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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 3h

It’s under-discussed but I think pretty interesting how many people are really committed to the idea that Bush isn’t welcome in the GOP anymore because of Iraq

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 5h

“Nancy pelosi wanted groypers and Nazis to have more power” is something that shouldn’t survive contact with your frontal lobe but on here it’ll get you hundreds of likes

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 5h

for whatever else you think about Pelosi, she literally meant directly the opposite of this when she said that

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 6h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 5h

It’s really cool that people are still pretending she meant she was going to appoint a groyper to be Secretary of State and not like Chuck Hagel to run the VA or something

Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 5h

"If I’m president I would appoint a Republican to my cabinet." - Kamala Harris in September 2025

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 5h

Same old stuff

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 5h

The last part is semantics though. The Dems didn’t defeat an GOP incumbents but they flipped three seats that were held by republicans that decided to retire instead of run for reelection. All of the retiring republicans were in their early 50s they just didn’t want to get smoked

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 10h

The NY GOP used this tag line for all the announcements but used with one of these group chat participants it feels mean

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 10h

The DNC didn’t have anything to do with that either

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 10h

The DNC has nothing to do with this

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 11h

A Scot simping for monarchy as a concept what the hell

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 12h

Take Care turning 15 next year is really bothering me

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 12h

“I support contested primaries just not the ones where my favs might lose” yeah we know

Tessa🌹🐸 @aquariusing.bsky.social · 12h

I fully support contested primaries! What I don't support is Chuck Schumer, yet again, handpicking, yet again, another old person to continue the Dem establishment's trend of torpedo-ing younger progressives. Yet again.

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 15h

Primary Everyone! sure has a lot of exceptions

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

The Katie Porter viral videos do show someone with deficient interpersonal skills at best. But let's be honest about why the pile-on is happening: the political establishment in California wants to tempt Alex Padilla into the race by smearing his top opponent.
prospect.org/politics/kat...

What’s Behind the Viral Katie Porter Attack

Today on TAP: The political establishment in California saw their moment and pounced.

prospect.org

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 16h

This is what Pelosi and Biden were talking about when they said we needed a strong Republican Party and everyone got really mad

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t think winning a bunch of free and fair elections in a row is authoritarianism

Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 22h

In fact, "win every election" IS authoritarianism. Perpetual one-party rule is deeply corrosive to a free society in every case. No party is good enough and robust enough to avoid becoming stale and corrupt if it constantly has carte blanche.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

Ok so a nine seat majority, not a four seat majority

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s pretty tenuous to argue polls 6 months out from an election mean anything especially generic ballot polls

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

Dems had an 11 seat majority after the 2020 election

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

What are you even trying to say

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah they lost house seats because they had a huge house majority thanks to 2018. They gained 3 senate seats and won the presidency

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans netted two senate seats by winning Indiana, North Dakota, Missouri and Florida. There weren’t massive losses

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

The actual house popular vote margin in 2018 was higher than any point in that RCP average you posted

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats didn’t have impressive showings in 2018 and 2020???

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

8 months after you wrote this article the GOP got wiped out in the midterms

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 1d

If I wrote an article that said “Dems aren’t resisting Trump enough and that’s gonna hurt them electorally” and then 2018 (and 2020) happened I probably wouldn’t bring that up

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been shouting at Dems for not going hard against Trump since early 2018. I was arguably the first person to make that argument in print. Leave me out of this

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