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    What is most unbelievable about it is that none of the House or Senate members are even flinching to impeach him

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    white misogynists suck so bad because we could have had four years of a great economy and dad jokes by tim walz along with the entire walz family in the white house. :(

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      This narrative needs to die. Harris retained more male Biden voters than female Biden voters. The DNC forced a candidate through again—a candidate, mind you, that couldn’t even get traction in the last primary—without letting us choose them, they bungled the entire Biden situation by hiding his declining faculties, and when they choose their candidate for us to swallow? They add a heaping dose of the fucking cheneys as if that’s going to help their cause. They once again keep shifting to the right instead of listening to the massive calls for more progressive policies, and then when they fucked it up so royally they couldn’t beat the most unpopular president in history who was outright saying he was going to be a dictator, they go on the news and say it’s because they were “too progressive.” Not to mention the massively undercounted and overlooked Palestine issue that turned off so many voters. And then they have the gall to say it was because of misogyny. Gtfoh

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        shifting to the right instead of listening to the massive calls for more progressive policies

        My thought is that the center-right Democrats that hold power in the federal government saw what happened to the center-right Republicans when MAGA took over, the centrist lost power to the more right leaning politicians. If the centrist Democrats do the same they will lose power as well. So their strategy has been to ignore and undermine the more left leaning policies and candidates so they can stay in power longer.

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    While Trump’s tariffs are a disaster for economy, I’m not sure the Dems plan to escalate to WW3 would’ve had a better outcome (except for military contractors).

    Democrats & Republicans are the cause of our problems. Neither can fix things, nor would they if they could.

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      Interesting as the Dems plan was to weaken Russia even further while strengthening NATO bonds and ensuring no need for more nukes in the world. Trump’s isolationist plan strengthens Russia and weakens NATO and our allies leading to other countries having no choice but to aquire nuclear weapons themselves for protection therefore furthering the proliferation of nukes and endangering the world.

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        Let’s be real, they wouldn’t “weaken russia even further”, their plan was to keep drop feeding aid so that russia wouldn’t feel the full extent of the consequences to their own actions.

        edit: it was also pretty obvious for some that giving up nukes is the wrong move, before that buffoon started making enemies out of everyone

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        You people are off the fucking rails with this ‘war is peace’ bullshit. Absolutely psychotic.

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          “War is peace” is your line. You’re the one suggesting we reward military aggression by just giving the aggressor whatever they want.

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            Look at a map of foreign troop and missile deployments across the globe for each country, and then try to tell me with a straight face it’s the US who’s the peacekeepers.

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    Only thing is the stock market shouldn’t equal the economy. Many people suffered and continued to suffer during the rise of this asset bubble.

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    Not sure if it’s adequate to list Tesla next to the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq as if they were equally important for the economic situation of the country. Tesla historically skyrocketed and plummeted several times. It’s more a meme stock IMHO than a representative indicator of stability.

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      Walz has been specifically mocking Tesla’s stock plummet these past few months. Hes not saying they are equally important, hes just using this to taunt Musk.

      A 1 day 10% drop is a gut punch worth mentioning. Being a meme stock means that the only thing holding it up is the idea that it will always go up. When the meme fades and it has to compete on fundamentals, a car company missing sales targets by 13% in one quarter ain’t gonna do it.

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        Thanks for clarification. Still, looking at the Tesla chart similar upward/downward movements happed several times. It doesn’t appear that special to me for that stock.

        And yes, Tesla is not the same category of meme Stock as Gamestop. Still, compared to other stocks, the development of the share value is far less dependend on the operative success of the company. It feels more like a Musk stock that’s influenced by news and tweets around his person going back and forth between hype and desaster.

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          It’s a little special. The CEO of GameStop didn’t turn every rational thinking person against him.

          The only people still supporting Elon cant afford his car. So they can buy the stock just to have the stock, but that wont be enough to save things for them.

          People will stop buying Teslas. If not anything else, they will stop buying Teslas because they are tired of buying new Windows.

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            If not anything else, they will stop buying Teslas because they are tired of buying new Windows.

            Did autocorrect capitalize “windows,” or does Windows 11 installation come with a free cybertruck now? They’re both essentially spyware, so I guess the pairing works.

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              The model 3 is a rock magnet. I think I’ve had my windshield replaced 5 or 6 times in 6 years.

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      Not sure if it’s adequate to list Tesla next to the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq as if they were equally important

      Tesla is 2.4% of the entire NASDAQ market cap and serves as a significant chunk of financial portfolios across the banking sector. Hugely influential company, even before you get into how it’s revenues prop up Starlink and Twitter.

      Changes in the Tesla price have big downstream impacts on bank liquidity, future demand for computer hardware, and pension performance. It quite literally moves markets.

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    What’s with the shilling for this clown? He’s a corporatist establishmentarian endorsed by DICK CHENEY.

    TIM WALZ SUCKS

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    I wonder if rescinding telework agreements has boosted Minnesota’s economy? I still don’t get that decision and I don’t think any amount of tweet bangers anout Trump is going to improve that reality.

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      "Yeah, terrible campaign, glad I stayed home and didn’t vote.

      That’ll show them all not to make politics entertaining like I’m an inbred incel child!!!"

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          That’s what this dude was saying.

          You shouldn’t need a campaign to vote hard against Trump, he campaigned against himself his whole life.

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          You want everyone to treat you like fox News treats their viewers, that’s the kind of pandering campaign you want, but for your issues.

          This is politics, this is for adults because it matters.

          Shove your ‘oh what a bad campaign’ bullshit up your ass, everyone should be expected to vote for sanity, blaming politicians for not pandering is literally the problem that gave us WWE politics in the first place.

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              You win politics by slowly moving the needle, making the other side unviable.

              Our mistake was not being zero tolerance for southern racism.

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                  It would look more or less like what the Republicans have been doing, relentlessly pushing to the right because the left is fractured and can be counted on to never unite.

                  The evangelicals hate Liberals so much they decided Trump is the ultimate Christian.

                  That is unstoppable political power, and it doesn’t exist on the left.

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            The campaign absolutely sucked. I voted. Both can be true.

            Harris nationally basically threw the election when she said she wouldn’t have done anything differently than Biden. People wanted change, and she offered none.

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                That we did. And I’m pretty sure it’s not the kind of change the people who voted for Trump wanted. But they wanted change, and only one of the candidates offered that.

                Harris and rhe DNC fumbled the ball hard. It was their election to win since they had the incumbent advantage, popular support for Jan 6 enforcement, and tons of lawsuits against Trump. All she needed to do was present a tangible plan for what her administration would change. Inflation was coming down (but prices obviously weren’t), the “economy” was tenuous, rates were high, etc. People wanted to know what she’d do, and her answer of “nothing different than Biden did” didn’t instill confidence. So she lost swing voters and didn’t motivate her base to turn out.

                She lost the election because she fumbled the campaign. She was winning for most of it, and lost in the last month. She needed a rallying cry, and she exuded “more of the same.” People suffering don’t want more of the same.

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                  The DNC fumbled hard and I am frustrated with the people who decided a worse outcome seemed better than the status quo.