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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly if you haven’t watched the full answer, do it. It’s even better than what was clipped here. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a question that’s loaded on three levels handled like this ever in politics.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 14h

I’m watching the Georgia debate now, and I know we all know he’s been the best candidate of the three, but also this is the best campaign and messaging by a mile. Helps that he also has by far the weakest opponent of the three.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 14h

Both of these races have some strong candidate-quality overtones. I’d feel a lot better if the GOP candidates were flipped here because Ossoff would beat them both handily, but he also got the weaker opponent.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 14h

I’m a realist and an optimist, and I think we can win every swing race and then some in this environment. I want all the seats! I also think there are three races I feel better about in states that Trump won by ten points, and these should have been the easy ones.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 15h

As for Maine, well, let me just say again that I hate Graham Platner and every single person who brought us Graham Platner and who also decided who absolutely must replace him because of his movement or whatever.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 15h

Like, my guy, you are trying to earn back the trust of Jewish voters and also combatting “he’s a scary Muslim” attacks that included an inability to condemn the IRGC, and this fuels both of those issues.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 15h

This was a layup turned into an own goal, for example.

New York Post headline:

El-Sayed refuses to say whether Iran is more of a threat than Israel in stunning Michigan Senate debate moment

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 15h

The problem with left populists is they refuse to give any answer that might piss off the most online left populists to a fault.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 15h

Michigan is probably a draw at best, but Rogers definitely got some fuel for some ads that will hit. Maine is just making me hate Graham Platner even more for this particular mess.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 15h

I know we just live for the clips and what goes viral here, but just watched the Michigan Senate debate and now starting the Maine debate trying to focus on the perspective of an undecided voter. Not really loving either of them tbh.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 15h

The first question I’ve asked friends who ask if they should see Digger has been, did you like Birdman? Both take big swings and trust the audience to be grownups. Loved them both.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 18h

It is going to be a long month to November, a longer winter to January, and a very long road to 2029. Only way out is through, the way through is out.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 18h

We’re going to get a million bad post-election takes that don’t take into account that it’s a D+8 environment and that 2028 will almost certainly not be.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine being proud of writing this four weeks before the midterm election from the comfort of a deep blue state.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 20h

I need many of you to realize that Congressional leadership is often not actually speaking to you specifically, and that’s fine Jeffries’s job right now is to avoid giving Ken Paxton good soundbites

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 20h

All three are also polling behind the Dem candidates in their state gubernatorial races.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 20h

I get why she’s setting up this narrative, but the three Bernie-endorsed candidates in swing Senate races (AES, Flanagan, Jackson) are the three *most* underperforming relative to Trump’s 2024 vote. Two of those aren’t even flips, and one was thought to be the easiest one to flip.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think it’s bad, actually, that a complex and decades-old conflict got boiled down for a lot of young people by actively engaging with straight propaganda from one side, mostly on Twitter and TikTok. I’m not really sure there’s a path out for them when no one would dare call that out.

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"I'm sorry I said genocidal things, but in my defense, I have chosen a media diet that made me genocidal" is not actually an apology honestly.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think Ben Collins needs to address the fact he has an actively pro-October 7 Nazi-level racist working for him and whether he’s going to tolerate this on top of everything else.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Horseshoe theory remains undefeated.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fitting that Brad Lander gets to be beside him for this.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reminder that the essential goal of the attacks of October 7 was provoking Israeli retaliation while hiding behind civilians hoping to trigger a regional war. You cannot truly be pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas. They set back the cause of a Palestinian state decades on that day.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(And if you’re asking why I suspect he’s white, it’s because I saw Rage Against the Machine in 2022, and it was one of the whitest crowds I’ve ever seen.)

