Yeah, Schatz fundamentally doesn't understand how messaging works. It's really simple in concept: pass a bunch of really popular stuff. Make Republicans either help pass it into law or block it (either via filibuster or veto). Either way, Democrats win.

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This is such overcomplicated three-dimensional chess shit. Push your priorities through Congress when you have the power to enact them and if the president vetoes them, that just shows that *he's* the roadblock to progress and voters need to re-elect you and replace him.

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I’ve read on this site things à la “Olivia Rodrigo actually is who we hoped Taylor swift would be” and no notes

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It underscores how even more obvious it is now, even more so than it was at the time, who purely calculated that “documentary” moment was when she tearfully tells her dad she had sorrow and deep regret for not speaking out in 2016 Everything she claims she really wanted to speak out about…

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…got dramatically, horrifically worse, and that had a directly inverse relationship to how much she spoke out

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