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I don’t think any swing voter is “gettable” or “hanging on this debate” though. Pretty significant misrepresentation of my position there so hope this helps. Lot of time till November.

I do, however, believe there are a) left leaning voters in swing states who are turned off from voting blue by the Democrat defense of Israel and capitulation to the conservative framing of the border, and b) right leaning voters in swing states who see that Biden brings up immigration in order to support his abortion position and feel hugely vindicated and double down on their intent to vote MAGA.

Maybe I shouldn’t have used the term “swing voter,” I’ll to back and edit that.

Eh this was one of the biggest joke tweets and the biggest microblog site, and I believe over half of America was watching. It makes sense.

This is insightful. Can you connect the dots for me on how it relates to the border stuff?

(mean this genuinely; i’m not crazy educated on these internals of the parties and i didn’t catch your implication)

your handwriting is attractive /flirt

fuck yeah bestie 🥰💖

i’m embarrassed to learn i was quoting kimmy jimmel 😅

Really sad. As though no one has trans, queer, immigrant, or POC friends or friends in need of abortion either. As though we didn’t see the other guy double down on his “finish the job” line once again. Sending love 🩵

full disclosure it’s not my quote i stole it from somewhere one sec edit jimmy kimmel, dec 6 2023

i don’t disagree. but it’s insane that it’s happening because it’s such a losing move.

i saw someone put it like this: imagine if in 2016 Bernie was still in the running and for some reason Trump began capitulating against his voter base and decided that medicare for all was a good idea.

for the swing voters that care about healthcare, is that sudden and strange reversal going to encourage them to vote for the brand new candidate with that platform? the answer is obviously like, no way, they are going to stick with Bernie who has always had that position.

in the same way, Biden now more than ever doing moves that are pretty unpopular with progressive constituents isn’t going to make him look good in the eyes of would-be Trump voters. they are just going to see a guy who happens to now agree on one point, and feel a bit vindicated on their merry way to vote for the fascist that always had that position.

Just because you think Alfred is too old to take care of the Batcave, you don’t replace him with the Joker.

noted i guess i need to figure out how to express this better. because there’s definitely some kind of capitulation to conservatives going on, and i agree with you that it’s not foundational but more aesthetic—yet obviously meaningful enough that it is affecting certain instances of policy

What are you talking about the DNC is literally perfect in every way

_/s

paragraph 1 — interesting, thanks for the insight, this is new to me possibly because it doesn’t align with many of my lived experiences

paragraph 2 — aw :( thanks for your honesty i guess

Really interested in the positions of those downvoting. Willing to be corrected on this one a little because obviously this post is painting with a very broad brush :)

I don’t know if you missed the part where he brought up “rapist immigrants” when trying to answer a question about abortion that should have been a layup and was absolutely key to this debate being meaningful to voters who are confused, apathetic, or considering voting 3rd party, especially those in swing states.

That was also very unexpected, highly disappointing, and totally unrelated to his tone or volume. No amount of moderation could have helped that.

omg twinningggggggg 👯‍♀️

the closest my situational awareness ever gets anywhere close to sherlock holmes’

i be sussing out the joint with ultra stealth

TIL! ty :)

the ratio got better overnight while the DNC was asleep and eurobros had the floor but i expect it to get worse from here on out