pussy facing the world

every day is all there is

[brookbee]

David Bowie performing the song "Cracked Actor," 1974

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Twitter was not the deciding factor in the Maine primary. And again, if Mills was such a great candidate, why couldn't she raise money too and actually compete?

Also, here's a fun fact: Republicans were able to flip 10 House seats in special elections during the 1st Trump admin before the 2018 blue wave. So far in the second, Democrats have flipped 30 seats and have defended every one of their seats. Republicans have not flipped any and have lost even in a deep red district in Texas (that had not voted for Democrats since the early 90s). And for polls - gotta look at the crosstabs. Most are assuming the same 2024 electorate (or even R+2 in some I've seen).

And also, there's over 4 months still. I don't see how Republicans can improve their prospects (besides obviously their attempts to cheat) but there's plenty of opportunities for things to get worse.

(Also, sorry if the tone is coming off wrong, I mean this all just conversationally).

I've not made the argument that Mills was a great candidate. I don't know if she could have beat Susan Collins. All I've said on that matter is that there's a reason that moderate Democrats encouraged her to run, which is that she's got a lot of the same appeal as Collins while also being a democrat, the hope being that she'd be able to carry both democrats and enough independents to flip the seat.

Also Platner out fundraising raising her doesn't necessarily mean she was a bad candidate either, it just means he had some deep and well connected pockets backing him. This is specifically where Twitter comes into play because he raised a lot of money outside of Maine and that was the work of the podcast bro commentariat glazing the hell out of him to their audience.

Furthermore, primary and general elections are very different beasts, especially in a state like Maine that has a semi-closed primary. In the primary, she and platner were splitting only Democrat and unaffiliated votes. In the general, platner and Collins will be competing for independents and moderates, which Collins has historically won. Collins is a notoriously strong incumbent candidate that consistently over performs polls and we have months left for the republicans to absolutely batter him in the media.

Republicans as a whole are unlikely to improve their prospects between now and the election, but Collins is the cockroach of republicans. Getting her out of that seat will not be easy even in under such dire conditions for republicans and I really don't think that the Nazi tattooed sex pest is going be the one to finally defeat her.

[embroiderycrafts]

My experiments with food continue 😌 by Fantastic_Head_2350 on reddit.

[femalegothic]

You are very wrong about Maine. Mills is an unpopular governor - there's a reason she did so poorly in the primary. If she was a good candidate, she would have won. Platner in the primary received more votes than any Democratic candidate ever (and more than combined total of all Republic gubernatorial candidates). He did it with the support of labor unions (which refused to support Mills) and hosting frequent town halls the past year talking/connecting with voters. He is aggressive in his critiques of Republicans and has a progressive platform. Collins in 2026 after two years of Trump wrecking the country and after Dobbs - it is a fundamentally different race than ever before. I understand and agree with the candidate quality critiques, but at this point the Senate majority is what matters.

He won because he was able to outspend her with outside of Maine campaign donations driven by podcast bros glazing him all over twitter and the fact that the most significant media coverage of his multiple scandals happened after Mills already stopped campaigning and most people assumed she withdrew.

The incoming blue wave and the early hype of a new player in the game will not be enough to carry him in the general when republicans start spending heavy to smear him left, right, and center. His poll numbers are already dropping and the Republican media blitz is only just starting. You're right that this is probably Susan Collins' most vulnerable election and that democrats winning the senate majority is critical for the sake of our nation but that's exactly why so called progressives throwing their weight and money behind him during the primary is one of the stupidest political moves I've seen in my life.

I don't know if Janet Mills could have beaten Susan Collins, but I do know that unless Susan literally drops dead or some other shit equivalent happens in the next few months, Graham Platner has no chance in hell of beating her.

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men are crying and screaming and throwing up about misandry meanwhile women are writing nonsense like this under their full government name and face

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Clash of sexual civilisations

- Mass immigration, sex crimes and female empowerment

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the ambiguity of 'various trivial accusations' is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

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please name the western country where men looking at women in public is criminalized so I can move there immediately

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men are crying and screaming and throwing up about misandry meanwhile women are writing nonsense like this under their full government name and face

[dogpuppy]

[unaliveish]

adso piñerúa

[femalegothic]

thinking about the semantics of 'virginity' like being a virgin is something that you ARE or ARE NOT. virginity is not something that you can have or take because sex is an experience not a thing. this may seem nitpicky because it is but it all goes back to the issues with framing sex as something that can be withheld or denied or bought.

[femalegothic]

pov you're opposing counsel meeting me for the first time

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[bedupolker]

It feels cool to be "in" on celebrity gossip before anyone else. I ran into Californian Condor V9 and looked her up on the condor lookup website. It says her current mate is dead and she has no kids but I saw her with a new man AND a juvenile.

[taciturn-nerd]

OP I hope you don't mind but I made a tabloid cover out of this

I used two more condor photos by Andrew Orr and Alam Clampitt from peregrinefund.org

Gotta use the skills I learned from making tabloids out of the Jane Austen novels somewhere right?

Great, now I feel like I'm bird shaming. Congrats V9 on your new family!

[animals-with-fan-art]

This is art to me

[quietwingsinthesky]

friend is trying to convince me this is a common experience and I do not believe her, so

Do you expect to be paid back if you pay for something for your friend while you’re hanging out? (I.E. a ride, a meal, a trinket.)

Yes, always

Yes, but only if it’s above a limit of money

No, never

I don’t buy things for my friends.

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Remaining time: 1 day 11 hours

For a more illustrative example, say you go to the movies with a friend and you buy them popcorn, do you expect them at some point to send you money back via cash or through an app of some kind? Will you be upset if they don’t?

[larkandkatydid]

More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect

Let’s just keep screaming!

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[honeylemony]

FUCKING DEVASTATING

[arabian-knight]

The hatemail game on this website is insane