Again and again, they prove their projection is all about intent, and the hypocrisy doesn’t matter. They SAID someone did something they intended to do, and even though it’s bullshit, they go and do it.

In this case, bitching about 60 Minutes “helping” the Harris campaign by editing for time, when they intended to force journalists to capitulate to them editing for actual content.

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    Totally not alarming. A good solid blue vote in the midterms in just 12 short months away will fix that (once Johnson figures out how to also swear in the non GOP congress people)

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        Go look at projections for 2026.

        I mean, I’ve seen pollsters all over the map. But I also saw “Blue Wave in 2024/2016” and “Red Wave in 2020/2018”. Who are you looking at and why do you trust them more than that lady who said Harris would win Iowa by 5 points?

        Historically, newly elected Presidents eat shit in the midterm. Bush Jr was a singular exception, riding a huge reactionary wave through 2002. And he had 90% approval ratings at his peak. I’d be curious to know what you think Trump is working with that cements his very narrow House and Senate margins against a bunch of angry “Throw The Bums Out” voters (many within his own party).

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      Will fix what? At best it’s a patch until some other state actor rips it off.

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          Because I recognize that presidential power has only ever expanded in the last 75 years and nothing has curtailed it? I didn’t say no temp fix will happen, but it’ll likely be similar to the effect Obama or Biden has had: still expanding presidential power, just at a slowed pace.

          We are here because Democrats keep trying to be centrists instead of a left movement and that keeps power squarely in Republicans hands, not because I recognize what Democrats haven’t done.