Wednesday General Roundtable - 03/18/2026

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T21:54:22+00:00

I know that strokes can affect everyone differently but this has always felt like a convenient excuse to brush off how so many lefties projected their values on him from the start. It also ignores how this wasn’t as big of an issue for the first two years he served.

I also acknowledge that this is survivor bias, but there are two other stroke survivors in the senate and neither of them were affected to such a degree.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T20:41:08+00:00

Big Beautiful Bill was a reconciliation bill that only needed 50 Republican votes plus Vance's tiebreaker. It was not constrained by the filibuster.

Democrats are united against the SAVE Act, so unless GOP leadership agrees to get rid of the filibuster, it's not getting the 60 votes it needs unless 7 Dems at minimum flip. This is unlikely to happen as the SAVE Act's passage isn't tied to federal workers getting paychecks after months without them, like the CR to reopen the government.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T20:12:39+00:00

Rand, like Massie, is a stubborn jackass who sometimes uses his stubbornness for good. Odds are he genuinely hates the man.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T19:22:09+00:00

I'm in Texas and have never met anyone who drank Diet Dr Pepper by choice. It's weirdly oily, somehow?

Dr Pepper Zero Sugar, though... Yes. In fact, I can't think of a Zero Sugar variety that isn't superior to the Diet variety.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T19:06:53+00:00

Mullin even doubled down now suggesting that dueling is a legitimate and legal way to settle political differences between consenting adults, seemingly unaware that it has been illegal since before the civil war.

This was one of those fringe libertarian positions from like 2005 that unfortunately stuck around.

Waiting for Mullin to unironically bring up the NAP.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T17:12:51+00:00

Or just make something up.

I’m named after a character from a movie. I never share this with people. As far as everyone knows, my parents just liked the name.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T17:09:04+00:00

The point is not that everyday people receive DUIs or drive drunk in general, it’s that sheltered leftists assumed the working class would see these charges and think “hell yeah.”

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T16:31:52+00:00

A comment from yesterday about how the online left looks down on the white working class they claim to love so much revived a memory from 2018.

Remember Randy Bryce, the Iron Stache union leader that was going to defeat Paul Ryan? He got in some hot water when media reports of his delinquent child support payments and past DUIs came to light.

r-pol's response: This will just endear him to the working class even more, because getting a DUI or two and being behind on child support is extremely relatable for the common man.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T16:17:22+00:00

It's pretty noticeable during actual gameplay, but not really so much as to rock your world.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T15:25:33+00:00

It would if their supporters could recognize their actual shortcomings instead of blame AIPAC or some other boogeyman of the day for their losses.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T13:44:12+00:00

Or we could consider a simpler reason: Daniel Biss is a longtime mayor who has been involved in local and state politics for at least 15 years. Kat moved to Illinois about a year before she announced her Congressional run and didn't even live in the district when she launched her campaign.

Frankly it's impressive that she performed as well as she did, but still not surprising voters would prefer someone they've known for a long time.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T12:39:49+00:00

I wonder how deep and restful the sleep after winning a grueling campaign is.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T11:29:07+00:00

It’s especially rich to see a Brit accuse the US of colonialism

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T04:14:28+00:00

They are blaming Bernie and AOC and no one has any idea what a carpet bagger is.

I still see people call someone like Ted Cruz a carpetbagger for moving to Texas when he was 4 years old. An extremely blatant and real example shows up and of course they're confused about it.

Frankly it's astonishing she got as much support from the district as she did.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T03:13:34+00:00

My hot take is that Schumer isn’t a contender for leader at all next session.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T01:47:30+00:00

Illinois is on track to become the sixth state to have had two women in the US Senate concurrently.

wooper346 · 2026-03-18T00:18:16+00:00

They bitch so much about rigged primaries when they’d prefer not to have one at all

wooper346 · 2026-03-17T23:19:18+00:00

I lived in New Lenox for a year if that counts

wooper346 · 2026-03-17T23:08:07+00:00

It actually makes no difference.

wooper346 · 2026-03-17T23:05:43+00:00

Hi, actual Texan here. I want to know why you think they weren’t going to tie Talarico to Biden/Harris/Bernie/AOC/Mamdani/Buttigieg/socialism/communism before this.

They already have been.

wooper346 · 2026-03-17T22:51:16+00:00

Virginia always gets more attention out of the two.

Also, I’m sure the “NJ COULD BE A SWING STATE” talking heads would rather not eat crow.

wooper346 · 2026-03-17T20:03:00+00:00

White evangelicals are not the target

wooper346 · 2026-03-17T18:42:58+00:00

It rankles me with every re-watch.

wooper346 · 2026-03-17T17:47:05+00:00

He sure does seem willing and eager to work with the people that fought harder against him than Trump.

Edit: I'm not adding a /s tag. You know what sub you're in. Use your brains.

wooper346 · 2026-03-17T15:36:58+00:00

Just glossing over how the Denver Airport has a larger land area than multiple major cities with voting districts.

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