05-12-2022, 08:34 PM
(05-12-2022, 08:21 PM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah, no matter how to turn it in the end this explanation makes the most sense. For sure, it would have changed nothing either way, so I might even get over dirty tricks. Don't hate the player, hate the game and all that, maybe politicians have to be that way. What I'd consider way more frustrating is how this to me has no apparent strategic value and seems to be a dirty trick for nothing. What is the goal of making it 49-51 really, chase Manchin out of the party or what. It doesn't make for a good filibuster talking point, that's indeed for sure.
The Dem playbook with Manchin is honestly baffling to me. He's a guy with no issues going it alone, so he won't be bullied or intimidated into changing his position. He's also literally the only Dem, and likely the last for some time, that can win a statewide election in West Virginia, which is as deep red as it gets. Getting rid of him just ensures a slam dunk GOP Senate seat pickup.
Quote:Well there is the fact that many of the republican opponents are insurrection-denying, Trump-admiring sycophants that tend to say some pretty weird stuff about election fraud and then some. Employment numbers are still good too. Inflation could easily, and correctly, be painted as a largely global phenomena (not that anyone would try to make such a point). But I get it's a pendulum and the midterm smackdown just probably is a given.
I hope the Hunter Biden committees will at least be fun.
People have very short attention spans, which I'm sure is true in your country as well. Jan. 6th is already fading rapidly, hence the constant reminder from Dem politicians that it happened. As far as inflation being a global phenomena, Americans don't give two shits about that. We aren't used to shortages and high prices. Whichever party was currently in charge would bear the full brunt of the blame. Employment numbers also don't mean much when you're paying over $6 a gallon for gas and can't find food to feed your baby. Unless there's an economic miracle, and history rather disproves that being likely, if even possible, the Dems are going to take it in the shorts. The real question becomes who gets the GOP nod in '24. If it's Desantis then I think they've got a virtual lock. Trump would be more of a toss up. But that's two years plus from now, a virtual eternity.
