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Quote from: GeneralMacArthur on June 04, 2021, 01:52:03 PM

Quote from: MAGugh on June 03, 2021, 10:27:22 PM

Turner dominates both the primary and general. I get to watch Atlas Dems rage while Congress becomes one member more populist; win-win.

Who's raging? Do you see me raging or crying about Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib or Cori Bush?

They're terrible people (especially Omar). They're really f---ing obnoxious. They're breathtakingly arrogant. They lie constantly. They say insane things on a weekly basis. They are embarrassing to the party. They are embarrassing to those who have to constantly rationalize and defend their stupid statements. They constantly kneecap our candidates by providing the Republican Party with a paintbrush of stupidity and awfulness which is then used to tar our whole party.

That's not "rage", that's just the truth. If a blue avatar was on here talking about how horrible and embarrassing Matt Gaetz is, that's not "raging", that's just the truth. The problem is that so many self-proclaimed "progressives" have turned their movement into little more than a set of personality cults united behind a sophomoric purity test. They get obsessed with these candidates and buy into this notion that they're going to save America, when really all they're doing is advancing their own careers and raking in cash by repeating the same dozen or so talking points you can hear from a million different leftist pundits a thousand times a day. None of them have, or ever will, accomplish anything of note other than making themselves rich and famous.

And yet so many "progressives" worship them. Why? Because they go around passionately attacking Democrats and repeating your favorite talking points, and because you see a lot of your friends worshipping them. That's all there is too it.

Nina Turner is just another drop in the bucket. Nobody is "afraid" of your movement. Their self-promotional theatrics and arrogance would be eye-rolling if there wasn't so much collateral political damage involved. And of course there's also the risk that if our majority shrinks enough, a small band of 5-6 crazy people could unite to become the House's version of Joe Manchin and pull aggravating political stunts anytime their fundraising needs a boost, like refusing to vote for a reconciliation package unless Pelosi holds a vote on an official Congressional endorsement of Hamas, or whatever the politically suicidal cause of the week is.

You played yourself.

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