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  • catonkatonk [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    Here we have the king of libs himself admitting that his most erotic fantasy is to see democrats rally around a republican.

    • huf [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      biden is to the right of reagan on most things, so they already have that.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      I have long thought the funniest outcome would be Hillary getting the nod again and losing again

      I cannot top Mr. Sorkin at comedy it seems, truly an accomplished writer. An inspired stroke of brilliance to suggest Mitt Romney of all people be the liberal nominee to lose to Trump, the irony of liberals having to rally behind the demon of yesteryear, only for it to be fruitless.

      What do you mean he wrote serious dramas and not comedy?

  • Stoatmilk [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    They should actually throw a real curve ball, and prove that we’re not red states and blue states but the United States, by nominating Donald Trump Jr.

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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    2 months ago

    The “West Wing” and “The Social Network” writer suffered a stroke “in the middle of the night” last year. “There was a minute when I was concerned that I was never going to be able to write again,” he said.

    After noticing he “was crashing into walls and corners” at his home and spilling the orange juice he was carrying to his office, Sorkin, 61, called his doctor. “You’re supposed to be dead.” A month after the stroke, the writer was slurring his words, had difficulty typing.

  • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    After the assassination attempt on Mr. Trump last Saturday, rallygoers pointed at reporters and shouted, “You’re next!” and Republicans in Congress and on television were blaming Mr. Biden and D.E.I. for the shooting, so it doesn’t look as if that terrible moment will serve as the healing event we’ve all been waiting for. But Democrats nominating a Republican could be. And when it loses the popular vote for the eighth time in nine presidential elections, the Republican Party can then rebuild itself back into a useful force for democracy.

    Idk why that would make them change anything, especially when in this scenario a republican won the presidential vote. Or is the joke the dems are already republicans...

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Is it the hundreds of thousands of people who took the time to vote uncommitted to protest our complicity in genocide that we should try to win back?

    No, it's the Republicans we need to appeal to!

    amerikkka-clap

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Wonder if this is what AOC was talking about. and here I was dreading the democrats probably deciding it was Pelosi's turn, holy smokes.

    When I'm in a stupid idea competition and my opponent is the DNC

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Surely Mr. Romney, who doesn’t have to be introduced to voters, would peel off enough Republican votes to win, probably by a lot.

    Yes, Romney is famously super popular and beloved by all.

    Does he want to aggressively raise the minimum wage, bolster public education, strengthen unions, expand transgender rights and enact progressive tax reform? Probably not.

    Oh yeah, there's definitely a chance he supports those things. You can definitely use the qualifier "probably" here.

    Besides all the other things, isn't Romney retiring from politics? The guy's only a few years younger than Biden.

    • Moss [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Romney is most known for losing to Obama, why would anyone think he's a winner

      • huf [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        biden finally managed to become president on the third try by standing in the shadow of obama. they still like hillary. they like losers.

    • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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      2 months ago

      expand transgender rights

      binders full of trans men

      double entendre referring to romney saying he was progressive and had “binders full of women” to consider for positions, this is satirically positing he tries to court ‘woke’ voters by having binders full of trans men, the double part being because trans men who either do not want top surgery or haven’t had it yet often wear binders

      joke 2 being ‘expand’ is used in quoted text, and as a spoiler this section has to be expanded

      joke 3 is by over explaining the jokes so detailed that they are no longer funny, but so detailed that it loops around and becomes funny again

      joke 4 being that it didn’t actually become funny during joke 3 so this is an anti-joke

      joke 5 being that the anti-joke is so bad, it has actually become funny by this point:::

  • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    So here’s my pitch to the writers’ room: The Democratic Party should pick a Republican.

    At their convention next month, the Democrats should nominate Mitt Romney.

    This is how you simultaneously get Jill Stein and Cornel West over the federal matching fund threshold

  • rayne [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    My step mom suggested a Biden/Liz Cheney ticket. She's a lifelong liberal.

    The center keeps moving to the right to compete with fascists.

  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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    2 months ago

    In a previous thread I almost posted the dems should run a Romney/Cheney ticket, but bailed on it cause it was too ridiculous.

    • ButtBidet [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      When the Times has this level of ideological bullshit, they turn off the comments.