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Haleyna Targaryen

I think wanting him to do as much as McConnell would have done is reasonable given history. Whether it's logical I think would require both lawyers and a psychic. But I do think the Dem base wants to feel the fight is being taken to Republicans. It could be a losing battle that inspires the army.

I did not say that I did. I said that it's an explanation. Personally, I think doing exactly this is enough, but there should be more on his side doing it. If the tables were reversed, Republicans would be making this the biggest issue in the country right now. They know how to weaponize scandals.

Lemme get this straight - you think this is a coordinated campaign by potential 2028 Democratic rivals to opportunistically make Beshear look weak during a GOP cover-up, and not just, people wanting Democrats to show more fight and finding it unacceptable that a Senator is hiding his health status?

I do not think they will lose. Or that's it's likely. But it's certainly more likely in a short race under the chaotic circumstances of a war and a health cover-up and Trump nearly underwater in Kentucky than it is under "business as usual."

The question you have to ask is: Why are Republicans doing this? The answer is simple: they are afraid they MIGHT lose with this specter (literally?) hanging over the race. Little actual business is getting done in the next few months, anyway. But losing a Senate seat in KY could last decades.

So much head, so few brains

Man, most doing a lotta fucking work in that article, huh? Mother fuck your standards are low. But it is telling that he lost the public messaging, didn't actually fix the problem, but you think he did.

I'm guessing special interests that want favors that don't actually do anything, long-term, but let them feather their own beds in the short-term. Am I close?

Except when he didn't. time.com/6238361/joe-...

I am usually loathe to reference pop culture for a real world conversations, but I am of course, going to talk about the the King - Season 2 of The Wire focused on the efforts stevedores go to lobby Congress to get funds for port expansion.

This is what you land on when you want to pretend to support labor unions, but don't want to actually support labor unions.

And the useful idiots are busy jumping on the Red Scare bandwagon and lamenting the takeover of "their" party by actual progressives while the neocons from the Bush Administration direct them.

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I can tell you which one I think it is. bsky.app/profile/alex...

I was a Hitchens' fan and all those new atheist types. I never understood his support for the Iraq War until I realized that the unifying position for all of them was Islamophobia.

There's zero actual leadership or introspection, and everyone acts for their self-interested causes because there's no unifying platform other than maybe "not Trump." Which is fine, for flipped voters. But it's not for people who see a bigger picture of what ails us.

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And which Senate leader voted for him, I wonder 🤔

And then Democrats will "explore their options" until it happens again. Rinse and repeat.