The Trump Presidency 2.0

[TLDR20]

Well, you'll have your shot in '28. Although it's going to be tough- well-known Democratic Centrists Newsom, AOC, and Pete Buttigeg will make that a super tough choice.

I don’t think any of them are centrists.

 

[Cookie_]

I don’t think any of them are centrists.

 

[AWP]

So techno-futurism Republican? He'll need to expand on what "pro-centrism" is if plans to do more than just pull some non-Evangelical GOP voters and tech bros.

But if he's smart and focuses on specific races in specific states like @amlove21 mentioned earlier, that could have a profound effect on the makeup of the Legislative.

 

[amlove21]

I don’t care what they do, I do care what they do in my neighborhood.

 

[TLDR20]

lol. I don’t get worked up about what is happening in other states, or the other side of the country. However it is easy to say, “I don’t want that…” saying that, is not the same as being perpetually outraged over what some idiot does in Portland or NYC.

 

[amlove21]

lol. I don’t get worked up about what is happening in other states, or the other side of the country. However it is easy to say, “I don’t want that…” saying that, is not the same as being perpetually outraged over what some idiot does in Portland or NYC.

Laissez-faire exceptionalism, got it.

 

[Box]

I'm not afraid to admit it - I like my political hypocrisy with two sugars and a splash of half&half
...its ok for people to cultivate a bit of hypocrisy in their lives; just be honest about it

 

[ThunderHorse]

Ok, what percentage of your last ballot was Republican?

I disagree with @ThunderHorse on this one, the same as you do, but the question of "how does a democrat centrist vote" is prescient. Democrats (historically, anecdotally, by the numbers, whatever) don't stray from party lines often, even those that consider themselves "centrist".

In my personal experience, people who say they're "centrist" on either side of the aisle still vote down-ballot for their party.

You see, I haven't moved anywhere except maybe on gun rights and abortion. What has moved has the Democratic party. Anyone who currently brands themselves a centrist may be a 2025 centrist...but I'm a 2005 centrist. A 2025 centrist is a 2005 liberal.

Well, you'll have your shot in '28. Although it's going to be tough- well-known Democratic Centrists Newsom, AOC, and Pete Buttigeg will make that a super tough choice.

I love how far left loons are branding themselves centrists to the point that you're calling them Centrists. Newsom is in a bit of a rebrand, but make no mistake he isn't a centrist at all. Maybe on the Nancy Pelosi/San Francisco scale. But no, none of those people are centrists. Sinema was a centrist, got run out of town. Gallego somehow is figuring out that being a Senator from Arizona actually requires you to vote a certain way and not be a shill, or maybe it was the only way to stay elected in his district.

So I guess when it comes to centrists, how are we defining them. Because the spectrum moved, as @Marauder06 likes to say, I never moved. The party did.

 

[AWP]

A 2025 centrist is a 2005 liberal.

So I guess when it comes to centrists, how are we defining them. Because the spectrum moved, as @Marauder06 likes to say, I never moved. The party did.

You kind of answered your own question. If the parties shift left or right, then the just to the "blank" of center before the shift is now the center.

 

[Cookie_]

I love how far left loons are branding themselves centrists to the point that you're calling them Centrists. Newsom is in a bit of a rebrand, but make no mistake he isn't a centrist at all. Maybe on the Nancy Pelosi/San Francisco scale. But no, none of those people are centrists.

I can't see inside the brain of @amlove21, but he's posted enough that I can pick up he's sarcastically calling them centrist because they're trying to rebrand.

So I guess when it comes to centrists, how are we defining them. Because the spectrum moved, as @Marauder06 likes to say, I never moved. The party did.

I'm interested to know what policies changed that you've never moved from but the party has.

 

[Cookie_]

Ever see little kids play soccer? Like 4 and 5 year olds? It’s like a tightly packed cluster that moves around the field in a mass, with the ball as a nucleus.

It’s like the Left. They start on a cluster point, a nucleus, like RFK jr., then move quickly in a mass to the next trending outrage: No Kings (ok, he didn’t become a king move on); he’s getting us embroiled in a new Mideast war (ok, he didn’t start a war, let’s move); sending troops to conquer California (oh wait, they didn’t do shit and left after a week); Doge cuts caused Texas floods (oh wait, NWS was fully staffed); quick, let’s go back to RFK jr…

Just an observation.

I think that's just politics in general.

It's a team sport rather than any personally held opinion for most people.

 

[amlove21]

I can't see inside the brain of @amlove21, but he's posted enough that I can pick up he's sarcastically calling them centrist because they're trying to rebrand.



I'm interested to know what policies changed that you've never moved from but the party has.

You do know me!

There are no serious candidates for president on the Dem side that consider themselves centrist, guys. They don’t exist. It was a joke.

 

[Marauder06]

 

[TLDR20]

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Didn’t the AG say the client list was on her desk, and she was reviewing it?

 

[RackMaster]

Didn’t the AG say the client list was on her desk, and she was reviewing it?

They're walking it back by saying she meant the whole file was on her desk, not the "client list". Even though that's what she was directly asked about.

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if someone in the "deep state" destroyed it.

 

[AWP]

They're walking it back by saying she meant the whole file was on her desk, not the "client list". Even though that's what she was directly asked about.

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if someone in the "deep state" destroyed it.

The list is somewhere; that's too much power to throw into a volcano.

This is like OJ: he "isn't" a murderer because a jury acquitted him. Epstein didn't kill himself because no one will release the evidence to "protect the victims."

It's all bullshit and anyone trusting the DOJ on this one is naive or just stupid.

 

[Cookie_]

They're walking it back by saying she meant the whole file was on her desk, not the "client list". Even though that's what she was directly asked about.

Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if someone in the "deep state" destroyed it.

They've all walked back the data they claimed to have months ago. If someone from the deep state destroyed it at this point, it involved this administration knowing about it.


Patel/Bondi/Bongino:

 

[ThunderHorse]

The activist judges and their TROs have to go.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1942367706667208873

I'm interested to know what policies changed that you've never moved from but the party has.

Illegal Immigration.