https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/opinion/liz-cheney-trump-primary.html

  • rubpoll [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The harder a candidate loses, the harder Libs insist they're actually perfect for the next election. Beto ate shit in Texas? Run him again, and again. Amy McGrath ate shit in Kentucky? Run her again! And again. Libs will spend the next 50 years going "HILLARY WARNED US!!" as if only her total wipeout in 2016 could have foreseen Trump being a bonkers president.

    Libs don't just want celebrity politicians, they want martyrs, and the harder you martyr yourself, the more you deserve to win in their eyes. But they can't tell the difference between "deserving" to win and actually being capable of winning!

    • Presents [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It's not that they're wrong - it's that everyone else is wrong. Running again is just so they can win this time, and prove they were right all along.

      That they lose again, it's just further proof that everyone else is wrong except them. It's an unjust world hurling sand in their eyes.

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      Beto lost so hard he literally ate holy dirt to cope with it, it got in the news and then they decided to run him again.

      All this bullshit about optics and they run a guy who is publicly known to have lost to Ted Cruz and handled it by taking a pilgrimage to a shrine in Mexico, ate the dirt(you're only supposed to touch it) and brought home leftovers for his wife and kid.