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whew, I think the whole movement has missed about two years of “it’s too far” with no one ever calling out any red lines here. Once they decided Hamas was based and we shouldn’t criticize their methods of resistance, it stopped being about Palestinian lives at all.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nothing sums this movement up better than a white kid in a keffiyeh wearing a Rage Against the Machine t-shirt while he’s on his phone.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wrong name *SJP, “Students for Justice for Palestine”

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, planned in advance, had nothing to do with his post. It was organized numerous chapters of Students for Palestinian Justice and Young Democratic Socialists of America.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They seemed briefly humbled by the fact that his primary win was only by a point after believing polling that had him up double digits. Now he seems to be more intent on proving that left populism can win in a swing state, and I don’t think him winning supports that at all in this environment.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wish I saw more signs that El-Sayed or his campaign understand he’s in a close race and not just declaring he’s going to win by 7 points when a quality poll this week had him up by one.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 07/10/2026

That's funny, I don't recall the Mayor tacking on a condemnation of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan/Iraq onto his post about the anniversary of 9/11, much less one three times longer than the initial statement.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s not normal or appropriate that the mayor of a U.S. city who won with just over 50 percent of the vote treats the office as a soapbox for his takes on foreign policy, and the fact that apparently his staff thinks it is tells you about who he’s surrounded by.

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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is akin to mentioning inner city crime rates a sentence after you commemorate MLK's birthday. You're not implying responsibility or causation but you're prompting the conversation.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The thing here is that The Onion used to satirize the news and now it just regurgitates whatever its writers see is popular on their social media feeds.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The amazing thing is how much crow all these publications will not eat after the midterm and how much they will gaslight about how prescient they were.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

-most online brain rot shit you ever read -check bio -college professor Every time

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think people have taken his appearance with Harris and now with Obama to mean he’s shifted, when actually it’s that the dreaded “establishment” is doing everything it can to help him win, because they want to win.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The irony here is that El-Sayed has actually not pivoted to the center. He’s still actively focused on the left far too much in his general campaign, and it’s making that race closer than it should be.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is why the “left” as it exists online is actually not an important voting bloc in general elections. This is mostly posturing, but they always do this when it actually matters.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And you see the clouds of the next round of “I don’t care if I can’t count, I want to complain about Dems more” with impeachment demands. Everyone also thinks that court packing and adding a couple of states to the union is somehow a political layup, and they don’t even have a majority yet.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just imagine what this current electoral climate would be like if people didn’t spend the last two years online loudly complaining that Democrats should “do something” with magical powers that voters didn’t grant them.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 05/10/2026

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who among us can really say who is the sitting senator in this race though? Honestly it’s almost impressive that the Husted campaign is trying to grab some “throw these bums out” energy.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’d often wondered if Tom Morello ever regretted that Rage Against the Machine played a pop-up protest set at the *DNC* in 2000 given the close results and outcome of that election, but I guess he’s still clinging to his “both sides” brand, and this is so disappointing.

Did you vote for Kamala?
I certainly did not.
You did not?
Did not. I couldn't do it.
I didn't realize that.
V for Vendetta - that one inch of who you are belongsto you, and they can't have it.
Now, Ilive in a state where it may not have moved the meter, but I just couldn't do it.
Couldn't do it.
When's the last time that you didn't vote for the Democratic candidate?
Can't remember the last time I did.
Wow, okay. I thought you were softening a little bit.
Can't remember the last time I did.
So I would say this is a point of disagreement with Bruce Springsteen!
I think he is doing the right thing, how his political and personal barometer leads him and so am I, and I respect that, and I think that he respects my point of view.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh I'm in full agreement with you that it was one of the most consequential electoral campaigns in US history and should be remembered as such.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For example, the internet loves the guy who says “Medicare for All” over and over and is actually running a universal healthcare plan that’s closer to Pete Buttigieg than Bernie Sanders. They like him because he says the slogan.

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The discourse is broken @brokendiscourse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really wish we’d stop pointing to polling on slogans and pretending they are actually policy positions and actually Democrats are just out-of-touch with voters because they just like losing elections. Allegedly serious people do this all the time here.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this

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