Comments by "Cáit, Oz Astráil, MsSpock" (@msvulcanspock) on "The Bulwark" channel.

  1. So who can you get on the ballot paper for early voting that starts in 90 days? Republicans have said that they will challenge any ballot changes in court. Who is SCOTUS going to rule for? Biden's war chest cannot be transferred due to finance legislation. How will they raise the billions needed to run for president? If you jump over Harris you lose the Black voters. If you run Harris Trump will run on racism and will galvanise his voters with huge voter turnout. So what are your solutions? Undermining Biden so you can say you told everyone that you were right?
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  2.  @TylerMillhouse It will drive voter turnout down and hand Trump the election.
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  3. Trump runs on racism. His base which has been losing interest in him would come out to vote against POC. Even Black women Focus Groups know Kamala won't win.
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  4. Jump over Harris and you lose Black voters. Trump wins.
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  5. Great idea! Please suggest it to The Lincoln Project.
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  6. I love malarkey!
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  7. Pelosi chose Gerry Connolly over AOC. She chose Dingell over Jasmine Crockett. These are not the choices of a party who wants to save America.
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  8. ​ @surfingonmars8979 Development trauma adds a different nuance to your understanding. What triggers Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn will be diffient for each person. See Bessel van der Kolk's John Briere's research.
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  9. Both Democrats and Republicans conspired together to use Poverty as a Policy Choice for the last 40 years. That's why folks stayed home. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children.
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  10. ​ @johnallen2535 Trump is almost the same age.
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  11. Low information voters, Independents and Undecided voters need to get this and more information. 66.2% of Americans can't get $500 together for an emergency and they work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. They are working 6-7 days a week. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level this means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They do not have critical thinking skills. The combination of racism, poverty, illiteracy and Intergenerational Trauma has made many people vulnerable to the MAGA cult. But worse is the sanewashing of the media owned by the billionaire media owners wanting their Trump tax cuts. The information is full of misinformation and lies. If you have low literacy skills and you are extremely time poor you don't have time to read and work it all out.
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  12. No that is not what happened. Independents were turned off by Trumps lies.
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  13. Billionaire media owners want their Trump tax cuts. So they are all obeying in advance.
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  14. Republicans said that they will tie any alternative candidate up in the courts. This is totally fantasy land. Rick Wilson talks about it best.
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  15. Look at the Republicans like Rick Wilson that did bigger campaigns that can micro targeted. He says these discussions are The Underpants Gnomes meeting Aaron Sorkin.
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  16. If you voted for Trump you voted for Musk. Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion dollars to purchase the election for Trump. Musk flooded the zone to retard communication and stop organising.
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  17. Will Tim finally give his ego trip of undermining Biden?
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  18. The quality of "The Bulwark" conversations rises exponentially when Michael Steele is involved. Brilliant insights! I had stopped listening because of the assumptions about a whole lot of folks made by Tim Miller and Sarah Longwell. As a LGBTIQQA+ person I thought that those types of attitudes, confirmation bias and implicit and liberally presumed white and class assumptions had been kicked out of our communities in the 1980s. 64,000 pregnancies resulting from rapes have occurred in the red states that have abortion bans. Tim Miller's flippant comments, when 1% of abortions occur after 21 weeks in America, were disappointing. Barbaric "Late term abortions" and "post birth abortions" are Republican talking points he needs to let go of. I suspect that Sarah Longwell's attitudes about reproductive health would actually close down any discussions about rape and child rape in her focus groups. I have worked with these groups and they are much more common than you think. The discussions of jumping Kamala Harris for two white men did enrage me. It was white privilege out of control on its own entitlement. Tim and Sarah need to start to talk to people outside of their own Queer bubbles.
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  19. Why is the race close? "Poverty as a Policy Choice" neoliberalism used by Democrats and Republicans who both conspired to use neoliberalism to deny ordinary people a living wage is why the race is close. 66.2% of Americans live pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" to qualify for food stamps. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level this means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking and don't know who Murdoch is or what he owns. This contributes to a close race. If you are working 6-7 days a week you don't have time to read the news. If you have low literacy you can not discern what is going on. Corporate media is owned by Trump donors who want their Trump tax cuts. They have their journalists sanewashing Trump's comments. Combined with Intergenerational Trauma, poverty, illiteracy, and sanewashing by mainstream media are further reasons why folks are voting for Trump and the race is close.
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  20. It will be shame on the pundits and journalists who did not do comparable analysis of Trump, Project 2025 or SCOTUS.
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  21. ​ @Dana-pq7ke 66.2 % of Americans live pay check to pay check. They cannot get $500 together for an emergency. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Hungry kids can not learn. No matter how brilliant the teacher is. You are missing the real problem.
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  22. Please go and involve yourselves. Go and interview the crowds. You are making assumptions that are not relevant to today. The Hilary and Bernie thing doesn't matter. You are missing what is going on. This is why millions of people stayed home. Kamala spent more time on catering to creating permission structures for Republicans to vote for her than her own people. Harris ignored the Democratic base. Even Trump isn't that dumb. Republicans were on the stage at the DNC. Not the Dem base. Not Rev Barbary of the Poor People's Campaign, etc etc You are missing what is going on right now.
