Healthcare. Voting. Tax Returns.

I like it.

The other obvious pro wrestling rich guy heel is ****ing Vince McMahon himself. He literally wrote himself into the storylines as like the great uber heel of all time. The nice thing about low brow culture is the lack of pretense and literally the most profitable, notable era of modern professional wrestling was when the owner dropped the pretense of being a babyface commentator and embraced a heel persona that relished money and tried to **** over labor. That story made sense to everyone, intuitively. And the every man hero beat the **** out of him and pummeled him and flipped him the bird at every opportunity. Crowds loved it.

As the great Albert Einstein once said, there is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by a 10,000 word article in The Atlantic.

Related thought, but one of the things Dems always do is get into wonky arguments about how the 2nd Amendment is a collective right and how this qualifier refers to a well regulated militia and other boring ass **** that no one on either side actually cares about.

They should instead write narratives with simple themes and heels the way the WWE does. The NRA is a corporate lobby group that bribes politicians and sells dangerous products to make a buck. They don’t care if your kids get hurt by their product because they’re evil corporate heels, we all know why we hate these character archetypes. That’s a storyline casual Joe Six Pack guys can buy into. Tell me Wayne LaPierre isn’t a picture perfect Vince McMahon stand-in that everyone wants to yell “boo” at.

In all seriousness, maybe the DNC should think about hiring a WWE scriptwriter.

Yeah this is the ridiculous part. If overall participation was 70% all of these discussions would be massively different.

Pretty sure Trump could hold up a random picture and proclaim it the evil Dem Speaker and his base would hate whoever it was.

Maybe, but I think it's a harder sell to make someone like Tim Ryan (white dude-OH who's talked about maybe challenging Pelosi) into an avatar of socialism or whatever. The speaker being not a white male is always going to make that an easier sell to the derplorables.

That said, I of course don't think we should just pick a white dude to avoid upsetting the sensitive deplorables too badly. Lieu would be awesome.

The point I was trying to get across was more about the inability for the electorate to focus on solving systemic, long-term problems while being overwhelmed by the daily media outrage. Sure, if you poll people they're going to have unfavorable opinions on corporate power. But that's entirely different than maintaining a concerted political movement against the interests of capital when it's trivial to drop a distraction in any number of media outlets and have it bubble up to and dominate the national "discussion".

I'm not pretending this is some new revelation since it's been probably the defining feature of our country's politics since the advent of cable news. But it's on ****ing steroids today with twitter and FB constantly pinging our brains and the negative feedback loop between media, citizens, and politicians has to be dismantled before there's any shot of addressing the significant issues we face.

candidates do matter (pretty much only at the top of the ticket though) but the big story imo is the dems retaking a lot of downballot races they have been losing for a decade. The GOTV efforts to get states back was incredible. We were talking about the GOP having close to 40 governships if things went bad.

Minor rant about governorships: one thing that is utter bull**** is how many liberals vote for GOP governors in MD, MA, VT, CT. IL and NM got better but for ****'s sake there have to be so many split ticket voters in MD and MA. MA Demoocrats really didn't even field a challenger to Baker, all the prominent Democrats ****ing turtled and wouldn't run.

GOP sees Democrats in red states and see blood in the water, Democrats see GOP governors in blue states and dream about compromises and stately debates between GOP governors and their third-tier candidates. Only Democrat I can think of that's governor of a truly deep red state is John Bel Edwards, I guess Bullock if you count Montana, whereas the GOP had (until last night) like 7 or 8 governors in states Clinton won and like all of the midwest battlegrounds.

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One thing to remember about stuff like Pelosi talking to Trump - there is not much to be gained from announcing the House is going to skull-**** Trump for the next two years. It just gives them the whole lame duck to prepare.

So try not to have a seizure if the rhetoric feels pretty tame for the next couple months.

Have you guys never dealt with old ladies? They'll stab you in the back while giving you a cookie. Nancy was raised to be a "nice lady", and the road is littered with the corpses of her enemies.

If Schumer said he'd never work with Trump and Pelosi said she was willing to deal with him on every issue, I'd expect Pelosi to be one doling out the pimp smacks. I hope she resigns before 2020, but not a lot before.

this message every time the gop claim SPHC is too expensive.

right now, health care is #1 with your electorate. house dems need to have a bill ready on day one, full SPHC, ship it up to the senate. force the gop to defeat SPHC and cry poor.

make small adjustment to the bill and send it back. force the gop to defeat SPHC over and over and over between now and 2020.

leave no doubt about which party will pass and fund UHC and which party won't.

health care and where the funds to pay for it have been squandered and stolen should be the lead story for two years.

refuse to endorse or nominate any candidate who will not commit to this plan.

Here's one of Pelosi's deputies.


https://twitter.com/jeremyherb/statu...61495559413760

The Dem single payer bills will never be defeated by Republicans. They will just never hold votes in the Senate.

For pure drama, politics is better than sports.

Chuck the Cuck must go. Need a bull.

The problem with using a shadowy cabal of billionaires as a political tool has been demonstrated in this thread - one of the first comments after it was brought up was "Yes, but the democrat money-people benefit from it too." You can try to craft a message that would appeal to someone who might not know much about the topic - but I'm going to guess that a Trump-supporter can simply shrug when it comes to money influencing politics and say "Both sides are just as bad".

As much as we'd like to get money out of politics, the current system it still matters. Not as much as it used to in this era--but there were claims of at least 5 house seats won by dems just from that alone.

The easy solution here is to just not have a party that's deeply committed to the corporate/government power establishment and not have a candidate who gets paid six-figures to give pep talks to Goldman Sachs.

Rick Scott increased his net worth by $200 MM while governor of FL you can’t explain that

Did Alan Lawhon die?

I would have probably floated up on a beach after getting stabbed while almost being overdose high on coke if I did what he did. All while predicting the shift.

ETA: Maybe that was Awice? either way my point stands. luckbox.

Spitballing here, but think the reason for this maybe that alot of these NE states had a history of corruption back in the day under entrenched one-party rule so the voter's preference is to have a socially liberal R to keep an eye on things.