General Electile Dysfunction: an election that lasts longer than 4 days is a serious medical problem

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BeardOfKnowledge

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Splinty said:
I voted from Trump in 2016. I didn't underestimate him then. I strongly felt the pulse of the anger in half the country feeling like they weren't being listened to.
The glorious headlines celebrating the economic recovery after the great recession and huge GDP growth that ignores a stagnant median. Great unemployment numbers that ignore long-term unemployment gains and the largest number of working age adults ever outside of the workforce.


And this go around I feel the same thing. Except Trump still hasn't listened any more than his predecessors.
He is rejecting even further those that disagree with him and doubling down for his base. He's relying on the potential for a big stock market to pacify people. this is the same mistake people made in the past of looking at GDP and stock market and translating that to happiness and satisfaction with leadership.

In numerous darkly comical and severely ironic ways all of the ways that 50% of the population felt hurt in 2016 50% is about to feel hurt again. They just haven't accepted it yet. We're in the denial stage of grief.

The only person that will have staying power in this kind of environment is one that learns that feelings matter and a man's soul can't be bought with a job. The only thing that nearly everyone agrees on is that they're tired of Washington bickering and feeling like they're in a battle all the time. Anyone that wins and is deaf to the other half will lose in 4 years.

I don't blame Trump for much of this. He just hasn't redirected course. It's not a surprise that he's being voted out.
Historically we are used to blaming the president for many things that increasingly are not the presidents doing. But we the populace haven't figured that out either.

Half the country is angry. Half the country is relieved. I could be writing about 2016 all over again.

I understand your caution in not underestimating Trump. It's not Trump. You're underestimating what the American populace feels. Trump's just a symptom. Same with his removal.
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jason73 @jason73 and I thought this election went great.
 
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Splinty said:
All her posting has been about how any centrist dem groups didn't really earn this win.

she made these posts about demanding the Lincoln project giveaway any money they have and also said that they were ineffective....



View: https://mobile.twitter.com/AOC/status/1324881876201385984



Just scroll through the comments and you'll see tons of Democrats basically telling her she's out of touch with the rest of the party and the rest of America and to get off her high horse.
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@George Thoros

fight fight fight!


What went wrong for House Democrats when they were supposed to pick up seats?
I’m giving you an honest account of what I’m hearing from my own constituents, which is that they are extremely frustrated by the message of defunding the police and banning fracking. And I, as a Democrat, am just as frustrated. Because those things aren’t just unpopular, they’re completely unrealistic, and they aren’t going to happen. And they amount to false promises by the people that call for them.
If someone in your family makes their living in some way connected to natural gas, whether on the pipeline itself, or you know, even in a restaurant that serves natural gas workers, this isn’t something to joke around about or be casual about in your language.
That’s what we’re trying to say: that the rhetoric and the policies and all that stuff — it has gone way too far. It needs to be dialed back. It needs to be rooted in common sense, in reality, and yes, politics. Because we need districts like mine to stay in the majority and get something done for the people that we care about the most.
On Saturday, I interviewed Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and she mentioned you and how some House moderates ran their campaigns. I wanted to get a fact check quickly: Did you all spend just $2,000 on Facebook the week before the election?
She doesn’t have any idea how we ran our campaign, or what we spent, to be honest with you. So yeah, her statement was wrong. But there’s a deeper truth there, which is this — that our districts and our campaigns are extremely different. You know, I just leave it at that.

She said the way moderates ran their campaigns left them as “sitting ducks.” What was your reaction?
I have to be honest and say that I was surprised about the whole interview on the day when Vice President and now President-Elect Biden was having the election called for him. I just don’t think it was a day for people to be sniping at other members, especially in districts that are so different from their own.
I respect her and how hard she works. And what she did in an extremely low-turnout Democratic primary. But the fact is that in general elections in these districts — particularly in the ones where President Trump himself campaigns over and over and over again, and attacks members within their own Republican-leaning districts, like me and Representative Slotkin and Representative Spanberger — it’s the message that matters. It’s not a question of door knocking, or Facebook. It matters what policies you stand for, and which ones you don’t. And that is all that we are trying to say.
The American people just showed us in massive numbers, generally, which side of these issues that they are on. They sent us a Republican Senate and a Democratic president; we’re going have to do things that we can compromise over.
 
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Splinty said:
The American people just showed us in massive numbers, generally, which side of these issues that they are on. They sent us a Republican Senate...
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Yang Gang is gonna make sure this is not the case.
 
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Prison Rape Survivor said:
Yang Gang is gonna make sure this is not the case.
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50-50 with a Kamala tie breaker maybe!

I hope the dems will still take the message that they don't have a mandate for going very far left.
Stopping the GOP from being the 'party of no' under a 51-49 senate will be hard. There is political gain in that strategy even if if makes Americans hate washington.
 
tang

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Prison Rape Survivor said:
I like you, but you're being fairly retarded right now.

And by fairly retarded, I mean really fucking retarded.
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lots of funny shit happened.
when the investigation is over and Biden is still the winner, I'm going to support him. until then, FUCK OFF
 
Hauler

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Prison Rape Survivor said:
The Four Seasons Landscaping company thing had me dying of laughter.
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Do you think they booked it thinking it was The Four Seasons but dialed the wrong number or do you think they called around everywhere and these dudes were the only ones that said yes?

"A presser? Yeah, that's cool I guess. We're pretty much shut down until the grass starts growing again in Spring anyway. Lock the gate when you leave."
 
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