Ok, so what? Why don't the Ds just do that then? I actually don't understand the problemhttps://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1441396945629552653 …
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Replying to @soncharm
They need to humiliate and cuck the Rs so that the voters of the Rs know and feel themselves to be utterly unrepresented and bereft of options, because you can vote for whoever, but ultimately, your only choice is the Washington Consensus.
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Replying to @maximos6621
I mean, even if that's the motive Wouldn't 'raising the debt ceiling unilaterally' achieve it? There is literally no barrier to their doing this. They don't need the Rs for anything here. There's clearly some missing angle to this dumb standoff that I am not grasping
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Replying to @soncharm
I genuinely doubt that there is a parliamentary angle on this; I think that it's all about getting R buy-in so that the Rs cannot use it in 2022 and 2024, and so that R voters are made to eat shit.
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Replying to @maximos6621
I don’t understand these concepts of ‘buy-in’ or ‘using it’ does the average voter even care about this (or even understand it)? the ostensible political calculus just doesn’t make any sense to me
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Replying to @soncharm
This is how they think. But it has too many moving parts for it to be the actual thought process of the average voter, who tends to just blame the incumbent party when the economy sucks. So none of this matters to the voters. It's just how beltway hacks think.
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Beltway hacks have this model of voter thoughts because it allows them to feel that what they're doing is very important work even though no one notices or cares.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @soncharm
And they think that words about things both control those things and determine the nature of those things, ie., that narrative is everything.
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