Honestly, our Iranian adventure is a perfect parable for Trump's governance at home: build nothing and wantonly destroy everything, all the while skimming as much off the top as possible.
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Things are starting to spiral. We managed to go a full four years during Trump 1.0 without a major foreign policy crisis, but no chance we'd dodge that bullet twice in a row. Dems need to have real campaigns everywhere possible because it's impossible to know what things will look like in Nov.
absolutely. the ground is shifting under our feet and whatever is coming it will not be like before.
where is the Ulbrich kid lol?
Think how bad the COVID response was with Trump in charge, and that's when we still had real public health people in charge of the CDC. We have a war halfway around the world against a country of 90 million being led by a weekend Fox News Host. We're going to get what we voted for good and hard.
Famously, no one who has ever claimed "to have a Black friend" has ever gone on to immediately say something extremely racist.
sorry people are insane and have the reading comprehension of acorns.
A man was slurred following an interaction with a Republican.
yeah, i mean, there is just no way to escape a president that is both malignant and dumb.
Think how bad the COVID response was with Trump in charge, and that's when we still had real public health people in charge of the CDC. We have a war halfway around the world against a country of 90 million being led by a weekend Fox News Host. We're going to get what we voted for good and hard.
Things are starting to spiral. We managed to go a full four years during Trump 1.0 without a major foreign policy crisis, but no chance we'd dodge that bullet twice in a row. Dems need to have real campaigns everywhere possible because it's impossible to know what things will look like in Nov.
It's only a matter of time before Kash Patel gets way too excited to take a long car ride.
Folks, I have it on good authority that Noem isn't being "fired," she's being sent to a nice farm upstate where she'll get to run around all day.
"Is thinking good? Who can say?"
that haircut...
Trump hates democracy and MAGA is a fundamentally anti-democratic movement. The fact that he doesn't think people in other countries should have the right of self-determination completely gives away the game as to his attitudes about democracy at home.
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I observe my Gen Z students' wild assed gender politics like an anthropologist trying to observe an alien species and struggling to comprehend.
"So you want to have 12 kids and live on a farm...?"
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The Republican Party in Texas has been strong among Latinos dating back to the GWB days and has often taken a more conciliatory approach than the national party. Trump even won some border counties that no R had *ever* carried. Curious if 2 years of Trumpism is enough to erase that progress.
For the Dems, the primary map and polls suggest quite a bit of racial polarization in primary vote choice. For Talarico, the job will be to shore up support among African Americans between now and November, because there is no path forward for a Dem in TX or nationally without strong AA support.
Texas is a heavy lift for any Democrat, but Talarico is a strong candidate who had to contend with another strong candidate, Jasmine Crockett, just to make it out of the primary. The Democrats' fate in TX hinges on Latinos, if they can claw back what they lost in 24 they've got a real shot. 1/2
Dems got so brain poisoned with the "demographics are destiny" nonsense that they forgot coalitions require constant maintenance. As far as 2026 goes, the main task is to bring formerly loyal voters back into the fold, and TX is a perfect test case to see how they do.
For the Dems, the primary map and polls suggest quite a bit of racial polarization in primary vote choice. For Talarico, the job will be to shore up support among African Americans between now and November, because there is no path forward for a Dem in TX or nationally without strong AA support.
The Republican Party in Texas has been strong among Latinos dating back to the GWB days and has often taken a more conciliatory approach than the national party. Trump even won some border counties that no R had *ever* carried. Curious if 2 years of Trumpism is enough to erase that progress.
Folks, we all know the Real Election Indicator is ED turnout at Special Precinct #17 at 1PM on Election Day.
🧵Cans of Worms possibly opened by Trump's war of choice in Iran, a running list:
(not exhaustive, with the caveat that I am not an expert on the region so these are questions from a US foreign policy perspective, please add others) 1/?
Yes. The religious left sometimes gets ignored by the Dems to their own detriment.
