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Flop after flop after flop. Her career was in such a horrid state until the Super Bowl and A Star is Born brought her career back from the grave. What was going wrong? https://youtu.be/ohs0a-QnFF4?si=1PjOXDrJdo9UYj5v

All of them basically look like the same person…. That being said, something about Delaware is making my hole shake uncontrollably

We are all future slaves to AI, the process of making it happen is literally in motion as we speak.

I'm late to this, but I'm also in the Chicagoland area. The storms last week were horrifying, and I'm only 30 minutes away from Gary. What's happening in north lake county is a nightmare and the fact that it's only partially starting to explode nationally is shocking, considering what's happening there is inhumane 3rd world like, with crime now running rampant and people dying. Thank you @wehavetostan for bringing this issue partially to light

So freaking sad. I lost my brother when he was 34. Right around her age. It's so unbelievably young :( May she rest in peace

They didn't endorse her because she was a bad candidate, who couldn't raise money, and was almost certain to lose and hurt the very movement they're trying to lead. It's not rocket science people. I don't know how you guys can't see that she was a walking general election L when the most $$ spent on her behalf was republicans trying to boost her in the primary so that they could face her

The moment was lost by the slogan alone. The vast majority of Americans are too lazy, and too stupid to listen to what activists mean by it, but it's an issue that just will never win the support of the American public. Ever. I'm not saying progressives still can't have law enforcement restructuring at the top of their mind and advocation, but it's just a losing issue and always will be, and it doesn't make me a "centrist" or a "liberal" to point it out, it's just calling a spade a spade

It's a topic that literally does nothing but circle back into culture war bullshit, because to the average voter: it isn't serious. It's something even African American voters themselves don't support: https://www.aei.org/commentary/attitudes-toward-the-police-five-years-after-george-floyds-death/ It's something that a whopping 28% of them agree with. You're literally willing to die on something that's essentially an 80/20 issue with the American public and has 0% chance of going anywhere outside of terminally online users…. Policies like Medicare 4 all, getting AIPAC out of our politics, cutting off aid to Israel, raising wages, taxing billionaires: THOSE are winning issues that will grow the moments, not defund the police

This kind of rhetoric ("defund the police, thanksgiving is bad"!) is weird to just about every non terminally online person. Some of you need to pick and choose when to cross the line if you want the movement to continue to grow. There is real, tangible issues that the left stands for, and fights for, that has support from the American people, and has allowed the movement to grow in the first place. Throwing it away for stupid culture war bullcrap like defund the police and cancelling Thanksgiving is ridiculous.

I truly don't think we're in as blue of an environment as a lot of polls are saying right now though. Democrats brand since 18 has gone massively downhill and a lot of people just do not like them or trust them, even if a lot of people dislike Trump right now. Do I think we're in line a D+5-6ish line national environment? Yes, more than likely, But I dont think Talarico wins TX, I don't think Dems flip a senate seat in Iowa, I don't think they win governor races in states like Ohio, and meh candidates like Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia, and now Crowley in WI have more work cut out for them than they think. I also think Jackson in ME probably loses too

8 incumbent democratic Congressmembers have lost races. More than the GOP tea party of 2010 who had a whopping 3… AES is a a nominee in one of the most purple states in the nation, winning against an establishment backed candidate who ranked almost $70 million in outside spending. Peggy Flanagan won a race Schumer handpicked the opponent, by 20 points. Will Lawerence beat 2 establishment insiders despite Elissa Slotkin herself campaigning against him. Hell, Talarico beat an AIPAC Idpol queen backed by mamala herself. Hong was a horrid candidate who was going to throw WI to republicans, that's why she lost.

The biggest fumble by progressives this cycle has and will remain Steyer losing to Becerra. A state as blue as CA electing neoliberal trash like Schiff and Becerra to their highest offices is just disgusting, Katie Porter needs to be permanently banned from politics. And for us in the Midwest whoeve been getting hit by powerful storms at an alarming rate the last 2 years, climate change being a huge issue will be at the top of mind if this continues

The broader dem electorate will take progressives more seriously when they show they can win competitive statewide races in crucial states that are important (WI is important). Hong, the only candidate in the field who was publicly struggling to have a lead against Tom Tiffany, and literally couldn't raise money, and lost her primary to a guy who literally dropped out of the race less than a month ago, was a bad candidate who likely would have lost in November and done insane harm to the progressive movement. It's is WHY Bernie and AOC stayed away from her, it is what me and @ClashAndBurn have been trying to tell you: we live in swing districts and swing states, we know bad candidates to our electorate when we see them, and Hong was just that

In purple states and districts, progressives need to toe the line better than they should have to, it's sad but that's the reality in this weird right wing country. I live in a very light blue but trending red district, I know these voters too well. Things that are just an absolute nonstarter and nuke their chances are these: "defund the police" "abolish prisons" "trans men/women belong in girls sports". Election denialism is what does that to republicans on the opposite end of the coin. It sucks that progressives have to play their cards better (especially compared to the insane **** republicans get away with so easily) but for right now, it's just the reality

I'm telling you right now: for Wisconsin in a statewide election, she is a bad candidate. AES is in the same scenario, but he's a great candidate. He sticks to the issues that connects with voters (M4A, rooting out corruption, etc) but he's also smart enough to sidestep and distance himself from stuff that is incredibly toxic in swing states (defund the police). Add in the fact that she could not raise $$ and she was ripe to be taken down, and the polling was showing: she was struggling against Tiffany. Bernie, AOC, and every prominent elected progressive outside of Illhan stayed away from her for a reason. It's okay to take an L on this one, it more than likely did more good for the movement in the long run. If Crowley loses, the lefts hands are clean