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This is usually when I point out that the great and good American people voted for this.

However, today's a good day to point out there are moral monsters within the Trump administration. Rubio certainly knows what the consequences of these USAID cuts will be. I'm pretty sure that someone like Vought knows, too. People are going to die, so we can reasonably conclude that Rubio and Vought want people to die.

I don't see how the United States ever recovers from this act of international arson. What…

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We can't forget what Rubio, Vought, and RFK, Jr. have done, but what exactly can we do about it? I imagine there is a whole swath of Americans who believe the world would be better off without the suffering people in Third World countries. And. like the aforementioned, they call themselves Catholics and Christians.

I honestly don't know, Susan. My intuitive sense is the Democrats will have to do things that aren't in their collective DNA, and that's get in the mud with these people. The first question that the Democrats should ask themselves every day is, "What's is the most efficient way to draw blood from the GOP?" And by efficient, I mean, "What sort of demagoguery can I do that will shift public opinion away from the GOP?" It's not enough to punch them repeatedly in the face as hard as you can. Any attack has to be calibrated to both maximize the amount of pain inflicted to the GOP while shifting public opinion towards the Democrats. So when a toddler dies of measles due to anti-vax propaganda, the Democrats should repeatedly and without mercy blame RFK Jr.. When AIDS-related deaths skyrocket in Africa, the Democrats should repeatedly and without mercy attack the "Christians" in the government who made it happen.

The key thing to remember is, there are no rules. The GOP has chosen this path, so that's where we have to engage them. When the GOP plays the victim, the response needs to be, "fuck you" followed by a punch in the face. When the media cries "foul", the response needs to be, "fuck you, you're complicit with the failure of our system of government."

Every movement has a pressure point, and the GOP for all their big dick swagger are thin skinned. Find their pressure point, and hit it hard.

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What should the Dems do? I agree with what writer Jonathan Rauch said in his recent piece for The Atlantic:

" . . . pursue a relentless, strategic, and thematic campaign branding Trump as America’s most corrupt president. Almost every development could provide fodder for such attacks, which would connect corruption not with generalities like the rule of law but with kitchen-table issues. Higher prices? Crony capitalism! Cuts to popular programs? Payoffs for Trump’s fat-cat clients! Tax cuts? A g…

Sandy, the voters aren't going to respond to Rauch's approach. What the 2024 election showed is voters react to demagoguery.

I disagree, Tim, because the voters are already responding to their Congresspeople about their dissatisfaction with what Musk is doing. It's affecting their kitchen tables.

And the voters who gave Trump his win, the swing voters in the swing states who are Independents and educated, suburban Republicans did not give Trump their vote because of his demagoguery. They voted for Biden in 2O2O when they'd had 4 years of it . They swung against the Dem candidate in 2O24 because they were voting against the Far Left infused Dem brand.

Sandy, the difference between you and I is you believe that voters are rational actors open to persuasion whereas I believe voters are amoral and stupid. When you view the 2024 election through a moral prism, the 49.8% who voted for Trump were willing to overlook that a) he mismanaged a pandemic to the tune of 700K excess deaths, b) attempted a violent overthrow of the government, c) was found civilly liable for sexual assault and d) was convicted on 34 felonies in New York State. Voting for Tr…

Tim, the difference between you and me is in who you define as the voters. The 49.8% is not all MAGA. There’s not enough MAGA to get to that percentage. Agreed all of MAGA is amoral and stupid; except that I think their behavior and receptivity to Trump is based on their fear of the social change of the last 6O years which Trump exploits 24/7 and you do not. They think Trump will stop and reverse that change.

If the goal is to reduce Trump’s approval rating, the Trump voters most receptive to…

Approval ratings are ephemeral, a transient in a long steady state of history. What really needs to happen is the GOP paying a long term price for their malevolence.

Feb 28

They sure weren’t for Biden. They crashed after the Afghanistan pullout and never recovered.

At any rate, I guess JVL is wrong?

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