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Similarly, here's the ad for Mastriano:
https://host2.adimpact.com/admo/viewer/821ff523-0f2f-4b51-83fb-934cad4b92a7
I mean, yeah, this is the sort of thing that might help him in the GOP primary, and that was intentional on Shapiro's team's part. But I could see Shapiro running almost an identical ad in September, too.
Wanting a total abortion ban is not a winning position. Airing an add that features that is only helpful in a primary where the voting base is typically more extreme.
Because in one context, the ad would be meant to harm the fascist's chance of winning, while in the other context, the ads are meant to help the fascist win.
Do you honestly think that in a scenario where the moderate would somehow win the primary and then the general that they wouldn’t just go along with whatever extreme policies the rest of the party is striving for anyway?
Democrats can’t help republicans be more power hungry fascists. They’re already there.
If all the candidates are equally bad then the stratrgy doesnt make any sense in the first place.
1) My position here is actually more critical of Democrats than it was in the past. I openly admire McCaskill for running ads to try to get Akin as her opponent, because that was a close primary and she only kept that seat because Akin was horrifying.
2) There is no practical difference between Mastriano and any other Republican in my mind. The only anti-dictatorship candidates they have were immediately tossed or about to be tossed from the party on August 16 when Cheney loses her seat. And that Liz fucking Cheney, torture enthusiast who hates voting rights, is the relatively antifascist candidate in the Republican Party should say a lot.
So yeah, don't pretend to know my own thought processes and accuse me of being a hypocrite or posting in bad faith, when you clearly don't actually know them.
That would be why I said I consider these kinds of ad buys to be a waste of money more than anything.
And that “I am not a witch” would be lauded if Walker said it because (one thinks at least) it would be among the very few truthful things he says
I think your mistake here is equating extreme policy goals with working to overthrow the government.
It’s the exact same thing we see with people like Liz Cheney right now. She’s on board with the terrible policies of the GOP, but if you ask her to destroy the country, that’s a bridge too far.
Those people you mention are very rare exceptions. Liz Cheney was stripped of everything the House GOP could strip her of. Taylor Greene was not.
Greene has lost her committee seats
She was stripped of her committee assignments by a vote in the House where 11 Republicans voted against her. What’s your point?
This is some disingenuous bullshit.
Cheney was stripped of her committee seats by the GOP caucus
Greene was stripped of hers by a house floor vote that only had 11 republicans voting against her.
Steve King?
Recession = two consecutive quarters of GDP falling
Depression is less formally defined, but generally understood as a two year long recession or a recession with total decline in GDP of at least 10%. But then there's fights over whether the depression ends when GDP starts growing again or when you're back to pre-depression GDP. It's weird.
Technically GDP started growing in 1933, but I don't think anyone alive then would say the Depression was over.
In more colloquial terms, a recession is a short period of the economy being bad and a depression is a long period of the economy being even worse.
Again, what’s your point? The Cheney/Greene comparison was about how the internal GOP pushing back against Jan 6th is rare, and nothing you‘be said here has anything to do with that.
Phoenix’s point was that Cheney was punished BY the GOP for taking a stand, not that Greene has never had anything bad happen to her in congress.
Did you just reflexively disagree because you saw a chance to “well, actually”?
My point is that there was an extremely narrow window in which Greene even had any committee seats for the GOP to take from her before Democrats did. There are more compelling instances of the GOP looking the other way on elected officials.
Your hostility is unwarranted
I mean right now we know that most GOP officials openly support the insurrection, regardless of how they feel privately. We also know that the 2021 insurrection didn't really have a chance of success. There were multiple pivot states, some with Dem leadership, so just illegally flipping GA wouldn't do much. Pence's ability to overturn the election was legally very questionable, relying on laws that were clear in intent but semi-ambiguous in meaning. If Pence or Raffensperger, the GA Sec of State you mentioned, had been able to single-handedly flip the election without repercussion, would they have? I can't prove anything either way, but I'm less sure about that.
But since we're talking about specific people, the example of Raffensperger isn't relevant. The runner up in the PA gubernatorial race openly campaigned with insurrectionists and supported Jan 6. He's a batshit fascist, too, he was just better about shutting up.
It probably needs to be updated with more Primaries having been concluded, but this is what I have saved on my phone.
That isn't the definition of a recession. A recession in the US is defined by NBER and uses multiple metrics. The two consecutive quarter definition is something a newspaper came up with.
This generally isn't that important, but potentially will be in the near future as there are conflicting metrics, job market and GDP being two of them.
GOP Platform:
Trump’s Revenge
GOP Strategy:
Scare suburban moms
Because you are playing with fucking fire and thinking you’re not going to burn down the audience
By placing these ads in the primary, you are exiting the MAGA base to come out and support these assholes, because those are the policies they want, which means then your choices in the general are a democrat and a extreme fascist, on the hopes there’s no possible way anyone would ever vote for the fascist.
Then whoops it turns out they fucking do, because of where decades of right wing cultivation have brought us
So many rakes…
Or is he saying Fetterman is a meandering story with an unsatisfying ending?
Buh gawd he's 45 feet tall now
Fetterman has been recovering from a medical emergency. He's slowly getting back on the trail now.
Oz doesn't even live in-state. He's trying to do the "use your weakness to attack your opponent" thing by pretending Fetterman doesn't show up. isn't around the state, etc
It’s about Fetterman being home recovering from his stroke