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World Famous Quasi Payer said:
I disagree, I don't think this is all down to lack of experience and more a lack of critical thinking skills. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as fare as I know these campaigns and politics in general are an up and out system. You either move up, or you move out. Whatever talent the DNC had in the past has moved out when it became clear there is no moving up. All that's left is the aging assholes in power, and the dumb diversity hire, who literally isn't smart enough to run a campaign.
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I mean, you literally had people like RFK and Tulsi saying exactly that for their reasons for aligning with trump. The only way to sidestep the political rat-race right now is get in on the ground floor of Trump's revamp of the republicans.

If the democrats lose hard enough - and I'm gonna say lose the popular vote as the expected requirement? Because that shits up the idea that they're akchually the real power, chud - I'd expect a bunch of dems to decide the best way to get a foothold to climb up is by knifing the Dem's inner circle in the back, and climbing atop their theoretical corpses, nice and early. That may mean splintering off or calling for party reform, but the goal will be fleeing the sinking ship to not get caught in it's wake.
 
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Polyboros2 said:
Something I've been thinking about that you might have heard of, are the kids in charge of Kamala's campaign?

Now by kids I mean emotionally, but also a much younger class of Democratic operative. Those would be up and comers that the Democrats have been suppressing so the old ghouls can keep their positions, and keep a new generation stepping into power, and possibly screwing up their grift.

It feels to me like decisions are being made by people that think they are much smarter than they are, and I'm guessing its really more that they are inexperienced. Kamala's campaign is literally being run by people that don't know what they are doing and have no experience, and that's kind of the Democrat's on tops fault.
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Most of the Dem leadership faces a crisis because of self-inflicted wounds. They have no meaningful successors, they chased off their competent staffers (and those with any ambition), and purged the party of anyone above the local level who wouldn't kiss the proverbial ring. Throw in a healthy dose of Dem infighting and you have the general state of the party as far as its mainstays go.

What's less talked about is their ground game, which is beyond fucked. Oldster Dems like me used to be the ones who would literally do GOTV efforts. We'd go house-to-house ringing doorbells, doing signups, stirring up the locals, getting people at the local level enthused. They don't have anyone that does that anymore, and you can see the results here on Long Island, with more and more of what was heretofore a blue lock turn redder and redder every season.

The Dems lack these critical fork-and-spoon operators. Robocalling, spam mailing, that shit's fine for brand awareness, even if it's fucking annoying, but it won't get people to the fucking polls the way a few local boys getting their concerns all up in a dander will. With their staffers overwhelmed with progressives, if not outright socialists, they've basically stopped caring about what your average American might think. NYC is easily a giant advertisement for the right in this state; shit like Leticia James getting boo'd at an event, losing her shit, and using the full weight of law enforcement to try to punish one of her critics kind of sits high in the minds of people critical of literally the stupidest part of this state.

It's been remarkably good at cutting across party lines, in my experience, and it's opening up dialogue in new ways. They've got to be shitting themselves at this point.
 
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ForTheHoard said:
I always thought the nitro express calibers and other exotic big game rounds are just there to milk money out of wealthy hunters. Most safari trips have the paying customer holding a $40k Holland & Holland double rifle while all the guides are carrying $500 12 gauge shotguns with 3in magnum slugs. A cheap mossberg 500 with the right ammo will drop any living creature on this planet.
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nitro express was insane overkill invented in the turn of the last century when safari expeditions were trendy, it was never a well measured response to a problem. the invention of smokeless powder more or less made cartidges much smaller and the nitro express cartridges were just people cramming smokeless powder into black powder cases for a logical progression of power. Realistically the only use for that was rich people purposefully going on dangerous safaris.

the trend ended well before world war 1 so for a good chunk of time the most powerful cartridges that ever existed were 50+ years old primitive novelty guns. some boomers in the 80s decided that they had to one-up it by custom making an even more ridiculous cartridge that's even more obscure and unobtainable than 600 nitro express. i don't think anybody hunting dangerous game would use any of these unless they were just doing it for the memes and they would be doing so at a significant disadvantage
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
Beyoncé is set to perform at a Harris rally in Houston (archive).

If a tree falls in the woods, and it lands on a clown, does anyone care?
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Kamala is wasting her time in Arizona and Texas only days before the election. Trump is barnstorming the crucial swing states, and Kamala is in states she has zero chance of winning. (Arizona is at least 1.5 points to the right of Michigan and PA)
mlanguishi said:
Fat lady's winding up..
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That video is great. Their viewers must be shitting their pants. If Hillary polled that far above Trump in 2016, and Kamala polls tied today, then Trump will probably win the national vote by 2+ points.

My husband and I happily answered phone polls back in 2016, but we always hang up today. Take from that what you will. We're not telling strangers we vote Trump because we no longer trust potentially hostile strangers with that info.
Diana Moon Glampers said:
I genuinely believe the Democrats are trying to stoke riots
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I agree. Democrats think riots in blue cities win them votes, and it actually worked in 2000. They're looking foreward towards the 2026 and 2028 elections at this point.
 
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