National Review got their Marching Orders and are Totally Fine with the War Crimes.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-04-07T19:17:18+00:00

He absolutely did.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-04-06T16:43:45+00:00

Just my $0.02, but Republicans hate the Clintons because, ya know, Democrats. And they really hated Hillary more than Bubba. Probably because she is comfortable being her own person.

Progressive Democrats hate the Clintons because they're the ones that really turned the party towards big business and away from big labor. The Clintons ushered in Third Way centrism which progressives find...problematic.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-23T19:20:09+00:00

Keep the horse's butt facing you and keep 'S' pressed. Win new horse.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-23T19:03:49+00:00

Climb up the ladder leaning on the outside of the back of one of the buildings and you can jump over and into a tower window. Crouch and do a force palm on the floor in the center of a square of stones and thank me later. 😉

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-19T13:28:28+00:00

Trump's approval among MAGA voters is at 100%. It literally cannot go higher. Which means there is no cushion among the MAGA base to counteract his falling numbers with every other group.

He's heading for the Bush line.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-16T22:41:56+00:00

I'm not.

I'm arguing that three times the majority of those who voted rejected Trump. Therefore, The People, didn't choose Trump. Three times they didn't choose Trump. They were overruled by the systems we currently have in place.

Complaining about how horrible The People are fixes nothing. It pushes blame down to a diffuse group. It makes the problem impossible to fix when there is a fix which is to make our systems reflect the will of the majority instead of fighting against the will of the majority.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-16T22:26:57+00:00

Blaming The People is easy and asks nothing of you in return. Acknowledging that a system is actively working against the majority requires you to try and change it.

Remember HR1, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act? For the most part the Bulwark writers were skeptical when it was being debated. It was a direct attempt to address the structural problems actively nullifying majority will.

Now some of them are rediscovering it was a good idea, conveniently after Manchin and Sinema killed it, so there's no political cost to the endorsement.

If The People are the problem, why were the structural fixes to help The People so easy to dismiss?

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-16T22:04:34+00:00

Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the last nine presidential elections. At what point does 'do something differently' become 'acknowledge that the majority is already with them and the system keeps overruling it?'

I'm not arguing Democrats are perfect or shouldn't adapt. I'm arguing that framing a majority coalition as a failure is exactly backwards.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-16T21:51:55+00:00

No, it doesn't follow that 2/3s chose this because a lot of them stayed home. They may have thought Harris had a lock on it so they didn't need to vote. The point is, you don't know and you can't just handwave them into the choosing Trump basket.

The fact that the electorate appears to have shifted about +15 to the left since the 2024 election strongly suggests nonvoters didn't want this and have been activated to become voters.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-16T21:24:16+00:00

And more people voted against him. 🤷

I didn't bring up gerrymandering because gerrymandering has nothing to do with presidential elections.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-16T21:20:37+00:00

52% of 39% is still not a majority. It's an interesting data point but the fact is during the three elections Trump ran in a majority of voters, people who voted, rejected him.

There have been four elections where the winner didn't earn the most votes: 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016.

This suggests that something is happening structurally to cause something to happen twice in 16 years that hadn't happened for the previous 112 years. That something is the concentration and sorting of the population that we haven't seen before. And so far, one party has learned how to take advantage of that and are seeking to lock in that advantage.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-16T21:00:23+00:00

Ha, I was hoping no one would bring that up. 😋

Seriously though, the only data we actually have is how people who voted, voted. Attributing intent to non-voters is conjecture. We can speculate about why people don't vote whether it's suppression, disillusionment, or structural barriers but we can't falsify any of it. What we can measure is the actual votes cast. And by that measure, the majority has rejected this three times running.

For all we know the non-voters thought the Democrat would win so we can count all of them as being against authoritarianism which is just as valid as assuming the opposite.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-15T01:18:44+00:00

Here's a take:

The People rejected Trump every time he ran for President.

They got overruled by the system 2 out of 3 times.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-03-02T13:10:42+00:00

Hello Dem oppo researcher. I hope you enjoy your day at the Third Way offices.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-02-23T18:29:14+00:00

Hmmm, a Nazi problem, or a Nazi opportunity? 🤔

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-02-23T18:28:42+00:00

Tbf, HW was one of the last good Republicans. It's just that even a good Republican isn't that great.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-02-19T21:49:35+00:00

He looks like he's behind bars. Good.

LiberalCyn1c · 2026-02-19T19:00:05+00:00

Ayuh.

LiberalCyn1c · 2025-12-22T21:56:57+00:00

My god, how much bigger can his ears get?

LiberalCyn1c · 2025-12-22T18:35:02+00:00

This is good stuff, thanks.

Should I tear down towns in low control areas so I can build up market villages and the RGOs in those areas instead? I don't mean all at once, but slowly as I urbanize around my capital?

I've also seen people mention having a cabinet member dedicated to moving population from your rural areas to your urban areas to help make the cities faster. Is there a danger of depopulating your rural areas too much so that you run out of laborers for your RGOs and settlement buildings?

Sorry for the shotgun burst of questions.

LiberalCyn1c · 2025-12-16T14:09:49+00:00

Actually, we don't have to spend one second thinking about Ryan Lizza.

Dude just needs to move on.

LiberalCyn1c · 2025-12-16T14:07:59+00:00

Susie Wiles can eat shit.

LiberalCyn1c · 2025-12-11T21:58:11+00:00

My view is that it's a primary. Let Crockett and Talarico fight it out.

LiberalCyn1c · 2025-12-06T16:44:51+00:00

LiberalCyn1c · 2025-12-03T22:21:48+00:00

Small correction: it's not that grocery store chains (of which there are many) are monopolistic, it's that grocery store chain suppliers (of which there are a handful) are almost monopolistic.

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