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    1. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper May 25

      ryan cooper Retweeted Reuters

      encouraginghttps://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1529528170554195969 …

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      Beto O'Rourke interrupted a press conference to confront Texas Governor Abbott for loosening, rather than restricting, the state's gun laws. Several officials yelled at O'Rourke, with one calling him a 'sick son of a bitch' https://reut.rs/3MQ62iS  pic.twitter.com/8i0wCecqNF
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    2. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper May 25

      my strong suspicion is a large plurality of people are just desperate for some kind of bold leadership instead of the enervating learned helplessness of Pelosi et al

      53 replies 274 retweets 2,596 likes
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    3. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie May 25
      Replying to @ryanlcooper

      yes. what people want right now is genuine political leadership

      12 replies 26 retweets 601 likes
    4. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie May 25
      Replying to @jbouie @ryanlcooper

      unfortunately there is a cottage industry of people whose sole message is "doing anything to engage anyone is actually counterproductive"

      11 replies 30 retweets 651 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 25
      Replying to @jbouie @ryanlcooper

      What I wonder about is what exactly the people who make those arguments think the point of politics is. Is it just to provide cushy sinecures for party hacks?

      12:04 PM - 25 May 2022
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        2. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie

          they're [LBJ voice] yellah

          1 reply 1 retweet 67 likes
        3. Funky Bi Guy‏ @angryblackbiguy May 25
          Replying to @ryanlcooper @HeerJeet @jbouie

          Politics is local and nothing is more local than your own skin. They're looking out for themselves, period.

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        1. Andrew Ferguson‏ @epiktistes May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          yes, it’s patronage. that is the limit of what they can imagine both morally and professionally.

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        1. Dietary Fat‏ @dietary___fat May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          they'd say that politics is the praxis arm of the public opinion polling industry.

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        1. Ben Thapa‏ @beebeetaps May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          The people who say "don't make this political" are quite happy to make other things political while protecting the thing being discussed right now from being contended. It's a disingenuous avenue of shutting down discussion by pseudo-shaming the other person.

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        1. AnyoneButCarusoFan‏ @NYdodgerfan May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          Yes

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        1.  👻 the british press  👻‏ @Left_Sharkey May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          when liberal pluralism meets middle-management professionals, the purpose of government is to manage the public's demands more than represent them.

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        1. WeeblesWobbleButTheyDon'tFallDown‏ @Tylershortz123 May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          Obviously.

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        1. I Epimetheuslly the whole box‏ @epimetheusthaII May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          In theory its to gain a large enough majority to finally pass all the stuff that you didn't campaign on and quite possibly actually campaigned against.

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        1. Sherparick‏ @sherpaCato May 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jbouie @ryanlcooper

          To Mr. Heer's point, yes, for a lot of people who have been in politics for a long time, the purpose of the Dem Party is to give them a good living. Also, Beto really has nothing to lose here. If he just runs a typical Democrat's campaign in Texas, he will most certainly lose.

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