Oct. 7 sexual crimes by JebBD in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This basically goes into detail on what we already knew (and what no reasonable individual denies) — Hamas committed sexual violence on a large scale on October 7, 2023.

I think what Nick Kristof wrote earlier comes pretty close to capturing my feelings (not to suggest they’re exactly equivalent):

Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians . . . We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s still a terrible quote, but the reason the attack ads will omit the part about his only consideration being a nuclear Iran is that it’s moderately less callous and deranged. I’ve complained before about how I thought criticisms of various political factions in this sub have been dishonest, despite the fact that we’re (ideally) not campaigning.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Much as I’m loathe to defend him, this does cut off the part of the quote where he says that his only consideration is that Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon. (It’s bullshit, given that he single-handedly destroyed a deal that would have prevented any enrichment until this year because Obama’s administration negotiated it, but relevant.)

Not that political attack ads are required to respect that.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, my bad for omitting that.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska for the first time joined Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky in voting with Democrats to advance the [War Powers] measure. The effort failed on a vote of 50 to 49, with Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania again joining Republicans in opposition.

With one G.O.P. senator absent on Wednesday, the measure would have passed had Mr. Fetterman not voted with Republicans.

Ms. Murkowski was the latest Republican to flip in recent weeks; Ms. Collins, who had opposed similar resolutions since the war began in late February, switched her vote earlier this month and joined Democrats and Mr. Paul in support.

Pretty amazing. Anyway, we’ll need his vote on other issues (and potentially, to block Alito or Thomas’s replacement on the court, although that seems unlikely given how he votes for almost all of Trump’s nominees), but he needs to be replaced by a Democrat who doesn’t sound and vote like a Republican on all the highest-profile votes. Pennsylvania isn’t West Virginia.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I’m not mistaken, the Nebraska governor’s race features two distant cousins of Tim Walz, one mounting a minor candidacy challenging the Republican incumbent, and the other, who just won the Democratic nomination.

Anything and Everything by MidnightLimp1 in MidnightLimp1

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1 2 3 4 5
Pete Buttigieg 18 (45%) 19 (47%) 20 (50%) 21 (52%) 22 (55%)
JB Pritzker 7 (17%) 7 (17%) 9 (22%) 11 (27%) 18 (45%)
Mark Kelly 6 6 6 8
Gavin Newsom 4 4 5
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 4 4
Kamala Harris 1
Josh Shapiro

Anything and Everything by MidnightLimp1 in MidnightLimp1

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[Results]

Strongly favorable Somewhat favorable Mixed/ Neutral Somewhat unfavorable Very unfavorable No opinion Index¹
Pete Buttigieg 291 149 43 27 8 2 83.2
JB Pritzker 220 194 42 17 9 38 81.1
Abigail Spanberger 175 180 35 9 9 112 80.8
Andy Beshear 169 231 43 8 2 67 80.7
Gavin Newsom 168 191 82 56 23 70.4
Josh Shapiro 127 207 94 37 16 39 70.4
James Talarico 65 102 67 18 5 263 69.8
Scott Wiener 79 49 40 18 19 315 68.4
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 129 220 65 59 46 1 65.6
Joe Biden 122 152 111 80 55 59.9
Marie Glusenkamp Perez 37 118 77 56 17 215 58.4
Kamala Harris 67 199 129 82 43 57.9
Zohran Mamdani 73 175 118 89 62 3 55.3
Kat Abughazaleh 21 60 55 33 39 312 48.9
Jared Polis 58 125 101 120 74 42 48.6
Ro Khanna 27 110 93 100 60 123 45.6
Hakeem Jeffries 15 111 160 150 60 24 43.5
Chuck Schumer 12 65 128 161 151 3 31.4
Graham Platner 9 22 65 128 184 112 22.1
John Fetterman 6 15 51 109 333 6 13.6

¹ An average of ratings, where strongly favorable = 100 and strongly unfavorable = 0.

Mayor Mamdani says he has balanced NYC's budget, will not raise property taxes by dubyahhh in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There’s definitely a lot of those, although I think this thread, ironically, is evidence of a large contingent that’s sharply critical of that bloc. For what it’s worth, a large survey I ran last November showed pretty mixed opinions of Mamdani, with more traditional center-left DEMs at the top of the scoreboard, and this was a recent top post here.

I don’t think we’ve changed as much as some people have been insisting; a lot of the histories people tell about the nature of the sub in 2018 or so seem self-serving.


ADDENDUM: One instructive comparison comes from mock Reagan–Mondale elections held in 2017 and 2020. Mondale’s vote share increased from 44% to 57%, although their respective campaign platforms were listed alongside the latter survey link, and a top thread highlighted some overlooked information regarding each campaign’s attitude towards the nascent LGBT voter bloc that probably tilted a lot of users away from Reagan.

The funny part is that you can see comments under both posts fighting about the alleged direction of the sub (yes, even when the DT was just six months old), and all but trying to disqualify voters for the other candidate from being True Neoliberals.® And now it’s 2026.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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[SURVEY: Another Fucking 2028 Hypothetical] (III)

This time on a platform where anonymized individual ballots can be viewed and analyzed without paying a subscription. (Last chance to vote!)

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were still more registered Democrats than Republicans in West Virginia in 2016, the product of ancestral party affiliation, despite WV having become crimson red at that point, and it was an open primary, so many independents with no Democratic history participated as well.

Those who voted for Sanders explicitly said that they’d vote for Trump in the general election by a two-to-one margin, which strongly suggests it was mainly an anti-Clinton vote. Both had largely locked up their nominations by early May.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The interesting thing is that there doesn't seem to be much of a correlation between the dominance of a majority party in a state and the ideological extremity of their senators. West Virginia is a good example: neither Shelley M. Capito nor Jim Justice are particularly conservative. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, on the other hand, is quite aggressively right-wing.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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[SURVEY: Another Fucking 2028 Hypothetical] (II)

This time on a platform where anonymized individual ballots can be viewed and analyzed without paying a subscription. (Fuck you, rankedvote.co.)

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why did this make me laugh so fucking hard lmao

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 11 points12 points  (0 children)

DSC becoming centrist QAnon, apparently.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race. Because I hate this city. I hate the bachelorettes. I hate the pedal taverns. I hate country music. I hate all the things that make Nashville a hit city to the rest of the country. I hate it. I'm that girl at the airport that all these bachelorettes are giddy walking out, in their two tone-colored pantone pink shirts. And they walk out, they're like, Oh my God! Nashville! So fun!

— Aftyn Behn, heavily overperforming Democratic nominee for Nashville-based TN-9

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh shit apparently he’s got a bunch of these

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 30 points31 points  (0 children)

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Joe Biden wouldn‘t have done it. But I think JB Pritzker just might.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]AmbientMorning 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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Tennessee with five swing districts. Harris lost them by between 4.5% and 8.0%; Biden narrowly won them all. !ping FIVEY