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  23. Oh I am so sorry for your loss. That's heart breaking. I feel for you. 😢😮😢
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  24. John Bolton didn't testify in the Impeachment or testify for the Jan 6th insurrection investigation but kept important information back from legal processes to sell and promote his book. If he had done the right thing he would not be in this situation.
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  25. Independents and twice Trump voters are moving towards Biden because of Trump's lies in the debates and his viciousness. Biden is palatable for twice Trump voters. It would be a huge mistake to remove him. You will lose the swing states then. Halley dropped out of the primaries and Republican's kept voting for her up to 20%. Once again Biden is not a threatening candidate and the permission structure had been built up by other twice Trump voters who won't vote for him this time.
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  26. ​ @whypothetical Independents were turned off by Trump being vicious to Biden.
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  27. ​ @rudycandu1633 Biden has won against Trump. Nikki Halley voters were told that they weren't welcome and they continued to vote for Halley 3 months after she dropped out of the race. Independents started dropping after the convictions hit. Low information voters in a Focus Group dropped off Trump in the debate. Have you seen the ads of two Trump voters not voting for him again? Trump needs extra votes and he's losing the Bannon line.
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  28. Billionaire media owners want their Trump tax cuts.
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  29. Does this have live chat when it is first broadcast?
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  30. Trump never worked 12 hours per day. He didn't attend intelligence briefings. Why isn't Trump being called to stand down?
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  31. And greedflation...
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  32. "Code switching" has been written about since the 1950s. It is not just in linguistic courses at university, either. I taught it as part of the English curriculum. I taught students who were bilingual. They were all familiar with the concept. The term made perfect sense to them.
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  33. 66,2% of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Tim has lived a very sheltered life.
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  34. 60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 5th Grade level. 1 in 3 of these are reading and writing at a an 8 year old level. 66.2 % of Americans live pay check to pay check. They work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. They are time poor. They don't have the skill set required to adequately interrogate media sanewashing.
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  35. Until Michael Steele came along this was not worth subscibing to.
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  36. Perhaps pundits and podcasters need to step out of your media bubbles every now and then? There were few who didn't think there is an existential threat. That threat multiplied by ten if they jumped over Kamala Harris. Your discussions about that were clueless to an even more real immediate threat to the end of America before the elections were held. And you were pushing that barrow. That's why you got the backlash.
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  37. Ignoring The State of the Union and then his following speeches.
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  38. Wil by trashing Biden is carrying water for Putin. He's helping Trump get another presidency.
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  39. There have been 64,000 pregnancies resulting from rapes in red states which have abortion bans. Maybe two white people who have access to medical care, might want to give some thought to poor people who don't? 60% of Americans can't get $500 together for a medical emergency, perhaps before SCOTUS gets a wage rise, maybe work on a living wage for all other Americans?
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  40. There is no left media.
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  41. Polls funded by Dark Money and Republicans need to be taken with a grain of salt.
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  42. I unsubscribed as well.
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  43. Tim's body language said it all.
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  44. Really courts are not powerful? 64,000 rapes occurred from rapes in the red states that have abortion bans. There is also the fact that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriages. Before Roe vs Wade these women often used to die, if they weren't white and rich. Maybe Roe vs Wade hasn't put your two lives on the line but the maternal death rate for Black women is the highest in the OECD. (This was true before Roe was overturned can you imagine how much worse it is now). Sometimes your privilege stops you from seeing the deeper issues which urgently needs discussion.
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  45. And if it is not Kamala Harris, she's not white, so the Bulwalk is not fond of her, but you jump over her and you lost the people who actually get out the vote, that is Black women. If you frighten off all the Independents, Double Trump Voters who are making ads for other Double Trump Voters to vote for Biden, and all the Nikki Halley voters that Trump said he didn't want, and who kept voting for her after she left the race. Then Trump will get in and Project 2025 will be put into place. Seriously just go and work for the Republicans with this level of analysis, you are just helping Trump anyway!
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  46. I have enjoyed seeing the white men starting to feel as scared as everyone else has to feel every day. It is deeply unAmerican for newspapers and privileged podcasters to call for the president to step down, when you could have spent the same energy punching down on Trump. There are the Double Trump voters making ads telling other Double Trump voters to vote for Biden. There are the Nikki Halley voters still voting for her months after she left the primary, up to 20% at times. Biden is not threatening to them. Get over your self indulgent melt down and start acting like every other adult who feels the fear that you are feeling right night, every other adult just gets on with it. Stop helping Trump with your hysterical rantings and ravings.
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  47. Why don't these podcasters step down? They have been in disaster mode for a lot longer than 90 minutes.
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  48. This is a fantasy from watching too many bad movies.
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  49. SCOTUS refused to apply the American Constitution which bans someone who supports insurrectionists.
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  50. 60% of Americans can't get $500 together for an emergency. If you are working 2 or 3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for your children. You are not living in a democracy. Democrats and Republicans conspired together using Poverty as a Policy Choice which blames Americans for their poverty, whilst letting Walmart employees get food stamps. You are kind of hallucinating if you think everyone has access to democracy.
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